Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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22 THE OCKSHEPERIDA HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1915. (By Ethel Snively.) In the fall of nineteen hundred and eleven a band of fifty-live timid, shaking but determined lx)vs and girls made their appearance at Sheridan High school as Freshmen. They were much like the average class entering high school and received their full share of the laughter and jeers of the upjjer classes, and the stern, cross looks of the teachers. They soon caught on to the ways of the school, however, and the teachers were surprised at the splendid showing they made. Some of them found the work too hard and fell behind: others were attracted by the business world and left school, and a few preferred married life to the joys of high school. Thirty-five graduated in nineteen hundred fifteen. This class was up with the others in all of the athletic-activities of the school. In the school year of nineteen hundred eleven and twelve one of the best football players was a Freshman. During nineteen hundred twelve and thirteen the football captain and one or two of the other players hailed from the Sophomore class. In nineteen hundred thirteen and fourteen the Juniors furnished more football men than any other class, and some of the best players on the boys’ and girls’ basket ball teams. The tennis champion of that vear was also a Junior. In nineteen fourteen and fifteen the Seniors were ably represented in football, basket ball and tennis. When they were Juniors thev gave a 1m x social and entertainment at the High school building. This proved a success, both financially and sociallv. That year the class was entertained by two of the members at Anna Kraiicek s home In the spring they gave a banquet and dance in honor of the Seniors, where every one had a jolly good time. The Senior officers of nineteen hundred fifteen were: President. Milton McMaken: vice president. Anna Krajicek: Secretary, Angela Buell: treasurer. Carl Griflfen. Their class teachers were: Miss Cooner and Miss Wells. Their colors were: Nell rose and leaf green, and their flower was the white rose. The last year was a busy one for them. Resides taking part in athletics and debating, they were the “cordially invited guests” at several Junior parties and were entertained at different times during the vear bv Ada Klindt. Alfred Bonham and Milton McMaken. At the close of the year, in the spring, the Juniors gave a banquet in their honor and the Alumni Association gave a reception, dance and supper for them. They

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THE OCKSHEPERIDA 21 ORELL FREEMAN “Bill,” Staunch advocate of Woman Suffrage. “But you can’t flirt with me.” Class editor 1913-14. President of Q. E. Q. Chairman of the Commission. ANGELA BUELL “Angleworm” for short. Dancing, Art and Tennis, her long suits. Glee Club Class Secretary.

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THE OCKSHEPERIDA 23 chose as their plav, “A College Town,” and under the instruction of Mr. T. C. I )iers, scored a great success. Through the four years of their High school life the class of ’15 have lived up to their motto, “Efficiency Brings Success,” and we have every reason to believe they will continue to do so. CLASS PROPHECY. She fascinated me. the gazer of the crystal globe. Her lithe body, clad in black and silver, swayed rythmatically as she crooned over the dangerous toy revolving slowly in her perfect fingers. She replaced the globe in its silver receptacle and resting her chin in her hands gazed mesmerizingly into the tiny world of crystal. Suddenly she slipped ue of her hands over mine, lying onposite her. on the table. “You’re lonesome,” she crooned, “lonesome for old friends.” Bv this time I. too, was gazing, my sense of sight pleased by the indescribable play of lights through the crystal. The lonesome city was lost to me and a new world opened within those transparent curvitures. The flickering atoms of light steadily took sha| e. The globe fairly moved with the tense excitement of the pigmy humans it contained. Sousa—plastered with medals—beat time for the band, which raised the curtain on Madonna’s opening night at the Maxine Elliott Theatre—T lived with her the pangs and glories of that night—for she had sacrificed love on the altar of career. Beholding my tears mv gentle companion laid her hand caressingly on the globe. The scene dissolved in a bubble of radiance and the atoms whirled, driven by a revolutionary impulse. Ah! a dentist’s chair. Si—his knee on the chest of a raw-lioned cowpuncher is struggling to extract an eyetooth from the same, while Louise, darning socks, ftis true), patiently bv his side, reads Dante’s Inferno in the original. A slow flow of the radiant tide—Chick’s Utopia (the John Earlv house and a nretty wife. Hallie. at last, safe in the harbor of his love (for Tessie has turned militant suffragette and man-hater), is welcoming to her house ('.race, our second Jane Addams. returning from the at last successful divorce suit of Alfred and Anna. With an exclamation. I wrenched mv hand from the entwining fingers of the enchantress and Utopia faded forever. How different the scene that hesitatingly formed. I11 the life of every great man must come a “death-bed