Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. Class History. HE graduating class of ' 09 had the distinction of being the first Freshman class to enter the new High School building. To be sure, they missed all the fun that the upper classes had in the High School over the Post Office, but they were so little and unprotected and frightened in their Freshman year that they couldn ' t have appreciated any jokes or pranks such as Freshmen are usually up to. They were completely overawed by the magnitude of the Assembly Hall, the austerity of the faculty and the gigantic size and icy stares of the upper class men. Of course the boys ran the gauntlet of the paddles on the first day of their High School careers in September, 1904, and the girls were formally received by the Faculty in the Library. That memorable first year the class was sixty-two strong, but in the middle of the year one of their number launched her life ship upon the sea of matrimony and from that time forth the number diminished. Most of the sixty-two took the German course, although the Latin was strong. At that time there was a rumor prevalent to the effect that German was easier than Latin and, consequently, the German class had to be divided into two sections in order to accommodate all of the students. During the Sophomore year the class was greatly diminished in numbers, but vastly greater in stature and wisdom. The members had a perfect knowledge of the location of the class rooms and wondered at the youth of the Freshmen and materially assisted at the initiation of those unfortunates. When the class reached the third milestone of its high school life its numbej- was still smaller. Several members left school entirely, others became enrolled on the records of other educational institutions, and one member, Harold Pagin, was called to join the School of the Great Teacher. Four people were added to the class that year who were to become prominent membei ' s — Dorothy Ijetherman, Edith Marimon, Nancy Johnson and Berniece Krieger. During the year the class became prominent in athletics. A Junior basketball team was organized and there our Wallace laid the foundation for his present skill in basketing the ball. Social functions, hay-rack and band-wagon excur- sions, theatre parties, skating parties, dinners and other aft ' airs crowded the year with excitement. An ancient custom prevails among all Junior classes to give the graduat- ing class a farewell party. In accordance with this custom the Juniors assembled and elected their first officers : Wallace Wilson, President ; Vera Sieb, Vice-President; Berniece Reynolds, Secretary, and Corinne Blount, Treas-

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. Vera Sieb Passion Flower Laura Nuppnau Sun Flower Simon Shinabarger Wax Plant Nancy Johnson Primrose Dorothy Letherman Calla Lily Edith . L rimon Forget-nie-not Alice Cornell Red Rose (Jrace Dillingham Sweet Clover B( rniece Reynolds Touch-me-not Kathryn Daly Hollyhock Alice Pearce Chrysanthemum Finette Bartholomew American Beauty Alta Whitzman Sensitive Plant Wm. Johnston Sage Rose Detlef Peony Hazel Bundy SmartAveed Claude Beach Red Top Helen Holt ' man ] Hstletoe Zella Landis larguerite Lloyd Foster Rubber Plant Wallace Wilson Dandelion lai ' garet Cami)bell Daisy Coi-inne Hh)unt Blue Bell Agnes Huntington Cocjuette Flora LembUe Pink IJchccca P artliol()ni( ' w Mignonette I-.Mia Take Lavender Pearic Stoiiei- Petunia Mary lleulahan Violet

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EIGH SCHOOL AyXTAL. ui-er. After inaiiy heated diseussiuiis as to the niaiinei ' of entertaiuiiig the Seniors it was finally decided that the Juniors invite the Senioi-s to a hop in Armory Hall on the evening of ] Iay 25th. For two weeks before the glorious event the Junior girls were busy making pennants and, the day before, both boys and girls decorated the hall. Their efforts were well rewarded for the hall never looked so well before, and the Seniors were gracious enough to say that it would be almost impossible for it to look i)rettier. The ' ' hoj) ' was the final event of the season and finished the career of the Seniors who grieved because the} ' had completed the four years ' course and had finished their High School records. As a Senior body, the class has been a wonderful one. Wallace was again chosen President and, besides serving in that capacity in a highly acceptable manner and acquiring more than local fame at basketball, he has found time aside from his studies to devote himself to oratory. He represented Valparaiso High School in the Declamation Contest at Chicago University in November, 1908, and was Valparaiso ' s contestant in the County Oratorical Contest in April, 1909. The class of ' 09 is honored in claiming also Valparaiso ' s other contestant. Dorothy Arvin, as an ex-member. In the early part of the year the class met together to select a class pin. After many meetings they finally chose a little gold owl bearing a fitting inscription as an appropriate badge of their advanced state of wisdom. The class decided that during its last year of toil it would enjoy itself to the highest possibility. Therefore, on one occasion, they occupied the gymnasium informally; on another, they called en masse on a young lady and her friend, incidentally interrupting a quarrel; and on another they took their suppers and mounted a hay-rack and went out to Grace Dillingham ' s. It is unnecessary to say that they enjoyed themselves on this last occasion. Towaid the end of the year there is always a frantic scramble to make up delincjuent credits, but failui ' es are uncommon and will be so in the class of ' 09. Although oui- nuiiilxM- is less than half as great as when we were Freshmen, still, twenty-eight of us — twenty-three girls and five boys — Avill walk the plank on the night of May 28th, graduates of Valparaiso High School. -CORIXNE BLOUNT.