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Linden Lake High School
Linden Lake, Houghton County, Michigan
"The Blue and Gold"
1917 Yearbook

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The Blue and Gold - 1917 yearbook cover for Linden Lake High School
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THE BLUE AND GOLD, '17. MILO WIESENAUER "Wies" Class President Athletic Editor Blue and Gold High School Chorus German Club Football '14, '15, '16 Baseball '15, '16 "He stood a shell on one foot first" "Then stood a spell on t'other" The year passes slowly along until about the seventh month, when things begin to get so dull and monotonous that something has to be done to awaken interest in school work. Realizing this, Miss Benbrook, our English teacher, takes the initiative and starts a series of debates in her classes. . All students in both sections are to take part in at least one debate, after which elimination contests are held and the best three chosen from each section for the finals. This big debate takes place before the public. in the assembly room, and a very interesting battle of wits ensues on the subject of "Mothers' Pensions," the affirmative winning only after a very hard and a very spirited session. Now comes the dawn of our Junior year the easiest of them all. The old saying. "Familiarity breeds Contempt," is strikingly applicable to this class, as we arc now so familiar with school studies that we almost despise them. The first item of interest is our class meeting, which is featured by the sensational election of Prudence Turner for president—the first and only girl to receive this signal honor in our entire class history. During this year more excellent debates are held. The European War here enters into our history in that it furnishes first class material for argumentation,—and here let me say that some of the ensuing debates are as hotly contested as some of the great battles of that war. The final contest, especially, rivals in fierceness the most moment-eons battle yet fought across the seas. It lasts for three days and is the most hotly contested debate ever held in this auditorium, as is evinced by the fact that the interest of the class and the tempers of the debaters are still rising, when Miss Benbrook mercifully lowers the curtain. Overshadowing everything else in interest during this year, however, is the Junior reception. Energetic measures are taken to raise the funds necessary to make this affair a successful one. Candy sales are held, pocketbooks taxed, and various other methods brought into use to make the money roll in. This reception will ever be a memorable one in the minds of all who attended. but more particularly so to those who were recipients of the bricks of ice cream that were lowered from the city hall windows. The Senior year now draws 'round, the year of worry and hope unusually so for the officers. For several seniors there is a cloud of doubt on the horizon of their perspectives. Will they or will they not make their grade, is the" composition of that cloud. The midnight oil is burned on numerous occasions. books are fingered so often that they are in a badly dilapidated condition before the year is half over.—and still they worry. Here's luck to them all! Our officers for the years are : President, Milo Wiesenauer; Vice-president, Aline Cake; Secretary. Willis Curren; Treasurer. Russell Lord. The most important event during the term is the decision to put out a year book. As this is an innovation in the Lake Linden High School. it entails a munificient amount of hard labor, and every member of the class shares in this work. "The harder the task, the sweeter the Victory," is a very appropriate saying in this regard. and the victory surely is sweet. The Joke Department rivals in its' mirth producing qualities, such magazines as "Life" and "Judge." The di-
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