Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Now will I singe a bit about McCue There was not nothing that she could not do From sunny south came she where cotton grows Muche did she laugli, here cheeks were like the rose And she coulde synge as well as coulde a byrd So sweet a voice has never yet been heard. The Main one of this classe liighte Grace She talked ful faste and read with like pace Her hair she wore in fashion without parte She studied well and was a little smarte. Her waist was whyte her skirt was blak, I guesse. Whei-e e ' er she was there always w as gladnesse. The next of whom I telle is Billy Moore And when he slept they say that he did snore A student once he was of high degree But now he lyketh golden haired Elsee. Of clothes he wered a suit as blak as sin Haste would he not tho he sat on a pin. His age was over twenty yeer I gesse Just what it was he never would coufesse. Next ou the roll do come the Boyer girls Of College Hill were they the precious pearles These two they dressed alyk most every day They did hir hair up in the latest way One Buiah and the other Mary lii,i;lite Ful fair were they, they never diden tighte. Another Mary eek was in this classe Caldwelle was her name, a right bright lasse A little girl was she and eek full witte Hir teacher lyked hir work it was so pritte. A clever answer always had shee too Hir waist was red , her skirt was very blue. And next behind hir Elsie Marquardt sate A jolly girl who never did come late Of Algebra she knew most evry rule Hir German was the best found in the skule. Hir dresse in color was not lyke m m It cost ful nmch and it was very fyn. She lived u] near the Ham Shop toard the Hill, And saw full many a student sane and sille.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 23 THE FAMOUS ENGLISH FIVE. Composed during the study of Chaucer. HERE was a classe that highte English five Of boys and girls and they were all alive But natlieless whyl I have time and space Er that I further in this tale apace Methinketh it aecordaunt to resoun To telle you al the condicioun Of ech of hem so as it semed me And whiche they weren and of what degree And eek in what array that they were inne And at a Feltou wole I first beginne. A clerk there was his name was Reg Felton-ne Of Basket Ball ful many game he ' d wonne, He asked of questions five hundred and three He studied Chaucer, Dutch and Chemistree. He laughed at every one and also me His clothes were green lyk grass as I could see His hairs were blak but sometyme had been yelle Now will I stint and telle you of Nelle. Nell Shinabarger too was in our keej e Of Latin and of Dutch she knew a heepe Of Skinkle, Wedeking and eek of Benney Of Miller, Nona Mac, lykwise of Minny Of all hir teechings had she much of studie Eek could she spell and reed, hir cheeks were ruddie She wore a skirte of gray and waist of white And hat of black and cloke that fitted tite. A Margaretta too we did possesse A little girle of fifteen yeer I geese. But she was very smart as we wel knewe And eek could talke as only Peirces dooe. And eek a Latyn scholar was this girle Wlio wore a waist of white and skirt of pearle.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 25 A golden gem was one named Mildred Koss When she was here we surely felt hir loss And she and Elsie made a goodly pair. Ful much she knewe as might ful wel be seen She wore a waist of whyte , hir skirt was green. And now the greatest member of our classe Was Wedeking who hard was to surpasse. Of suits he wore blak brown or gray or blue Specs on his nose, his tie was redde in hue His eyes are hollow when his specs are broken He always said something whan that he spoken I ' pon his heels he walked he did us pleese AVe made our grades because his tests were eese. Of me I cannot tell I will confesse The reasoun is my looks I can ' t expresse The clothes I wear are fyn, I look full fair Of knowledge I ' ve enough and some to spair My destiny has long been fixed by fate I sometym will be poet — Laurieate. And now I have no more to you to yeven My tale is done, may we all meet in heven. L. K.