West Salem High School - Neshonoc Yearbook (West Salem, WI)

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Ti e Eighth Grade Class V. ForJhclz E. Nuttleman l.Fox F. Buol L. Garbers G. Roberts C. Mlis F. Johnson 1. Twite P. Johnson M. Trimbell M. Belles M. Knudtson

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Eighth Grade President ............................. Lydia Twite Motto:.................“To be rather than to seem” Colors: ............................Pink and White Flower Pink Rose Our class in September in the fall of 1909, began to climb the ladder of High School. My! but we were proud. Ves, we were really going to school after teasing our mothers into submission. Our instructor the first year was Miss Hodge, from Ona-laska. We look back now and wonder at the patience she must have had. In our fourth year two of our classmates, Lester Wakefield and Roy Herman, left us and are now miles away, going to school. Also in this year, Lydia Twite, spending her first years of school in LaCrosse, joined us and is now our faithful president. One Of the interesting features of our sixth year was the writing and giving of a play, The Discovery of America.”, arranged by different members of our class, to which we invited the high school We were exceedingly proud to have them with us. Our seventh year was spent in the High room, as Manual Training was adopted in the school so the seventh and eighth grades were moved to the high room for lack of room. Thus we kept on gaining a rung of that great ladder each year, until at last we have gotten as far as the eighth grade where Glenn Roberts added one more to our small class, already noted for its quality and not quantity. But alas! we lost two, when William Nordolz and Louis Garbers dropped out in the latter part of the year. Now our class consists of: Lydia Twite, Margaret Bolles, Gladys Ellis, Merle Knudson, Pearl Johnson, Marguerite Trimbel), Esther Johnson Floyd Buol, Leslie Fox, Edward Nuttlemann, (Glenn Roberts). Miss Best has charge of the following studies: Arithmetic, History, Grammer, Reading; Mr. Sau-bert: Civics, and Physiology; Mr. Bender; Agriculture;; Domestic Economy for the girls, Miss Leiss-ring; Manual Training for the boys, Mr. Gilbert. JOKES. Miss B. Our next lesson in description will be first to describe a flower garden and then a hat. (Why not combine the two?) Mr. S.—Name a department of the municipal government. W.N. Dept, of Safety First. (Dept, of Public Safety.) Miss B.—Give me an equivalent of three-thirds. W.N.- (Pausing a moment) (Oh, ninty-nine and three-thirds. Mr. B. in Agriculture—Give three ways to keep milk Clean. M.B. Always keep the barn utensils and cows clean. Clean them with boiling water. (Refering to the utensils) Miss B.— What kind of a pronoun is this? E. J.—A parsonal pronoun, meaning (personal.) Teacher—Give a sentence using the word adhere F. B. The job was hard but I adhered to it. Teacher What does abandon mean? M.K.—A Small chicken.

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SEVENTH GRADE. President .......................... Aileen Stubbs. Colors: Purple and Gold. Flower: Violet. The pupils in the Seventh grade at present are as follows: Della Deen Diefenthaler, Ruth Sieden-berg, Aileen Stubbs, Lillian Ayars, Emma Losching, Scena Kittleson, Marion Dahlby, Donald Taylor, Lloyd Moran, Lawrence Young, Vilas Young, Er-vine Nuttleman, Clarence Kittleson, Walter Ender, Elmer Pertzsach, and Roy Bechtold. Of these sixteen, Marion Dahlby, Emma Losching and Elmer Pertzsch, are new pupils coming from Mindoro school, West Salem German School and Sparta Schools, respectively, Marion Dahlby and Emma Losching entering the first of the year and Elmer Pertzsach in March, 1916. The subjects under study are, English, History, Agriculture, Geography, Arithmetic, Domestic Economy, and Manual Training. The teachers are Miss Holford for English, Mr. Bender for Agriculture, Mr. Saubert for History and Geography, Miss Best for Arithmetic, Miss Leissring for Domestic Economy and Mr. Gilbert for Manual Training. As would be expected of children, the girls of the grade like Domestic Economy and the boys like Manual training. But tho they are children, the seventh grade have the same spelling as the seniors, and keep up their position in the Junior High school, with the intention of one day being model seniors. By 8. K. and M. D.