Lincoln High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Manitowoc, WI)

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ROSTER Fritz G. Zander Literary Society, ’18, ’14, ’15. A man of quiet mind Is seldom left behind. Edward Zankle Boys’ Glee Club, ’°12. Debating Club, ’L4. Literary Society, ’12. Class Track Team, 12, 718, 714. Class Basket Ball Leam, ’12, 18, 714, 715. Second Basket Ball Team, 13. Football Team, ’13. Baseball Team, 713. Mile Record, ’14. Captain of Football Team, 714. Junior Party Committee, ’14. Christmas Play, ’14. He’s of a philosophic mind and tbis advice doth give, “Forget your sorrow and be gay, if you would longer live.”’ meet ee

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ROSTER Benjamin H. Wernecke Literary Society, ’°12,°13. Debating Club, 71:3;, 74 Membership Committee, 715. Track Meet, 713. ; When our Benjamin reads a selection from Burns, The Scotch dialect takes some very queer turns. Jennie Eva Wilhelmy Literary Society, ’13, 14, °15. German So- ciety, 13. German Play, 714. Step down, Shakespeare, at your defeat, Jennie Wilhelmy will take your seat. Essie Ysobel Wilkie Girls’ Glee Club, ’12, 713,14. Dramatic Club °12. Literary Society, °14, ’L5. This lass with hair so very fair ox Sings like a bird, so they declare. Raymond J. Woida Debating Club, ’l4. Athletic Assn., 712. Football Team, ’14. Literary Society, ’12, 13. What would I not give in school, For Roosevelt's spelling to be the rule. Elva Sophia Zander Literary Society, ’13, ’14, 715. No Puritan maid in times gone by Has ever been one-half so shy. —29—

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Four years ago—well, I think I’ll say short years, for they were short in the minds of the members of the senior class—one hundred and fifty-nine eighth-grade graduates plunged into their high school life. They came from schools of both the north and south sides, and also from rural schools, and assembled one bright morning in the first week of September, nineteen hundred eleven, in the large assembly room of the Central High School. As freshmen, the majority avoided the upper-classmen, on their way through the park, to and from school; especially on warm balmy days, when the fountain, which was always full of that cool sparkling aqua, served the purpose of the brilliant sophs in giving the freshmen a so-called ‘‘fresh ducking.” Some escaped and some did not. This class of freshmen truly showed the right school spirit and was active in athletics as well as in scholarship. As sophomores, they were now aware that they had passed the dividing line, for were they not a portion of the upper-classmen, privileged to enjoy for the first time, their superiority over the freshmen? They were no longer in the assembly on the third floor, 31