Mount Pleasant High School - Derrick Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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its ln Q? Q ,s , 1 ':: 2 Y- L-f , ---L11 1 Ei E i' -if FM 'S' are---T ---:Le-E15 E EQ J? 23133 e sQ5s5f - A s -'Q 2 A-' Class History of Athletics THE CLASS of nineteen hundred and twenty-six started its athletic career off with a bangg no sooner had we gotten accustomed to the traditions of the Mount Pleasant High School, than the annual interclass football tournament was held. The first game played was with the strong Junior team which was composed of such stars as Roy Hardgrove, the Kidder brothers, and others. Although this was the first game, some of us had played before, so we made the Juniors realize that the Freshies were some- body after all. We were very unfortunate in not furnishing any men for the varsity, but we made up for it in our last three years in High School. As sophomores, we failed to win any interclass event, but we furnished two men for the baseball nine: Jack Pierson and Harold Stinson. In our Junior year we were able to place six men on the varsity football eleven. In the interclass events we were able to win the Basketball championship, by defeat- ing the dignified seniors in a real contest by a score of 3-0. From this team, two men were picked for varsity basketball. Jack Pierson was elected captain for the season of 1926. In baseball we were still represented, by having six seniors on the team. ' In 1926 a good per cent. of the teams that Mount Pleasant High School put out was composed of seniors. Half of the football team, three of the basketball team, and five of the baseball team were seniors. With every athletically inclined senior whose motto was Stick outg your chance is coming, our four years in High School have been rated as fairly high. We have done our best in generating and maintaining the PEP in this High School, so we are signing off our Athletic career for the class of nineteen hundred and twenty- seven. -Maynard Allyn. P110 Thirty-thru

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IQ N , ,. .L '- 42 .. - - --- -- ---1 lofi 211.55 ?.:1iL .- I ri: IL if :ri A large gymnasium was now seen. Thousands of people were seen shouting and cheering the efforts of the players in a thrilling basketball game. Our attention was drawn to the splendid playing of one of the players. Regarding him more closely, we recognized our old star, Jack Pierson. A skyscraper then came into prominence. Busily working at their typewriters, we recognized Helen Dersnah, Iva May Mills, and Mary Ruth Diehl. The skyscraper disappeared and another part of the city was discerned. It was Greenwich Village, and, in a charming bizzarre apartment, we saw Violet Goodwin busily at 'work in her studio. Ercell McGregor and Floretta Egbert were also busily engagedg one writing articles for a leading magazine, the other completing the con- cluding chapter of a book. Back in the more domestic regions we spied Winifred Walsh preparing something to eat. A great library flashed into view, we saw Rachel Cook and Louis De Bois as head librarians, we did not wonder at its popularity. The scene in the crystal faded, and in it we saw the stage of a great opera house. A musical was being given in which Phyllis Morrison and Dorothy Collins had the leading parts. We now saw in the crystal a cold, gray sky and brown, barren earth. We also saw thousands of eager spectators watching a football game. It was a fast and excit- ing game and no wonder for the players on both sides were professionals. We became greatly interested in the game and were not amazed to see our old stars, Vic Hibbeln, Francis Robinson, Dick Hunter, and Justin Youngs. I had become rather weary and began gazing about when the exclamation of the others drew my attention back to the crystal. There was the White House in all its glory. Coming down the steps, we saw the chief executive of the land, whom we rec- ognized as Harold Stinson. Another member of our class shown in this city was Charles Bailey, who had become quite a prominent politician. Now we saw the interior of a great hospital. Fred Axtell, with his two Well trained nurses, Emily 'Garber and Mabel Foutch, was in the midst of a serious opera- tion. Soon we saw Dick Bilcox, standing on a box, frantically waving his hands. He had become a soap box orator and was working for some very noted politician. It looks as if we were to be entertained, remarked Josephine, when a famous ball room appeared. We soon learned that it was a dancing. school, managed and owned by Boyd Axtell, Marian Mitchell and Letha Edmonds. It was very exclusive and patronized by New York's Four Hundred. Josephine Donohue was then seen as active head of the foreign language de- partment of Leland Stanford University, and John Duguid, as one of its able profes- sors of mathematics. Next, in a city, which we supposed to be Chicago, we saw an attractive French Pastry Shoppe. The owners proved to be Helen Campbell and Ruth Riley. Next door to this, Marie Seaton and Isabel Collin had a well established style shop in which they employ the Prout twins as models. A great, law building came into sight, and, when we saw the Firm name, Tambling and Lynch, we realized that two more of our group had climbed the ladder of success. As we gazed longer at the crystal, it became dimmer and dimmer, until it finally lost its revealing properties and became as mere glass. The magician slowly shaking his head, looked at us. There is no use staying any longer, he said, The prophetic spirit has departed. I hope that you are satisfied. We assured him that we were, and, thanking him profusely for his kindness, we left, a happy chattering group. -Elsie Johnson. Page Thirty-two

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w s E- .geo 5 They gazed and gazed, and still their wonder grew how one small head could carry all she knew.-Helen Campbell. Our young Lochinvar, Dick Hunter, is portrayed for the first time without his usual smile. This smiling faced child is Iva May Mills. Smile now and show your pletty teeth for the nice man. This is probably what Vera Smith is being told. Allow me to present the dowager Ercell McGregor. V No, this isn't a boy. It's Bessie Belnap. No excuses are offered for this picture. It was handed in by the Business Manager. Mary Ruth Diehl is all dressed up and looks as if she were going some place. Page Thirty-four