York High School - Duke Yearbook (York, NE)

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SOPHONIORE CLASS YORK HIGH SCHOOL

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lge sr ::e Sp Ilin nteete The tradition that the pupils froin the country and small town schools are so inuch better spellers than those trained in the city does not seein to apply to the York High School. Q. Our local spelling contest l1eld in the high school rooin on Friday, March 13, did not arouse a great deal of interest possibly because the Higl1 School as a whole felt that spelling was not one of its strong points. But when Ethel Allen and Benton Perry of the eleventh grade, Philip Crutchfield of the tenth grade and Goldie Hickman of the ninth grade won the honor of representing the school in the county contest, a good deal of confidence in the outconie was felt and this confidence was not misplaced. All the delegates to the district contest in the High School class eaine from York. Ethel and Benton won in the written test and Goldie in the oral. It is said that we are very skillful in explaining away defeats and it is for- tunate that we have so few to explain or we niight acquire the kicking habit so disagreeable in school contests. But justice can not be done to our representatives in the district spelling contests without a few words of explanation. As long as the spelling book was used our contestants remained in the field but they had neglected the precaution of swallowing the dictionary. The con- test began at three o'clock. At nine in the evening one of York's representatives,'Benton Perry, was still hold- ing the fort. At a quarter to ten a word was pronounced to hiin which he had never seen or heard before and it proved too niuch. As the rule was that a word niissed by one speller should not be passed on to the next, there is no way of telling to what extent luck entered into the result. ln the written tests Ethel Allen and Goldie Hickman both distinguished theniselves and went down only after repeated trials. Goldiels paper was taken away froni her just as she was properly arranging the letters in one word which later was marked wrong. NVhile this was done as the result of haste and with no intention of doing 2111 injustice, it did not seein fair. We had to be content, however, with the second honors won by Benton, but we had at least proved that spelling is not a lost art in the York High School. WWKW taswas 35

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wfficers of the Glass of 1905 Glam 1Roll HUBERT BELL , , , OLIVE CARPENTER ,,,, EIYRA JAMES ,,,, EvA BURK 1 Sco'r'r SOVEREIGN 5 .0T.-. Golors Pink and Blue President Vice-president 5 Secretary Of, Treasurer Historians Arnold, Merle Bell, Hubert Uarpenter, Myrlin Comstock, Rufus Couch, Herbert Vrutehiield, Philip Froid, Ivan Goble, Verne J aekson, Elmer Kuns, John McDonald, Dale Parker, Charles Peterson, Arnold Shreek, Ray Sovereign, Scott Tout, Marshall Wilkiils, Roy Ziegler, Claude Anderson, Esther Allen, Ethel Baer, Olga Baugh, Cassie Boslaw, Helen Burk, Eva Carpenter, Olive Castile, Blanche Chambers, Nettie Ulapper, Olive Hurlan, Constance Harris, Hattie Jaxnes, Myra Jones, Bessie Jones, Jennie Kaliff, Sigred Kennedy, Hattie Kinnison, Alverda Osborn, Olive Peterson, Ida Provost, Belva Pendell, Ethel Post, Pearl Rader, Laura Rankin, Eda Reader, Mabel Roby, Pearl Shaw, Eloy Shipman, Arline Siinmons, Mabel Talbert, May Tingle, Ethel Tomlin, Gertrude