West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WCM Shearer Brown Putnam White June fcxccutitte oarJt (Class Ifjotuivs E of the class of 19H certainly have the right to feel proud of our class in all respects. We have made a good record for ourselves and we hope for West High. However a great deal of the credit of upholding the standard of the class and setting a high record of scholarship should go to those who l v their conscientious and consistent work have climbed to the top of the ladder. It is not and should not be considered a trivial thing to stand at the head of a class of one hundred and fifty students. It means work: hard work; and constant work, and we know that none deserve the honor more than Marion White and Mary Smollett who stand at the head of our class. To these two girls great credit should be given for the effort they have made and the goal that they have reached. In our class as in Pa«e Sixteen

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basketball, Bean Club, Engineers Club, and Debate, we were factors not to be denied. This year we won all the interelass tournaments except debate. And now, as dignified Seniors, we look over the past year and are proud of the fact that this year we have been the life of the school. The football team this year won the Twin City Championship, and that was our team, I say our because seven of the men were June Seniors. The Debate Team was ours for four of them were June Seniors. The baseball team, the track team, the hockey team, and the school organizations have all been ours, for the majority in most of them have been June 14 Seniors. The Girls’ League and tin Bovs’ Club have perhaps never been so flourishing as they have this year, and this has been to a large extent our work. Why, we have every possible reason to be proud of our class, and we art proud of it. But when you stop to think it over, why have we been so successful? Why has our social life been so worth while? Why is our scholarship so good? Why have we stood in the front ranks of every phase of school life? Why? The first thing that has helped us along has been tin patient and never failing assistance of our principal and teachers. They have toiled nobly with an undying perseverance for our good, and in spite of ourselves, they have helped us a great deal more than we would care to admit. So in this space I take the liberty on behalf of the Class to extend to our principal and teachers, the most sincere appreciation and gratitude for all services rendered to the June Class of 1914. The second and perhaps the most important thing of the two that has so materially aided this Class in its successful career, lias been the hearty cooperation of the entire Class. The Class has responded with an unlooked for amount of energy and enthusiasm to every request, and have shown a Class and school spirit that has been remarkable. And here also, since this may be my last chance to talk to the entire Class intact, I wish to thank the Executive Committee and the (’lass at large for taking such an interest in all of the class or school functions and making the Class what it has been, one of the best, if not the best Class that has ever been graduated from West High. Clifford Borden. Page Fifteen

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some others, the lion’s share of the honors have been taken by the girls. We hope that this is caused by a greater percentage of girls and not a lack ol mental activity of the boys. The honor roll, this year, is also larger than Iasi year and we congratulate the people mentioned below on their success. ROLL OF HONOR Valv(Uctoriant Marion White. Salutatorian, M ry Smollett. Elizabeth Lynskey. Elmer .Johnson. Roger Gannett. Russell Bi rchard. Harold Wood. Ei.ise Van Ness. Harold Brooke. Alice Glenesk. Sidney Hey wood. Marie Morrison. Merle Fenton. Eunice Mason. Garrett M andeville. Gladys Speaker. Vera Beycraft. Alice Wkstley. 11 A .EL ZuMBRUN N EN. Charles Drew. Margaret Darling. (Lite Notorious (Ones in the Class to our noses, it is truly fitting and proper that the names of those famous for their deeds or crimes should go down to posterity written in the imperishable annals of this history. So we decided to hold an election upon the important issues of the day. On election day the excitement was fierce; the opposing candidates had been haranguing the multitudes for weeks before the election. All the day to the polls they came. Several notorious attempts were made to “stuff” the ballot box. Bob Towey was caught repeating . It was only the noble work of the sheriff which saved him from being lynched by the mob. Finally the authentic reports came in. Our honored citizen, Harold Wood, advocate of the Terpsichorean art, won by a large majority for the office of the “Most Graceful.” Mr. Wood during his campaign had to labor against the stiffness implied in his name but his true merit and dexterity won his cause. Carol Pettigrew was the second choice and Mildred Warden, Dorothy Brown, Monica Flanigan, and “Curly” Tucker were all tied for third. Tucker disputed the election but his claims were put aside. The next event, “Who eats the most,” was a walk-a-way for “Sid” Ileywood. He feels badly over this as he told the writer with tears in his eyes that he had been dieting. “Bug” Bigelow and Harold Wood were deemed worthy of honorable mention in this class. X X such a class of dignified and highly edificated Seniors, which will issue forth in a joyous crowd, from the portals of this institution of learning when the first soft winds of Juno gently waft the sweet essence of roses I’jikc Seventeen