West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Ruth Larner and Marie Lutes run a circus, in which one of the attractions is a violin duet entitled, A Senior's Revery in Double D Flat, by Marion Grant and Hazel Richards. Ethel Keen is billed to sing a solo, called Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. The program includes Earl McLellan and George Saunders, tight-rope walkers, Reuben Gustafsen, ballet-dancer and high kicker, and Robina Storrie, who does the Highland fling. A paying feature is the side-show where Miss Stevens makes faces at Dorothy' Boyd and Elsie Altvater. Edna Grant is a knife thrower. Sarah Monical and Josephine Fletcher appear in a playet, 'tThe Message of the Violet, Or What Celia Found. . . I observe that Leslie Skerry is a senator and still harangues committees. Maynard Boring is a missionary to China. Ruth Baum and lrene Seller, noted bacteriologists, have discovered the germ that produces tardiness. Curtis Drake is agent for Sunday School pins which he is introducing into the high schools. Edna Lewis now wears one of them instead of an S. R. pin. Marquis Streator has realized his ambition, he drives a vegetable wagon, and Marguerite Wallace, the milliner, gets all her trimmings from him. Ethel Palmer- ton is writing a play, 'tLove and Cabbagesf' Harry Carlson, having amassed millions manufacturing ice-cream, serves it free to every Senior Class. Claudia Spillman has developed quite an interest in Art, Bill Stringham's favorite oath is still, Well, bicarbonate. Mina Zirkle has purchased the Royal Theatre on account of associations, Herbert Merman runs the pictures for her. Philip Barker teaches decorum in a young ladies' seminary. Gladys Mason is a beauty doctor. You will sigh to hear that Sidney Mclntosh, our sure shot in basket-ball, throws bombs for the nihilists. Cecil Junk, having married an Earl, has moved to Yorkshire. Our demure Irene Bryden is a nun. I see a bill-board announcing the last chance to hear Mr. Jasper Yowell, assisted by Elsie Binning and Margaret Uebelhoer. Ruth Williams and Hannah O'Brien have a sugar farm where they raise cane. Mr. Alfred Agamem- non Peabody is writing an epic, 'tOne Minute Late, or, The Untimely Jumping of the Clock. Edith Coleman, suflragette, wins thousands of luckless men by her oratory. Gertrude Joseph is now speaker of the House of Commons. Helen Russell is happy, they are waiting for the millions of Morgan, the railroad king. Lois Leonard and Katherine Stackhouse have joined the Jumpers. Madge Bowler is advance agent for a breakfast-food company and Lillian Greene chaperones parties to Europe. Adda Burnett, after vainly pursuing the men for years, gave up in despair and is starting an Old Maidls Home. The Crystal is clouding, the figures disappearing. I can see no more of Nineteen Eleven. ADDA BURNETT. -uff.. 21

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necessary to withdraw our good influence from the school system, but we feel we have done our duty and must pass on. Rome had her Caesar, France her Napoleon, Scotland her Bruce and West Denver her class of 1911. MINA ZIRKLE, '11. CIEISS Propbccg of 1911 Some time ago, I dreamed that I had blundered in upon a celestial meeting on Olympus. The gods were discussing the brilliant class of eleven and had decided to be impartial in their gifts. They had chosen a prophet, who to my surprise was Adda Burnett. A Observing that the initials of our president's name are W. D. and his locks are the school colors, they sent Wilbur Dinsmore this package which he gave to me. Oh! a crystal. I wonder if I can see the future in it? Yes. There is the West Side High School, Claire McKelvey and Stella Grattan, desperately overworked, are now guardians of the office pencils. Up stairs, Mr. Sheldon has a beautiful new laboratory. His assistants, Agnes Cole and Leo Rubenstone, mark examination papers, while Ruth Kimball and Jessie Moody teach Fudge-making. Emma Parks coaches Seniors in original chemistry problems. Jeanette Cassidy is assistant in French and Bessie D'Amour in German. Some of the old school rooms have been rented. On Room Seven we see a sign f'Coit and Shimpfky, office hours 2:35 to 3,30 P. M., dealers in second-hand frat pins. Incorporated after ruling of March, 1911. They get these from the representative of the school-board, Mr. Clarence Jackson. Room One is a shop, kept by Marie Garrison, where butter-scotch and fruit-cake are sold. Florence Willard and Helen Phillips are in the Library, telling some of their good stories to Seniors during study hours. A private school stands where the corner store used to be. It is a religious in- stitution, conducted by the Reverend Meredith Pratt, the great Sunday-school worker. Mr. Woodman is teaching Forest-ry, Florence Briber, Calisthenics, Dan Zimmerman, the art of making hot chocolate, flavored with zinc. Since the rule was adopted in West Denver that pupils may remain only eight years, those not finishing attend this private school, Stratton Martin refuses to leave until he Ends his Ancient History. To accommodate the exhausted sharks from both these schools there is a hospital, Miss Dungan's Private Institution of Recuperationf' Is this Chester Bunte mopping the corridors? I understand he has made a fortune by serving as handy man in the winter and may-pole in the spring. The head-physician is Dr. Walter Antikamnia Shoemaker, the nurses, Florence Barker and Irene Linn. Among the patients are Marie Haberl, worn out from campaigning for election to the School Board, Lucile Jaeger and Anna Magnusson, who took too long a study of carbonate- monoxide, also Bessie Tuttle who swallowed a bacterium. In one of the padded cells of the insane ward a man gleefully tells visitors that he has one hundred and eighty-three dollars for the Annual, and that a girl once said he had beautiful eyes. This is Thad Sears. Farther on Hattie Warfel, Julia John- son, and Theresa Riss gravely discuss Woman's Suffrage. Are they the bunch that used to study Civics in the office? I notice the keeper, John Harvey struggling with Minor Coon, Minor, you know, always runs and hides until assured his visitors are not truant officers. 20

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9,'s7LC'p. JUCAP' RUTH BA UM, Webster I remember only hours of sunshine. D. HARR Y CARLSOM Castalian liaskethall '10, '11, Captain of Basketball '11, Captain of Track '11, t'He has the heart to conceive, the understand- ing' to direct, Aud the hand to execute. CECIL JUNK, Webster Secretary of Athletic Ass'n. '10, '11. HA daughter of the Gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. 5 cdfor-J . j, LESLIE SKERRK Casmlian, New +'f 't' SA' 'I' Prize Debate '09, '10, Winner of Oratorical L5'r '1'-K Eh 5 '10, Treasurer of Castalian '10, Ass't l3edQa1CcL-Wand Manager of Heraldo '09, '10, President Ce +e of Castalian '10, Junior President of Class '10, Christmas Play '10, Com- mencement Oration '11, Editor-in-Chief of Senior Annual '11, Born for success he seemed. '5't'Q l lc-f S+eu 651.5 HARRIET WARFEL, Casfalian H me 56-TCM t?eh'nl4aj . 4 Ogaon- S4 6 She is a woman, theretore to he woo'd 2 LI, ip, She is a woman, therefore to he won, ' hi'-S -Guy Wal- Pal 77