October 26, 2017
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
Today’s
story comes from another article published in the Junction City High School’s
“The Blue And White”. This is an editorial comment published in that newspaper
in April of 1918 and read as follows:
“The Senior
Class of 1918, the most accomplished and august body which ever graced the
shattered benches of JCHS is being maliciously disappointed and
humiliated. In past years, Seniors were
privileged to be feted and feasted at an elaborate banquet and were presented
with enough money by the School Board to enable them to put out an Annual with
no special effort on their own part.
This year, however, they, like the soldiers across the sea, are forced
to sacrifice their pleasure for they have been denied both.
The Seniors
are perfectly willing to forego the extravagance of a banquet, but consider it
unjust to be denied a year book, the height of ambition the monument of
attainment, toward which as a goal they have steadily held their course through
four long years of toil. To refuse them
this outlet of literary expression is to dam up a swelling tide of genius. And indeed this decision pronounces our doom
for the Senior Class cannot of its self, finance the proposition. The price of
cuts, paper and other supplies has more than doubled in the past year.
So it seems
that this illustrious body, this flower in the high school’s crannied wall,
must go forth into the cold world leaving behind no record of its attainments,
which if printed might have proved an inspiring influence and a radiant star of
ambition to plodding classes in years to come.” The author identified themselves only as “A
Senior.” That’s today’s story on “Our
Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
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