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

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Near the city of Ipava, in good Illinois State. On June the twenty-seventh I was born to meet my fate. In a Fulton County school house that stood very near the road I learned to write and so forth and to follow teacher 's code. When High School days were over I chose dear old Knox College As the fitting place for Ruthy Diehl to struggle after knowledge. It wasn't all book study, allow me here to say: I practiced on the violin, tho never learned to playg And too my voice I practiced to get it so in tune That boys and girls who heard me said: I wish she'd stop right soon. In spite of bow and voice and books, I found some time to take For basketball and tennis games and rowing on the lake. Then as she told of June again those busy days yet glad When she her Alma Mater left with feelings that were sad. I glanced up as she spoke all this, and an arrow did I spy That tells the world in which she moves, She's a member of Pi Phi. School days coming in the fall ind her in 21 brand new role, Sheds teaching in Ipava High and pointing out the goal. September comes around again and finds her once more at work, For she promised our mlhty school board from her duties she 'd never shirk. So Storm Lake finds her one of them and English is her taskg She strives each day to do her share, and what more can they ask? Athletics, you say, and music too? 1,111 exceedingly fond of bothg But teaching 's not bad, I like it fine. Then meekly the lady quoth: I do many things but seems to me each one abon1inablypoor. I disagree and many . comps. would I give her but she bids me farewell, And as I walk to the door I wonder how she ever has time to sleep. ' L. B. Miss GHIIIHIG-1'Sl1GI111G1' was sitting at her desk, scratching away with a fountain peng when I asked if she was busy, she said she was just practicing penmanship. Holding up her little green class book: I've been mak- ing ovals, she said. It is generally known that Miss Gummersheimer is a genius, she is an artist, athlete and scholar, and it might be said in passing that she is a first class teacher. It is also whispered about that she is very young and openly declared that she is very good looking. I was born, she began, Sept 27th, 1893. in St. Louis. Some months later I accompanied the rest of the folks to Belleville, Ill., where I began my educal tion. I graduated from Belleville High in 1911 and I received my degree from Knox College in 1914. Since that time I have received four offers of . How do you like teaching? I interrupted. Great! I think it is a noble calling, Iim working for a pensionf, What is your chief bone of contention El I asked. That 'Pop' su1'ely missed his calling. Who is your favorite student? 'fDavid Crissy, she answered, blushing very deeply. But I reserve some affection for the whole bunch? ' R. G,

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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

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'- ' ginrau Euler' Zlirerzsra -s - One day I wandered into room eight and said to the teacher: Miss Petersen, I came to get a few facts concerning your life. Oh, I see, said that very reserved lady. For the Annual, I suppose? Yes, you a1'e right. First, how old are you? Excuse me if I seem impudent. This is the life of a re- porter. ' ' After a long pause she said, Well, I'm 20-i-, 20+ I say. Q20-I-20:40, so Gllmllly says.j Now do you know any more than you did before? No, I don't. For we all expected it but did not suppose you would confess it yourself. Now tell me where you were educated and where you have held positions. I donit know what you mean by that first part and I want to get you out of here as quickly as you can, so I will answer those questions at once. I graduated from Britt High School, and Iowa State University. Was assistant principal at Garner, Iowa. I suppose you know I am now teaching Latin and English in Stoi-in Lake High School. Now go! Thank you,', and I was gone. I suppose she'll Hunk me for this, but what do I care! M. D. After chasing Miss Davis all over the building, I iinally cornered her in room 9, and began to fire questions at her. The result was that I learned the whole history of her life with the exception of the date of her birth. Why is it that teachers will never tell their age? But I should judge she iirst opened her eyes on this big world about 1890. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but lived there onlyva short time, moving, while still a baby, to Marshalltown, Iowa. There she spent her childhood on a farm. She had seven brothers and sisters and, being the youngest girl, had little work to do. She spent much time on horseback. In 1909 she went to a preparatory school instead of a high school and in 1911 graduated from the normal college at Cedar Falls. She wanted to go as a missionary but could not pass the health examination. When I asked her how many love affairs she had had, having used up all her fingers on one hand in counting them, she stopped in confusion and said, Just say that I've had so many I can't count them. She said her ideal of a man was too high to express in words. She loves to play tennis. She guides her life by this motto, Do what you think is right in spite of gosgipjt Miss Davis says she loves her work, and we can account for her being a good teacher by the fact that her father and mother, all her sisters, and all but one brother are now or have at one time been teachers. She taught one year at Walnut, Iowa, and two years at Tipton, Iowa. Sho has Spent nearly a year here in Storm Lake and She says she likes Storm Lake better than any other town. M, S,