West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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June Senior Officers OLIVER BUSWELL. President JOSEPHINE WILCOX. Secretary LOUISE AM I DON. Vice President CLARE LONG. Treasurer |N the past four years we have worked through the cocoon of Freshman youthful ignorance. As Sophomores and Juniors we began gradually to see “things as they are.” Now, as Seniors, we are about to rest ourselves upon the somewhat fragile wings of our diplomas and seek “more worlds to conquer. In the first stage of High School Life our horizon was so limited that many of us did not realize that the world contained more persons than ourselves. Gradually, however, as we got glimpses of the world, we began to sec others in the same situation with ourselves. T o most of us it has come suddenly, as a revelation; and not until. in the Senior year, we were eagerly thinking of leaving High School; that there were others all around us. with whom i{ was profitable to associate. It seemed to me that just as the thrill of graduation came to those who left in January, they were suddenly conscious of the loss involved in leaving their friends and a school like West. We have lxx?n together now four years. We have seen each other changed from youngsters to that form which, when matured by exjjerience will make a man or a woman. We know each other's faults and mistakes as well as virtues. It is for these reasons, I believe, that there is a spirit of class community between us which will go far to hold us true to ourselves, to each other, and to West High. Oliver Biswell. Sixteen

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 Fifteen eailK5FERi4i Ipiilf53 To the Class of 1913 T 10 you it may seem that in the four years just passed you have been given enough advice; nevertheless I feel that I must add more, w One of the most important things for you to remember jL Jfl is that good training helps one to success, and that prepar- : ation is obtained much easier than it was a generation ago. The untrained man is under a heavier handicap as the ! •:i! 1;,’! “uly skilled men and women Whether a man be his own master in the filling of these jxjsitions depends mainly on the man and his training. Think of your mind as a muscle to lx developed. Don’t cheat it or neglect it, or you pay the cost. Plan to earn your own living, whether you feel the necessity of doing it or not. Don’t be in debt to Society. If your four years in high school has helped you to something higher and better, it has accomplished much. I hojx it has. Wishing you all possible success. I am Sincerely yours. C. G. Salt.

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The Senior Executive Committee Cora Storms Roger Kennedy Helen Leavitt Amulf U eland Dorothy Rcndell 1913 Election Returns I landsomest boy—K E X X EDY Most popular boy—WEST Smartest bov—K EX X E1) Y Most studious boy —BUSWELL Prettiest girl—L. AMIDON Bcswell Crookcr U ELAM) Bus well Bcswell Minor Kennedy Rossman Sidnam Comb