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

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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

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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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in patience, perseverance, self-expression, initiative, carefulness of minute details, busi- ness management, co-operation. and loyalty. With these qualities, they have gone out into a la1'ger world, and by their training, they have, without exception, forced it to yield them success. In this success of the older folks, we may foretell the success of the younger graduates who must, by virtue of their training, make a success of their lives in the world outside. After all, Life was not primarily for the Staff, but for the entire school. It has been for each one of you. Some day, years from now, when you come across old copies of Life, look them over, and see if they don't bring back to you as few other things can, a complete picture of the happiest days of your life. Then, perhapsyyou will shed a tear for old comrades who have goneg then, perhaps, you will smile tenderly at some once familiar scene: then, you may understand some seemingly crabbed teacher. If Life does this for you, dear Y eatmanites, we will feel that it has been truly yours. At such a time as this when Yeatman and Yeatman Life must so soon go out of ex- istence, may we plead with you for an occa- sional hour of reminiscence? May we ask only that you remember the glory that was Yeatman and the grandeur that was Life. And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass Among the guests, star-scattered on the grass, And in your joyous errand reach the spot VV here I made one-turn clown an empty Glass Tamam. -Rubaiyaf.. YEATMAN HIGH SCHOOL VVILHUR N. FULLER cornerstone of the James E. 531 Yeatman High School was laid in IQOZ, but -because of labor condi- c tions during the VVorld,s Fair period, it was not ready for occupancy until One Hundred Eight The site consists of September, 1904. 147,771 square feet, and occupies the block bounded by Garrison, Glasgow, Palm and Natural Bridge. It was a part of the old Lindell Amusement Park, and when com- pleted the School was the only structure in the neighborhood. The building is four stories high, and contains thirty-six class rooms and six shops and laboratories. It is constructed to hold approximately eight hundred and Hfty students. The school was named after James E. Yeatman, a' Saint Louisan, who was loved by his associates for his fine character and great interest in his community. The original faculty consisted of twenty- eight teachers under the supervision of Doc- tor John W. Witliers. During the first year the building housed the Teachers College as well as the high school. At the end of the first year the Teachers College was transferred to the Harris Teachers College, which was completed at that time, and Doctor VVithers became the head of the new college. George Platt Knox, who was Assistant Principal. took Doctor VVithers' place. The school gradually increased in size and was under Mr. Knox's supervision for five years. He was succeeded by John Rush Powell. the present principal of Soldan High School. In 1912 Williani M. Butler became head of the school and held the position for eleven years. Mr. Butler was succeeded by the present principal, 'Wilbur N. Fuller, who has been a member of the school faculty since the school was opened. The student body has increased in num- ber until it now numbers approximately hfteen lulndred. , T wenty-four thousand and one hundred students have been registered in the school, and twenty-four hundred and seventy have graduated. ' In spite of its twenty-one years of constant use by both day and night school classes, the building is in excellent condition and will serve for many years to CO1116. .