Reedsburg High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Reedsburg, WI)

Text from Pages 1 - 136 of the 1923 volume:

THIS ANNUAL BELONGS TO “IN MEMORY FOREVER nEBgm 't , ;-WJ I‘t,Vv ■ 2: ' w ': f, mi To Him, who keeps our school organization running smoothly and efficiently, who inspires wholesome standards of conduct, in every school activity, by living there: To .Him who brings, to the solution of all our problems, a rare sympathy, and tactfulness, and a devotion to the interests of the school, that commands universal respect and liking; To Superintendent Lewis, we, the Class of 1923, respectfully dedicate this Gleaner. ■ SUPERINTENDEDT R. F. LEWIS Page Six p§ m :wMim$ j I'l,!! ■ : As a winding stream pursues its course mid rocky shallows and quiet depths, enriching all it touches and restoring the freshness of life to parched soil and withered vegetation—so may this Gleaner of 1923 be a recurrent and enobling reminder, of the struggles, and disappointments, and triumphs, of our High School life keeping ever vivid, in our minds and hearts, a year of wholesome work and play in genuine good-fellowship whose memory will become increasingly dear. r P n Mil■. ' '•• • ' 1 i' ■'� V ♦.it • • . Page Seven OUR SCHOOL HOARD B. R. Harper C. E. Phillips, President Scott Huntley THE CREED OF THE CLASS OF TWENTY-THREE—WE RELIEVE We never could have done what we have done, without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence—without the determination to concentrate ourselves on one subject at a time, no matter how quickly its successor would have come upon its heels. Whatever we try to do in life we should try with all our might to do well; whatever we devote ourselves to, we should devote ourselves completely; in great aims and in small we should always be thoroughly in earnest. It is never possible that any natural or improved ability can obtain immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities and hope to gain its end. PaKc Eleriit Wdtlhihq far the birdie Variety is if tf Life Stitt |P CM UP ipm WF JF? Ei058U« Gee whiz Phil f The Banter that caused the trouble Harmless Ye Magistrate the r ?f « EVELYN WISE. A. B. Mathematics West Tennessee Normal University of Wisconsin MARY NORRIS, A. B. English and Algebra St. Clair College University of Wisconsin VIVIAN RHODES Music University of Wisconsin WINN I FRED NESBITT. . B. English Carroll College MARGARET BYRNS Commercial Whitewater Normal ANN MELSNA, A. B. Economics University of Wisconsin HOWARD AKER, B. A. Science Carroll College LESTER BOWKER Manual Training Oshkosh Normal I niversity of Wisconsin ERNEST GIROULX, B. A. History Carroll College MARGARETTA STEELE. B. A. Commerc‘al Lawrence College CATHARINE ALVORD, B. . English and Public Speaking Superior Normal Carroll College LUCILE KYLE. B. A. Languages I niversity of Wisconsin Page Twelve DOROTHY DIETZ, B. S. Domestic Science University of Wisconsin HELEN KEELEY. B. S. General Science and Physical Education St. Theresa University of Wisconsin Know then this inspiring truth� 0 Seeker! The rosy dawn of thy life’s opportunity lieth not in the glist'ning temples that point their proud spires I9ward the sky. But the field of fortune lies in the fruit of the stately trees that ripens to the suns kiss in yon golden meadow— for here in those acres of rich-laden branches joyfully ling the Jewel Boxes of Dame Nature. Down through the ages man hath found true nourishment for body and mind—sweet repose and blissful tranquility—in these noble, stalwart sentinels that guard and glorify the majestic soil. —Emilben All Page Thirteen E3 2£ Ge L£ii. Fag e Fourteen Merle Warren Hubert Jax Dorothea Stolte CLASS OFFICERS ■ • President • Vice President Secretary-T reasurer Motto: To seem and not to seem to be.” Class Colors: Red and White. CLASS HISTORY ll is with considerable difficulty that the reminiscences of the first year of the life of the class of '23 are recalled. Nothing of much importance happened during this year. During the first year, shortly after Christmas, the entire school was saddened to hear of the death of one of our classmates, Gail O’Connor, who was a victim of the influenza. The next year the class came back with more enthusiasm than it had shown the year before. Now% most of the boys in the class got out for football and basketball. Not many of them got on the team. The Junior year was one of the best in the history of the class of ’23. During this year the spirit and enthusiasm began to assert itself. The thing which all the members of this class are proud of, is the Junior Prom, which the class gave. It was the most elaborate social event that took place during the year. The class set out to make it, “The Prom of Proms,” and everyone who attended the event agrees, with the class, that it was. One of the many new practices that originated with this class, was the inviting of all the members of the school to attend the Prom, and not only the seniors, as had formerly been the custom. More people enjoyed themselves at this Prom than had ever attended other Proms. On the fifth of September. 1022, the class began the fourth year of its life. More of the spirit of the class w'as showm than had ever been shown before. More enthusiasm and loyalty for the school was shown by this class than any before it. The Seniors now lead the other classes in all lines of work, whether in athletics, forensics, glee clubs or in the classes. Now that the year is ended and the Senior class has graduated, a feeling of sadness comes over them when they think that they must leave the school for which they have worked so long and so hard; while a feeling of gladness and of proudness comes over them when thev think that they have graduated from so great an institution as the Reedsburg High School. The class of ’23 will now have to sro out into the world taking with it the spirit of the class and of the Reedsburg High School. Page Fifteen DEAN limit English Couhse School Play, 4; Oratory, 4 “Away it am books, let’s have some fun.” JERRY UARNHARDT .... “Jake” History Course Band, 1, 2, 3.; Glee Club,3; Orchestra, 2.3; Foot ha II, 4 Most glorious night, thou wert not made for slumber, but made for tve poor drummers.” FRANCIS RECHTOLT - - - “Beck” English Course Class Basketball. 1, 2. 3, 4; H. S. Basketball. 3. 4; Band. 1. 2. 3. 4: Orchestra. 3,4; Glee Club. 3. 4.; Humor Editor for Gleaner. 4; Football 4: High School Play. 4. “Faint heart never won a Lady.” EDITH BEHN..........................“Honey” English Course Glee Club, 2, 3. 4; Xmas Play. 4. “She is quiet, but. oh. my, she lets nothing at all slip by.” KENNETH CARROLL .... “Ken” English Course Band. 2, 3. 4; Football, 2: Orchestra.2,3.4. “ hair were money, my name would be John D.” 3® M Page Sixteen MARJORIE CARROLL - - - “Marg” English Course Glee Club. 4 Quiet in appearance with motives unknown.'’ ARCHIE CHRISTIE .... “Christy” Science Course Hand. 1. 2. 3. 4; Football, 3. 4; (dee Club. 3. 4: Orchestra, 4. II tell you the world needs more men like me.” ANDREW CROAL .... “Andy' English Course II ould that could rise to the position of a country school TEACHER i . A VERNE 1)11 IS History Course (dee Club, 1. 2. 3. 4; Declamatory. 1. Throw away books and troubles, for they are only air and bubbles.” MARY DONAHOE .... “Donny” English. Latin Course (dee Cub. 1. 2. 4; Declamatory, 1, 2: Grade Editor for F'ree Press: 4; G. A. A., 4; basketball. 3. 4. She has tun eves so soft and dark. Reward” Page Seventeen CATHARINE DONAHUE ■ ■ • “Katy English and D. S. Course G. A. A., 4 Grade Editor on Times Staff. 4; Chairman of Senior Committee for class yells, song and banner: Library, 4. “She is best liked who is alike to all. ALBERT FARBER.........................“AU English Course “He is very {good on the trail, and he not ahold of a fox's tail. EVANGELINE FISHER - ■ - “Dick Latin. Enclish Course Glee Club. 1, 2. 3, 4: School Play, 4; Declamatory. 4; Basketball, 2: President Girls' A. A., 4: Xmas Program. 4: Operetta. 3,4; Athenian, 3: Ticket Association: Glee Club Entertainments. 3. 4. “You wouldn't believe it. but I can work if I want to. HARVEY FOSS..............................“Shorty” Manual Training, English Course “ have missed the charming elegance of female friendship. VIOLA FOSS..................................... Vi Latin, Domestic Science Course Glee Club. 1. 2, 3, 4: Operetta. 3, 4; Basketball. 1, 2: G. A. A.. 4. “Much mirth and no madness. All good and no budness. Page Eighteen IRMA FRITSCHER..............................“If' Commercial Course Basketball, 3, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2; Orchestra, 1. 2, 3: Declamatory, 1, 2; G. A. A., 4. “Sliding, slipping, gliding, glancing. Oh, how this maid doth love dancing.” MARS ELL A CASSER .... “Sally Domestic Science Course Glee Club, 4 “She's too agreeable to make an enemy. MIRIAM HAHN .... “Curley' English, Latin Course Glee Club. 1, 2. 3. 4; President of Glee Club. 4; Operetta. 3. 4. “She has a smile that won’t wear off.” DOROTHY HASTINGS English Course Glee Club, 3. “Try to argue if you can, I can beat most anyone.” EUGENIA HASTINGS .... Ena English Course Glee Club, 3 “II hat she wills to say she says.” t'atre Nineteen FRED HAUGH .... “Shortness” SCIENCE Col KSK 7 speech were golden, I would be i beggttr. HUBERT JAX English, .History Course Football. 3: Hand. 3. 4: Glee Club. 3. 4: Orchestra. 4; ssistanl II u m o r Edit o r. Gleaner : Vice President. 4: Faculty Basketball, 3. 4; Entered as a Junior. “II he were ns lull of learning ns of fun. He would be a very worthy son.” FERNE JOHNSON .... “Johnny Enclish. History Cm use Glee Club, 3. 4. “The perfection of art is to concent it.” I.OREN A MACK..............................“Sue’ Latin, English Cm use “A demure maiden with few words and many thoughts.” MERLE MACK.............................“Mack” Manual Training Course Oratorical, 4. II he should without his lessons be, I should like to be there to see.” I’ante Twenty KENNETH MAXHAM - - - “Skinny English. Latin Couhsb “A wise man will make much of opportunities'’ Howard McCarthy . - - “Micky Latin. English Couhsb “Greater men than I have lived hut they are all dead.” EDNA MEYER..............................“Billy” Commercial Course “All the world loves a quiet girl.” GERHART MEYER .... -Ceak' Latin, Enclish Course Gleaner Staff, 4; Oratory, 4; Debate Team, 3. “None would suppose it, but I am naturally bash ful.” HARRY MEYER Enclish, Science Course Football, 2. 3: basketball. 1. 2, 3. 4. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” rape Twenty-One LUCILLE MEYER .... “Loops” English Course Glee Club. 1, 2. 3, 4; Vice President. Glee Club, 4; Orchestra, 3, 4; G. V, I; Athenian. 3; Basketball, 2. “Anil she raves and raves and raves.” IRENE MONN.............................“Ike” Commercial Course Declamatory. 1; Glee Club. 2. 3; Prom Committee, 3; G. A. A.. 4; Physical Ed.. 4; Gleaner Assistant Editor, 4; Class Basket-ball. 3. 4; Volleyball Captain, 4. “She will have red hair until she dyes. EVERETT MURPHY .... “Spuds' English Course Football. 3. 4; Glee Club. 3. 4; Basketball. 3, 4; Operetta. 3, 4; Oratory, 4; Class Basketball. 4. “All great men are dying and I don’t feel well myself.” FOREST O'CONNOR .... ‘Forre English Course Football. 2; Glee Club, 3. 4: Operetta. 3. 4. “He always seemed busier than he really � � RE AT RICE OST.................................“Beats” Commercial Course Declamatory, 1, 2; Glee Club, 2. 3. 4; G. A. A., 4; Class Basketball. 3. 4; Basketball. 4; Operetta, 3, 4: Gleaner Assistant Editor Physical Education. 4. “Better a good head than a hundred strong I......I.. ” I Pagre Twenty-Twi 11ERTHA PHILLIPS English, History Course Glee Club, 1, 2. 3, 4; Xmas Program, 4; Declamatory, 2, 3, 4; G. A. A., 4; Basketball. 2: Operetta, 3, 4; Athenian, 3; Gleaner Staff, 4; Glee Club Entertainments, 3, 4; Ticket Association, 3. 4. “Oh. thrills and frills and rills and Gills.” MARDEN PHILIPS .... “Banes” I.atin, Enclish Course Football. 1. 2, 3, 4; Basketball, 2. 3, 4; Glee Club. 3. 4: Operetta, 3, 4; School Play 4: Band, I. 2. 3, 4. “Cupid is a silent gunner. RUTH RINDFLEISH English Course Glee Club. 3: Operetta, 3; G. A. A.. 4. “Work in youth is repose in age.” BEATRICE ROACH .... “Palsy” Enclish Course Basketball, 2, 4; Baseball, 4; Glee Club, 2, 4. “She speaks, behaves and acts just as she ought.” EWIN ROEVER.............................“Eddie” English Course Band. 4; Xmas Program, 4. 7 don't say a good deal. I write it.” Page Twenty-Three IRENE RUSK.'WEE “Rusky' English Course Glee Club, 3, 4; Basketball, I. 2, I; Baseball Captain. 4. “As a basketball star, she has no par.” LESLIE SCHIERHOLTZ - - - “Shy” History Course Band. 1. 2, 3. 4; Orchestra. I. 2, 3, 4; Art Editor. Gleaner; Class Basketball. 3. “Oh, Rrifigs, could I but reach your level ” PAUL SCHULTZ .... “CaesaE History. English Course Glee Club. 3. 4; Class Basketball. 2. 3; Operetta. 3, 4: Oratory, 3, 4; Prom. Committee. 3; Gleaner Editor. 4; Athletic Com.. 1. “He's not a lady's man. he's a ladies' man ” ELEANOR SPARKS Com mercial Course (ilee Club. 2. 3. 4. “She never makes any noise and never looks at the boys” MARGARET SPORLEDER - - - “Mugs” Latin. Enclish Course (dee (dub. 2, 3, 4; Declamatory. 2. “She is of a studious turn oj mind, Such as we very seldom find. Pa«:e Twenty-Four EDMUND SRRAETZ ■ “Eddie English Coi ksk Clee Club, 3, 4 ' Never try to a nmi dish today what ran afford to wait a day. YIN IE RED ST ADEEM ANN - - “Winn English Coi use (Are Club. 2. 3. 4; Baseball Squad, 4; School Play, 4. “I inn never merrier than alien hear sweet music. LOUIS STERN..............................“Louie English Course Band, I; Clee Club, 3, 4: Football. 3. 4: Basketball. 3. 4. “Just because his name is Stern, he is not last. DOROTHEA STOLTE .... “Dud English Course Clee Club. 1. 2. 3, 4: Baseball Squad; Class Treasurer, I: Xmas Program, I. “Happy go-tuck v, jair and free; Nothing there is that worries me.” HAZEL SUSZYCK .... “Dick Domestic Science Course Clee Club. 3, 4: Basketball, .'1. 4; Operetta. 3. 4: C. . . 4. I maiden both dark and entrancing, possessed of a fondness for dancing. P'age Twenty-Ftvo MYRTLE F.. SHETLAND Commercial Course “Acts nobly—dues well. Angels could ilo no belter. GERTRUDE THIEMANN - - - “Cert English, Latin Course Glee Club, 1. 2. 3, 4; Secretary Glee Club. I; Declamatory, 2. 4; Editor Free Press. 3; Editor Hi Times. 4: G. A. A., 4; Photographic Editor Gleaner. “You may not think it is so but the other day she said 'I don’t knou .”’ MERLE WARREN English Course Football, 2. 3, 4; Glee Club. 3. 4; Operetta. 3. 4. “One of our football stars—always out at nile.” AGNES WILSON - “President Commercial Course Glee Club. 2. 3. 4 “She’s backward about coming forward. CLARA ZIMMERMANN - • - “Shorty” Commercial Course Declamatory, 1, 2; Glee Club. 1, 2. “Small of stature, but of quality supreme. Page Twenty-Six CLASS PROPHECY Scene: Hotel Lobby in New Orleans. Lucille Meyer goes to desk to ask for mail. Lucille: (Aloud) “0 a letter from Reedsburg. Clerk: “Reedsburg! did you say?- Why, Lucille!” Lucille: “Feme Johnson. What are you doing here?” Feme: “I ran away from home about 12 years ago. This is the only job I could land. Hut do read that letter. Fm dying to bear about Keedsburg.” Lucille opens letter and reads. Dear Lucille: Little did I think that night of graduation that in 15 years we would have drifted to so many parts of the world. I saw your name and picture in the paper yesterday. It must be grand to be a great pianist. 1 must tell you all about your classmates. Harvey Foss and A1 Farber journeyed down into the Jungles of Africa. Harvey discovered a colony of dwarfs and is ruling over them, and A1 is now shooting elephants instead of wild ducks. But now sit up and take notice. Eleanor Sparks has become a famous toe dancer. She has laid aside all conventionality and is shocking the East with her daring costumes. Surely you have not forgotten our Ku Klux Rider Hubert Jax. He now is Senator for Wisconsin anti is putting forth much effort to have a bill passed for the prohibition of driving delivery cars over five miles an hour. Lucille: (Lays down lettert “Isn’t that funny? Remember how he used to drive that Laundry Hus and the time of the Hospital Fire? Mary Donahue's curls surely have made her fortune. She is traveling with the “Knockem” Stock Co. taking children's parts. They hit such cities as Loganville. Cazenovia and Lyndon. Do you remember Winifred Stadleman? She is running a boarding house. All the rich obi men in town board there. It's a high class place. Feme: “Well that play, “The Private Secretary,” surely did give her practice with cranky old men.” Of course, you never could forget Evangeline Fisher. She has opened a dancing school. “Only fat people allowed. I wonder why? That is bad enough but what do you think of this- Paul Schultz still loves the girls. He has a harem in Hub City. He now has 52 wives. Marjorie and Chuck Carroll have organized a band and they play in Zion City every Sunday. And now to our Physics shark. Kenneth Maxham has invented a new collar. They call it “The Perfect Fit. He has acquired a fortune through this. Myrtle Swetland has broken all typing records, writing 201.34 words per minute and so winning the World's Championship. Don’t you remember when we were Juniors, she received a medal for the best paper submitted in an O. A. T. Test. Dorothy Stolte, our Gleaner Business Manager, is still at the selling business. She is now selling “Bvrns' Foot Ease. Our woman hater, Harry Meyer, is risking his life in Siberia as a missionary. Feme: “Of all things. Harry Meyer a missionary.” We surely heard enough orations in the U. S. History class. Well, Merle Mack is now campaigning for governor for Iowa. Lorena. his sister, has become a famous skier in Switzerland. Irene Ruskauff is coaching the “Kant Beat” basketball team at Jerusalem. Lucille: “0. yes. she's that wonderful basketball player. She must be good to be known clear over there. We surely did have some talented people in our class and Leslie Shierholtz was one of them. He drew a cartoon featuring the President and now he is in jail. It must have been dreadful for Mr. Bowker always liked him so well in high school. Feme: “Isn't it wonderful to think that our President was once our teacher. Our star basketball player in '23 has written a book. “Control Your Temper. Lucille: “0, surely, that's Everett Murphy. I have heard about it. Fred Haugh won the light-weight championship last year. Wasn't he always quiet? He still believes in the old saving “Silence is Golden. I guess. Will we ever forget the football season in 1922? We surely had a wonderful bunch of sports. Now instead of coaching the football teams at Yale or Harvard, Merle Warren is running a bakery in partnership with Dixon. They hire Ed. Roever to write poetry advertising their goods Kd surely is a good poet. No social gathering is complete without him And would vou think it. Miriam Hahn is an old maid housekeeper for a man. whose wife died leaving eight children, and who lives on a farm near Hillpoint. 1 can't remember his name but he was a sophomore when we were Seniors and lie's Irish. Lucille: “That must be Harold Murphy.” Hazel Suszyski and Irma Fritcher, you know what pals they were, are trying to introduce woman suffrage in Liberia and Nigeria. While our shorty, Clara Zimmerman, has become a great essayist. Some of her best known essays are “Advantages of Being Short.” “Length, “Height. and “Typewriting.” Page Twenty-Seven «l Marden Philips has opened a college in Superior and he is progressing very well as all financial troubles are attended to by his brother-in-law. Bertha still loves declaming. She always gives some declamation at our “Old Settlers’ Meeting. Marsella Gasser, that hlnndie from Cazenovia, is running a Beauty Parlor in China. No cosmetics are used. Ed. Spraetz is floor walker. Feme: “Yes, I remember, they used to go together. Ed. took her to the Kilhourn foot- ball game. About ten years ago Beatrice Ost went to France to study French. She used to rave away all the while in French. You remember, it was introduced in our Senior year. Anyway, last year sin? wanted to come home but when she got to Ellis Island she discovered she could not speak a word of English. Now she is attending first grade in some school in England. Our other Beatrice, Bea Roach, is drawing maps for History and Geography text books. Lucille: “Remember those wonderful maps she drew for our U. S. History Map Books?” Ruth Rindfleish has invented something which makes curly hair straight. My, what curly hair she used to have. The Hastings girls have opened a Grammar School. They always were so fond of grammar in high school. O—yes, indeed, also debates. Remember what silly questions Louis Stern used to ask in Physics class? He is now running a pineapple farm in Alaska. Do you remember Agnes Wilson? She was in our Shorthand IV class. She is demonstrating “More Face Powder. She urges all girls to “make-up.” Gertrude Thieman won a World Beauty Contest. All the movie directors are chasing her around. The last offer she got was $200,000 a week, but she is afraid that wealth will ruin her beauty. Our other shorty. La Verne Davis. is very successful in the running of the “Davis Old Maids Home” and Edith Bclin is head librarian in Podunk. Lucille: “Yes she used to take the library at 10:27 ami 1:25. She tried to keep order but was too easily kidded.” Jerry has become famous as “The Sleeping Drummer. But then, we often do wonderful things in our dreams. Of course, you haven't forgotten Francis Bechtolt. He is a great magician. We re all rather scared of him. Remember how hard it was to try to sell Gerhart Meyer an Annual in the play the staff put on? Well, lie's an old crab now and book agents are obliged by a swift kick out of his office. Howard .McCarthy is leading the idle life of a country “school-mam's” husband. Lucille: “He fell for Agnes right after she won the beauty contest in 1922. You know. Remember how angry Archie Christie got at Miss Leavitt when she called farmers “old I country jakes?” Well, now he is chief cook, bottle washer, and hen-pecked husband on a farm near North Freedom. Remember when everybody called Catherine Donahue the school teacher when she took Miss Saukerson's place. Well, she is still teaching first grade in Pumpkin Center. Lucille: “She always was teacher’s pet. Margaret Sporloeder is a surgeon and Viola Foss is her nurse. They operate on corns and bunions. Their first patient was Edna Meyer and ever since she wears size 10 shoes. You ought to see Dean Babb, lie fell into a smoke stack and he has never gotten his hair clean. Even his dog doesn't know him. Remember how we stole Forest O'Connor, lie graduated from the 1. W. last year. t present he is feeding hogs on his father’s farm. This letter is getting dreadfully long, and if I do not bring it to an end suddenly it will cost me ten cents to send it; but before closing 1 am going to try and give you an idea of Reedsburg. The old town is changing slowly but surely. Remember that auxiliary fire department that we had here when we went to school —well, they now have two real fire trucks and the Sorge twins do the driving. They go so fast that they get to the fire before it is even started. The Main Street Boulevard is all fixed up and you ought to see the flower beds and the variety of flowers that are on it. I know one thing that would surprise you if you were to come back and that is “Our New Park.” Our old park, the band stand in one part, the fountain of youth with the bull frog on the marble curbing in another, are things of the past. Our new park i- above r 11 • dam. 11 that I '' land has been filled in and now we have .i nice swimming pool, and some nice picnic and playgrounds which certainly let out all rememberances of that old muddy spot. But something that we all felt sorry over was the loss to Main Street of our Pea Canning Co. The mayor forced it to move outside of the city limits as a result of a petition signed by all Reedsburg high school Civics students demanding free and clean air. They certainly have cleaned up things. But before forgetting 1 must remind you of the fact that we now have a White Way in Reedsburg. Well. Lucille. 1 must bring this letter to a close as 1 am busy working on my Hope Chest. Coddles of love, from Your old classmate. IRENE MOW. P. S. Be sure and write real soon and tell me all about yourself. Pago Twenty-Eight 0 [25 EL5iZZ Page Twonty-Nino JUNIOR HISTORY ll was one clay in September 1920, that our class, numbering seventy-six, came on the school horizon. Although we were perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves we humored the upper-classmen by letting them manage our affairs at t i mes. We entered immediately into the activities of the school and enjoyed detention as much as the Seniors did. The Glee Club, both boys and girls, were added to in numbers and enthusiasm by our class. In our Sophomore year we numbered only fifty-one, but we had lost none of the pep we had evinced in our Freshman year. This year forty-nine Juniors are proud to be in this class. And our Basketball team! What a credit to have won the Junior-Senior game, and what a satisfaction! Many of the boys on the school team are Juniors and honored ones, too, having received medals for their splendid playing at the LaCrosse tournament. During our three years of High School we have found that a Junior Class is always the best class and the adviser matches the class; that High School life is one to be appreciated; and that class loyalty and school loyalty are the key-notes of success in High School. CLASS OFFICERS Darrel Wolfe.........................................President Donald Ost......................................Vice President Eylene Worden .... Secretary and Treasurer Class Colors; Green and Gold. Class Motto: “Always Room at the Top.’’ TODAY How wrought 1 yesterday? Small moment now. To question with vain tears, or bitter moan, Since every word you wrote upon the sands Of yesterday hath hardened into stone. How work tomorrow? ’Tis a day unborn, To scan whose formless feature is not granted. Ere the new morning dawns, soul, thou mayest wing Thy (light beyond tomorrow, disenchanted. How shall 1 work today? 0 soul of mine! Today stands on her threshold, girt to lead Thy feet to life immortal; strive with fear; Deep pitfalls strew the way; take heed; take heed! PaKe Thirty-One I’age Thirty-Two Page Thirty-Three JUNIOR CLASS ROLL ' Dorothy Barry— “Brings sport that wrinkled care derides, and laughter holding both its sides.” Lavita Berceman— “She is both jolly and kind, she is the maid we like to find.” Hazel Bingham— “Perhaps ’twas right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs?” Vera Borland— “Sometimes cunning, sometimes shy, with a twinkle in her eye.” Alma Byrns— “Bobbie Byrns, a nature poet; it may be so but very few know it.” Ruth Clement— “0 Woman! Woman! Thou wert made the peace of Adam to invade.” Erna Dierken— “A light heart lives long.” Ernesta Gahacan— “The world was made for fun and frolic, and so was I.” Hilda Gall— l “The lady do protest too much, me thinks.” Irene Garske— “The light that lies in woman’s eye—” Phillip Garske— “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.” Agnes Gasser— “Over the hills and far away.” Phillip Hass— “To beard the lion in his den he planned—but he woke up just then.” Aida Hoefs— “A little of thy merriment, of thy sparkling wit, makes our hearts a trifle lighter and makes us laugh a bit.” EthelJdhe— “Speech is silver, silence golden.” Agnes Kernan— “To be slow in words is only her virtue.” Edna Kutzbach— “She sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief.” Fred Meyer— “I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?” W nda Menchoff— “A pearl of great price.” Marion Miller— “He is well paid who is well satisfied.” Maurice Moon— “Perhaps it may turn out a song—perhaps turn out a sermon.” Edna Niemann— “A poet could not but be gay in such a jocund company.” Percy Nulph— “Some achieve greatness—” Blanche Oliver— “Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, like twilight, too. her dusky hair.” Donald Ost— “Hail! Fellow—well met.” Meredith Pelton— “Thou sayest an undisputed thing in such a solemn way!” Pasre Thirty-Four James Phillips— “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” Lizette Ricgert— “She has a world of ready wealth, our minds and hearts to bless.” Ansel Ritzenthaler— “A man behind a voice.” Jennie Robertson “A countenance in which did meet sweet records, promises as sweet.” Az Robinson— “All good things are done up in small packages.” Madalyn Schacke— “Continuous as the stars that shine.” Elizabeth Schroeder— “A merry heart goes all the day.” Alvina Schuett— “A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.” Marie Schulte— “Frailty, thy name is woman.” Alberta Schulze— “Something between a hindrance and a help.” Ruth Seymour— “A laugh is worth a thousand groans in any market.” Leonard Shemanski— “And e’en his failings leaned to virtue’s side.” Lucille Siemandel— “Up! Up! My friend and quit your books or surely you II grow double.” Mildred Solles— “And still the wonder grew that one small head could carry all she knew.” Ada Sonnenberc— “Merry springtime’s harbinger.” Esther Squires— “Hail to thee, blithe spirit.” Boyd Stadelmann— “Not that I loved lessons less, but that I loved ladies more.” A fra Tkadlec— “A modest maiden, she.” Harry Verthein— “He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.” Helen Walsh— • “Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles.” Herbert Westphal— “Enough is enough but too much is plenty.” Darrel Wolfe— “How happy could I be with either, were t’ other gay'charmer away!” Eylene Worden— “A rose-bud tossed its head on high into the fragrant air— A senior shy came passing by, but did not leave it there.” Emma Younc— “Brevity is the soul of wit.” THE COMMON TIES This old world, and I've been round it. north and south and east and west. Seems to me. for so I've found it. mighty fine and riehlv blest; Everywhere you'll find a steeple. Symbolizing faithful people. Most folks, when you learn about ’em. think and act just like your own; Though as stranger vou mav doubt ’em temperate or tropic zone, You’ll discover in their labors Thev'rc just like vour friends and neighbors. Page Thirty-Five Page Thirty-Six SOPHOMORE HISTORY Of course, we Sophomores think as do all other classmen, that our class is the best. But we are really justified in feeling thus. Not only do we love our class, hut the high school, our Alma Mater. Certainly the pranks played upon us as Freshmen, and the trick inflicted by upper classmen upon us as Sophomores, make our school a source of memories never to be forgotten. Even as Freshmen, we showed our spirit and have led the other classes a close race this year. Last year we ranked second in the Loyalty contest and our standing this year was high. One-third of the boys in membership are in both basket-ball and foot-ball, while the girls show themselves splendidly in declamatory work, glee club, and basketball. Hail the Sophomores, good and great. Lay aside your doubts of our fate; We are plucky, and we’re lucky. And our courage never fails. Hail the Sophomores, best class alive; Hail the class of ’25; We are full of vim, and we’re out to win— So watch now, and keep your eye on us! ! KIND WORDS How many days might lose their gloom. How many nights their sorrow. If we should wait to criticize Until a kindlier morrow! A night oft changes hate to love; A taunt, if left unspoken. May change to sympathy and cheer. And keep a heart unbroken. How many tears we might be spared. How many hours of sadness, If men would utter only good. And speak but cheer and gladness! A word may break a lonely heart. Or save a life that’s broken; Then let all evil words be stilled, And only good be spoken. $ Page Thirty-Seven Pnge Thirty-Eight SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS Max Rindfleish.....................................................President Marvin Schroeder..............................................Vice President Josephine Howland ........ Secretary-Treasurer Class Colors: Orange and Black WHO’S WHERE IN THE SOPHOMORE CLASS? Name Favorite Pastime Haunt Amy Borning • The Public Library. Russel Case . . .Smoking a cigarette or two • Some athletic joint. Dorothy Chamberlain . • Room C. John Christie Beating time • On the farm. Ruth Corwith Thinking deeply • Home. Raymond Cridelich . .. . . Driving a new' model Lizzie. Livery Stable. Zita Daly . Joining Society • Some Ball-room. Wilbur Davis Trying to become a gentle-man All Over. Violet Farber Chasing down town • Below the Hill. Irene Fenster Whistling an Irish Trot. .. • Somewhere lively. Fred Foss Going to Geography Class. • Main street. Naomi Giles Reducing • W ith the Dumb-bells. Wilma Hainstock Studying Latin for the family North Park street. Doris Hagenah Wheeling a baby carriage. • Down town. Lewis Hager Fumigating ■ Hard-telling. Elva Harder Caring for the household. • The Woods. Albert Heinz Bluffing ■ The Corridors. Alvin Hinrichs Hunting “an animal with horns” On the Banks of the Bara boo. Arnit Hennings Learning Shorthand ■ Room B with Miss Byrns. Walter Hickey Splitting wood • Back Yard. Alice Hickey Arriving at 8:22 a. m The Office. Rueben Holtz Kidding the girls ■ The Country. Lucille Holtz Talking incessantly ■ On LaValle Road. Josephine Howland .... Being modest Porch swing. Annette Huntlev Watching the drummer. . . . A cozy corner. Hariett Johnson Reading dime novels ■ Prayer meeting. Elizabeth Krause Having a hair-cut . Barber Shop. Herbert Krueger Sleeping , In Bed. Donald McKeuin Feeding the squirrels Park. Anita Madenwald Studying, studying, study- Home. Isaac Metcalf •ng ...Staring into space .With his Mamma. Dorothy Meyer ... Playing Jazz Tailor Shop. Joseph Meyer . .. Killing Time Gvm. Ena Moll . . .Refereeing Baseball Games. Locker-rooms. Page Thirty-Nine Namk Favorite Pastime Haunt Judith Ninman . . Writing editorials . Printing Office. Catherine Ost . .Swimming like a fish . Maxham’s Pond. William Pape . . Telling jokes . Taylor’s Lake. Leander Prange • The Kitchen. Wanda Rice . . Posing . Hill Point. Valera Riggert ..Hurrying from school . Loganville. Max Rindfleisch . Red Front Store. Elizabeth Schroeder .... . . Dancing eternally . Candyland. Calvert Scoles .. Wheeling baggage cart. ... . Hotel Huntley. Marvin Schroeder .. Singing a solo . Armors Opera House. Marguerite Schierholtz . . . . Driving a Dodge . East Side. Lawrence Schulze ..Shining boots .Shoe Hospital. Raleigh Sorge .. Wrapping butter . Creamerv. Rolland Sorge ..Making a lotta noise . Church. Glen Swetland , Su dav School. Bernice Turner . . Whispering . Auditorium. Eunice Von der Ohe . 1). S. Room. Vlarga Werner ..Reading snappy stories.... , Some quiet place. Frona Wiese . . Reading letters , Post Office. Janet Winchester ..Fiddling . Before an audience. Rhea Walters . . Becoming a star forward. .. Home floor. Archie Hoevermann . . . . Fighting with all his might. Foot-ball field. Joseph Yorman . . Being rough Movies. Ruth RadlolT . Pretending to he as (piiet as a mouse Drug Store. Page I'Orly Page Forty-One page Forty-Two Page Forty-Three M FRESHMEN HISTORY We doubt not that September 4, 1922, will be a day long cherished in the annals of the Reedsburg High School, for on that day dauntless Freshmen entered upon their historic career as a part of that great institution. I .ike Achilles, they did not profess to have that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, hut shared with him a determination to be “strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield ’ It may be confessed that sundry Sophomores and others attempted to dampen their ardor, but an aggregation like the class of 1926 were not so easilv swerved from their purpose and the year was finished with undaunted spirits. Officers of this illustrious class were duly elected as follows: Hlwood Yolnc ------- President Anthony Connors......................................Vice President VERNIE NlEBUHR ... - Secretary and Treasurer Mr. Aker - - - - - - - Class Adviser The class was represented by a basketball team of merit. It may not be interesting to record the scores of the various games, but suffice to say that the team fought with the true 1926 spirit. At the Loyalty Banquet, the class songs and yells were well received, and the class made an excellent record. On account of modesty or other emotions, the rank received is not mentioned, but the spirits of the class are still high, and great things may be expected during the next three years of high school life. Class Colors: Blue and Cold Class Flower: The Rose Class Motto: ''Rowing, not Drifting' Page Forty-Four FRESHMEN HOSPITAL Namk Symptom Disease Treatment Neal Aton .... Absent-mindedness .Tile hear! No cure. Ethel Halil) .Country life Change of climate. Ed. Bergemann .... face Rigidity of facial muscles • A little smile. Harvev Black • Girls Matrimony. Reynold Black . Laughter .Choking spell. Marjorie Briggs ... .Cartooning Lack of ink. Irene Cassily Flushed countenance ... . Goose Flesh Lemon juice. Ted Claridge . Bad cold .Onions. Lucille Cook .Sunshine . Shade. Anthony Connors . . . Restlessness . Pacifier. Teona Conerus .... ....Jumps easily and quickly.Fright . A ghost. Mary Corrigan .... .Premature age .Kindergarten. nn Donahue .Fussing . good spanking. Monica Dwyer .Irish • Wed-lock with Dutch Harold Ehlert .Silence . Pepper. Carrie Eoscett . Diet . Buttermilk. Sevilla Garske .Grinning . Lock-jaw. Robert Grant in .... . Daily Gymnastics. .lean Gregory • Attractiveness . Incurable. . A lot to do. Theo. Hoeverman . . • Trained vocalism ... .High C. Jack Kalman . Musical Talent .No instructor. Gilbert Kapelka ... • Mamma's Angel .... . Removal of w ings. I.ucille Koester .... .Nothing to do . Work. Mildred Kleeher ... .Talkativeness . A parrot. Helen Krause Do. ray. me. fa . B flat and C sharp. Melvin Krueger .... . Modesty Pool Hall. Edgar Kutzbach ... l.eonard Luetkins .. . Loganvillism .Snow-storm. Vera Moll . Book-worm .Dime novels. Fag:e Forty-Kiye Name Symptom Disease Treatment Lena Worley Does as she is told .Obedience .. Too many commands. Waller Meyer .... Works hard .Overalls .. Life of ease. Robert Meyer .... Mways Immhle .Humility . .Chin-prop. Edward Mulady .... .Wants his own way.... .Determination .. Wrath. Lucille Niebuhr .... Posing . Dramatics .. No curling iron. Vernie Niebuhr .Ambition to work... .. A good joke. Marcus Osborne .... .Over height . .Yeast. Carol Pelton . Poor eyesight .. Bone-rimmed glasses. Roger Pellon ...Negligence of studies... .Sore eyes .. Eye specialist. KITy Perry ...Neither song nor sound. .Silence .. A mouse. Kempus Phillips .... • Sleeping habit . A good rest. Floyd Richardson . .. . Stage managing .... ..Scarcity of curtains. Raymond Riggert ... • Gayety ..April showers. Rollin Schluter ■ Corns ..Canning factory. Matilda Schroeder . . .Stiffness . Elbow grease. Amanda Schulte .... .Rheumatism . Regular baseball. Fred Schulze • Studious . Physics Problems. Elvin Skinner . Spring fever .Snow and ice. Ed. Sporlcdor Exaggerated import- Condensed essence of actions . ancc . salt. Ed. Sonnenberg .... .Hard-boiled . Boiling water. Alma Steinweg High grades . Diligence . Red ink. Thomas Slone . Ice. Dorothy Steffen . Fair complexion . .. . Sunburn. Grace Trainer . Smiles .Frown. William Wagner . Solitude . Some pep. Harry Walters . The Blues . Red tape. Lawrence Weslphal . tisenient contest • Latin Shark . Forgets declension. Mary Yorman .Society. El wood Young Wax complexion ... . . A match. Ruth Zimmerman .... ...Desire for fresh air .Driving Ford .No gas. Win. Zimmerman .... sense .Raving . Dictionary. Hilda Zobel Flighty .An aeroplane. Hazel Spaulding Rouge .Soap and water. Harold Murphy .St. Vitus Dance .Cessation of society. Bernard Daly Drowsiness .A whole night's sleep. Page Forty-Six Page Forty-Seven rage Forty-Wight Nothing remains stationary. A plant grows continually until it reaches the point cf maturity and then it withers and decays. During the process of this entire cycle there is constant motion. No matter how much we juggle our clocks to meet Man’s plan of “Daylight Saving’ (which, by the way, has furnished excellent material for many cartoonists) Cod’s day, wears on, weeks end. and seasons roll around. A patient lying on his bed in a hospital improves physically or he gets worse. He might have a temperature of a degree or more, or his condition might be sub-normal. At any rate, there is a (diimge. It is a universal scheme which no one can explain. The Junior High School of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, is a part of this great plan. I his department was organized two years ago and it has not remained stationary. Although we did not know of Mr. Coue at that time, we have worked out and practiced his philosophy— “Day by day in every way we are growing better and better,” until we have an organization of which we are proud. The teaching corps consists of five teachers. Miss Siberz. who teaches 7th and 8th grade history. 8th grade civics, and 8th grade spelling; Miss Byrne, who teaches 8th grade grammar, 7th grade physiology and spelling, and gives extra help to backward students; Miss Wilson, who teaches 7th and 8th grade arithmetic, and 7th grade geography; Miss Victor, who teaches 7th grade grammar and 7th and 8th grade reading; and Miss Trumpf, supervisor, who teaches 8th grade physiology and physical geography, and 4th, 5th, 6th. 7th and 8th grade penmanship. Nor are these all the duties. Kach teacher in turn has charge of general exercises for a week. These take on a various nature. The program may be given by the student body or an outside speaker may have charge. On national anniversaries. Bird Day, Arbor Day, Fire Prevention Day, etc., a special program is prepared. Besides, the teachers, students also render service which helps to make the school a success. Drawings in geography and physiology, and projects worked out in other studies are of a meritorious nature. In the 8th grade penmanship class of 1923, forty-two out of fifty-one have received Final Certificates in writing. fG EIGHTH GRADE Tennyson once wrote, “The old order changeth.” We hope that the Junior High School will always change for the better, and that it will never make the revolution of a cycle. SEVE.XTH GRADE Page Fifty El Emma Berg Mabel Halverson Della Hendrickson Etta Saukerson Ann Coughlin Lila Meveii Avice Strande Helen Meigs Lillian Gautsch Esther Fresley TRES JOLIE When ihe faculty appears of a morning with puffy eyelids and wearied expressions; when the Domestic Science classes search frantically and vainly for misplaced ladles and tinware; when Charlie shifts his plug emphatically and takes half an hour to tell each listener how long it will take to get Room G back in order; then you may know that the evening before has witnessed that social function without peer—“A Teachers' Party.” � A combination of Lucullian Feast and Mardi Gras revelry, these parties beggar description and indict the insufficiency of the English language. The staid and respectable faculty members, so familiar to Reedsburg students, reject formality, throw reserve to the winds, and enter into the jollification with all the bandon of Greenwich Village's Bohemia. And a teacher, without that dearest asset, reserve, is really almost human. Miss Siberz unbends and expounds riddles that only the mathematical Tuffy W'ilson can fathom, and Mr. Harper laughs until one gets apprehensive. Strictly temperate, however, is the hour for breaking-up, leaving the evening as a pleasant memory which aids in the building up of an esprit de corps that tends toward harmony and good-fellowship in work together. Pane Fifty-Two Paij:e Fifty-Three B is sgiT r: PUBLIC SPEAKING “Speak the speech I pray you as pronounced it to you trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it as most your players do, I had as lief the town cryer speak my words' —Hamlet. In time to come, how many of our graduates, both girls and boys, will be able to make a speech in public when called upon? Years ago when our fathers and mothers attended school, maybe this same old R. II. S., their education consisted mostly of the “three r’s,” “readin’, rilin’, ’n ’rithmetic.” But today we have the opportunity of having Public Speaking as a subject alone. We did not only learn how to prepare and give a speech but also how to poise well, throw our voices forward and to control our breath. How to meet the situation was drilled into us until every member of the class felt that he or she would be able to meet any situation, even that of “waking up” the Main Boom and “holding the audience.” Some audiences, we were told, are more held than others and we all came to believe it. Those of you who have never had the advantages of Public Speaking may at least have had the experience in the line. Blanche was reciting one day in class on the “Enjoyment of Spring” and when the class was asked if she held her audience, Merl came out with the hearty response: “She sure held me! Before finishing the course in Public Speaking, three public appearances had to be made and we know by the end of the year all the students in Public Speaking classes had experienced once, if not three times, the nervousness of a Public Appearance. How our knees did shake—how we nept forgetting our lines and how we wished the thing were over until that day when we all appeared together in the one-act play which was the grand finale at the end of the course. To those of you who have never participated in the gentle but exciting sport, we suggest you sign up next year in the Public Speaking Course. A word to the wise is sufficient. I CONSISTENT PRONUNCIATION When the English tongue we speak Why is “break” not rimed with “freak.” Will you tell me why it’s true? We say “sew” but likewise “few.” And the fashioner of verse Cannot cap his “horse” with “wrorse.” “Beard” sounds not the same as “heard,” “Cord” is different from “word.” “Cow is cow, but “low” is low “Shoe is never rimed with “foe.” Think of “hose” and “dose” and “lose.” And of “goose” and also “choose.” Think of “comb” and “tomb” and “bomb.” “Doll and “roll” and “home” and “some. And since “pay” is rimed with “say,” Why not “paid” with “said,” I pray. We have “blood” and “food” and “good.” “Mould” is not pronounced like “could.” Wherefore “done,” but “gone” and “lone” Is there any reason known? l� ago Fifty- Four MANUAL TRAINING “LEARNING BY DOING” Daily lo U9 in the shop, there comes through the noise and hum of industry, the song of labor, telling us that labor is noble. It is a mark of service. The privilege of honest labor coupled with the joy of creating, lifts us onto the plane of the artist, musician, or author. Truly, was not the man who made the wonderful violin an artist as well as he who plays on it? Our tasks are humble, yet they are as honorable as others. Daily we serve and daily we express our love for man in that service. If ye would lose yourself in the joy of creating and taste of the pleasure of doing humble tasks well, join us in the shop. If ye would learn by doing something creative; by working out a constructive idea until the finished product stands before you, join us in the shop. If you would start your journey to success properly, learn some trade. Did not our greatest Americans express themselves, “Early in learning do some form of skilled labor well?” Who can look upon the character of Benjamin Franklin, the humble printer, or Abraham Lincoln, the obscure pioneer, or of Thomas Edison, the poor boy with a love for experimenting, without reaching this conclusion? A boy in learning a trade takes his first step toward a successful career, in the knowledge that he is doing something well. If ye would learn, step by step, to walk in the ways of the Master Carpenter of Nazareth, join a class in manual labor. If ye would taste of the joy of doing with the hands and at the same moment creating because of the active and keen mental process that is directing the doing, join us in the shop. COMMERC1AL DEPARTMENT you are honest in all your work, Anti none of your shorthand and typing shirk; You'll surely succeed in your business life. And need not worry about future strife. The Commercial course, which includes Shorthand, Typewriting and Bookkeeping is one of the most practical courses offered in the Reedsburg High School. There are many reasons for this. Perhaps the most important is that when students graduate from this department they are prepared to take a position in the business world. Gregg Shorthand is not a new subject, as many are inclined to believe. Probably the first man to ring for his stenographer was Cicero, in 63 B. C. Shorthand offers the opportunity for a liberal education, besides its recognized value as a bread-winning accomplishment. In the study of shorthand one learns the meaning of words and their correct pronounciation, the construction of the English language, and from dictation, an immense amount of information is absorbed. It disciplines the mind, increases power to analyze things, develops constructive ability, and is almost unequaled as a means of culture. Someone has said that expertness in shorthand is equivalent to forty per cent increase in mental efficiency. A knowledge of Bookkeeping is almost indispensable for both business and social needs. It is a subject of practical value to any high school student. Through it the student learns the value of accuracy, initiative, and thrift, which are requisites in any line of work. Page Fifty-Five WILL THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE GIRLS OF 1923 EVER FORGET WHEN— They fed Mr. Lewis fudge Ask him! I he frosting on Dorothy C’s cake was two inches thick? To get weighed every month? Sweep the floor every day? I'he weekly exhibit in sewing class? When Mr. Harper said, “Here is the first group of ladies I ever saw sewing and not gossiping?” Gingham dresses? Yes, lots of them! Costumes for the operettas? Eunice’s fall near the sink which threw the dish water in the right direction? Demonstrations in second year cooking? Twenty pages a week reading? Monday tests? Our laboratory noted for its rice? Selling sandwiches on a one-session day? Elva painting her hair instead of the flower pot? Looking into Miss Melsna’s class? Running up and down four flights of stairs? When a mouse drowned in the salad dressing? I). C. runs a speedy machine? Will you ever forget Loyalty Feast? PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS Physical Education has for its aim the promotion of the ideals of health. Good health is and must he the basis for better bodies anti efficient minds. A healthy body has a healthy mind. Critics of Physical Education hold that it stresses only physical ability and as regards the students’ mentality. A proof of their error is manifested in the fact that in our high school and college athletics no student participates in competitive games who has not an average recognized as a passing one. Physical Education does not stress only physical ability hut it works for the accomplishment of physical fitness—a fitness that helps to ward off disease and make a nation of stronger citizens physically, morally and socially. The moral aspect that physical education embodies is best illustrated in its games. To play a game with enthusiasm and pleasure is to play it fairly. Even the small hoy in his gang rules out the “cheater and the one who doesn’t “play fair.” Physical Education aims for good sportsmanship, a fundamental element in clean athletics and fierce friendship. While the social and moral elements in physical education grow out of the group games and are accomplished more or less indirectly, the physical aim is accomplished directly. Girls have been given the reputation of being ‘poor sports and of being unable to cope with the men in feats of physical strength. No wonder! Ever since their babyhood, girls have been kept away from a free, natural life. It has been considered unladylike to appear in middies and bloomers, to romp and be active. We are. fortunately, getting away from that old and erroneous idea. Girls are learning to be better sports and to he physically the equal of men because they are being given the chance. This is Reedshurg’s first year of Physical Education. The girls have entered with a spirit that is enthusiastic and encouraging. Every school child needs a period of recreation during its school day and the recognition of this fact is realized by the legislatures of many states by passing laws that every school must have a system of physical education. Because this, our first year of ihis work, our gymnasium has no equipment. We need equipment, it is a necessity. Let’s have it! Page Fifty-Six Page Fifty-Seven LOOKS ARE DECEIVING It was towards the last of November that the “new boy” had come to school. He was a quiet fellow, short and slim with whitish hair and a pale thin face. He did not look like an athletic fellow and one of the boys laughingly referred to him as “our poet,” and the name had been then and there attached to him. The name seemed to fit him even better when Bob came up to a group of boys one day and remarked. “I was in the office today when the “poet s” grades came from wherever he came from and say, they are some grades. Three F's and two G’s. No wonder he looks so white-washed. This conversation had taken place just one week after Bruce's arrival, for Bruce was his name. The news spread through school and Bruce was ever afterwards regarded as a “sissy.” He. himself, was not an easy fellow to get acquainted with and as no one else made any effort, the new boy had no friends. He was, in a sense, forgotten and would have remained so if it had not been for the masquerade party given on the twenty-second of February. A general invitation had been given out and every one was asked to dress in Washington costumes and mask. Bruce was lonesome in the newr school. How was he to prove to people that a good student can be a “regular sport” and that his body was not so physically weak as it appeared? He would not, he muttered to himself, brag, that would not gain for him the respect he deserved and had been used, too. It was when the party was mentioned that Bruce decided to enjoy himself for at least one evening. He could not, or he thought he could not, go to the regular high school parties and ask the girls, whom he knew so slightly, to dance. He had no friends among the boys w'ho could help him get acquainted. This masquerade, however, was his chance and he took it. His mother found, for him, in an old chest, a suit of his great grandfather Morten’s clothes. It consisted of blue velvet knee breeches and coat, a white ruffled shirt front and a brocaded satin waistcoat. The clothes fit Bruce very well and with the aid of his mother he succeeded in making a cotton wig stay on his head aand tied it with a soft black bow. When he had poked an old hat into shape and put it securely over his wig and adjusted his mask, no one, even of the “bunch at home” as he spoke of his former pals, would have know-n him. Bruce entered the room a little late so that he would not be noticed or singled out. After sauntering several times the length of the floor he asked one of the most popular girls to dance. When the dance was over and he had taken her back to her friends, there was an excited and whispered conference. “Who is that fellow, you just danced with?” cried Marie. Pace Fifty-Nine “That’s just what I can’t find out and he’s a wonderful dancer, too. I can’t imagine who it can he. He wouldn’t talk much, afraid his voice would give him away I suppose,” said Anne. “Well,” said Emily emphatically, “I’ll bet I can tell every fellow in this school by the way he dances and they can not disguise their dance all evening. If he’d only ask me I’ll bet you all a dinner that I can tell who it is. He walks something like Stanley Hampford.” “I’ll take you on that bet,” said Anne, “here he comes now.” After dancing half the dance with the hero of the velvet suit. Emily gave up in despair and tried to bribe that silent person into telling her who he was and was forced to shake her head when the girls demanded his name. Bruce was enjoying himself and was becoming more and more a puzzle. The girls dispatched other boys to find out who he was and every one was “crazy” to dance with him, for as Anne had said “he was a wonderful dancer.” They called him the “Duke” because of his costume and truly he was the center of attraction. When time to unmask finally came every one looked for the “Duke” but he was nowhere in sight. Just as everyone had given up finding out who he was, Bob Macau saw him disappear through a door. He dashed after him and grasped him by the collar of his velvet coat and took him back to the middle of the floor amid shouts of laughter and applause. When the mask was finally ofT everyone gasped. “The poet,” escaped Bob’s lips. “That new boy,” from Anne’s and so on around the crowd. From that moment on Bruce’s place in high school life in Wenton was established. It is true the boys held back at first, but the girls took him up so thoroughly they could not hold back long. “Say, fellows,” Bob remarked one day a week later as he came up to a group of his friends, “I was down to Mortin’s last night and Bruce took me up to his room, and listen, that guy played half-back on the football team where he came from and lie’s got his letter and a captain’s ring.” “O! man!” groaned Stanley, “and we called him a sissy.” Eylene Worden. Pafire Sixty pMl E3 THE HERO OF THE LITTLE CREEK He was born to command attention. Indeed, none could pass him by without notice. His jet black coat with its silken gloss, bis large head and well set jaws and bis brown and intelligent eyes. It was on an afternoon in January he stood out in front of the house on a small bank of snow, looking across the prairie. His head was erect, bis ears pricked forward, every muscle alert and be snuffed the air as if he scented trouble. Mary and Ray had gone to school two miles across the prairie. The day had been unusually mild and balmy for January and Mr. Martin, their father, had been at work around the barn with his coat ofT. but he came into the house saying that the air had suddenly grown colder and the wind had changed into the northwest. “Why, look there!” his wife exclaimed. The air was full of flying snow flakes. Everything vanished from sight. They could not even see the barn which stood a short distance from the house. , “It’s a blizzard,” exclaimed Mr. Martin, as he looked across the prairie. “I hope the teacher will not dismiss school until it is over. The children could never find their way home. I believe it is getting worse and worse. The wind blew like a tornado, the cold increased and the snow was forced through every crack of the doors and windows. Mr. Martin looked at the clock and exclaimed, “Why, it's after four o’clock. I must go for the children.” “0, but you cannot go in such a storm as this,” said Mrs. Martin. “You will be lost. The teacher will surely help the children or take them to Mr. freeman’s. That is but a few rods from the school house.” But as time passed on. and the storm grew worse, father and mother became more and more nervous and anxious. They knew that it would be impossible to find the school house and to venture out would mean death. And yet if the children had frozen! Such thoughts made them almost distracted as they waited and watched through the weary hours. If they had known that school had been dismissed before the storm and that they were now wandering and freezing, lost on the prairie, nothing could have kept them from rushing forth to rescue them. But they hoped the children were safe at Mr. Freeman s home. School had let out early that afternoon, and most of the children living not far from school reached home safely. But Mary and Ray, who lived much farther than the rest, had gone but half the distance when Ray shrugging his shoulders, said. “Whew, it’s getting cold.” Then in a moment they were caught in the whirlings of the storm and the fine snow was forced into their faces. They could scarcely get their breath, while their eyes were filled with clinging moisture. Mary grasped I’aKe Sixty-One Ray by the arm, and said ‘‘It’s a blizzard, we must hurry.” But where? They lost all trace of the road which was a mere sled track at that. The wind whirled and rushed so they kept turning around to catch their breaths. They lost their direction and plunged on not knowing where. At last, utterly tired out with the struggle and chilled to the bone, they sat down in the snow. How little did these children know what it means to rest at such a time. How may have rested, grown drowsy, slept, slept, never to wake from the winding sheet of snow. But just as they sat down a wonderful thing happened. A great white animal, large as a bear, suddenly rushed into their faces. He jumped about them and tlieri raised his head and howled. “Why, it’s Hero,” cried Ray. Yes, it was his black coat filled with the driven snow. When he scented the snow that afternoon, he had started for the school but too late to find his charges, fhe storm reached the children before it did him. Although he had struggled long in reaching them he finally succeeded. The children were glad to have their great strong friend with them, but they were so tired they were unwilling to move. Hero would bark and then start off as if expecting them to follow, but they only nestled closer together. He would howl and then wait as if for an answer. No answer came. Presently Hero caught hold of Marty’s dress and tugged and pulled until the girl roused herself, and then urged Ray to get up and follow Hero. “Perhaps,” she said, “he will take us home. We will die if we stay here.” But Ray did not want to go. “I’m so cold,” he said, and refused to move. But at last he roused up and struggled on. Soon they came to a straw stack. Hero be gan to dig into tin side of the stack and in a short time had made quite a hole. Then Mary got into a comfortable place and after she and the dog crawled in, she pulled what straw she could over the doorway. The storm soon covered them with the thick white sheet of snow. Early next morning Mr. Martin set out for Mr. Freeman’s to see if the children were there. The storm had ceased but it was very cold. But finding they were not there, the neighborhood was aroused. Nobody had seen anything of the children. Men and boys joined in the search. They passed by the straw stack but saw no signs about and passed on. Presently Hero came bounding after the party and with a loud bark, rushed to Mr. Martin. Then he started off toward the stack; all the men followed as fast as they could. Now they could see the hole where Hero had come bounding out of. They cleared away the snow. Sure enough there was Mary and Ray. The two children were still drowsy and chilled but saved. The warmth of Hero’s great body had proved a great protection. They were soon hurried home to their mother. The rest of the winter their school was at home. Blanchie Oliver. I'iiKi1 Sixty-Two 13 ORATORY AM) DECLAMATORY Next to athletics and musical lines oratory and declamatory work are considered as important activities in the high school. Not only should these activities he heller supported by the students but every student in high school should make it a point to participate in these eve-its. it is not only for honor’s sake but also the training one recognizes besides giving the student instructions in speaking, enunciation, pronunciation delivering and address and approaching an audience. Let it be our duty to attend the contests as if they were a big football game. Then it would lie more pleasant for contestants to do their best in the presentation of their selections because they can see that the students and townspeople are all eager to hear their work. Any student participating in any of these activities is doing something for himself or herself as w-ell as for the school. Every student shows an untiring interest in athletics, glee club, orchestra, and band, but they should not let their spirit die when it comes to these activities, oratory and declamatory work. This year’s call for declamatory girls brought nine contestants. Each girl received her selection ami immediately began to work. Each girl worked hard so as not to be eliminated in the elementary contest. There were several girls who had been in last year’s contest but there were also some new ones. After six weeks of rehearsal an elimination contest was held. This contest was to eliminate all but four girls. The contest was held in the H. S. Auditorium on April 11. The girls each gave their selection. This year’s call for orators was well answered. Six boys showed their willingness to enter the contest. They, too, worked hard for six weeks so as not to be eliminated. The elimination contest was held the same day as the girls. Four w inners of each group were chosen to take part in the final local contest. This contest was held the evening of April 13 in the auditorium. All the students and townspeople were invited. Those who took part in the contest were: Ruth Clement ... Evelene Worden Annette Huntley . Bertha Phillips . Archie Christie .. Maurice Moon .. Merle Mack....... Kenneth Maxham ...“The Death Disc” ............“Cuddy” “The Perfect Tribute” “For Dear Old Yale” “The Worker’s Weal” .“The Turk Must Go” ..“A Nation’s Honor ........“The Negro” Second places were awarded to Ruth Clement and Kenneth Maxham and first places to Maurice Moon and Bertha Phillips. The two firsts will represent us at the League contest to be held at Waunakee on April 20. I he League compromises contestants from the high schools of Lodi, Poynette, North Freedom, Waunakee and Reedsburg. Here’s hoping for our success at this contest. The tow winner of this contest will represent the league at the Whitewater district contest. Much credit is due the participants of this year’s contest. They deserve much honor and we hope that all that are not graduating will be with us again next vear so as to make a good showing for Reedsburg. To all those who are graduating we wish them good luck in their undertakings. Page Sixty-Three Page Sixty-Four o.nm-.OxIS Sln t First Tenor Theodore Hoeverman Harvey Black William Pape Raynold Black Leander Prange Joseph Yorman Merle Warren Archie Christie John Christie Second Tenor AI Heinz Reuben Holtz Marvin Schroeder Ansel Ritzentaler Joe Meyer Harry Vert him Francis Bechtolt Laurence Schulze Everett Murphy Harold Murphy First Hass Hubert Jax Arnit Hennings Boyd Stadelman Edgar Kutzbach William Wagner Edmund Bergeman Harold Meyer Harden Phillips Second Bass Maurice Moon Donald Ost Fred Meyer Louis Stern Forrest O’Connor Leonard Shemanski Neal Aton Paul Schultz Flovd Richardson Sopranos Carrie Bimmel Zita Daly Elva Harder Josephine Howland Marga Werner Dorothy Meyer Helen Krause Teona Conerus Lucile Cook Elizabeth Krause 9(113 3UOl OHdOS'M 1WHS3UJ Sopranos Dorothy Steffen Sivilla Garski Naomi Giles Rhea Wallers Wilma Hainstock Carol Felton Judith Ninman Valera Riggert Monica Dwyer Amy Borning Altos Carrie Foscett Eunice Vonder Ohe Dorothy Chamberlain Harriet Johnson Lucile Koester Lena Morel v Annette Huntley Altos Hazel Spaulding Ruth Corwith Irene Fenster Marjorie Briggs Katherine Ost Janet Winchester Amanda Schulte JUNIOR SENIOR GLEE CUE So ft ran os Alvina Schuett Marie Schulte Marcella Gasser Ethel Hide Marian Miller Winnifred Stadelman Marjorie Carrol A Robinson Gertrude Thiemann Lucile Semandel Wanda MencholT Dorothea Stolte So ft ran os Helen Walsh V iola boss Esther Squires Ruth Clement Alberta Schulze Edna Nieman Eerne Johnson Edith Helm Erna Dierken Aida Hoefs Eleanor Sparks Mildred Solles Sopranos EaVerne Davis Lizette Riggert Eyleen Worden Agnes Wilson Margaret Sporleder Agnes Gasser era Borland Miriam Hahn Beatrice Ost Hazel Suszyki Altos Elizabeth Schroeder Beatrice Roache A fra Tkadlec Ernesta Cahegen Lav it a Bergeman Lucille Meyer Bertha Phillips Irene Garski Irene Ruskauff Evangeline Fisher HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA I he orchestra, reorganized at the beginning of the school year with several new members and as many old, has done excellent work. The organization appeared at the school play, the Junior High operetta, “The Isle of Chance” for which it furnished the entire accompaniment; the joint glee club and orchestra program and the class play in addition to furnishing accompaniment to assembly singing on several occasions. The orchestra also joined with the glee clubs in presenting “Bells of Beaujolais.” The repertoire is made up of such numbers as: Moment Musical ..................................Schubert William Tell .....................................Rossini Faust .............................................Gounod Sextette from Lucia de Lammermoor................Donzetli Kusticana .......................................Mascagni in addition to many lighter selections. Many of the young artists in the orchestra promise to be very fine musicians and it is hoped that they will look hack with pleasure to the days of “Tune Up,” “Watch your bowing” and “Here we go.” Page Sixty-Eisht Cornels Ansel Rilzenthaler Hubert Jax Percy Nulph Elwood Young Neal Aton Raymond Cridelich Raymond Westedl Wilbur Skinner Donald Townsend Rex Wickersham Patrick Daly 7 rombones Francis Bechtolt Archie Christie Marden Phillips Judith Ninman Theodore floeverman THE BAM) T. C. Ninman, Director Baritone Leslie Schierholtz Basses Maurice Moon Kenneth Caroll Bass Drum Edwin Roever Clarinets Fred Meyer Louis Stern Even Hale Daniel Doyle Kenneth Walters Vida Niebuhr Altos William Pape Bessie Schierholtz Harold Buckley Alvin Skinner Edward Mulady Snare Drums John Christie Mychyle Johnson Edgar Kutzbach Harry Wollers Saxophones Herald Meyer Harold Ehlert Melvin Krueger Arthur Krueger Paul Fisher The high school cadet band was reorganized last fall under the direction of Mr. T. C. Ninman. There were about 15 members from last year’s band who again took up band work. Shortly after the band organized, it numbered 59 members. New members came from the high school as well as the junior high school. Under the able leadership of Mr. Ninman the band has made splendid progress. The band is planning on attending the Wisconsin Juvenile Band Tournament to be held at Two Rivers some time in June. Paste Sixty-Nine SCENE FROM ‘ THE PRIVATE SECRETARY This play, coached by Miss Melsna, who was assisted by Miss Alvord, was given for two nights before large and appreciative audiences, and proved a success. “Smile and the world smiles with you.” The world was with us in full force. Page Seventy SCENE FROM “THE ISLE OF CHANCE' Editor-in-Chief Assistant Chief Editors Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Athletic Editor Assistant Athletic Editor Society Editor Photographic Editor Humor Editor Assistant Humor Editor Art Editor -Assistant Art Editor Literary Editor -Senior Class Reporter Faculty Adviser Paul Schultz Beatrice Ost. Irene Mow Dorothea Stolte Marden Phillips Merle Warren - Everett Murphy Bertha Phillips Gertrude Thiemann Francis Bechtolt - Hubert Jax - Leslie Shikrholtz - Donald Ost - Eleanor Sparks Gerhard Meyer - Mr. E. L. Giroulx 1923 “GLEANER” STAFF Pafro Seventy-One Patje Seventy-Two Page Sovonty-Thre© HISTORY OF REEDSBURG Reedsburg, the second largest city of Sauk County, is as beautiful and wide awake city as can be found. It is fitting that we should know something of the early history of Reedsburg in order to appreciate it growth and development. The founding of our city dates back to the year 18-14. It was in that year that two men discovered copper in section number one of what is now the town of Reedsburg. In the spring of 1847, David C. Reed, a resident of Woolworth County, hearing of and later seeing the advantages of a mill site at Reedsburg. came and laid claim to the land upon which Reedsburg at the present time stands. In the summer of 1818, after constructing a dam across the river, a saw-mill was built and began turning out lumber, this being Reedsburg’s first industry. It was after David C. Reed that our city gets its name. Late in the fall of 1848 a number of log cabins were built, thus starting the first Reedsburg settlement. In January of the following year Austin Seeley and family immigrated to this city. That winter was one of the worst in the history of Reedsburg. The snow being very deep made a scarcity of food and as a result wild animals were not plentiful in this section of the country. There was a shortage of vegetables and meat. The Gospel was first introduced into this locality by Elden Locke, one of our earliest citizens. Austin Seeley built the first frame house in 1850. which was a decided advancement over the old log dwellings. In the same year the town papers were drawn up and Reedsburg took its place as an established town. Two years after this its population rose to the number of 11 1 persons. The first manufacturing was done in 1817 in the mill owned by Mr. Reed and Mr. Powell and two years later the first school was called. The first hotel built during 1847 was called the Clark House. In the same year Reedsburg received its first Post Office. The Civil war which took place in the earlv history of Reedsburg’s growth (1861-1865) did not have much effect on Reedsburg. Pfiprc Seventy-Four By 1868 the town had progressed to such a size that a bank could be supported and one was founded. Houses began to spring up and the buildings began to multiply to such a number that by 1873 some means of protection against (ires were necessary; as a result of the first (ire engine was purchased. A. P. Ellinwood bought a stretch of land in 1872 to he used as a fair grounds. The first Fair proved very successful and 2(50 exhibits were displayed. From that time on Reedsburg continued its upward climb until at the present time it is a city with a population of 3,000. A city which can compete with any city of its size in almost any activity, local or industrial, is a city which everyone should he proud of. Reedsburg is located on one of the leading railroads in the middle west— the Chicago-Northwestern line. Being situated only 18 miles from the Dells of the Wisconsin, which are noted for their scenery, makes it a stopping place for the tourists who are always welcomed in Reedsburg. In the near vicinity is some of the most wonderful scenery to he found in Wisconsin. There are about 8 miles of brick pavements in Reedsburg which speaks well for the thrift of our city. The streets are wide and are lined with beautiful shade trees. A Main Street, such as the one Reedsburg has, is seldom found in a city of its size. It is very wide and for a distance of three blocks forms a boulevard which is lined with trees planted at regular intervals. On one end is placed a relic of the World’s War, a field gun, which commands the business section. Reedsburg can boast of three parks. The city park, which is ideally located near the center of the town is used for band concerts. Also the Anna Stone Memorial Park and the South Park. The latter is well shaded by trees and is used as a tourists’ camping grounds for which it is very well suited. One can well spend Sunday by attending one of Reedsburgh s eight churches of the following denominations: Lutheran, Presbyterian. Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, United Brethren and Church of God. Reedsburg can also boast of several industries, there being a Woolen .Mill, Feed and Flower Mill, a Condensary, Marble Works, a Canning Factory, a very large Creamery, Saw Mill, many Warehouses and Cold Storage Plants, in its limits. Three modern and up-to-date banks do a thriving business. Reedsburg can well be proud of her educational system. Every year 50 or more pupils graduate from the high school which has an attendance of about 250. There is a Junior High made up of the seventh and eighth grades and a fine set of lower grades including an up-to-date kindergarten. I he library which always is willing and glad to work hard and harder with the school system is a Carnegie library. Last but not least is the County Training School which annually graduates about forty students. Ever onward and never at a standstill has been Reedsburg’s progress and advance. Seventy-Five Pago Seventy-Six rage Seventy-Seven Ee H Captain Wahhen • Our lhtrtl Fighti i i Full-Hack Feared by all bis opponents and loved by bis teammates. Merl backed up the line in faultless fashion and bis line-plunging couldn't be stopped. His graduation leaves a big hole in next year's hackfield. To the coach must quite often fall the credit of a team's show-ing. Howard Aker may well be proud of his first year’s coaching for his teams made very satisfactory records during the season. More than that, he has brought out to the fullest extent the finest spirit of loyally and clean playing. He has stamped upon the boys in his charge his own wonderful ideals of true sportsmanship. Hass Phil developed wonderfully during the season. A clean, hard player with a lot of ability as an open-field runner. The team showed their confidence in him by making him captain for 1924. e Seventy-Eight Murphy • ... Half-back “Spuds” was well known to Reedsburg fans hut he showed mote class than ever this season. He was in the fight all the time and his punting and receiving of passes made him invaluable to the team. Hoev HUMAN................................1(1 Archie made a late start this season, hut fitted into the team well and was a big help to the line. His size and speed make him an ideal lineman. Holtz........................................ “Rube.” although forced out continually with injuries showed the real fighting spirit in every game he entered. He will he hack to hold up his side of the line next year. Moon.....................................T,,cku Maurice had a reputation to live up to and he more than lived up to it. He was at the bottom of every line play and could always open up a hole for the backfield. He will he lost to next year's team because he is over age. page Seventy-Nine W a imMe£SU ScoLES.................................Guard Cal was green al the game until this year but he reckoned he could make a go of it.” He found his place at guard and showed that he had the goods. Phillips...................................Center “Mard” was switched from end to center and filled both positions equally well. A loyal fighter who always gave the best he had. SoRCK.......................................Guard ‘‘Sorgie.” of the famous twins, developed from a green beginner to a good guard this year and he still has two years in which to improve. He always plays hard and uses his weight to good advantage. ................................Quarter-back Johnnie ' played his first season as a regular but handled his position like a veteran. His passing featured every game. Page Eighty Nulph..................................Guard Percy was a hard man to get around and he filled up a big portion of the line. He has one more year to fight for R. H. S. Shemanski.....................................End Len filled in at end in a way that leaves no worry about that position for next year. Stern................................... - End “Louie made his last season with the high school the best. He was equally good on offense and defense and an adept at receiv ing passes. Christie.......................................Guard Archie played at guard and center and was steady and dependable in either position. He leaves another position to be filled next season. Pago Eighty-One FOOTBALL MADISON VS. REEDSBURG The year’s call for football men brought out about 35 men. The candidates reported to Mr. Aker at the lockers where the eequipment was handed out. The first game of the season was played against the Madison East Side High School team. We completely outplayed Madison. Our quarter-back called the signals fast and sure and this kept the other team agoing. The game ended with a score of 18-6 in our favor. PORTAGE VS. REEDSBl RG One of the best games of the season was played with Portage on our home field. Although we were beaten 13-0 we outplayed Portage in every respect of the game. Time and time again we pushed the ball within scoring distance only to loose it. Portage made all their points in the first quarter, the first one being made by a line plunge and the other by a forward pass. MADISON UNIVERSITY HIGH VS. R. H. S. The next game was fought against the strong aggregation from the U. H. of Madison. We were defeated 18-0. They had a strong team on offense and made their points on forward passes. They did not dim our spirits in the least, so we got down to work for the next game. REEDSBl RG VS. BARABOO Reedsburg was defeated by her greatest rival, Baraboo. at Baraboo. We went to Baraboo well represented by Reedsburg students and townspeople. Baraboo made six touchdowns, so the game ended 40-0 in favor of Baraboo. Are we losing faith? No!!! REEDSBURG VS. KILBOURN Reedsburg defeated Kilbourn 38-0 in a fast game of football. From the first kick-off to the final whistle it was evident that Reedsburg had the better team. The aerial game played by Reedsburg was a feature of our offense. RICHLAND VS. REEDSBURG In a fast and spectacular battle tbe team from Richland defeated us by a score of 13-7. It was the old story of “hard luck.” After outplaying Richland Center for three-fourths of the game we were defeated in the last quarter- It was bitter medicine but wre had to swallow it. Every time we were within scoring distance we lost the ball. Although we were defeated our spirit was not dimmed in the least. BARABOO VS. REEDSBURG After our defeat at Baraboo they came up here confident of another victory. But the tables were turned. Our boys were determined to win and with this idea in mind played as veterans. The score was 7-7. Our touchdown was the result of the two passes. The first from Heinz to Rass and the second from Heinz to Murphy. Baraboo’s score came in the last quarter as the result of a blocked punt behind their goal. The main feature of the game was the old R. H. S. scrap and spirit. RICHLAND CENTER VS. REEDSBURG. The game between Reedsburg and Richland Center at Richland Center resulted in a score of 0-0. The game was marked with decisions against our fellow's all the way through. But it resulted in a tie score, neither side making any points. Th is year we lose by graduation Phillips, Stern. Christie. Murphy and Captain Warren. The team will also lose Moon. All these men will leave places that are hard to fill. Paste Elsrhty-Two BASKETBAU THE 1922-23 SCHEDULE Dec. 15—North Freedom . 6 R. H. S 26 Here. Jan. 12—Lodi 10 R. H. S 7 There. Jan. 19—Baraboo 12 R. H. S 15 Here. Feb. 2—-Sparta 7 R. H. S 3'j Here. Feb. 9—Sparta 17 R. H. S 20 There. Feb. 17—Evansville 13 R. H. S 13 There. Feb. 23—Lodi 9 R. H. S 31 Feb. 25—Waukesha 27 R. H. S 16 Here. Mar. 2—Baraboo 13 R. H. S ....16. There. Mar. 3—North Freedom . 9 R. H. S ....30 Here. Mar. 7—Galesville 14 R. H. S . -...39 La Crosse. Mar 25 |{ H S 34 Mar. 9—LaCrosse 12 R. H. S 11 La Crosse. Opponents 204 R. H. S 294 Pajfo EiKhty-Three OUR BASKETBALL HISTORY North Freedom journeyed to our city for the first game and they were defeated 26-6. The game was a walk-away from start to finish and before it was ended every man of the fifteen out, had a chance to play. It was the first venture in the “flashy” suits and it was very evident that the suits and the players were well matched. On the next week-end Lodi took us into camp by a score of 7-10. We could not hit the basket, which has always been our failing at Lodi. The next game was the Baraboo game so we went right to work to avenge our football defeat. Baraboo came up expecting to beat us badly but were disappointed for they went home with the small end of the 15-12 score. The game was a thriller all the way through. It was tied three times; at the beginning 0-0, at the end of the first half. 5-5 and at the end of the third quarter, 10-10. This win was a surprise to everyone except the team. A large crowd of townspeople turned out for the game. For the first time in four or five years Beedsburg scheduled two games with Sparta. The first was played here and we beat them, 36-7. Our defense was so strong that we held Sparta to one field goal. The team work in this game will be remembered by all who saw it. After defeating Sparta here by a large score we thought we had a very good chance to beat them up there. We did by a score of 20-17. The game was close all the way tthrough and we were somewhat handicapped by the slippery floor and baskets on the walls. After this win our percentage was high, having won four games and lost one. We wondered if we could stand prosperity and found out we could not because our journey to Evansville was disastrous. Evansville bad a veteran team and they defeated us 43-0. This was one of our “off nights” and playing a long way from home also had a little to do with the defeat. The game that the fellows wanted to win by a large score was the Lodi game. Early in the season Lodi defeated us in their gym. We avenged that defeat by beating them here 30-9 in a rough game. The next night after defeating Lodi we got away to a bad start and were defeated by Waukesha, 27-16. In the first quarter they ran up a 12-point lead which could not be overcome. Waukesha had a fine team and they displayed some real dribbling and shooting ability. Todd wras easily the star of the game. Our percentage was not so high now but we were quite sure that if we won from Baraboo again that our season would be successful. On March 2nd we went to Baraboo after a hard week of practice. We went into that game with grim determination, for winning it meant that we would go to the tournament. In the first quarter Baraboo made seven points and it looked bad for awhile, but we kept up a passing game and won out in the last half, 16-13. Our season was already successful in the eyes, of the Beedsburg people but we were not satisfied so the next night we went to North Freedom determined to annex another victory. The first half ended with the score 9-5 in our favor. In the last half we ran up a large score, and the game ended. 30-9. Th is ended our regular basketball season; one of the most successful seasons Beedsburg has ever had. This season is partly due to the fellows who played but the greater part of it is due to Mr. Aker’s hard work and knowledge of the game. Pa see Eighty-Four -Ttir On the strength of the season’s record Reedsburg was invited to be one of the eight teams to compete for the district championship at La Crosse on March 7, 8 and 9. Galesville, Holmen, Mauston, LaCrosse, Westby, Baraboo and Fountain City were also represented. The Reedsburg team, given a fourth place rating by the dopesters, pulled the surprise of the tourney and after defeating Galesville and Holmen in the preliminary games, fought La Crosse to a standstill and came within one point of the district championship. The team made an impression as vivid as their suits on the fans at the tournament, not only for their excellent playing under their size handicap but also for the wonderful spirit and gentlemanly behavior they displayed throughout their stay at LaCrosse. We tip toed out of school Wednesday afternoon to avoid awakening the classes and marched down the streets that were lined with rooting trees and shrubbery to the depot; a rousing send-off by the station-agent, the Stop-Go man and the Time's reporter, and we were off—off for the tournament—the first time Reedsburg had been represented since the days of Stolte and Hager. Mr. Aker had been away to Milwaukee on the train and most of us had ridden to Baraboo once or twice so we knew how to behave. No one would have guessed that the population of Reedsburg was 2,997 until Stern started an argument with the conductor who had disfigured his seat-check by punching holes in it. At the station at LaCrosse we were met by King Reuland and we knew then that the tournament could start any time and would be a success. We were quartered at the LaCrosse hotel, just a block from the depot for the convenience of Hass, the dough-nut grabber, who wanted to be ready for a quick getaway. The room was large, bright and warm with a bathroom attached. The beds were small, hard and cold with insomnia attached, but we knew we would be used to them in a year or two. We were scheduled to play Galesville on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 so we went to bed early and tried to Coue the mattress. The next morning the most momentous discovery of the trip was made—a discovery that solved all our problems and made the world bright and happy; a free pool and billiards at the Y. M. C. A. “Willie Hoppe” Bechtolt and ’’Jake Shaefer” Heinz immediately pitched their tents and had a phone installed with office hours from 1.2:00 to 12:00. In the afternoon we saw the first half of the Westby-Fountain City game in which Westby walked away with the honors. Then we dressed in our blazers and stepped nervously on to the floor. Galesville, the winners of the Winona tournament, were the three-to-one favorites, but thanks to Jack Murphy, cousin of Everett and Darrell, we had a fewr well-wishers and they multiplied as the game wrent on. The team hit its stride at the opening w'histle and displayed a brand of ball that couldn’t be beaten. The half ended 19-4 and still the ball rolled in until at the end the score was 39-14. We didn’t mind the beds that night and in the morning awoke to find that we were “the flashy Reedsburg quintet with Wolfe and Murphy starring, that would make a strong bid for the honors.” Galesville Reedsburg F. G. F. T. F. F. G. F. T. F. Herberg 1 5 2 Heinz 1 0 1 Terpenry 0 0 1 Wolfe 5 0 0 French 1 0 1 Hass . . 2 0 1 Johnson 2 0 2 Phillips 0 0 1 Herrfred 0 0 0 Murphy 8 5 2 Bechtoit 1 0 1 Stern 0 0 2 Thursday evening wre went to the gym and watched two games in which Holmen won easily from Mauston and LaCrosse snowed Baraboo under. Our 16-13 victory over Baraboo seemed a pretty small margin after the game. We drew Holmen for the next night and again were predicted to lose. Mauston was rated as one of the best teams there and their defeat by Holmen raised the stock of that team accordingly. So ended the first day. Pagrc EiKhty-Five Time began to drag by Friday. Toast and eggs-—Y. M. C. A.—toast and eggs— Y. M. C. A.—more toast and eggs became the fixed schedule for the day, followed by a wrestling match with the cots. Friday afternoon we looked on while Baraboo won from Fountain City and LaCrosse walked away with West by, 41-3. Our game was the last one in the evening, preceded by the Galesville-Mauston affair so we went back to the toast and eggs and a short sleep to be ready at 9:00. The afternoon train brought Mr. Lewis, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Giroulx, Walter Hickey, and Archie Christie and they brought the Reedsburg horseshoe along because we handed llolmen more than they could handle, running up the score in the first half, 17-3. In the second half with Murphy, Phillips and Heinz out the game was more even, ending 34-25. We were never in danger throughout the game, the first-string men being able to score at will. Mur phy was again the star, leading in the scoring, and the whole team played the best ball they had displayed this year. Holmen Reedsburg F. G. F.T. F. F. G. F.T. F. Anderson . . . . 3 0 3 Bechtolt . . . 0 0 0 Tolvstad . .. . 6 4 1 Wolfe 4 0 0 Nelson 0 0 2 Hass 0 2 Tabbert 2 0 0 Phillips . . . 0 0 0 Hansen 0 0 0 Murphy . .. 6 4 3 Heinz 2 0 0 Stern 0 0 0 Hickey . . . . 0 0 1 The victory put us in the finals, opposed to LaCrosse in the last game of the tournament Saturday night with Holmen, Baraboo, West by and Galesville competing for third place. Saturday was uneventful except for one touching scene at the and the fact that the afternoon train brought two more rooters in the form of Frances Daly and Rube Holtz. The afore-mentioned touching scene took place when Hoppe and Shaefer put on a farewell exhibition match and sorrowfully said good-bye to the gratis pool tables where they had spent so many hours. Both cue experts were so prostrated with grief that they were not at top form and after several big runs, when the score stood 6-5 Hoppe broke down completely and Shaefer controlling himself with an effort, ran out about 5:30 P. M. We were back at the hotel when the results of the afternoon’s games came in. which left Baraboo and Holman scheduled to play for third place at 7:30. We hit the hay after supper, determined to put up the fight of our lives. We reached the normal near the close of the Baraboo-Holmen game and found Baraboo trailing as was predicted. A few anxious moments while a dancing exhibition was put on between games and we went out on the floor with the largest crowd that watched the tournament looking on. Most of the Normal students were backing us and the few Keedsburg fans were much in evidence. On the face of it it seemed an uneven battle because the La Crosse team was older, rangier and were well used to a large1 floor, but as soon as the whistle blew these advantages disappeared before the1 hard fighting of the team. It was a game that cannot be adequately described—so full of thrills that the fans were breathless throughout. Normal authorities pronounced it the best game ever seen on the Normal floor. Some idea of the defensive strength of both sides can be gained from the fact that the score was 0-0 after ten minutes of furious playing. Wolfe and Hass slipped through for a couple short shots but were so closely guarded that they could not connect. In the second quarter Harget counted on a free threw and Phillips put us in the lead with a long shot from the side that set the fans wild. Just as the whistle blew Weigent, the LaCrosse captain, slipped ti long one through bringing up the count to 1-3. LaCrosse had but three tries for the basket during the entire half. Pagre Kig;hty-SIx The last half was even more furiously played hut LaCrosse forged into the lead by means of consistent shooting by Harget, the LaCrosse star, from the floor and free-throw line and at the last period LaCrosse lead 12-5. Then Reedsburg came back, and, holding our opponents scoreless we started to even the score. Baskets by Wolfe and Hass and two foul points by Murphy brought the score 12-11 with a minute to go. I .a Crosse, fighting without their captain who was removed for personal fouls, hung on desperately until the final whistle that made them again District champions. LaCrosse Reedsburg F. G. F. T. F. F. G. F. T. F. Harget 2 4 2 Heinz 0 0 2 Kosbad 0 0 0 Wolfe 1 0 1 W heaton 1 0 0 Hass 1 0 2 Weigent 1 0 4 Phillips 1 0 I Salze 0 0 2 Murphy 0 5 1 Frye 0 0 0 We finally got over it sufficiently to go up for the silver medal awards for second place and we groaned inwardly as Coach Keogan went up to get the first-place trophy that we might have had for one more basket. On the All-Tournament team Captain Murphy and W olfe were made running guard and forward and they received a big hand from the mammoth crowd when the selections were made known. Murphy was made captain of the team as a tribute to his generalship and cool-headedness throughout the games. We’ll put up the same kind of fight and perhaps have a little more luck next year. By graduation the loss of Phillips, Bechtolt, Stern and Captain Murphy will be felt very keenly; however, Captain Wolfe. Hass, Heinz, Hickey Ritzenthaler, Case and Schultz, furnish a strong combination for Mr. Aker to work with next year. OUR PLAYERS Hickey promises to be a great player, needing only more experience to develop him. He has an ideal build for a guard and a lot of natural ability. The reason for many of the low scores of our opponents was Phillips, the hardest-playing fighter on the team. His ability was well brought out at the tournament when the highest score chalked up against him was two field goals. Wolfe, next year’s captain, did not hit his stride until late in the season but especially during the tournament his deceptive pivoting and floor-work won him recognition as the best forward in the district. Next year he should take Murphy’s place as the center of the Reedsburg offense. Hass was shifted from forward to center where he began to show his real ability. Always a good defensive player, he developed his floor-work and shooting ability so that he is one of the best all-around players on the squad. Johnny Heinz plays basketball with all the pep of the screen hero of the same name. Fast and full of fight, he was in the center of play all the time. With two more years to play he brightens the basketball prospects for the future. Our utility player. Stern, could fit into any position on the team and handle it well. Louie played the game with everything he had and was a conscientious trainer. Bechtolt lived up to his reputation as possessor of a good shooting eye and was a consistent scorer. With a faculty of being in the right place at the right time he worked smoothly in the team-work and usually eluded the big guards he played against. The backbone of the team s offensive strength. Murphy, played brilliant basketball throughout the season though he was usually closely watched. His pivot and dribbling, combined with a good eye for the basket, made him dangerous at all times. In recognition of his value and leadership he was given the highest honor awarded at the LaCrosse tournament by being selected captain and running guard of the All-District team. Fage Eighty-Sovon EsS M REEDSBURG HIGH SCHOOL LETTER MEN FOOTBALL 1. Warren 9. Hass 2. Wolfe 10. Heinz 3. Barnhart 11. Shemanski 4. Murphy 12. Hoeverman 5. Holtz 13. Philps 6. Moon 14. Nulph 7. Christie 15. Case 8. Scoles 16. Stern 17. Sorge BASKETBALL 1. Heinz 4. Murphy 2. Hass 5. Stern 3. Philips 6. Wolfe 7. Hickey 8. Bechtolt HOW AN “R” IS WON I he official high school emblem for athletics is awarded annually, as a mark of special distinction, in two major sports; football and basketball. The requirement lor a football letter is participation in twelve quarters in any high school games. The basketball letter is awarded to players who have competed in one-half the total of the season’s games, or in any of the games of the district tournament. The school authorities reserve the right to withhold the award in case a player is adjudged unfit for the honor. I'aKi' Elgrhty-Elsht BASKETBALL 1922-1923 The basketball season of practice opened in October, forty girls coming out for practice. The first week, a standing squad was picked until the class games were over. The girls selected remained on the squad all season. Mary Donahue (Captain), R. G. Irene Ruskauff.................Center Elizabeth Krause ...............L. F. Irma Fritscher .................L. G. Hazel Suszycki R. F, SECOND TEAM Carrie Foscet Annette Huntley Harriet Johnson Judith Ninman Catherine Ost Eunice Yonder Ohe Rhea Walters Jannet Winchester The girls had class practice three times a week. In February they held their annual tournament. The senior girls won the championship giving the sophomores second place. Page Eighty-Nine The season opened with a game with North Freedom, December 14. Our girls were defeated by the close score, 5 to 4. Baraboo played here February 19, and we played there March 2. The less we say about these two games the better. The superiority of the Baraboo Girls over our girls is noted in the two scores, 24-5 and 19-2. Our girls went to Wonewoe February 9, and were again defeated 5-2. The only thing wrong with this game was the score. At North Freedom, March 3, the girls made a showing by defeating North Freedom, 5-1. This being the girls’ last out-of-town game, they endeavored to and made a very favorable impression. March 16, the Wonewoe girls came to Reedsburg with great intentions of putting one over on us. The game happened to be very exciting on account of the score. Three times during the game the girls were tied but during the last few minutes of the game our girls dropped in another basket which broke the tie. The game ending with the score of 8-6 in our favor. Two games were played with the Normal school girls. The first ended with the score 15-5 in our favor and the second 14-9 in their favor. The “Big Four,” “Husky” “If” “Donny,” and “Biek” will be a big loss to the team of next year. These girls have played every game of the season and developed splendid teamwork. The “Big Four’s” will to next year’s team: “Rusky’s” cleverness to Catherine Ost. “If’s” dogging to Judith Ninman. “Donny’s” shoes to Eunice Yonder Ohe. “Biek’s” temper to Carrie Foscet. “FOOD FOR THE FISH” Two girls were passing down the street, Amid the snow and sleet, A snowball hit one in the eye, And then she did begin to cry. A gallant boy of her did ask, “Who did hit you, my lass?” “That mean boy did throw the snow But why he hit me, I don’t know.” “Leave him to me, it is my wish, To make him food for the fish.’ “How very kind of you.” sighed May, To help me on this dreary day.” “You. to the bunk!” he cried. And to her he had never lied. He caught the boy, and he did shiver When splash he went into the river.” The girl likes him, but he is shy. And for her he sure does sigh. Oh! would that he were not afraid To move up closer to this maid. Hon. H. W. Jax Page Ninety Pa fro Ninety-Two SOCIETY THE CARNIVAL It was the evening of the Richland Center Football game that the Reedsburg High School laid aside all conventuality and gave a Carnival. The high school students were all down-hearted from the defeat fate had placed upon their heads that afternoon in the game. Listen to the old saying “Good things come to those who wait.” The students waited restlessly until 7:30 and then they began filing towards the high school building in large numbers. In their midst was the one big thought, would the evening be a success or a failure for them? All lights flashed on in the building and the noise of many criers announcing surprising feats and happenings, were heard. Then little by little great miracles were happening. The students were actually smiling, laughing, talking on the night of one of their big defeats. Why? Because the Carnival was a success. When all the side shows were closed, all the hot dogs sold and all the pink lemonade gone, behold a wondrous sound came to the e3rs of all attending. It was the sound of Jazz, an orchestra. A Jitney Dance started and soon everyone was carried away with the beautiful strains of harmony. Was it a success? I’ll say it was. THE SENIOR PARTY High school social life was dying off so the brilliant Seniors decided to liven up the old school by giving a party. This partv occurred on Hallowe’en. It was planned to have a party that everyone would enjoy so the gym was divided into two parts: one where games were to be played and the other for dancing. The two parts were divided by large stacks of corn stalks on which were set jack-o-lanterns. There were also a number of jack-o-lanterns set in other parts of the gym. This party was given after the Portage football game and we had to make it a success for two reasons: Portage defeated us by a score and the Portage coach was an especially good friend of our coach. Dancing began at about eight o’clock and continued until 10:45, the time rtt which all high school parties must cease. The Portagers weren’t by anv means as bashful as some of our hoys are and so they danced, and danced, and danced some more—with girls thev’d never seen before. The games did not last long as thev were played bv mostly all Freshmen and Sophs who never stav out later than nine o’clock, so the faculty, occupied that space. Thev played such games as “London bridge is falling down” and enjoyed themselves immensely. This Senior Party was a great success. Naturally! ! ! SCHOOL PLAY “The Private Secretary.” an amusing and clever comedy was given on the 7th and 8th of December. 1922. The comedv is one of Charles Hantiney’s successes. The play was well directed and well chosen. The characters were the best. The Rev. Robert Spalding kept the house in an uproar during both parts. He was verv amusing in both dress and actions. Cast of Characters Rev. Robert Spalding......................................................Francis Bechtolt Mr. Marshland ............................................................Marden Phillips Harrv Marshland (his nephew I.....................................Herald Meyer Mr. Cattermole ...................................................Maurice Moon Douglas Cattermole I his nephew ......................................Dean Babb Mr. Sidney Gibson fa tailor on Band St.).......................Ansel Ritzenthaler John (a servant)....................................................Rueben Holtz Knox fa writ server)..........................................Lawrence Westphal Edith Marshland (Mr. Marshland’s daughter)......................Janet Winchester Eva Webster (her friend and companion).............................Ruth Clement Mrs Mead (Douglas’ landlady).................................Winifred Stadleman Miss Ashford....................................................Evangeline Fisher Pag« Ninety-Three JUNIOR III OPERETTA The Junior high school students presented “The Isle of Chance” which was a very entertaining operetta directed by Miss Rhodes. Much hard work was put on this and due to the efforts of both the instructor and of the students it was a great success. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM I lie Ihursday evening before Christmas, the High School gave an entertainment for the parents of the students. The program consisted of readings, songs, playlets, and other amusing features. The most amusing part of the program, also the most entertaining was a scene from the Christmas Carol. It pictured the scene in the Ruggles family. I his was followed bv a few Christmas readings and then a small play called “I he Nativity,” a story of the Christ Child’s birth. This gave the parents an idea of the High School’s ability and also helped to bring them closer to the high school. LOYALTY FEAST I lie sixth Loyalty Feast of Reedsburg was held January 17. 1923. During the banquet the four classes competed for the banner with veils, songs and stunts. After the banquet the judges adjourned to another room to determine their decisions. I hey were Mrs. Doyle. Mr. Manley and Mr. Verthein. W hile awaiting their return Mr. Dovle as toastmaster entertained those in attendance by introducing a number of speakers. Mr. Aker also gave a short speech and then presented the football fellows with their R s. Soon the judges returned and Mr. Lewis made a short speech and announced to the eager and waiting crowd, after much hesitation and explanation, that the Juniors had received the banner. This, of course, nearly broke tin hearts of the Seniors and later in the evening many tear-stained eyes were seen. After the banquet everyone went to the gym where music was furnished by the High School Orchestra and a dance followed, including a few sauare dances. Much credit is due to the D. S. girls under the manaorement of Miss Dietz who prepared and served the dinner which showed much hard work and patience. I he scene for decoration in the dinner room was footballs, penants and purple and white. The decorations of the dance hall was purple and white streamers. Roth were tastefully decorated. JUNIOR MASQUERADE PARTY On St. Patrick s night. 1923. the Junior class of the R. H. S. gave a very clever masouerade party. Prizes were given to the most clever, cutest, funniest, best tramp, best vamp. etc. Those attending were entertained bv amusing dances and novelty ideas were carried out in many wavs. b Tin’s party displayed the nep and enthusiasm which is a characteristic of the Tiinior class. Everyone attending left being very well aware that it had been a big success. CARROLL COLLEGE GLEE CLUB One of the most eniovable musicals was a concert bv the Carroll College Glee Club in the High auditorium. The glee club drew an excellent attendance and produced an excellent program. The Glee Club sang manv ood selections and also nut on a little playlet which was very clever Our bashful bovs sho«dd have seen that. They brought with them a very good reader, also members of the club entertained the audience with manv verv good solos. Last, but not least, was their Jazz orchestra. This took well and was encored manv times. OPERETTA ‘The Bells of Beauiolais under the direction of Miss Rhodes was presented April 19, 1923. bv the bovs’ glee club and the junior-senior girls’ glee club with the help of a number of the sophomores and freshmen. The story is a storv of royalty in France. Tt lakes place on a French festival day and also the life of an American yachting party is portrayed. The beautiful choruses, dances, songs, and amusing plot afforded a very enjoyable evening to the citizens of Reedsburg. Iyair Xinety-Four Cast ok Characters Duke, French nobleman................... Bender, American bachelor............... I,arry and Tony, American Bovs.......... Chicot, French wrestler................. Pierre, French juggler.................. Harkins, Bender’s valet................. Countess Maria, rich spinster........... Miss Sarah Jessup, Bender’s sister...... Yyonne and Sussette, French peasant girls Phillis and Belle, American girls....... Famine, French maid..................... ............................A1 Heinz .......................Maurice Moon .....Merl Warren, Marvin Schroeder ......................Archie Christie ...................Ansel Ritzenthaler ..........................Fred Meyer ......................Bertha Phillips ........................Marian Miller . Dorothea Stolte. Winifred Stadleman ....Marian Hahn, Eliabeth Schroeder ......................Marjory Carroll JUNIOR PROM The Junior Prom held April 27. 1923, in the High School Gym was a success beyond doubt. The room was beautifully decorated as a Japanese Garden with lanterns, umbrellas and cherry blossoms. I he grand march at 8:45 was led by Boyd Stadleman, prom chairman, and his partner. The music for the dance was furnished by Netzo’s Orchestra. Lunch was served in a prettily decorated Japanese l ea Room. There were many novelties, dances and entertainments. I he dance was a program dance and an informal invitation affair. The balcony was fixed so that on-lookers could watch the dances. 1 he tickets for dances were $1.25 while the tickets for those in the balcony were $0.25. Another Junior success. SENIOR CLASS PLAY The senior class play “Come Out of the Kitchen,” under the direction of Miss AIvord. was given on the 25th of May. All the students co-operated with Miss Alvord and so made it a success. The story is about a southern family who has lost its fortune and the children posed as servants, when the house is rented. It turns out to be a very interesting love story. Cast of Characters Olivia Dangerfield. alias Jane Ellen...............................Gertrude Thiemann Elizabeth Dangerfield. alias Araminta.................................Marcella Gassar Mrs. Falkener. Rucker's sister.........................................Bertha Phillips Cora Fa lkener, her daughter...........................................Dorothea Stolte Armanda. Olivia’s black mammy.............................................Edith Behn Burtain Crane, from North...............................................Gerhart Meyer Thomas LefTerts, statistical poet......................................Edmund Spraetz Solan Rucker, attornev and guest.......................................Archie Christve Paul Dangerfield. alias Smithfield.............................................Francis Bechtolt Randolph Weeks, agent of the Dangerfield.......................................Everett Murphy HIGH SCHOOL PARTIES We must not fail to mention the numerous parties and dances which were held in the high school gvm throughout the year. It was these social gatherings that the feeling of union is furthered between the faculty and students. FROG ESSAY The Chicago Board of Education has caused a classic essay to he immortalized in type. It’s about frogs and was written by a young Norwegian. The essay: “What a wonderful bird the frog are! When he stand he sit. almost. hen he hop he fly, almost. He ain t got any sense, hardly. He ain’t got any tail hardly, either. “When he sit he sit on what he ain’t got almost. Dorothy Barry: “What does the man who is digging up the tomb in Egypt ?et? ’ Archie Hoverman: “He got bit bv an insect.” Miss Nesbitt ( in English IV : “W hen was Longfellow married? Howard: “Four years before his wife died. Harrv Meyer: “Do we have to remember all those dates?” Miss Nesbitt: “I am not a crank on dates.” What three words are used most in H. S.? I don’t knoyv. Paere Ninety-Fiw Page Ninety-Six LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU They met on the bridge at midnight They’ll never meet again, For one was a cow—eastbound. The other a west-bound train. Mr. Jones had recently become the father of twins. The minister stopped him in the street to congratulate him. “Well, Jones, I hear that the Lord has smiled on you,” he said. “Smiled on me!” repeated Jones. “He laughed out loud at me.” Fresh: “They tell me your brother is as busy as a bee.” Senior: “Yes, he has hives.” Soph: “I saw a man play a piano without hands.” Fresh: “Why that’s nothing, I know a girl without any voice, who sings.” Beck (At the basketball tournament): “Say, you know that LaCrosse center carries his head high?” Butch: “Conceited, huh?” Beck: “No, he’s got a long neck.” Miss Melsna: “What effect has climate on people?” Maurice: “I can best demonstrate a deep one.” Christie: “Did you read about the Michigan Lion?” Beck (Innocently): “No, what about him?” Christie (Throwing out his chest I: “He turned out to be a dog. ’ WHAT IF— Harvey Foss grew taller? ’ “Rueben didn’t have a Buick,” “Jax forgot how to be funny? “Annette Huntley mislaid her giggle? “Dorothea Stolte were twins?” “Lu Meyer forgot how to jazz the piano?” “Someone made a good recitation in Physics class?” “Dean Babb studied?” “Andrew Croal had lockjaw?” “Gilbert kidded the girls? “Case didn’t have curly hair?” “Ruth did not Sey-more?” Civics Exam Question Define “Rogue’s Gallery.” Bernard Daly: “A Rogue’s gallery is a picture gallery where all the best paintings in the world are.” _ Ruth Radloff: “Rogue’s gallery is a gallery where amusements are given.’ Advice for the Winter. What if it goes down to zero—that s nothing. Domestic Geography Teacher: “What are the four seasons?” Johnny: “Pepper, salt, vinegar and mustard.” Edison Quiz Question: “What is the wind?” Answer: “Air when it gets in a hurry. Question: “What is steam? Answer: “Water that has gone crazy with the heat.” Paso Ninety-Seven A Wise Boy Teacher: “Harold, in llie sentence, ‘I saw the girl climb the fence,’ how many would you use?’ Harold: “Bofe of ’em.' Football Sister: “Oh, his nose is bleeding.” Sweetheart: “His front teeth are all knocked out. Mother: “Yes, but he didn't drop the ball.” “Where’s the water I ordered?” “You’ll find the water in the milk.” Personal Pronouns First Student: “I’m going to sue my English teacher for libel.” Second Student: “What for?” First Student: “She wrote on my English theme, ‘You have bad relatives and antecedents.’ ” Boy. Pane Mr. Gillette Nervous Senior (in English, stroking his chin): “This is the forest primeval.” Math. Instructor (scratching his head): “Is this plain?” Student: “No it’s solid.” Senior (at Lab.): “Say, the gas is leaking from this tank.” THINGS I NEVER DO Give short assignments..............................................Miss Nesbitt Fail to study my Physics lesson.....................................Jake Barnhart Drive my Buick............................................................ Rueben Kid the girls.........................................................Gilbert K. Gomb my hair......................................................Archie Ghristie Make myself heard...................................................Andy Croal Flunk ............................................................Forest O’Gonnor Get more than 4 E’s........................,.....................Eleanor Sparks Stay out later than 9 o’clock...............................................Heinz “111 fares the student, To wandering ills a prey. With note books seven weeks behind And quizzes 14 days away.” —B. Franklin (better known as H. Jax) Puzzled Student: “How can you tell the Sorge brothers apart?” Mr. I. M. Bright: “I stick my finger in Holland’s mouth and if he bites, it’s Ralleigh.” Mr. Giroulx: “What do you understand by Naval stores?” Student: “A place where they store their goods.” Salesman for “Ladies’ Home Journal”: “There’s a ring on the pencil for the girls. You know thev always want something around their neck.” Paul Schultz: “The Kaiser was tired of peace so he got married again.” “ODE TO THE SNOW” “Oh! the Snow. The Beautiful Snow! Step on a Hunk And away you go.” —Tennyson, alias Jax. Page Ninety-Eight I WONDER— “Is Louis Stern?” “Is Lucile a Cook?” “Is Evangeline a Fischer?” “Is Russell a Case?” “Is Darrel a Wolfe?” “Is El I wood Y oung” “Is Marcella a Gasser?” “Is Edwin a Roever?” “Is O’Connor a Forest?” “Is Zita a Daily?” “Has Peg More-head?” Does Maurice look like a Moon?” “Does Rueben like a Buick better than Tkadlac? ’ Miriam: “Shouldn’t boys button up their coats when they give a talk? Darrel: “Well, my shirt's clean.” M iss Alvord: “How should one approach his audience? Louis Stern (with that winning grin): “On his feet. Bright Frosh: (After referee had called a foul I “What’s that? Smart Soph.: “A foul, can’t you see?” Frosh: “A fowl? But I don’t see any feathers.” Soph: “Why that’s a picked team.” Catharine Donahue, being the only girl in her Physics class, has all the boys jumping to be the most popular, but Al, the fox hunter, seems to be the favorite. ’ Percy Nulph still retains his tailor-made seat in the new auditorium. Al Heinz has not worn an overcoat since he has put his “R on his green jersev. Fred’s Pa will let him wear long pants when he graduates. Quotations from Mr. I. M. Bright. “If a man keeps silent he is only thought to be a fool; but if he speaks he removes all doubt.” “That’s one on me gasped the youth as the truck ran over his neck.” Ed. Roever: “I’m going to sell “The Ladies’ Home Journal Murphy: “You ought to be a “Lady’s Home Companion.” He Had the Proof “Mother,” said a small boy after coming from a walk. “I’ve seen a man who makes horses.” “Are vou sure?” asks the mother. “Yes,” he replied, “He had a horse nearly finished when I saw him; he was just nailing his back feet on.” Air. Aker: “When Salmon are going up stream how do thev jump the falls?” Melvin Krueger: “They put their tail in their mouth, then let it go. When it flies out it makes the salmon jump into the air.” Miss Nesbitt: “Was Lowell glad to accept a position as Longfellow’s successor at Harvard?” Freak Bechtolt: “Yes. because his wife had died.” Air. Giroulx: “What kind of a man was Roosevelt?” Fred H.: “He was a man full of red blood.” Pase Nlnet.v-Nine WHERE TIIE AUTHORS RECEIVE THEIR INSPIRATIONS “Each and AH”... .Catherine Donahue “Evangeline”........................E. Fisher “The Spy”........................Harry Meyer “To Have and to Hold”.Marden Philips “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” .......................Harvey Foss “Freckles”.............Dorothea Stolte “Silence and Solitude”.Eleanor Sparks “The Overslow”..................Jerry Barnhart “Manners” ..........Archie Hoeverman “Self-Reliance” .......Mary Donahue “Adventures of Tom Brainless” .......................Russel Case “The Dear Slayer”............... .....................Maurice Moon “The Raven”...................Marjory Carroll “The Gentle Boy”........Everett Murphy “She Was a Phantom of Delight” ...................Marsella Gasser “The Iron Woman”.Ruth Zimmermann “Justice” ................R. F. I.ewis “The Man Without a Country”. ... .......................I wis Hager “Kidnapped”.............Herald Meyer “As You Like It”... .Dorothy Hastings “The Twelfth Night”.Howard McCarthy “Innocence Abroad”.. .Alberta Schultz “Vanity Fair”.................Laverne Davis “Uncrowned Queen”...........Ethel Idhe “Certain People of Importance”.. ...............Elizabeth Schroeder “The Poet”......................Edwin Roever “The Pirate”................Dean Babb “Precaution” ...............Miss Wise “The Fairy Boy”..............Al. Heinz “The Fairy Tempter”.Windy Stadleman “A Blush”.......................Irene Monn “Cupid’s First Dip”.........Neal Aton “Lady Mine”......................Paul Schultz “Little Minister”.....Herb. Westphal “The Lady of the Lake”. .Catherine Ost “The Fairie Queen”.... Ruth Clement “The Gala Dress”......Bertha Phillips “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”.... ...................Gilbert Kapelke “Of Studies”...................Bernard Daly “The Comforter”...................Miss Keeley SONG HITS RY R. H. S. STUDENTS AND FACULTY “I’m Forever Mixing Dates”...... ......................M iss Nesbitt “My Baraboo Girl”........Paul Schultz “I Don’t Wanna Play”. .Lucille Meyer “G”.....................Bertha Phillips “I'll Never Believe You”.Harry Meyer “Loganville Blues”.......Edna Nieman “Take Me Up to Dear Old W'onewoc” ......................Beatrice Ost “Of All the Things That D Can Stand For”............Miss Keeley “Saaaaay” ...............Irene Monn “Dare I Jump From S— to H—? .......................Win Stadleman “Coal Black”....................Dean Babb “0, Eugene”.....................Miss Norris “Shoooooooos” ...........Miss Melsna “Wee Wee”.................Miss Kyle “On the Banks of Dear Old Portage” ............Elizabeth Schroeder “Which One!”....................Miss Dietz “Viola” ............Boyd Stadleman “If” ....................Russel Case “Never” ............Forest O’Connor “The Coop”......................Miss Byms “Lemons” ..............Marion Miller “0. How I’d Hate to be Tall”... . .......................James Philips Page One Hundred n Busy Instructor: ‘And you came to me about it? Get some putty and plug it. Use your head, boy, use your head. “I’m not sticking to facts,” said the stamp on the letter the student was writing his dad.” Fond Father: “What is worrying you now, my son?” Willie: “1 was just wondering how many legs you gotta pull off a centipede to make him limp.” Prof.: “This is a four weeks’ exam.” Frosh: “Gee, I can’t stay that long.” “My time has come,” muttered the nervous freshman as he walked down to the mail box, opened a package, and pulled forth a watch.” Anthony had a real sense of humor when he said: “Cleo dear, let me be your Mark in life.” “Is he very grammatical?” “I should say not. It took him a year once to finish one sentence.” Duke says: “Why not, when handed exam questions, write out the alphabet and let the instructor arrange the letters to suit himself.” Frosh: “Does History repeat itself?” Junior: “Sure does if you flunk it.” “I hear they gave the freshman ether, so he wouldn’t know anything.” “How utterly unnecessary.” Prof: “Quote the world’s most famous passage. Student: “Panama Canal.” Prof.: “Who wrote, ‘The Last of the Mohicans?’” Student: “I don’t know, but Cooper wrote the first part. Economy “Fadder, dese shoes hurts me every step I take.” “Then take longer steps and dere won’t be so many hurts.” “What is Darwin’s theory?” “Monkey Business.” “Lemme feel your pulse.” “I don’t have any, the doctors took it yesterday.” “Concentration,” said the stude, in answer to the Profs question, “is sitting down at your desk with an open book before you, placing an eyeshade on your brow and trying to think where you can get a date for tomorrow night.” “Are they going together yet?” “What?” “Your feet, of course.” Reactions First Him: “Some girls make me think of a doorbell.” Second Him: “Why so?” Third Him: “So responsive.” Page One Hundred One Page One Hundred Two REEDSBURG HIGH SCHOOL CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 5— Registration day. A few familiar faces; also many new ones. 6- —Work begins in earnest at 8 o'clock. Strict are the rules and regulations. 12 The members of the hand are given a 5-hour vacation to entertain the “Nestles Picnickers.” No casualties are rejected, however. Nick' Pape (the chesty “R’ flat honker) establishes a new record in the consuming of ice cream cones. 13—The 2:05 I. S. History class, seemingly affected by the sleeping sickness (the cause being contributed to the Nestles dance) is unable to recite efficiently. The result of an exam for Friday’s assignment. 17—By clever manipulation of his steering apparatus, Jax (better known as the Kentucky Speedster) manages to collide with a car. 28— “Cheer leaders” are elected. Harold Meyer, Evangeline Fisher, and Larry Schultz were chosen to till these offices. 29— “Mass Meeting.” One of those good old pep meetings. 30_“First Football Game.” R. H. S. vs. M. E. S. H. Led by our snappy hack-field and unmovable line, our veteran team defeats Madison. Score, 18-6. OCTOBER 5— Another Mass Meeting. The football squad appears in front of the main room wearing uniforms. 6— “Richland Center Football Game.” Although we were defeated by a score of 14-7 we claim the better team. A carnival was staged in the evening by the Seniors. 8—The football men show signs of the week’s battle, hut are all hack with canes or otherwise ready to defeat Madison. 11— Harold Meyer (local speedster) attempts to remove one of our telephone poles, the result being a damaged fender. Hubert Jax (Kentucky Hero) is elected fire warder of the Physics class. Nine llahs for Hubert. 12— Meeting of Loyalty committee. 14,—Football Game. M. U. H. vs. R. H. S. We are defeated. Score 18-0. “Are we down-hearted?” Answer: “NO.” 16- Second meeting of the Loyalty committee. 17— Mr. Walters talks to the students about state legislature. 19— A mass meeting was held to prepare us for the football game at Baraboo. 20— Football. Baraboo vs. R. H. S. This was certainly an unlucky Friday for our football team. We prefer not to talk about it. However, our German Band made a creditable showing in spite of the keen opposition of the Baraboo Windjammers’ Association. 21— Speaking of Pioneers, you should see Mr. Giroulx chase squirrels. Its great sport. Ask Mart Phillips. 22.—We all go to church except Paul Schultz who is always helping some girl home. Very kind of him, indeed. 23— Jerry Barnhart, local physics shark, come to school with his new mobile (a pair of crutches). We hope for his immediate recovery. 24— Everybody busy makin’ up note-books. “Ain't it awful? 25— Another healthy talk by Mr. Hancock; his subject being the health of our booming city. Meeting of Senior class party committee. 26— “Way down yonder in the cornfield,” Mr. Giroulx, leader of Night Hawk s party, is developing some good two-mile runners and shot putters. Ask Paul Schultz. 27— Our former coach. Boebel of Sun Prairie, visits us. Mass meeting. 28— “Portage Football Game.” We defeat Portage in play hut not in score, fate smiles not on our winning team. Score 13-0. 30— “Nothin’ doin’.” 31— “Hallowe'en.” ’Null' said. pane One Hundred Three NOVEMBER 1—Pianaforte recital by Miss Perry. •5—Report Cards! !!?????? Mass Meeting. I—“Kilbourn Football Game.” Score 38-0 in our favor. It needs no explanation; we knew it all the time. 0-10- Oh Boy! Two days of vacation. 13—Everybody on the job again? ? ? ? ? 11—Miss Nesbitt holds a pink tea parly after school in memory of Mr. Bryant's work, “Thanatopsis.” Meeting of Senior Class. 15— We are entertained by Janet Winchester and her mother. Rare music. 16— Music Memory Contest. Mass Meeting. 17— The Great Event, Baraboo vs. R. H. S. at home. Our bad luck in the last quarter lost the game for us; however, the tie score, 7-7, was almost as good as winning. 23— “Music Memory Contest.” The Ladies’ Home Journal man. Are you pink or are you blue? 21— Last football mass meeting of—’22. 25—Richland Center football game. Score 7-0 or 00?????? Last chance to see Murphy, Warren, Phillips, Christie, Stern, Moon and Bechtolt. Handle the pigskin for the honor of our “Alma Mater.” 30— Thanksgiving. Two days’ vacation. Ain’t it grand ? ? ? ? DECEMBER 4—Back on the job again. 6—Faculty win basketball tournament. Nine rails for Aker’s valiant gang. 7-8—“The Private Secretary.” Dean Babb almost received his reputation as a good boy. 11- Mr. D. 0. Stine addresses the assembly. 13—First appearance of our new band in public. It appears that the physical education classes have greatly developed the lungs. At least Maurice Moon. 11— Our first basketball game of the season. The first game between our girls and the North Freedom light weights was quite fast and interesting. Score 4-5 in favor of North Freedom. The second was between the boys of the two schools. Score 26-4 in our favor. P. S.—Our six-man defense was especially good. In fact, so good that North Freedom protested against the use of it. Ev Murphy is our new cage captain. 15—Junior High Operetta. Another success. 22- —Welcome! Christmas vacation. Two weeks of freedom. 0 BOY! JANUARY 8—Work begins again. 12— Basketball boys go to Lodi. Score 10-7 in favor of Lodi. 17—Exams! ! ? ? 19— Basketball game with Baraboo. Our men outplay the Baraboo five from the ■first blow of the whistle. Score 15-12 in our favor, of course. 20— Annual Loyalty Banquet. The only event which marred the program was the awarding of the Loyalty Banner to the class of “24” by the narrow margin of two points. Hard luck for the Seniors. 24— Mrs. Inez Richter Davis gave a recital for the benefit of the Gleaner. 25— Report cards issued. Maybe some of us weren’t surprised when we saw an E. But don’t worry. There were few surprises. “There is always plenty of room at the top.” So say the Frosh. 26— Basketball between the White Owls and our speedy quintet. Captain Prange and his gang failed to stop Akers’ boys and they piled up a creditable score. 31— Several girls have expressed their love for snowballs. We wonder if they really enjoy the hard boys’ pastime. Pa pro One Hunri rod Four FEBRUARY 1—Our girls defeated the training school in a hotly contested game of basketball. 10—Akers basketball artists increased their average by defeating Sparta a second time on their home floor, 20-17. 12—Our thoughts again turn to “Honest Abe.” 14- An exciting day. Mr. Lewis had to walk to school. His trusty Dodge failed to overcome a huge snow bank. School is dismissed on account of the number absent; seventy-two pupils and two teachers making a total of eighty are absent from high school. Several of the teachers and many pupils have expressed a wish that they knew who would have favored them with such valentines. It appears that someone must have spent several dollars observing the much favored custom. 15- 16—Several of the boys have increased their standing in pinochle during the several days’ vacation. Investigation still goes on with the cry, “Who sent the valentines?” J7—After a hard trip to that city our basketball artists were defeated by the speedy Evansville Five. The shows were good enough at Madison to hold the boys over. 19—School begins anew. Most of us resort to the old line again. 22—Washington’s birthday was observed by extemporaneous speeches on parts of his life by members of the public speaking and American History classes. 2.3—Captain Murphy and his gang of speedy cage experts “came hack” and overwhelmed the Lodi quintet with their passing and defensive game and sunk the sphere through the hoop for a total of 31 points to Lodi’s 7. The famed “St. Vitas Commandery Band” was present and the selections they rendered showed the team the backing they had and also furnished amusement for the audience. 24—After the hard game with Lodi our basketball team failed to register a victory over the famed Waukesha five. 26— Practice begins for the Operetta. Both hoys and the girls’ Junior-Senior Glee Clubs are in for a siege of practice. Mr. Lewis has made arrangements for a boys’ gym class four nights a week, two classes each evening. 27— The high school band made its first out-of-town appearance when it traveled to Hill Point to play for a dairy meeting. Several of the boys helped out the program by singing “When the Flag Goes By.” It is sufficient to say they were not given an encore. 28— The annual staff presented a novelty play for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions for the “Gleaner.” Anyone who leaves school without buying an annual will be missing something in their old age. MARCH 1— Every one is getting ready for Baraboo. 2— Many of the students traveled to Baraboo to see Aker’s flashy five eliminate the Baraboo basketeers from the tournament by a score of 16-13. The girls’ team was not as fortunate. 3— In the last game before the tournament our fighting team defeats North I reedom, 30-7. The game was used mainly in perfecting the passing ability of our boys. 4— If those pictures we took weren’t blurred you would see us in the “Gleaner.’ 5— A meeting of the annual stag reports progress on the “Gleaner.” Mr. Lewis blossomed out in another new' suit. 6— Kenneth Maxham has invested in a classy suit of clothes. Several of his old acquaintances failed to recognize him. 7— Aker with his team of basketball players left for the tournament to be held at La Crosse, the 8th, 9th and 10th. Although this is his first year as coach he has developed some real players. Page One Hundred Five 8— The first days at the tournament has been a successful one for our cages. They defeated Galesville, 39-14. Galesville has just won the tournament at Winona, Minn., so our fighting team is going strong. 9— Our second game at the tournament spells defeat for Holmen to the tune of 34-26. The first half ended 2-1-2 in our favor. Mr. Lewis and several students went up to LaCrosse to see our flashy team in action. 10- Our game with La Crosse shattered our hopes for first honors and also a chance for state championship at Madison. 1'he official score was 12-11 hut it should have been 12-12 as Murphy made a free throw hut as the referee was not looking he didn’t count it. Our national billiard sharks, Hoppe, alias Freak Bechtolt, and Schaefer, alias A1 Heinz, showed real tournament form in shooting the ivorys about. Reports say they made as many as two 18.2 balkline billiards. A bill for $1.25 was presented to them for chalk. While they were on exhibition in the Y. M. C. A. our cage experts kept themselves fit in the fine swimming pool. 12— The severest snowstorm of the year cuts off the electrical power and the students are given a half-day vacation. 13— The High school Cadet Band gave a free program. Ansel Ritzenthaler and Hubert Jax gave cornet solos. Leslie Schierholtz gave a baritone solo. Kenneth Carroll favored us with a saxaphone solo while our trombone wizard, Francis Bechtolt also favored the pleased audience with a solo. 14— Signs of the end of the third quarter. Book notes are handed in. We wonder how many books are really read. Exams coming. “Gee whiz but don’t your head feel sore?” 15— The same daily grind. 16— The public speaking class gave a program of selections by Wisconsin authors. No, those thrills they put into their work weren’t natural. They were caused by vibrations of the knees. 17— Junior class Mask Party. It was a rare chance for those who always try to hide their features. Several saw no need to mask. A good time was had by all. 19—Annual staff meeting. Wolfe is selected our next year’s cage captain. Ten rahs for him. 20 Day by day we get better an’ better. 21— -All the would-be comedians dress up to observe the first day of spring. The band leads the miscellaneous array of live blooded cut-ups to school. Several mistook Wolfe for-—Harold Lloyd. 22— A game between the local White Owls and our basketball team. Not many know what the game they played is called. The only resemblance of basketball was an occasional shot at the cage. We don’t know just what the players’ feelings were toward each other but from their actions they must have been quite hard. APRIL 1—Easter Greetings. Many of us hate to observe April-fool’s day on Easter. 9—Back at school again. Our next vacation will be June 1. 19—The High School Operetta, “The Bells of Beaujolais,” given by the boys and girls’ Glee clubs was well attended. Much work was put into it to make it a success. Hats off to Miss Rhodes. 26— League contest at Waunkee. 27— The Junior class gives the annual Prom. We must give Miss Wise credit for the decorations and plan of the Party. The decorations were all Japanese. At it was not formal all of us boys had to leave our dress suits at home. MAY 2-4—The Seniors are taking their final EXAMS. Good luck, Seniors. We won’t come hack another year. Phro One Hundred Six 4—District contest at Whitewater. 11—May Festival. Another good time for the students. 17-18—The school exhibit and program show some of the finest work in the state. Many people express wonder at the work accomplished by the school. 25—The Seniors give their annual class play, “Come out of the Kitchen.” 25-29—Semester exams. Cheer up. Get ready for three months’ vacation. 31—Commencement. The famous class of ’23 passed from the old R. H. S. forever. Many were the good and grand times together. Where shall we be in years to come? We may drift to all corners of the world but let us turn back again sometime. The good old Reedsburg High School. I 1-I.t—Our high school Cadet Rand travels to Two Rivers to the band tournament held there. The annual trip is always looked forward to with joy by the hand boys. This year we are also entering in a couple of solos. The band has grown from eight players at the beginning of the year to a real band of 10. TEN COMMANDMENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL 1. Thou shalt not do as thine own mind directs thee. 2. Thou shalt not come here in vain. 3. Thou shalt sanctify Good English week. 4. Thou shalt obey thy teachers, that it may be well with thee, and thou mavesl not flunk in thy subjects. 5. Thou shalt not bluff. 6. Thou shalt not skip classes. 7. Thou shalt not be a slacker. 8. Thou shalt not blame thy neighbor for thv ignorance. 9. Thou shalt not cause thy neighbor’s pencils nor his paper to disappear. 10. Thou shalt not borrow thy neighbor’s brains, nor his note-books, nor his knowledge. nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. •—------------------- Gym Teacher (to girls): “Lots of girls use dumb-bells to get color in their cheeks.” Bright One: “And lots of girls use color in their cheeks to get dumb-bells. He: “Yes, I have a broad acquaintance in this city. She: “Yes, I thought I saw you with her last night. Page One Hundred Seven Page One Hundred Eight I Consider the Birds—They Build in the Spring I “GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE” “A woodpecker pecks Out a great many specks Of sawdust When building a hut. He works like a nigger To make the hole bigger. He’s sore if His cutter won’t cut. He don’t bother with plans Of cheap artisans, But there’s one thing Can rightly be said: The whole excavation Has this explanation— He built it By using his head.” OWN A HOME Get Your Material From REEDSBURC SUPPLY CO. .1 Page One Hundred Nine THIS BOOK REPRESENTS i i i I i i Years of Companionship You May Be Certain About QUALITY in this Store its IMPORTANT; FURNITURE is bought —for— Years of Companionship OEHLERS HOWLAND “ The Furniture Store” REEDSBURG : : : : : WISCONSIN Page One Hundred Ten —if you would make the best progress in life, make the aequaintance and win I lie friendship of I lie officers of some good bank, who will counsel with you J and and strive in every way possible to help you get ahead i STATE BANK OF REEDSBLRG Reedsburg, Wisconsin Make this Bank Your Bank DIRECTORS ED. DONAHOE, President E. S. CLINGMAN, Secretary E. O’CONNOR. Treasurer I Wholesalers and Retailers— i DIRECTORS J. E. WADLEIGH, Vice Pres. HERMAN FOSS W. H. SKINNER EDW. KOENECKE THE REEDSBLRG FARMERS COMPANY (Incorporated) SUCCESSORS TO HARRIS HOSLER Everything in Produce j n Reedshurg, Wis. paf?e One Hundred Kleven MADISON COLLEGE School of Business Administration Madison, Wisconsin An institution of learning which every young man and woman contemplating additional training following high school, should thoroughly investigate. COURSES OFFERED Junior Accountancy Higher Accountancy Secretarial Stenography and Office Technique Sociology Economics Social Control Statistics Business Organization Salesmanship Commercial Spanish Law Advertising Insurance Retail Selling Investments Banks and Banking Public Utilities, Etc. I I I' Large Illustrated Catalogue on Request. Address the Registrar. j Physics exam.: “Where is the center of gravity?’ Bright one: “The letter V.” THE REEDSBURG TIMES T. C. Ninman, Publisher Sauk Center’s Leading Home Newspaper Book and Commercial Printing L. THEO. SCHLUTER Automobiles and Equipment Reedshu rg, Wis. j� aKe One Hundred Twelve MUELLER-HENRY DRUG CO. Pile Rexall Store ” You Buy Health Insurance When You Buy Rexall Remedies Your Money Back If Not Satisfied The REXALL STORE Visit Our Soda Fountain ‘Hey, simpie, what was the greatest reign in history?” ‘Why, that forty day and forty night affair, I guess.” THE CO-OPERATIVE STORE Retailers of Merchandise of the better kind. You will always find complete assortment of stylish CLOTHING, SHOES, DRYGOODS AND LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR I’anre One Hundred Thirteen Central Wisconsin Creamery Co. .........• w 11 f : : 0“ i: 1 • : : KT-rths TJ Manufacturers of DAIRY PRODUCTS Page One Hundred Fourteen l flgBWBsTr Jtv • HELPFULNESS ! Is what libs bank stands for first, last and always If there is an individual, firm, farmer or merchant without a banking home we want their acquaintance and account; want to prove to them how much a good banking connection helps. THE CITIZEN S BANK Reedsburg, Wis. I ’a gc One Hundred Fifteen THE IDS STOHI | “HI-SCHOOL HEADQUARTERS” —you’ll always find a right jolly group of students here after school. We’re glad to have them assemble here, for we like to feel as “bubbling over” as they—we want to have their good faith and enjoy their FRIENDSHIP. RIGHT NOW and at any old time you’ll find just heaps of new, pretty things for commencement. The daintiest of materials and fittings for that new dress. Also many charming dresses ready made for Commencement. AND IN THE GIFT sections—there are just heaps of suitable things for thee Graduate. Most anything that you may be looking for you’ll find here in larger assortment. ! GOOD CLOTHES i abound in our clothing section. We just dote on fixing you up for Graduation. Come on in at any time—we’ll bedeck you in the niftiest apparel that you can conceive of. SCHWEKE BPOS. COMPANY “Where Shopping Is a Pleasure” l’age One Hundred Sixteeii HOTEL HUNTLEY SCOTT HUNTLEY, Proprietor Page One Hundred Seventeen I I I I I I I I B. R. HARPER Photographer i I � I I I I I I I 526 East Main Street REEDSBURG, WISCONSIN i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i • I’a(te One Hundred Riulitoen I I AMERICAN WOOL AMERICAN LABOR AMERICAN CLOTH AMERICAN PEOPLE Appleton Woolen Mills Reedsburg, Wis. Page One Hundred Nineteen The New EDISON Baby Console 1 sv.v 175.00 THE NEW EDISON ill Baby Console design is a delightful model for music lovers who appreciate perfect tonal quality and beauty of design. Mr. Edison’s $3,000,000 laboratory experiment has produced this matchless instrument. You will enjoy hearing its actual RE-CREATION of famous voices. And you may have it on easy Budget Terms, if more convenient than paying the entire cost at one time. OTHER STYLES FROM $100 TO $5,500 The New Store ■ n 11 jjffjiinmri fi jf j w I'j'i l j jjt KRUEGER, HUEBING CLEMENT CO THE STORE FOR EVERYBODY REEDSBURG.WIS rage One Hundred Twenty I Reedsburg, Wis. ! Say it with a Home I and grow your own Flowers I !l i J x? j | Own your home and stop paying rent—Rent re-| ceipts pay no interest | The spring season is a good time to build. We | have a large stoek of lumber and building mate-| trial which we are selling at reasonable prices. | We will be glad to furnish you with blue prints j and estimates on anything you need in the build- j ing line. i i • i REEDSBURG SUPPLY CO. j Page One Hundred Twenty-Two THE REEDSBURG BANK REEDSBURG, WISCONSIN Capital and Surplus S75.000.00 We invite business relations 4 per cent paid on Savings Accounts and Time Certificates No account too small to lie accepted. ‘Got a nail in your tire?” ‘Naw, ran over a fork in the road.’ LOW PRICES AND GIFTS THAT LAST j | AT J ; HAHN’S JEWELRY STORE | I Phone 70 147 Main Street j Yes, 1 was a freshman, too. Some of the happiest years of my life I spent as a freshman. j W'HEN in later years you look over these pages of this R. H. S. Gleaner | � V Memory Book, let your mind go back to the place where you did | your “Trading” in the line of School Supplies, bought your Medicines . in case of sickness and Toilet Articles of Various Kinds, had your | Kodak Pictures Finished and at all times received 100 per cent satis- ! faction. Involuntarily you will think of— ! THIEMANN’S DRUG STORE L_ PafTc One Hundred Twenty-Three — Bread and Pine Bakery Products PAUL F. S A S S i Made in Reedsburg Jeweler and Optometrist DIXON’S BAKERY ii i Reedsburg, Wis. ii ij Ideal Restaurant MEYER the TAILOR 1 G. A. LASCHINSKI Over the Big Store | Reedsburg, Wis. 9 Phone 40 i ! Tractors ! PRINTING Farm Implements and Poultry High School Annuals, Wedding Invi- 1 tations and any work which demands | the highest perfection of the printer’s j craft. Prices quoted on application. ? Not how cheap, but how good is our | motto. I j ALFRED BERNIEN i i Reedsburg Free Press Printery Reedsburg, Wis. i HASS STRAMPE 1 i MRS. M. 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Schweke Bldg. Phone 17. “Don’t cry little hoy, you’ll get your reward in the end. “Suppose so. That’s where I always get it.” “She stood before her mirror. With her eyes closed very tight. And tried to see just how she looked When fast asleep at night.” Prof: “What does Darwin’s theory say?” Student: “Darwin says that our ancestors came from monkeys, hut my mama told me that mine came from Wales. It’s the little things in life that tell.” said the girl as she dragged her kid brother from underneath of the sofa. Gym leacher (to girls): “Lots of girls use dumb-bells to get color in their cheeks.” Bright One: “And lots of girls use color in their cheeks to get dumb-bells. BOHN KJORSTED JAMES A. STONE Attorneys-at-Law j Phone 286. Reedsburg, Wis. Attorney-at-Law P. O. Box 511 Main Street REEDSBURG. WIS. l’age One Hundred Twenty-Six j REEDSBURG ROLLER MILL ! Merchant and Custom Milling j | Manufacturers of I S1UTO FLOUK. 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