Plymouth High School - Quit Qui Oc Yearbook (Plymouth, WI)

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dedication To the memory of Mr. B. A. Iverson, in grateful and sym- pathetic appreciation of the help and guidance he has given the students ol Plymouth High School throughout his teaching career. and his many years as advisor of the Quit Qui Qc, we, the senior class of IQ38, do dedicate this twenty-third edition ol the Quit Qui Qc. A l Z i fX Tw J I- 1 TR his 5 WI uw gin -sl Q-sy 'Nl f 'l Z l 1 I fx ff -.-ff!-g O l ...T. x 0 .Ti mp - xxx ' ., Q as 1 ix x QA QQ X L- -iN's I: I Q-- J' f-- I -fi sm. Tll Xi SXS' Vp ' ff, ll -4, Xa wx K

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I am music Servant and lylaster am I: servant ol' those dead and Master of those living. Through me spirits immortal speak tlic message that makes the world weep, and laugh, and wonder and worship. I tell the story ol love, the story ol hate. the story that saves and the story that damns. I am the incense upon that which prayers float to Heaven. I am the smoke which palls over the held of battle where men lie dying with me on their lips. I am close to the marriage altar, and when the graves open I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home, I rescue the soul from the depth, I open the lips ol lovers, and through me the dead whisper to the living. One I serve as I serve all: and the king I make my slave as easily as I subiect his slave. I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of the held, the crash ol waters on rockribbed shores, the sighing ol wind in the trees, and I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the elatter of wheels on city streets, I know' no brother, yet all men are my brothers. I am the father of the best that is in me: I am ol them and they are ol me. Ifor I am the instrument ol God, Ill 'H M44-'irq Zig-72? A sf, li, 'I 'QI we WJ ,1 ' o 5 X.- -5' TSA! I 71 1' 7 Gln.. .lv e -Il 'D ,, to Fl

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to the memory of Berthold A. Iverson On Wednesday, December 8, 1937, Mr. Iverson set up the distilling ap- paratus for his morning classes, went home to lunch, and then without a moments warning left us forever. His death seemed incredible. For 29 years Mr. Iverson had been a teacher of chemistry in Plymouth High School, and 29 years to a high school is as eternal as time itself. Boys and girls gathered in awe- stricken groups and mulled over Mr. Iverson's remarks during his last class. He said we should make the most of our time to study now, one senior girl recalled, and to dig into things -to be curious. In IQO8 Berthold Iverson came from the University of South Dakota to become a teacher of Chemistry in Plymouth High School. Year in and year out-always carrying a full pro- gram of teaching and with never a day's absence - he conducted his G- ji-JI -U -? rf- hx if? - ..5.. classes with enthusiasm for the sciences. Former students of Plymouth High School recall that Mr. Iverson coached football, basketball and track, directed field meets, and had charge of debating and oratorical contest work. His presence as advisor at senior class meetings has been taken for granted for so many years that no one of the present generation of teachers and students can recall senior meetings without him. Since 1914 the Quit Qui Oc has been published under his supervision. For nine years after the local branch of the Wisconsin Educa- tion Association was formed he served as president. Mr. Iverson spent some time in government service making a general survey of South Dakota, test- ing minerals in Wyoming, studying Artesian Well problems in Dakota, he also spent a summer hunting for fossils in the Bad Lands. Anastasia Pu rman ,Qc - I