Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“No, this is my last year.”
“Are you – do you know who is going to take high honors this year? How do you stand?
“I have an average of about 94”
“I mean – of course you have no way of knowing what the others have?”
“No. There are three of us, all boys. who are so close to-gether that its hard to tell who it will be.”
“Who are they?”
“William Kirst - , “
“Yes”
“Clyde Hess and myself”
“That’s the way I thought it would be. Of course I was only with your class the first year and a person may not keep up the grades that they attain at the start,”
“No that’s true”
“Well, I’m glad it’s boys this time, because they always expect the girls to win. By the way how much do you charge for place-cards?”
“Fifty cents a dozen?”
“That’s certainly cheap. In the city they charge any-