Lodge Grass High School - Golden Eagle Yearbook (Lodge Grass, MT)

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Golden Cagle ifitfltnru In the year of 1926, a class, destined to a brilliant future, entered Lodge Grass High School. I say brilliant future, because this class of ‘30 has always proven itself a valuable asset to the L. G. H. S. When we entred as Freshmen, our class numbered ten. The officers elected for that term were: Sponsors, Mrs. C. Stevens and Mrs. Jay Fitzgerald; President, Arthur Zeleny; Secretary and Treasurer, Cloanna Bond. The members of the class were Arthur Zcleny, Cloanna Bond, Madge Mason, Howard Mason, Esther Foster, Robert Guiles, Barbara Chandler. Ida Zeleny. Melvin Johnson, and Virgil Haffner.. At initiation our superior Sophs ordered the girls to come to school dressed as old ladies with long dresses, straw hats and wearing rubbers. The boys were to wear knee pants, overshoes and skull caps. We had lots of fun but I think the upper classmen had more fun looking at us. On Armistice day all organizations were asked to have a float representing themselves. The High School students had a float representing the “Apple of Knowledge.” We surely worked but were paid for our trouble by winning second prize. It is customary for each class to give a party each year so we Frosh decided on a Snow-Party. The High School students journeyed to Spear Siding and there we played many winter games in the snow and about twelve o’clock we came back to the school house and ate Chili. Everyone had a very enjoyable time and departed for their homes. Our class didn’t seem to hold much attraction for Robert and Virgil because they dropped oiit before the end of the term. on September 6, 1927, we again began our journey up the hill to gain more knowledge. This year Verna Scribner came from Sheridan High and added one more to our class. As Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Stevens proved satisfactory we kept them as sponsors but Cloanna Bond was elected president and Ida Zeleny secretary and treasurer. We are going to start out with a bang by giving a Theatre Party. All of the H. S. students went to the show “The Campus Flirt” and then worked up an appetite by climbing the hill to be fed by the Sophs. This wasn’t much of a success but we weren’t advanced and didn’t know how to conduct a party very well. On January 2, 1928 uosephine Strawn came to us from Sheridan. We were steadily increasing our number. We thought we should show the rest of the students that we could do something worth while so we sponsored a trip to the Little Horn Canyon, having as our guests the Senior Class. We had a wonderful time on this trip. When we began our Junior year we found that Barbara Chandler had been shot by Cupid so there was one less. Then too Esther Foster went to Upton, Wyoming. We decided that one sponsor could take care of us, since we had overcome the dangers of Freshmen greeness and Sophomore super-sophistication, and chose Mrs. Stevens. Arthur Zeleny was chosen president and Ida retained her position as Secretary and Treasurer.

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Golden Eagle g rluilaraht ! BRAINS, OR BRAWN AND BEAITTY? After full recognition has been given to all the activities outside of the class room, we must always come back to the fact that scholarship is the important part of high school work. When we call a surgeon, when we employ an attorney or an engineer, we get, .if pos- ! sible, a man who has scholarship—a man who knows. The scholarship contests give pub- | lie recognition for the work done in school subjects to those young people who are getting out of school that which we are all paying taxes for, that which cannot be estimated in money or mere fleeting fame—a solid education. We are accustomed to urge students to work hard at their lessons that they may succeed in the future, but we give our cheer and : dinners and letters to the athletes, the declaimers, etc., who have succeeded in the present. It is perfectly normal for high school students to like to receive immediate recognition of efforts. Pew of us can imagine the thrill which will result from achievement some years hence, until very recently it has been almost impossible to provide any recognition of scholastic effort comparable to that given basketball and other athletics. Our valedictory honors and honor rolls have only partially succeeded in this cause, where again the recognition is tardy and without any definite realization of competition. However since the scholarship contests have been established Brains is being emphasized and receiving honor as well as Brawn and Beauty by the high school students and the public in general. Lodge Grass competes with Hardin, Worden and Custer at a district contest held each Spring. Lodge Grass has placed second or third in the district contest each year she has entered; her contestants showing up exceptionally well. Winners of first places in this contest are eligible to attend the State Scholarship Contest in Bozeman. Each year from two fo four of the Lodge Grass contestants have been eligible to be sent to Bozeman but owing to lack of finances the last three years no one has been allowed to make the trip. For 1930 the scholarship team for the district contest and their results weer as follows: English I, Margaret Bond. Agnes Six, Mary Cornwell; Literature, Ida Zeleny second, Joe Strawn, Cloanna Bond; Algebra, Kenneth McCaughlin, Everett Therney, Agnes Six; Geometry, John Green first, John Weigand, Muriel Foltz; Latin II, Grace Kreitzberg second, Stewart Mason third, John Weigand; World History, Alex Ball, Kenneth McCaughlin; General Science, Muriel Foltz second, Kenneth McCaughlin third, Everett Therney first; Physics, Billy McKinley fourth, Joe Strawn third, Ida Zeleny first; Typewriting, Ida Zeleny second; Cloanna Bond, Dorothy Miller; U. S. History. Ida Zeleny first, Oloanna Bond, Joe Strawn. Ida Zeleny was high point winner of the district, making 16 points by winning ! one first place, and three second places. Ida Zeleny. John Green and Everett Therney are I eligible to enter the State Scholarship Contest at Bozeman. 1181

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Golden Eagle (Clafla ffiistnrtt (Continued from page 19) We were the first class in the history of L. G. H. S. to give a class play. “Polly Wants A Cracker” was considered a great success. At the Junior Prom, which was the first ever given, we decorated the gym to represent a Chinese street. Our Banquet was enjoyed by all and we had plenty to eat. Everyone had such a good time in 1928 in Little Horn Canyon that we decided to take tlie Seniors as our guests and sponsor another trip. When we assembled at the school house last fail we were very glad to see Esther Poster once more with us. We knew though that she would come back to graduate with a good class. We thought sure we had lost Howard Mason but after the first six weeks period the last sheep returned to the fold. Verna had to take up her winter quarters in Hardin and was unable to finish with us. Mr. Chambers was chosen as our advisor and Ida and Art Zeleny both retained their former positions as president and secretary and treasurer. The assembly was quite crowded this term and as the Seniors were the oldest and wisest they were given the former library as a private room. The Seniors gave a Hallowe’en Party and as this was the first party of the season, we wanted to remove the barriors aside for the bashful Prosh, we had a combination party and dance. In the Senior year we had to meet very many expenses so we gave a carnival dance in Stevensons Hall. Our class seems to keep up the good work and this year we are putting out an Annual, the first to be put out by this High School. The Senior Class play, “The Arrival of Kitty” was a great success and a big money maker. All four years of our High School career we have contributed much to the Basbet-Ball teams. Six of the class received letters for playing this year. We would no doubt have received letters in the former years but this year was the first year they were given out. When the class of 30 have finished their High School career which is drawing to a close very rapidly the other students will feel they have lost one of the most important cogs of the forward-moving wheel. C B. ‘30.