Olympia High School WW Miller High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Olympia, WA)

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onrnrus ANNUAL1921 l -History of the Class of '21- 'llhe llnited States entered tlie war in the Spring' oi' ltJlT and in the Fall ot' that same year the elass ol' l2l entered the Olympia, Iliggh School tor the first time. The ways ot the higlr sehool lite were new to us, and as is always the lot of l+lr-eshman, we had to stand the jokes ot the upper elass-men. We ehose as our tirst president, Mark Aspinwall, and under his able leadership Xlle soon displayed our superiority over the attairs moved most smoothly. Sophomores by winning from them both the eane rush and the tie up, but we lost the football game to the Juniors. During our tirst year, we as a elass were represented in all high school ln the Spring twenty-tive ot our boys turned aetivities, espeeially athleties. out For baseball, and four ol' our men, Mark Aspinwall, liester Rode, Lindsay, and Channing' Aspinwall, appeared on the lirst team. Our ldreslnnan year passed quielcly, only too quickly, as all school years are wont to do, and the class of 'Zl passed into the Sophomore ranks. During the Sunnner ol' l9lS the old High Sehool Building burned, and when seh-vol opened, in the Fall we very religiously went to ehureh five days a week, and Sunday too. The Sophomore elass showed its sehool spirit, how- ever, and we did not eomplain. ot having' to walk about two or three bloeks every forty-five minutes. Santa Claus was good to us and brought us a new Ralph sl-hool building tor tlhristmas, so we were repaid for our patience. Aside t'rom this our Sophomore year was rather uneventful. NVQ managed to hold em' own in all, matters ot high sehool lite, however, The first semester Ralph Lindsay was eleeted president, and for the seeond semester we chose, as our leader, R .Jnald XVi'der. Again we starred in the sehool athletic eontests. We were reprtsented on the tirst football team by Raloh Lindsay. and flhanniupf Aspinwall lluring the basketball season we easily seored, a vietory over the lflreshmen, but were unable to eonquer the mighty Juniors. lVhen the baseball. season. eame around we won another vietory over the Freshmen. but the Juniors still proved unassailahle. This season also marked the appearanee ot Don Harpel and George Cinder on the tirst baseball team. Our Hstars were rapidly inereasing. The Summer ol' lfllfl passed and September and seliool eame around onee more. XXYlll'l'1 we entered. the doors ot the 0. Tl, S. this time two years ot hisrh sehool lite lay behind us. lVe were Juniors. Oh! how wonderful that word sounded. to our ears. llve were no longer Soohomores. but uoperelassmen with two more years ot' sueeesstul effort stretebins' out before us. liut our jov was mixed, with sorrow tor we had exoerieneed the tirst loss to our elass. The smiling' t'aee ot Uorothv Otis was no longrer seen among' us. However. her memory still lingered, with her fond, elassmates. The first semester we asrain ehos-1 Ronald Nl'ilder For our president and things went smoothlv. as hetore. Aerain, we starred in atllletles. helm! well and ablv represented on the fied Football 'mam bv Clhanninfr Asoinwall. -Tohn livmau, 'Yilmot Klortorfl. llaloh lfindsav. lllilliam Strock. and Ronald Wilder. with livle Praslev and TTfw'arfl Stroel-f as substitutes. lVe were also repre- sented on the L'peppy haslfetlrall team hv Flair Dielfinson, At the begin- ning ot the seeond senwster Jimmv -lenlrins took Ronald lVilder's plaee PM president, while Johnnie llvman was ebosen viee president. Fate and the Hhlluf' seemed determined to he unkind to tl'e elass of '21 for in February kgs.. i l

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OLYMPUS ANNUAL 1921 ln the Spring of the year we gave the usual Junior Prom in honor of the Seniors. lt is needless to say that it wasq o11e ot' the most successful ever given in the Olympia, lligh Sehool, lt was tl1is year that so many of our boys were on the basebazl team. George Ginder, Channing Aspinwall, Donald liarpel, Are Lindsay, Harold Norrie, Ralph Lindsay, eaptain, and Philip Aspinwail, all. made their letters. Our elass was very ably represented in the Red Vross Life Savings Vorpzs ot' Olympia. Those passing the examinations were Ruth Adair, lmogene Ross, Carl Davis. Ronald Wilder, Uharles Rode, Morris Lamborn, and Fred Sorenson. So pissed. our Junior year and with its passing we reaehed the longed for goal, and happy indeed, was the day' when we beeame Seniors. And then. at last, as dignified and mighty' Seniors we entered the portals of the Olympia lligh Sehool tor the last time, For both semesters we ehose Johnny Lyman as oin leader. We have done quite a bit in athleties this yi ar. More than in any other year in fact. There were nine Seniors on thi, football squad, namely, William Strock. Wilmot Mortord, Harold Norrie, Philip Aspinwall, Rafph Lindsay, Channing Aspinwall, Johnny Lyman, eap- tain: Robert Vlarke and George flinder. Three Seniors, Ralph Lindsaj., Flair llieliinson, eaptain, and George Ginder, won letters in basket ball. The 0. ll. S. eertainly does shine in Baseball and the Seniors are well l't'llI't'5f9flil'tl, on this ilustrious team, George tlinder, Donald llarpel, Harold Norrie, Ralph Lindsay, eaptain, and l'hil Aspinwall, all uphold the Senior dignity on the diamond. The Venior 1-'ass ot' '2l has made a lasting name tor itsell' along the dra- niatie line. We have staged tour sueeesslul plays this year. Ry tar the lest play that has ever been given in this high sehool was our elass play, i'Merely Mary Annf' ln the Olympus subseription eontest the Senior elass's per eent. was far above that ol' any other elass. Our joys have been mixed with sorr' ws his year for two more of our members have left us. Ruth Dun- lfin and Frm d Sorenson passed away very near the end ot' school and left a somewhat soliered elass behind. As a whole, our four years of high sehool life have been very happy in- deed, and it is with a feeling akin to sorrow that we bid farewell to our dear old. sehool. Many of us will eontinue our studies at institutions of higher learnin, but for some of us this last year will be the end and when on the night ot' -lime 5l.we reeeived our diplomas we will have left our happy, golden sehool days behind us forever. MADONNA YVERR. RUTH TROY. -2fl--