Lincoln High School - Totem Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Another sport that has drawn considerable attention is basketball. Up to l9l 3 her team was rather successful although not appearing at the first of the list: however, in that year the championship would have been hers, had it not been for Queen Anne's excellent playing. Lincoln's Midgets have been very successful, having taken the titles for I9l3-14, l9l6-l 7, and 1917-18. Baseball like other sports has been very popular although only two cham- pionships have been won, I9I2 and l9l 3. The girls have not lagged in enthusiasm for sports either for they have been interested in indoor baseball, tennis, and basketball. Some of the time there was such an interest that leagues were organized. One of the most interesting of Lincoln's activities has been debate. Early, it was of such interest that many class debate clubs were formed beside the gen- eral debate association. Three times Lincoln's clebaters have won the state championship, besides several of the city. Another phase of activities has been dramatics. ln addition to the senior plays and those of the dramatic clubs, since I9l4 Lincolonials have been ar- ranged each year. One of the most successful of these was the Liberty pageant, presented in l9I8, portraying the development of Liberty. Music also has been a very important factor in the life of the school. Every year the two glee clubs and the orchestra have given some performance. These three organizations united last year in producing the opera Martha and this year in The Little Tycoon . Beginning in Qctober l908, the Totem was published monthly but in Sep- tember l9l8, the weekly was substituted. This has seemed more practical for it has changed from a mere magazine with no special purpose other than that of amusement, to a really progressive influence, recording the events week by week as they occur and keeping students informed of noteworthy things in Lincoln school world. PAGE EIGHT DRAWING BY EARNEST WATERS

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The School A few facts about the school We loveg some of its achievements, a. little about its growth, and an inkling of its history. ' This yeaifs graduating class is over eight times as large as the class of forty members 'that took part in the first commencement ex- ercises at Lincoln in l909. The first class to leave this school graduated in l908, but com- bined their exercises with Broadway. School was opened at Lincoln, for the first time, in October of that year by a contingent of teachers and pupils sent out from the Broad- way High School The present enrollment, which is some twenty-one hundred, has almost doubled as compared with the first year's list of about eleven hundred students. Such an increase in attendance has been followed by other and equally im- portant changes. ln l9I4, an annex containing the two gymnasiums and the assembly hall was built in order that the former gymnasium and study room might be converted into class rooms. By that change, all the wing of the building between the two stairways was used for class rooms. Five years later five portables were constructed to accommodate Lincoln's two thousand students. The faculty has increased proportionally. ln 1908 it numbered forty-one members, in fifteen years it has increased to eighty-five. One of the reasons for the remarkable growth of this institution may be found in the various organizations that have been formed among Lincoln students. Possibly the most important of these have been the boys' and girls' clubs. The boys' organization was formed with the assistance of the Y. M. C. A. having hikes, dinners, and similar wholesome diversions. The Lincoln Athletic Asso- ciation managed Lincoln's athletics for over ten years, but since the work of each of these overlapped, this last year they were united under the Boys' Association. The Girls' Athletic Association, formed in l908, was the first of the girls' organizations, although a year later the Girls' Club was formed. These two, since joined, have been very helpful in promoting Lincoln Spirit among the girls. ln l9I 2 a May fete was put on by them that scored a great success. Since then, besides their interest and participation in athletics, they have greatly assisted in the Lincolonials. From her beginning, Lincoln has been very successful in all her interscholas- tic sports. Broadway, her strongest rival, has defeated her only three times in football. ln the state league, Lincoln would have captured the championship in l9l2, had it not been for the defeat of fourteen to three inflicted by Everett. For the next few years our chances were foiled by either Broadway or Queen Anne, until in l9l 7 Lincoln surprised all by making a no-defeat record. Lin- coln turned the same trick the next two years and in the latter, a score of twenty- two to nothing was run up against Broadway. PAG E S IC V ICB

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Faculty Quite a good many changes have come about since dad smoked his first corn-tassel cigarette out behind the barn. Not only that, the rising generation has to take theirs out behind the garage, which is doubly more risky because of the gasoline and the closeness of the house, but other changes have come about as well. Take, for instance, education. It hasn't been in a static condition all these years. Oh my no, nothing of the kind. The present generation has so far outclassed its forefathers that the hickory rods have all been taken from the corner and thrown out the window. We never draw pictures of our teachers on slatesg we never have spring fever and we never, no never play hockey! No sireelll Of course there have been minor changes in studies, in curriculum, and in school government, but we refer only to those bigger and more important changes. Changes have taken place in regard to our teachers. They are no longer the formidable and fantastic ogres of fifty years ago. The sufferings undergone by our ancestors at the hands of those feelingless wretches have, in a degree at least, been saved to their posterity. With the passing of the three R's passetl a dreadful line of oppressors and in their place we beg to introduce, The new generation of teachers. Not that we'want to give anyone the impression that the millennium is at hand and that all hostilities have ceased between teacher and pupil. My no! We still have some fight, but because we know we have a faculty second to none-our hats are off. Besides being instructors our faculty can be human-something you would never suspect of a teacher if you've read fiction at all. ln fact, they actually en- joy themselves at times, they say. As soon as the school machinery was running smoothly at the beginning of the year, the old teachers entertained the new members of the staff at a reception down in the south lunch room. The different departments staged stunts. The language teachers acted out charades for the rest of the sages to guess, while the mathematicians presented some mathematical puzzles which somehow or other they, themselves, couldn't solve before company. Mrs. Oral Expression Folsom garbed as a mystic from the far East to whom the past, present and future is re- vealed, read some interesting and startling facts from a crystal. The commercial department entertained with songs, after which the men proved how well trained they are as butlers in their own homes, by serving simple refreshments of tea and cake. When the bells rang out at three-ten on St. Valentine's day, each and every teacher solemnly closed all books and, laying aside those serious-faced class-room masks, journeyed down to the Library, which was decorated with the conven- tional hearts, for a few hours surcease from school-room worries. By a previous arrangement everybody had a valentine for somebody else. They ranged from the comic to the serious kind that have two hearts pierced by a Cupid's arrow, but all carried with them the same goodwill of the sender, even if some were hand made and others more humorous than expensive. After refreshments, the guests scat- tered at an hour consistent with all proper school affairs. Once again members of our faculty appear as a quartet. From Mr. Hasting's zooming bass which he drags up from somewhere down near the soles of his feet, to Miss York's bell-like soprano, the quartet is an unqualified success. Dad Leaf carries a free arm tenor, while Miss Craven adds the historical alto. The quartet made its debut at an assembly one morning before anybody knew there was PA GE Nl NIC ftx NA A FAicul.Tr