West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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POST GRADUATES. Florence E. Wells. Carrie Steinbauer. Laura Rose. Archie L. Rappley. Edna Bennett. Edith Bartlett. ROLL-CLASS OF 1900 Edith Gertrude Beach.Scientific Flora Bither. German Martha T. Blatz. Classical Charles G. Brater.Scientific Theodore Braun.Latin Helen Clark.German Raymond L. Cooper.Latin Edna Marie Dailey.Latin Pearl Dean. Classical Helen Duffy .German Leo J. Fitzharris.Special Edna Hackett. Classical Elsie Hackett.Classical Jessie Hitchings.Scientific H. Mead Hammond.Classical Lyda MacKinnon.Scientific Will J. Morgan . Scientific Maude Martin .Scientific Genevieve W. Purmort.Classical Bertha H. Romeike .Special Louisa Schwartz.Latin Jeanette Shaw. French Zuella Sorber.German Frances Traber. German Nellie Tracy. Scientific Ella Utter.German

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SENIOR CLASS.

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1900. The class of 1000 entered the Saginaw High School with a membership of one hundred seventeen. A motley crowd were w e with an average age of fourteen and a combined height of four hundred feet. Beautiful? Of course! Light or dark complexioned? Thirty very fair, fifty-nine dark and twenty- eight faded blonds. We had our share of knowledge and freshness too. Our scholarship averaged eighty-nine in the ninth grade but im¬ proved to ninety-one in the twelfth. Our newness gradually wore off and the dignified seniors deigned to smile upon us. But this ideal state of affairs soon came to an end, for those “smart freshmen” thought the seniors unable to take care of the Class Horn, so relieved them of their burdensome task and have succeeded in keeping it from the two following classes, which is more than any other class in our High School has ever done. Soon we were Sophomores and it was here we formed our class organization. It was here we exhibited our willfulness by placing Will at the head of the Class. It was here we took our name “Naughty Naught” and formed our class yell— We, we sought sought, One, nine, naught, naught. Criekety, cackety , sis boom bah, Nineteen hundred, rah rah rah! It was here we lost twenty-four of our members. It was here we began work. Between sleighrides, hops, and ex¬ am inations we were kept busy until the summer vacation. When we reassembled in the eleventh grade our membership was only thirty. But before the year closed two blonds, Mead and Zuella were enrolled on the lists, the former added wisdom, the later, beauty to our class. We were greeted now as Mademoiselle and Monsieur which seemed to us quite an honorary title. With these new honors came the inclination to be mischievous. Hence sample bottles of Hyomei were freely distributed, until the