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

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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCI-IGLARSI-IIP AWARDS OR many years Washington Univer- sity has been a powerful .force m the life of St. Louis. VVh1le many ' may have been unconscious of its influence, they have, none the less, been touched by it, for its effect has been the gradual raising of our intellectual life. VV e all should feel indebted to it though we our- selves may never have entered its doors. Gertain former Yeatman High School pupils have particular reason to feel warmly grateful to it, for they have been the re- cipients of four-year scholarship given them by the University. These fortunate stu- dents, it is true, in a measure earned the honor by offering the University at the time of their graduation from High School the highest scholarship records in their re- spective classes, but they would be the first to acknowledge their deep indebtedness to a generous University. In the closing days of Yeatman, when we are reviewing its achievements, we like to think of the thirty-nine students who have been so honored and who have in almost every case carri-ed on in the University their records of high scholarship. The following are the names of those people: June 1906 Lloyd Faidley jan. 1907 August Nolte june 1907 Jan. 1908 June 1908 One Hundred Six Hyman Ettlinger Edna Sauerbrunn Louise VV enzel Jan. 1909 June 1909 Jan. 1910 June 1910 Jan. 1911 June 1911 Jan. 1912 June 1912 jan. 1913 june 1913 jan. 1914 June 1914 Jan. 1915 june 1915 Jan. 1916 June 1916 Jan. 1917 June 1917 Jan. 1918 june 1918 jan. 1919 .Tune 1919 jan. 1920 .Tune 1920 Jan. 1921 June 1921 Jan. 1922 june 1922 jan. 1923 June 1923 jan. 1924 June 1924 Jan. 1925 June 1925 Clarissa Brockstedt Adele Seifert Fred Griffith Elmer Niemoeller Florence Sisler Ben Goldstein Florence Wuensch Marguerite Raeder Alf red Goldman Lucille Bishop Helene Buss Herman Dacus Carla Gewe Clara Hopmann Adele Shea Theodore Braun VValter Goldman Raymond Schuermann Edna Rasmussen Velora Buscher Henry Stauss - Major Neely V era Oberschelp Grace Oberschelp Virginia Horn Lucille Ryan Leanora Reilly Cyril McBryde Frederick Hageman Adrienne Stoeppelman Roma Schaefer Alice Birr Mildred Helmholt Matthew B I cCauley

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LIFE IN THE. PORTABLES ROBERT FISHER-June, 1919 -,ii HEY were more intimately known ix! L as is 53,5 as' The Dog Houses, an appro- iyg' priate appellation bestowed upon them by an admiring public. VVhen viewed from a distance, they could easily have been mistaken for the residences of some pampered Canaries. On closer observa- tion, however, they appeared more like hideous monsters fattening upon a diet of small children, a ludicrous aspect produced by the arrangement of the doors and win- dows, together with a pronounced bulging of the sides. This effect was further height- ened by the bird yellow and grass green tints applied to the door and window frames by the master hand of the janitor. The chimney of one room slanted crazily to one side, giv- ing the structure a waggish look. In the yard at the rear of the buildings was a long trough, upon which stood a half dozen wooden buckets. Out of these, children. dogs, and other animals quenched their thirsts. These receptacles had a clumsy way of tumbling off the trough and drenching children who handled them too carelessly. The buildings and equipments were grow- ing old, and, as is often the case with the aged, had many eccentricities, some of which I vividly remember, especially one little trick of the furnace in No. 12. The pupils are sitting quietly at their desks, when suddenly there comes a loud creaking and rumbling. The teacher, quite used to the symptoms, rises quietly, and says, Stand! Get your wraps. The manoeuvre is carried out with the quickness and precision which is the result of long training. The pupils are soon standing near the door with an air of great expectancy. XfVith a loud roar, the furnace belches forth an enormous cloud of black smoke, which quickly fills the room. The janitor is sent for and the windows opened. A-fter a time, the smoke all passes away, the children file in, and all is quiet again. Who knew how soon the experience would be repeated? The janitor of the institution was a man of superior abilities, for, aside from pushing a broom, he had followed the professions of minister and physician. His practice of the latter had come to a sudden and untimely end by some neighborhood jokesmith's fast- ening his trade sign upon the cemetery fence. His name was something like Griller. He was usually attended by a mob of small boys hooting, Griller, the Duck Killer! Griller, the Duck Killer. They were always rewarded by a look of supreme contempt from this dignified official. ' At last came news of the building of a new school and vague rumors of a spanking machine worked by steam. Then, after a long period of waiting, we saw the portables taken apart piece by piece, and hauled away to grace some other growing community. One Hundred Five

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YEATIVIAN LIFE STAFF fHelen Butler L- , . , S jBeatrice Glutz ltelmb tag l Bernice Glutz IM ary I . Wlickenhauser George Holbrook Karl Trettin Business Staff ....... ...... . Albert Dodds IAlbert McCullom IRader Kleinschmidt l'Erna Diederich . Linnie NVestphal1 Clarence Papenclick Staff Typists ....... ....... D orothea NVilliamsen XV alter W'ulfkuehler Violet Huetteman 'Hazel Huning YEATMAN LIFE HELEN M. E. BUTLER OR a year after Yeatman High School started its long, useful career, it had no school journal of any sort. Then in 1905 the students began to publish a tiny paper of their own. They chose Yeatman Life forlits name. Their purpose was to mirror the life of the school in its magazine. How well the name applies, and how true the mirror has been! The clubs had the privilegeof presenting their interests to the student body: the field of athletics was always given a prominent place: senior and new senior affairs were admitted recognitiong even the Locals were Yeatman's own. The magazine has been the students' very own even from the first issue ever printed. In fact, Ernest Reeves, the first editor, produced the magazine with- out the aid of a faculty sponsor. At that time Life was published nine times a year, once every month.during the school term except September. The cost was Eve cents a copy or forty cents a term subscription. This price plus the advertise- ment income was not sufficient to meet the needs of the paper, and before long it was in debt. At the beginning of 1907 Mr. Goddard was made the first sponsor of Life. He held this position for a time and then Miss Jeff- rey became sponsor and has continued so. After trying for two more years to pub- lish nine issues a vear, it was decided that Tit would be wise to! reduce the publication to five issues a year. Finally in 1914, Life was published as it now is, once a term. Yeatmanites, both past and present. do you realize the effort that has been expended unstintingly for your enjoyment ever since 1905? Do you know of the hours that the Staff and first Mr. Goddard and then Miss jeffrey have spent searching out something new and different for you? Do you know of the long hours of tiresome proofreading and messy paging so that Life might be more perfect for you? Oh, if Life is dear to the average Yeat- manite because it is the story of his High School days, it is doubly dear to the mem- bers of the Staff, because they could give the school a good history! Members of the Staff have always been able to be proud of their production, and they have always been devoted to its best interests. If the Staff has always given its best for Life. they have also received the best which Life C that word is used in a double ca- pacityl can give them. Those who have been away from the school long enough have proved the truth of the old song which tells us Give to the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. They gave their best to their high school world when they gave it Yeatman Life. In return, they have received valuable lessons One Hundred Seven