West Des Moines High School
1905 Annual

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IN SUBMITTING THE ANNUAL OF 1905 to the school and to our readers in general, we desire to thank the students for the support they have given us throughout the past year—both by financial and by literary contributions. We have tried to make The Tatler of this year better than the preceding one, and feel that we have succeeded in some respects; but we also appreciate the fact that we could have done practically nothing had it not been for the aid and encouragement furnished us by the school. Concerning this—our greatest endeaver—little more need be said than that this Annual represents the result of the careful and conscientious work of the whole year, and as such we commit it to the public record.

THE STAFF

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The Tatler and Annual
Staff for the Year 1905
ALICE SPURRIER, '05
Editor-in-Chief

EMMA SPENCER, '05
LOTTIE HIGGINS, '05
Assistant Editors

NELLIE MILLER, '05
CARL R. BYOIR, '05
KATHERINE BERRY HILL, '06
CHESTER COGSWELL, '06
GRETCHEN GARST, '07
GEORGE TOWNE, '07
JOSEPHINE WITMER, '08
FRED BAIR, '08
Associate Editors

HAROLD MILES, '05
Art Editor

JOHN M. HATTON, '05
GIVIN CHASE, '05
Business Managers

LOUISE COOKERLY, '05
IRENE BURNSIDE, '08
Reportorial Staff

 

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There is not one pupil left who used to be here, and hardly a teacher, but it's the same dear old high school. And when we too shall all be gone, both teachers and pupils, there will be other teachers and other pupils as grave and as gay as we, and it will still be the same dear old high school.
It is our high school, but ours in trust only—a precious legacy from those before us, a legacy that we are to enjoy and in turn transmit unstained to those who will come after us. If we honor it, it will honor us.
In the name of all the devoted teachers who have taught and are yet to teach within its walls, in the name of all the true hearted boys and girls who have gone out and are yet to go out through its portals into the greater schools, I ask for old West High the choicest blessings in the gift of the gods.
Here's to the years that are gone,
And here's to the years to come.
SUPERINTENDENT RIDDEL.
FALCULTY
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LUCY ALLABACH—American Literature
MARTHA A BEESON—Plane Geometry, Advanced Algebra
CHARLES CHASE—Gymnasium
DOROTHY FOWLER—First English, Second English
DR. ADELE FUCHS—First French, Second French, Second German, Third German
LAFAYETTE HIGGINS—Physics, Chemistry
LOUISE HUGHES—Grammar, Ancient History
JESSIE JOHNSTON—Botany, Physiology
FRANCES KEFFER—Drawing
MARGARET KING—First Latin, Caesar
ZULEMA KOSTOMLATSKY—Physiology, Botany, Physical Geography
CORDELIA KYLE—Fourth English, Second English
SARAH M. LORING—First German
A.W. MERRILL—Second Algebra, First Algebra, Plane Geometry
CARRIE T. MILLS—Commercial Geography, Stenography
ALICE E. MOSS—Civics, First English
A. C. NEWELL—Manual Training, Mechanical Drawing
ELIZABETH PERKINS—English History
MRS. H.R. REYNOLDS—Music
CLAY D. SLINKER—Bookkeeping, Spelling, Commercial Law
H. B. SMITH—First Algebra, Second Algebra, Plane Geometry
MINNIE SNURE—Second English, First English
MARY STANLEY—First Algebra
JOSEPHINE TAYLOR—Ancient History
ELDON USRY—First Shop, Second and Third Shop
N. H. WEEKS—Athletic Manager—Civics, American History
JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS—Caesar, Cicero, First Latin
KATHERINE WILLIS—First Latin, Vergil, Caesar