Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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l 1 elected ofiicers and were getting acquainted. Murrell Johnson became first semester president, John Hanson, vice-president, Don Easterday, secretary, Bob Harmon, treasurer, Richard Brooks, editor, Glenn Large, sergeant-at-arms. Miss Lillian Lewis filled the place of class sponsor which Miss Woodburn vacated when she lcft the school. Elizabeth Barber and Arnold Kleinebecker were chosen to represent the class on the student council. Bettie Willson and Virginia Faulkner were elected to the all girls council. We scored another victory in winning the unanimous decision over the juniors in interclass debates when the subject was argued: Resolved, that the present day newspaper constitutes a more harmful than beneficial influence on the public at largef, The sophomore team, composed of Gordon Wyland, Ruth Grossman and Philip Brownell, upheld the negative side, winning the debate and the respect of the upper- classmen. The second semester president was jack Morris, vice-president, Harriet Daly, secretary, Richard Brooks, treasurer, Dorothy Charleson, editor, Richard Carlsen, sergeant-at-arms, Graydon Scott. ln April the sophomores presented their annual assembly. Charlotte Cornell danced, a group of boys staged a tumbling act called Rolling Stones, the sophomore orchestra presented several numbers, Dudley Cook played his Xylophone, Horace Munger gave a tap dance and Alice Quigle, accompanied by Dorothy Charleson, gave a musical reading. Unexpectedly we were juniors. Dick Mulliner was chosen president, Don Easterday, vice-president, Bruce Thorpe, secretary, Porter Cannon, treasurer, Frances French, editor, and Richard Carlsen, sergeant-at-arms. Ilene Baker, Elizabeth Barber, Philip Brownell, Harriet Daly, Arnold Kleinebecker, Jack Morris and Bettie VVillson were the junior representatives on the student council. Theona Steele, Mar- garet Lawlor, Lois Brooks and Ilene Baker representd the class on the all girls league council. The class of twenty-nine contributed a girls tumbling act and an animated clog dance by Dorothy McKensie to the all-school assembly, and during the second half of the year they gave the junior play, Captain Applejacle, one of the most successful plays of the year. The second semester junior offices went to Harold Peterson, president, Verne Fanton, vice-president, John Hanson, secretary, Charles Armstrong, treasurer, Maurice Gillett, editor, and Paul Batty, sergeant-at-arms. The term was brought to a close by the olympics, in which the juniors proved themselves good sports in defeat as in victory, and by the dance given by the juniors in honor of the seniors at the Scottish Rite temple. Hal we were seniors and launched into our last swift year in Lincoln high. ls it an exaggeration to say that, as we found our places in auditorium home room on that first morning of school in early fall, there was not one of us but felt that his senior year would be the most exhilarating and eventful period of his high school life? For we remember how, as underclassmen, we looked upon the seniors and aspired after the dignity of their position, dreaming of the time when we should wear their mantle of superiority with familiar grace, and of the conquests we should stage in the role. That we build toward a goal which upon attainment we found shorn of much of its glamour speaks no ill of our particular class, nor was it unnatural that we should assume that senior air of flowing complacency. After all, when the first disappointment of not feeling mature and staid had past, we recognized the inferiority of the sophomores and juniors and lost no time in putting on a senior manner, and we will admit that the members of no foregoing class were better actors. Charles Armstrong, habitual serious smile, rebellious hair and all, was the choice of the january seniors for president. The class showed its excellent taste in electing the following lugubrious and artistic assortment for the other offices: Porter Cannon, vice-president, Marion Ball, secretary, Elizabeth Seaton, treasurer, Reed Sartor, editor, and Herbert Myers, sergeant-at-arms. -gg-