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

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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,

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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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