Weatherwax High School - Quinault Yearbook (Aberdeen, WA)

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2-1 QUINT AULT Mentor Class History There is much to be said of our achievements, for even though it savor of vainglory we do not hesitate to state the truth. The facts are that, though there have been some injudicious flunks here and there, we have not been inactive nor shall we go out of our school life leaving no mark. True we have not been well beloved by other classes and our departure will not be mourned by them as an insupportable loss, yet we magnanimously consider the fact of their little ambition and that they are only waiting to step into our shoes. So much for the present conditions. Let us now, like all good historians. decipher the old manuscripts and pore over the carvings on the walls of the old school, also the desks, for our great deeds of the past. FRESHMAN YEAR. With the opening of our Freshman Year we received our introduction into the joys (?) of High School. For the first few days we ran the gamut of afflictions, wrong class room, giggling Juniors, scoffing, patronizing Seniors, etc., etc., until to many of us life seemed an unbearable visitation of the Gods. , Hut that all cleared, and we came nobly up to the mark in football, having five representatives on the second team. This is. as all are forced to admit, good work for a Freshman class. On the track team, as in basketball and debate, we made a far bet-fer record. Roy Wood, Ralph Faulkner, Harold Hayes, and Lance Hart made the track team and also creditable records for themselves. In Harold Haynes and Lance Hart we had two exceptional debaters. The A. II. S. was represented by Lance Hart in two important debates. The class showed the judgment for which it has since become famous in choosing the officers for the Freshman year, namely, Lance Hart, President, etc. etc. SOPHOMORE YEAR, In summarizing history of each year, football conies first in chronological order, so we will give it its rightful place. During this year, two men on the first team were the backbone of the squad, keeping up courage and working hard; these two boys were Ralph Faulkner and Roy Wood. Tin last named had the honor of making the first touchdown ever scored against Tacoma by us. In basketball Lance Hart and Roy Wood won laurels for themselves and their class; they were both brilliant players and often saved the team from utter defeat. In debate and oratory we shone with an undimmed luster, for in Lance Hart we had a speaker of no mean ability. He took second place in Seattle, and so gave us the victory over many larger schools. Ralph Faulkner and Alex Lackey also took a prominent place in our debating ranks. Tn tin1 baseball season, came an event which, for the first time, forced the upper classmen to recognize our ability. This was the baseball game in which the Sophomore team defeated a picked team from the rest of the school by a score of 11 to 8.

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SENIOR GROUP.

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QUINIAULT 25 Our class officers for this year were: Ralph Faulkner, President, Ella Clark, V. I , Thomas O’Hara, Sec., Mary Wood, Treas. JUNIOR YEAR. The record of our deeds for the Junior Year will of necessity be shorter than the others. Not that we did less, but because of the fact that no paper was printed in this year and therefore we have no record of each triumph. In football several of our members were on the team, among whom were Dunbar Pinckney, Roy Wood, and Ralph Faulkner. We had every cause to be proud of the work of these individuals on the team and we think it is true that no opportunity was lost. We were well represented in debate and basketball by Lance Hart and Roy Wood, as well as by others. History says that the Junior Prom was a great success and we were justly proud of ourselves after the event. We also gave the Seniors a party, which was an enjoyable affair for all concerned. Our class officers for this year were: Mary Wood, President, Thomas O’Hara, Vice-President, Margaret Wilson, Secretary, Leo Scott, Treasurer. SENIOR YEAR. In this year we record the most brilliant of our years in High School. On the football team, which won the state championship, we had the majority of the players. These were Wood, Faulkner, Seott, Pinckney, Cooper and Moulton. We don’t think a class was ever more worthily represented. The Ocean Breeze, which had died at the end of our Sophomore year, revived, and with Lance Hart as editor it has become a rather noteworthy issue. Our class play was, in spite of drawbacks, delays and discouragements, a success so marked that members of the class attempted to go on the road and were only dissuaded from this course by the earnest arguments of Mr. Wilson, who greatly feared for their reception elsewhere. The class party and the Senior Ball were two of the most enjoyable affairs of the year, which praise is certainly the highest the committee can desire. All their efforts were to entertain their guests pleasantly, and in this they succeeded. The control of school affairs has been this year where it belongs— in the hands of the graduating class, and we hope this may prove an object lesson to those following us. Class officers for this year were: John May, President, Elizabeth Kay, Vice-President, Dunbar Pinckney, Treasurer, and Mona Shannon. Secretary. So the last year of our High School course is ended. We have greatly enjoyed our four years and. now that the time has come for departure, it is a little hard to think we will not be able, as in the preceding years, to come back next September. “The best of friends must part,” says the old proverb, so we will be compelled now to say our “Adios” to Aberdeen High School.