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

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9 Sftnrm Eelke Breeze Miss YVhi'tuey is one of the oldest members of the faculty. She unwillingly told me she was twenty-four years of age, born Aug. 29, 1890, but the date of her death is unknown. Her home is in Hampton, Iowa. When I asked her nationality she gave a deep sigh and replied, Everything, Her favorite song is, H If you talk in your sleep donit mention my name. Her favorite occupation is Hslinging hashn. Says she has no false teeth and refused to give me her waist measure, advising me to ask the underftaker. She is a firm believer in fussingg says her hou1's are from one till won. I said to her, Then you don't ever intend to be an old maid? She replied, Most certainly I intend to be. The ambition of my life is to become matron of an Old Maids' Hall. I asked her who her pal was. She replied very briefly, Thon1p. I asked, f'What college did you attend? I have had two colleges, she said, HI. S. T. C. and the College of Hard Knocks. Wl1at is your idea of old age? I asked-then she went nearly into a tantrum and talked for an hour on the subject, she said: Not one of us is any older than we make ourselves, I hope I shall never live to be 60 years old but I do hope that I may live to be 90 years young. IrVhat is your mottoil' I asked. I have several, sho said, but the one I live nearest to is 'Early to hed and early to rise, miss lots of fun and never get wise'. , L. L. D. As I happened to be passing the commercial room the other day I saw Miss Thompson quietly gazing into space as though she were thinking of her past, so I asked here to tell me her thoughts. They rolled out easily as follows: My name is Lueile Eleanor Thompson. I was horn in the year 1893, Feb. 29th. At the age of seven I was sta1'ted to school. Because of my brillianey I finished school in ten years, which made it 1907. I then went to college at Boise, Idaho, for two years, and then finished my education at Highland Park. After graduating I taught two years at Boone. After leaving Boone I came to the little eity of Storm Lake where I am now, and expect to be the rest of my life, unless I get married or die. I have but one motto which I live by and try to make others, and that is, 'Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut. My favorite st01'y is 'The house that Jack built'. O. S. B-8 - - inqvQw12 iggwflwlf '-ff? '7E'7'fi!i .T3- +-

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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

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Some people may get the idea that we 1nembe1's of the Annual Board have a snap in getting these inter- views, but if they had been in my place whe11 I was dodging around seats, upsetting chairs, having doors slammed in my face, and facing remarks that made me feel like a German penny in London, they would be willing to sell their typewriter and go to studying their lessons. But Miss McDougall was doomed to lose out in her effort to evade me, for I caught her by her long broom-I mean her arm, as she was turning a fast corner, and as she was as nearly all in as I was, I quietly escorted her into a vacant room. She sank exhausted into a chair. You may as well open up, I said. I was just trying to have some fun with you, I wasn't really trying to get away, and if this will do you any good here it is-I was born at Charlton, Iowa, quite a while ago, perhaps one lmndred years after tl1e Revo- lutionary War, and being very young at the time I was not in a position to look out for myself so I depended on my father and mother for a few years for 1ny support. After graduating from Charlton High and Mon- mouth College I secured a job at teaching school and I'm still at it. What were your first impressions of Storm Lake? I asked. They wouldn't do to print,'l she said. I asked for her opinion of Bryan but she refused to answer as she could not do so without the use of French or Greek. Miss McDougall is one member of our faculty who is always smiling, and never grouehy, but she has a way of her own of making a person feel cheap in the presence of others, but IVG,l'0 here to say that our high school career would have been a little more pleasant, and we would also have a few more eonvolutions in our cere- bellums if all of our teachers had been Mary Frederica Mcllougalls. History tells us that on the 22nd day of April in thc. year of 1991 thc people of lford County, Ill., became acquainted with 1 car KK-'1-I'-l'J which is .still in good working order, The 1391 model was named Lois . I'1'O111 the end of the first day of her school lifb on it was her desire to become 't school teacher. She was -il- ways the brightest one in her class, being the only Irishnrin in it, and never had to take 'in examination since the rules and regulations were made so that the teachers could exempt their favorites. She entered Simpson Col- lege -it Indianola, Iowa, i11 1909, and graduated in 1913. While attending college she did not play basketball because it was too rough 't game. She did not do any declaznatory work because when thc Irish get started to talking it s hard to stop them ton certain snbjeetsj. She never whispered in school except when the teacher 's b-ick was turned. An untruth never passed betvs Len her lips to the teacher 's hearing because she always bore in mind the rule of Geo. Washington and furthermore she always talked through her nose on such occasions. The teachers -'tt Simpson College had ft hard time keeping her out of the laboratory because she liked to play with the instruments but by the time she got her degree she was able to let someone else play with them 1 little bit. She attempted to teach physics at Leon, Iowa, last year but she was not able to let the instruments be played with by others so she came to Storm Lake. She has not been here wry long but so far she has made us do our shire of the work. -, .. . I L . , I I , 1 . I I e 1 . f . I i H 'Y J 4 1 4 t Y K K l . , , , . L 1 C L 5 y I c r c I' 1 X l I C Y. ' 1 , 1 1 x 1 L r 1 , C , X C yi I K , L K 1 V I c 4 l I 1 4 4 ,h N '.'- 1 1 , . . . Y Q L y 1 , 1 ,L ,M 1 .1 .1 I L . I C G - 2 I - '---i'v: ' f 4 '1- ,HWS