Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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24 THE OCKSHEPERIDA scene and least of all was this denied Carl Wilber Griffen—a prominent citizen, honored, respected and beloved by his fellow townslolk, wno, wounded in a single handed light with a bunch ot outlaws, headed by the daring villain, Robert May-land, at length captured them all alive, but alas, the wound proved tatai and ne shows himself worthy of his reputation tor valor by dying with his boots on.” '1 he lights snook violently (even the elements mourned him.) They resolved at length into the stern court room, where Hora, the Attorney Ueneral, is defending Edward Hamm, who, after cleaning-up” on Prairie Dog champions, had tackled Jess Willard at Ulm. Ethel Shively, reporting sport news, contributed an article to the Police Gazette, which resulted in the arrest of Eddie by Ada ivlindt, the new female policeman on the force of that city. The case is lost, the culprit duly lodged in jail, where the submissive Vernetta creeps to his cell, a sweet picture of feminine constancy. Buzz—Buzz—Harvard Campus, where the learned Professor of English, Carl Addleman, is being distracted from his absorbing studies by Emma, now in fact a college widow.” How ditterent the fate of Margaret, who is personally conducting a hen-party” through Europe (?), as use to was. Events pass in rapid succession (my enchantress tells me it’s due to the speed” of the bunch I’m looking for.) Irma, trusting in the love that redeems all things, has won Herbert, the chorus man, from the evil ways into which he has drifted, enticed by the winsome cabaret dancer, Azelle, who is now compelled to turn her attention to the stage prop, Phil Brown. Hazel and Leona have taken up headquarters at Banner to save postage. Caroline Griggs, an old maid, Who’d have thunk it?” (Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all—but she loved too many at once and lost ’um all.) A downtown window—Rosa-Maye and Angela, demonstrating the action of Dandarine—before and after using. Gretta tries to usurp Rosa-Maye’s place, but is properly squelched by a suggestion to “remove her carcass.” Next Marjorie, before a large audienc, giving readings from her most popular novel. She is describing a brook, “seething, babbling, roaring, gushing over the ragged, jagged cliffs. Her liquid tones fade into the hum of a mowing machine, skirting the meadows of a side creek where Dorothy, properly trained to enter a carriage, has properly mounted a mower, and “Teddie” Mumford, the country schoom-ma’m, following her predecessors over some high divide, has accepted a half interest in a dry farm. I breathed a contented little sigh over the dry farm, but tumult reigned again within the globe. Myrtle, the Girl From

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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

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THE OCKSHEPERIDA 25 the Hole-in-the-Wall, is presenting Laurence Welton in her Wild West show liefore an imposing pavilion, in which is seated in state the Chief Executive of the World Federation of Nations, Emperor Bill II, successor to Emperor Wilhelm, the first ruler. In my excitement I spoke—“Can this haughty potentate be our little Orell, once so sweet and gentle?” When ? ! ? etc. This busted the glolie. JUNIOR BANQUET. By Emma Bordewick.) May 29th the Seniors were entertained by the Juniors at the Congregational church. The dining room walls and ceiling were decorated with lattice work in the Senior colors of Nell Rose and green, while ferns served to soften the undecorated wall space. The tables were arranged so as to form a continuous whole. In the center a huge bunch of white roses were placed. The effect of this centerpiece was heightened by shaded candles. At each individual plate was a small candle alternating in color Nell rose and green. Unicpie combination menu and place cards containing the program of toasts were decorated with small pennants in the proper colors of either Nell rose and green or maroon and white. The time passed swiftly with toasts, given by the mem-l ers of the faculty. Seniors and Juniors: “Fooling the Faculty”..................Milton McMaken “Thanks for the Same”.....................Mary Edelman “When I Was Young”.......................Louise Enochs “Sadder, Wiser, or Both” ..................Carl Griffen “The Joke That Didn’t Joke”.................Mr. Herbst “Some Senior Footprints on the Sands of Time”..... ....................................Arden Godwin “Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown”....... ....................................Orell Freeman “Why Teachers Go Insane”....................Mr. Hawkes “The High Cost of Flunking”...................Mr. Early After this Miss Hull read the “It Might Have Been,” a mirth provoking stunt. Then “The Tribunal of Nemesis” brought to trial some of the members of the faculty and also a few Seniors, although they didn’t acknowledge how true the charges were. After this the Senior Class Will was read by Philip Brown. This didn’t prove to be as solemn as the name might suggest.