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

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1902. The history of the class of 11)02 is thus far about the same as that of former classes. Its future, of course, promises to be of much greater interest. What a spectacle we must have presented that September morning as we entered the first year of our service. Some of the timid ones stood out on the walk waiting for the more courageous to take the lead and then followed cautiously after, hearing with chagrin the titterings of groups of haughty Sophomores. Our teachers thought us indeed a most awkward squad. We were the objects of ridicule even to the Sophomores, who had just gone through the same experience. Finally we be¬ came accustomed to the new order. After creditably accomplishing our work, we were pro¬ moted to a higher position with the title of Sophomores. We do not want to be called wise fools but we do think we have passed through our greenest stage; at least we now appear before the world as the organized “Class of 1902. Fred Morgan, our able president, is fully competent to maintain order without the aid of a potato masher, as was suggested. Vesta Hudson is vice-president, Frank Saunders, secretary, and Elida Ochsenkehl, treasurer. We have agreed that our object to promote sociability is being well accomplished even so much so, that it was sug¬ gested by one member that a critic be appointed to see that this was not overdone. The contest for height is between a boy and a girl. The average height is five feet five inches, but we dare not speak of diameter or circumference. The average age is sixteen, we are not old enough to be modest about such things. One of our members thought that a picture hanging on the wall of our session room would have a tendency to make us more loyal, but we have decided that our motto “Excelsior is a sufficient incentive to loyalty and we mean to press on and reach the heights with flying colors. Vesta Hudson.

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ROLL OF CLASS OF 1902 Martha Anschutz. Bertha McLeod. Carl Bauer. Edith McGregor. Grace Bleiler. Lillian Morrison. Sarah Bimey. Ethel Madill. Edith Burr. Earl Norton. • Gladys Carpenter. Don Norris. Junior Cooper. Elida Ochsenkehl. Jeanie Cooper. Clinton Osborn. Gertrude Cowan. Fred Pratt. Oliver Demers. Alice Reynick. Helen Dailey. Anna Remer. Edith Erd. Herbert Remer. Cecelia Ebach. Edith Roeser. Dorothy Fruechtel. Paul Richter. Florence Fisk. Fred Solms. Mabelle Fick. Alice Strickland. Frank Graves. Ode Schroeder. Flossie Gleason. Earl Shepard. Daisey Golden. Frank Saunders. Vesta Hudson. Myrtle Swarthout. Laura Houston. Grace Smith. Reed Hubbell. David Schulte. Lulu Johnson. Harriett Thompson. Thomas Jackson. Ella Thompson, Mabel Kelly. Chas. Taub. Sarah Long. Frances Utter. Caroline Lohrke. Fred VanBrunt. Fred Morgan. Alma Vogt. Ralph Mote. Emma Woldt.

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CLASS OF 1903. COLORS:—Dark Green and Pink. YELL; Hip Soo! Rah Soo! Jimmie blow your Bazoo! Rigadee, Rigado, Ree, Ree, Ree, We’re the Class of 1903. OFFICERS President—Gilbert S. Stark. Vice President—Charles Gilbert. Secretary— Esther Van Auken. Treasurer—James Sweenhart-