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

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. r 'r' ll ii A HISTORY OF THE G. A. A. CH.-xRLoTT12 HEINA-january, 1926 ' s I-I, Memories of the former Girls of 'rffiltmt Y H 11 1 if - keep, N eatman lg , tlose in 0 weie members of tl1e G. A. A., I call upon you to help me in this stu- pendous task of writing of the glories of G. A. A.! I sit and listen and softly but clearly as if from the far shores of Time, I hear the whisper of girlish voices: On November 11, 1904, a group of girls, numbering forty-four, met for the purpose of forming an athletic club, sponsored by Miss Becker for the girls of Yeatman High. XVe were the nucleus of your present Girls' Athletic Association. At our next meeting, we chose for our name: The Yeatman High School Girls' Athletic Association. Our dues were 51.00 a year, payable quarterly and our initiation fees 50.25. NVe did not have a point system then, but merely gave medals or prizes to our winning teams. 4VVe began basketball as soon as possible. The girls practiced twice a week and con- sidering the short time they had, although not being winners, they came off' so well in their competitive games that they received the praise and good will of the school. NVE also organized Skating and W'alking Clubs. lVe grew steadily in membership as well as in athletics. On February 15, 1905, we had our first party. VVe invited the faculty and we all had a good time. In the sp1'ing, we organized a Tennis Club, practicing at -O'Fallon Park. It is fitting to add, that the girls who be- longed to the Y. H. S. G. A. A. were G or above in their studies. WVe were not allowed to join unless we presented a slip of paper, signed by our teachers which at- tested this fact. During the next year, in order to raise money for the association, we made banners and ribbons, to be sold at fifty cents and ten cents, respectively. The girls also designed a pin. VVe decided upon one that had a black background with the letters HY. A. A. in gold. These were not given to the girls of the association, but had to be bought by the members themselves. VVe challenged the basketball teams of other schools,.varying between success and failure. VVe decided to buy pins for the Basketball girls with the proceeds of the games. In the spring we had a tennis tournament between our own girls. Our activities in skating and hiking also con- tinued. Our picture was in the May-June issue of the Yeatman Life. The year of 1906 was important for only one thing. You must remember, that we had been growing steadily. With more mem- bers, more money was coming in. we final- ly had almost more than was good for us, so we decided to reduce the dues to twenty- tive cents a term. VV e understand that you are still asking as much. The next year, we had a write-up in Life, lN7e also arranged to have sta- tionery with our pin on it. W'e voted to have a record chart similar to the B. A. A.'s put in the trophy case. Ah, the glories of Yeatmanl Miss Valle Post won an inter- scholastic tennis tournament, bringing home to Y eatman new honors and a silver cup. Outside of our usual activities, we could not call 1908 an important year. Perhaps it might be called the beginning of the end for in 1909-Wfell, wait just a few mo- ments. Here the voices stopped a short while, started, stopped anclthen faltered on again: It's rather hard to tell you of 1909. For then the Y. H. S. G. A. A. came to an end. After January 5, we had no more meet- ings. Perhaps our end resulted in lack of enthusiasm, we don't know. For a time, I hear no sound, except the ticking of the clock. I am about to call One Hundred Thirty- three

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