North High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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THOMAS L. HOSMER. QBusiness Course. A good sized hat, a lively hustle, a soft spot in his heart for the girls. Has won distinction as business manager of the Oracle. Pm so important that no one minds fwhat I say, so I say it,' it's the only comfort I have. ETHEL SHAW. Latin Course. It would break her heart to get anything but an A. The delight of the faculty, the despair of her rivals. The admiration of P ? Night after night she sat and hleared her eyes. BURR GIFFIN. Latin Course. The hand of an artist, the heart of a lover, the instincts of a Vanderbilt. A bonanza to the girls. A successful, all-around member. My heart, the sea, and the fworld are melt- ing 'with lofvef' FRANCES PICKRELL. Scientific Course. She is happy-go-lucky, with a soul full of sunshine and a head full of fun. Leading lady in Miss Doremifasolasini. Her dearest ambition to clog like Ona. Men are such .vguashy thingsj they look fwell enough but they fwon't fwear, they fwon't wear. '

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' ROY B. GREGG. Latin Course. Editor-in-Chief of Oracle, President of Senior Classy Captain of base ball team. A faculty for getting busy and minding his own business. His abode, the Oracle oflice. His dreams, money bags for the Annual. 1 The more they gazed, the more the fwonder grefw, That one small head could carry all he knef-w. iii- ONA LOUISE CURTIS. Latin.. Course. A big heart, a freckled nose, an ambition for the stage, a gift of song and pen. A Godsend to the Oracle Stall. 4 Her brain contains ten thousand cells, In each some actifve fancy dfwellsf' ,-.-ir EDGAR DE SILVA. Latin Course. A Sultan of Sulu in real life. Authority on the joke book. Specialty: origlnal translations a la George Ade. The cheerful man's a king. .1-1-1 LENoRE ASH. Latin Course. , A brilliant student, and ardent scrapper. A sweet singer with a tendency to turn up her nose at the World in general, all She fwill, she fwill, and you can depend on it, And if She fwont, she fwont, and there's the end on't.,'

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GEM BARKER. Latin Course. A member of the orchestra, so of necessity has many Stl-ings to her bow. Prides herself on her pompadour and her descent from Richard Henry LCC- Not yet has felt the fwouml of Cufiidiv dart, but fvery near it. ,1- WILMOT ROYAL. Latin Course. , A living dynamo, shocking, but a source of power. North High's best man' on the track with the weights, one long continuous, unend- ing debater. When he gets to Heaven he will 'have to show St. Peter just how to open the Golden Gate-but he will get in just the same. He knofws about it all--he lenofws he knofwsf' KATHERINE LAWLESS. Latin Course. A pink of propriety, a model of neatness, a most generous and unselfish heart. Her chief delight the study of French. The dearest and darlingest girl. --li RALPH STEVENS. Latin Course. A healthy 100king specimen of the human familY- Delights in argument, a complexion the HWY Of the girls. rr 1' , Im but a stranger heref lzeafven 15 my home.