Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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(Clans (Brumhlf LOWELL M. KOOSK Of all the grumblers that ever grumbled no one ever grumbled like this grumbler is going to grumble. But I am not the only grumbler for in the class of nineteen fourteen there are fifteen grumblers so that is why I grumble. Ursula grumbles because she doesn't get enough sleigh rides. Lucile grumbles because she is afraid the sled will turn over. Gertrude and Ruth grumble because they can't copy the answers to the arithmetic problems. Blanche grumbles because she must recite on “War” in history class. Ora grumbles because he can’t sleep in school on Monday morning. George and Marie grumble because there is only one Sunday in a week. Bernice grumbles because she doesn’t have time to study her history lessons. Madge and Lillie grumble because they can’t have eight periods in a day for domestic science. Forest grumbles because he wants more class parties. Mailo and Clayton each grumble because the other is occupying too much of Bernice's time. The only thing I have to grumble about is that 1 have to write the Class Grumble. Four years ago when we first came to the dear old Nappanee High School we were imposed upon by the other classes and the School Board. In the first year the other classes made fun of us in every way and although we knew just as much as they did even the School Board and teachers were against us. In the first year we didn’t want to give a “Play.” Since the teachers and other clases knew we could we felt it unnecessary to prove it. However, the teachers said “You must , consequently we gave one and proved our right to the applause of the masses. When the next year rolled around we were more anxious to display our increasing theatrical accomplishments but the faculty frowned upon us and said “No” and they never changed their minds. Therefore we testify to our belief in the old adage, “Wise men change their minds. ----- never do. But we lived over it all right. The next year it went from bad to worse. Someone, inspired by a foolish idea put the seats of the assembly room on wooden strips. The scholars rose to the bait. One morning some of the boys entered the building before any of the teachers arrived. Thinking they would give the teachers a pleasant surprise, they rearranged the seats in a more artistic fashion. When school opened several of the students were lost while trying to find their books. This meant about fifty per cent off of some deportment grades. As usual the class of ’14 was the goat. One fine spring day when the Sophomore Basket-ball team was posing for a picture a few of the boys were laboring in the laboratory. They stepped to the window to throw out a pail of soiled water and the Sophomores happened to be under it and were deluged. The faculty eagerly seized this opportunity of again demonstrating their authority over the much abused class of ’14. The night that the class of lfil'l gave their class play someone climbed the water tank and unfurled a ’14 pennant to the breeze. They also painted numerals on the school-house. Most of us knew nothing of it until after it was done. However the faculty doubted our innocence and we lost a member. The senior year speaks for itself. In order that the coming classes may not have as hard a time of it as we had we would like to suggest a new form of government. Preamble We, the Senior Class of nineteen fourteen of the Nappanee High School in order to form a more perfect High School, establish justice, insure inter-class tranquility, provide for a common defense against the faculty, promote the general welfare of the class, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and the coming classes do ordain and establish this constitution for the Xappa-nee High School of Indiana. Article I Section 1. All legislative powers granted shall be vested in an assembly chosen by six members of the Senior class. Section 2. This body shall he composed of two members from each class, chosen for one year. No person shall he chosen who shall not have attained to the wisdom of twenty-five years and have been seven years a citizen of Nappanee. This body shall choose their speaker and other officers, and shall have sole power of impeachment.

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(UnaH fhipnt BLANCH K H LOSS Kit You wonder when you see this poem, •lust how I shall start out. But hv listening and looking well. You shall learn without a doubt. Don’t think for a moment it shall be thus: “Nine lasses and six lads are we”, Or, “Ours is the best in all the world, So bow your head and bend your knee. For 1 think you really Know quite well, The rank and honor we deserve, For the long, long years of constant toil, Racking of both brain and nerve. Long years? I really was quite wrong; Ah no. I meant the otherwise. For those four years seemed very short; The end is here to our surprise. The end I believe I rashly said, But I meant by that dear friend. Though we have ended our High School days, We’ve only reached the beginning of the end. So docile and bright have we always been, Indeed our teachers have proudly said “Of all the classes of the N. II. S., That of ’14 has always led. Like all tin Seniors of any school We have entered as Freshies green, But e’en in Physics and Geometry As victors we’ve always been. But though we’ve oft been discouraged, And worried o’er many a thing, We were ever wont to hold to school, And to our lessons cling. “Duty first and then pleasure” Our class has always taught; For those who play and never work Will finally come to naught. “Labor conquers everything” Is our motto firm and true. Whatever work we undertake, The same we try to do. Then farewell to Freshman, Junior and and Soph, We hate to leave you now, When you sigh for all our knowledge, Recall—It’s all in knowing how. We each go forth to meet onr fate, Hoping to be useful to man, By each one taking his separate path And doing the best that he can.

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Article II Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in the president of the Senior class. He shall hold his office during a term of one year, together with the vice-president chosen for the same term but by the .Junior Class. No person but a natural born citizen, or a citizen of Nappanee at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall be eligible to the office of president, neither shall any person be eligible to that office who has not attained to the age of (thirty)five years, and been (fonr)teen years a resident of Nappanee. Before the president enters upon the duties of his office he shall take the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the Nappanee High School and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend this constitution of the Nappanee High School, exactly 41 degrees and 30 minutes north latitude and 86 degrees west longitude, Union Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, U. S. A. Article III Section 1. The judicial power of the Nappanee High School shall be vested in one Supreme court, the judges holding office during good behavior or until otherwise, formally or informally, kicked out. This body shall be chosen by the presidents of the classes. All debts contracted or engagements entered into before the adoption of this constitution shall be invalid. All treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the Senior Class shall be the supreme law of the school, and the Judges before mentioned shall be bound thereby. The Seniors and Juniors and the members of the two inferior classes, the teachers, the school board, and all other executive and judicial officers shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support, whether willingly or unwillingly, this constitution; but no religious test shall ever he required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Nappanee High School.