Mineral Wells High School - Burro Yearbook (Mineral Wells, TX)

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HARVEY Y. . E. Editor-in-Chief of BURRO; Captain of Foot Ball Team; Senior ('lass President; President Athletic Association; Secretary Glee Club: President Debating Society— Spring Term; Senior Boys’ Tennis; Trig Club; Annual Club. Will seme one please start another club or as- sociation so that Harvey can be president of it? His motto is, “Ego. ich, 1.” MARIE AUGUSTA BOCK. Die Germanische Gesellschaft; Choral Club; Freckle Face Tennis Club; Annual Club; President S. S. G.; Secretary- Treasurer Jemmel Club; High School Basket Ball Team. These are the interesting things Marie paid us not to tell: ( 1 ) Why big, red foot-ball sweaters have such a peculiar attraction for her; (2) Why she likes to wear class colors so well; (3) Why she always goes to the postoffice af- ter the Wichita Falls’ train comes in. MARGUERITE TOMLINSON. Vice President of Die Germanische Gesellschaft; Annual Club; Choral Club; S. S. G. Club; Basket Ball Team; Humor Editor of BURRO; Freckle Face Tennis Club; Jemmel Club. “Mag” roams, the street murmuring “freckle eater! Tan-no-more!’ and worries the local drug- gists gray haired inquiring for skin beautifiers. She says that her hair is not “plebian red’’ but “burnt bronze.” DAVIl) GLADYS GALBRAITH. Choral Club; Society Editor of BUR- RO; M. B. Club; Annual Club; S. S. G. Club; Freckle Face Tennis Club. It’s a good thing that these are not old Salem days, for 'Ua“ plays with a broom stick every re- cess. Judging from the ..way she throws rocks “to make people jump,” one would think she was try- ing to qualify for a militant suffragette.”

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S E X I ) K CLASS KAURIS SHKLTOX AXDKRSOX. Annual Club; Captain of Basket Ball League; Glee Club; Vice President Stonewall Literary Society: Business Manager BURRO; Athletic Association; Senior Boys Tennis Club. Georgie Bassett- There was a report out that Farris once got into mischief, but this was utterly unfounded. He is the perfect boy! He once con- structed a ga!vanometer in a physics experiment all by himself and since has never been known to talk logically for over five minutes without ment- ioning the all-important fact. S. A. LILKS. Choral Club; High School Basket Ball Team; Captain of Girls Indoor Base Ball Team; Annual Club; Freckle Face Ten- nis Club. • S a.’ —The one deep, dark, mystery of our high school is what that “S. A. stands for. Some one unthoughtedly suggested ‘Sally Ann”-------- that some one was absent from school all the next week. S. A. studies diligently every afternoon when she goes home from school, but not later than 4:30 p. m. STKLLA MAY LISTKR. Choral Club; Annual Club; Basket Ball Team; Die German ische Gesellschaft; Senior Girls’ Base Ball Team; Freckle Face Tennis Club. Once upon a time a man invented powder puffs, and Stella has been borrowing them ever since. After long and laborious arithmetical calculation, we have discovered that in a month she uses $8.90 worth of powder at 10c a lb. CAHRIK LKOTA HKDICK. Annual Club; Freckle Face Tennis Club; Jemmel Club; Choral Club; Basket Ball Team. By being so quiet and modest, Leota tries to leave the impression of great depth and pro- fundity, but those who have associated with her for four years know better! She wouldn’t join the Humane Society because she had sworn eternal vengeance against the mouse family.

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JOSEPH IN E L. HOPKINS. Choral Club; Annual Club; Basket Ball Team; ••Trig1’ Club; Freckle Face Tennis Club. This is the only girl in our class that has a real, surenough beau. She wears his pin but spitefully refuses to let us look at the initials on it. Why. honestly, she won’t even let us read his letters! HELEN MAl’IUXE POLLAKI). Annual Club;- S. S. G. Club; Choral Club; M. B. Club; Freckle Face Tennis Club; Manager Girls’ Basket Ball Team. Behold, gentle reader, the twentieth century au- thority on annuals. She has discovered, devoured, and digested them all. It is chiefly for her benefit that this NEW one has been compiled. REBECCA CALHOl'X HARRIS. Basket Ball Team; Treasurer of Die Germanische Gesellschaft; Choral Club; Art Editor of BURRO; Annual Club: Freckle Face Tennis Club. “Callie —Behold this embryonic Mrs. Pank- hurst! If you don’t believe that she is a “decid- ed” blond, just mention woman suffrage. She even makes stump speeches for A1 Jennings. Yes, this is the very lady who wanted to have “Votes for Women” for our class motto. LON E. CX) YLING. President c-f Stonewall Literary So- ciety: Assistant Business Editor of BUR- RO; President Sunset Tennis Club; Glee Clui»; “Trig” Club; Sergeant-at-Arms of Senior Class; Foot Ball Team. Gaze upon the boy who has been mesmerized on account of his weak mind! Postively, he knows all there is to know' about politics; but in English he says the only one of Irving's books that he has read is THE AMBITIOUS GUEST!!!