West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Text from Pages 1 - 168 of the 1917 volume:

WEST HIGH SCHOOL LIBRAR? 2808 KZilf.ZVIN AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 55408 EX LIBRIS � 1917 HESPERIAN AN ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF WEST HIGH SCHOOL ■ MINNEAPOLIS ■ TO MISS EDITH M. PENNEY. IN APPRECIATION OF HER WORK FOR WEST HIGH. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED Iwf - - - - — -- . K51 Dear Friends of West High: After six years of the most pleasant associations of my life, the time has come when I must share in the feelings which stir in the hearts of the Seniors, and voice the sentiments of one who is leaving West High. We have alike shared in the pride in our school, in her victories, her achievements and her wonderful spirit. We have together studied and worked to develop a stronger and better school, in scholarship, in manners and in morals. I believe every Senior is glad to have had a part in such work. And so do I feel proud to have wrought in some small way toward the same end—the building of a finer school and a finer citizenship for the future Minneapolis. And so 1 wish to express my feeling of appreciation for the many, many ways in which you. the students of West, have shown your desire to co-operate in this great work, and the earnest and hearty response which has always been forthcoming when you have faced the need for a real, heroic effort. In breaking the personal tics which have bound me in friendship with so many of you, comes the hardest part of leaving. May I express to you here and now. what I hope to have the opportunity of saying to you personally a little later, that my heart will always be with you. and with the school. Just as I shall always be thrilled to hear that West Wins. so shall I ever be glad to hear of the successes of each one of you individually. May the future have the best of good fortune and happiness in store for each and all. is my farewell to you, my comrades and friends. Sincerely. WEST HIGH SCHOOL The Faculty Principal R. H. JORDAN ENGLISH Hannah M. Griffith J. Wilbur Jones Elizabeth G. Marsh Hannah J. O’Gordon Wanda Orton E. Dudley Parsons Edith M. Penney Mary E. Raines Jenny L. Teeter Adrian L. Voigt Grace Watts MATHEMATICS Carl E. Berger Thos. P. Gruwell Clara B. Hubachek Lilian J. Sterrett Delmar E. Walmer Martha B. West LATIN Eliza K. Brown Louise E. Dunbar Elizabeth P. Fairfield GERMAN Carl O. Kloepfer Susan B. Heffernan Dora D. Henderson FRENCH Marie R. Acomb Jennie I. Hiscock Martha L. Tobin j) SPANISH Harold B. Bryant HISTORY Floyd A. Chandler Effie J. Kennedy Amanda Sundean Mabel H. Thomas Winifred E. Turner SHOPWORK Guy R. Lander Merton R. Libby CHEMISTRY Maud G. Beck Jessie F. Caplin FREEHAND DRAWING Georgia M. Rees Mary L. Willard MECHANICAL DRAWING John P. Granner Ray L. Southworth COMMERCIAL Henry W. Darr Ida C. Johnson Albert B. Opfer MUSIC Earl L Baker HARMONY PHYSICS Samuel N. Coher John H. Cook BOTANY Deborah M. Anderson COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE Bessey K. Gish PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Charles E. Huff HOME ECONOMICS Mary L. Knox Carmelita Martin Lavinia B. Sterrett Mary R. von Storch ECONOMICS AND CIVICS Albert J. Lobb Warren L. Wallace LIBRARIAN Alma M. Penrose CLERKS Vera A. Childs Hale L. Crilly SUPPLY 10 Gertrude Dobyns Sidney Pattee 11 FRESHMAN OFFICERS FRESHMAN CLUB Wilhelm Heegaard Lionel Moses Helen Quinn Miss O'Gordon - President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Last September the F reshmen, acting upon a suggestion from Mr. Jordan and the Forum, organized into a club for the first time in the history of the school. The Freshies showed their appreciation of the privilege by turning out one hundred strong at the first meeting. The officers elected were as follows: Wilhelm Heegaard. president; Helen Cook, vice-president; Beulah Stinchcomb. secretary. Miss O’Gordon and Mr. Bryant were appointed as faculty advisers by Mr. Jordan. As soon as rules and regulations for the club were decided upon, plans for a social gathering were considered. The entertainment which followed proved to be a great success. During the fall months, meetings were held every two weeks and all were well attended. When the new term began, it was voted that the B. Freshmen be admitted into the club. At the next election Wilhelm Heegaard was again chosen president, with Lionel Moses vice-president and Helen Quinn secretary. Miss O’Gordon took charge of the funds. During this first year the organization was a marked success and proved to be a valuable addition to the school. The possibilities of this club are very great and we hope that the following Freshman classes will do their best to develop this organization into one of the livest bodies in the school. 12 WILHELM HEEGAARD. (Picture by Camera Craft) ••COMEDY O F ERRORS 13 s O P H O M O R E OFFICERS SOPHOMORE CLUB Donald Bostyvick Doris Duryea . -Hazel Moren Frank Roos President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Sometime during the early part of the first semester, someone, through the columns of the “Weekly, challenged the class spirit of the Sophomores. The query was, why, since the Freshmen had their club, and the Juniors and Seniors their class organizations, the Sophomores didn’t go and do likewise, and manifest some signs of life, instead of making a noise like a graveyard. The criticism was timely, and the Sophomores owe their journalistic critic a debt of gratitude; for a group of girls got their blonde and brunette locks into close proximity and laid the foundation of what is now a real honest-to-goodness club. The apparent slowness of the Sophomores to take up the matter of club formation was not due to lack of loyalty to West High, but because of their lack of understanding of the greater good to be accomplished through united and systematized effort. But since the formation of the club, the individual members have found themselves and have begun to appreciate their relation to the student body as a whole, and to understand what true democracy means. The club is a levelcr. It has promoted class spirit in every way possible; it has demonstrated that the Sophomores are a class of unity. In having this for its aim, the Sophomore Club makes no apology for coming into being. 1-1 DONALD BOSTWICK. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 15 J I CLARK JOHNSON DOROTHY RICHARDSON LOUISE ROBERTSON PAUL MICHELET (Treasurer) (Secretary) (Vice-President) (President) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Josephine Kenkel Margaret McLeod Alice Leavitt Fred Wilcox Arthur Winn We, the members of the Junior class, organized on the twentieth of March, 1917. With our organizing has come the realization that we have but one more year at West. This realization necessarily presents to us the question as to what we have accomplished in the past and what we are going to accomplish in the future. We have overcome the trials of our freshman and sophomore years and are now engaged in the third year of our high school work. By means of our organization, we have gained a spirit of sociability and a unity of purpose which is unsurpassed at West High. And with this feeling of loyalty towards our school, we expect to accomplish greater tasks during the coming year. Hi PAUL MICHELET. “AS YOU L K E T ’• 17 JANUARY SENIOR 1918 CHARLES THISS JEANETTE VIVIAN LIEN HARD ELLIOTT DE FOREST (Treasurer) WILLOUGHBY (Secretary) (President) (Vice-President) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Delight Allen Claribel Eustis Elsie Knutson Edwin Krafft Edmund Taylor January classes are liable to be looked upon as a necessary evil. Needless to say, the idea of being an evil is obnoxious, and we hope to prove the falsity of such a supposition. “Necessary” is another word which expresses our desires more correctly. We wish to make our class a necessity to the life of the school. We are trying to be not one of the branches of school activity but the most vital part of it. To establish such a position we must “hang together.” With this spirit of co-operation we can make a record which will be a standard for future classes at West. It is not beyond our power; we can and will make the class of January 1918a complete success. 18 ELLIOTT DcFOREST. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL 19 CLASS OF JANUARY 19 17 MARGARET HARRIS EDMUND BATES LEIONNE SCOFIELD DE WALT ANKENY (Secretary) (President) (Vice-President) (Treasurer) Our high school days arc now over and it is with sincere regret that we leave West High and the teachers who have been our closest friends during the last four years. Having passed the second eventful period of our school days, we find that we are now just starting out on life’s long journey, and 1 am sure everyone of us will more than live up to the standard established by our class. We, as a group, have been seriously handicapped by our small numbers and by the lack of an auditorium, but we have shown our true character and ability in the way we surmounted these difficulties. And in gazing back over the class activities we find that our accomplishments have far exceeded our highest expectations. We have upheld the honor and fame of our school and are all proud to be members of the class of January 1917. 20 EDMUND BATES. Executive Committee RUDYARD DAVIS MARION APPLEARD HAROLD WESTERMAN BERNICE BERRY SUSAN GRECG The Senior Vaudeville was the principal event among the class activities of the past year. The class being small, there was not enough material to make up the ten acts planned, and volunteers from other classes and other schools were joyfully accepted. An act was contributed by Central, one by St. Paul Central, and one by the alumni. With such assistance, the vaudeville could not but be a success. A large crowd attended the performance at the Central High auditorium on January 19th. and the consequent swelling of the treasury made it possible for the class to purchase as a memorial two additional sections for the frieze of paintings which is to adorn the new library. The remainder of the money was added to the fund for a motion picture machine for the auditorium. Commencement proved to be a pleasant disappointment to those who attended. The program was short and interesting and the type of speeches given set an example for future graduation exercises. MARGARET HARRIS. 21 Hall of Fame Most popular boy Folsom Most popular girl Scofield Handsomest boy Douchey Prettiest girl Matlern Most talented boy Douchey Most talented girl H orris Most studious boy Douchey Most studious girl H arris Most graceful person Salmon Noisiest person W agner Best fusser Joax Best fussee Potter Most fussed Matlicc Slowest Davis Most bashful McIntyre Biggest footed Salmon Shortest Jacobs W agner Bates Matlern Berry Folsom Shillocl( Chandler Berry Folsom Higi Scofield Berry Hamlin Wagner Schulmeyer Gilman Matlern IVinnor Adams Neivlin IVesterman Warner McCrea Chandler Salmon Folsom Jaax Cammett M allice Nolan Shillock Mattice Appleard Widest n . L QVlS McCrea Nolan Narrowest Nolan Rcdlund Gregg Future aim in life— To love and be loved Best looking teacher I obb Turner Knox Most popular teacher Lobb Walls Penney Hardest teacher Beck Penney Turner Most conceited Bales Dcuchey Wagner Best dressed Douchey Clark W innor Class pet Bales Wagner Jordan Best boss Berry Daucbey Bates Most musical tiigi Scofield Hamlin Most poetical Greenwood Porter Blakely Densest person Rendell Blakely Wagner Biggest flirt Wagner Salmon Potter Best dancer Shillock Warner Mattern Nicest girl Harris Matter n Berry Favorite spot in school Lunch Room Front Hall Honor Roll Margaret Harris - Valedictorian 92.6 Marion Norstrom - Salutatorian 92.1 Horace Dauchey - 91.0 Lehan Hamlin 90.9 Florence Greenwood - - 90.6 DeWalt Ankeny 90.1 24 MARGARET ANDERSON St. Cloud Normal Girls' League. And whispering, 7 will ne'er consent'—consented. MARIAN APPLEARD U. of M. Girls' League, Bird Club, Senior Executive Committee, Weekly. And a little child shall lead them. FRANKLIN BARTELS U. of M. Hockey Squad, '14, '15, Captain, '16, Engineers' Club. Bartels is a good hockey player. EDMUND BATES U. of M. Forum, ' I 5, President January Senior Class, Weekly, Spectator, Rifle Club, Y Club. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine car. BERNICE BERRY U. of Missouri U. C. Club, President Muses, Senior Executive Committee, Class Vaudeville. Tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. ALVIN BLAKELY U. of M. Hockey W, Baseball W, Glee Club. Bern for success, he seemed with grace to win. FLORENCE BRAMAN Glee Club, Girls' League. Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. STUART CAMMETT U. of Columbia Cross-Country Squad, Hockey Manager. Rooter King. For he's a jolly good fellow, and a good orator. 25 MARY CHAPMAN U. of M. Aquatic Club. '16, U. C. Club. “She sal li e patience on a monument, smi'.ing at grief. LEONA CLARK Art Institute U. C. Club, Home Economics Club, Girls' League. “That is gold which is worth gold. HORACE DAUCHEY Dartmouth Business Manager of Spectator, Debating, Salutatorian, Manager of Senior Vaudeville, Honor Roll. Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. RUDYARD DAVIS U. of M. Senior Executive Committee, Second Football Team. He was the mildest mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. ROBERT DEAN U. of M. Tomahawk Club, Vice President and Secretary of Y Club. l(now the scer.t of bean-fields.” MARIE DYER Agricultural College Aquatic Club. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. RUTH FISHER “And her sunny locl(s hang on her temples lil(c a golden fleece. KENDRIC FOLSOM U. of M. First Football Team, '16, Second Football Team, '13, '14, '15, Hockey Squad. He hath no power who hath not power to use. 26 GERTRUDE GILMAN U. of M. U. C. Club. Weekly. Virtue is her own reward. LILLIAN GOLDSTEIN Creat thoughts. like great deeds, need no trumpet. FLORENCE GREENWOOD U. of M. Exhausting thought ar.d hiving wisdom wi.h each studious yecr. SUSAN GREGG Senior Executive Committee. U. C. Club. Story-Telling Club, Class Vaudeville, Girls' League. 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. LEHAN HAMLIN U. of M. Honor Roll. Music is the universal language of mankind. HELEN HANCOCK U. C. Club. A merry hecrt malfeih a cheerful countenance. MARGARET HARRIS U. of M. Forum, Weekly, Vaudeville, U. C. Club, Uke Club. Secretary Senior Class. Honor Roll. Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song for the Uke. INA HASELTINE U. of M. Girls' League. Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you. 27 U. of M. WILLIAM HIGI Baseball W (3), Baseball Captain. “And hears ihy strong music in the drum.” MARGARET HOX1E Minn. Com’l College Girls’ League. Aquatic Club, Orchestra. ‘7 came, sen , and overcame. HUBERT JAAX U. of M. Baseball W. Football W, Football Manager. “We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. VIOLET JOHNSON “Experience, joined to common sense. To mortals is a providence. BURNETTE JONES U. of M. U. C. Club. Wit is the flower of imagination. PERCIVAL LOYE U. of M. Forum. Engineers’ Club. Comb down his hair; lool(! lool(! it stands upright. RUTH McCREA U. C. Club. Girls’ League, Forum. Beauty provolfcth thieves sooner than gold.' william McIntyre U. of M. Track, Football, Treasurer Public Affairs. “A civil habit of I covers a good man. MARGUERITE MATTERN Girls' League. Thou who hast ihe fatal gift of beauty. CRAIG MATTICE U. of M. Football W. IVho to himself is lat , no law doth need. Offends no law. and is a l(ing indeed.” LEAH MILLER Smith Girls' League. Loolf, she's winding up the watch of her wit; by and by it will stride. FRANK NOLAN Football Manager, Second Football Team, Weekly, Adv. Mgr. Senior Vaudeville. Three fifths of him genius, and two fifths of him sheer fudge. MARIAN NORSTROM Muses, Girls' League, U. C. Club, Honor Roll. German Declamation. Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine. HARLEY OLSON Engineers’ Club. Hit the nail on the head.' 29 MARION POTTER Mistress of herself, though China fall. EARL POWERS Pomona College Second Football Team, Rifle Club, Y Club, Football W, President Glee Club, Vice President Glee Club, Senior Vaudeville. “The toils of honor dignify repose. HOWARD REDLUND U. of M. Y Club. Senior Vaudeville. Chide him for his faults and do it reverently. EUSTACE RENDELL U. of M. Football W. ’ 15, '16. Hockey W. '15. '16. ’ I 7. IVhat's all the noisy jargon of the schools? FRANCES RYDELL St. Cloud Normal Home Economics Club. A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. JESALYN SALMON U. of M. Senior Vaudeville, Flower Committee. Her very frowns arc fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. FANELMA SCHULMEYER Dramatic Art Girls’ League. She left the name, at which the World grew pale. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. LEIONNE SCOFIELD Vice President Senior Class, U. C. Club, Executive Board, President Glee Club, Vice President Glee Club, Forum, Senior Vaudeville, Uke Club. Weekly. Hesperian. Life is short, art long. LAURIE SHILLOCK Cross-Country W. '15, '16. Y Club. All mankind loves a lover. 30 IRENE SHOOP Girls' League. Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands. FLORENCE SMITH Vocal Training Glee Club. U. C. Club. That music in itself whose sounds arc song. TRESSA SNURE Mpls. School of Art U. C. Club. Story Club, Girls' League. Patience is a remedy lor every trouble. WILLIAM WAGNER Princeton Baseball, '15. ‘16, Hesperian Board, '14, '15, Public Affairs' Club. Cet money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.” WENDELL WARNER U. of M. Y Club. Track. Faultless manners and a blameless mind.” HAROLD WESTERMAN Senior Executive Committee, Second Football Team. 0. this learning, what a thing it is!” JOHN WILKINS Secretary Y Club, Cross-Country Squad, Orchestra, 1916. Young fellows will be your.g fellows. OLLIE WINNOR The clocl( upbraids me with the waste of time. 31 mm—mm WILFRED WOLFSON He lives to build, not to boast. ROBIN WRAY Business Engineers’ Club. “I'll spcal( to !hcc in silence. ROBERT ZIMMERSCHEID Thought once atva fcned Joes not again slumber. HENRY ADAMS U. of M. Y Club, Public Affairs’ Club, Tennis W. “How much lies in laughter; the cipher-key whereby tve decipher the whole man. ESTHER JONES Business College Girls’ League. ‘7 have a heart with room for every joy. WILLIAM NEWLIN Dartmouth Penny tvise, pound foolish. EUGENE ZANGER An affable and courteous gentleman. J 32 CLASS OF JUNE 1917 To the Seniors: You will soon discard class pins and even school colors. May the habits acquired and the ideals established at West High remain with you always. The world welcomes, but it will judge you impartially by what you do. Common sense, tact, industry, and a determined will mean more than the mere accumulation of knowledge. You may loiter on the great highway of life. You may turn off at many an easy crossroad. The world needs earnest young men and women. Your country demands the noblest service of all its citizens. But you are masters of your own destinies. The decision is yours. May you travel far along the straight upward road of success. Do more than any friend expects of you. Determine to be worthy of all privileges received. Go forth with the enthusiasm of youth to meet the many experiences of life, with abundant unknown opportunities of success before you. May West win eternally in the life of each of you. Sincerely. ALBERT J. LOBB. 33 DOROTHY ROSHOLT DONALD ZIEGLER LOIS ATWATER JAMES MAC RAE (Secretary) (President) (Vice-President) (Treasurer) The years that we have spent at West has been a steady uphill climb. We came here four years ago, knowing little of the things we should encounter before we received our diplomas. We were told that we should be intrusted with the safe-keeping of West’s honor and that we were to do all in our power to raise the standards of the school in Scholarship, Athletics and Society. We have striven hard and have succeeded in raising West’s honorable records. While our scholastic standing has not been as high as some classes, we have been seriously handicapped under many difficulties caused by the building of our annex, and the unsettled conditions that such a course must necessarily bring about. In athletics, we have been very successful. We have produced some of the best athletes turned out by Twin City high schools. We have finished first in football, cross-country, tennis, and indoor track. Our social activities have been such that the entire class has become better acquainted and we have come into closer touch with the school at large. In our various organizations we have produced a feeling of general good fellowship. One of the fundamental principles of a high school education is to make better American citizens. We are leaving West to go into the world at a time when our country is in greater need of true and loyal citizens than ever before. Never has our government been in a graver situation. It is upon young men and women of the type graduating in June, 1917, that a great share of the burden of this World War and the betterment of our country after the war will fall. We are prepared to receive it and we will help to make the United States the best country, as we have made our school the best school. DONALD ZIEGLER. 34 Excecutive Committee UELAND SHEARER LYMAN BALTUFF HART In the Senior year the class of June ' I 7 elected the following officers: Donald Ziegler, president; Lois Atwater, vice-president; Dorothy Rosholt, secretary; and James MacRae, treasurer. The executive committee consisted of Helen Hart, Gladys Baltuff, Ruth Lyman, Alan Shearer, and Rolf Ueland. The class has been successful from its first organization. In conjunction with the January class, it adopted a standard pin with the school seal which has been accepted by the following classes. On the last day of school in 1916 a Barge party was given on the Mississippi, from St. Paul to Hastings, and back. This was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. The last year, the class has given two dances and a sleigh-ride, and has successfully presented The Fortune Hunter as its class play. In addition to its undertakings, the Senior Class has tried to maintain the standards of West, to further the West High Spirit, and to make distinct contributions to the traditions of West. It hopes it has been successful. DOROTHY ROSHOLT. Secretary. 35 The Class Play The Senior Class chose The Fortune Hunter.” by Winchell Smith, as its dramatic production. Because of West's temporarily inadequate facilities for the staging of the play, it was given at the East High auditorium. The class wishes to express its appreciation of this courtesy on the part of the East High authorities. The play was ably coached by Miss Penney, Miss Turner, and Mr. Kloepfer. The members of the cast were as follows: Nathaniel Duncan Henry Kellogg George Burnham James Long Lawrence Miller Willie Bartlett Robbins Tom Sam Graham Mr. Lockwood Tracey Tanner Roland Barnett Pete Willing Mr. Sperry Watty” Hi” Betty Graham Josephine Lockwood Angie Laurence Jones Emery Larson Robert Bell Dan Rochford Archie Coleman Philip Catlin John Mortland Harry Hammond Sidney Nelson William Glenny James MacRae Richard Gilfillan Edwin Cook Lawrence Clark Harry Hammond Archie Coleman Eunice Worrall Louise Bruchholz Jennie Immer 36 Rogues’ Gallery Most popular boy U eland MacRae Mortland Most popular girl Bruchholz Atrvater Rosholt Best looking boy MacRac Shearer Donnell Best looking girl Balluff Pratt Bruchholz Best fusser MacRae Mayberg Nelson Most talented girl Donnell Bruchholz Melrose Most talented boy Ueland Martineau Chadbourne Most graceful Wilk Cool( Long Noisiest Mortland Lyman Moorhead Nerviest Nelson Warner Moorhead Longest-winded Rochford Armor May Best bluffer K. Otven Moorhead Pitney Slowest Haglin Clenny Bartlett Laziest Warner Salsburg McClellan Most studious Klassy Chadbourne Leerslfov Most bashful Bicl(nell Thomas Krueger 37 Biggest footed Clcnny Larson K. Fraser Largest Larson Cool( Haglin Shortest Hammond Moorhead Larson Widest Coo}( McMillan Ericson Narrowest Coleman Mortland Crurvell Most frivolous Harrington Long K. Fraser Favorite spot at school Hesperian Landing Her Locl(er “Red Jones Favorite occupation Loafing Fussing Eating Future ambition To have authority over Mr. Crurvell Keep out of jail Run an elevator Best sponger Nelson Moorhead Coffee Biggest flirt May berg Long Bruchholz Biggest flatterer Maybcrg Rochford Nelson Cutest Downs Larson Pratt Most fastidious Randall Shearer N elson Nicest boy Ziegler Shearer Donnell Nicest girl Baltuff Bruchholz Rosholt 3S My classmates true, I come to you. To make a declaration. This section where. Your faces wear. A look of information. Was given over To Sir Godover. Astronomer of learning. Who read the stars. And questioned Mars, And found the heavens burning, To give statistics Of characteristics Of all our classmates merry. And more he found, Upon what ground And vocations we should tarry. Now may these ways. That by birthdays We are compelled to tread Be to your mind. 1 hope you'll find They'll bring you daily bread. 39 EDWIN AKERSON Minnesota Cross Country. Track. Tomahawk Club. Y Club Restless, active quicktempered ELEVATOR OPERATOR WILLIS ALLEN Minnesota Public Affairs Commanding, self-milled, capable POSTMAN WALTER ANDERSON Weekly Board Sensitive, honest, conscientious CARPENTER FLORICE ANDREWS Music Biological Club. Home Economics Club Musical, thorough, jovial PRIVATE DETECTIVE DE WALT ANKENY Dartmouth Treasurer, January Class Original, l(ind-hearted, impulsive BAKER HOWELL ARMOR Engineers' Club. Tomahawk Club. German Declamation. Y Club Fickle, determined, versatile CHAUFFEUR LOIS ATWATER Minnesota Secretary U. C. Club. Girls' League. Vice Pres. Senior Class 1 mbit ions, sympathetic SOCIAL SECRETARY GLADYS BALTUFF Minnesota Forum. U. C. Treasurer. Junior Class Secretary. Senior Executive Committee Jolly, demure, energetic CONGRESSWOMAN 40 RUTH BARNARD Art U. C. Club. Sewing Club Kind, original, steady MOVIE ACTRESS EDITHBELLE BARTLETT Minnesota Girls' League. U. C. Club Impulsive, intuitive, sympathetic CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARY OF Y. W. C. A. ESTHER BAUER Minnesota Girls' League. U. C. Sewing Group Materialistic, accurate, contented SETTLEMENT WORKER ROBERT BELL Hesperian Board '13. Y Club. Cross Country Positive, friendly, susceptible STREET CAR CONDUCTOR JESSIE BERG Gold Medal for Typewriting. Girls League Precise, industrious, l(ind-hearled BOOK-BINDER GWENDOLYN BLODGETT Minnesota Story Tellers’ Club Sensitive, intellectual, domestic SUFFRAGIST MARGUERITE BOEGE Minnesota U. C. Dramatic Group. Weekly Board Girls’ League Quiet, ambitious, independent LADY CHAUFFEUR LOUISE BREN Minnesota U. C. Club. Girls' League Persistent, materialistic, artistic BALLET DANCER 41 GRACE BROOKS Girls' League. U. C. Club. Home Economics Club Thoughtful, nitty INTERIOR DECORATOR LOUISE BRUCHHOLZ Wellesley Junior Rep. Girls' League. Weekly '16. Forum. U. C. Club. Junior Executive Committee. Hesperian 'l6-’17. Vice Pres. Executive Board Literary, original, fond of command SHOP-LIFTER LEE BURTON Oberl.n Hockey Team. Capt. Hockey Team. Y Club Tomahawk Club Philanthropic, trustful, sympathetic GROCER CLARENCE CARLSON Direct, impulsive, jovial MOVIE DIRECTOR CHARLES CASSELL Persistent, studious, imaginative AUTHOR NORMAN CASSEL Minnesota Forum. Y Club. Tomahawk. German Declamation Thoughtful, religious, affectionate AUCTIONEER PHILIP CATLIN Tomahawk Club. Track Squad Quicl(, jealous, original AVIATOR RODNEY CHADBOURNE Minnesota Y Club. Engineers' Club. Botany Club. Tomahawk. Weekly. Forum Fun-loving, affectionate, misunderstood POET 42 DONALD CHASE Glee Club Far-seeing, bluni, kindly DEEP-SEA DIVER LEWIS CHILD Minnesota Second Team Football. Track. Ccncrous, energetic, home-loving STREET CAR CONDUCTOR LAWRENCE CLARK Minnesota Tomahawk Pres. Y Club. Engineers' Club. Associate Editor Weekly. Self-reliant, capable, laconic PROMOTER GLADYS CLYBOURNE Oberlin Story Tellers' Club. U. C. Glee Club. Girls' League. Faithful, headstrong, artistic SECRET SERVICE DETECTIVE CORINNE COFFEE Minnesota U. C. Girls' League. Enthusiastic, inquisitive BEAUTY SPECIALIST MARIE COLE Sec. Senior Home Economics Club Girls' League. Keen, dominant, active PRIVATE DETECTIVE ARCHIBALD COLEMAN Minnesota Hesperian, ' I 7. Devoted to duly, alert, jovial BILL POSTER Music . u. c. GRACE COMB Minnesota U. C. Club. Weekly Board. 16 and '17. Liberal, materialistic, original LADY CHAUFFEUR 43 ARCHIE CONLIFFE Minnesota Art Club. Rifle Club. Outdoor Club. Second Football Team. Persistent, shrefd, l(indly CABIN BOY EDWIN COOK Engineers' Club. Tomahawk Club. Business-lil(c, obstinate, loyal MOVIE ACTOR BYRON CURRY Minnesota IVorldly, sympathetic, ambitious TAXIDERMIST MERRILL CURTIS Minnesota Y Club. Sensitive, observing, musical ORGAN GRINDER JOSEPH DASSETT Minnesota Y Club. Clee Club. Imaginative, voracious reader, true POLICEMAN IVAN DAVIS Faithful. Ifindly, persistent MILLIONAIRE MILDRED DEAN Girls' League. Critical, opinionated, capable CONFECTIONER DEANE DONNELL Music Glee Club. Orchestra. Girls’ League. U. C. Club. Keen, executive, artistic STREET SINGER 44 GEORGE DONNELL Minnesota Track. Cross-Country Squad. Engineers' Club. Hesperian Board, ' I 7. Judicial, ambitious DOG-CATCHER JOHN DOUGLAS Minnesota Engineers’ Club. Conservative, quiet, original PRINTER BESSIE DOWNS Sec. Girls' League. Advertising Committee of U. C. Club. Dramatic Group U. C. Dependent, friendly, sympathetic TICHT-ROPE DANCER RUTH DUESLER Minnesota Girls' League. U. C. Club. Cautious, good-natured, fond of society SCREEN FAVORITE MARJORIE ELLIS, Miss Wood’s Training School Girls' League. U. C. Charity Group. Weekly Board. Sociable, dependable, discriminating PRIMA DONNA LLOYD ELMER Minnesota Engineers Club. Glee Club. Public Affairs Club. Energetic, affectionate, happy-go-lucl(y PLASTERER RUSSELL ERICSON Minnesota Tomahawk Club. Football, '17. Track Manager, ’ I 7. Liberal, original, enthusiastic PAWNBROKER LILLIAN FINK U. C. Club. Aquatic Club. Enthusiastic, independent, responsible FLORIST 45 KTJlIOTI If UWIKI ETTA FLASHMAN California Girls' League. Daring, impatient, generous DRESSMAKER GURLI FOGELHOLM Bird Club. Benevolent, domestic, cheerful BALLET DANCER MARY GAGE Minnesota U. C. Club. Girls League. Resolute, reliable, generous MATRON OF AN ORPHAN ASYLUM CHARLOTTE GERDES Minnesota U. C. Charity Group. Girls' League. Quiet, changeable, successful DESIGNER ISABELLA GERDES Minnesota U. C. Charity Group. Girls' League. Inventive, self-reliant jovial MILLINER RICHARD GILFILLAN Minnesota Tomahawk Club. Glee Club. Y Club. Debating Team. Editor Weekly. Ukc Club. Tercentenary Play. Argumentative, resourceful MINISTER WILLIAM GLENNY Minnesota Y Club. Tomahawk Club. Engineers' Club. Weekly. Track. Glee Club. Cross-Country. First place Latin Declamation Second place German Declamation Persistent, energetic, accurate CONGRESSMAN PAULINE GREEN Union College, Nebraska French Club. Girls’ League. Versalile, unselfish, intuitive NATURALIST 46 JEROME GREENBERG Minnesota Hockey. Football. Baseball. Track Squad. Forum. Loquacious, jovial, determined STREET SINGER ROBERT HADDEN Minnesota Seeding for glory, fickle, magnetic BRICKLAYER PRESTON HAGL1N Minnesota Tennis Team. Forum. Y Club. Hesperian Board. ' I 7. JIdventurous, stubborn, reliable COAL HEAVER HARRY HAMMOND Minnesota Y Club. Weekly. Forum. Glee Club. Tercentenary Play. Forceful, combative, accurate MOTORMAN LILLIAS HANNAH Minnesota Hesperian Board, '17. Muses. Girls' League. U. C. Music Group. Intuitive, conscientious, literary TRAPEZE ARTIST HELEN HART Minnesota Orchestra. Glee Club. Weekly. Executive Board Secretary. Senior Executive Committee. Hesperian Board, ' I 7. Chairman U. C. Musical Group. Sympathetic, generous, idealistic USHER AT A MOVIE SUZANNE HARRINGTON National Park Seminary Riding Club. U. C. Club Serious, determined, loyal HAT MODEL EUGENE HAWKINS Minnesota Engineers' Club. Tomahawk Club. Public Affairs. Cross-Country Team. Changeable, conscientious, conventional AVIATOR 47 HENRIETTA HEGG Girls' League. Facile, capable, energetic DANCING TEACHER LOUISE HELLIWELL The Green Cross. Impulsive, sincere, patriotic MILLINER PHYLLIS HOCUM Minnesota Glee Club. Aquatic Club. Affectionate, practical, able HAIR-DRESSER HUGH HUTTON Moody, capable, adventurous EXPLORER ELIZABETH HOGAN Girls' League. Home Economics Club. U. C. Club. Reserved, determined, reliable GYMNASIUM TEACHER JENNIE IMMER Minnesota U. C. Dramatic and Musical Groups. Bird Club. Confident, authoritative, efficient MOVIE ACTRESS VERAL IRONS Forum. U. C. Club. Active, determined, capable HAIR-DRESSER ARNOLD JOHNSON Minnesota Sec. Engineers' Club. Cross-Country Team. Sec. and Trcas. of Wireless Club. Direct, helpful, loyal BOOK AGENT 48 FREDERICK JOHNSON Optimistic, capable, energetic JUDGE HELCA JOHNSON Girls' League. U. C. Club. Independent, progressive imperious HEAD LADY USHER MARION JOHNSTON Demure, sympathetic, athletic HOME MAKER LAURENCE JONES Minnesota Football. Glee Club. Forum. Original, lovable, sympathetic WARDEN LORETTA JOST Minnesota Treasurer Home Economics Club. Forum. Shrewd, positive, friendly ARTIST ROLF JULSRUD Illinois Forum. Boxing Club. Keen, self-confident, capable BRAKEMAN FERRIS KALTON Junior Baseball Team. Cross-Country. Active-minded, tricky, imaginative CHIROPODIST MILDRED KAUFMANN St. Cloud Normal Glee Club. Girls' League. Bird Club. Positive, capable, loyal ARTIST 49 ALLYS KENDALL Minnesota Original, magnetic, shy SCULPTRESS ELWOOD KING Minnesota Y Club. Forum. Capable, thoughtful, just SENATOR KENNETH KLASSY Dartmouth Engineers’ Club. Y Club. Masterful, affectionate, proud CHIEF OF POLICE HAROLD KRUEGER Minnesota Baseball. Football. Discriminating, secretive, courageous MILITARY COMMANDER EMERY LARSON Minnesota Glee Club. Football. Football Captain. Track. Hesperian Board. ’17. Executive Board. Conservative, ambitious, true OLD CLOTHES MAN OLIVE LANDCRAEBER Miss Wood’s School Forum. Glee Club. Home Economics Club. Girls' League. Independent, helpful, spiritual MILLINER GERHARD LEERSKOV Minnesota Persistent, determined, cautious PROFESSOR GLADYS LATHROP Music Girls' League. Cautious, restless, good natured RED CROSS NURSE 50 CECELIA LEVINE Minnesota Girls' League. Trusty, economical, fond of fun VIOLINIST RALPH LIST Positive, proud, self-controlled FACTORY INSPECTOR FRANCES LONG Smith U. C. Club. Girls' League. Dressindependent, sociable TICKET SELLER AT A MOVIE RUTH LYMAN Minnesota Executive Board. Vice Pres. Junior Class. Senior Executive Board. U. C. Forum. Excitable, strong-milled, friendty AVIATRESS MARGARET LYNSKEY Nursing U. C. Dramatic Group. Girls' League. Cautious, athletic, capable FEMINIST DONALD McCAMPBELL Minnesota Forum. Obstinate, entertaining, economical MOVIE ACTOR WALLACE McCLELLAN Dartmouth Track. Y Club. Weekly. Interesting, talkative, envious HOTEL KEEPER MADLYN McCUAIG Minnesota U. C. Club. Girls' League. IVell-informed, exact, artistic DANCING TEACHER 51 ROBERT McELROY Sensitive, critical, friendly CLERGYMAN DOROTHY McMILLAN St. Cloud Normal St. Cloud Normal Girls’ League. Home Economics Club. Accurate, uncharitable, reliable ARTIST JAMES MacRAE, Jr. Minnesota Track Squad. Y Club. Junior Executive Committee. Treas. Senior Class. Forum. Quicl(, uncertain, interesting FIREMAN SICRID MAGNUSSON Affectionate, sympathetic, misunderstood WIFE JENNIE MAGNUSSON Girls' League. Cood-naturcd, impracticable, fond of out-doors FLORIST MILDRED MANNERUD Minnesota Girls’ League. U. C. Club. Uke Club. Excitable, dominating, tasteful TICKET SELLER AT A SIDE SHOW GEOFFREY MAY Harvard Tomahawk Club. Y Club. Forum. Vice Pres. Tomahawk. Assignment Editor Weekly. Talkative, strong-milled, self-confident CUSTOMS OFFICER MARCUS MAYBERG Minnesota Track Squad. Engineers' Club. Y Club. Weekly. Forum. Hesperian Board, '17. Pleasing, capable, unconventional VALET 52 EARL MARTINEAU Forum. Football. Track Captain, ‘16. '17. Sociable, religious, athletic NIGHT WATCHMAN NINA HALLBERG Home Economics Club. Girls' League. U. C. Club. Cay, self-sufficient, imaginative DANCING TEACHER ELIZABETH MELROSE Minnesota Vice Pres, and Sec. Biological Club. Ukc Club. Dramatic Club. Weekly. Far-sighted, shrewd, capable MUSICIAN HELEN MENEILLEY Girls' League. Religious. quicl(. sociable CASHIER ANNABELLE MERGENS Minnesota U. C. Club. Literary, musical, conscientious BOTANIST FRANCES MILLER St. Cloud Normal Girls' League. Persistent, enjoyable, quiet LADY’S COMPANION INEZ MOE Glee Club. Forum. Girls' League. Gold Medal for Typewriting. Intuitive, loyal, domineering SCULPTRESS KENNETH MOORHEAD Minnesota Weekly. Forum. Y Club. Earnest, changeable, mischievous BRAKEMAN 53 JOHN MORTLAND Minnesota Vice Pres. Y Club. Cheer Leader. Track. Pres. Public Affairs Club. Executive Board. January Senior Vaudeville. Original, extreme, true PHILOSOPHER GENEVIEVE NELSON Winona Normal U. C. Club. Girls’ League. Honest, proud. Versatile JOURNALIST ROSABELLE NELSON Girls' League. Refined, generous, toilful GRAND OPERA STAR SIDNEY NELSON Minnesota Forum. Public Affairs Club. Friend!} , loquacious, sympathetic. CLERGYMAN BLANCHE NESBITT Minnesota Girls’ League. Honest, shretod, capable INTERIOR DECORATOR HAZEL NIELSON St. Cloud Normal Girls' League. Home Economics Club. Forum. Original, rcligous, inquisitive AUTHOR STELLA OLMEN Girls’ League. Temperamental, scientific, fond of travel LECTURER MILDRED OLNEY Minnesota Girls’ League. Story Tellers' Club. U. C. Charity Group. Impulsive, generous, energetic HAIR-DRESSER 54 FLORENCE OLSON Normal Botany Club. U. C. Club. Bird Club. Faithful, tenacious, sound in judgment HOME MAKER WILLIS OVERLOCK Football Team. Athletic, capable CARPENTER CLADYS OWENS Capable, jovial, affectionate COAT MODEL JESSIE OWEN Smith Junior Executive Committee. Glee Club. Riding Club. Uke Club. U. C. Club. Original, musical. quicl(-tempered TOE DANCER KENNETH OWEN Minnesota Public Affairs Club. Y Club. Second Football Team. Weekly. Sophomore Baseball. Sympathetic, original, lazy WORKER IN THE GAS HOUSE STERLING PECK Harvard Y Club. Engineers’ Club. Weekly. Logical, alert, shrewd FISHERMAN ELLA PEDERSON Minnesota Girls’ League. Spanish Club. U. C. Dramatic Group. Changeable, sympathetic, kind PRESS AGENT MINNIE PETERSON Music Girls' League. Musical, reticent, capable SOCIAL SECRETARY 55 •aes MARION PETRI Ward-Belmont U. C. Club. Biological Club. Affectionate, l(ind, self-controlled DRAMATIST JOHN PITCHER Massachusetts Institute Technology Engineers' Club. Jovial, positive, precise JOCKEY EARL PITNEY Minnesota Cross-Country. Y Club. Forum. Engineers’ Club. IVilly, original, persistent ASSESSOR ZETTA POOLE Art Institute U. C. Club. Girls’ League. Demonstrative, home-loving, sociable DESIGNER BERNADJNE PRATT Minnesota U. C. Club. Girls' League. Friendly, original, charming BAREBACK RIDER HAROLD PURDY Adventurous, fond of fun. sympathetic MECHANICIAN JAMES RANEY Librarian of Orchestra. President of Orchestra. Y Club. Engineers’ Club. Forum. Cross-Country. Glee Club. Musical, cheerful, desirous of comfort SHEPHERD CUTHBERT RANDALL Minnesota Y Club. Treas. Junior Class. Forum. Public Affairs Club. Executive Board. Hesperian Board, ’ I 7. Reliable, fickle, sympathetic HOBO 56 Nursing MARION REINERT Girls' League. Affectionate, kind. understanding lady’s COMPANION CATHRYN RIDDELL Story Tellers’ Club. Home Economics Club. U. C. Club. Reliable, neat, lovable ACTRESS FREDERICK RIDDINGTON Minnesota Studious, l(indl , thorough SHEEP SHEARER DANIEL ROCHFORD Minnesota Pres. Y Club. Tomahawk Club. Weekly. Forum. Executive Board. Cross-Country. Independent, easily misunderstood, sincere PEANUT VENDER DOROTHY ROSHOLT Wellesley Glee Club. Junior Class Executive Committee. Secretary Senior Class. Vice Pres, and Pres, of U. C. Club. Conscientious, practical, fond of fun BAREBACK RIDER EDMOND RUBEN Wisconsin Football. Track. Y Club. Basketball. Energetic, cheerful, possessed xvith business ability plumber’s ASSISTANT MABEL RYDELL U. C. Club. Girls' League. Impractical, light-hearted, intuitive AUTHORESS MARGARET SAGE Illinois College U. C. Club. Girls' League. Sincere, particular, easily rvorried NURSE 57 •m LAWRENCE SALSBURG Second Football Team. Hockey. Baseball. Sophomore Baseball Team. Just, determined, shrevrd RING MASTER EVELYN SAWYER Girls’ League. Home Economics Club. Intuitive, self-controlled, cautious POETESS ELWOOD SCANDLINC Minnesota Individual, quiet, understanding TINKER JOYCE SCHEID Minnesota U. C. Club. Determined, logical, quiet PRESS AGENT WILLIAM SEATH Agricultural College Y Club. Accurate, happy, loquacious SAILOR ALAN SHEARER Minnesota Spectator Board. Forum. Pres, of Executive Board. Hesperian Board, ' I 7. Quiclf, Humorous, versatile CHIMNEY SWEEP MABEL SHOLLEY Vice Pres. Story Tellers’ Club. Senior Rep. Girls’ League. Forum. U. C. Club. Thoughtful, logical, imaginative LION TAMER KENNETH SIMS Minnesota Exact, determined, forceful ORGAN GRINDER 58 ANGUS SMITH Minnesota Weekly. Y Club. Tomahawk Club. Quiclf, neal, affectionate CHAUFFEUR JESSIE SMITHERS Minnesota Bird Club. Girls' League. Hesperian Board, ’17. Inventive, full of fun, self-controlled DOG FANCIER IRENE STILLMAN Lake Erie College Girls' League. U. C. Club. IVilful, sympathetic, imaginative BIRD STUFFER DORIS STONE Art Institute Art Editor Spectator Board. Hesperian Board. ’ I 6. Vice Pres, and Pres. Girls’ League. U. C. Club. Jolly, affectionate, executive SUFFRAGETTE GUDRUN THORLAKSON Fargo College Kind, Quiet, interesting AUTHOR MARION TRUMBLE Persistent, reserved, just RED CROSS NURSE ROLF UELAND Minnesota Pres. Y Club. Executive Board. Junior Class President. Weekly. Senior Class Executive Committee. Tennis Team. Hesperian Board, '15, 16, '17. Accurate, individual, artistic ASHMAN RICHARD WARNER Minnesota Active, reckless, thoughtful PEDDLER 59 CHARLES WESTFALL Minnesota Football. Y Club. Lazy, sensitive, observant WIZARD CARLOS WHEATON Sophomore Baseball. Baseball. Football. Captain Baseball Team. Indolent, mathematical, inventive FARMER LUCILE WILK U. C. Club. Girls’ League. Story Tellers' Club. Home Economics Club. Original, poetic, idealistic LADY CHAUFFEUR JOHN WILKES Minnesota Quiet, hard wording, l(ind HOD-CARRIER MILDRED WILLIAMS Girls' League. Vivacious, quick-tempered, sympathetic ARTIST DOROTHY WOOD Carleton U. C. Dramatic Group. Keen, hard wording, modest DESIGNER LEONARD WOOD Minnesota Bird Club. Biological Club. Tomahawk Club. Rifle Club. Forum. Weekly. Glee Club. Hesperian Board, '17. Keen, sympathetic, determined FLAGMAN EUNICE WORRALL Minnesota Bird Club. Girls' League. Tercentenary Celebration. Chairman U. C. Dramatic Group. Persistent, ingenious, artistic BAREBACK RIDER 60 DONALD ZIEGLER Minnesota Pres. Senior Class. Track. Captain Cross- Country Team. Junior Class Executive Committee. Forum. Executive Board. Y Club. Affectionate, stubborn, sincere BARKER BURTON CHAPMAN Williams College Y Club. Honest, good-natured, industrious FORD AGENT ALEX FRASER Minnesota Capt. Second Football Team. Hockey Manager. Junior Baseball. Pleasure-loving, persistent, practical MOTORMAN ALBERT JOHNSON Tomahawk Club. Track. Cross-Country. Opinionative, practical, dignified FURRIER CHARLES BARR A NIGHT SCHOOL VICTOR MARY COLLINS HORACE GRABER “a farm recruit STANLEY HALL (in the marines) KARL PAUL (enlisted) PAUL PORTER ANOTHER AGRICULTURIST 61 HARRY ROUG Honor Roll VALEDICTORIAN—Louise Bruchholz 94.7 SALUTATORIAN—Mabel Sholley - - 94.4 Ruth Lyman..........................93.7 Norman Cassel.......................93.0 Loretta Jost........................92.7 Dorothy Wood........................92.4 Margaret Lynskey - - - - 92.3 Gwendolyn Blodgett - - - - 91.3 Cuthbert Randall - - - - 91.3 Joyce Scheid........................91.3 Elwood King.........................91.2 Rodney Chadbourne...................91.2 Florice Andrews.....................90.2 Eunice Worrall......................90.0 Lillias Hannah......................90.0 Rolf Ueland.........................90.0 William Glenny......................90.0 Kenneth Sims....................... 95.3 Louise Helliwell................... 94.5 On i one term at West. 62 63 Executive Board KING KLASSY MORTLAND LARSON ZIEGLER RANDALL T. UELAND SCOFIELD LOBB HART SHEARER BRUCHHOLZ R. UELAND DUNNELL BECK LYMAN The second School Lxecutive Board of West High has just finished a career of usefulness. The members feel that the Board of 1917 has surpassed the organization of last year in its active interest in matters about school. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement. We have done our best to create a feeling of activity and pep in this body and in the school which would form a standard for succeeding Boards to live up to. If we have failed, at least it is with the consciousness of having tried. If we have accomplished something, it is for those following to accept our standard, to improve it. to establish new standards, and so make the Executive Board an expanding. growing organ which will be permanent in West High School. ALAN SHEARER. President. 64 Forum MAY ROCHFORD V1LLETT JONES BOSTWICK FALLS HERMAN HAY BRACKETT SUN DEAN TAYLOR KUHLMANN GILE SUTHERLAND WESLEY KELLY THOMPSON MOORHEAD ROSEN BURG MAYBERG KENDALL ZIEGLER KING DUNNELL MORTLAND HIATT OFFICERS Allen King........................................President Cuthbert Randall .... Vice-President Alice Dunnell.....................................Secretary The Forum was created in order to improve conditions about the school which could be more easily discovered and remedied by the students than by the faculty. With this purpose in view, the pupils have assisted in carrying out many improvements, which, if originated by the teachers, would probably have been branded tyranny,” and would have aroused much opposition. This organization gives to the pupils a chance to speak for themselves and to discuss school problems from their own viewpoint. Several very important movements have originated in the Forum. At the beginning of the school year, it was an open question whether there should be a Weekly or not. However, through the activity of the members of the Forum, sufficient interest was created to support the school paper. The same means were used to increase attendance at various athletic contests with marked success. When someone suggested a Book Exchange, the Forum immediately established one. It is no longer necessary to give that old book to the dog for supper rather than sell it for an insignificant sum at a second-hand store. And then some of those who had struggled with a bowl of soup in the lunch room crowd had their say.” As a result the casual visitor to the most popular place in school now sees orderly lines of sedate students obtaining food without danger. . So it is that we. of the West High Forum, can say that we believe that this body of students, with the assistance of Mr. Lobb and Miss Beck, has been of some real benefit to the school. � 5 CUTHBERT RANDALL. (t Y Club 9 I f f ¥ f f t ROSENRURG RAMSAY PECK GLENNY GILF1LLAN WESTFALL KLASSY HECKLER MAYBERG RANEY ARMOR MAY HIATT CURTIS ERICSON DASSETT CLARK MURPHY SMITH MOORHEAD BURTON UELAND MORTLAND SHEARER ROCHFORD THISS BARNARD RUBEN OFFICERS Daniel Rochford - President Lee Burton Secretary John MORTLAND - Vice-President Alan SHEARER - Treasurer The Y club has a virile message for every Junior-Senior fellow in school. No fellow is too good and no fellow is too bad to be reached by this message. Founded on the principle that true character is the highest aim of life, we have dedicated this club to the strengthening of character. Our success is proved by the fact that not once has the club been forced to equivocate on its stand for better morals. Not once have the sneers of knockers bothered us. With especially able speakers for our meetings and help from Mr. Koehler and Mr. Tripp of the Y , and Mr. Jordan and Mr. Parsons of West, we have been able to face big issues and discuss vital problems from the best standpoint. All of the members have gotten some good out of the club and many of them have gotten a great deal of good out of it. Those fellows whom the Y” club has been able to help in a hard moral fight will never forget this club and the ideals we fellows are aiming for. Personally, and I think 1 voice the feeling of all of the “Y club members who graduate with me, the “Y” club has been the biggest, most important, and most beneficial club at West. DANIEL ROCHFORD. The U. C. Club OFFICERS President - - DOROTHY ROSHOLT Vice President LOUISE ROBERTSON Secretary - - - Lois ATWATER Treasurer - DOROTHY RICHARDSON AJ . MlSS SUNDEAN Advisers - - Miss Martin Dramatic Group EUNICE WoRRALL ,, ml Miss Turner Honorary Members (M|SS Capl|n Charity Group - FRANCES THURBER Musical Group 'HELEN Hart Elizabeth Dolsen Sports Group RUTH AlNSWORTH Sewing Group - - Mary Gage What has the U. C. Club done this year to promote social interest among the upper class girls and to assist in charity work? We have dared to do this year what we have never done before. And, although the real test will not come until later, we feel that our new order of things has been successful. We have divided into groups, each of which has a special phase of U. C. work. By this we hope to make possible more intimate social connections among upper class girls who have a mutual interest. The Dramatic Group has been working on four plays and has given an interesting party. The members of the Charity Group have been assisting in the settlement houses in the city. The Musical Group has studied Italian, French, and German Opera and has furnished entertainment for several of the monthly U. C. Meetings. The Sports Group has been taking hikes that would make Weston prick up his ears and take notice. And the Sewing Group has furnish a needy family with supplies of clothing and bed linens and has been making bandages for the Red Cross society. B7 Besides Group work, we have had monthly and three-weekly meetings of the whole U. C. club, with very interesting speakers and programs. We have given a banquet in conjunction with the Y Club and a party for Freshman girls. We have only made a beginning but we feel that it is a good one. Those of us who are leaving West wish the rest of the club the greatest success in whatever it undertakes. DOROTHY WOOD. The Girls’ Bird Club OFFICERS Kathryn Hammond.................................President Harriet George..................................Secretary JOSEPHINE KENKEL................................Treasurer Although this is the first time the Bird Club has appeared in the Hesperian, for seven years groups of girls have been interested in bird study. During this last year the club has reached its highest standard, both in the number of members and in the interest taken in the work. Under the enthusiastic leadership of Miss Thomas, the club has taken many long tramps in the woods to study our little feathered friends. Many times a lunch eaten in the woods has added to the interest of the trip. The lists of birds seen last year by some of the girls even reached the high mark of ninety. This certainly shows enthusiasm on their part. A cordial invitation to join the club is extended to all interested in birds. HARRIET GEORGE. Girls’ League OFFICERS THOMPSON SHOLLEY MURRAY DURYEA D. STONE E. STONE ELLIS Purpose: To maintain a high standard among the girls. Every year a new president is elected from the senior girls for the Girls’ League. Every year this new president begins with a great deal of enthusiasm to make that term ’’the best ever. Every year ends with dissatisfaction for that enthusiastic president. This past year has been a very hard one. for the condition of the building has made it impossible to hold our teas, picnics and parties. It was only through the kindness of the board of directors of the Art Museum that we were able to hold our annual reception. To all who have helped us. we extend our thanks and best wishes. It has meant a sacrifice on the part of some who have supported us. We want them to know that we appreciated it. The retiring officers feel that a splendid foundation has been laid for the coming years, due to the untiring efforts of a number of the faculty and the co-operation of Mr. Jordan. The president-to-be may base her hopes on a reality and not merely a dream. In all sincerity we wish a very prosperous year to the Girls’ League and West High School. 69 Tomahawk Club PECK RAMSAY N. CASSEL GLENNY C. CASSEL ROCHFORD MURPHY ROSENBURG ARMOR AKERSON JULSRUD SUTHERLAND DASSETT BURTON HIATT ERICSON HECKLER KING SMITH MAY CLARK VILETT BOSTWICK GILFILLAN Aquatic Club VORHEES MACRAE THURBER DAVIES DUNNELL BURCHARD MAUNSELL GRAMM SWANSON GEORGE NAGEL FAIRFIELD NAECLE RICHARDSON THAYER FURBER MC LEOD HAMMOND ROBERTSON KENKEL TOWNSEND WARDWELL 70 Engineers’ Club RADABAUCH BROWN ARMOR C. JOHNSON HUTCHINS GRAY JAFFREY NORRIS WOLF SCHMIEDEMAN HARTWELL SALISBURY CORGEN CO HER A. JOHNSON HARRIS MC CLURE KLASSY COOK OFFICERS Edward McClure - President Donald Harris - Vice President Merrill Klassy - Treasurer The Engineers' Club is now ending its ninth year of existence as one of the oldest and most successful organizations in the school. During the time of the Electric Show in the old Armory, West High, represented by this club, carried off the highest honors for apparatus made by its members. Since that time, however, its members have not been inactive. Four years ago a vaudeville show was put on in the school by the club to buy some wireless instruments with the result that, by the addition of new apparatus each year, we now have a fully equipped radio station, which has given very good results. But this organization is not built upon wireless alone but upon other things of equal scientific value. During the past year we have had some excellent and interesting talks on Wireless in the Navy, by Mr. Yoder, and The Sprinkler System. by Mr. Salisbury. We have also had a great many talks by members of the club. This year the club hopes to give an exhibit of apparatus made by its members as it did last year, though on a larger scale. With so many new clubs and organizations springing up every year, the older clubs usually get the worst of it when it comes to members, but the Engineers' Club, entirely different from any other club in the school, had forty-five enrolled members at the beginning of the year, which shows that science has not lost any of its followers, but is gaining new ones all the time. 71 Home Economics Club MARIE COLE CLADYS HICKS LORETTA JOST VERA CHANDLER (Secretary) (President) (Treasurer) (Vice President) West High School, Minneapolis, Minn. My dearest Peggy: How absurd you talk! Of course the Home Economics Club does not give you instructions in making baking powder biscuits and cake once every two weeks! Instead, we have lecturers speak to us on interesting subjects, such as interior decorating, management of lunch rooms, occupations for girls after leaving high school, etc. Once every two weeks we hold a business meeting and once a month a social meeting at which time the girls have an opportunity to apply what they have learned about cooking and serving. You know we have invited the girls from the first and second term cooking classes to join the club and they are very enthusiastic and we are expecting that they will be able to carry out the work in the future very successfully. Now, Peggy, when you get through sewing for that bottomless hope chest of yours, you had better come to West and attend our splendid lectures for you just can’t imagine how they will help you to be a better wife for Bill. I suppose he is still just waiting. Lovingly yours. GLADYS HICKS. President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Librarian Publicity Glee Club OFFICERS January Leionne Scofield Earl Powers Otto Morck Sylvia Leegard Beatrice Holmes Frances Cool June Leionne Scofield Donald Bostwick Otto Morck Sylvia Leecard Fred Murphy The West High Glee Club has become a permanent, progressive, and vital organization of the school. Since the joining of the girls’ and boys’ organizations in January. 1915, it has been found to be more convenient and pleasant to keep them together. In this way we are able to give operas and furnish soloists for the oratorios which the Chorus Classes give. So far, our club has given the operas “Princess Chrysanthemum. and H. M. S. Pinafore. In connection with the chorus we have given the ‘‘Messiah,’’ ‘‘The Creation, and are now working on Christophorus. The club will probably take up The Beggar Student, Rip Van Winkle and Er-minie for their next productions. Another branch of our work has been the Community Singing. The Glee Club has sung at different churches and demonstrated principles which Mr. Baker brought to us in a lecture on Sunday School singing. Many ideas have been suggested for outside work, most of which we expect to accomplish under the enthusiastic leadership of Mr. Earl Baker. LEIONNE SCOFIELD. President. 73 Orchestra KATER TRASK HOLMES ARMOR MORCK BEACH DICKINSON HAMMOND DREW GARDNER WALMER RANEY FARWELL HUBER CRANDALL BARRETT GIFFORD KIMMF.Y DONNELL NAEGLE BARTHOLOMEW BROWN OFFICERS President -Secretary - Librarian ------ Concertmeister ------ James Raney Deane Donnell Harvey Holmes Otto Morck Under the very able and efficient direction of Mr. D. E. Walmer, the orchestra has just finished its ninth and most successful year; successful not only in that it was increased in quantity, but the quality was of the best. This year three cornets, a clarionet, a trombone, a cello, and drums were added. Selections from operas, symphonies, and marches were played. The orchestra also aided in the giving of Christophorus.” Miss Deane Donnell at the piano deserves the greatest credit for her very meritorious work. Arthur Drew, a cor-netist of ability, also helped greatly. Otto Morck, Concertmeister, held up his end admirably and will continue his work next year. With the organization of the past year to build on and the new people coming in. West will have one of the best high school orchestras in the state. J. R. RANEY. 74 Weekly Board SCOFIELD NELSON PECK KELLOGG MURPHY WITHINCTON MAY HIATT SMITH MELROSE COMB CLARK GILFILLAN HICKS COOL We hope and feel that we, the Weekly Board, have contributed our bit to the furthering of interest and school spirit at West. However, although the board members have been faithful to their duties and have worked many an afternoon until six o’clock, the real credit is due Miss Penney and Mr. Jones for their constant help and guidance, and to the student body in general who have made such a publication possible. With the help of Miss Penney, we have been able to overcome most of the difficulties in editing the paper, and with the aid of Mr. Jones, we have been able to clear ourselves of debt and put in the bank a fair sum for the 1917-1918 board. Finally, with the support of the school, we have been able to place West at the top of the list of school newspaper subscribers. We leave our heartiest wishes for a perfect Weekly next year. THE WEEKLY BOARD. RICHARD GILFILLAN. Editor-in-Chief. 75 Hesperian Board WOOD LARSON SCOFIELD HAGLIN SHEARER SMITHERS DEFOREST BRUCH HOLZ LEIGHTON MAYBERG HART DONNELL WATTS UELAND WILLARD RANDALL Editor Rolf Ueland January Senior - Leionne Scofield Business Manager • George Donnell Junior Elliot DeForest Associate Editors {Louise Bruchholz Cuthbert Randall Sophomore - Elizabeth Scott Adelaide Leighton Classes - - Lillias Hannah Freshman - Lionel Moses Organizations - Jessie Smithers Advertising Marcus Mayberg Athletics - Emery Larson Distribution - Leonard Wood Feature - Alan Shearer Publicity Archie Coleman Album Photographs - Helen Hart - Preston Haglin Faculty Advisers {Miss Watts (Miss Willard Left school. 76 ATHLETICS 77 Winners of the Larson Leighton W HEATON McIntyre Ruben FOOTBALL Martineau Overlock Garzon Krueger Fricson Roos Greenberg Folsom Powers M attic e Rendell Jones Jaax. Mgr. Nolan. Mgr. Martineau Purdy Hammond Larson Strand TRACK Ziegler McLellan S. Powers Curtis Wilkins McIntyre Riddle Hall Martin Fraser Mortland Gardiner. Mgr. Barber Jaax Wheaton BASEBALL Krueger Salsburg Gambill Greenberg Wagner Porter Ainsworth. Mgr. Burton Sterling Salsburg HOCKEY Leighton Harkness Yerxa Joslin Rendell Greenburg Miller Fraser, Mgr. Norton Adams TENNIS Smith Ueland Taylor Haglin FIiatt CROSS-COUNTRY 7S Ziegler S hillock Football Team VOIGT NOLAN GRUWELL JAAX MARTINEAU LEIGHTON MATTICE ROOS POWERS DUNNIGAN KRUEGER RUBEN FOLSOM LARSON WHEATON RENDELL JONES ER1CSON OVERLOCK GREENBURG MCINTYRE GARZON Twin City Champions Once again West High has earned the title of Twin City Champions as a result of the consistent play of the 1916 football team. It was a championship well won, and each man did his share toward the making of it. The season of 1916 was one of the upsets as to football results all over the country, and especially so here in the Twin Cities. The reason that our team won was because they played football in every game and did not loaf for a minute either on the field of play or in practice. The reason that the fellows did play winning football all through the season is threefold: our coach, the spirit of the fellows, and the support of the student body. Too much credit can hardly be given to our splendid coach. Mr. Voigt, for the way in which he developed the squad from a mediocre bunch into a great championship machine. The season was a hard one to meet and if it had 79 not been for Coach Voigt's patience and skill in handling the team, the outcome might have been different. The fellows who came out for football this year and who composed the first and second squads are also deserving of a great deal of credit. Despite setbacks and losses they kept up the great old West Spirit, which always wins. The way in which all of them developed during the practice season did the coach's heart good. Also, a great share of credit is due to the fine West High Spirit, which was shown by the Student Body as a whole. It was their whole-hearted support and their cheers that more than once enabled us to increase our efforts just enough to keep the opposing team from making their fourth down. As one of the graduating members of the team of 1916, I sincerely extend our best wishes for another championship team and the trophy, to Capt. Leighton and his men of 1917. EMERY LARSON. Capt. 1917. Second Football Team MC INTYRF. SCOFIELD LARSON JONES KEENAN D. FRASER NVESTERMAN CHILD SALSBURC A. FRASER GAMBILL HELLER JAFFREY JACOBSON ROOS ROSE MORRISSEY MANDEVILLE SO Review of Football, 1916 NINETEEN-S1XTEEN was an unusual year in the football world. It was a year of up-sets” and spilt dope-buckets.” Hardly a team in the entire country went through the season without at least one defeat. This was true of the Twin City champions. WEST 7 CENTRAL 6 When the call for football was issued September I, 1916, only four veterans responded. Prospects were very gloomy, especially since the other schools had veteran teams to begin with. However, this unpromising outlook did not discourage the candidates for the team. Probably no one realized how green the squad really was more than the men themselves. Although it was a green squad it was not yellow” and the men set to work with the true West spirit to overcome the odds against them. After several weeks’ practice the Green and White answered the whistle for the first game of the season. This was with East, a team composed largely of veterans of the champion 1915 eleven. The game was a hard one from start to finish, and the men put up a splendid exhibition of fight. But lack of experience finally told. East winning the game by a score of 2 7 to 13. Playing against veterans and against a team that had confidence in itself. West put up a great fight; in fact, they surprised themselves and all their followers, for despite the score, they had played on even terms with East throughout the game, and at some stages had virtually played them off their feet. After the East game, although with championship hopes blasted, the men worked harder than ever. Six days were left to prepare for South, the team which had just crushed North by a score of 4 1 to 0. Determined not to lose another game, the wearers of the green and white jerseys tore into South with 81 a vengeance. After receiving the kick-off. Ruben, on the first play, broke through the South line, and aided by the splendid interference of two or three of his teammates, ran 85 yards for the first touchdown of the game. This surprised South so much that they hardly recovered during the whole game. The result was an I 8 to 0 victory for West. The next day East was defeated by Central and championship hopes began to rise again in the breasts of our men. Old Boreas decided that it would be better if West did not play Dun-woody in I 9 I 6. so on October 1 9th, the day before the West-Dunwoody game, he gently covered the earth with a two-inch blanket of snow. By the 20th it had melted, leaving the field one vast sea of mud and water. Both teams journeyed to the field, but by mutual consent of the coaches, play was called off. With a week’s rest behind them the team journeyed over to St. Paul full of “pep” and confidence to battle Mechanic Arts, the winners of the St. Paul City Championship. This was indeed a great battle and was a source of many a thrill for the spectators. Enthusiasm ran high although there was only a handful of West rooters on hand. The game was full of mysteries that have never been fathomed. Martineau and Overlock decided early in the first quarter that they wouldn’t” play any more. Why? And at the end of the game, the Green and White blankets had deserted their masters, and some of them seem to have found more peace in oblivion. Why? In fact this was such a wonderful and mysterious battle that nearly everyone forgot to talk about the mysteries. But the score was 27 to I 4 in favor of the Mill City lads. After the battle with Mechanic Arts, the next game was with North. It was here that Martineau decided he would play again. He performed several remarkable feats, such as working five touchdowns, one after a run of 60 yards, and another on the kick-off at the opening of the second half, running through the entire North team. Ruben and Captain Larson also added to their laurels in this game. Larson was a tower of strength on defense. 82 breaking up play after play behind the North line before it was really started. The interference and team work of the team was perfect. The result was inevitable, a score of 47-0. the largest score made by any city team in 1916. MART1NEAU The real climax of the season came with the Central game. No team had gone through the season undefeated; West and Central were tied for honors; the winner might claim the championship. The game was played on a muddy field, a circumstance which made the perfection of forward passes extremely difficult. It was on this style of play that West had largely depended throughout the season. T hrough the first half neither side could gain consistently. If one got started going, the mud or a penalty would stop them. When the whistle blew the score was 0-0. Between halves both teams imbibed a great deal of pep” and fight, coming back stronger than ever. From the very first things seemed to break against West. They, however, managed to hold their own and stopped several attempts at their goal line. Finally, in the fourth quarter with only a few minutes to play. Central scored a touchdown, but failed to kick goal. This left the score 6-0 in favor of Central. Despair hung over the West rooters as the fellows hang over Rudy’s cigar stand. But Captain Larson, after talking over the situation with his men, decided to receive the kick-off. Here, for the first time, Fate was kind to West. The kick-off was a poor one and bounded out of Ducky Rendell’s hands at the feet of a Central player, but Red Jones, realizing the gravity of the situation, gave a desperate leap, fell on the ball, and recovered it for West. Almost immediately thereafter, Folsom, 83 who had been sent to the rescue, called a pass, and Martineau, taking his time, hurled it into the arms of Overlock, who looked about him a second, then started for the Central goal line. After shaking off several players he MEYER’S TROPHY planted the pigskin fairly between the bars, and West had tied Central’s score. On the trial at goal “the trusty toe of Overlock, realizing the great responsibility which hinged upon it” (a la Col. Lee) kicked goal. Never was there more relief in the West stands at a football game. In two minutes more the game was over. West had won the championship. It was a great game. It was a great season. ADRIAN L. VOIGT. Coach. CENTRAL GAME 84 CAPTAIN LARSON THE FIRST SQUAD 85 The football team of 1917 will contain but few of the fellows who brought the championship to West this last season. The problem of filling the places left vacant by graduates will be a very serious one. Out of the seventeen “W” winners of 1916, only three will return to answer the call. However, the prospects are brightened by the fact that several of the men of this year’s squad who did not win letters will be back in the game. Also, we have a strong second team to draw from. With these men as a nucleus. Coach Voigt will undoubtedly build up an efficient machine. And if the old West Spirit asserts itself among the students in the school, there is an even chance that we will keep the trophy just where it is—at West. SELDON LEIGHTON, Captain 1917. 86 Track Team, 1916 GRUWELL RUBEN PURDY GARDINER LARSON HAMMOND VOIGT STRAND MC LELLAN ZIEGLER MARTINEAU POWERS WILKINS CURTIS MORTLAND MARTIN HALL RIDDLE MC INTYRE The season of 19 I 6 on the cinder paths did not bring a championship to West. Nevertheless we were represented by an unusually strong team. It was coached by a man who stands for good clean sports and he had a good clean squad with which to work. So it was that these men who were picked to represent their school did bring honor to the name of West in every meet. The indoor season started out with a bang when West defeated Central in a dual meet. This victory led us to hope for great things. However, the fates seemed to be against us, first at the Twin City Meet at St. Thomas, and then at the City Meet at the Armory. Not in the least daunted. West started to prepare for the outdoor season. The first outdoor meet was at Hamline in a driving rain. It resulted in a mixed finish. The City Meet, held at Northrop Field, was lost to our old rival. Central, by a scant margin. The next meet, the Northwestern Interscholastic, resulted in a triumph for the Oregon, Illinois, boys. As a fitting climax for a great season, the Twin City meet at Northfield was a great event. And although our boys did well, the relay team in particular distinguishing itself. we were again defeated by Central. Taken all in all, the season of 1916 produced many good men and was a real success. 87 Track for 1917 CAPTAIN MARTINEAU Although we came out but second best last year, the season for 1917 should be one of triumphs for West. The spirit of the fellows already out. is fine; it is the spirit that will win even if beset by handicaps on all sides. I his year we have seven veterans to start with: Ruben, Ziegler, Martin. Larson, Donnell. Ueland, and Martincau. And there is a host of good material. If the school will come out now and stand behind Coach Voigt and show the same spirit that the squad shows, we will surely win the championship once more. 88 EARL MARTINEAU. Captain. West High School Track Records 120-yard high hurdles. . . Davies 12 16:1 10:2 ( Morrison, 1 5 . 4:43:1 52:1 . Keeler 14 . 22:3 . 26:2 Pole vault 10 ft. 9!4 in. High jump 5 ft. 7 s in. Broad jump 20 ft. 4 in. Discus .... Drew '14 1 1 3 ft. 10 in. Shot put 42 ft. 6 in. Half-mile relay . . . 1915—Morrison, Martineau, Overlook, Keeler . . . . . 1:36 0 89 90 Baseball Team, 1916 DU BOIS AINSWORTH LEWIS JONES KRUEGER PORTER CAMBILL BARBER SALSBURG WHEATON WAGNER GREENBERG KECK The baseball season of 1916 finished, for the first time in the history of our school, with thirty odd dollars clear profit. And there are many reasons for the increased success of baseball during the season. Mr. Cantillon, the manager of the Minneapolis ball club, has offered Nicollet park free to the city high schools for their games. This kindness aroused so much spirit for baseball at West that large crowds attended all of the games, with as much enthusiasm as usually attends a football game. Another factor was the interest shown by the student body and teachers. And it can be said that the team and the coach appreciate this kindness beyond words. The loyalty shown, especially by Miss Beck, Mr. Jones, and Captain Barber (1916), to the team could be surpassed by no one. The spirit of I 9 I 6 is still in the minds of every loyal student, and this spirit is going to bring the 1917 Baseball Championship to West. There are a number of old players for the team this year, including Porter, Gambill. Keck. Salsburg, Overlock, Krueger, Miller, Greenberg, and Wheaton. And under the direction of Mr. Jones, the coach, who has turned out winning teams in the past. West hopes to witness a very successful season. CARLOS WHEATON, Captain. 91 um the hochey team -J-- —2 ----- — THE VMOV OFF WEST - SOUTH PRACTICE ALUMNI GAME STERLING THE NORTH TQACK MEET' CITY MEET EDDIE WEST • CENTRAL 92 Hockey Team FRASER LEIGHTON GRUWELL SALSBURG RENDELL JOSLIN STERLING BURTON GREENBURG HARKNESS MILLER YERXA The hockey team which represented West this past year was one of which any school might well be proud. 1 here were no phenomenal stars, but each man played his hardest to bring honor to the name of West. The team worked well together and their playing was exceptionally fast and clean. To Eustace Rendell, who was captain until his graduation in January, belongs much credit for the development of this team. Several veterans will be back again next year. With these players as a foundation. West should turn out another great team. LEE BURTON. Captain. 93 Cross-Country Team ROCHFORD FOWLER SHILLOCK GRUYVELL KALTON BELL RAINEY-FRENCH DREW WILKINS ZIEGLER HAY AL. JOHNSON JOHNSON AKERSON MARTIN HAWKINS The 1916 cross-country call brought out fifty men whom Coach Gruwell moulded into a championship combination. The fifth annual dual meet with Central was preceded by a freshman run in which West won, French crossing the tape first in 16:52:1. The big event of the day was an exciting race ending in another victory for West. Shillock, carrying the Green and White, was the first to cross the line, running the distance in 16:28:2. A newly inaugurated run this year was the Triangular Cross-country meet, with West, East, and Central competing. The race was a very exciting one. Captain Ziegler winning from Shillock in a tight sprint at the end. The time was 16:15:0, which stands as a record for the course. With Martin as captain next year, and with such men as Hay. French, and Drew to work with, West can be expected to repeat in winning the championship. DONALD ZIEGLER. Captain. Tennis Team NORTON HAGLIN ADAMS SMITH In the spring of 1916 West was represented in tennis by Norton, Adams, Haglin, and Smith. This team won the dual meet with Central, winning two singles matches and both doubles. It then played Blake, winning every match. In the Northwestern Interscholastic Tournament, in which Norton, Adams, and Haglin were entered. West tied for first place with St. Paul Central over six other schools. Norton was runner-up and Adams reached the semi-finals. Last fall, the team was composed of Haglin, Ueland, Hiatt, and Taylor. This team won decisively over Central and Blake, losing only one match out of the eight singles and four doubles. These four men are all at school this spring, and the team should win the city championship again. PRESTON HAGLIN. From the daily papers West High Wins Two Ruben’s Dashes Help West High Is Awarded 'M tl M Ct� . T. .. « DM Victory Over South t- Im TkH rw« U m r«lMt w i- w Mar FIRST tOCH SCHOOi. GRID CAU BOUT H«l !«• : i- '1 r i : ipgpg Hill WEST ANO CEMTRAL £ ■M FWOArS HH IMS ■ IUCH TO WEST HIGH high runners are READY FOR CLASH WEST SUPREME DISTANCE RUNNiNC. ___________________________‘ ;• • GHOST BALL USED BY WEST ELEVEN f WEST HIGH ELEVEN £ % 3: CELEBRATES SEASON Senior W Men LARSON “Skibooch was selected captain of the All-Star team. He also takes care of the weights in track. FOLSOM Kenny, ' a true sport. He came out, tried, ar.d made good for the school. £ V A ERICSON Tuffy claims that the second team of ’ 15 was a beaner.” He has been sore at Roos since the South game. GREENBERG Jerry” is one of the best little athletes in school. He played hockey, baseball, and football. His favorite indoor sport is attending football banquets. ! 7 JONES Red” is a fellow who shows that perseverance wins. He worked four years to get the letter he wears in the picture. w A KRUEGER Socks played a good giXrne tackle until an opponent got tan 1 up with his knee. ec McINTYRE Bill made all opposing tackles look foolish. The way he spilled plays was a caution. He was chosen on the All-Star team. JAAX Hub played both football and baseball well. 98 MARTINEAU “Frenchy” is the best hurdler in the Twin Cities. He was captain of the track team for two years, and an All-Star halfback. OVERLOOK Willie ' saved the day in the Central game by his touchdown and goal-kick. MATTICE Mactice” came back to West and helped us win the championship. He is also a hurdler of ability. POWERS Earl played a good steady game at left guard. He met his fate at the Mechanic Arts game. 99 RENDELL Duckie played a good brand of football and made a successful captain of the hockey team. RUBEN Eddie,’’ besides being the best line plunger in the city and an All-Star selection, is a good track man. WHEATON Nuts doesn’t look as though he could play marbles, but he played end on the football team, and is captain of this year’s nine. HIGI “Bill came back to us from the bush leagues. He is one of the best ball players turned out by the Minneapolis schools. 100 MORTLAND Johnny” won his letter during his Sophomore year running the 440 and has been improving ever since. ZIEGLER Don” has developed into a great distance runner. He has the grit that wins. He led the cross-country boys this fall. BARTELS Dutch was the best goal guard that West ever had. He sure could stop the wily old puck. BURTON Lee” is one of our lightest W men. He played hockey, and as captain, was a success. 101 ?■ Sweno played tennis and was on the track team. haglin ■‘Moose is a tennis star. He won the tournament last fall- SALSBURG Piper is a good athlete. He has won letters in baseball and hockey. A broken collar-bone kept him off the football team last fall. SHILLOCK Shylock learned to run cross-country by dancing. He showed them all up when West met Central. WAGNER BLAKELY Bill played a consistent game Al played a fine game at both around second base and shortstop. baseball and hockey. 102 103 Annus Mirabilis Hesperiae, 1916-17 Sept. 5— Once more, dear school— Sept. 6—Everybody changes his program. Sept. I 3—Unlucky day. We don’t know who suffered, but of course somebody must have. Sept. I 5—No school. The furnace has not returned from its vacation. Oct. 6—West I 3, East 27. Deep gloom. Oct. 9—Cards out. Teachers have their first chance to use those cute little rubber stamps. Oct. I 4—West I 8. South 0. We feel better. Oct. 26—West beats Central in cross-country. Oct. 2 7—West 27, Mechanic Arts 14. Some game! Oct. 30— Marty displays a fine collection of black eyes. Nov. I—Same as Oct. 26, only with East added to wrong end of the procession thus—West, Central, East. Nov. 3—West 47, North 0. Good practice, anyway. Nov. 8—The Weekly reappears. Two-bits, please. Nov. 10—Green and White day. West 7. Central 6. Ah-h-h-h! Nov. 24—Seniors trip the light fantastic. Nov. 29—Big day. 1st—Hesperian board announced. 'Ray for us! 2nd—Forum decides to give girls W’s. 3rd— Slipknot breaks into print again. Nov. 30—Thanksgiving. Roos fills out his shrunken form (shrunken during the football season). Nov 31—No school. Consult any reliable calendar. Dec. 3—On this fateful day and date, four cents for cones became the rate. Dec. 9—Janitors' banquet at Central. Dec. I 3—U. C.-Y. club banquet. Dorothy Rosholt shows a knowledge of the alphabet. R. Ueland also ran. Dec. I 4—Weekly prints an original joke that is funny. Dec. I 5—Football banquet. Larson closes career in blaze of oratory. Dec. 23—Do your Christmas shop-lifting early. Jan. 8—Here we are again. Jan. 1 7—Homer Overlock takes great pleasure in leading Dunwoody hockey team to a 2-0 victory over his old friends. Jan. 19—Hockey: West 4, South 0. Senior vaudeville. 104 Jan. 22.—Vaccination. Got your green ticket? Jan. 25—Everyone wishes he had studied more. Ouch! leggo my arm! Jan. 26—Hockey: West 2, Central 2. Jan. 27—Hockey: West 3. East 2. Going up! Jan. 29—Smallest freshie discovered. Jan. 30—Still smaller freshie found. Feb. 2—Hockey: West I, North 2. Going down! Feb. 7—Untimely death of Crutcher Coffin and his paper. The Slipknot. Feb. 8— Fathers and Sons banquet. Athletes receive letters. Red Jones talks two minutes, which is two minutes longer than Ericson talked. Feb. 9—Hockey: West 6. East 2. No comment needed. Feb. 16—Freshie dinner. What d’you know about that? Feb. 23—Hockey: North 2, West I. Goodbye, championship. Feb 26—West 1. Central 0. At last. Feb. 2 7—First track meet: East 43. West 33. Martineau 28. Feb. 28—Fuel famine hits West. Brr-r-r! Mar. 1—John K. Mortland makes his donation to West’s collection of trophies. Mar. 9—West 49. Central 55. Jus wait 'til next time! Mar. I 1—Newspapers run pictures of Martineau. our freckle faced youngster. Mar. I 3—First baseball meeting. Meanwhile, we get eight inches of snow. Mar. 16—West 55, Alumni 49. More snow! — ! ! ! Mar. 22—Mass meeting. Tingdale enjoys himself by holding the center of the stage most of the time. Mar. 23—City indoor meet: West 43% (don’t forget the fractions). Central 34 , East I 7J 2, North I I }. What did I tell you? ’Ray! (See Mar. 9.) How about that relay? 'Ray! ’Ray! April 1 3 and on—Beginning of West High Battalion. Red Cross meetings, middies for girls, etc. End of wireless stations. Numerous enlistments give athletics a rosy outlook. April 24—Girls take two periods discussing clothes for graduation. Honor Roll announced. 105 The Four Stages Hear the Freshies with their noise! Girls and boys! What a lot of nuisance they make with all their toys! How they giggle, giggle, giggle. In the silence of A room While the teachers who are watching Every whisperer are catching For a dire and dreadful doom! Making moan, moan, moan, In a ceaseless monotone, Tc the wild exasperation of the Senior of such poise As he listens to the chatter of the Freshie girls and boys— To the chatter of the Freshie girls and boys! See the Sophomores with their airs! Haughty stares! What a world of worry they make Freshies with their snares! How they tease and tantalize In the smartness of their ways As they poke the little guys, And tell them monstrous lies And call them simple jays ! Causing fright, fright, fright, With a scurrilous delight, To the quaking, to the shaking of the Frosh. Haughty airs Of the simple, sneering Soph'mores without thought of worldly care. Of the Sophomores who all dare! Watch the Juniors with their wiles! Happy smiles! What a world of giddiness they set for all their styles! How the girlies primp, for fair. And fiddle with their locks! While the boys slick back their hair And devote the greatest care To the choosing of their socks! All just glad, glad, glad. Delightfully mad, With the foolish fascination of just dancing miles and miles! Oh. the joy and giddy glory of the jolly Junior styles! Of the Juniors' smiley smiles! 106 See the Seniors in their state! Grand and great! What a world of admiration does their dignity create! With their air of might makes right How they dictate to the age! How they give that Frosh a fright. How they show that Soph their right. In the triumph of their stage! Yet they sadly say, As passes each dear day. At the sad realization that they all must part by fate, Truly time is speeding onward, soon we’ll not be Seniors great. Not be Seniors grand and great! LOUISE BRUCHHOLZ, I 7. My Hero He’s never out on dress parade To make the ladies stare: He doesn’t entertain us much, With conversation rare; He ain’t no pretty mamma’s boy,” So lovely, spick and span,— He wheels a bunch of soup and lunch. The white-coated lunchroom man. The rammin', jammin’, Biffin’, bammin’, White-coated lunchroom man. No teachers call him “brilliant boy,” Nor greet him in the streets; But when the gong rings out at noon, He ushers in the eats. He wheels the dirty dishes out, He scrapes up all the pans, He never looks to right or left. My hero! the lunchroom man; The spandy, dandy, Always handy White-coated lunchroom man. —ANN SMITH, LOLA I. TRAVIS. 107 Ikantricite Ikantricite is a contagious disease which rages from September to June in every high school. No matter how severe the case is, one is immune for only a short time. Some people have it nearly every day; others seldom have it and then it is only a slight attack. The workings are unusual and a mystery to science. There is much more variety in the Green Plague than in most diseases. In almost all cases the first indication is an evening off from study. Some students feel shaky about the knees as they enter the classroom. A few are inclined to brag about their illness. Others are inspired with marvelous and somewhat improbable excuses. Still others try to appear perfectly normal. The disease breaks out in the region of the mouth causing either a profuse flow of words (commonly called bluffing) or lockjaw. In cases where Ikantricite is chronic, the student is afflicted with the former ailment. Some patients suffer much discomfort from Ikantricite; other seem to enjoy it. But those who are free from the Green Plague enjoy recitation periods much more than their afflicted friends. The disease generally lasts from one period to one day. Sometimes its duration is even longer. Such prolonged attacks as these are exceedingly dangerous. The effects are not permanent, but they are strange. They cause great consternation on the day report cards come out; then they are buried in the dead past, until they are unearthed with more consternation at the end of the term. Ikantricite is a most unfortunate and extraordinary disease. But physicians are studying it closely in all its phases. They are quite sure it is not a germ disease, although they have not been able to trace its cause. There is no way of vaccinating against it, but studying one’s lessons every day seems to be the best remedy. However, many consider the medicine worse than the disease. But those of my gentle readers who have ever had severe attacks (chorus from the gallery: Who hasn't? ) will agree that a generous dose of study medicine once or twice a week is most conducive to safety and peace of mind. 10S DOROTHY WOOD. ’ 1 7. ALAN'S unit LAMO FOVR TAILS HO'®' ThCY ftOOW AT � C5T DAN6EDOU5 THE NE'S' ADDITION CHCMIST8Y EXPOSED OKeNfrWIlTt DAY . ::uis H- ROVED BOYS in CAMP THE END CF THE DACE r PL Sc ' 101� November’s Here When the leaves lie on the pathway And the damp, half-frozen ground. And each footstep that is taken Makes a rustling, hollow sound, When the mist lies in the valley Though the morning’s crisp and clear. And the sun starts frost a-dripping From the branches far and near. Then I know November's here. When the streams become more silent. Ice-bound, now that winter’s nigh, And the birds’ nests, now forsaken. Stand out clear against the sky: When the sound of leaves a-swirling Falls upon the listening ear, And the trees that were so verdant Have an aspect sad and drear, Then I know November’s here. When the gray goose comes a-honking From the arctic cold and chill. And in V-shaped line of battle Speeds, unwearied, onward still; When the red squirrel’s store o’erflowing Tells the changing of the year. And the crackling of the campfire Speaks of warmth and welcome cheer. Then I know November’s here. LILLIAS HANNAH. no A Memory of Scotland A village with an old church-tower And clock that strikes at every hour. The cobble-stones all set on edge. And every garden with its hedge; A hurdy-gurdy playing loud. The children following in a crowd. Soldiers who march to bagpipes shrill Out through the town and past the hill. A castle with an ancient moat, A drawbridge and a fishing boat, A shepherd’s hut with roof of thatch. Some black-faced sheep, a collie watch. A bridge of stone with arches three. All ivy-grown (it seemed to me), A mountain high with heather bright, Pine trees that sough by day and night. LILLIAS HANNAH. June Now reigns the Queen of Flowers. Scent-laden leafy bowers Bewitch the twilight hours In June. We quote, What is so rare?” Admire brides passing fair. While music fills the air In June. We muse as campfire gleams. Canoe on magic streams Haunted by faint moonbeams In June. Fairies by starlight peep From harebells' calyx deep Midsummer tryst to keep In June. LILLIAS HANNAH. ill The Last Period Under the wearied proddings of the teacher, the seventh period class was unwillingly grinding out the daily grist. The members of the class, in postures more suggestive of sleep than of study, were, in spirit, far removed. One especially unresponsive youth on a far corner surrendered to his dreams. He saw a dark mass of students, which was brightened by numerous splashes of green and white. He heard the excited roar of the crowd, and the sharp cries of the players. “Come on, down with his arm. He’s up in the air. in the a-i-r!“ “Signals! Thirty-nine, one hundred and eight--- “Stick to him! Only one lap more!” Fourth down, two to go!” Ready? Serve! Right over the plate. “Center! Shoot!” Hold ’em! Two down; get the next one.” “They’re off! Come on West!” Forward. Only two minutes left!” “Slide” “It all depends on the relay, fellows.” Deuce!” Fake! Watch that man! “Right down the rink now. “Get that fellow!” “Come on. let's go! “West wins!” “Hit ’em!”----- “John!” “Huh?” Criticize the recitation.” “Er—uh, it wasn’t—er—it was—uh—it wasn’t loud enough. I couldn’t hear it. ELLIOT DE FOREST. Being Late Jack Frost got busy t’other day And heaped the earth with snow; And so the cars blockaded were, And pupils late, you know. Then, from the office down the hall. As far as eye could reach, The pupils stretched in endless row, A tardy slip for each. I he teacher cannot scold you now— You have a good excuse. She knows you couldn’t help it— Otherwise, you’d get the deuce. —PEARLE ARNESON. 112 Minimum Requirements Minimum requirements hev‘ come to our school to stay. To make us worry all the time and turn our hair quite gray. To shoo all other thoughts away and keep us from our sleep. An’ pester us an' bother us an' make us think a heap. An’ all those plottin’ teachers, when the classes all are done. They sit around in counsel an’ take the meanest fun A-figurin' out all sorts o’ ways to put our hopes to rout. For the Minimums’ll flunk you Ef you Don’t Watch Out! Once there was a freshie, who to West High came. An’ the way he mixed up Minimums, surely was a shame; His schoolmates watched him falter and his teacher saw him fall. An’ when the final word came out, he didn't pass at all. They seeked him in the study hall, and underneath his desk. They seeked him in his locker and everywhere, I guess; But all they ever found was jest his papers strewn about. And the Minimums’ll flunk you Ef you Don't Watch . Out! Still worse, there was a senior girl who’d always laugh and grin, An' make fun of the poor freshies who had jist come in. She thought they couldn’t flunk her, she thought they wouldn’t dare. And so she just stuck up her nose and said she didn't care. But when they brought her back the test, with the rubber stamp mark Fail.” Her stuck-up nose came down again, and she looked most awful pale. She learned she wasn't quite so smart, she had to go the route,” And the Minimums’ll flunk you Ef you Don’t Watch Out! —MARGARET HILL. BARBARA VAN TUVL. 113 114 The Watchman of West I saw him once before. As he passed by the door. And again, The hall floors resound As he tramps o'er the boards With his watch. And still he walks the floors, And he looks at all he meets. Cruel and stern. And he shakes his pompadour That seems as if it said. You are late. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin Through the door. But that nice smooth pompadour. And the little watch and all Are so cute. And if I should live to be A watchman such as he, In this school, Let students smile as 1 do now At the little watch and smooth black pomp Which we see. DOROTHY MELROSE. A Modern Fury There flashed the living lightning from her eyes— (Oh, thoughts of deeds undone, how black ye rise!) Have you a period made up for me? The teacher snapped,—Oh woe! Oh weird to see. For awful fear the guilty youth oppressed, One wayward foot its guilty mate caressed. Ye gods! Consent to miracles anew. Cleave wide the earth and let the victim through; Or send a cloudy mantle from the skies, To shroud his pain from the avenger’s eyes. 115 Was it for this he took such anxious care To ditch Minerva for Naera’s hair? Go, Charlie Chaplin, silent sandalled page, Despair in buskins strides upon the stage! She spoke; and as the shuddering oaken trees Did once receive almighty Jove's decrees. So shook he at the majestic roar: Tonight we’ll add just forty minutes more.” RODNEY CHADBOURNE. Without Souls Thine be a heart that's palace to a soul. That feels a care, that holds its share Of joy and mirth—and knows the worth Of sweetness which the passing days unfold! The people without souls! God pity them! They mope in throngs where joy belongs. They seek the sad, forget the glad. They pass the rose to touch its thorny stem. The people without souls despise the world! Their creed is frown—to be cast down. All good is bad, all life is sad, They peep not in the shell to find the pearl. To them the gorgeous tapestry of night, The rippling scales of nightingales, The whispering breeze that moves the trees. Are nothing but the aftermath of light. And day itself is vacant of the lure Of larks' high trills from verdant hills, The mountain’s call, the waterfall, 1 he meadow's fragrant breath of perfume pure. Thine be a heart that’s palace to a soul. That loves the view of heaven’s blue, That feels a thrill when songbirds trill; That knows the worth of beauty that life holds! RODNEY CHADBOURNE. I 7. 116 My son, attend unto my wisdom and list thee how the Sophomore gaineth his reputation. He cometh to school betimes with empty pate for he trusteth over-much in his learning. Yet in his heart there is no fear, for he knoweth that a prudent man concealeth his ignorance, and lo, is he not a wise fool? He walketh among his fellows with haughty mein and in his heart he scorneth the lowly Freshman. He meeteth several Fair Ones, and doth his utmost to make a seemly impression. But anon he curseth in fell wrath, for they have not noticed him. A tiny Man-Child with girded-on knee-pants crosseth the path of the wrothful one and is withered by the contempt in the orbs of the Sophomore even as the pansy which bloometh in Death Valley. 1'hus are the ways of the weak and unfortunate. The Sophomore passeth into the classroom and heareth the lips of sharks disperse knowledge. He riseth unto his feet at the bidding of his teacher and poureth forth a torrent of speech that confoundeth even himself and causeth the brains of righteous men to reel with wonder. Lo, he seateth himself with calm and the soul of his teacher rejoiceth; but the lamp of the Soph's heart is put out, for he knoweth that in a test a man shall be condemned according to his wisdom. His parents say, Behold! our son groweth apace into a man. He hath entered the Temple of Wisdom, and for one year hath he laboured with care. Surely he is even as a rock unto temptation. Mis teacher saith, Verily, 1 shall reward him for his effort; he shall be marked ‘B.’ for it is a joy to mine ears to hear a good recitation. The way of the Sophomore is mighty. But the Sophomore saith in his heart, Alas! now am 1 come to three harder years of toil, and 1 must in truth take upon me a man’s duties—even to the earning of the so-called coin, and attending the Triple S’. Thus consider and take heed my son, that the way of the fool is right in his own eyes: but often that way bringeth exceeding sorrow. Selah! ARTHUR WINN. Peacefully gazing the visitor stands. Seeing the students so sleepily studying. Steeped in a silence, but now and then broken By voices, a murmur of pupils reciting. Indistinct are the words and the syllables spoken: He hears alone the industrious hum Drowsy and low, which hard work betokens. There’s a bell. And a smash: Then a yell. And a crash And utter confusion. A deafening roar As they pour through the door, Released from detention. Why do they come out With such rush. Joyous shout. And mad haste? Bewildered, the visitor said. ’Tis the sign of the bells, The signal that tells Of lunch hour—’tis time to be fed. FJLLIOT DE FOREST. 117 Free Verse I came here a Freshman, Fondly called Freshic,” Green and uncultured In the ways of West High. I was laughed at and kidded By all higher classmen. Most often I toiled In desperate efforts Through fear of a minus. Soon time wrought a change in my class. I was a Sophomore, Small but important, Sneering at Freshies With a show of contempt. I was still small in knowledge; But I knew it not then. I became a proud Junior, A real upper-classman. I attended the Y Club And others well known. I began looking ’round For a girl, nice and pretty, I o take to the Senior class play. I entered athletics With dreams of a letter, And my picture in West’s hall of fame. Now I’m a Senior, So grave and sedate, My actions are older Both in class and out. I no longer take chorus; I’m too far advanced. My time is much taken By work for our Annual. I prepare for commencement, My last big event as a student of West. And now as I finish I wonder how deep an impression I’ve made And how great will be the gap when I’m gone. HORTON TRAUTMAN. ’18. 118 fswvce Mixed) NO METAL CAN TOJCM YOU CH MAN oaccnr eoo� t ANOnWNCHic • ■ c-« -- EVEN AS YOU AMO I madty -e ct tt-ncat me omovtYEDousw« oaov rATMEO'5 MCtfl ANC MOTMECS JC stQtrc waistm ON THE EASsX PASTY - __________________________________ 119 The Skeleton in an English Book Speak, thou unwelcome guest, Who, in green covers dressed. With evil joy possessed. Comest to daunt me. I would not heed thy voice Had I an even choice; Ah, would I then rejoice— Why dost thou haunt me? “1 am an English, old. Lessons I’ve oft retold. Nouns and verbs manifold. Of vast expansion. Schoolrooms I’ve often seen Where scholars’ interest keen Always seemed turned to spleen. When 1 was mentioned. “Now, you. without a care, Sit idly reading there ’Movie’ book rich and rare: I am neglected. But if in class you fail, And you your fate bewail,— Little will tears avail, You’ll be rejected. “And if in test you’d fain Call forth from out your brain Answers, but call in vain. Thoughts all suspended. Think then who charged you fair To study a little and have a care. Look ahead and beware! beware! Thus the tale ended. GLADYS DANFORTH. 120 Fantasies Place—Cell in a Freshman’s brain. Time—Vacant period. Exit—Studious thoughts. Enter—Fantasies. Sometimes 1 wish't 1 was a man An’ was so big an’ tall That I could strut all over the earth And make ’em all look small. Sometimes 1 wish’t 1 was a g’raffc An’ had a neck so long I jes’ could look over any old thing And see what’s going on. Sometimes 1 wish’t that I could be A great big soaring kite, Then I could simply flip my tail At those 1 didn’t like. Sometimes I wish’t 1 didn’t have A mamma or a pa. To make me stay in every night An’ ’bide by every law. Sometimes I wish’t I was as handsome As that young guy, Lucree, Then as I passed by Kate each time She’d gladly speak to me. Sometimes 1 wish’t 1 was John D. With all his piles of cash. Then ’twould be an easy thing For to me to make a mash. Sometimes 1 wish’t I was the owner Of a delicatessen store, So I could eat jes’ lots of sweets An’ still have plenty more. Sometimes—Aw! that can’t be the bell! Dawgonit, anyway! I guess I’ve let this wishing go too far; It’s another flunk today. RODNEY CHADBOURNE. 121 Sonnet W e have to make a sonnet, so 1 11 try E xactly how to write the rhythm here, S ublime, or silly stuff to make us sigh. T ragic, to make us drop the briny tear, H igh-sounding, humble, humorous at times, I ronical (my kingdom fora word), G raceful, grandiloquent, to suit the rhymes. H eroic, halting (isn’t this absurd?). S weet, scothing-syrupy (such sickening rot), C ryptic, capricious, careful (this line trips!) H eavenly, the other place, holy or not, O f course acrostics can't be made like quips, O nly I have to keep to “West High School.” L ong live the sonnet!—now this line is full. —L. H. 122 AT LAST= THE SILVER LINING (Boys, get out the hypodermics) 123 Confessions of an Ex-convict By J. K. MORTLAND 1 am an ex-convict, but it is not my fault. I cannot help my taking ways. When 1 was a child, a careless nurse mistook me for a newspaper and flung me out of the window. I fell eight stories and struck my konk on a fire-escape. From that moment I was a criminal. iVly bump of honesty was a dent. I was slightly dazed by the blow but my criminal instinct showed itself immediately. I stole the fire escape! 1 went from worse to bad. I chewed gum. carried matches—Oh! how 1 sinned. Finally one night 1 found myself broke. I also found myself kissing—ah. how can I say it—1 mean, write it—a lamp-post and telling it to go home and roost with the rest of the pretty purple turtles. I was out of money and desperate; 1 decided to crack a safe. I bought a quart of nitroglycerine and placed in on top of a safe and went out in an alley behind the building. A half-hour passed—an hour—two hours—1 returned to the safe. I he nitroglycerine had not moved. It evidently wasn’t any good. In a rage I flung it down. I was wrong; it was very good. When I got out of the hospital I was a total wreck; two legs gone, three arms, a nose, two appendixes, all my teeth, including the gold ones (the doctor got those w’hile I was unconscious). I felt all broken up about the matter. I decided to reform and go straight. Fortune smiled upon me; I got a job with a circus as the missing link. But again my criminal instinct spoiled my chances. I stole one of the two-headed calves. I was pursued by the bearded lady. He said he wanted half or he'd squeal. I declined his offer. He squealed. That's why I’m an ex-convict. In closing I have simply to say, remember what the good book says: A straight line is the shortest path between two points.’’ Follow the straight and narrow. Yours truly, Leven-fingered Looie. P. S.—I am no longer an ex-convict. I had to swipe a pencil from a blind man to write this. He got out a warrant and swears he saw me take the pencil. So I’m a convict again. Yours truly, 18,974, Second floor, fifth cloister, third cell. 124 Ints on Etiquette When in Rome, use Roman candles. Face the crowd until you see the whites of the eggs and then duck behind the scenery. Even if you like to chew pitch, it is not considered good form to pick your teeth with a pitch fork. Whenever you tip your hat be sure not to give it too much. Never drink hair oil; use it on the outside. Please do not spit on floor We are trying to prevent accidents and ask your help. F ierce assignments. R ules galore; E very lesson S eems a bore. H igher learning I s all bunk; E very day S cared I’ll flunk. A pupil preparing a theme. Said. “I really wish I could dream An essay complete. All written and neat, And filling the most of a ream. A Dog’s Life at School 125 Dramatic Dialogue “Diplomacy’’ Scene—Miss Penney’s Room. Time—First lunch period. Bob Bell discovered eating his lunch out of a paper box as he studies his Lit. Silence. Enter Fran Long. F. L. “ Lo. Silence. F. L. (slightly louder) “ ’Lo.” B. B. (distantly) “No.—high. Silence—broken only by crunching of jaws. F. L. I haven’t time to eat my lunch today. B. B. Zat so? F. L. I forgot to get some lunch tickets, anyway. B. B. Zat so? F. L. Yes. it is. Silence. F. L. You always bring your lunch, don’t you?” B. B. 1 don't know; I seem to. Silence—Fran gazes at Bob’s sandwiches; Bob reads and eats. F. L. (suddenly) Swell-looking tie you have on. B. B. OswaldI—Really? Closes his book, produces a pocket mirror, gazes at his reflection, smiles with content. F. L. Best looking I’ve seen for an age! B. B. Zat so? Oswald! Have a sandwich?” F. L. Thanks—But then you always do wear such good-looking ties! B. B. Zat so? Oswald! Have another? F. L. Thanks. Curtain She (smiling) : Last night I dreamed that you and I were married. He: Were you happy? She: Yes! When I woke up. 126 Do You Know These Friendly, Rollicking, Energetic, Simple, Harmless, Mimics. Everlastingly Noisy. Class Rat Swaggering Or Playing Hookey. Obliging Mother, Or Running Errands Socially. Leionne Scofield ing Jolly, Sedate Unimportant Elders, Nighthawks. Never Inventing Imagining Out-of-door Others Recreative Really Sports. Sensible. ARTHUR F. OLSON. 127 In tYve z ounc Y n's ¥auc j lL Vit turns to Thoughts A- ove —!' OR AS WE WOULD SA'i (in THE WOR05 OT TWE POE t) •'GOES NUTS OVER A JANE” HOWAfELLOW FEELS WHEN THE REST ARE MONOPOLIZING H£« , v 128 The Forum An Organization Established in Our School on Principles of Peace and Quiet (Prohibitionists, Gum-chewers, Glee Club members, and Chinamen excluded) Scene: The typewriting room on regular meeting day. The vast multi- tude of representatives are assembling. For hours, throngs have been blocking the doorways. Four policemen are guarding each entrance to prevent congestion and a possible riot. Wild-eyed freshmen are waving bills and demanding justice while heavily-armed seniors are memorizing orations. President All In King is taking his seat at the front, his personage being surrounded by a trusted bodyguard. Vice President Lion Cub Randall is crouching near his superior's desk in order to fill that individual’s place if any fightsome frantic representative mortally wounds King. Secretary Alice Dunnell, grasping three bills in her left hand and an ominous looking club in her right, is giving orders to her five shorthand stenographers who are necessary to record the business of the day. Representatives Mayberg and May are eyeing each other maliciously. Rochford and Hay are kicking each other’s shins beneath their desks. Faculty Advisors Lobb and Miss Beck are vainly trying to silence the clamor. President King (standing on his desk and pounding with a croquet mallet) : This meeting must come to order!I Policeman at the near entrance: No more! No more! Fire ordinance must be observed. The room seats only five hundred, counting the windowsills and waste baskets. King (shouting above din) : I his meeting must come to order!!!! Randall: I second it. (A slight cessation of the roar as the members take their places.) King (bellowing, as he grasps his mallet threateningly) : Secretary, read the minutes. (Profound silence.) Secretary Dunnell rises, opens her mouth, and without saying anything, sits down again. King: If there are no objections-- Rep. May: Mister President--- King: If there are no-- Rep. Mayberg: Mister President, I- King: If there are no objections, the minutes- Rep. Rochford: Mister President. I have objections. 129 King: Silence! Since there are no objections, the minutes stand ap- proved. Randall: I second it. Rep. Rochford: Mr. President. I have before- King: Representative Rochford has not the Hoor. Silence!—Is there any old business? Freshie: Mr. President. King: Freshman has the floor. (Wild commotion. Rochford jumps up from his seat in rage. Mayberg hits May with a waste basket to keep him from shouting. Rep. Flay stands on his desk.) Hay: I beg you to put an end to this commotion. This Forum was organized to maintain quiet throughout the school. Only thirty members are supposed to attend. We are under regulation to pass one and only one law a semester. I demand------- Mr. Lobb: Mr. President, if I may suggest---- King: Mr. Lobb has the floor. Rochford: 1 maintain the Freshman has it. King (drawing out his ‘Once in every man's life Colt) : Silence! Mr. Lobb has the floor. (Rochford subsides.) Mr. Lobb: I would suggest that only the most important business be discussed today. I know Mr. Mayberg has a worthy proposition to bring forward. (Shouts of Mayberg forever from the young ladies of the organization. Freshman and Rochford wave bills in opposition.) Mayberg (rising) : Mr. President. King: Mr. Mayberg. Mayberg (unrolling a manuscript) : I have here today a measure of vast importance to the school. I wish to propose------ Rep. May: Oh. girls! (Wild confusion.) King: Silence. Mr. May is out of order. Rochford: His brain always was. King (amid cheers for Rochford): Silence!!!! Mayberg: I wish to suggest that- Randall (awaking) : I second that motion. 130 King: All those in favor say Aye. (Silence.) Opposed, No. (Silence.) The motion is carried. (Mayberg retires in satisfaction.) Rochford: Mr. President. King: Mr. Rochford has the floor. Rochford: I'm not here today. May: He is. too!! King: Silence!! Rochford: If I may proceed with the condescending consent of Mr. May, I should like to say that I am here today in--- May (gratified) : I told you so. Rochford: —In the interests of the Girls’ League. (Wild applause.) Randall: I second it. King: Shut up! Mr. Rochford has the floor. Rochford: As you all know, this organization promotes the highest interests in the school. Therefore it is the bounden duty of this Forum to aid the ladies in all their enterprises. Mayberg: Hear, hear!! Rochford: The officers of the Girls' League have decided to give a candy sale. I hereby move that the Forum attend that sale in a body. There must be unity and cooperation in our community. I thank you. King: Is there a second to that motion? (Silence; Vice-president Randall is asleep.) There is no second to that motion. Is there any other business? (Excited waving of manuscripts. Sophomores jump on their chairs in order to be seen and heard. Juniors drown everyone else with a siren. Representatives May and Hay pound their fists with their desks. All the stenographers typewrite at top speed. Vice-president Randall awakes.) Since there is no other business for today-----(Profuse protest.)—Is there a motion to adjourn? (Silence.) Mr. Lobb: Mr. President, I move- Randall: I second that motion. King: All those in favor--- There is a wild rush for the doors. Two freshman girls and Representative May collapse. Miss Beck and George Hay assault the policemen for disturbing the meeting. Mr. Lobb and Randall congratulate each other on the success of the meeting. President King offers Secretary Dunnell an empty glassful of water in return for her strenuous services and the Forum meeting is 131 over. How It Happened Act I When Romulus and Remus Were building good old Rome. They couldn’t just decide upon A name to call their home. Said Remus, ” ’Twill be named for me.’’ Said Rommy, ‘‘No! by Gum! With that he heaved a brick right through His brother’s vacuum. Act II Now when this monster burg was built. It was a sight to see; And Romulus, to celebrate. Went off on one grand spree. And then while he was gay with wine, A thought flashed through his dome, And waving high his crown he yelled. Hooray! I’ll call it Rome. Epilogue So Rome it’s called unto this day. The name sure seems to stick: And yet this cognomen is due To just a common brick! ARCHIE COLEMAN. 132 This doesn't look much like Johnny Mortland. But it really is—sitting in the office, too! (Posed specially for us.) They call me my mamma s angel-boy, but I can't help it that my hair curls. I have pockets in my trousers and a dead toad in one pocket. I'm going to throw it at the kodak man in a minute; that's why I’m smiling. My papa says when I m big I II be too wide to get through a door. Trustfully. ARCHIE COLEMAN. 133 Loaves from the Bread-Fruit Tree I he Kenwood 6c Anderson car has rightly been called a “Tri weekly. (Note.—It goes out one week and tries to get back the next.) LEARN ONE NEW THING EACH DAY Kenny Moorhead arrived at school before 8:30. MINNEHOHO DAIRY “The True Blue Milk” Adv. Did you know that— Red Jones has to use an asbestos cover when he gets his hair cut? Mortland wants to know who that fellow is who writes all the geometry problems and who signs himself just Q. E. D. Mr. Baker: Three years ago the chorus couldn’t sing Nearer, My God, to Thee,' let alone something worth while. West yells revised— Chinaman, chinaman, rake the onions. Quarter to crocodile; Goat, goat, boisterous chink Hen-awah-dah! West Side High School, rah! rah! rah! For a roofing that can't burn, is indestructible, and improves with age. see Hairy Hammond, manufacturer of Hammond’s Hellixer for Hair.—Advt. 134 Vaccination His will power pressure falling fast. As to the doctor's presence passed, A youth who would bear, in a trice. That doctors’ safety-scar device, Vaccination. His brow was sad when doctor bares And fondles shiny surgeons’ wares. “Now bare your arm and we shall see Where a convenient place can be For vaccination.’’ The youth he bared it with a sigh, But slowly winked the other eye; For on his milky biceps there Was strapped the guard we all did wear On vaccinations. “Oh say,” the M. D. said, “I’ll look And strike your name from off my book. If that has been already done. Why you're all right, you need but one Vaccination.” Now when you hit this fellow’s arm You cannot do him any harm; Although he wore that little sheath. There was no sore place underneath From vaccination. HOWF.LL ARMOR. 135 Typical Meeting of the Executive Board (Propositions Cussed and Discussed) Shearer: Well I guess we got a quorum, we may as well begin. Lessee. We 11 have the secretary's report. Hart (reads): At the regular meeting of the Executive Board held 1 ucsday, Jan. 5th. the minutes were read and approved. Motion carried to have color of lunch tickets changed. Heated discussion about making wastebaskets larger so that they would be easier to hit. Moved and seconded to stretch ropes in front of doors to trip loafers as they come in. Upon motion the meeting adjourned. Shearer: If there arc no corrections the minutes stand approved as read. —Is there any old business? — (pause)—Is there any new business, then? — (pause)—Well, if there’s nothing to come up we may as well----- Mortland: Hey. wait! I got something. My advisory group seems to think that they ought to bring the lunch to the fifth period classes. They say it would prevent congestion in the halls and give the pupils more time to study. It might work. I dunno. tho. Shearer: Anybody got any discussion on this? King: I move that we recommend that lunch be served in the fifth period classes. Lobb. It seems to me that you had better wait until you get a better idea of the general sentiment of the school. Remember this is only one advisory group, and all boys, at that. Bruchholz: Why. Johnny, aren't there any girls in your group? Mortland: Naw, thank heaven. A couple came in at the first of the term, but they didn't stay very long. We froze ’em out. Bruchholz: Why I think that’s perfectly lovely!! say I wish we had a decent group they’re all perfect sleepyheads and they haven’t any more school spirit than a flea when the Weekly representative came in and asked if anybody wanted to subscribe they just sat there and never said a word and I know three-fourths of them have never seen a paper honestly people I think this school is going to the dogs they haven’t any more school spirit than rabbits now over at Central they have fifteen hundred subscriptions to the ’’News and there are more coming in every day. while we sit here and do nothing I don’t think the pupils care anything about school activities why this board hasn't done a thing this whole term we just come here and meet but what do we do honestly people I’m discouraged and blue I think the school is run down and nobody cares anything about it now over at Central----- Lobb: Wait a minute now. Miss Bruchholz, wait a minute. Don’t you think you’re a little too radical? Bruchholz: No I should say not I think- Ueland: I think it's time we did something distinctively individual and strikingly original. King: Question!! Shearer (coming to) : Hah? King: Question!!! Shearer: Question. Oh, yah. Lessee. Will the person who made the motion please repeat it? King: I moved that we recommend that lunch be served in fifth period classes. I second that motion. All in favor say “Aye. Dunnell: Shearer: King Aye! Opposed ? No!!! The motion is carried—1 mean lost. Now is there any more Dunnell Shearer: Chorus: Shearer: new business? (Ruth Lyman and Emery Larson come in late.) Lyman: Oh people, are you having the meeting? Mortland: Oh no. Ruth, we was just a-sittin’ here waitin' for you. Lyman: R-e-a-l-l-y? Oh Johnny, you’re so funny! Shearer: Any more new business? Lyman: Oh yes, 1 think we ought to have the bulletin boards varnished. They look just terrible! Larson: I second the motion. Shearer: All in favor----- Weak Chorus: Aye. Shearer: ’Posed? (Silence.) Shearer: Motion carried. Now, is there any new business? Beck: I think you ought to appoint someone to do the varnishing. You know it won’t be done unless you do. Shearer: That’s right. Well (looking around), Toke, can you varnish bulletin boards? All right, I appoint young Ueland. Any more----------- Klassy: I move we adjourn!! Chorus: Second!! Shearer: All n favor------? Chorus: Aye!!!!! Shearer: ’Posed------? (Deep silence.) Shearer: All right, let’s beat it. ASBESTOS CURTAIN. 137 138 The Twin City Retorter T aurumiacicmus By WARREN TINGDALE. OUR PURPOSE. There's a lot of scandal round the school That we will now expose. We’ll give exception plus the rule Take it from us who knows. NOW WE START. Lives of Latin sharks remind us As we learn the deadly junk That the zeros sure will find us and escort us to a Bunk. MILLER-KILLER. There is a young guy. Freddy Miller, Who is sure some swell lady-killer He’s got a smile on his face And a head that's all space Has this little Freddy, Fred Miller. THE SIDE SHOW. Ladies and Gents: Introducing in this canvas, David Sternberg, the human sponge. David has borrowed more lunch tickets and paid back less than any man in the world outside of Looic Abcles. UNITY, MASS AND COHERENCE? Listen at the robin's roar When out in a boat 1 wanna oar What they hangin Danny Decver for? Did you ever get behind before? Rode the 600. For Latin we learn a pile of bunk A Chinese boat they call a junk If ya got some gum gimme a hunk A couple of zeros mean a flunk Some I had blundered. FOOLISHMENT. ''1 have a sense of phumor, The young man loudly sed. I told him my best joke Smiling, the boy fell dead. BELIEVED ERE SPOKEN. If all the nuts in this school were kept in one place and all the rest of us were to act as keepers, each keeper was capable of caring 4 25 nuts, there wouldn't be enough keepers to care for one-fifth of the nuts that I keeper was capable of caring 4. JUST TO SHOW HOW PUNK A JOKE MIGHT BE. Big he—Arc you a Freshman? Little he—No, I’m a A” Freshman. Now that our country has entered the war we are the most cosmopolitan belligerent on earth. We have: Swiss Cheese 6c Turkish Baths 6c Swedish Massages 6c Hungarian Goulashes 6c German Measles and Spies 6c Nigger, nigger hoe potater 6c Russian Caviar 6c Belgian Hair 6c Australian Pursuit Races 6c Dutch Treat 139 6c French Rolls 6c Arabic Figures 6c Roman Noses (See Sid Foss) English Shoes Norwegian Lute Fiske 6c Irish Stew 6c Chili Sauce (See Map) 6 Mexican Bandits 6c Chinese Chop Suey 6c Bulgarian Buttermilk 6c Spanish Onions 6c Egyptian Straights 6c Greek Shoe-shine 6c last, tho not most. Jews Harp. ♦No relation to our friend Leopold. THE INCUBATOR. A famous Doc did once invent A Baby Incubator; The baby might be weak at 1st But he'd be healthy later. This old M. D. did speak to us; He told us of his plan. He said he'd take a puny kid And make him quite a man. He picked out just a little kid. His name was Douglas Roos. Young Douglas grew so doggone fast Old Doc said What's the use? At I st a little box was used; The box soon broke and bent. Douglass grew so tall and fat. Doc bought a circus tent. Is this tale true? someone will ask; I answer, Yes. it is. Where did you get the dope? you say. Well it's none of your biz. MILLION REQUIREMENTS. There's 60,000,000 rules that we must know by heart; There’s 80 billion words that we must learn to spell; 6 if we learn a trillion more with each syllabic part, The teacher then will say we're doing pretty well. The reason we must know this stuff From what I understand Is so that we may have culture At our command. I learned most all that deadly junk 6c then I took the test I missed I word 6c got a flunk, Miss Watts, I did my best. Prof. Dclmer Elmer Walmer, leader of West High's Sumphunny Orchestra is a great pianoist 6c and we all greatly favor his execution. IF. This splendid piece of pometry is written with all sorts of apologies to Woodyard Kindling. If we only had the wonderful strength Of the primaeval stone age man. And we could only hurl the bull With the strength that Swede Nelson can. 140 We, the Editor and Printer of this sheet, maintain that The TWIN CITY RETORT-ER is the most alive and up-to-date Newspaper in the WORLD. We wrote and asked Mr. Ring W. Lardner, America's premier comical writer to write us an article AND HE DID. His letter follows: Chicago, Mar. 13. Mr. Warren Tingdale, Minnesota. Gents: You ast me would I write a letter for printing in the annual wreck of the hes-perian and I hate to write letters and would not write only on account of your name pretty near rhymcing with mine and it would rhyme exactly if my name was Ringtail like a monkey. And besides you told me that John Ritchie just as much as said 1 would have to write something for you and I supposed if I refused he would call it deliberate and unfriendly and would show me a round or maybe 2 rounds next time 1 come to Minn. So I am writing you this letter but you got to admit yourself that you did not give many facts to go on and all as you said was that you belonged to west High and your champions in football and tennis and X country and you got good track prospects and your colors is green and white and you got 1300 students in the school. You did not even tell me how many pupils there was. Now listen Warren if the hesperus is read by the boys and girls that attends to the high school, why they know as well as you do what your colors is and what your champions of and how many students you got so what would be the use of me telling them all over again. It would be like as if I was to try and tell them that they’s no sense to algebra or that all german teachers has most always got a grouch. They’s really nothing I could write that would be interesting to your readers accept maybe to tell them a little about myself. I am a young man 32 yrs. of age and up to 10 yrs. ago was good looking and everybody talked about it, but then 1 begin loosing my hair and I been loosing it ever since and judging from the amt. of hair Ive lost 1 must of had as much hair to start with as Fanny X. Bushman. I write for the Chicago tribune and the Minn. Journal and the Hesperus and 2 or 3 other less well known magazines and everybody likes my work when 1 try hard. I am married so 1 hope none of your female readers will try and send me mash notes or ask for my picture but if they insist on writing to me tell them to be sure and address it to the office and not the home. I got 3 children and they say the cutest things. I of them, the second to the oldest and next to the youngest, said the other day, but I forget what he said. 1 shave every morning and got two suits of clothes, the blue and the gray, and that's exclusive of my evening dress suit which I got 2 different kinds of coats for it, one to wear at stags and the other when they's ladys present. It makes it mighty inconvcniet to have social rules like that where a man that’s invited to a stag has to put on your dinner coat but also has to carry along your other coat to slip on in case a female should enter the room. I wear Hamerton arrow collars size 16 and that's the highest collar they make and it comes up high enough to hide i of my apple. 1 wear suspenders with my evening clothes only and the rest of the time I take chances. With my fondest regards and most lukewarm wishs for the success of this issue of the Hesp. 1 insist on remaining, (Signed) RING W. LARDNER. 141 A man who shares the popularity as a newspaper humorist with Ring Lardner is John H. Ritchie. Sport Editor of the Minneapolis Journal. His biggest hit no doubt is Bill Varmint.” In order to insure the success of the TWIN CITY RETORTER he has written the following article for us: VARMINT ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. They is one bird that I'd like t' have a squint at afore I die, remarked Bill Varmint at the Parent and Teachers' Society To Meddle with School Affairs, “an' that is th' walrus that layed out th' course of study f'r English litcheratoor. He was certainly a standpatter f’r th' old masters an' anyboddy that's writ a line sense th’ last book of Revalayshons in th' bible had about as much chanct t’ horn in wit any of his dope as a soshalist orator would of gettin' permission fr’m th' kayser t' live at th' royal Bungalow. He was rootin' strong f'r th' old timers. He belonged t' th' golden age when it was a sin t whistle on Sunday an’ when chil- healthy tin cans t' th' invitin' tails of th' naybors pups. He was long on Thanatopsis. which is about as cheerful as a fire in an orphant asylum an' short on O. Henry. He made a lotta kids learn about 200 stanzy's of Kid Gray’s Elegy in a Cross Roads cemetery when he oughta been introducin' th' young an' buddin minds of th' community t’ Ring Lardner an’ Bob Chambers. An’ didja ever see a strong an’ stalwart young football hero player fussin' wit' th' news stand janitor because he was outta th’ last edishon of th' Vision of Sir Lawn-full 'r didja ever see a blushin young she-damsel beggin' her easy money dad f'r a bit of coin t' rush down town an' buy a volume de luxxe of Sassamine an’ Lilies? Y’ know y' didn't. Didja ever hear a group of edjicated people quarrelin' over Ivanhoe? Nix on th' jamb over th' Scotch rough houser. They is mostly askin' if each other has seen th‘ last one Guvvy Morris pulled in Mr. Worst's famous magazine. The day has past f'r them pale, pallid childs of litchertoor. Gone is th’ times when they set round th’ fireplace thinkin’ sweet thoughts about birds an’ bee s an shipwrecks an' weddin' bells. What th' race wants and pays cash f’r these days is somethin' by Jack London in which th’ hero grabs th' gunwale an’ the bowsprit in his front teeth, takes a dagger in one hand an’ a machine gun in th’ other an' swims ashore through th’ roarin' breakers t' chew ears wit’ 500 cannibals which is lined up on th’ tropick beach armed wit' pitchforks an' a pot of hot water ready t’ parboil th' hero. An’ here is whole schoolfuls of po-tenshai presidents an’ malefactors of great stealth bein’ fed up on th’ aneemick ballads of Heck W. Longfellow an' th' cloyin' sweetness of Mrs. Hecmans mush at th' hands of some six foot tall football coach wit' a 17 inch neck an' a Texas pedigree who must hafta snicker every time he asts one of 'em t' get up an’ resite th’ bless-us-every-1 -says-Tiny-Tim. dren was supposed t be settin' around in there Sunday clothes thinkin' about spirit-chal matters rather than out tyin' perfectly 142 Kin y' really conjoor up th' humili-ashun of a good short stop of th' baseball team, or th’ prize pic producer of th' female cookin' asylum in th' school basement when ast t’ try t' dig some mcanin’ 'r sense outta Mr. Tennyson’s Idles of th’ King? As I get it fr’ni th' daily press them kings over there has somethin' t' do th' last two years besides scttin' around makin' love t' th' queens an' singin' idles on there royal ukelayles. ''It was a grand whimpus that laid out th' corner stone f'r our English litera-choor course castles. They ainta teacner in th' schools that couldn't beat it wit' one eye fulla sand an’ th' other watchin’ f'r signs of th' rain 'r th' Hopkins car. He is crammin' th' young minds of th’ day wit' a buncha junk that they can't never forget as long as they lives. They is dwellin' on dead an’ down literary dil-tantys that would mostly be writin' soap ads if they lived in this here day an’ gen-erashon. They lived an’ wrote in a day when a smile was a felony an' a real honest t' goodness whoop wouldda landed th' whoopist in electrick chair. Graveyards an' busted hearts an' moanin' at th' bar was th' popular pastime if 1 gets them ancient scribblers right. Instead of havin' class dances they usta meet in aarcoppa-gusses an writ epitaphs an' l-Iongs-f’r-a-lingcrin', painful-death poetry. In them days th’ favrit ditty in educated an litterary circles which they sung in chorus t th' tune of a poplar death march was 'Then dig m'h Grave both wide an' deep; Plant weepin' willows at m'h feet; An’ in 'em perch a mournin' dove T' tell th' world I deeid f'r love.’ ''If annybody pulled any thing more triflin' then that they was stewed in oil. But they lived long enough t’ fasten their grunts an’ groans on an unoffendin set of gencrashuns t’ come after 'em an' there don’t seem t’ be no escape, now, immeejit 'r in th' immediately hereafter. ''It’s a swell condishon; but whats th answer?” (Signed) J. H. RITCHIE. it • it it EXTRA It is reported that a south bound Oak Bucket car was actually seen at 28th and Hennepin! 143 PHONOGRAMS. RETORTOGRAMS Copyrotten 1492 B. C. Elat a plate of ice cream every day—it' toasted. Dear Ting: It’s a great helps me in my work. book, and WILSON. it Ford, universal car—roll your own. Dear Tingdale: Glad of your stand on Who used to enjoy school and get good grape juice, marks and like his teachers? Ask dad. he BRYAN, knows. How do you know they’re experimenting in the chemistry lab.? Your nose knows. Men wanted for the army. No metal can touch you. REAL HUMOR. This one was written by Mr. Orpheum but it's awful good. He, nervously—Something is flying around my head. She—Inside or outside? He—Outside, of course. 1 wonder what it is. She—Why that's a Whiffinpoof. He—What’s a Whiffinpoof? She—A Whiffinpoof is a bug that hangs around horses and cows and pigs. He—Do you think that I’m a horses or a cows or a pigs? She—No, I don’t think so, but you can’t fool the Whiffinpoofs. OH BE, OH BY. Sids sprig has cub Ad we’re feelid gay Oh led us bass the tibe away Ad thik of fishes, ad flowers, ad brooks Ad led us ferget our Iglish books Ad as we look at the buddig trees Ad we get stug by a bubble bees Oh, then led us say Thad a kids a fool If he edjoys to go to school Id sprig. (NOTE THE METRE) Dearsky Tingovitch: I am out of a jobski. Could you stake me to a sand-vitch. NICHOLAS (Cztzar). Dear Warren Martin Tingdale: The Re torter is a sure cure for home-sickness, sleeping-sickness, sea-sickness and ’’that tired feeling.” (Signed) R. H. JORDAN. Dear Tingson: Vor dan sto du til, gut? HAAKON (of all the Norway ). Dear Tingdale: It’s a fine paper. Its editor out Solomons Solomon. (Signed) A. L. VOIGT. Fat Roos would sure make Montgomery and Stone feel cheap when it comes to a thing like Chin Chin 144 BOB, THE LAIRD (Caught at West) Description— Age. 32. Height, 5 ft. 7 in. Weight. 135 (100 lbs. from neck up). Nose on front part of face. Adam’s apple half way between chin and chest. Five toes on each hand and foot. Scar below nose, commonly called mouth. THEN NOW Escaped from Columbus. 1492. Wanted dead or alive. Crime, ignorance. Here we have the Swedish Highlander, Harry, the Louder, posed by Mush” Foss (feel of his head) before going into battle and after the battle. Besides losing an arm and a leg, he was shot 14 times in (If we have hurt anyone’s feelings we are the back while carrying on a strategic retreat. He and 54 relatives almost licked a man once who was coming out of a hospital. but the cripple managed to chase them away with his crutches, sorry; if not, we have done a bum job.) 145 The Hesperian thanks the following students who kindly assisted in the preparation of the album: Margaret Harris Kenneth Owen John Mortland Marion Petri Mabel Sholley Alice Leavitt It wishes to acknowledge also the kind contributions of Mr. Ring Lardner and Mr. John Ritchie. IN CLOSING We might come around with the good old stuff and say, ‘‘We submit this book to your approval.” We might even go so far as to dig up something really original and pull this, We hope you will like it. OR We might take an extra heavy shot in the arm, lose our chance of a ticket to see George Washington and the angels, and murmur, We’ve done our best. BUT Since we have got your money, and since we are feeling fine because we are through, and since Larson and Bruchholz are on our side if it comes to a regular melee (see dictionary), we will say that it’s our worst; we’re not sorry for anything. NOW START SOMETHING IF YOU ARE GOING TO. 147 NOTICE CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING PAGES. 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