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

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6 4? I Freshmen Ronald Keller Willis Landon Thelma Leahy Lawrence Lauderbaugh Wayne Marshall Edward Neff Maurine Nolan Leah Northey M. D. Rand RL-va Robertson Isabelle Russel Violet Russell Bernice Sanders Karl Schmidt Anguel Shirts Marguerite Staveley Frank Snyder Russell Stinson Christine Taylor Edgar Thompson Esther Trussell Robert Van Wie Thelma Walton Kenneth Way Ellsworth Weller Mary Winesburgh Ardath Shannon -By Harold Stinson. v-. Page Fifty-ave

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s l y xg-- J, M1 -Fw 1' ' Page Fifty-four Freshmen Ruth Allyn Mary Baldwin Wilma Beebe Marie Bellinger Lucille Belling'er Louise Bitler Alda Bowerman Harriet Brondstetter Eric Bundy Gracie Chaffee John Chamberlin Alita Collin Hazel Coughlin Kathryn Crampton Nettie Crispin Marcella Cuthbert Loig Davidson Sybil Detwiler Blair Dusenbury Pearl Eisenberger Sybil Estabrook Alma First Theodore Graham Dorothy Hake Beatrice Harkins Lynn Hooker Gerald Hunter Geraldine Jewell Aletha Johnston

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, ,L jffri lg n I : mi, .fe is ef alixis FJ ' - W e Q, 1 Teaching a Bone-Headed Calf to Drink NOW DON'T laugh, for there is nothing funny about it as anyone who has ever attempted to teach a young calf to drink will testify. First, provide yourself with the necessary equipment, a calf pail of just the right size. flt must be just the right size, or the result is apt to be disastrous. If it is too small, the calf can not get his head in it, while if it is too large, the little rummy is apt to drown himself.J Another important part of the equipment is what you expect to wear. It is vitally important to make yourself look as ridiculous as possible, for, if there is no other means of forcing the subject at hand to drink, you may be able to scare him into it. I, from my own personal experience, recommend rubber boots and coveralls. When you are ready to approach the calf, open the stable door with infinite care, and only wide enough to allow yourself to enter, or there is danger of said calf escap- ing. March up to him fearlessly and try to make an impression on him right at the beginning. You may as well be resigned at first to play tag with your victim for half an hour, or until you have tired him out. When the calf is thoroughly exhausted, he will suddenly take on a most loving and affectionate attitude. He will approach the pail with a sweet, coy expression, jam his head to the bottom, and spill half the milk. He will suddenly emerge with his whole head dripping and proceed to slobber all over you. He will chew your sleeve and look up at you with a look that is enough to melt the heart of a stone, but I warn you not to be too touched. Just at this point is the time to get the calf corraled in a corner, and to jam his head into the pail, or rather to jam the pail up to his nose. Now introduce your fingers to his moist, pink, tongue, and after he has chewed them for twenty minutes, he will probably begin drinking with such industry that you are apt to be deceived. But, don't be fooled by a calf! Just when you think the worst is over, and loosen your grasp on the pail, the calf gives a high dive. Down goes the pail! Splash goes the milk! You can conscientiously tell your uncle, or who ever set you at the engaging task, that you have given Old Spot's calf his ration of milk. But whatever you do, do not tell him that it was the floor, not the calf, that received the benefit. -Ardath Shannon. Page Fifty-six