Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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Freshman Contribution Spring ANNEjackson hurried home from school in the downpour of rain. The umbrella she had wasn't doing her a great deal of good because the March wind was blowing noticeably. Oh, this miserable rain never will stop! she cried, I-Iow I hate spring. It had been raining continuously for three long days and it was beginning to show on Annes disposition. When Anne reached home she changed her hose and put on her house-slippers so her feet would get dry and warm again. I-Ier mother was humming cheerfully over her baking in the kitchen and Anne ran out to see her a few minutes before starting on her homework. I-low can you be so cheerful, mother? asked Anne. I-Iere it has been rain- ing for three days and the party due the night after tomorrow. If it doesnt stop soon it will be so muddy and wet that no one will feel like going. And we were to have refreshments in the I-Iolm's beautiful garden, too, she pouted. There is plenty of time for the sun to make things dry, her mother encour- aged cheerfully, and cheer will drive the gloom away in a hurry. Spring is nothing but rain, rain, rain, and more rain, Anne replied gloomily, 'lbut, she added in an attempt at cheerfulness, I'll try to smile the clouds away although I doubt if it will work. Anne worked on her studies with a greater zest than usual. After two hours of hard work she looked up and found her mother smiling down on her. Why, Anne, said her mother, you've been so busy that you havcn't noticed what change has taken place in the outer world, have you? Anne hastily glanced out the window. What had happened to the dreary, gloomy, wet world of a few hours earlier? It had completely disappeared and in its place was a glorious, sparkling, green world. The last rays of the blessed sun gave an added glory to the cool, dripping green grass. The twittering of happy birds could be heard through the window. Anne was spellbound but suddenly she rushed to the window and threw it open. Once again she drank in the beauty of the glorified world, and, with a far- away look in her eyes and a happy smile on her lips, said, more to herself than to her mother- I-Iow I love spring! ALICE BARCLAY, '32, Page Twenty

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October Red-gold clothes On October treesg Red-gold showers With each stripping breeze Red-gold sun I-leeds the twilight callg Red-gold flames Leap from jfres offall. --WEE WISDOM. 5-N E ARE now well broken in to our school activities. Everyone ' ' 'lv has found his place. At the end of the first six weeks of school, a . Q certain suspense is noticed. The grade cards are out. The shirk- l ers are beginning to slip, and the go-getters are either feeling Q '- the stimulus of high marks or the spur of low ones. Still, they bl Q do not get so interested in school that they cannot see the beauties and take part in the activities of this, the eighth month of the year, whose name, as most Latin students know, comes from the Latin word octo which means eight. Autumn is at its height. The days are getting shorter as the fierce summer is blended into winter. SCHOOL LIFE FRESHMEN ORGANIZATIONS TRACK BAND ORCHESTRA 'leisure is time for doing something useful. -Franklin. Page Nineteen

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ARMBRUSTER VAN CLEAVER WILLIAMS EVANS HOAR MARTHA ARMSBRUSTER - President WALTER WILLIAMS - - Secretary THOMAS VAN CLEAVE - Vice-President DOROTHY EVANS - - Treasurer FLORENCE I-IOAR - - Sponsor T Freshman Class AS FRESHMEN we have become accustomed to the benignant and sunny atmos- phere of Wyandotte High School. Soon we will have attained the mellow ripe- ness of Sophomoric wisdom, but we have never been really green . We have our basketball, football, baseball, and club organizations. When we first entered Wyandotte we were welcomed with the usual Freshman greetings. ln the new atmosphere presented to us bigger and better things were within, our grasp, things most unlike the surroundings of grade school which we were so accustomed to. We have become more or less acquainted with our teachers, and we have endured with wonderful patience the supercilious stares of the haughty Sophomores, the con- decension of the juniors, and the ignoring attitude of the Seniors. Through all these hardships we are finally coming to our reward. No more can it be said of us that we are Freshmen. Our class is small. Many of our future classmates, as Sopho- mores, are now in the junior High Schools. We have found that old Wyandotte is every inch a great school and we will endeavor to carry out the purposes presented to us as Freshmen, throughout our entire life at this school. o A .f QNQ X 2 r : 6 I - rn 0 ' 'i Trask f 5 A i A -3 . f i-1 L .. - - I Page Twenty-one Freshman Officers