Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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- , ,,,,., , 5 ,Q 54 -'f M ,V ' , igigjlfjf.,f?f'f'f'f51i1i,fi'f3Qf.Q..ifi. ., X , who participates in that impressive cere- mony who can go away from it entirely un- touched. Minds and souls receive a last- ing impression. For surely, we who believe in immortal- ity must believe that great souls Ngo marching on . May we hope that soul had taken up its abode in the halls of Yeat- man and that its influence may last in the hearts of Yeatmanites? Surely we may believe that this is not an idle wish, for his ideals still live for us. They are ours to live by. In Mr. Butler's office, we find a picture of James E. Yeatman. Under it are in- scribed these lines, E'en as he trod that day to God, So walked he from his birth, ln gentleness and simpleness, And honor and clean mirth. Here was a man of gentleness and sim- plicity, imbued with that shining thing, honor, and last, that human quality, the ability to enjoy and participate in Mclean mirth . Can we not see him with his own children on his knee? Can we not visual- ize this man in the hearty enjoyment of some childish prank? Why surely, for in his humanity lies his power. And we stu- dents of Yeatman High School who hear his name, have received the heritage of his ideals, for surely his spirit, in the God to whom he went, dwells all about us.fK. E. ak :if PLAYING THE GAME. Recently, in looking over some old books, we came across the phrase, HNot to win, but to play the game. Very often abstract thoughts sound well, and may be conjured up into a lot of flashy rhetoric, but this thought really carries with it just good common sense, and also the touch of spirituality which lifts things up out of the -commonplace. ,gtg i 1 z L If everybody would really play the game , wouldn't it be a pretty good, little, old world, after all? Of course, we are all in school, and naturally our outlook is bounded pretty much by the four walls of Yeatman. We wonder if there aren't a good many of us who are not really playing the game for just the sheer sport of it. There are so many ways of being good sports. We wonder if keeping up to a cer- tain standard of scholarship isn't a pretty essential part of Hplaying the game . So it goes. Of course, our athletics have the idea of winning when they're playing, but you know welve all heard Mr. Hill stand up and say that the boys will put up a good fight. He seldom emphasizes either the winning or losing, but he does emphasize the game! We can learn another thing from ath- letics. The athletes, in whatever branch of sport it may be, seem to support their leaders, the coach and the captain. This being able and willing to follow is absolute- ly an essential part of playing and winning too. After one gets out into the business world, one finds that one must be able to comply with directions and follow the rules of the game. Then for the touch of spirituality of which we spoke. W e're all looking for happiness in one way or another. It is not going to be found in a search for just one thing or in a particular achievement. With our eyes all the time on a distant goal we're going to miss the fun on the way. Our eyes will be dazzled with the sun of what we hope to achieve, and all the pleas- ant little things along the way we will over- look entirely. But just suppose we look at life as sport, not quite as Pollyanna did in her sickeningly sweet glad game , putting little troubles in their relative places, for- getting them and going on with the game. Why don't we? lt's a heap of fun and we'll never be bored for welll be too busy playing the game.-K. Fl. Fa ya' Srqfzztgv- Threw

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....g xiii: , AV, .., A., Q 51 .,....1 .42 A ,A 'A, I, ., 7,2 .,.. ,fa ,we y fy, wgyffgf v-v.',. 1 ,,,,, j ff? .,. t St. Louis County in the Spring. find and more quickly picked might be Roma Schaefer After perfect deluges of rain, rain, and more rain, St. Louis is experiencing the thrill of real spring weather at last. Spring could transform even a city into shimmering loveliness, but it's in the coun- try that one really appreciates that season. ln the matter of surrounding country, St. Louis is indeed fortunate. After only a forty minute ride, one finds himself in real, honest-to-goodness country. For instance just outside of Jennings one can go for three miles without seeing a single house. At the present time, automobiles are used so generally that almost everyone takes a Sunday joy-ride, as it were. Of course, riding about is wonderful for the tired business man' ' and his equally tired wife, but an auto cannot go through woods and cannot give more than a general idea of spring time in the country. To hikers alone is given the joy of tramping through Woods and discovering new kinds of ferns and flowers. Around the end of April, all of the fruit trees either have blossomed or are in flow- er, except a few late varieties. The pret- tiest blossom, which cannot fail to attract the hikers or riders through the country, is that of the wild crab apple. This rather disagreeable fruit certainly makes up for its faults in blossoming. Some of the roads are lined on either side by these trees. On going down one of these roads, one gets the impression of stepping into a bridal bower, decked with fluffy blossoms of a luscious strawberry and cream pink. Before opening, these blossoms are a deep rose color and have an unusually sweet fragrance. If the hiker isn't wearing his patent- leather oxfords or her cream colored sport sandals, perhaps a creek through the woods will be explored. A creek bottom, the ground still marshy from the spring over- flow, is one of the most interesting and beautiful spots. Wild violets are so num- erous that one must step carefully, and sweet williams, which are much easier to Page Swenly- Two said to bring down a bit of the blue sky to scatter it lavishly over the earth. At the end of April, wild larkspur and trillium al- so are about ready to bloom. Any one who frequents the woods cannot help no- ticing may-apples, looking just like little, bright green umbrellas standing about a foot from the ground. If one lifts up the large leaves, a small, cup shaped gold and White flower is disclosed. If the explorer is very lucky, he may find a Jack-in-the- pulpit, which resembles a calla lily turned into jade. lt's one of the grandest and most glor- ious of feelings to come healthily tired with one's arms laden with really wild flowers. If all the city-Weary people would only realize that a veritable garden awaits to be explored at the end of a grinding week, there wouldn't be so many Monday grouches or pale and listless workers. Dk bk Dk gk PF YEATMAN DAY. ln the year nineteen-four, a High School was completed and named the James E. Yeatman High School. No greater honor could have been conferred upon it, for in James E. Yeatman, we find that noblest thing--a man. In his life We find the con- summation of an ideal, of a soul, noble in its ability to sacrifice. Mr Yeatman Was, for many years, a leading citizen of St., Louis. In the panels over the stage, in the Auditorium, three phases of his life are de- picted, his love and sympathy for children, his Work in the Western Sanitary Com- mission, the Red Cross of that day, and his aid of the Union Soldiers. This noble man possessed an understanding soul. He was never too busy for the smallest troubles of a little child, or for the sorrows of some heartbroken mother. He was a man for both God and men. It has long been a custom, peculiar to us, at the national Decoration Day, to have a Yeatman Day. Every student brings a flower to lay on the grave of Mr. Yeatman. Chopin 's wonderful Hark to the Tread is sung and there is not a person

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