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

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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.

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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 Cagle tdlasfl Jlriipbrry Last night, as I was sitting alone in my luxurious study wooing, doubtfully, it must be confessed, the spirit of prophecy, I heard a harsh, croaking voice above my head, which at first consisted of unintelligible sounds, but after a time I succeeded in separating the following sentence: Poe was a prevaricator!” and on looking up I saw an immense crow, or raven, standng in the open window and ominously flapping its heavy black wings. As I gazed upon it in open suprise it croaked again. Poe, I tell you, was a prevaricator, for I never was a bird of evil omen. I am a thoroughly respectable, well-brought-up member of the Corvus family, and having become possessed in some instinctive way which I am unable to describe, of your soul-wracking worries over the prophetic duties which have been assigned to you, I am here to help you. I have discovered, by what means I am still unable to unfold, the future fates which are waiting down the road for each one of the youthful graduates of this remarkable class of 1930 of the school of Lodge Grass. But before unfolding to you the hidden knowledge which I possess, you must give me something classical upon which to perch. The gift of prophecy will not flow freely while I stand in this prosaic attitude on your commonplace dormer windowsill. If you are unfortunate as to have no bust of palace among your Lares and Penates, you should at least be able to provide me with a bust of Shakespeare or Woodrow Wilson. “No, I answered in trembling tones, I am unable to accomodate you in this regard, but pray do not leave me for so small a fault as that. Yonder in the sunniest comer is a fine painting of Mary Pickford; handsomely framed. Will not that suffice for a resting place?” Nay, nay,” was the quick response, she is too new, too up-to-date; give me something for a perch more in keeping with my great age and historic associations.” O well, then, there is the photograph of the Custer Battlefield.” “That will do. that will do!” exclaimed the bird in tones of joy, taking an immediate flight to the photograph in question, and without further preamble it entered upon the following startling prognostications. Miss Josephine Strawn (I will mention ladies first because I was brought up in the most polite circles of refined birddom) who is expected to enter upon a stage career as soon as she has graduated, will be given a position as doak and suit model with Pings, where her histrionic powers will be given full play. “Miss Esther Poster, whose well-known literary talent is expected to send her to the top round of the ladder of fame, will accept a position as advertisement writer for The Independent, and acquire an enormous salary, since its financial success will be entirely dependent on her talent. Miss Cloanna Bond, will become a successful manager of one of Wrigly’s chewing gum factories. “Miss Madge Mason will emigrate to California, buy a thousand acres of unirrigated land and raise onions on a gigantic scale. “Miss Ida Zeleny will devote her attention to the manufacture of cosmetics, and, after becoming proficient in the French language will open a beauty parlor in Paris. “Mr. Arthur Zeleny, because of his artistic tendencies, is destined to become a famous and successful milliner, whose headgear wfll command fabulous prices and astonish the world. Mr Howard Mason, in imitation of Luther Burbank, will emigrate to Alaska and propogate a new species of icebergs, warranted to keep their bulk and weight in torrid zones. “Mr Melvin Johnson will circumnavigate the globe three times with a Ford motor car and a birch-bark canoe. On the second trip he will meet Miss Wilma Lynde who will have become a boarding-house keeper for knitting-factory girls, and after a short but happy courtship, they will marry and take the third trip together. M. J. ’30 tan