Tipton High School - Tiptonian Yearbook (Tipton, IN)

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THE TIPTONIAN 19 JEAN VAL CARTER. Jean Carter has been in the Tipton High School for the past four years. He has made a record that is enviable. Through the first three years, he worked hard and at all times was the leader among the boys in deportment. As an intelligent senior he commenced to realize the truth of the old saying: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. As a result his friends were surprised one month when the Warn- ing was read and his name appeared one of the first. He successfuly played the part of Banquo in Macbeth, as he after his death played the part of a guard. Jean once had an ambition to be a doctor, but his ambition suffered a slight shock when he found out that to be a doctor he must study Latin for several years. However, we are sure that if he decided to be a doc- tor, he could get the Latin without much trouble. Jean has red hair. HELEN TRIMBLE. Helen Esther Trimble was born in the township in Tipton county that has the clas- sic name of Wildcat. Her sister reports that she still has the attributes of that township. Notwithstanding this call to the wilds, she made the highest average in the eighth grade examination and stood at the head of her class from year to year in her progress through high school. In her Freshman year, she was very mean and caused the teachers no end of trouble. During this year she fell in love with a certain little Junior, but this was not permanent. In the Junior year, she was elected president of the class. She has now forgotten most of her mischief and is one of our most dignified seniors. There are times when the subject of this sketch thinks herself the wife of a farmer near Tipton raising chickens and garden truck.

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18 THE Tl PTON IAN WILLIAM OKLA ELLER. Here is serious good natured Bill El- ler, who joined the senior class in its Junior year. Although he has been with us a short time, he has now the distinction of being a great fellow. He is known for his agri- cultural ability and when he has nothing else to do he delights in working the prob- lems in Euclid. He had previously been a member of the New Waverly high school. After entering school here, he worked so well that he was enabled to graduate by taking only two subjects the last term. How- ever he often comes the whole day, this shows his affinity for the senior class. He also plays an important part in T. H. S. ath- letics, being the star foot ball player and one of the workers on the track team. He is the biggest boy in the class and we all look up to him. OCTA ELLER. Octa Eller joined us in the middle of our Junior year. She is a bashful, good-natured girl with a remarkable tendency toward studiousness. She is another one of the se- niors who have never bothered the dear fac- ulty and whose very name suggests perfect conduct. She is also a member of the A+ Club, having made no grades lower than this. She came to us from the New Waver- ly high school.

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20 THE TIPTONIAN ALPHA B. GRAY. Alpha Gray entered the high school with the intention and firm determination to de- velop both mentally and physically. Physi- cally he has made a decided improvement, for as a Freshman, he was one of the small- est boys ' in his class. Mentally, he has de- veloped to such an extent that he is known as the best mathematician the T. H. S. af- fords. In athletics, he has proven a valua- ble help. He served as a member of the se- nior basket ball team and was a member of the track team for the past three years. Alpha is a great lover of fun and spends his leisure time in school playing jokes on his neighbors and flipping them on the ears. Not only is he a lover of mathematics, ath- letics, and fun, but is also the lover of a certain pretty Freshman girl. All the se- • nior hoys are jealous of him. VERA SWAB. Vera Swab, one of the three seniors who has made A or A+ in all subjects during the past four school years, is one of our best students. She has lately been inter- ested in persuading a certain red-headed Freshman that a T. H. S. diploma is worth while. Her voice is naturally sweet and low, but when excited, she is noted for her shrill shrieks, which we think she acquired while being carefully trained for the part of a witch in a senior class play. She is a member of the Girls ' Glee Club and of the high school chorus. She appeared as a chorus girl in the play recently given.