Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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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

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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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tJrnjihrnj nf (flann nf 1912 BLANCHE FREESE We all will go on our way, Each seeking a different path; “Each using as best he may The talent which lie hath.” Chauncey, the president of the class Will he employed in a hank, And by his effort to surpass, Hise to extraordinary rank. Actor of our class is Ray, Very talented is lie, And a star in any play Will most certainly he. On an electric sign-board nn ill flicker A name well known to you, That of Harry Rickert, for trade he does not have to dicker, For he manufactures the “ Nip” shoe. Adah, the plank of the class, And a very bright lass, A most excellent teacher will be In the High School at Nappanee. Vida soon w ill break home ties: She may not long among us linger, For soon beneath Italian skies, She’ll be wedded to a singer. Carrie, a blessing w herever she goes, Surely sent to this world to brighten life, Will soon, as everylx dy knows, Become a Canadian farmer’s wife. Ethel Gw in’s future romance, Which reads like a song, Will lead her to France, Where she'll marry ere long. Douglass M., our “ little giant” in debate, When he attorney-general gets to be The interests of IJ. S. A. w ill clearly see, And send the trusts to meet their fate. Ralph Frazier, a contractor, Will be the main factor In building the new school-house at Nappanee In the year twenty-three hundred and twenty-three. Ethel Frederick will become a nurse, And although she’ll many a patient ’tend. Not one will become worse For she such skillful aid w ill lend. Grace Slagle will become one of the suffragettes, And w ill also give talks against cigarettes. Some day she’ll drop us each a note To let us know that she can vote. A surgeon to be is Galen Roose: Very famous will he become, For he never was a goose, And his fees will be a goodly sum. 32