Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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THE LEIGH DILLON AMY BROWNLEE JEANETTE THOMPSON .. SAMMY BLUM RUSSELL QUARBERG SANFORD EI)E RALPH SMITH ANNA AASE WILLARD PACE VERNA BENNING FRED HARRISON MIRROR STAFF ------------------- Editor-in-Chief ----------------- Associate Editor ------------------Associate Editor ------------------ Athletic Editor ------------------ Business Manager --------Assistant Business Manager ------- Assistant Business Manager ----------------- Kodak Department --------------- Soldier Department -------------------Joke Department ---------------------------- Artist

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To Lieut. Harry Dillon, Lieut. Rodney Cooke and Private Loren Borst, who died in the service of our country, this “Victory Mirror” is dedicated with admiration and respect.

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Editorials Difficulties, it has been said, are made to be overcome; and, certainly, the path of learning at Mondovi high has this year been beset with difficulties. It has ! een no primrose path of dalliance.’ When school opened, the Great War was still being waged with no hint of its sudden, dramatic and glorious finish. The result was that during the first semester the high school was under-staffed. This entailed a great strain on our Principal, Mr. Dodge, and the other members of the faculty. Fortunately, at the beginning of the second semester there was a staff sufficiently large to cope successfully with all the inside and outside activities that a modern high school implies. But students had scarcely settled down to their educational routine when fear of the influenza epidemic caused an intel- lectual interregnum of six weeks, at the end of which time practically a new beginning had to be made. This enforced vacation had two bad effects. It meant crowding the educational program into a shorter period of time, with the accompanying tendency to mental indigestion. It meant the closing down of all those activities, quasi-educational and athletic, which do so much to foster a proper high school spirit. There were, however, enough of these activities to cause regret that they were stopped. In basketball it was evidenced that with so fine a coach as Mr. Thompson we had the makings of a victorious team. Our successes in debate, in oratory and in declamation, achieved under great limitations, are gratifying proofs that, given ordinary conditions, we would have done exceedingly well. But another year is coming when we who shall have passed on will watch with interest the development of present potentialities, when the conditions will, we hope, 1 e more favorable than they have been this year. This lack of continuity in school work and this arrested development of school activities have reacted on those of us who have been entrusted with the task of bringing out the Mirror, which is a record of the school year. But we have done our best and angels can do no more. In the words of the poet we adjure you. Be to our virtues very kind. Be to our faults a little blind. If the 1919 Mirror merits commendation. we, as Editor-in-chief, ask you to give the praise to the loyal staff that has lightened our labors. Too much cannot be said of the Business Manager. Russell Quarberg, who has worked hard and successfully. His powers of persuasion are proved by the large amount of our advertising matter. He has received good help from his assistants, Sanford Ede and Ralph Smith. Right here, we want to thank the business men for their support. It show- that they have the interests of our high school at heart. Without their co-operation, the issue of the Mirror would be impossi le. But we believe that their support is a good business proposition for them. Those of us who remain in Mondovi when we have finished our high rchool career will remember the business men who showed an interest in us. But to return from our digression. Sammy Blum as Athletic Editor has shown that he is the right man in the right place and the same can be said of our Artist, Fred Harrison. Willard Pace has had the task, no smell one. of getting th i photographs of our -oldiers and sailor boys. The gentler sex has done its full share to the production of the Mirror. To Anna Aase, who has collected the snapshots; to Verra B nning, who is responsible for the joke department; to Amy Brownlee who has been in charge of the Story section and to Jeanette Thompson, who has collected the records of the Senior class and has reviewed the work of the Nautilus Society—we -ay. in the language of Shakespeare. Thanks, thanks and again thanks. As is but right, a large part of the Mir-10 is devoted to the educational activities of the high school. These have been ably dealt with ? y the Principal and other members of the faculty. We venture to claim that we have been singularly fortunate this year in the possession of teachers of unquestioned capacity, who have not spared themselves in their efforts to teach the young idea howT to shoot. In regard to our faculty—May we be permitted to prove that our three years study of Latin has not been wholly forgotten in the fourth year?—in years to come olim mcminisse juvabit. This is the year of Victory, and w e have called our year book the Victory Mirror. We are proud to know that those who have had their education at the Mondovi high school have done their full share in the achievements wThich constitute the most glorious page in the military annals of our country. We believe the Victory Mirror constitutes a permanent memorial