The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-07
HISTORY OF THE
CLASS OF 1916
BY Daniel McQuold.

CLASS OF 1916
BY Daniel McQuold.
The high school is truly contribu.
tory to life's competency But yet it
is greater still-it is one of life's COM
ponents, and perhaps. among the
most enriching of these. In these
four years, one lives his life much as
ut was lived before, and shall subse
quently be lived. Here we have ex.
listed, using our endowments each at
/ ter his own fashion-some with
i apathy. others with discretion. In the
time between our hopeful freshmen
j days and our proud senior hours, our
ldestinies have been increasingly de-
fined our lives marked, our labors
chosen.
! At the close of this quickly flown
4 cycle, 1T is Of our accomplishments
that We would tell you. At much
/ length and OF details we cannot write,
but each deed has been recorded in
the annals of the past. If any OF our
band has now and then been want
ing of attainment, let him of inno-
cence come forward. Invariably have
those to whom success has come. car
ried some burden of defeat. For the
school all have usefully striven, and
in our midst are numbered many OF
goodness and truth, many that will
{ be sorely missed when we have de-
parted.
! The class of 1916 numbers forty
two, one division having entered in
January OF 1912, and the other in
September OF the same year.
| Ill +, t<a Of
ess in some Division OF school life, but
1t may truly be said that We were to
ibecome the most versatile of Keokuk
high school classes. The four years
of the course were to witness MEM
bers of this class, not only become
leaders in school life, but excel the
records of many former years.
! Truly, as freshmen, we did not
produce stars Of the first rank. whom
the others were to watch and envy,
but We showed spirit and ambition,
!, two elements paramount for success,
The sophomore year proved to b-
different, and there came great
change Feared by the freshmen. dis
dained by the juniors and ignored
| by the seniors we found ourselves
in a strange state.
Class Becomes United.
| But there came also anothe.
change We became better acquaint-
| ed and accustomed, took more act
| i've part in all things, shared in the
elections. and began to act. to do
things, and to be recognized.
| Meador, lie Faivre and Davidson
made the football team during the
fall and Meador proved to be the
| find of the basketball season. He be.
came a powerful guard, one of the
| best ever produced. LIE Faivre also
made the squad and helped lay 1858
athletic foundation, both in football
and in basketball.
The first social event of the class
was a hay-rack party given joint
~ for the freshmen and sophomores
at the home of Nellie Hawkins on the
Main street road This was the first
event in which the class acted as a
BODY. There is no need to mention
that the party was greatly enjoyed
and highly successful.
Besides these athletic and social |
activities, we were represented IN
all branchs of the school life. On !
the Comment staff and in the Offices !
of the clubs and societies were found |
those of the sophomore class. Prac- |
tically one Office in every organiza |
ton was held by a class member. and !
each branch was actively supported
and carried on by other ones on the .
roll of 1916 We were becoming i'm.
portant factors in school life.
The sophomore-freshmen masque--
ade at the Y. W. c. A. was the last
social event of the year. At this I
brilliant affair were represented all
nations. all classes, and all periods.
Soon after our return to school in
September the class was organized,
and now united and banded together
we began our career as school IN
stitution. with Madison Sterne, presi- Il
dent: Alice Hinkley, vice president:
Wayne Hancock, treasurer; and Mar
shall Fulton, secretary.
We were beginning upon the second
and better part of our high school
course: we could act as body and
take a bigger share in school honors /
With the fall we set out to make
up for our social inactivity of the frs
two years.
Some Social Activities.
We had our first party on October I
%. at the home of Lloyd Wright, be-
yond Summitville The hay-rack left
Eleventh and Morgan, unmolested
and completely flied. at six-thirty. 1t &
is said to this day that some of the {
most astonishing of our eaters gain 6
ed their prominence at this time. |