Yakima High School - Wigwam Yearbook (Yakima, WA)

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611215155 1903mm BY FLOREN CE WILLIAMS. Friends, hear our history. It is not long, But it is real, and it is 0! so true. Our present you can see. but not our past; So we can only tell that part to you. Our history has had its victories, Its battles, treaties with 0111' teachers nude; The past is gone, but all its happy joy W ith all its memories, can never fade. We all have grown a lotemore than we think. We started out as timid Freshies small. Each year has given 113 21 little more. Till now we Stand before you Seniors tall. Our class was large when first we entered here, Y eseit was large, though we were very small, But it has dwindled through the four long years. Till now therels scarcely any left at all. We always seemed to differ from the rest. Our class in everything has been unique. lVe did not tread the common, beaten path, Originality we always seek. 0111' hikes! How many jolly hikes we've hzull TO 01d Mt. Clemans with her grass and snow: T0 Selah. and t0 Nelsonls Bridge we've been: A11 Yakima 0111' class has learned to know. XVelve climbed up over all her dear old hills, Ahtanum springs have often quenched 01111 thirst. Welve hiked by night and in the sunls first 1215'. In weather line, and weather at its worst. Our parties. too! Such ice cream as we had! Excitement, funeoh how we liked to stay! The hostess always had to drive 115 home, Miss Tenneson and all, from Paul to Faye. fifteen

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Are you a being, and boss of your soul? Or are you a mummy to carry a scroll? Are you a Somebody Else or You? When you finally pass to the Heavenly wicket XVhere Peter the Scrutinous stands on his picket Are you going to give him a blank for a ticket? Do you think it will do? Our high school life has been largely made up of answering such ques tions as the foregoing which have projected themselves on our horizon, Per- haps our means have not always been most expedient but the result has been sclf-reliance. Indeed every member of our little Bohemian Coterie will leave the portals of N. Y. H. S. with a spark of independence in his breast. It seems only logical to consider those forces which give us that quality so! neces- sary to the true Bohemianwthe courage of his convictions. Always truly progressive we received the modem cry for non-partisanship with open minds. Indeed we have learned the very essence of democracy. Our school training has heen noticeably such as to develop the individual tendencies so primarily that it seems entirely possible for us to do real clear- headed thinking. XVith the influential guidance of our friends both in the school and dis- tinct from it we have been given the true liberal education. Keeping in mind the idea of the educated man as one who is able to do the thing which must he done at the time it ought to he done, we have tried to seize every opportunity which has presented itself in our path. Thus it is that we come before you tonight to show our advancement with the practical and theo- retical knowledge. hand in hand. W'ith a great store of vitality and diversified interests. as a class. we have put unstinted enthusiasm into every opportunity which has presented itself. This alone has helped us to accomplish much. For does the science of matter and energy, that of the relation of. Man to his bread and butter, or that of Man to Man, nay even that of Man to God teach that something may be gotten for nothing. In a word God may forgive hut Man must work out his Destiny himself. So why not go at things with a will? As we consider the various steps we have taken and have before us still it is wise to think on those conceptions and ideals which we must carry with us. Since tithe rocks may he ruggedl, we shall need some well-founded con- ceptions to help us hold our ground. Something also to encourage us to keep climbing so each has gleaned his own applicable conceptions and ideals, perhaps, from the stars 01' more likely from the school association, After each has sought and found his conceptions and ideals it is necessary to stand up for these same things. lt is wise to remember that the law of effort applies to the ethical as well as the physical world. Thus it appears tCONTINUED ON PAGE 29l fourteen

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And we have conquered many deadly foes, Our German, Latin, all behind us lie. And even history, and algebra, We've mastered, though they often made us sigh, Our class had equal rights. XVe chose a girl For Senior president, and she proved true. lVe wrote part of our Junior play ourselves. And our own roll room teacher coached us, too. One of our number left 115 near the end. He seems one of us yet, though out of sight. And XVhitney Coffin always will seem thus, Though he can't graduate with us tonight. Our bonds of friendship have been very strong, Our roll room as a home through all the past. And our own teacher, dear Miss 'llenneson, She eased our every trouble to the last. There are so many other little things. l need not tell them all, for only we Can ever feel and understand it all. The most important only you can see. But in our history which we have made, There is so much of joy; clear friends, forget All but this happiness. which ix our past, And in our hearts and faces lingers yet. XVe sought, and striving has not proved in vain. The history of thiseour Classeis through. But in our future. just as in our past To this old High School well he ever true. sixl twn