Madison Central High School - Tychoberahn Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Class of 1903 In the fall of '99, there entered this high school, a great all-conquering body of green-horns. They speedily conceived it to be their duty to make life a burden to Prof, and the teachers. They had for leaders in their crusade against righteousness such great masters as “Goff1 Gaffney, Charlie Coles, and Robert Trainor, greater men than whom, I venture to say, the world has never been without. These gentlemen piloted the class of 03 safely through the winter months and then, feeling that their presence was no longer needed, the great leaders resigned, and have never again been seen in the schoolhouse. The next year a great change was apparent in the class. Instead of following their previous year’s habit of riot and sedition, ’03 stood bravely by the faculty and, to prove its sincerity, refused to molest ever the verdant freshmen from the sixth ward. As a whole this year fended; rather uneventfully for ’03. There was, strictly speaking, very iittle constitutional development, and almost .no uv,tdle :tuaj growth, while on the other hand, a notable revival of respect for Prof.—royalty and enthusiastic belief in the divine right of the faculty and in the doctrine of non-resistance, especially in the Latin division—was apparent. The school year of Ol-’OS opened with murmuring among the working classes (?) of ’03, which finally culminated in a grand riot and class meeting, at which class officers were elected. This opened what McCauley aptly calls the “Era of Class Meetings,” which lasted for about six months, and ended in the monster meeting of the twenty-fifth of April, at which it is estimated, at least five people were present. It was in the “Era of Class Meetings” that the greatest event of the year occurred, namely: Third Grade Party, which was, admittedly, the finest so-called “Junior Prom” ever given by a class of the Madison High School. There were at least one hundred couples present to furnish the dancing; Lueder’s orchestra to furnish the music, and the 25

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decorations—described as “very swell”—furnished by the class. After the party, everybody went home, and was subsequently seen at school the next Monday morning. On the whole, the class of 03 may congratulate itself on having passed so successfully through three such trying years as those through which they have come, and I pray and fondly trust, that they will always, in the future, be as honest, straight-forward and successful, as they have been in the past. President- Junior Class Officers FALL TERM. -Benji Davis. Vice President—ARTHUR Schl LKAMP. President- Secretary—Margaret Fkankenburger. Treasurer—CORNELIA McCUE. WINTER TERM. —Benji Davis. Vice President—Roy Bartlett. Secretary—Herbert FOWLER. President- Treasurer—CORNELIA McCUE. SPRING TERM. —Benji Davis. Vice President—Chester Coleman. Sec ret a ry—H E R B E RT Fo W LER. Treasurer—CORNELIA McCUE. 26