Randolph High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Randolph, NE)

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SOPHOMORE APATHY A Sophomore! The caterpillar stage of your High School career. You envied the Juniors and Seniors in exactly the same way the caterpillar envies the butterfly, hut you knew you couldn’t he one of them until you had passed thru the feeding stage. In later years you can tell at a glance the overfed Sophomore. Have you ever noticed the strong resemblance between the Sophomore and the Indian? if not, look twice at the next bunch you meet. 'Fry to read their thoughts by the expression of their faces. It is impossible lncausc Sophomores’ faces only reveal stoicism, the predominant characteristic of the Indian. They certainly think and some very valuable information is lost to the world by their indifference. A teacher once told me she could always tell the Sophomores by their expression, “Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust, If Oesar doesn't kill us, Our geometry must,” but that was before I was a Sophomore myself. 1 know now that she couldn’t, and the only solution I have to offer is that she must have been a perfect student of psychology. Symptoms of this malady are detected the first day of the Sophomore year and gradually grow worse as the days pass by. Students, be lenient in remarks of your teachers when they appear crankier than usual for they are working very hard to bring the Sophs safely thru this crisis. If all this be true, why are the faculty cheerful most of the time? Well, you see they have brought a large numl er safely out this trance besides having a vivid remembrance of it themselves. If a class seems more indifferent than previous ones this is the very class for whom they predict a brilliant future. Students recover from this malady almost as rapidly as they succumb to it. for on the very day the reports are given out for the last time you find light-hearted Juniors in place of the taciturn Sophs, who will never realize what a burden they have been to their fellow students and teachers, unless they themselves become teachers, and in that case a chance is given them to prove that they are masters of their tempers. Most Sophomores express their opinion of Juniors and Seniors as “conceited”: now, dear Sophs, is my chance to clear those above you of this charge, it is simply compassion we feel for you and your dormant state of mind cannot distinguish between the two. So now cheer up. you’ll all survive it and the majority will never know what they’ve been through. Stop worrying all future Sophomores, this malady has somewhat the same effect of two much ether except in this case your sleep only lasts nine months and you are always sure of a pleasant awakening if you but heed our warning—“Don't overtax your brain during the critical period.” KM A ARNOLD. '21.

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JUNIOR CLASS POEM We arc the class of twenty-one We lal orcd hard o’er Csesar’s War: And proud arc we of things we’ve done, Of other things we soon learned more. Of goals achieved, of heights attained. Of laurels won and honors gained. Geometry we studied long. The History of Ancients strong: Perhaps, as Freshmen we were green. But this in every class is seen, No greener we than others were, On Botany and blooming flowers. We burned the oil at midnight hours. We’re Juniors now—another year And then we leave our school so dear: This any teacher will aver. For green is sign of life—’tis said. Happy we if it can be said The somber colors—sign of dead : Of us that anything we did And so tho’ green, we were alive. And with this life we ever strive. Brought naught but honor to our school: Whatever law. whatever rule 'Lhe Sophomore rank we soon had gained; Was made, we kept it as we should, Our record here we still maintained: And left behind a record good. JOHN CASTKEL.

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SOPHOMORES 1st Row Merlin Hughes. Raymond Pinker, Bilsc Robinson, Kenneth Cook, Joshua Brunner, George Bag-ley. Vernin Boughn. Merton Farrow. Gladys Buchanan. 2nd Row -Leone DeKay. Hilda Grail. Gertrude Peek. IliUlur Lunihorg. Irene Countryman, Gertrude L« rge, Helen Benson. Aulda Kerlcy, Emma Diingcr. 3rd Row Wilma Kinkaid, Cecila Dugan. Vera Lumbcrg. Ella Markcrt. Ruby Reed, Leone Stagcman