Waukee High School - Warrior Yearbook (Waukee, IA)

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Class of 1923 If the members of the Class of Twenty-three keep up the pace they have set during these last two years, no one can imagine the class that will graduate. It is trut , we art' not as large a class as some, hut what we luck in quantity, is made up in quality. John Shoeman was elected captain of the Second Basket Ball team, an organization that has given the first team some mighty good practice. Then again the Sophomores were honored in having one of their number elected “veil leader.” But it was in the Declamatory Contest that the Sophomores excelled; out of the twelve who took part, eight were of the Class of 1923. We enjoyed two pleasant social events during the year; one being the reception we gave the Freshmen, and the other when we were entertained hy them. First. How Elsie Knoll, Second How Emmeline Lane, Helen Lux. II »l 11 Steele, John Shoeman. Ethel Jones, Merrit McDonald. Doone Wilma Foreland, Alice McDonald, Mae Griffith, Mahlc

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Class of 1924 e, the Frrsdimcn, tho unsophisticated and extremely youthful. ar» very modest and so refrain from dwelling at length upon our good points. Anyway, they are plain to he seen. The. year opened well, and the class was organized with the following officers: Charlie Forrett, president; Stanton Brumfield, vice-president; Grace Myers, secretary and treasurer. The colors, red and blue, were chosen. There is every evidence to prove that we are developing in brain power; our grades show that, however, some credit must he given the teachers. Then, too, we have an abundance of good common sense, a rare quality, and one which our high and lofty schoolmates in the upper classes would do well to emulate. It was one of our number, Grace Myers, who won first place in the local Declamatory contest ami second in the Dramatic Class at Valley Junction. Also you may recall that Maxwell Slaver pulled our Basket Ball team out of more than one tight place. First Row—Norman KoHcnliorgcr, .John Hanlon, (Mias. Forrett, Maxwell Staver. Karl Crispin, Frank O Jnin, CSeo. I’cgmiii. Second Row- Raymond Smilli. Pauline Reynolds. Francis Ix‘onard, Alice Huston, Stanton Brumfield, Helen Frazier, (trace Myers, Dale Alrott. So. here’s to the Freshman Class, With its colors red and blue, [ o High School over is complete. Without th Freshmen too. Wc know wo are quite youthful. An ill that Time will mend. ()ur verdant color, too, will change— All things must have an end. We’ve borne with patience each new joke. From every Sophomore. We’re pressing on, so clear the way For Nineteen Twenty-four.