Rosarum Collis - Rose Hill High School 1916 - part 1
Collection: Rose Hill High School History
Title
Rosarum Collis - Rose Hill High School 1916 - part 1
Subject
The 1916 high school yearbook, Rose Hill High School - part 1
Description
The 1916 high school yearbook, Rose Hill High School, Rose Hill, Kansas - part 1
Creator
Rose Hill High School
Source
Rose Hill Public Library, Rose Hill, Kansas
Publisher
Rose Hill Public Library, Rose Hill, Kansas
Date
1916
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Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Periodicals
Coverage
1916
Citation
Rose Hill High School, “Rosarum Collis - Rose Hill High School 1916 - part 1,” Rose Hill Digital Collections, accessed December 21, 2024, https://rosehill.digitalsckls.info/item/37.
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ROSARUM C O L L I S
Rose Hill High School
©j© 1916
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We, {he Annual Staff of £he Rosarnm Collis, do respectfully dedicate this annual to our effeemed superintendent, V ernonW ailing,
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Alonzo Prickett.....
Harold Higgins......
Anna Webster........
Millard Hall....:...:
Maxine Shaffer......
William Showalter...
Maude Higgins.......
Russel Fesmire......
Orville Mitchell....
Elbert Hensley......
Harvey Hartenbower
.............Editor-In-Chief
.........Business Manager
............Assistant Editor
Assistant Business Manager
............Literary Editor
....Assistant Literary Editor
...................... Jokes
.......................Jokes
..................Cartoonist
......................Poetry
................. Athletics
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Board of Education
J. F. McCLUGGAGE, Secretary C. M. BAKER, Clerk
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Faculty
VERNON WALLING, Superintendent
J. W. WARNE, Principal
DOROTHY MONTGOMEY, Dom. Sci.
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Faculty
MARTHA STEWART, English
ETHEL SWITZER, Primary
O. E. RAYBURN, Grammar
MARION EDMISTON, Intermediate
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Alumni
Merle Moone Lily Pickett
CLASS 1908-09
....... Montana
Augusta, Kansas
CLASS 1909-10
Berenice Cuttings....................At Home..........................Rose Hill, Kansas
CLASS 1910-11
Dorothy Dunlap ........................................................Downs, Kansas
Edith Poston..........................................................................
Frankie Silknitter...................Teacher..........................Rose Hill, Kansas
Bessie Stanley.......................Mrs. George Lawson.............Rose Hill, Kansas
Carl Cox .............................................................Cleveland, Ohio
CLASS 1911-12
Ernest Pickett .................................................Rose Hill, Kansas
Estella McCune.....................Mrs. F. G. McCluggage........Rose Hill, Kansas
George Hodson....................................................................
CLASS 1912-13
Ida Hall ..................................
Carrie Wallace....................Teacher ...
Cecil Baker ...............................
Raymond Fleming...................At Home
Grover Hartenbower................Teacher ...
.Rose Hill, Kansas Rose Hill, Kansas
...Derby, Kansas
Rose Hill, Kansas Severance, Kansas
CLASS 1913-14
Cecil Strickler ...
Gula Allen .....
Jana Colburn ...
Alice Hawks.....
Mabel Webster... Gracie Silknitter Hazel Mitchell.—
Claude Miller...
Earl Reyer......
Roy Rhoads .....
Isham Staley ...
Esther Hinshaw....
Jennie McCluggage
Agnes Whitted.....
Iva Williamson....—.
Hazel Lawson ......
Ralph Ball........
Loyd Ferguson ...
Guy McCune.......
Virgil Reyer......
Teacher........
Teacher........
Teacher .......
Mrs. Williamson
At Home........
Teacher .......
.Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas . Eldorado, Kansas Rose Hill, Kansas Ro.se Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas ..Augusta, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas
CLASS 1914-15
Teacher......................Rose Hill, Kansas
At Home......................Rose Hill, Kansas
.Teacher.....................Rose Hill, Kansas
................................Derby, Kansas
................................Derbv. Kansas
At Home.....................Ro.se Hill, Kansas
..........................Clayton, New Mexico
At Home......................Rose Hill, Kansas
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The fall of 1912 marked the entrance into the Freshman class of the largest, most ambitious, and resolved-to-go-through bunch of young people that had heretofore been known in the history of our school.
For reference of patrons and information to strangers, I will here give a brief outline of the history of the Rose Hill High School.
In 1908, patrons of the district school in and around Rose Hill met in their respective districts, voted to consolidate and immediately began necessary preparation. That fall a graded and high school was opened in the I. 0. 0. F. Hall, and in the spring of the next near a school building was begun in the south part of town, and was completed that fall in time for the opening of the new school term. It was a grand undertaking and every year new converts are won to our new school system proving that the community at large has no regrets to make for this step toward improvement in their community. Indeed most of them would not know what to do without it.
But to go back to the topic of this history. The harvest of 1912 from the eighth grade had been a good one and the fall of the same year found the whole “endurin' lot” back again, among whom were found: Grace
Beedy, Maxine Shaffer, Russel Fesmire, Harold McCune, James Harten-bower, Harvey Hartenbower, Effie Simpson, Anna Webster, Oak Fleming, Chester Whitted, Elbert Hensley, Rose Clinger, Bee Waples and Lloyd Dennett. Besides these, seven others were enrolled: Ray Reeder, Alonzo
Prickett, Hazel Hough, Gertrude Nachbor, Hazel Lawson, Dan Swindell and Bertha Stice, making a total of twenty-one pupils.
This most unextraordinary Freshman class of 1912-13 progressed very well the first year (although none of them were bothered with remarks from the faculty concerning their extraordinary capacity for learning, or vice versa), under the auspices of Supt. H. I. French; Principal, G. C. Collingsworth; Assistant Principal, Kate E. Moon. All but three came through the first year, Dan Swindell, Elbert Hensley, and Hazel Hough having quit before the term expired.
When school opened in September of 1913, it was that the roll call under the title of “Sophomores” had been reduced from eighteen to sixteen members. The list included: Maxine Shaffer, Russell Fesmire,
Harold McCune, James Hartenbower, Harvey Hartenbower, Effie Simpson, Anna Webster, Gertrude Nachbor, Oak Fleming, Chester Whitted,
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Rose Clinger, Bee Waples, Alonzo Prickett, Lloyd Dennett, Ray Reeder, and Hazel Lawson. The faculty were: Superintendent, A. H. Murphy, Principal, G. C. Collingsworth; Assistant Principal, Elzada Harris.
Two pupils, Chester Whitted and Bee Waples, dropped out before the end of the term, and Hazel was taking “High” in three years, became a Senior the following year, so that the class was reduced to thirteen; but luckily for them, in the Junior year Avice Williamson joined their ranks and raised the number above the unlucky “thirteen,” where they kept it the rest of their “High” career.
Up to this time, although a few changed their courses, none who had stayed with the class had failed in any subject carried through the whole year.
The last year of the class of 1916 found enrolled: Marie Waples,
Maxine Shaffer, Russel Fesmire, Avice Williamson, Ray Reeder, Harvey Hartenbower, James Hartenbower, Elbert Hensley, Gertrude Nachbor, Effie Simpson, Alonzo Prickett, Harold McCune, Oak Fleming, Rosp Clinger, Anna Webster, and Lloyd Dennett. The numbers remained the same the first semester, but in the early part of the last half, Lloyd Dennett quit and James Hartenbower moved away.
This bunch of ’16 was the most democratic class that had heretofore graduated from the old “High.” They did not hesitate to stoop and help a Freshman out of a mire, and they were a hard-working, industrious class.
In leaving the old roof many fond regrets will be made and many a “briny” tear shed over thoughts of the good old days that have gone forever. Long may the old “High” stand, is the prayer of the Alumni of 1916.
“If sil lionaire.
“He s one.”
“Let
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“Hea»
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GERTRUDE NACHBOR
“If silence is golden, she will be a mil lionaire.”
RAY REEDER.
“He sighed to many, tho he loved but one.”
AVICE WILLIAMSON
“Let thy dauntless mind still ride in triumph over all mischance.”
OAK FLEMMING
“Headache tablets and Castoria is my hobby.”
HAROLD McCUNE (Ichabod)
“Yet growing more handsome.”
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EFFJE SIMPSON “She believes in the Golden Rule.”
MARIE WAPLES
“Words are women. Deeds are men.”
ROSE CLINGER “Oh! How I hate rats.”
RUSSEL FESMIRE “Gee! I wish I had a girl.”
HARVEY HARTENBOWER (Stilts)
“There is only one girl for me.”
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ELBERT HENSLEY “A progressive lawyer (to be).”
MAXINE SHAFFER “A precious package tied up small.”
ANNA WEBSTER
“Matrimony will be her only refuge in this troubled world.”
ALONZO PRICKETT
“Does not care for girls, but yet he says he enjoys talking to them.”
Millard W. Hall................................................. President
Maude M. Higgins............................................ Vice-President
Berenice R. Cummings...................................... ....Secretary
Iva McCune....................................................... Treasurer
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Class Colors
Blue and Gold.
Class Motto
Thus endeth our first lesson.
Class Flower
Daisy.
Although of high intellectual abilities as well as athletic prowess, our modesty forbids us to do justice to the merits of the ’17 class.
Among other things, the Juniors are the only class to retain its full class roll during the school year of 1915-16.
Rose Hill High School had two debate teams during this year and one was composed c,f Juniors. Needless to say we won our contest, while the other team was hopelessly defeated.
As for athletics, the baseball register shows the larger portion to be Juniors, one of whom is Captain. We also have representatives on the basket ball team. Again a Junior is Captain.
Furthermore the track team somewhat resembles the Junior class, in that a great many of the members of the track team happened to be enrolled in the class of ’17.
We must not forget to mention the fact that the best declaimer for R. H. H. S. is in the form of a Junior.
The fact is, this most illustrious class of ’17 is an adornment to the school which bears it, not only in the above mentioned qualities, but in all activities of the school. Again we caution you not to expect to.o much, since our extreme modesty allows us only to give bare facts.
Notwithstanding this, we must mention the fact that the largest majority of this annual staff is composed of glorious Juniors, while both boys’ and girls’ literary societies are adorned by presidents from this said Junior class.
Since we have insufficient space for the enumeration of all of our merits, we must now ask you to bow to us—we of the class of ’17.
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roe McCullough
I am a woman-hater, but the Bible says: ‘‘Love your enemies.”
VIOLA DAGEL
MILLARD HALL
“Very fond of freedom, but he is held in A-vice.”
HAZEL COLBURN Sober, steadfast and true.
IVA McCUNE
“She is tall enough to. look down on Oak.”
WILLIAM
“Saved
SHOWALTER by Grace.”
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Sr ^ ? ROSCOE WINN «Ma said 1 , “Good in his studies, but better in buying candy for the girls.”
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1# J I^llil MAUDE HIGGINS “Smile and the world smiles with you.”
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IL * ¥ • S HAROLD HIGGINS
I^H i it “Small of stature, but an intellectual giant.”
WILBUR HILLIS
i “He is a regular cut-up; was seen talking to a girl.
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EARL BAKER
“Ma said I could go with the girls when I got big.”
MABLE DAVIS
“Where he leads me I will follow.”
SYLVIA SWINDELL Little, but mighty.
JESSA DAGEL ‘The Lady Killer.”
BERNICE CUMMINGS “Gee, I wish I was big.”
GLEN STALEY
“Good in his studies when he studies.”
Raymond Smith' Waldena Cox..
..............President
Secretary and Treasurer
The Sophomore class is the smallest in the school, but by the aid of the Juniors claims basketball championsh'p. John Alley, the Samson of the school, throws the shot like a cannon. Lowell Hinshaw vaults over the moon. The name Smith we associate with a joke but remember not a joke. In the realm of Grand Opera the Soph-omores have two stars, Harold Webster with the tenor voice, and Grace Hinshaw with a sweet and pleasing soprano voice. The Cox sisters hold up the literary end, while Lester Carr will hold down the chair of mathematics. Last but not least Leon Reyer is the best read historian in school.
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Class Roll
Raymond Smith‘d Lester Carr 5 Leon Reyer 7 Evadne Cox sr Waldena Cox ?
Grace Hinshaw ^ Harold Webster V John Alley 2 Lowell Hinshaw /
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On the sixth of September, 1915, there was born into Rose Hill High School a disease known as the Freshmen class. Owing to the character of this disease it was not easily spread. Only those that associated themselves with this unsophisticated bunch became affected with the plague.
This vegetable diet started out on its quest for knowledge with the number of twenty-eight, but before long things proved fatal to six. While the disease has proved fatal to but few, it has so incapacitated others in such a manner that they may not recover for a year to come.
This class is trying to inaugurate a new brand of athletics. “Pussy wants a corner,'” “Jackstones.” Dennett even plays with little Carrs. Many other games too numerous to mention.
But this is a stage so essential in the development of all-around citizenship. Abe Lincoln was no less awkward than Kelsey Hinshaw. Dan Webster was no less brilliant than our own dear Parsons; “by heck” Mitchell the equal to Bud Fisher; Cecil McCullough, the pugilist, knocked out by no less a rival than Algebra.
Rayburn expresses himself as follows:
Who is it worries Walling most?
The Freshmen!
Who is it likes to strut and boast?
The Freshmen!
They wear high collars every day,
Too stiff to let them run and play.
In class they haven’t much to say,
This bunch of “Freshy” Freshmen.
The editor was inspired in this manner.
I saw a field of greenish hue.
Methought it was a field of grass.
But as I nearer to it drew,
I saw it was the Freshman class.
Vera J Lola C
BLANC!
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Vera Johnson .............................................. President
Lola Carr............................................... Vice-President
Blanche Wick ................................................ Secretary
Class Roll
Ralph Baker Earnest Dennett Lee Dennett Blanche Dennett Virgil Dagal George Clinger Kelsey Hinshaw Freda Hinshaw Emma Ferguson Hope Feller Marie Gorsuch
Opal Moreland Helen Nachbor Orville Mitchell Orville Piersol Cecil McCullough Lois Williamson Gladys Williamson Martin Wick Violette Jones Grace Strickler Newell Wells
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Boys Glee Club
First Bass
Harold Higgins Orville Mitchell Millard Hall
Second Bass
Jessa Dagel Glen Staley Wilbur Hillis
First Tenor
Harold Webster Vernon Walling Russell Fesmire
Second Tenor
John Alley Roe McCullough Alonzo Prickett
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Lyric Club
Sopranos Altos
Avis Williamson Lois Williamson
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ATHLETICS
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BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1915-16.
Sept. 24 Rose Hill .13 Udall .... 8
Oct. 1 -..Rose Hill -11 Douglass .... 3
Oct. 13 . Rose Hill. . 4 Douglass .... 5
Oct. 14... .Rose Hill. 6 Eldorado ..: 5
Oct. 21 Rose Hill .....10 Eldorado .... 0
Oct. 27 .... Rose Hill 16 Augusta .... 2
Oct. 29 Rose Hill. ....18 Augusta .... 1
April 12-46 Rose Hill .... 4 Valley Center .... 3
THE LAST HALF OF THE FIRST.
BY THE MANAGER
Up to the plate, Webb—off with your mit, Start out the game—why, it's a hit!
What a fine single—hummer, by heck;
Bill to the bat with Mitchell on deck.
Look 'em aM over—that was too wide;
Duck or heyll get you—that teas inside; Keep your eyes open—swing on it, Bill! Look at that fielder up on the hill.
Bill is on second—Webster on third, Douglass is silent—Nary a word.
Mitch knocks a high one—up in the dome, Diamond makes f umble—Webster gets home.
Higgins then follows—nice sacrifce;
Ick gets a long one—mark us down twice. Stilts hits to second—two out you say?
Look out for Jimmie—he'll save the day.
Jim looks 'em over—off for a walk;
Oak gets a high one—makes people talk. Loioell to bat—the last of the nine;
Got a nice single—sure that teas fine.
Start it again, Web—up to the bat;
Get a two-bagger—you can do that.
Caught by the pitcher—no use to run;
Out to the field, boys—score five to one.
Top Row: Mitchell, p., Rayburn, M&r., H. Harterbower, p., Cap. Center Row: Staley, f., Flemming, f., Hall Bottom Row: Hinshaw, If., Higgins, 3rd b., J. Hartenbower, c., Webster, s. s., McCune, 1st b.
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LOCAL MEET, APRIL 14, 1916
50-yard—Reeder, first; Hinshaw, 2nd.
100-yard—Reeder, first; Hinshaw, 2nd.
220-yard—Higgins, 1st; Hinshaw, 2nd.
120-yard Hurdles—Hartenbower, 1st; Flemming, 2nd. 440-yard—Hartenbower, 1st; Higgins, 2nd.
1/0-mile—Hartenbower, 1st; Staley, 2nd.
Mile—Staley, 1st; Fessmire, 2nd.
High Jump—Hartenbower, 1st; Hall, 2nd.
Broad Jump—Hinshaw, 1st; Flemming, 2nd.
Shot Put—Alley, 1st; Hall, 2nd.
Discus-—Hartenbower, 1st; Alley, 2nd.
Javelin—Dagel, 1st; Reeder, 2nd.
Pole Vault—Hinshaw, 1st; Staley, 2nd.
50-yard RECORDS FOR ROSE HILL 5 2/5 Sec. G. McCune
100-yard 10 1/5 sec. G. McCune
220-yard 24 sec. R. Reeder
220-yard Hurdles 27 1/5 sec. G. McCune
440-yard 57 sec. H. Higgins
Mile 5 min. J. Hartenbower
Half Mile 2:06 min. H. Hartenbower
Discus 98 ft. H. Hartenbower
Shot Put 42.1 ft. J. Alley
Pole Vault 10 ft. L. Hinshaw
Javelin 128 ft. J. Dagel
High Jump 5 ft. 9 in. H. Hartenbower
Broad Jump 19 ft. 9 in. L. Hinshaw
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Hinshaw Warne (Coach) H. Hartenbower Alley Smith Hall (Capt.) J. Hartenbower
BASKET BALL SCHEDULE FOR 1915-16
Nov. 19 ... Rose Hill 40 Udall ...36
Dec. 3 Rose Hill 14 Belle Plaine ... ...56
Dec. 10 Rose Hill 34 Augusta ...35
Jan. 7 ...Rose Hill. 114 Udall ... ...19
Jan. 8 Rose Hill.. 51 Andover ....46
Mar. 22 Rose Hill.. 34 Douglass ...28
Mar. 31 Rose Hill 28 Douglass % ...35
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Title
Rosarum Collis - Rose Hill High School 1916 - part 1
Subject
The 1916 high school yearbook, Rose Hill High School - part 1
Description
The 1916 high school yearbook, Rose Hill High School, Rose Hill, Kansas - part 1
Creator
Rose Hill High School
Source
Rose Hill Public Library, Rose Hill, Kansas
Publisher
Rose Hill Public Library, Rose Hill, Kansas
Date
1916
Rights
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Periodicals
Coverage
1916
Citation
Rose Hill High School, “Rosarum Collis - Rose Hill High School 1916 - part 1,” Rose Hill Digital Collections, accessed December 21, 2024, https://rosehill.digitalsckls.info/item/37.Text
ROSARUM C O L L I S
Rose Hill High School
©j© 1916
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We, {he Annual Staff of £he Rosarnm Collis, do respectfully dedicate this annual to our effeemed superintendent, V ernonW ailing,
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Alonzo Prickett.....
Harold Higgins......
Anna Webster........
Millard Hall....:...:
Maxine Shaffer......
William Showalter...
Maude Higgins.......
Russel Fesmire......
Orville Mitchell....
Elbert Hensley......
Harvey Hartenbower
.............Editor-In-Chief
.........Business Manager
............Assistant Editor
Assistant Business Manager
............Literary Editor
....Assistant Literary Editor
...................... Jokes
.......................Jokes
..................Cartoonist
......................Poetry
................. Athletics
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Board of Education
J. F. McCLUGGAGE, Secretary C. M. BAKER, Clerk
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Faculty
VERNON WALLING, Superintendent
J. W. WARNE, Principal
DOROTHY MONTGOMEY, Dom. Sci.
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Faculty
MARTHA STEWART, English
ETHEL SWITZER, Primary
O. E. RAYBURN, Grammar
MARION EDMISTON, Intermediate
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Alumni
Merle Moone Lily Pickett
CLASS 1908-09
....... Montana
Augusta, Kansas
CLASS 1909-10
Berenice Cuttings....................At Home..........................Rose Hill, Kansas
CLASS 1910-11
Dorothy Dunlap ........................................................Downs, Kansas
Edith Poston..........................................................................
Frankie Silknitter...................Teacher..........................Rose Hill, Kansas
Bessie Stanley.......................Mrs. George Lawson.............Rose Hill, Kansas
Carl Cox .............................................................Cleveland, Ohio
CLASS 1911-12
Ernest Pickett .................................................Rose Hill, Kansas
Estella McCune.....................Mrs. F. G. McCluggage........Rose Hill, Kansas
George Hodson....................................................................
CLASS 1912-13
Ida Hall ..................................
Carrie Wallace....................Teacher ...
Cecil Baker ...............................
Raymond Fleming...................At Home
Grover Hartenbower................Teacher ...
.Rose Hill, Kansas Rose Hill, Kansas
...Derby, Kansas
Rose Hill, Kansas Severance, Kansas
CLASS 1913-14
Cecil Strickler ...
Gula Allen .....
Jana Colburn ...
Alice Hawks.....
Mabel Webster... Gracie Silknitter Hazel Mitchell.—
Claude Miller...
Earl Reyer......
Roy Rhoads .....
Isham Staley ...
Esther Hinshaw....
Jennie McCluggage
Agnes Whitted.....
Iva Williamson....—.
Hazel Lawson ......
Ralph Ball........
Loyd Ferguson ...
Guy McCune.......
Virgil Reyer......
Teacher........
Teacher........
Teacher .......
Mrs. Williamson
At Home........
Teacher .......
.Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas . Eldorado, Kansas Rose Hill, Kansas Ro.se Hill, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas ..Augusta, Kansas .Rose Hill, Kansas
CLASS 1914-15
Teacher......................Rose Hill, Kansas
At Home......................Rose Hill, Kansas
.Teacher.....................Rose Hill, Kansas
................................Derby, Kansas
................................Derbv. Kansas
At Home.....................Ro.se Hill, Kansas
..........................Clayton, New Mexico
At Home......................Rose Hill, Kansas
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The fall of 1912 marked the entrance into the Freshman class of the largest, most ambitious, and resolved-to-go-through bunch of young people that had heretofore been known in the history of our school.
For reference of patrons and information to strangers, I will here give a brief outline of the history of the Rose Hill High School.
In 1908, patrons of the district school in and around Rose Hill met in their respective districts, voted to consolidate and immediately began necessary preparation. That fall a graded and high school was opened in the I. 0. 0. F. Hall, and in the spring of the next near a school building was begun in the south part of town, and was completed that fall in time for the opening of the new school term. It was a grand undertaking and every year new converts are won to our new school system proving that the community at large has no regrets to make for this step toward improvement in their community. Indeed most of them would not know what to do without it.
But to go back to the topic of this history. The harvest of 1912 from the eighth grade had been a good one and the fall of the same year found the whole “endurin' lot” back again, among whom were found: Grace
Beedy, Maxine Shaffer, Russel Fesmire, Harold McCune, James Harten-bower, Harvey Hartenbower, Effie Simpson, Anna Webster, Oak Fleming, Chester Whitted, Elbert Hensley, Rose Clinger, Bee Waples and Lloyd Dennett. Besides these, seven others were enrolled: Ray Reeder, Alonzo
Prickett, Hazel Hough, Gertrude Nachbor, Hazel Lawson, Dan Swindell and Bertha Stice, making a total of twenty-one pupils.
This most unextraordinary Freshman class of 1912-13 progressed very well the first year (although none of them were bothered with remarks from the faculty concerning their extraordinary capacity for learning, or vice versa), under the auspices of Supt. H. I. French; Principal, G. C. Collingsworth; Assistant Principal, Kate E. Moon. All but three came through the first year, Dan Swindell, Elbert Hensley, and Hazel Hough having quit before the term expired.
When school opened in September of 1913, it was that the roll call under the title of “Sophomores” had been reduced from eighteen to sixteen members. The list included: Maxine Shaffer, Russell Fesmire,
Harold McCune, James Hartenbower, Harvey Hartenbower, Effie Simpson, Anna Webster, Gertrude Nachbor, Oak Fleming, Chester Whitted,
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Rose Clinger, Bee Waples, Alonzo Prickett, Lloyd Dennett, Ray Reeder, and Hazel Lawson. The faculty were: Superintendent, A. H. Murphy, Principal, G. C. Collingsworth; Assistant Principal, Elzada Harris.
Two pupils, Chester Whitted and Bee Waples, dropped out before the end of the term, and Hazel was taking “High” in three years, became a Senior the following year, so that the class was reduced to thirteen; but luckily for them, in the Junior year Avice Williamson joined their ranks and raised the number above the unlucky “thirteen,” where they kept it the rest of their “High” career.
Up to this time, although a few changed their courses, none who had stayed with the class had failed in any subject carried through the whole year.
The last year of the class of 1916 found enrolled: Marie Waples,
Maxine Shaffer, Russel Fesmire, Avice Williamson, Ray Reeder, Harvey Hartenbower, James Hartenbower, Elbert Hensley, Gertrude Nachbor, Effie Simpson, Alonzo Prickett, Harold McCune, Oak Fleming, Rosp Clinger, Anna Webster, and Lloyd Dennett. The numbers remained the same the first semester, but in the early part of the last half, Lloyd Dennett quit and James Hartenbower moved away.
This bunch of ’16 was the most democratic class that had heretofore graduated from the old “High.” They did not hesitate to stoop and help a Freshman out of a mire, and they were a hard-working, industrious class.
In leaving the old roof many fond regrets will be made and many a “briny” tear shed over thoughts of the good old days that have gone forever. Long may the old “High” stand, is the prayer of the Alumni of 1916.
“If sil lionaire.
“He s one.”
“Let
triumph
“Hea»
hobby.”
“Yet
Y
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GERTRUDE NACHBOR
“If silence is golden, she will be a mil lionaire.”
RAY REEDER.
“He sighed to many, tho he loved but one.”
AVICE WILLIAMSON
“Let thy dauntless mind still ride in triumph over all mischance.”
OAK FLEMMING
“Headache tablets and Castoria is my hobby.”
HAROLD McCUNE (Ichabod)
“Yet growing more handsome.”
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EFFJE SIMPSON “She believes in the Golden Rule.”
MARIE WAPLES
“Words are women. Deeds are men.”
ROSE CLINGER “Oh! How I hate rats.”
RUSSEL FESMIRE “Gee! I wish I had a girl.”
HARVEY HARTENBOWER (Stilts)
“There is only one girl for me.”
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ELBERT HENSLEY “A progressive lawyer (to be).”
MAXINE SHAFFER “A precious package tied up small.”
ANNA WEBSTER
“Matrimony will be her only refuge in this troubled world.”
ALONZO PRICKETT
“Does not care for girls, but yet he says he enjoys talking to them.”
Millard W. Hall................................................. President
Maude M. Higgins............................................ Vice-President
Berenice R. Cummings...................................... ....Secretary
Iva McCune....................................................... Treasurer
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Class Colors
Blue and Gold.
Class Motto
Thus endeth our first lesson.
Class Flower
Daisy.
Although of high intellectual abilities as well as athletic prowess, our modesty forbids us to do justice to the merits of the ’17 class.
Among other things, the Juniors are the only class to retain its full class roll during the school year of 1915-16.
Rose Hill High School had two debate teams during this year and one was composed c,f Juniors. Needless to say we won our contest, while the other team was hopelessly defeated.
As for athletics, the baseball register shows the larger portion to be Juniors, one of whom is Captain. We also have representatives on the basket ball team. Again a Junior is Captain.
Furthermore the track team somewhat resembles the Junior class, in that a great many of the members of the track team happened to be enrolled in the class of ’17.
We must not forget to mention the fact that the best declaimer for R. H. H. S. is in the form of a Junior.
The fact is, this most illustrious class of ’17 is an adornment to the school which bears it, not only in the above mentioned qualities, but in all activities of the school. Again we caution you not to expect to.o much, since our extreme modesty allows us only to give bare facts.
Notwithstanding this, we must mention the fact that the largest majority of this annual staff is composed of glorious Juniors, while both boys’ and girls’ literary societies are adorned by presidents from this said Junior class.
Since we have insufficient space for the enumeration of all of our merits, we must now ask you to bow to us—we of the class of ’17.
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roe McCullough
I am a woman-hater, but the Bible says: ‘‘Love your enemies.”
VIOLA DAGEL
MILLARD HALL
“Very fond of freedom, but he is held in A-vice.”
HAZEL COLBURN Sober, steadfast and true.
IVA McCUNE
“She is tall enough to. look down on Oak.”
WILLIAM
“Saved
SHOWALTER by Grace.”
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Sr ^ ? ROSCOE WINN «Ma said 1 , “Good in his studies, but better in buying candy for the girls.”
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1# J I^llil MAUDE HIGGINS “Smile and the world smiles with you.”
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I^H i it “Small of stature, but an intellectual giant.”
WILBUR HILLIS
i “He is a regular cut-up; was seen talking to a girl.
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EARL BAKER
“Ma said I could go with the girls when I got big.”
MABLE DAVIS
“Where he leads me I will follow.”
SYLVIA SWINDELL Little, but mighty.
JESSA DAGEL ‘The Lady Killer.”
BERNICE CUMMINGS “Gee, I wish I was big.”
GLEN STALEY
“Good in his studies when he studies.”
Raymond Smith' Waldena Cox..
..............President
Secretary and Treasurer
The Sophomore class is the smallest in the school, but by the aid of the Juniors claims basketball championsh'p. John Alley, the Samson of the school, throws the shot like a cannon. Lowell Hinshaw vaults over the moon. The name Smith we associate with a joke but remember not a joke. In the realm of Grand Opera the Soph-omores have two stars, Harold Webster with the tenor voice, and Grace Hinshaw with a sweet and pleasing soprano voice. The Cox sisters hold up the literary end, while Lester Carr will hold down the chair of mathematics. Last but not least Leon Reyer is the best read historian in school.
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Class Roll
Raymond Smith‘d Lester Carr 5 Leon Reyer 7 Evadne Cox sr Waldena Cox ?
Grace Hinshaw ^ Harold Webster V John Alley 2 Lowell Hinshaw /
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On the sixth of September, 1915, there was born into Rose Hill High School a disease known as the Freshmen class. Owing to the character of this disease it was not easily spread. Only those that associated themselves with this unsophisticated bunch became affected with the plague.
This vegetable diet started out on its quest for knowledge with the number of twenty-eight, but before long things proved fatal to six. While the disease has proved fatal to but few, it has so incapacitated others in such a manner that they may not recover for a year to come.
This class is trying to inaugurate a new brand of athletics. “Pussy wants a corner,'” “Jackstones.” Dennett even plays with little Carrs. Many other games too numerous to mention.
But this is a stage so essential in the development of all-around citizenship. Abe Lincoln was no less awkward than Kelsey Hinshaw. Dan Webster was no less brilliant than our own dear Parsons; “by heck” Mitchell the equal to Bud Fisher; Cecil McCullough, the pugilist, knocked out by no less a rival than Algebra.
Rayburn expresses himself as follows:
Who is it worries Walling most?
The Freshmen!
Who is it likes to strut and boast?
The Freshmen!
They wear high collars every day,
Too stiff to let them run and play.
In class they haven’t much to say,
This bunch of “Freshy” Freshmen.
The editor was inspired in this manner.
I saw a field of greenish hue.
Methought it was a field of grass.
But as I nearer to it drew,
I saw it was the Freshman class.
Vera J Lola C
BLANC!
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Vera Johnson .............................................. President
Lola Carr............................................... Vice-President
Blanche Wick ................................................ Secretary
Class Roll
Ralph Baker Earnest Dennett Lee Dennett Blanche Dennett Virgil Dagal George Clinger Kelsey Hinshaw Freda Hinshaw Emma Ferguson Hope Feller Marie Gorsuch
Opal Moreland Helen Nachbor Orville Mitchell Orville Piersol Cecil McCullough Lois Williamson Gladys Williamson Martin Wick Violette Jones Grace Strickler Newell Wells
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Boys Glee Club
First Bass
Harold Higgins Orville Mitchell Millard Hall
Second Bass
Jessa Dagel Glen Staley Wilbur Hillis
First Tenor
Harold Webster Vernon Walling Russell Fesmire
Second Tenor
John Alley Roe McCullough Alonzo Prickett
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Lyric Club
Sopranos Altos
Avis Williamson Lois Williamson
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ATHLETICS
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BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1915-16.
Sept. 24 Rose Hill .13 Udall .... 8
Oct. 1 -..Rose Hill -11 Douglass .... 3
Oct. 13 . Rose Hill. . 4 Douglass .... 5
Oct. 14... .Rose Hill. 6 Eldorado ..: 5
Oct. 21 Rose Hill .....10 Eldorado .... 0
Oct. 27 .... Rose Hill 16 Augusta .... 2
Oct. 29 Rose Hill. ....18 Augusta .... 1
April 12-46 Rose Hill .... 4 Valley Center .... 3
THE LAST HALF OF THE FIRST.
BY THE MANAGER
Up to the plate, Webb—off with your mit, Start out the game—why, it's a hit!
What a fine single—hummer, by heck;
Bill to the bat with Mitchell on deck.
Look 'em aM over—that was too wide;
Duck or heyll get you—that teas inside; Keep your eyes open—swing on it, Bill! Look at that fielder up on the hill.
Bill is on second—Webster on third, Douglass is silent—Nary a word.
Mitch knocks a high one—up in the dome, Diamond makes f umble—Webster gets home.
Higgins then follows—nice sacrifce;
Ick gets a long one—mark us down twice. Stilts hits to second—two out you say?
Look out for Jimmie—he'll save the day.
Jim looks 'em over—off for a walk;
Oak gets a high one—makes people talk. Loioell to bat—the last of the nine;
Got a nice single—sure that teas fine.
Start it again, Web—up to the bat;
Get a two-bagger—you can do that.
Caught by the pitcher—no use to run;
Out to the field, boys—score five to one.
Top Row: Mitchell, p., Rayburn, M&r., H. Harterbower, p., Cap. Center Row: Staley, f., Flemming, f., Hall Bottom Row: Hinshaw, If., Higgins, 3rd b., J. Hartenbower, c., Webster, s. s., McCune, 1st b.
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50-yard—Reeder, first; Hinshaw, 2nd.
100-yard—Reeder, first; Hinshaw, 2nd.
220-yard—Higgins, 1st; Hinshaw, 2nd.
120-yard Hurdles—Hartenbower, 1st; Flemming, 2nd. 440-yard—Hartenbower, 1st; Higgins, 2nd.
1/0-mile—Hartenbower, 1st; Staley, 2nd.
Mile—Staley, 1st; Fessmire, 2nd.
High Jump—Hartenbower, 1st; Hall, 2nd.
Broad Jump—Hinshaw, 1st; Flemming, 2nd.
Shot Put—Alley, 1st; Hall, 2nd.
Discus-—Hartenbower, 1st; Alley, 2nd.
Javelin—Dagel, 1st; Reeder, 2nd.
Pole Vault—Hinshaw, 1st; Staley, 2nd.
50-yard RECORDS FOR ROSE HILL 5 2/5 Sec. G. McCune
100-yard 10 1/5 sec. G. McCune
220-yard 24 sec. R. Reeder
220-yard Hurdles 27 1/5 sec. G. McCune
440-yard 57 sec. H. Higgins
Mile 5 min. J. Hartenbower
Half Mile 2:06 min. H. Hartenbower
Discus 98 ft. H. Hartenbower
Shot Put 42.1 ft. J. Alley
Pole Vault 10 ft. L. Hinshaw
Javelin 128 ft. J. Dagel
High Jump 5 ft. 9 in. H. Hartenbower
Broad Jump 19 ft. 9 in. L. Hinshaw
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Hinshaw Warne (Coach) H. Hartenbower Alley Smith Hall (Capt.) J. Hartenbower
BASKET BALL SCHEDULE FOR 1915-16
Nov. 19 ... Rose Hill 40 Udall ...36
Dec. 3 Rose Hill 14 Belle Plaine ... ...56
Dec. 10 Rose Hill 34 Augusta ...35
Jan. 7 ...Rose Hill. 114 Udall ... ...19
Jan. 8 Rose Hill.. 51 Andover ....46
Mar. 22 Rose Hill.. 34 Douglass ...28
Mar. 31 Rose Hill 28 Douglass % ...35
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