Storm Lake High School - Breeze Yearbook (Storm Lake, IA)

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C. E. AKERS, SUPERINTENDENT Good morning wh tt is your trouble tl11s morning? said M1 Akers as I went into his office Well I said I would like to ask you a few questions and would like to have you 'msw er them a All right he sud go ahead In the first place when and Wheie w eic you born? I asked him Have you be C01116 an assessor? he asked me I was born in Troy, Davis County, Iowa, Dec 1, now I a111 going to give you a surpuse in 1868 What schooling did you have? I asked I first attended a rural scl1ool near Troy, then I attended and finished the Troy Academy From lZll618 I went to Drake College which I finished in 1907 Where have you taught? l asked him I taught in town schools at West Grove and the I-Icnde1son School, became Superintendent of Scl1ools at Edon Park 111 Des Moines W1nte1set, Hawarden and now ind myscllt at Storm Lake. Did you take part in any athleticsl' No he sfud when a boy I hurt my mrm which would not allow me to throw, except undeihanded as a girl th1oWs5 otl1er athletics I did not join either. How did you get through school? I inquired. All tl1e education that I have I worked tor. I even Wolked my way tluough college. -A. F. S. N. B.-These interviews with the faculty were secured by various members of the Annual Board. 3145 , .,,n,1v.-gg-ef-5-.-Y 7-.5 - uL.s+.:...f.Q,.' 1-:2.. -L -1 -n:..-..- .-. ' - H-1 f- T , -- 'F-'E ' 'fc v-1' '- A ' L iff' -- -Y -- ' ' - 3-

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Mr. Bryan was busily engaged repeating the same old thing: Let's have it a little more quiet here. Paul! let 's see you study, you have plenty of work to do! , exposing his fine profile to me when I received the inspiration to write this. He had been interviewed some time previously but it could never be written up to satisfy all parties concerned. Bryan was born in Montezuma in 18925 graduated with second honors from Montezuma High and received his A. B. from Grinnell in 1913. He was ai shark in History he tells us, and was ex-tremely popular with the girls. He was especially good at athletics and the best football player they hadg could 1'un very swiftly and was a regular Hea when it came to jumping. He was always a good boy when at schoolg he never carried loose matches in his pockets as his parents tor his wife, I have forgotten whichj taught him that it was dangerousg he was also taught not to use slang, as it was very harmful. We Seniors are very sorry that Mr. Bryan has decided not to remain with ns longer than this year but we hope that Wherever he goes he is treated with -the respect that we have been able to give him. You can't get around itg Dill is a sport, a ladies' man! To see him walking around the assembly room or pounding Economics into our thick young heads, you are reminded more of Abraham Lincoln than of a de- bonair cotillion leader who can entertain all the fair members of our faculty at the same time without favor- ing any one of them in particular. Spider as he is popularly called would not tell me his age. I'm just four years older than Miss Thompson. I had, up to this time, considered Dill an honest man, but I could not swallow this. Old top, said I, if you're telling the truth youill never see ifty again and if you 're not I'll follow your example in the next Economics exam. This was enough and he opened up. I was elected captain of the home team and called my first signals on Sunday, Feb. 29, 1889. I wore my first pair of trousers on a farm near Java in Lucas County, Ohio. What would you do if you had a date with two diEerent ones at the same time and they both boarded at the same placeflw Confound it, Dill! we're not discussing family troubles now, so go on with your little spiel! I yelled. He became meek as a lambg I could see that he was afraid of me. I stooped low enough to enter Holland High a number of years later but made a has-ty exit. I now condescended to permit the Ohio Northern University to complete llly academic education. New that I was through with these common schools I began to look around for a college that would come up to my Stand- ard 5 Harvard, Yale, Leland Stanford, Princeton and others were carefully looked over and eliminated and I de- cided to honor Ohio State University by permitting it to give me a course in agriculture. I allowed it to give me a degree in 1913. Last year I was employed on a large stock farm i.n Wisconsinf' How do you like your present position? I asked. Fair, he said, but if I should happen to get married in the near future I shall take up a more permanent line of work. R. G. ' 'T ' - l5 T Lu 5 T 'fi L I ii E l V? Si Zi 4 V at I E Ia E S 9 i i li r. ii 1 B li 5, ll Tzxng