Steamboat Springs High School - Galleon / Sailors Log Yearbook (Steamboat Springs, CO)

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Marion Leckenby stHdied music in Liepzic for two years: During her sojourn in Europe the war broke out. She made several attempts to return to America and finally resigned herself to her fate and remained. One after- noon she was industriously applied at her music when she heard a great commotion near her studio. She went out to find the cause of the disturbance and was seized and dragged to prison. Two days later, without learning the cause of her ill treatment, she was taken before the court, was tried as a spy and found guilty. She was bound and led away from the town to the soldiers’ quarters. The gups were leveled at her and the man was waiting for the signal to shoot, when the emperor rode up. He ordered the men to unbind her and took her into his coach and took her safely back to her own home, and surrounded her with guards. The Emperor had been charmed by Marion’s music and said that the world could not afford to lose such a tal- ented person. The Emperor tried in vain to have her remain in Germany, making dazzling offers of money and fame. However she could not be pur- suaded to give up her own country. She returned and played with several great lyceum courses. She was now accompanist for Kreisler. rendering Gounod’s “Faust.” and “Romeo and Juliet” more easily and beautifully than it had ever been done before. She was also employed as a teacher in the New England Conservatory. Marguerite Crane, who often charmed us with her melodious voice in school had become a great prima donna. After her last rendition of “Aida. she received compliments and honors from many illustrious members of our aristocracy. She now sings in the Metropolitan Grand Opera and thou- sands of people flocked to the theater every evening to hear her. She had made a deep impression upon Caruso. They had met several times at social gatherings and lie had secured an introduction to her. She rejected his suit and because of his great sorrow he had quit singing and now we will hear no more of his wonderful records. Marguerite had changed from the once happy, care-free girl to a steady, staid young woman who hated all the friv- olities of life. Clarence Hasty had studied for three years in Drake University. He was now a famous evangelist and already had converted more persons than Hilly” Sunday. lie had visited Steamboat and had a very great influence upon the lives of the people, bringing unregenerated sinners back into the straight and narrow path of righteousness. At the present time he was in Oak Creek converting many people. Charles Birkett had gone to Columbia University, where he specialized in science. Upon receiving his degree he remained at the college as a teacher. Now he was a great professor of science and gave lectures to hundreds of students upon the Universality of the Malleability of the Atomic Theory of Aureolation of the Whichness of the What.” He also had invented many electrical appliances which Edison had never dreamed of. Irene Dismukes entered college at Greeley and for two years had dili- gently pursued her work. She taught school in Denver for one year, then accepted a position in the Steamboat High school, teaching domestic science and music. She is now living happily in a cozy little cottage and is very adept at making biscuits. In my eagerness to learn my own future I leaned over to peep into the globe. I struck the globe and it fell into the valley below. I looked over the balustrade into, the depths of the valley. Only a few bright gleams of light were reflected up to me. The globe had broken into myriads of tiny glass particles. My future is still to be revealed. LETHA COLEMAN.

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Class iPiopfjccp IVE years had elapsed since the graduation of the illustrious class of ’17. I was spending the winter traveling through sunny Spain. In Feb- ruary a friend invited me to visit her in Granada. I took up my res- idence in the old, ruined castle of the Alhambra. There I enjoyed myself rambling spell-bound in the enchanted ruins, dreaming about the stories of The Alhambra is an ancient fortress or palace of Moorish kings. On wandering through the many corridors it seems as if we are transported into ancient times and we are treading the scenes of Arabian stories. 1 he mystery and superstitions connected with the place seem real. It is impos- sible to contemplate this once favorite abode of Oriental manners without feeling the early associatons of Arabian romance and one almost expects to see some mysterious princess beckoning from the balcony or some dark eyes sparkling through the lattice. One beautiful moonlight night, when the spell of the place had taken an unusual hold on me, I was standing in the tower gazing out over the quiet valley and up into the glorious pile of mountains that gives to Granada that combination of delights so rare in a southern city. Suddenly I was startled by a sound behind me. I turned and saw an old. old woman. She was stooped and eerie. She had with her a beautiful globe which glistened like an opal, reflecting bright-colored gleams of light. The old lady recounted many legends about the inhabitants of the Alham- bra. Then, noticing that I was curious about the globe, she told me that by looking into its depths she could foresee the future. I wished to know about my classmates, so 1 inquired about the class of ’17. With incredible swiftness her thought flashed across the years and she saw the events of 1927. Placing the globe upon a balustrade she looked into its clear depths and uttered an exclamation of surprise. She told me that Maurice Leckenby had become editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune. He wrote many brilliant editorials. He had first been employed as office boy on the Denver Post. Next he became a reporter, and finally he rose to be assistant editor. I’wo years later he had gone to New York. For several months he had sought in vain for employment, wandering from office to office. One day he stepped into the office of the New York Tribune, fully expecting no better success than formerly. He found that they were greatly in need of an office boy, so he started to work immediately. Two years afterward he was promoted to his present position. She turned the globe slightly and said that Burton Allin had gone to Chicago the summer after his graduation. Through the influence of a friend he received a position with the United States Steel corporation, which is one of the largest in America. Russell Ohman’s great career began with our Senior class play in which he played the part of Leviticus. The fact that the play was a great success was due to his unexcelled command of the negro dialect. He went to Cali- fornia and went into the “movies.” He had remained there only a year when he received an urgent request from the McIntyre Heath Company to join the company. Tie is now end-man in this famous minstrel show and his future is assured. the past.

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Class pistor? N a certain bright, sunny morning in the year 1913 the spacious cor- ridors of the Steamboat Springs High school were filled with a throng of brilliant juveniles who were in all respects the most wonderful of any students ever before present at that institution. It would have been a terrible insult to have called them Freshmen ! Though they were small and innocent looking, the look of supernatural wisdom which they wore infused anticipatory joy into the hearts of the faculty. Those who were about to resign now decided to stay as it would be such a pleasure to conduct these resplendent intellects along the path of Knowledge. There were about twenty of these brilliant pupils enrolled, under the leadership of Professor Cochran, and the Misses Shearer and Hoyt. But in the middle of the term Mr. Cochran found these same students too much for him. so he left us and Professor Miller from Denver filled the vacancy. At the beginning of the next year over half of those extraordinary people found themselves too far advanced for the Steamboat Springs High school. The long, hard struggles with Caesar and geometry proved to be their Waterloo. We who remained felt very much elated over our exploits and looked about us eagerly for new worlds to conquer. When we were Juniors the High school was under the charge of an entirely new faculty; Mr. Thompson was superintendent. Mr. Baker was principal, and Miss Sutphen and Miss Clark were the women teachers. We started off with a Hallowe’en party, where we proved ourselves to be very entertaining hosts and hostesses. Later in the year we had a real actor among us. His first performance in public was in the play entitled “French Spoken Here.” which was given for the Literary programme. On January 25 we celebrated Bobbie Burns’ birthday with a party and programme, and it was here that we found out that the dissention among us could be banished by the sweet singing of Marguerite Crane. As usual everybody came to school dressed in their “Sunday-go-to- Meeting” clothes on St. Patrick’s day, much to the pleasure of all the teach- ers. That afternoon the Juniors received many compliments on their well- planned paper. “Erin Go Brah.” In the autumn of 1916 there were two changes among the faculty. Miss Stukey and Miss Emma Keller also became assistants in the delightful task of developing our brilliancy. Our record had been so wonderful as Juniors that we knew it would be a hard task to excel it as Seniors. However we set our minds resolutely to the task and started the year of 1916-17 with much hope and enthusiasm. The members of the class were Maurice Leckenby, Burton Allin, Russell Oilman, Clarence Hasty, Marguerite Crane, Sidney Whetstone, Letha Cole- man. Marion Leckenby, Ivron Lewis, Cora McKinney, Irene Dismukes and