Thomas Jefferson High School - Monticello Yearbook (Council Bluffs, IA)

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. Dfdgg the affirmative team opened the season by debating South High of Omaha. Thomas Jefferson's first defeat came on February 7, when the negative team lost at Guthrie Center. This closed the season. Dramatics was taken up extensively by literary societies at Thomas Jefferson in 1925. Since then the high school's own programs coupled with paid activity programs have made great use of the auditorium. . . . And so things were begun . . . and so they grew in stature and in imp' ortance .... Thirtyffive seniors received high school diplomas as the class of '24 . . . the first graduating class of Thomas Jefferson high school. This year, well over six times this many will walk down the aisle in mortar board and gown ..... These classes and those to come are the history makers of Thomas Jefferson high school.

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ECZOHZEQ . came to be known, played a memorable game for the school's football history for they won, 19 to 9. That season T. J. emerged allfvictorious, for not a game was lost. The season's encounters summed up to T. jfs winning a total of 61 points to their oppon- ent's 9. In 1922, the school band was organized. The Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln high school bands consolidated in 1923, and won first place in a contest with the Omaha Central and Lincoln, Nebraska bands. Following this success, they participated in the National High School Band contest held at Chicago. Here they were awarded third place among the hundred high school bands that took part. The first Thomas jefferson high school orchestra, organized in 1923, was com' posed of seven members. Debate was introduced at Thomas Jefferson in 1924 by the debate club. On January 10, 1924, the negative team defeated Atlantic and Woodbine. In February

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The Band and R.O.T.C. Hall---The greatest architectural addition to Thomas leffcrson High School After the snow---Thomas jefferson High School in winter