University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Che i rtriiir (Class History (Bv Frances Clark anti Lamoine Rucker.) The Senior Class of 1915 has a very unusual history. The class was never thoroughly organized until October 16. 1915 in the histon room of the new school. Emily Anderson, Frances Clark. W illiam Dowd, and Lamoine Rucker are the only members of the present class who were members of the 1911-12 Freshman Class. In our sophomore year of 1912-13 we were joined by 1 Handle Flynn. Ida Kiel, Ella Xess and Bernadette O'Grady. In our junior year of 1913-14 Fanny Kanter. Russell Morrissey, Leon Schall and John Jerome became members of our class. At the beginning of the 1914-15 year Ora Allschwager. Mary Berg. Mildred Bleakley, Eugene Burke. Paul Dudley. Warner Hagberg, Fay Mature. Grace I-incline, Carl Linsmayer, Alice Mareck. Thelma Petterson. and Robert Steele were added to our class enrollment, making a total of twenty-three. In the fall of 1914 we began school in our new building on the main campus. Mr. Kent occupied the principal’s chair in place of Miss Mott, our efficient and faithful principal, whom we miss, but whose place, we all feel, is extremely well filled bv its present occupant. Miss Boyce is now our only teacher from the old school. At the first meeting the following officers were elected: President. Lcor Schall: vice president, Blanche Flynn; secretary, Frances Clark; treasurer. Rob ert Steele. At the second meeting the questions of pins and class pictures came up. Paul Dudley was elected the chairman of the committee to look after the pictures, and Blanche Flynn and Carl Linsmayer were elected to be our pin committee. At the next meeting we chose “A Bachelor’s Romance” for our class pla In several of- the following meetings a hot discussion ensued among the masculine members of the class as to whether they should all wear white trousers at graduation or mot. It was moved that a ballot vote be taken on the subject and a box was placed in the office to receive the votes. For various reasons the votes were cast and recast until the majority were in the president's favor. so it was “voted” that the boys would not wear white trousers. The girls, meanwhile, had decided that they should wear white sailor suits. At a later meeting Eugene Burke, Robert Steele and Lamoine Rucker were appointed as the invitation committee, and we received an invitation from the Juniors to a Junior-Senior ball. We expect that President Vincent will present us with our diplomas at graduation, and we also have high anticipations of a class picnic. When we leave the old “C High School there is not one but will remember the good times we have enjoyed within its walls and hope that we may, in the future, gather together there again.

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And gave them good marks to stop their noise. They received their diplomas so fair and white, And went into the world to begin their fight. John Jkuomi :. alutaturu ( Delivered at the Class Picnic.) Members of the faculty and classmates, as salutatorian of the class of 1915 of the University High School. 1 greet you. In the name of the senior class 1 welcome you all to this gathering. As this is one of the events of the year which brings us into closer contact, let us try to make this as pleasant as possible. Let us make this a day which we will look hack upon in after years with pleasure. We will perhaps never all be together again for an event like this; for who knows where fate, or fortune will place us. in the great realm of the future? 1 am sure all of us. each and every one. have our own individual desires and ambitions which may take us far away from the school where we spent so many happy days, lie who has no aim in life is like a ship tossed upon unknown seas in storm and tempest with no harbor in sight. Hut I am sure the members of this class of the University High School have ambitions and say with the poet -‘Tmild thee more stately mansions () my soul. As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low vaulted past! Let each new temple nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. Till thou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea. AMnrc to the (firabuatr Ah. (Iraddie. dinna care I f at first things do go wrong For this great world is fair, And your strife will not be long; Put keep on singing (Iraddie, And whistlin’ all the way. Ah. (Iraddie, dinna care. There'll be a brighter day. And. (Iraddie. ken ye no’ Of what’s in store for ye? The life which ye’re approaching From care is never free. And there’ll be few friends aboot. And sympathy scarcer, too. So speed up. (Iraddie. For this great world no’ wait for ye. (A Parody on “Dinna Care.”) -A. I). W. Class 11113 (Tune of “The Orange and the Black. ) yTo v our high school days arc ended. The hour is here at last! Oh! if we could only linger Midst the dear scenes of the past. W’c must bid farewell to comrades. And the pleasures they have told. 11 our future be inspired By the old maroon and gold. I11 our four short years of high school We all worked with an aim. Some worked to gain high honors. Some sought athletic fame. No one studied on baseball day. When games were won so hold. Then our thoughts were all of victory For the old maroon and gold. Farewell to thee! U. High School. How sad to leave thee. For now we go forth Midst other scenes to he. Though in far-off lands we wander, We'll have sweet memories old. Which will bring 11s thoughts of bygone days And the old maroon and gold.

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Time: Fifty years hence, after great world-wide war. Place: University Campus. As I prowled about the remains of the old University High School, now leveled by the hostile shells of the allied enemy, picking up here a spent bullet and there a jagged cartridge case, my thoughts returned to the days when I was wont to prowl about its premises in an altogether different atmosphere, an atmosphere of peace, with my mind wholly on the past. Suddenly I stumbled on an old man, who mumbled something about letting an old gentleman go about his work. Pegging his pardon. 1 asked for what he was looking, lie replied that many years ago, while principal of the now devastated University High School, he had buried somewhere in the basement of the ruins a box containing the names and occupations of those who were graduated in the first class and given their displomas during his reign. 1 now became interested. and we hunted together, but our search seemed a vain one. Suddenly he caught sight of the cover of his much-cherished treasure. Prying stones loose and removing debris, we finally were able to lift the cover of the strongbox. The old gentleman lifted out a scroll very tend.rly, and handed it to me. 1 here reproduce the contents, as the old gentleman has since passed on to his fathers, having bequeathed me the scroll. Robert Steele, whose periodic roving habits have grown until the whole world is his playground, is now living in Honolulu. 1 regret to say that his habit of girl fussing has not left him. and he has never married, because he could not pick one out of all his acquaintances whom he liked better than another. To my surprise and delight I read that Leon Schall. whose highest aim once centered in the presidency of the United States, was married, and that he is now the greatest mushroom raiser in Anoka. Blanche Flynn succeeded Jane Addams at Hull House and is devoting her whole time to the settlement work, and with her is Mildred Bleakely. who has established a day nursery there and is an ardznt advocate of Mellin’s l»abv Food. W hen the war broke out in the United States, the preceptress at St. Margaret’s left to become a war nurse. Her name is inseparable with the battle of Indian Mounds. Ida Kiel, who completes this quartet, went to her Vaterland to reconstruct the Herman language, which was so badly shattered during the war. With the kindly assistance of General von Kliick she has gathered together the remnants and placed before the world a newer and simpler German language. Of Lamoine Rucker my remembrances are most pleasant, and with delight 1 read in the Hopkins Gazette that he is now conductor of the Hopkins Glee Club. The same newspaper gave a thrilling account of the “Captain of the Bearded Bandits, who again terrorizes city.” and who was this but the Carl Linsmaycr, whose hobby was naturalism in the days of old. I always did like the style with which Eugene Burke displayed his talents in acting. Since his rise to fame I must sav that having an understudy like His Skinner does not alter his friendship for me in the least.