Roosevelt High School - Rohian Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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QQ A04 I JJ W5 -Q X ffai N goreword To the casual reader the following pages Suggest but a picturesque year taken from the swiftly moving caravan of middle-western -school life. Yet, he who enacted the drama of this yearbook will perhaps poignantly recall the daily classroom banter, the school newspaper battered in the throes of opinion, the bi-weekly club meetings, the footlight debut of stage- struck heroes. We sincerely hope that each page will be a lasting graphic reflection of school days, a pictorial record that will awaken happy memories.

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fgntroduction In compiling the yearbook for the graduat- ing class of 1936, the editors chose a Wild West theme, to be used incidentally in the bool: as a unifying element. They deemed the inde- pendent existence of American cowboys sym- bolic of the carefree vein that enlivened our Alma Mater days. Through suggestive car- toons and phrasings, one receives occasional glimpses of six-gun desperadoes, of the breath- taking swirl of rawhide reatas, and of weird coulees where the plaints of dogies blend with the incantations of the wind. UF' .X r as xl A XXI' gf, ,-R ww' lu ' I ' I u ' - 9 - A k If 1 . 'z gg, .341 an

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Qiedication We dedicate our yearbook to the spirit of good fun, to that spirit best exemplified by the late cowboy-humorist, Will Rogers, to that fun- loving spirit which enables us to laugh with humanity even when wounded by life, to the joy and merriment that free the earth from the monotony of duty, and to the instinctive humor which spares embarrassment for the wise and opens new lives for those who have experienced anxiety. To this ideal of fun because it creates a life worth living, we dedicate our 1936 yearbook. We e NA Wuhan-ll ip 'ifsggehig ,5 - llu luflhc