Regis High School - Chi Rho Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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E AMROCK ab1l1ty to eat If anyone should doubt my word that person mlght ask Father Deenv about It Over a perlod of about a mon h and one half we made tr1ps to Augusta IVIOIld0Xl Ch1ppewa B3ldXV1I1 and Hudson On our xx ay back from Hudson we stopped at MGHOMOHIG for d1nner I m1ght add that one of the best t1mes We had durmg our vs hole season we had on th1s trlp Eau Clalre Hlgh School w1th whom e had numerous debates sponsored a Fre h men sophomore Debate Tournament The teams were made up of two men we submxt ted three teams Berme lon ue were at the end of our de bwtmg season WVlt7h only our Western Cath ol1c 'loulnament left Three teams were en tered 1n the tournament Aqu1nas H1 h School of Ia Crosse Cathedral Hlgh Scnool of SllD9I'lOI' and St Patr1cks :High Qchool And who do you suppose won? You re r15Yht the or1g1na' eleven came throuwh Wlth that old Iflqh plflt For Wlnnlng the tourna ment '1 handsome cup has been g'1ven to the school Vv71th the n lmes of the SIX members of the team engraved on It 'Dms concluded our debate season and our duly 61 hth ,werlod sess1ons but w1ll 'my of u ever forget the good tlmes We had? The answer IS unanxmous NO Brxefs AURONIA ROUY EROI IS the author of the class play Tiouble ome Teens Included IH the cast are Rob rt T1 1mb1ll IIIS Bla1ne Althea Arnold Althlli' P1uehe1 Xnglma D1rks Patrlcla Johnson Lo1ne Brandl F1ed M1ller Thomas Flemmg Donald Lund Elalne F1-mnk Glor1a F1t7pat1ck Mar1on Robe1ge Rl oda Haxder Mary Ann Cra 3, Ray Lraemer Mar fuet TWIIQV and Lo1r11r1e Vander Kamp All the members of the D1 amat1cs Cla s p.1rt1c1pated HARD AT IT characteuves what IS golng on 1n the Muslc Organl at10ns at St Pfmtrlck s Prepa1'1t1on for the spung contests IS 111 full swungf Iast year the Band won first IH Class B and won the trop IV for marchlng The Cholus placed first 1n Class C and the Orche tra first place ln Class C BIG DATES 1nclude tl ese Semor Cla s Play May 9 Jun or Senlor Prom May '71 Wlth Mary Ann Cra1g and Arthur D1ckerson as I rom Kmg and Queen Class Day Exer CISQS June 8 and Commencement Day June 10 20 ' T H S H 1' - - .4 . ' U' . - 5 .K I . l . I - s ' . ' ' ' 1 Q. , - . . . . 0' - J, . . D L ' . , ' - 1 J 1 v ' 9 1 . . . 1 v Q ' ' . . 1 ' r K , , 1 . , ' . . W 64 - ' n ' . ' . T A Q , . . . . . . . c ., S . - y v L A . . I , 4 1 1 . . . I . A , , C- A A , W , , V i C' - 1 ' .1 a , , I , D . ' . .r , . . . Y . g, ,, . . , . v ' 3 'l Y - 1 . ' . . . K .1 . . V -, 1. 4 . , .t , ' ns 1 u 1 1 . e J . , .' ' . 4 . 7'1,-' ' ' w v s y -v s 9 1 K . 5. 1 . . Y.. r 1 4 v 4 - v ' 4 1 . . 7 .if r - s 1 1 , . . , g. v . 1 . . . . . , 1 . L Z . . c . 4 . 1 1. w . . ,. . L ,. 1 ,. ' Y l ' s . lu . T . Ig 1 s , . L. . . N 1 n . Q I 1 A . ., , , : - . K . . 4 1 H 1 ' D ' - ' . c , ' ' , , , .f , .

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Un the Stage and Platform Elalne Chrlstlanson, 37 St Patrzck s debate team was the wmner of the Western Cath olzc Debate Conference Debate and Debating F you th1nk thls was just an ordlnary club you are wrong In the first place lt was composed of just twelve members mcludmg Father Deeny our teacher We met every day at 2 35 or elpfhth perlod and oh the fun we had The hardest taslf Father Deeny had confrontlng hlm was that of gettmg the orlglnal eley en Cas they mlght be calledl down to brass tacks or IH other words SSFIOUS tlllllklllg' Debate class was not conducted wlth the usual formahty found 1n other regular classes Seems to me that everyday each person chose a new seat IH cludlng Father Deeny who rarely sat at his desk up at the front of the classroom Before class would ever begln we would usually talk of the events of the day or com cusslons would come the wx 1se crackmg All were good sports though and w1ll1ng to take a llttle rlbblng as well as glve lt all of Whlch was meant of course IH the best of fun Father Deeny had started out wlth a defin lte ldea as to how he would teach debatmg for the year He had purchased a number of textbooks on the subject of good debatmg and had counted on g1v1ng us a number of lectures on the subject Howexe l1tt'e was accomphshed along elther lme The first few days the textbooks were all rlght but they were rather dry and mterest soon lagged However we read from them durmg class tlme Th1s contmued for about the first slx weeks of school Then came report cards and much to our astomshment we had re celved marl s ln debate but they weren t any thln to Wflte home about I th1nk the e ma ks brought one good result dlllgellt study on the part of the debate students for the next week But It was too good to lwst 19 their m1sch1ev1ous characers got the best of them and debate class soon resumed lts for mer attltude much to Father Deenys d1s appomtment or was 1t'7 I m lncllned to be lleve he enjoyed It as much as we d1d One day Father Deeny calmly announced we would have to start wrxtmg a few speeches on the subject because we of St Patrlcks were go ng to sponsor a practlce debatlng tournament for about thlrteen schools and St Patmck s must part1c1pate The next week was an exceptlonal week mdeeel especlally about e1ghth perxod ln the debate class room If one had looked 1n one would have actually seen the orlglnal elex en buslly ponderlng over books and Father Deeny calmly slttmg at hxs de k read mg h1s brevlary wlth a contented look on h1s face The reason for all the study was that the tournament was only one week aw y and ln that tlme speeches had to be wrltten and learned The day of the tournament arrlved Schools from the mam towns around our c1ty came to partlclpate and among them were the orlg 1nal elex en ready to put up as much fight as anyone else The tournament went off we Next week everybody came to school Wlth ldcas for new cases some good some not so good From tournament tlme on untll about the second week ln December the debaters were unusually busy for speeches were bemg wr1t ten and rewrxtten for the commg debates One week we made a trlp to Stevens Pomt We debated Wlth a glrls academy and the hlgh school of that clty They were dec1s1on debates We won one and lost one Here I mwht mentxon one tlung for YVIIICII our debate team was known lt was thexr . X ft r -- . , . . . , . , . . , f ,I , r I . . . . 1 K ' n V . , . , - , , , , . . , . . . . 'v - , . . . . a f . ' , . D i ty . ' 1 n . , , , . x ' ' Y n u , . . 4 . . . 1 , . u 19 - I 7 4 up V , ' 77 ' ' u . F . . . . 9 v ' , ' ' v ' . , u ' - A 1 7 ,, . . ! . . . S - , . . . . . , . 9 ' . . 1 ' mg or past events. Along wltnh these dls- . 2 . . 1' U 7' ' ,7 . . . Y . F A. , L , I 7 7 ' . ,- . , . , . . . c ' , I ' . , , H . - . . - . . 7 ,, ' ' 1 f . . . V ' , ll. u 1 1 I n , , , . . , ' 0 u 66 39, ' 1 ' ' . ! , . . - . . 1 7 ' . l s V . . ' , . . , C' 7 - ' - . . . - 1 A ' c A g . s ' ' V, I i . . s ' Y u , . at 2 I . .

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Eire Chief Welsh Patrlcla Johnson, 37 Excerpts from the lzfe of a prornment cztzzert of Eau Clazre as told to hrs granddaughter HE first thmg one notxces about my grandfather IS h1s youthful appear ance Undoubtedly thls IS due to hls love of hlklng and golfmg and to hls hum orous outlook on l1fe Grandfather was born m Eau Clalre on March 22 1865 and has always l1ved here H1s father James Welsh was one of the very early settlers Grandfather belng possessed of an alert and keen mtellect IS a very ln terestmg conversat1onal1st and IS able to narrate numerous mcldents concernmg hrs actlve l1fe Llsten to hls own story of the early days My early llfe was typlcal of the youth of that perlod I well remember gomg bare foot ex en durlng the frosty fall days Some tlmes my feet would become xery cold then I would chase a cow from the spot on Wh1Ch she was ly1ng and I would stand there to warm my feet I attended Old St Pats School on the No th olCl8 No doulet I play ed sex eral bOy1 h pranks on the teacher and my classmates I know I played many at home After bakmg a cake my mother would al ways make certaln It was carefully concealed m some obscure place or else It would be sought out and made away wlth We had a large dog He used to l1e under the table and Walt for the food I would pass to h1m Once facmdentallyl I stepped on the dogs tall T'he dlnner took a breathtakmg rlde that day The old CITCUS ground was the sxte on whlch my home now stands I watered the elephants that I mlght obtaln a free tlCk8t Once the management falled to g'1V6 me the txcket but I managed to get 1n wlthout 1t Grandfather was a great sportsman He always lox ed the out of doors H1s work on the rn er IS a story 1n ltself 21 In 1881 when I was sixteen years old I went to work on the rlver he told me thmk that the thrllls and excltement WhlCh the rlvem work held entlced me My first 1ob was that of Cook s helper I was called Cook E It was necessary for me to get up at three o clock 1n order to carry out such dutles as peellng potatoes and vegetables YX3ShlI'1g dlshes and 1n general asslstlng the cook From th1S Job I gradually worked up to that of sealer I had many thrxlhng experiences and nar low escapes on the rlver Once WVh1l8 I was 'ill1lCllIg logs over the dam on the Eau Clalre Rlver the logs jammed To break the Jam I hooked my plke pole under the key log However the hook sllpped on a loose piece of bark and I fell 1nto the rner only Efteen feet above the dam As the water was at a hlgn stage I knew that lf I went over the dam I would undoubtedly be drowned I also knew mlll near the place w'here I had fallen If I co lld de 1se some means to reach that beam I would be safe Somehow I d1d Just that and mos ed along hand over hand untll I was able to drop onto a progectlon from the m1ll From there I could reach the upper deck of the brldge When the ru er was closed Grandfather worked 1n the woods The work there was even more dangerous than the work on the r1ver because of the falhng tlmber Often when fellmg a tree he sald 1t would fall across another tearlng that one down also These were called slde w1nders One day whlle I was workmg on a Skldway headblock I heard a shout IIlSt1I1CtlX ely I Jum Jed auav from my work Thls v s a lucky moxe becau e one of these 1ie YV1Ild ers fell ac 0 s the spot on which I had b en vs orklng X gr X 1 I ,X X - K i. . . , I . . . ,, . ! ! ' ' ' I! ll - , . I . . . . , . ! ' . ' 9 . . , , 5 1 1 ' U - L - . 7 ' , , . Q n 1 J ' ' ' 7 n , , o u a . ' v ' l . . . . 5 Y . 1 . . . . ,, . . . , - , . , lf ' ' . ' . ! ' I , - . , 7 ' , - - a . 1 ' ' 7 . 7 , y . I 1 ' 1 I. , K 7 Y - It 4 . C ' . ' ! .. , , that a lne cham bracket extended from the r .J . '- . f . 1 ' ' 1 V L L S x f L , . ' 7 u - 1 ' , - . ' 99 . . - ' 1 n u . K , a . J' V , n q 1 ' ' ' . ! K I ' H ' , D ' H ' ! 9 H ' ' f ' . , , . , . . , u . 7 ' ' - - ' ' 99 . 1 y . , . A I K , S 2 f C ' ' . ' , -: 5 , - yu v - - . ' 7 A T S V ' Q .Y . . . V . ,,