Thornburg High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Thornburg, IA)

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0 ogonunnununn Eighteen Z f74 afeff , 6,19 - p is l F ,gehldy Hl6?oYy fqal m ,HV AWP! CLASS HISTORY It Was in the fall of 1917, that the first group of the present Senior Class was admitted to the T. H. S. as Freshmen. There Were five of us, Gwyrneth Morton, Blanche Dahlstrom, Faye Bittinger, Zola Jack and Cecil Dansdill. The great joy of this occasion Was not marred by any thoughts of a future failure, the horizon of our school life at this time Was bright and rosy. It did not occur to us until later that We Would have to Work, and Work hard, no, We had heard of bluffing, cram- ming, and pursuading, and it had affected us deeply. Consequently some of us were almost forced to drop by the roadside. The Friday after We had settled down to become a part of the ornamentation of the school, figuratively speaking, We obtained our first inkling of the nature and purpose of an assembly. We had now set forth upon the Wild seas of romance, teachers, lessons, and such other small trifles. It did not Worry us about making grades g in fact some of us almost flunked before We realized that study had a place in our school curriculum. The Various periods possessed many terrors, real or imaginary, I 1 9 21.--mmm

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,QX ' ,fi FAYE BITTINGER-General Course. Literary Society '20 and '21, V Alumni Editor for Annual '21, Vice President Senior Class '21. Glee Club '21. Large things come in small pack- ages. V66IF79 by Rudyard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on youg If you can trust' yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can Wait and not be tired of waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wiseg If YOU can dream-and not make dreams your masterg If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat these two imposters just the same, ' If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop to build 'em up with worn-out tools, If YOU can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings 1 And never breathe a word about your loss, If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you I Except the Will which says to them: 4'Hold on. If YOU can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man, my son! llll Illllllllllllll I Illll llllllllll IllllllllllllllllllllllU5 Seventeen

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q A 'm ' at the beginning. When the first teacher of the day announced Period 1 we were entirely bewildered. However, after a few stren- uous week we were thoroughly initiated into the peculiarities of the school system. In September, 1918, we re-entered school with a new lease on life, After all the preliminaries were over, the Sophomore class started with a determined effort to surpass all records of previous tenth grade pupils. There were now six strong, robust students in the class. In oratorical and declamatory work, debating and athletics the Sopho- more class took an important part, and worked hard to make our High School stand high in the estimation of other schools. Our efforts were not altogether in vain, for in many of the contests T. H. S. came out with flying colors. The real zest of our school life had not yet en- tered into our hearts 5 that was to come later g but we worked hard to achieve distinction as a class in the records of the school. This we succeeded in doing. No Sophomore class in the past came anywhere near equaling the standard of our work. The Seniors of '21 can point with just pride, in future years, to the fact that they were once members of the greatest Sophomore class that ever graced the halls of old T. H. Late in May, the Class of '18 was graduated, and we were con- verted to Juniorism. Gan any of us ever forget the joyous thought with which we prided ourselves on the fact that we were Juniors? At last we were factors in the advancement of school spirit and school life at Thornburg High. It would seem that the memory of that occasion will never fade from our minds. Some of our members excelled in athletics, literary work, and others were chosen to assist in the Senior play. At last came graduation, the annual event in which the Juniors and Seniors were the main participants. The good feeling between the classes was manifested in the reception by the Juniors to the Seniors in May, 1920. This reception was acknowledged by all pres- ent to be a great success. Let us hope that the friendship existing between the Classes of '20 and '21 will continue through life. When we entered school in the fall of '20, we were at last Seniors! The class organized and elected Cecil Dansdill, President, Faye Bit- tinger, Vice President, Helen Musgrove, Secretary, Elsie Moore, Treasurer. Nothing But the Truth was selected as the class play. As the story goes, organization insures strength. It seems that we realized this fact early and decided to decorate the interior of the school building with our colors, which happen to be yellow and white. mm.. 1321 .ni mu um Nineteen