Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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FAREWELL Fare thee well, 0 dear old Woodward, Farewell, City of our dreaming. Farewell, Home of youth’s endeavors. Home of gladness, fare thee well. Shady lanes where we have wandered, Fare thee well, 0 haunts of Romance, City of onr fondest mern’ries. Woodward, Woodward, fare thee well! Dear old W. H. S., we love you. And our thoughts will oft be of you. And of happy hours you gave us, And of happy days spent with you. You, whose walls have known our sorrows, You, whose halls have heard our laughter, Tender is our farewell to you. Loving our adieus unto you! And farewell to you, 0 people. Comrades of our happy childhood. Comrades who have shared our gladness. Youthful lads soon grown to manhood. Blushing girls, soon lovely women, Classmates of our joyous school days, Now we bid adieu unto you. Now we say our farewell to you. Forth into the Land of Future We are now departing from you, We are bidding farewell to you. We are leaving you behind us. And we turn our footsteps onward To the far-off golden sunset, To the far-off Land of Future We are going from among you. Westward o’er the mountain’s summit Westward o’er the desert’s vastness Westward where the sun is setting We are going from among you, To a land of lights and shadows. To a land of shade and sunshine, We are going from our homeland. From the arms of Alma Mater. Where the sun meets the horizon By the ocean’s deep blue waters Is the land of golden sunsets. Is the far-off Land of Future, Where our hearts will e’er be tender As we think of you, 0 Woodward, Guiding Spirit of life’s morning, Dear old W. H. S., Farewell. E. D. Lois Yetter (In Physics): Mr. Deininger, is the lesson hard for tomorrow?” Mr Deininger: No, Lois, but you can’t get it without opening your book.”

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BOOMER 1918 28 I ' , with us, Lois has built a chain of questions, which if laid end to end, would according to our esteemed statistician, Mr. Deininger, reach seven times around the earth with enough left over to twine about the tower of the High School building exactly seventeen and three-fourths times. During Martin’s first two or three years of W. H. S. life, he so busied himself with constructing a wall of bashfulness, modesty and reserve that it was thick, strong and secure enough to withstand the bombardment of any twentieth century maiden; but of late this wall has become so weakened that any maiden of average courage may succeed in taking the whole fortified citadel. In the past four years, Clarence has certainly succeeded in building a most perfect Herculean physique. In our Sophomore year, Agnes Irvin and Ruby Potts joined us. We shall all remember Agnes as the business house of efficiency and system, and Ruby’s lasting corner of helpfulness will not be forgotten. During the Junior year Ross Enlow entered, and we must mention his hangar of monoplanes, bi-planes and zeppelins. In our Senior year three more joined us. We remember Lois Seamans’ temple of wisdom and learning; Eva Depugh’s four walls of charm and sweetness; Wayne Proctor’s ability of stick-to-it-iveness. Thus, during the twelve years, great and marvelous constructions have been brought to completion. Of the eleven who started in the first grade, we must mention Lewis’s castle in the Snow; Edith’s cottage on a certain street; Forrest’s storehouse of pluck and persistence; Margaret’s studio of art and culture; F.thyle and Henrvetta's palaces of dreams; Hazel’s beauty parlor of daintiness and loveliness; Edna’s winding tower of aspirations and ambitions; and Ruth has erected a factory broad and high which she has filled with enthusiasm and pep enough to supply at least 4,000 Boom-erites” in the years to come. Yes, thru all these years, the Seniors have been building, hammering with the strength of Hercules to gain some fondly desired purpose; pounding and battering at the age worn portals of wisdom for a share in the nectar which the gods do sip; fashioning, adorning, strengthening, all for the formation of chaiacters which will endure eternally. Developing and growing along with this building has been the Looking Upward.” Not all earthly and material has been their building. They have glorified it with ideals, high thoughts, true aspirations and noble endeavors, until at the Commencement” of their life apart from the guidance of their Alma Mater they can safely rely upon the foundations of their past twelve years of construction under the folds of the Black and Gold.” Francis Worsham: Give me a chew of Climax.”

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