West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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ALTHOUGH we are but one of the many classes to leave West High, we feel that in many respects we are entirely different from the majority of classes. In point of numbers we are the largest class ever graduated from West. Socially we have done much to put the social life of the school Lack upon its former standing. As one of our interested parents said, “The Senior class of June '20 is the most democratic group of young people I have ever seen. In athletics we have not been as successful as some former classes, but those who attended the football, basketball and baseball games came away at least with the feeling of having witnessed a team that was capable of hard fighting, hard working, and game sportsmanship. In short, our class has been composed of a good all around crowd and although many of us will come together at the “U” next year, we shall miss the times when we were all assembled at one of our jazz auditoriums, at one of our parties, or at one of our athletic contests tip at West. EMERHINE JACOBSEN, President. JACOBSEN, MACGREGOR, TlNGDALE, WILLIAMS 12

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ONLY a few days and there will be no further need of presenting on this platform the customary alibis that prevail in “our polite society.” However, on this same platform, rich in associations of jazz and jest—shall it be “a la corsage or arms? —you will receive your official dismissal from these walls that have separated you from the world you have been longing to be a part of. Will there be much difference without from what it was within? Shall you be able to live any more happily with yourselves for the rest of your lives or l»e letter able to contribute to the happiness of the whole from your experience in this senior advisory? When you release your energy, brain power and heart to solve the problems that confront you as a unit of the whole outside the walls, may the same fine spirit of co-operation, fair play, and following the rules of the game which you have exhibited within bear abundant fruit. A MAX DA St-NDKAN. Freshmen conic and seniors go. But we teach on forever. Because the above i true, our parting words have alxnit the same ring year after year. Xot that we love you less but because the hope that we cherish for every generation of seniors does not vary a great deal. That you will be honest, kind, purposeful, that you will be alive to the sweetness as well as the bitterness of life, that time shall but serve to make you more keenly conscious of your responsibility to yourself and to your fellow men is the hope that we have for you and every generation of seniors who pass out from the portals of West High School. Sincerely. Ciiari.es R. Richardson. 11

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The June Senior Class met on November 4. 1919, to organize and to elect officers. Emerhinc Jacobsen was elected president, with Helen MacGregor as vice-president, Mildred Tingdale as secretary, and Ralph Williams as treasurer. The members elected to the executive ! oard were Dallas Corwin, Archie Jameson, Elizabeth Shattuck. Clara Luger and Helen Blakely. Our class has had several very successful affairs. At the “Who's Who party, given March 12, a large majority of the class was represented, as was the case also at the All-Senior dance given by the Parents and Teachers' Association on March 19. The annual class picnic was held June 14 at Spring Park. Probably the most difficult affair that the class attempted was the staging of the play, “The Lion and the Mouse, which was presented May 28 in our auditorium. Helen Blakely, Chairman. CORWIN, JAMESON. LITER, SHATTUCK. BLAKELY. 13