Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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ROSALIE WERRKLL • ‘ Rose ’ ’ ENGLISH COURSE Nautilus, 1-2; I’liilakean, 4; Glee Club 1-2. “Sh© asks questions and talks to everyone.” RUTH WORRELL TEACHERS' TRAINING COURSE Nautilus, 12. ‘‘Wise minds are tliose that speak few words.” WILLIAM MYERS ‘•Bill” GENERAL COURSE ‘‘Well, you know love is better than fame.” CLASS OFFICERS President..............ARNOLD SPOTT Vice President - - - WILMA URN ESS Sec.-Treas......................EDITII BROWN Class Colors—Cardinal and White. Class Flower—Dark Red Rose. Class Motto—‘‘On Life's Highway.”

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Class History. Can you realize the strange feeling, That over 11s did come a-stealing, When you gave this task to do. To account for the class of twenty-two? In September of the year eighteen, As fifty-seven freshmen, green. Thus we began our high school strife, Timid and pale, yet full of life. As the end of our journey now nears, Since pursuing a course of four years, We find a score of classmates missing. Good luck to them now we are wishing. Here you will find in the following pages. Represented people of all sizes and ages. We tried to give at a spicy flavor. So give your attention and do us a favor. Charlie Ilurtley, the first to leave us, decided that he did not like school, so he turned his ambitions in a different direction. The latest report is that he is at St. Louis, Mo., keeping the people prepared for a rainy day, for he is a salesman. and his ambitions turned out in the shape of an umbrella. Cora Hanson left us, moving with her folk to Cornell. She was graduated from the Eau Claire Teachers' Training School last year and no doubt is a “school-ma’am somewhere. Next. Lois Cheney left our fo'd because of illness. We are glad to note that she came back again the next year. Before the year was half gone. Melvin Nelson’s services as farmer were needed at his home near Modena. Curtis Ileibel joined us after school was in session for several months. lie had previously attended school at Gilmanton. At present, he is a student of the Augusta High School. Duiing this, our first year at High School, a reception was given us by the Sophomores. This was not given until late in spring, owing to an eight weeks’ vacation on account of the flu. This affair was one of the most enjoyable of our High School days. When our sophomore year was at hand, we found some more of our classmates missing. During the summer. Myrtle Ilel-wig hail moved to Minneapolis where she attended South Minneapolis High for two years. Last summer she took a position as telephone operator and liked the work so well that she did not go back to school. Mary Pace left for Clinton. Wisconsin, at the beginning of the sophomore year and entered the high school there. She will graduate from the Teachers' Training course this spring. Beinice, her brother, also entered the Clinton High School. We were were grieved to hear of his untimely death due to pneumonia, last fall. Anna Schneider also failed to make her appearance and we have heard that she since has been married to Earl Stokes of Eau Claire, where she now resides. Emma Saxe is another who forsook our class for more housewifely dut’e . She is now Mrs. Clyde Shaw of Cochrane. Leona Bond, the flaxen-haired girl, deserted the class during the sophomore year because of the weakened condition of her eyes. She now lives with her parents at Gilmanton. Elen Thompson left the class at ti e end of the sophomore year, lie decided that