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

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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-

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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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c 'U Aff? 1 ,gffgf-' 5 ij-3 c .Q , J . ' L1 J , - . , ,M A lf- ' 'lf ' -- - e-------- - -1 fag:-.mega ,,,,, vzmg V f - CQ an ww ,.,, . . ., . Y. -U--W '--'Fix' - -V in the land in which he had dwelt in the days of his youth. And behold, who do we see with us again '? The maid, Ruth Slayton, who had so- journed in the land of California came back to stay with the Class of Sev- enteen, and in addition two handsome and fine looking youths by the name of Harry Harken from Cartersville, Montana, and Turner Shepard of the Fort XVayne High School at Fort Wayne, Indiana. And as the Class did journey through the land and over the hills of knowledge, behold, there were two maidens who were fair to look upon, who had strayed far from the companions with which they had set forth, and were much sor- rowful. The name of one was Beatrice Emison of the Fergus High School at Lewistown, Montana, and the name of the other was Sara Morse from the Steamboat Rock High School at Steamboat Rock, Iowa. And as the members of the Class did look upon them in their loneliness, their hearts were stirred in pity for them, and they did open wide, unto them their arms, that they might be gathered in, and lo, the whole num- ber at the end of the third year was twelve. Now this, the fourth and last year of the history of these great and wonderful Class of 'IT has been one of much hard labor for preparations are being made for them to take their final departure from the land. And behold, who do we see with us again in our last year but Vern Asbridge, who had traveled among the hills of the far NVest and whom we had not seen for a year. And it came to pass that the Class wished for badges, and many mes- sengers were sent to big cities and all the towns around about for samples of their fine jewelry and at last after considering and reconsidering, the Class professed itself to be satisfied with its choice. And pins were pur- chased with which they rested well content. And it also came to pass that the Class chose their colors. In choosing the purple for our leading color they have done so with a full understanding of its royal significance and they have asked themselves over and over again, Are we worthy? 'vVill we be able to live up to it? NVithin itself it is a perfect blend of the pure rich red of love and comradeship, and the clear bright blue of truth: and for their secondary class color they have selected white hoping that the purity it typifies may become closely inculcated in their personal princi- ples: that by blending it with the purple of devotion and comradeship, their love may be kept ever clean and white that they -may remain always pure of thought and word and deed, loyal of purpose and spirit-yes, loyal, and pure of motive in all that they may think or say or do throughout all the course of their lives. So they start on this voyage of life holding the colors of purple and white proudly aloft, and determining to stand by them to the end, build- ing for themselves lives of loyalty, of purer promise and richer valueg characters of sterling strength and tested purity, through a wise and happy blending of the purple with the white. And in the end the number was thirteen. Verily, verily, I say unto you, they must depart from thence, to go each his separate wayg to lands, they know not of, to do, they know not what, But let them not be weary in well doing, for in due sea- son they shall reap if they faint not. And now may the blessings that ever attend the noble and good and true, follow and abide with them, each and all, now and forevermore, Amen, -ALICE KILDAHL. -Nineteen-