Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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Fanny M. Deeds. “Deeds” count for more than words. Philo (3, 4) Girls’ Glee Club (4) Ger- man Club (4). William M. Osler (“Bill”). The personi fica t ion of the ’07’s good Will toward us. (’lass Basketball (1. 2. 3. 4) Class Base- ball (1. 2. 3) O. II. S. Football (1, 3, 4) ). II. S. Baseball (3, 4) O. II. S. Basket- ball (3, 4) (). II. S. Track (4) V-Pres. Athletic Ass’n. (3) Student Mgr. Basket- ball (3. 4) Acting (’apt. Basketball (3) (’apt. Football (4) McKinley (3, 4) “Miss Hobbs” cast (4) Mary I». McAloon. A follower of the J. E. Roberts school of Fnglish pronunciation. Clio (1. 2) Philo (3, 4) Treas. (4) Wilhelmina Hahn. Chicago’s a great place. I just hated to come hack. Philo (3, 4) Girls’ Glee Club. Florence Robena Billingsley. She is an accomplice of the faculty. She sells us books with which they make us work. Clio (1, 2) Ex-Coni. (2).

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Fred Hartman. If ho ever writes a book on blotting, buy it at any price. o. II. S. Football (1. 2. 4) McKinley (4) Class Troas. (4) Athletic Ass’n. (1. 2, 3, 4) Bari. Howard (“Rricfc”). Though he wasn’t with us long wo were glad to have him at all. Class Basketball (2, 3. 4) McKinley (3) Baseball (2, 3) Orchestra (3, 4) Athletic Ass’n. (1, 2, 3. 4). ruth McGrkw Hall (“»stub”). “You hot your sweet life.” Bros. Clio (2) Class Ex-Coni. (1) Alt- ers Staff (2) Class Troas. (3) Philo (3. 4) Class Basketball (3. 4) O. II. S. Bas- ketball (4) Girls’ Glee Club (4) Girls’ Athletic Ass’n. (3, 4) Earl I). Yanck (“Doc”). “Well, a-a-l-l-l-Uight!” Lincoln (2) McKinley (4) Class Bas- ketball (1. 2. 3. 4) Class Baseball (1, 2. 3) Orchestra (3) (’lass Track (3. 4) O. II. S. Football (4) O. II. S. Baseball (4) Athletic Ass’n. (1. 2, 3. 4) S. Cushman Haven (“CiisA”). “Got anything you want me to man- age?” Treas. Lincoln (2) A RGBS Staff (3. 4) Finance Com. of Athletic Ass’n. (4) German Club (4) Business Manager Class-play (4).

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2 Beclaration of 3ntJepenlience. (Class History) HE unanimous declaration of the Senior Class of 1908. When, in the course of human events, it becomes for the feeble struggle of the remaining classes necessary for one class to throw off t lie educational bands which have connected them with the High School and to assume among the alumni, the sep- arate and equal station to which the diploma en- titles them, a heart felt feeling of commiseration requires that they declare the causes and means by which they have attained to such a degree of excellence. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are not created equal; that some are endowed by their Creator with extra- ordinary powers of intellect, with superhuman athletic prowess and with capabilities not given to ordinary mortals. (With such qualities is the (Mass of 1908 endowed) : That to secure the greatest fulfill- ment of their mission and the attainment of the highest school loyalty class organizations are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the principal: That when such class has presented to the critical eyes of an admiring throng, the most perfect example of Senior dignity, studiousness and school spirit, it is the right of its members to abolish it and to take their stand among the powers of the earth. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that organizations long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, but when a class has so demonstrated its superiority by a history of repeated successes in every branch of scholastic life, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such restraint and to leave the history of the means by which they have attained to such perfection for the benefit and instruction of chaotic and infinitesi- mal blot of darkness,—the “Junior”. The history of the present Senior class is a history of repeated exploits, of remarkable efficiency, of achievements—philanthropic, administrative, athletic scholastic. To prove this let facts he submitted to a candid world. As Freshmen, we displayed none of the greenness and innocence common to the ordinary variety of that species. We lost no time in becoming familiar with the location and