Westport High School - Herald Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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QQ THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 97 . ' v I 'Dv K Q M .4 e r' , 1-'r ff . . . . 7 Q 2, s X I., ., , X, -. 1 if?f..-l1Ii iz?-'-'-Q -'T--T' c o o 6 ' fi The Orchestra this year is the best We have had for several years past. They mee.t every Wednesday immediately after school and put in an hour of hard practice. The club has im- proved steadily and each individual member feels that the time .spent has been Well put in. Two excellent pieces were rendered the evening of the Christmas Play and at the Declamation Contest. The variation in the literary eXer- cises furnished was decidedly pleasing to the audience. The opening and closing events of the Commencement exercises are also scheduled for the Orchestra, and from the sounds that issue from the Study Hall on Wednesday after- noon, the audience is due to enjoy themselves. We lose this year onr only guitar, Mr. Peet, together With four other mandolin players, all boys. As there are several others in the school who play, we have high hopes for a strong club next year. T Loretta English. Helen Claggett. Ethel Addoms. Julia E. Green. William J. Peet. Sidney G. Hodge. Walter Wolf. Melvin Otllielly Worrall Decker. Chas. J. Mount, Jr Prof. Dickerson. I E '52 .1 ,. 3 ,4 ki S55 at 41 I .F 11 .5 Fez . 'E i fy O l 'VHLLSHI-ICH THE CLUB NOW CONSISTS OF gg

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9 .,,,...-1 'v ? . - ., ..,, ,- .--1-- '- QQ THE Wl+fSTI'0Ii'I' HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. A TRIP TO COLUMBIA. About twelve o'clock on Friday, May the fifth, nearly fifty pupils of the Westport High 'School could be seen scurrying from all direc- tions towards the Union depot, carrying suit- cases, boxes of lunch, and canes and colors. At the station the crowd was great, and Westport, Manual, and Central yells deafened the ears of the bystanders who had come' to see the nine carloads of excursionists leave for Columbia. They were to be the guests of the university, which has introduced a new feature, High School Day. Though the Westport car was not hung with bunting, W ostport, as usual, was in the lead, for the engineer refused to wear any other colors, and not only adorned himself, but hung the blue and yellow from the highest point of his engine. About half-past two in the afternoon, sun- dry boxes of lunch and candy were opened, the more thoughful ones dividing with those who, in the lmrry of departure, had forgotten to bring anything. About this time the boys sud- denly disappeared, and, looking out the window, we girls found ourselves stopped in front of a lit.tle station. The boys welre running pell-mell towardila lunch-room a block away, with that marvelous rapidity which betokens work in the gymnasium and on the track-team. In less than two minutes the bell began to ring, and if the boys ran fast before, they.. certainly broke all records now in returning to the train. Beef and mustard sandwiches, slices of ham ,between stale buns, soggy pies, and sacks of candy which we knew were at least two years old were: dis- patched without regard to the possible eixigen- cies of the future. An hour or two later we stopped at Moberly, and as we stayed there fif- teen minutes to await the regular train, every- body had time to refresh themselves by saunter- ting up and down the platform, and getting more lunch. When we finally pulled into Columbia about eight oiclock ini the evening, there was much hustle and bustle in the eager, dirty, and tired but happy crowd. The little station was swarming with college students who had come to welcome us, and the Kansas City Club was much in evidence. Everybody tried to give the college yells, but most of them had shouted themselves hoarse before five oncloek. Seeing a number of boys who had formed a chain, we girls pressed in after them, and in some unconscious way reached Academic Hall. It would be hard to forget that first View of the campus.. We entered by a broad gravel path, shaded by wide-spreading trees. This walk branched into two stone walks at The Co-l- umns, six immense old relics of the: buildings which burned years ago. These colunms, cov- ered with ivy, are greatly reverenced by the stu- dents, and are: more highly honored than any- thing else about the university. Bodies of Aca- demics and Farmers,t' a.s the agricultural stu- dents are called, charged across the wide green square, yelling at the top of their voices. The whole scene was lighted by the brilliant glow that streamed from the open doors of the great hall. ' Then the girls followed their ,teachers into the Auditorium, where each girl 'was called and given a place of entertainment. Then we passed out.. Through a pouring rain I went to the home of one of the professors, a delightful place, with yet more delightful inmates. But I after- ward learned that my good-fortune was no greater than that of the other girls. Our hostess welcomed us most cordially and too-k us to a dainty little room, where she helped us dress for the dance. When we were ready, college friends had arrived, and after a hasty dinnefr we walked under a now clear sky to Academic Hall. There wel saw a number of old friends: Mr. Ankeny, our former drawing teacher 5 Miss Dobbin, the mathematics teacher of other days, and a. host of Westport graduates, Clifford Smith, George Underwood, Audrey Cocke, and others. Even these sources of attraction could not hold when we heard the: excellent music wafted up from the second door, and two by two the dancers glided over the smooth mosaics of the second and third stories. But if one danced to the ext col lig da' off ice Ilil thi flu Cc H in H A. w. st te pi I tl' HI Qi I1 ii P C tl a d c t C - - -Y 10.1. r- - . fm., . - A v,-.--.:-Q..-. ,, X , - -.az-..--f. , .W-.1-..,-. t..-.,-Ni-,-.4 .,.....,........-..-.1...,--, . ..,.. -. .. --- ... .-