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

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Senior Wi!! In the name of Wisdom, Amen. We, the Senior Class of 1917 of the Storm Lake High School do hereby, being of sound and disposing memory Qwe linger on the memory? make and publish this, our last will and testament in order, as justly as we may, to distribute our interests in High School. And first, that part of our business which is known in the law and recognized among all, our places which we have so diligently filled and o'er which desks we have so unceasingly toiled. Hltem.-And first we bequeath to our fellow Juniors all our intellectual ability for which we have so long been known. Item-And second, we do generously bequeath to our struggling followers, our books ffor a set pricej thereof. Item-To the Juniors, you who are no longer children, we leave also the volumes of advice on the annual to which you may turn, when publishing your own, that you may live the old days over again. Item-To the Sophomores, we leave, yea willingly, all our advice acquired by four years of actual hard earned relentless experience, namely, first, a trip to the r-fiice is purely one of delight and adventure, which everyone should try to take before leaving the Temple of Knowledge, second, that a pony for Caesar, though a nerve racking risk, is truly worth the price. , Item-And to our Freshman brothers, who are so close to our hearts, we leave all the meadows with clover blossoms and butterflies thereof and all the little birds, and the hills upon which they can coast in winter and down which they can roll in summer, and the lake where they may skate fslippere, falli, bumtusj Item-To the faculty we give all good little words of praise and all quaint pet names, and we charge said faculty to use them justly but generously as the needs of the children will require. Item-To Dorothy Smith and Russell we leave the Moon and the train of the Item Item Milky VVay to wonder at. Florence Thorp's intellectual ability to Clifford Stanton. -Don White's musical ability to Cecelia Howe. Item-Allen Higgen's popularity with the girls to Ross Parish. Item-Cedric Robert's Athletic ability to Dwight Espe. Item-Ralph Avenell's subdued nature to Grace LaRue. Item-Jean Woodruff's dramatic ability to Paul Foote. Item-Ted Bair's laugh to Caroline Foell. Item-Esther Zinn's hilarious spirit to Dorothy Gaflin. Item-Annie Robertson's happiness and fun to Hilda Doolittle. Item-'Gilly's' incessant talking to Mary Thomas. Item-'Pretty's' musical ability and beauty to Kendric Bell. Item-A few promising athletes to Mr. Anderson, such as Edgar Breecher, Rollin VVagner, and David Hughes.

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Senior Class Poem 'Twas in the year of nineteen five We started in the lane, To travel on the widening road That oft'times leads to fame. In the year of nineteen fourteen We started, Freshmen green, To labor for our High School, And the class of Seventeen. As Sophomores and Juniors We had joys and trials galore, And, as sainted, much loved Seniors, We are having many more. VVe've won fame in Athletics, Both by girls and boys too, We, also, have a soldier For the old Red, White, and Blue. In music we're aceommlished l In Declam' we've won o'er all, We have never been defeated And we're not prepared to fall. As for our dear Old Faculty We Seniors feel we're blest, Surely none so good as they Were given to the rest. And, now, as we are leaving, Thinking of the days gone by, Our love and our best wishes Are with the Storm Lake High. Mildred Gilmore '17

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Item-Miss Franke to console Mr. Miller, in case the latter is compelled to go to War. Item-To Miss Goodman, our patroness, the good wishes of the Senior Class. Now and forever, we the Senior Class leave all our abilities stretching into every field, and do without tithe or diminution leave the knowledge of what a rare, rare world this is. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this, the 7th day of April, A. D., 1917. CSEALJ RUSSELL BATTERN, Class President. Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the Senior Class of 1917, CNineteen Hun- dred and seventeen, as their last will and testament, in the presence of each other we have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. C. E. AKERS, Superintendent. NELLIE R. GOODMAN, Principal PERCY SMITH, junior President Prophecy of Class of 1.91 7 A Visit to the Lower Worldl' Unde ruunt voces, responsa Sibyllae. I could not translate that line and besides I was sleepy. Un-de-ru-unt-vo-ces. I was no longer sitting at my study table wondering over Aeneas' visit to the Lower World. Everything about me changed. A vast cave confronted me into which a hundred broad avenues and a hundred doors lead. And from these numerous openings rushed forth as many voices, which I saw came from a ferocious being before me. While I was standing before the door, she spoke, her looks changed, her color came and went, her hair was disheveledg and her lips foamed with rage. Cold horror ran 'thrilling through my bones and I prayed that I might be saved from the clutches of this monster. But the raving creature, as if subdued by some supernatural influence, came forth to meet me and poured forth such words. I am the prophetess, Sibyl. Oh, thou who beareth in thy countenance the perils of Latin, why hast thou come? That it may be lot to come into the sight and presence of my dear class of Storm Lake High, of the Year 1917, I answered. Then thou mays't view the Books of Wisdom within, which have always been held inaccessible to the living, she said, and closing her lips was silent.