Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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demurs ALFARETTA WRIGHT “Alfaretta” English-Teachers' Training, Domestic Science” Junior Red Cross Auxiliary 2; Attiletic Association 4; Nautilus 1-2-3-4; Sheep Club 2; Dairy Calf Club 2. “A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.” COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM At the Opera House, June 4, 1920. Invocation Rev. A. M. Harkness Vocal Trio—“I ittle Boy Blue”------------------------- Elizabeth Pinkney, Louise Voll, Lenore Godard Salutatory Samuel Blum Class History .Joseph Pape Violin Solo—“Liebesreud” Edith Luetscher Class Prophecy Elizabeth Pinkney, Blanche Parker Class Will Sydney Bunco Vocal Duet Elizabeth Pinkney, Lenore Godard Valedictory Raymond Evans Presentation of Diplomas Dr. C. A. Costley

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Seniors RALPH SEYFORTH “Smiler” Agriculture-Commercial Demosthenian Society 1-2-3; Athletic A.scciation 1-2-3-4; I)a ry Calf Club 2-3; Baby Beef Club 1-2; District Stock Judging 4; Stock Judging, Madison 4; Stock Judging Team, State Fair at Milwaukee 2; Sheep Club 2; Juiror Red Cross Auxiliary 2; Mirror Staff 1; Freshman Class Play; Boy ’ Wo. king Reserve. “A quiet, thoughtful, good, sincere lad.’’ CLARENCE THOMPSON “Tommy” Commercial-English Demosthenian Society 1-2-3; Vice-Presi-• dent 3; Sergeant-at-Arms Demosthenian Society 2; Junior Red Cross Auxiliary 2; Class Play 1-3; Class Basket Ball 1-2-3-4; Class Football 1; First Team 4; Baseball 3 4; Athletic AiSsociat’on 1-2-3-4; Mirror Staff 3; Boys’ Working Reserve 2. “Why is it that these little fellows are so brainy?’’ GRAYCE WINTER “Winter Teachers' Training-English Nautilus 1-2-3-4; Pres dent Class 2; Ath let'c Association 4; Lite ary Editor “Senior M-moi s' 4; Secretary-Treasurer Class 4; Ola s Play 1-3-4; Glee Club 3-4; Junior Pel Cross Auxiliary 2; Garden Club 2. ‘A. go„d as she is t'ai., and wise as good.”

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THE VALEDICTORY By Raymond Evans CITIZENS OF MONDOVI AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. I wish to bring to your attention tonight a matter which |g of the greatest importance to our city and vicinity, and one in which I am sure you are vitally interested, inasmuch as you are all immediately concerned. Mondovi has been brought face to face with a duty which it cannot avoid, a need which. in my opinion, is one of the greatest that ever can arise in a city, for it affects the whole welfare of its youth, and thus the safety of the nation. I have only praise and thanks for the taxpayers of this city and school district for the splendid manner in which they have responded to every call upon them in the interest of education. They have done everything in their power. Through their generosity our High School has been able to reach a place in the front rank of schools of its size in the state, and, although handicapped by the lack of a proper building, it has been able to pay such salaries and provide such equipment as to maintain an educational standard that has been scarcely surpassed by many of the larger schools. Tn the past, the policy of our school management has been to disregard physical difficulties, and think only of the scholastic standing of the school. These men have realized that to erect a new school building in addition to providing the necessary salaries for its faculty would be to place a burden upon the people which would be almost impossible for them to bear. Given the alternative of a modern school plant equipped with a weak and inefficient faculty, and keeping the same old building supplied with the best talent obtainable, they have chosen the latter. And in the main this policy has been a wise one. But the time has come at last when it must be abandoned for one more constructive. Conditions are now such as to demand it. In the first place our high school is so overcrowded as to interfere seriously with the course of instruction. No teacher can feel certain of being allowed to remain in her own deoartment. She must be prepared to teach any class in any room that is not needed more urgently by some other class. No class room can be reserved for the purposes for which it was intended. During the past year, divisions of English, Agriculture and Latin received inst uetion in t’ e H's’orv Room. The English room was used for English. Geography and certain divisions of Commercial work. The Laboratory was used for Agriculture work The Commercial and Domestic Science Rooms, though located in the basement of another building and already overcrowded. were assigned to certain other classes, and even the School Library Room was brought into use as a recitation room for a class in I atin IV. Moreover, because we have been unable to meet the