Reedsburg High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Reedsburg, WI)

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Purple aipl discovered that, if she has a chemical solution, a dime and a piece of copper, she can make pennies; another has learned that a Klarier (piano) is not some kind of a ame. The more we study, the more we realize how little we really do know and what a vast amount of knowledge is still in store for us. In going to school these four years we have learned how to live, for the function which education has to discharge is to prepare one for complete living. We have been taught to live and to get as much happiness out of life as we can. In this way, if in no other, we are superior to those who have no education whatever—they do not truly live, they merely exist, and thus are bereft of the happiness that ought to be theirs. When we were Freshmen we thought that four years was a long time to spend in High School - but how fast these years have Mown! It seems as though it was only yesterday that we entered High School! We are now standing on the stage of Life, the curtain is slowly rising and soon we will be acting our life roles. We have reached the point where we stand alone; we must work for ourselves. No more will we be led across the difficult places that we meet, by the guiding hands of teachers; we must tight the battle of Life alone. Let us not quail or falter as we enter Life’s school, let us never give up to Despair, but always rein ?mber that, “Where there is life, there is hope. E. M. K.

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Tl € fuppif and Class oi 1912. One bright September morning’ in 190K we Freshmen, numbering forty-one, wended our way toward the red brick school house on the hill with anxious and expectant faces, eager to begin our first day’s work in the High School. After having been initiated into High School work, we learned that we didn’t know as much as we at first thought and that it required work to master the assigned lessons. Only a few months had passed when Death entered our circle and took away our dear classmate, Hester Kelley. She had been beloved by all and left a gap in our ranks, a gap never to be filled. By the time we became Sophomores we had learned the art of studying with concentrated efforts and our work seemed less difficult; and, incidentally, we had overcome our fo mer timidity and took our part in tormenting the “Freshies”. Even at this early period of our career we began to win fame. Madeline Bates received first place in the declamatory contest here and entered the league contest at Waunakee, where she brought honor to herself and her class by again receiving first place; then she was sent to the district contest at Whitewater. In September 1910 our cliss numbered thirty-five. Declamatory honors were again received by two members of our class—Odessa Elder and Louise Hass. They were sent to the league contest at Lodi and Odessa even to Whitewater. When the debate between Athenaeum and Senate took place, it was largely through the efforts of two of the members of 12 -Veda Collins and Frances Fish -that it was won by Athenaeum. The enrollment of the Senior class in September 1911 was onlv twenty-seven, a little more than half the number that entered when we were Freshmen. Here again we see the truth of the Evolution the-ory---“The survival of the fittest.’’ Many are the delightful times we have had together and much knowledge have we gleaned during these four years. One of our members has learned something which we would like to believe. She has

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ai d The Class of J9J2 in 1923. I spent' the greater part of the year 1912 in traveling in the Orient. Of all the places I visited, the temples interested me most of all. One day late in the afternoon I entered a most beautiful one. Services had just finished and people were just coming from the huge arched doorway. I went inside and as I stood gazing at the beautiful workmanship of the high altar, a sweet fragrance reached my nostrils. Attracted by this, I looked around and discovered far from me a vessel of incense from which clouds of vapor were issuing. Stepping toward it I saw a d iin shadowy form arising. I gazed spellbound and as the form became more vivid I noticed that the genii moved his lips. “Who are you? Are you real':'’' I asked in wonderment. “I am real. If you doubt it ask anything that you wish and I will answer, to prove my reality.” For a moment I hesitated for I did not know what to ask him. Suddenly an idea occurred to me. “Where is Herbert Miller?” I asked. “After Jane Loughney had insisted on living a life of single bless edness, Herbert Miller went to Germany to study music, where he is trying to console himself by the old maxim: “ ’Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. “Is Martin Behnke a great scientist as Mr. Olson once predicted ' “No. He is now on a tour through the United States displaying the numerous badges which he received from Andrew Carnegie for his many brave deeds. He is also high private in the rear ranks of the army fighting tuberculosis. “Tell me what has become of Agnes Croal. “Agnes Croal went to Africa for her health shortly after she had finished her high school course. While there she became interested in the natives and is now teaching them the way to civilization with great success.” “What is Hazel Hindes doing' “All of Hazel's friends are sorry to learn that she has taken up her abode in the Old Ladies Home, after many fruitless attempts by Dr. Arthurque Hulbertski to relieve her of galloping consumption. “Has Floyd DeBarr accomplished anything? “After many vain efforts to invent a perpetual motion machine.