Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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Mr. Helm to Nancy Lee, apropos her last poem. Nothing but goo. Nancy Lee: Oh, I see, something wrong with the meter. I understand you began life as a newsboy, said a friend to Dr. Cotton. No, replied Dr. Cotton, somebody has misinformed you. I began life as an infant. Annis M. : I heard you were sick last week. Deaver: I was, I had a new disease called clothing sickness. Annis M.: What is that? Deaver: I had a coat on my tongue and breath came in short pants. Senior: One of the Juniors was going dowTi the street trying to sell vacuum cleaners. He asked me if I would like to buy one. Teacher: And what did you say? Senior: I said ' No, thank you. I get my shampoo at the barbers. ' Lionel McCray had been to his first basketball game and what impressed him most became evident in his prayei ' s. He ended with true basketball snap: God bless papa, God bless mamma, God bless Lionel, Rah, Rah, Rah ! Cuca: What makes the leaves turn red in the fall? Mr. Rogers: Why, they ' re blushing to t hink how green they have been all summer. Mr. Helm : McCray can you give me a sentence with defense in it? McCray: Yes ' r. De cat is on de fence. Rex (bragging on the picture his folks have) : Honestly, Bud, we ' ve got a picture of the ocean that is so natural that you can hear the roar of the waves whenever you look at it. Bud : That ' s nothing, we ' ve got a picture of my uncle that ' s so natural we have to shave it once a week. On moles we find Two legs behind. Two more we find before. We stand behind Before we find What those behind be for. n e H u ml r c .1 T h i r t y - K o u r

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Mr. Rogers (in Chemistry) : Lionel, hold this test tube but don ' t inhale the sulphur fumes. Lionel: Why? Mr. Rogers : Because they kill microbes. Willow: Where do they keep the extra bases? Fred U. : What do you mean? Willow: Well, that man just stole the third base. Mr. Helm: Mr. Hanley, name a collective noun. Dizz : A vacuum cleaner. Virginia: Do vou know what Mr. Ridgelv told me the other day? Helen fl. : No, what did he say? Virginia: He said my voice was better still. Hattie: Silence is golden, you know. H.: Well, I don ' t know about silence being golden, but I ' ve heard of people making money out of a still. Rogers: Miss Wheeler, what is work? Frances (stretching and opening one eye) : Everything works. Rogers: Do you mean to tell me that this table works? Frances: (closing eye and resuming former attitude) : Sure, wood-work. Isabel Perry: Why did you give up pipe organ lessons? Juanita : I felt so blooming childish, playing with my feet. Amy G. : You ' re a coward — you ' re even afraid of your own shadow. Mary L. : Well, why shouldn ' t I be? It looks like a crowd following me. Why do people cry at weddings? They ' re mostly married and haven ' t the nerve to laugh. MacRay: When you grow up are you going to advertise for a husband ? Catherine Jones : No, I am going to be a widow, they don ' t have to. Little cuts from classes, Little work at gym, Makes your graduation seem, Very, very, dim. Now, Frank, said Mrs. Whitehouse, I want you to be good while I ' m gone. I ' ll be good for a nickel, said Frank. Frank, she said, I want you to remember that you cannot be a son of mine unless you are good for nothing.

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Maud: But, Myrtle, don ' t you want to many a man who is economical ? Myrtle: Yes, hut it ' s awful being engaged to one. Joe: Did you hear about Dizz? He ' s had his aijpendix taken away. Green: Serves him rig-ht; should have had it in his mother ' s name. Caretto: How about the next dance, Heavy? Catherine H: Sorry, I am too danced out. Caretto: No, you ' re not too damn stout, just pleasingly plump I Annavard (thinking) : I consider that sheep are the stupidest creatures living. George (absently) : Yes, my lamb. Mr. Deaver: Name the seasons. Annis : Pepper, salt, vinegar and mustard. Miss Shumaker: What kind of an instrument produces footnotes? Red: A shoe horn. Lynn : I think that guy is the worst dancer in the room. Helen: Hush, you forget yourself. In a race with time why should Mr. Ridgely w ' in ? Because time flies and he beats time. Mamma, said little Dick, am I descended from monkeys? I don ' t know, dear; I didn ' t know your father ' s people very well. Red: Dear, how would you like to have a nice little monkey all of your own. Iva B.: Oh, gee! this is so sudden, you ' ll have to ask father. Dumb: I ' ve just had my watch mended an ' it ' s still wrong. Bell: Why, whash she matter with it? Dumb: It ' s pointin ' to noon and it ' s midnight. Mother: Yes, dear, your father and I first met at a dance. Vickers: Oh, that ' s why he ' s always telling me to keep away from dance halls. Miss Moore: This piece of lace on my di ' ess is over fifty years old. Visitor: It ' s beautiful. Did vou make it vourself ? One Hun li r u d T li i