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

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OFFICERS GF FRESHMAN CLASS. H. ELMo ROBINSON. HARRY W. FRANK. Sergeant-at-Arms. Treasurer. NIABEL HALL. THoMAs B. Roor. HEDWIGE RIVERS. Secretary. President. Vice-President. A DICTIO NARY. High School Girl: An animal which lilies bon-bons, is not afraid of rats, and, when there is nothing else to do, goes to school. High School Boy: A creature which, if taken in hand early. may be tamed, although it is very wild and ferocious in its natural state. Teacher: -X consnirator. Love 1 -X strange phenomenon w h i c h comes over the High School student. lt has sometimes been known to last as long as two weeks. 4 Study l-lall: A place of rest and repose between recitations. Presided over by a cruel monster, who delights to capture bits of oa- per containing messages fit for but one eye, which mvsteriously Hy about the room. Freshman: A person who lives the life of a transgressor. Sophomore: True to his name KA soft- headih. lunior: A person full of visions of the future. Senior: l give it up. R. K1'11zI21'0ZI.

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lllll lllllll l I llIIllllIIIlllllIllIlllIIllllllllllllllllllllll lll f-my Choc? ggi Class History. ' if Qur hrst Clay at High School was rather tedious. After filling out several funny yel- low cards, We managed to find our hrst room. Then imagine our astonishment when the teachers prefixed MissH or Mister', to our our dear Old School and hope to do so to our first names, the Way our teachers at Ward school did. f'MissH and Mister,' was bad enough from the teachers, but the Sopho- mores called us Miss and 'fMister Greenief, The first week or so We came trembling to School. Then, out of the corners of our eyes, we Watched the superior Sophs and other classes, to see how far we should go in the building before removing our hats, how fast We should go through the halls, and how to act in general on all occasions. 66 We are sure that We will give honor to our dear Qld School and hope to do so to our new building next year, as Sophomores. pecially are we anxious to do so because we are probably the last Freshman Class that Old Wfestport will claim, and the first Soph- omore Class iu our new building. lfVe have the largest enrollment of any Freshman Class that ever attended Westpo1't, and of course the most intelligent. No one can imagine how grown-up we are. The last part of the year We even voted for a Pres-- ident of the Class, electing Mr. Thomas Root. The Sophs look disdainfully at us While We take off our roller skatesg but we dont care-we 're going to be original. John Roberts, '11. Ah! Comme j'aime Elle m'accompagna au theatre hier, Et maintenant je crains beaucoup Quielle ne devienne ma chere amie! mon amie chere.

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I 32 THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHOOL HERALD- The Taming of Private Yaney- dz 'iv- When john Yancy joined the Elevelifh Infantry as recruit number 1756, there was nothing about his appearance from which even the most pessimistic observer could have gained the slightest hint of the troubles which were to come with him to Company H, to which fate and the muster-.list assigned him. He was a lazy, slow-moving six-footer, and so exceedingly languid of speech that it seemed an effort for him to talk at all. As a matter of fact, he did talk verv little, and then never about himself. His enlistment papers told all that was known about him, only that he was John Yancy, of Fayette County, Ten- nessee, and this would not have been very enlightening to the officers of the little Cuban army post, even 'had they troubled themselves to inquire into the life of any man before he became a savior of his country and pro- tector of the flagf' or to regard him in any other light than as one more 'Krookey to be drilled into form for inspection. In Tennessee, however, it would have been quite different, Yancy is a name known in every county of the State. General John Yancy was Confederate envov to France, and Major Whitehorse Yancy fought with Beauregard in every. battle into which that unfortunate commander led his troops. Uver young john, though, old settlers shake their heads, and even his immediate family explain diflidently that there is no real harm in the boyf' but admit that things are quieter when John is away. As far as a desire to harm any living thing was concerned, his friends were right. Yancy was simply afflicted with a sense of humor so utterly out of proportion to the rest ofhis mind as to amount to an absolute de- formity and he had no more appreciation of what makes a thing really funny than a blind man has of light and shade, or the deaf of the harmonies of music. H Comoany realized this peculiarity when they awoke one morning to Hnd that, al- 9. 3 , i though every man had two ifegulation Ordi' nance boots by his bed, both were for the same foot, and neither of them belonged to him. There was a mad attempt 'EO Stfalghten things out, but more than half of the com- pany answered reveille that morning in two right or two left shoes, anditwo or three theft? were who answered in their socks. In this manner did his comr21ClCS f11'St,1C3fH that a humorist was among them: and not until the arrival of their deliverer were they allowed to forget it. 0 a ' His jokes never harmed his victims, but were of that unpleasant variety which made every one uncomfortable but himself. There was no use trying to pay him back or to pun- ish him in any way, for the reason that he never knew when he had enough. A Joke on himself suited him nearly as well as one 111 which someone else was the sufferer, and his endurance and obstinacy made anything short of killing him ineffectual. The experience of a German ,lew called Moses,H whose cot was next to Yancy's, was that of all who attempted to pay him back in his own coin. Yancy had amused himself one terribly cold winter evening ' e' sewing his neighbor's blankets together and then sewing them securely to the mattress. Great was the righteous wrath of Moses when he discovered what had been done, and the next dav he got some coarse salt and bread crumbs from the cook and put a generous amount of the mix- ture in Yancv's bed. VVith great and uncon- cealed pleasure the men watched Yancy as, after half an hour of twisting and turning, he was forced to climb out and shake his blan- kets, and Moses' heart was satisfied. The next evening, as the men were turning in, a yell from Moses brought the lights on with a Hash, which showed the poor fellow shaking and chattering as he punctuated his gesticu- lations with guttural oaths in a strange tongue while 2 little black hill-rat crawled from be- tween his blankets and ran frightened across the floor. Moses made no further attempts