Waverly High School - Go Hawk Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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2-L THE PERISCUPE 1913 Che Senior GIHS5 Tuesday, May 21, 1918- .At the End ofthe 1flLilIIJOIl7u CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT PRESTON, a Lawyer ............A....................C................. ,....... P aulus Greening DOUGLAS BROWN, a Football Player ......... ----.-,----- H arry Hicks DICK PRESTON, the GFOOIII ...............Y........,...--... '-------- A m0S Colburn STANLEY PALMER, Hawkins, the Butler ......... , A.,...... Marvin Schluter TED WHITNEY, Captain of the Varsity Team ,....,.,.. ........ F red HeYll'liYlgS JACK AUSTIN, Preston's Secretary ...............,.....,. ..V........ S am Whitney TOM EVANS, a Kappa Beta Sigma ....l..,..... MARION DAYTON, a Ward of Preston ......,... ....,...Harold Gruben ....,...,.Helen Beyer NELLIE PRESTON, a bride ............,.,..........,. ..,........ M iriam Laird LOUISE ROSS, Known as Miss Grayson ......... ,...... ........ H elen Methfessel PHYLLIS LANE, a Football Enthusiast ......,.............,..,............... ,......... A daline Hennings KATHLEEN LENOX, Chairman of the Rushing Committee ......., .......... C lesine Bodeker THE IMP, a Freshman ...............,.....,........,.........................,,...,....i .......... I rene Harmon EMILY ELLIOTT, with a Conscience .................,,,. .... ..... D 0 rris Quinby JANE, a Maid with a Taste for Literature ...........,... .......,, M aurine Lynes MRS. BROWN, Step-mother of Douglas Brown ..,...,... ......... H ilda Hankner POLLY PRICE ..i....................,.....,.....,.,.,.,,,.,...,.,,,,,..,,.,.,,, ..,...... E lsie Albright ELSA ERNEST ..i............,...... .,..,.,...........,.. . .,..,,,.. Irene Vogelsang MARJORIE ARNOLD, of the Theta Phi ..i,...,.. ...........,. I rene Taylor MARIE SWIFT ....................,..............,.....i..... .. ,..,. Margaret Barber MOLLY BRUCE, the Maid ..........................,,............,.....,.,,....,.. .,i,..,.... O rpha Seeley SCENE--A College Town. TIME-The Present Day. ACT I.-Den in the Theta Phi House. ACT II.-Library in the Preston Home-Marion's Mask Ball. ACT III.-Interior of the Athletic Club House. VT? ' Q , W .iq 1:11 SYNOPSIS The students are practicing for a football game, and much interest in the outcome is shown. It develops that Douglas Brown. a football expert from another college, is in town on business connected with his father's estate, and to distract attention, enters this college and thru Phyllis Lane he is induced to play on the team. Robert Preston, a lawyer, secretly loves Marion Dayton, his ward, and she reciprocates. He intrusts to her the combination of his safe and tells her of a packet of important papers lying therein. Louise Ross and her mother. Mrs. Brown, stepmother of Douglas, learn that a second will disinheriting them is among the papers in Preston's safe. They plot to obtain possession of the document at a mask ball giv- en by Marion. Louise wears a costume ident- ical with that of Marion, deceives Preston, learns from him the combination of the safe, and obtains the papers therefrom by the aid of Jack Austin. The Imp , a girl student, sees and recognizes her. ' Preston enters and recognizes Jack. and convinced that he meditates robbery, upbraids him. Marion enters and, comprehending the situation, as she fancies, she shields Jack by assuming the guilt. Her innocence is fully es- tablished by The Imp , who exposes Louise. Meanwhile Douglas wins the game for the team and realizes that he loves Phyllis, but when he learns that she has trifled with him, he becomes cool. This. however, passes away, and happiness follows. Preston, after learn- ing of Marion's innocence, discovers that he loves her, and their dream of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is happlly realized.

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luis THE PERISCOP13 2:5 GIH55 Song Tune: Over Th ure By ADALINE and FRED HENNINGS I. Class-mates, do you know that it's so, we must go, Our diploma won, play is done, work begung We must leave the dear old school, Where we've broken every ruleg But we'll have a heart, make 11 start, do our part, In life's busy throng forge along, brave and strongg Each will do his chosen work, And our tasks we'll never shirk. Chorus: So good-bye, Waverly High, Dear old school that we'll love till we dieg You've been patient ever With dull and cleverg We'll miss you as the years go byg Your aid we'll lack, but we'll come back At the call of the Yellow and the Blackg Tho years may change us, They can't estrange us, For we'll not forget our dear old Waverly High. II. Our school has stood the test, She's the best in the West, And we're proud to claim both her name and her fame, Loyal friend of days now gone, For her sake we'll Carry On. She sends us forth to iight with our might for the right And we'll do our bit, make a hit, never quit, When upon a goal we're set, 1918 ne'e1' failed yet. Senior Glass llbicnic Taking advantage of a short vaca- tion, the Senior class hiked for the woods. Needless to say, they ate din- ner when they got there. It required a few additions from Janesville to make it a meal, but that meant there would he more left for supper-and there was. just to say they had a good time will fill the bill: they did enjoy themselves, as far as we know. By the way, this picnic was at Riverside, and that meant more Seniors on the after- noon train. Things came to more or less of a crisis, or at least an anti- climax, when everybody turned in for our evening repast-or maybe it was just supper. XVe didn't have to depend on the train to take us back, or wouldn't have, if our jitneys had worked. liven Mar- vin's lecture didn't help any, or at least nothing more than to warm up the air, which was getting a little chilly. But this didn't stall us, we had a rope, and it wasn't much work to tow a Ford into town. Oh, yes, we had a chaperone, Miss Tyrrell, but she wasn't there all the time. Anyhow, nothing naughty was done. How'did we enjoy ourselves af- ter supper? VVe wouldn't dare say, but we all did enjoy ourselves. But it was a tired lot that got back after that strenuous day.

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mis THE PERISCOPE ,. 25 Glass ilrltstorp lt was only fitting that the year which ushered in the great World NfVar should also bring into Waverly High School the Class of 1918. For as one was destined to change the affairs of the world, so was the other destined to revolutionize the affairs of VVaverly High School. As the great NVorld VVar was started for the purpose of bringing about democracy in the world, so had the Class of 1918 an aim that was reached at last by the publica- tion of W'averly's first High School Annual, the 1918 HPERISCOPEH. Both had their small beginnings. The NVorld VVar started in the little country of Serbia, and in four years spread over the entire world. The Class of '18 entered high school on Sept. 12, 191-l, with an enrollment of about sixty. At first regarded as in- significant Freshmen, they had not much part in the affairs of the high school, but in the second year of their stay, as their members grew larger in a physical sense, so the influence of the class grew, making itself felt both in athletics and in the social life of the school. In the third year of their sojourn, the class became one of the most im- portant factors in the school. In ath- letics, led by Morgan, Schluter, Graen- ing and Hennings, the class was in the front, both in football and basketball. This was before the advent of track athletics as a school sport, or the class would have had a strong representa- tion in that line. In the last year of its reign, the class reached the zenith of its career. Again strongly represented in athlet- ics, it became the leading class in social affairs. Also the class in this year undertook its greatest task, the publication of an Annual. With Doc Kern at the helm, the Annual was started, and on graduation night the class gave to the town and the school the records of its deeds during its few years in high school. On the same night, the members of the class re- ceived the objects of their aims-their diplomas. And so ended the brief, but eventful history of the Class of 1918. 7 f -x f