Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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. ' L to X , I ra rw ' S. 1 Lt ! R fb J EISSE C. THOMPSON. Violin, Band, and Orchestra Instruments. Pupil of George W. Hey. Gradu- ate of Syracuse University with degree of Bachelor of Music. Later studied under Dr. Carl Schultz and Conrad L. Becker of New York. Instructor of Violin and Band and Orchestra Instruments Billings Polytechnic Institute since 1914. There is music in all things if men had ears. -Byron. A RJIINDA J.U'Ql'l'ILlN,l4l MUWRE. Public Speaking and Gymnastics. Graduate Billings High Schoolg one year at State University of Wis- consin, Letters and Scienceg graduate of Northwestern Department of Oratory and Physical Culture, pupil of Dr. Robert Cumnockg post gradu- ate work at Columbia College of Expression, Chicagog instructor of Ora- tory and Physical Culture in College of Montana, 19155 Billings Poly- technic since 19143. They who have light in themselves will not revolve as sate1lites. -- Seneca. HRS. MARY SHAFFER. Hatron of Dining Hall. -Seventeen-

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'ftfi Q s N iv? -, f, l' J 1 J xwq ' I ,1W A IDA E. LOUGEE. Assistant Dean of Woinen and Secretary of Eastern Office. Graduate Northfield Won1en's Seininary. Assistant in Doinestic Science and Secretary for Eastern Office Billings Polytechnic Insti- tute since 15115. 'Tis what I love deterniines how I love. -George Eliot. A. W. BARNARD, B. S. Manual Training and Shop Work. Graduate Kansas State Agricul- tural College in Mechanical Engi- neering l905. Two years with General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. Two years in Weiso, Idaho, Poly- technic. Six and one-half years with Industrial School of Mon- tana. Teacher of Manual Train- ing and Shop Work Billings Poly- technic Institute since 1916. Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength. -Shakespeare. -Sixteen-

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I r.: rx I ' 1 1 s , M Xtra u N-I L- -1 Qu A X 9 , xi xxx' ' 1 ' ' -- - 1.zsm-n4-f,:L.-- .fe-.Aff - ,pf xx 'T .K 'fb' SENIOR CLASS Motlo.' Be Useful. Flower: Violet. Colors: Purple and While. Class Izhstory Now beginneth the history of the Class of '17, of the Billings Poly- technic Institute, of the City of Billings, County of Yellowstone. State of Montana. In the beginning was the Institution and in the thirteenth year of the twentieth century of our Lord, in the ninth month, and on the seventh day, there entered into this Land of Learning, nine seekers of knowledge. There came one, a certain Guy Barnes from Ronan, lvlontanag a fair maiden, Ruth Slayton, from Lavina. Montana: an ambitious lad, Earl Beall, from Manderson, Wyomingg two herdsman's sons, Alfred Mace of Howard, Montana, and Vern Asbridge from Roundup, Montana, a brown-eyed youth, Harry llolles, from Cushman, Montanag a seeker of pleasure, Frank Hunter, from Manderson, Wyoming, and two children of the prairies, Earl Kildahl and his sister Ruth, from Horton, Montana. Some came from the eighth grade, where they had been storing their minds with many years of wisdom. Some had come from the green fields in the country and others had been tillers of the soil. And it came to a pass as they entered this land, that they were wel- comed by those who had come to help them up and over the rough ways of knowledge. And as they dwelt long in the land, they fell in with the customs of the inhabitants thereof, and their strangeness wore away and they, each', became as one among the rest. Now it came to pass. soon after they entered the land, that they were one and all seized with a strange infirmity, which did cause them to act with much tierceness and strangeness of manner and to grapple and wrestle with their fellows in much rage and seeming ferocity. Wise men were called to look upon them, who did examine them with much care and pains, and did finally pronounce the infirmity in the male football and baseball, and in the female basketball, And it came to pass, that when the school came to a closeg some went back to their land from whence they had come and others thought that they would stay in this land of learning. Now it came to pass at the be- ginning of the second year that a new band of youths did come up from the adjoining territory, and the Class of '17, in the new dignity of their promotion, remembered the days of their own greenness, and as the older students of their day had done unto them, even so did they do unto these new youths. This Class had decreased one in number so there were only eightg for one named Ruth Slayton traveled in the far South to join the Freshmen in the Art School at. Los Angeles, California. The small band decided that they would stay together the whole year and so the entire nmnber at the end of the second year was eight. Now it so happened that there were only seven who came back to this land, for he of the name of Vern Asbridge had decided he needed to rest -Eighteen-