Lincoln High School - Totem Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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CHAPTER III Back at school once more as upperclassmen we began a busy year udson Cuttmg was the prlot wlth Lora Harvey as vrce presrdent Wee Wee Dean Boyle held the post of secretary and ames Matthews was treasurer The umor lVl1xer came at Hallowe en a merry affair the success of whrch was due rn large part to the work of Dwight Thomas and hls commlttee Care fee unlors played a mlmlc football game and later gasped wlth surprise when It was announced that Kld Zu Zu would dxve from near the Cellltlg of the gymnaslum mto a tub of water The doll made the leap successfully Then everybody danced and there were clder and doughnuts for all so the trme passed almost before we realrzed that It was gone Came the last day of November and agam the umor Honor Roll Assembly for unrors who had won ten A s or better was held on that occasron The 2nd of April IS a memorable date for at that tlme the Prom blossomed forth ln all its splendor Happy upperclassmen forgot ln the farryland any cares they had and after the music had dred away took a last look sighed with sat rsfactlon and sald Let em beat that rf they can' Our year closed successfully we felt and put us on the last lap of the race wrth the assurance that we had done our work and had done rt well CHAPTER IV When the frrst bell sounded ln S ptember the one time UUIOYS those scared and blg eyed youngsters of Just a few years before became rn truth the Class of Z2 We have had a busy year Walter McCloud was chosen president wlth Merlarne Bryan to back hrm up as vrce presldent Helen Theel took the sec retaryshrp and Ernest Martm answered to the tntle of treasurer The Work of advrsmg was carrred on by lVl1ss Cheatham Mrs Kemper and Mr Rlggs One of the dlStlI'lCIlVC achievements of the class was the adoption of a standardrzed Semor Pm deslgns for whlch were submrtted by Stephen Brown s Senlor Pm commlttee and the chorce made by vote on November 23 This rs now the offrcxal emblem to be worn by graduatmg Semors of all future classes Work was begun early on the Semor Play and here the class departed from precedent decrdmg to grve three one act plays m place of the usual one The mnovatlon proved to be an entire success A call for one orlgmal play was answered by several budding playwrxghts the wmmng author bemg Phyllis Kemper whose clever playlet Extraordinary ellcted much pralse Following thls came olen Masefreld s The Locked Chest a play of old Iceland The curtain was run down at the close of the performance on Nerghbors an especially llked productron of Zona Gale s No sooner were the plays over than plans were lard for the Semor Mrxer ud Cuttmg as charrman was an effectrve worker and the result of the commlt tee s efforts became evldent on anuary 28 when the upperclassmen unbent from thelr dignity and frolrcked ln the girls gymnasium Crownmg the other successes of the year was the Semor Ball This supreme et ent of which we had dreamed for four years took place on March II Dudley Turnachffe and hrs commrttees turned the prosalc gurls gymnasium mto a farry wonderland and the gay couples that floated about there that evenmg wrll long remember for rts beauty and novelty the Semor Ball of the Class of Z2 In conclusron we have spent an actlve four years here rn the school to whlch we came by cholce or of necessrty We came to wonder as Freshmen stayed to lowe old Lmcoln as Sophomores Jumors and Semors and now we leave regretfully as Freshmen once more Page 2' 1 ' .I - ' ' - - as Q1 s ' . . . , . . .I 1 ' .I 1 1 1 , J , J - u 1 11 - , . , . 1 1 1 ' - - - u 1 - 11 , . . 1 Q Q - - N- - 1 1 . . . , - , . - 1 , . . , . , . . . . . . . . , 1 , . 1 9 ' - 1 . . . . U . ., 1 1 . . . . . , U . A 11 - , . ss - Q1 - - - 1 , . .I 9 ' , . Q 1 1 1 - . . . . . , . 1 . . . , 1 1 - 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 .4

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REVIIL Lord By ron sand Trme forges an endless charn of vesteroays Somewhere along hrs llfe he penned tnc hne as he vlewed the future s un guessable secrets wrought bv the hand of Trme lnto the changeless realrty of the pwst And as he thought of the years that had flown so we of the Class of 27 may look back from the threshold of a burger broader Tomorrow with a little of surprlse and much of regret and a feelmg of relief wrthal that the four vears future once replete wfrth mystery and promlse has so swiftly taken lts place wrth the Yesterdays These years have held varled thmgs for us accordmg to our natures Thev lave held pleasure for most and a blt of sorrow for all We have come from near at hand from the middle distances and a few of us from far corners of the earth to spend them here Dick Strong from sunny Georgra Helen Leaf from Indrana ames Dobbs from South Afrlca Margaret Pruessman from the OFICDI Erwm Rleger from the Yukon Archie Morton from lndla and we leave now owmng a common loyalty and with a common tug at our heartstnngs as we go We leave wrth regret at the partmg and yet wrth a feehng of gladness that because of our work here we are gorng forth equipped wlth trustler weapons and a hrgher value as cltlzens Let us hope that as the Future draws near hestrtates before us as the Present and IS Past we may look back to old Lincoln and feel lrcreaslngly wrth the years that we have not wrought rn vam CHAPTER I Loommg unforgettable among our red letter days IS that 2nd of September 1918 when we lost the dlgnlty of elghth graders and became just Freshmen Filled with vague forbodmgs and a determination not to show them we turned our faces resolutely toward the star of knowledge and found that our new lzfe was not so bad after all After we had become accustomed to the new surroundmgs the class was organized wlth Ralph Olson at the helm as president ullet Glen acted as vlce president and Sloane Squrre as secretarv The class fmances were ln charge of Wllllam Vlsser Treasurer Under the guldance of Mrss Cheatham we staged the Freshmen FTOIIC our first blg outlet for enthuslasm and showed our Splflt by an attendance of over three hundred at the mixed program of muslc stunts and games whlch took place rn the audltorlum and later ln both gymnasrums under the leadership of Mrs Xnderson We left school ln une with a new sense of rmportance and the proud knowledge that we were Sophomores CHAPTER II sophomores' For the flrst time we realrzed how enjoyable rt was to look down upon the freshmen We chose Lawrence Lanser presldent Margaret Revelle vlce president ohn Farley secretary and Dan McMullen treasurer and wlth Mr Riggs and Miss Cheatham as advrsers set out upon our second year The unusual was achleved at the Sophomore Glee when two one act plays The Sack and French Wlth0Ul a Master were staged The best one yet was the verdrct of all after the Clee just as the verdict of each succeeding class has been wlth a llttle more effort to make each affalr better than the last We closed the year knowing that we had been Increasingly actrve ln school affairs and mdxvldually convinced that big thmgs were ln store for next year s juniors Ptge 21 L - tt ' ' 1 fs . . , , . , . . , - ' y 1 . V , .. .D , v - - 1 - n , . . . . v , , a y - , A c , . n 9 1 Q , J , v 1 Q v n c V . , a 1 n 1 , - ' 1 n ' - v . V , . , . s n n s , . .f . J n ' 1 J ' 1 ' c ., . - as n a v 0 tt - n tt vs - V ' v 1 v , . ., a . . . . , . , 1 1 i

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HONOR RGLL Readlng from left to right begmmng m upper left hand comer Lawrence Botsfor Sherwood Botsforcl ohn E. Brown Mary Alma Fisher Dons Foye Lora Harvey Marne Hornbeck May jenluns Dorothy Kwapll Marne Mollestad Erwln Rleger Hugh Sllllman Lewis Wood Phllo Zimmerman l.ora Harvey Ruby McDonald ohn E Brown Erwin Rleger Page 23 . , . . . I D d J 1 , Allen Singer . . 1 Commencement Speakers