St Joseph High School - Arrow Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Mana nf 1522'- HE history of our class published in last year's Year Book ends thus: f'The 'Studious Sophomores' kind readers bid you aideu-till the June of another year rolls round and we have passed throuh the halls of St. -Ioseph's as 'jolly -Iuniors,' ready to assume the obligations of l 'Serious Seniors. Adieu, Adioslw All too quickly has the year rolled round, and we now find that we are on the threshold of our Senior year, ready to assume the obligations that go with that class. Three- fourths of our scholastic race is finished and we are now entering on the fourth and last lap, ere we do so, let us glance at our log and read therein the events of our junior ' ear. Rev' Bm' A' Lewis' F'S'C'y When school reopened for the scholastic year 1921-1922 we found that thirty-six of our number were on hand, ready to take up klhe work of the junior Year, under the captaincy of our enthusiastic, ambitious teacher -Rev. Brother A. Lewis, who was ready to guide us through the turbulent sea of knowledge, right into the Haven of Safety-the Senior Year. More congenial quarters on the second floor had been assigned to us. This, in itself was conducive to study. A palace, in comparison with the room we oc- cupied cluring our Sophomore Year. Well ventilated, well lighted, commodious and spacious in every sense of the word. Among the new studies we took up were: General Science, Intermediate Alge- bra, Rhetoric, Second Year Spanish, Advanced Bookkeeping. Needless to sav, we set out to master the intricacies of these subjects. Cf these, we took to General Science, like a bee takes to honey. This subject was very interesting due to the experiments we held during the year. Shortly after Brother Lewis had been relieved of his duties as acting direc- tor of the school, an office to which he had been appointed, due to the absence of Brother Henry who remained in New York City on important business, we organized our class society under the name of the Joyce Kilmer Literary Society. This organization interested itself in everything that went on in the school. Its four groups of officers deserve a great deal of credit for the masterly way with which they handled things. VVith the advent of the football season, the members of the class became quite interested and enthusiastic over the proposition of forming a school football team. and when the time came, went out for positions, with the consequent result that two of our number, Frank Elmer and Norval Burkheiser, were given regular places in the lineup. Both of these lads deserve a great deal of credit for the work they did, especially Burkheiser, who played the entire Seminary game with a broken hand, which he received during the first quarter. About this time the school paper, the Arrow made its appearance and we found that six of our members had been appointed to the staff, these with the nine from the Senior Class did the brunt of the work during the school year, and helped to make this paper the success it was. The first quarterly examinations came and went, with the consequent result that, with but one or two exceptions, all came through in flying colors. With these out of the way we began the work of the second quarter. But one feature worthy of notice took place during this quarter and that was the drive for the Memorial Page Thirty-eight

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