Rush Springs High School - Redskin Yearbook (Rush Springs, OK)

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THE RUSH SPRINGS Editor-in-Chief Annual, Utopian, Glee Club, Orchestra, Senior Play, School Pianist Reader, Violinst, Utopian Secretary, Semester, Basket Ball ’16, 17. Everybody loves her ’cause its just her way.” OSCAR BECK Vice-President, Utopian, Glee Club, Senior May, Annua Stair. “A competent man is always in de- mand.” ALMA BAKER Class Sec.-Treas., Utopian Sec. First Semester, Glee Club abating Team, Annual Staff, Senior Play.” “One girl who gets results that is if there are any.” SIBYL GLOVER 1919

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THE KUSH SPRINGS 2 1919 - Utopian Annual Staff, Senior Play, Debating Team Basket Ball ’18. “She speaks what she thinks when she thinks it and her thoughts are always on hand.” JESSE WALK A YEN Class President, Basket Ball Capt. Glee Club, Annual Stalf, Utopian, Senior Play Debating Team. “To thine own self be true.” v CLARA BERNARD Utopian Annual Staff, Senior Play Debating Team, Valedictorian. “Backed by a mind that knew no discouragement, that accepted noth- ing but the best, she fought her way through.” ETHEL TONEY

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THE RUSH SPRINGS SENIOR HISTORY Chapter 1 Now the history of the class of 1919 of the High School of Rush Springs State of Oklahoma, is this wise: In the beginning, in the year of 1916, in the ninth month, and on the fifth day of the month, there entered into this land of learning, twelve seek- ers of knowledge. Some came up form the eighth grade where they had for many months been busily engaged in storing their minds with the honey of wisdom: Some were green and fresh from a far country: some came from farm's, where they had been tillers of the soil: and some were from other halls of instruction. And it came to pass, as they did enter this land that they were received with malicious glee by a certain band of a wild beings who were called “Sophmores and who, because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce them daily and nightly, and did cause them to suffer great things, and to say in their hearts: “Behold, blessed be the name of Education for because of it have we en- dured great torments both of the body and of the mind. Verily have we been martyrs to its great and noble cause! 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 became as one among the rest. And it likewise came to pass after some months that their eyes were turned toward the close of the school year and some began to make ex- cuses. One said “I am dull and cannot learn, I pray thee have me ex- cused.” Another said, “I must needs toil at home, therefore I cannot finish with this class. So thus the class did decrease two until at the end of the first year the whole number was ten. Chapter II. Now it came to pass at the beginning of the second year that this class was ruled'over by one known as Caucle Collard, a professor of much 1919