Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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fjjistimi nf tljr dlaHH nf 1019 September- 1915, a Freshman class of 21 entered Rawlins High School. A few days after registration our pride was badly shaken when saw a nursing bottle suspended in the front of the Assembly, decorated daintly with our class colors. Our President, Albert Mosher, was given the honor of accepting the gift. One bright day in that October, cheese and tar were mysteriously placed on the radiators, and as a result we spent a delightful day in the hills. No other thrilling event marked our first year in High School. In September, 1916, as Sophomores we began work in the new building, James Measures, Edward Smyth, Carrie Spencer, Lottie Spencer and Mildred Peterson were missing from the Sophomore roll call as well as Muriel Mitchell, who entered under the yoke of matrimony, and Raphael Gunning, a prominent member of our class, left us at the beginning of the Sophomore year to continue school in Portland, Oregon. Our Sophomre year passed very uneventful and dull, the glamor of High School, by this time- having worn off. To our class that year four members were added- Pearl Williams, Katherine Gibbs, Theodore Franks, and Dorothy Evans, who we are sorry to say only stayed with us that one year. As Juniors in September, 1917, we came back to school with fourteen members. Holger Lamberson- and Mary Magner failed to enter when school started. At the middle of the year we were greatly disappointed to lose Joseph O’Melia, Cecil Healy, Marie Nieman, and Albert Mosher. Cecil and Joseph, because of their working ambitions could not continue that year's school with us. Albert Mosher became one of the five Wyoming boys at Culver and Marie decided to leave us and graduate with the class of 19188 Rlora Kreuger, a popular member, left with our well-loved principal, Miss Flora Kreuger for Wheatland, Wyoming where she will graduate. Only one member was added to our numbers that year, this was Fred Robison. Very few in number, but with lots of “pep” we enter on the “home run” in September. We were seven. Waid Wilkes, who deserves honorable mention, was in the navy at the beginning of the school year. After serving in the navy for seven months he returned to finish with his class in January, 1919. Out of the twenty-one who entered there are now the following, Edrie Perrett, Waid Wilkes. Charlotte Cook, Fred Robison, Forrest Healy, Philip Zingsheim and Mary Buckley. These seven intend to finish together. We hate to leave Rawlins High School, but we hope that we will ever live in its memory as the Alma Mater will for ever remain in ours. —Mary Buckley, 19.

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GJtjr § ntinr flragrr gINCERE in word and thought and deed. Grant that we ever prove, EARNEST in effort to succeed Where failures shameful move. NATURAL in manner, without pose With absurd pretense JNTENT for purpose never grows, With lax intelligence, QPEN in sympathy and heart Teach us we ask to be, REVERENT to every perfect part Shapen in purity, gO that the name of Senior stand Worthy at last to Thee.

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 ntplipry nf tiff (Hlasa of 1919 (Written in 1929.) Six months ago, having just returned from two years in Europe, I had the good fortune to meet all but two of my former class-mates. I was traveling across the country as fast as trains would take me, being anxious to breathe Wyoming air again. At Omaha I had to change cars. Getting on my car I was just settling myself when a man across the aisle spoke to me, “I beg you pardon, but you certainly remind me of one of my school mates.” Looking up I recognized none other than Waid Wilkes. From there on we had a very pleasant trip talking over our school days in R. H. S. Waid was returning to his home in Los Angeles, California, from a business tr'p to Chicago. He said that his wife’s sister had been sick so that his wife had been unable to accompanv him on his trip east. “I dQn’t suppose I know your wife?” I asked. He looked at me in surprise. “Why you got one of the wedding announcements, surely Mary sent you one. We were married three years after we graduated.” Well, this was a surprise, Mary Buckley and Waid Wilkes. Married! At Fort Steele, I left Waid after promising to avail myself of the first opportunity to visit him and his wife at their home in Los Angeles. Fort Steele is now a city large enough to boast of street cars. It’s growth was due to the finding of oil just outside that city. As I was walking slowly from the depot through the business district I glanced across the street and saw “Fred Robison, Undertaker.” I could not help associating this name of another of my class mates. While I was wondering if this could be possible an ambulance drew up to the door. Fred Robison himself got out and took from the back of the ambulance a huge basket of flowers which he carried into the building. I was about to cross the street when Fred came out and got into the ambulance and drove off. I then went on to the hotel. The next morning I awoke with a dreadful tooth-ache. I decided to go at once to a dentist and have the troublesome ivory removed. So the first thing I did after eating my breakfast was to look up the leading dentist of the city. When I had been waiting for nearly a half hour a very formal and business like woman came out and asked what she could do for me. I asked if the doctor was busy. She informed me that she was the doctor and that I must state my trouble as many of her patients were waiting her attention. Something about her seemed very familiar but her abrupt manner kept me from voicing my thoughts. After the aching tooth had been extracted. I found courage to ask her if she had ever attended Rawlins High School. She said that she had and that she had graduated from that school in 1919. I knew at once that it was Forrest Healy. After