Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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(Tlaaa $npm VIDA HOSSLKR Thirty-one little Freshies All so very sturdy: One little Freshie broke away, Then there were thirty. Thirty little Freshies, All so smart and tine, Another Freside flew away, Then there were twenty-nine. And so on down as here you see, We have dwindled since nineteen eight, And there are left but twenty-three. When now we graduate. The largest class that N. II. S. Has ever yet set free, And the smartest you may also guess, These sturdy twenty-three. Twelve lads and eleven lasses, Who are true to Blue and White, They are stars in their classes And make a const el lation bright. In all the branches of the school, We all have done our best. And tried to follow every rule And succeeded like the rest. In science, geom. and algebra; In language and history classes, You will not find them every day, Such brainy lads and lasses. Twenty-three “high-brow” Seniors, They have studied so, Soon they’ll have their “sheep-skins,” Then they forth will go. 30

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“ iHra. (Cnmptnn’H ittanagrr” A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS BY HARRY O. OSGOOD A rippling, roaring, rollicking, “ripper 5 Full of fun, folly and f ncy frills. f PRESENTED BY THE SENIOR CLASS, NAPPANEE HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AUDITORIUM, MAY 2, 1912 CHARACTERS (IN THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE) Elpliron Vartrav, a landscape gardener............ Douglass W. Miller James Heaton, an architect..........................Harvey W. Frederick Leonard Barring, Mrs. Compton’s nephew..................Ray E. Walters Jackson, butler at “Fairthorn. ......................... Miller Uline Ethel Durand, a cousin to Mrs. Compton ...................Hilda E. Price Margaret Roswell, her friend ......................... Ethel Pearl Gwin Mrs. McGiilion, house-keeper at “Fairthorn”................. Mabel Sloat Frederick Lowell, Bishop of Hoboken........................ Harry ItTert Marie Demarque, an actress. ....................... Ethel M. Frederick Watkins, a farm hand.................................. Burton Metzler Mrs. Helen Compton, a widow.... Vera Fetro Williams, maid......................................... .Carrie Blessing Tompkins, butler..................................... Burton Metzler SYNOPSIS OF SCENES ACT 1, Scene I—The sitting-room at “Fairthorn,” Mrs. Compton's summer house. Curtain rises, disclosing Vartrav and Heaton. After a moment Barring comes in. “Town? I should rather say so: say, you don't know how beastly dull I am here.”—“If it wasn’t for those confounded jewels of Mrs. Compton’s in the tin safe there, 1 shouldn’t worry at all.” “Thank goodness we are here: I can't conceive, anyway, why Mrs. Compton should have asked you to come down ahead to open the house, when the servants could do it just as well.”—“She hasn't said anything direct: in fact, she hasn’t even mentioned his name to me, but tells me of her ‘dear nephew’ and ‘dearest.’ ” Scene 2—Midnight the same night. “H’m, this must be Mrs. Compton’s private pigeon-hole, the only one with a lock.” “Hands up, if you please.”— ‘But I am the-----” ACT 11 The same room. “Oh, didn’t you hear? I said Ethel quite dis tinctly, may I not? Such old friends, you know.”—“My dear Miss Demarque.” “Most unfair, Mrs. Compton. Mr. Vartrav accuses Jackson of---.’’—“Tell me how have you liked my nephew? ’—“Dear Aunt Nellie, so glad to see you back again.” -“Now, that you’ve seen everything my dear Bishop, what do you think of the improvements I have had made?”- “I say, where is Jackson?’ ACT III The reception-room at Mrs. Compton’s town house.”—“There there isn't any chair between us r-ow, is there Ethel?”—“Oh, I’ve just got a wire saying that they’ve nabbed him in Kansas City. “I don’t see, Bobby, but what I’m driven to it, now for the Bishop.”—“My wife, dear Aunt Nellie.” “Bishop, 1 may he considerable of a duffer at business, but when it comes to the social song, Pin high tenor from the start. —“Loving couples scattered all over the stage, and the curtain ready to go down to blissful strains. ’ Ray E. Walters. 29

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(Hass iHifitnrtj ETHEL PKAUL GW IN JTTiik class of 1912 is one of the largest and most w talented cl .sses that has ever entered N. H. S. We were cheered by the other students as we entered the assembly-room coming from the eighth grade. They thought they could cheer us because they had gone through the ordeal before. The teachers were very proud of our large, industrious class, which consisted of thirty-one pupils. We soon showed them our talents, especially in Germane?) and latin(?). We were very shy during the first year, but as the time passed the shyness wore oil and the other students could see what we could do. The first year soon passed and the students who lived in the country could rest from their tiresome journeys every morning and evening. After a very few months of vacation, the time had come to l e-gin our school work again, but this time we occupied the seats of the honorable Sophomores. All of our class did not return as we had hoped. Some of them had gone to some other city, or preferred farming to an education: but w hat remained were welcomed back by the teachers of the previous year, with the exception of the German teacher w ho was new and unacquainted with us, hut who soon found out our wonderful talents in the German language. Now came the time to take up ancient history, w hich was entirely a new subject to us. The first half of the term was soon over and the examinations passed successfully. We then took up the more difficult study of geometry. We also found German a little more intelligible. About the middle of this term we organized the class and the officers chosen have successfully tilled their otlices. The American Beauty rose was selected as our class flower and maroon and white were chosen as our colors. Our motto is: “Utilize Enthusiasm ” The first year at commencement time we were compelled to take the first rows in the balcony of the auditorium, but now we were given one of the lx)xes. This we decorated beautifully in our class colors and flowers. ()ur numbers could be seen in maroon and white lights on the front of the box. We also had a great number of class yells which could he heard everywhere. Soon another vacation had passed away and we became .1 uniors. The students were now older and showed their talents in music as well as in their studies. This they showed in the programs given by the Juniors and Seniors. During our third year of school we were busy and worked steadily on. We were IxKhered some by the closing of the schools on account of dangerous diseases and the burning of the belfry: but we soon made up the lost time and were working again. In this year our class showed its talent in debating. When debates were held in the school, the 1912 debaters were always “on top.” The debating team that defeated Wakarusa High School was made up entirely of T2 students. After a few months we prepared to give a reception for the Seniors. This was given at the home of Harry Kickert, our vice-president. The house was decorated beautifully in our colors, maroon and white, and with American Beauty roses. After the reception it was soon time to take the examinations again. These were parsed successfully. Most of the students were now tired of school and anxious to be free for a few months. But they were as anxious to go again w hen the time came. In the second year we lost one of our students, but he returned in the last year to graduate with us. We also have another student w ho has joined us this year. Our Senior year has been a very social one. We have had pleasant sleigh-rides in the country and also class parties in town. Nevertheless we have worked hard and have accomplished much more than any former Senior class, in presenting two plays and putting out the largest annual ever published by any Nappanee Senior class. You say our history is rather uneventful? Yes, but the very fact that it has been uneventful, means that instead of making class history, we have spent our High School days in building a tirm foundation for after years. For it is then that a class history means something to the world. I f a history of this class should be written twenty years from now, it would be seen that we have made much from these four seemingly uneventful years, for the class 1912 has always believed that— “When duty whispers low 4thou must’ The jouth replies, 41 can.’ ” 31