Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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We began our junior year by electing Ralph Lampman, president; Barbara Cline, vice-president: Janies Shearer, secretary, and Lucy Graf, treasurer. This year seven new members, Iona Iddings, Helen Sliutts, Jeanette Hendry, Wendell German, Eugene Yockey, Elizabeth Delano and Harold VanHusan joined our class and two. Eva and Louise Dirrim, left us. About the last of Yarch the class officers began looking for a play which would be suitable to be given as our junior production. Finally they decided on Betty’s Last Bet. A tryout w'as held and the different roles were assigned to the students w ho were able to play them most naturally. After much practicing the play was presented to a very large crowd on the evening of Vay 5th. It was given in a way which was a credit to the cast and to our class. In a few weeks we began to plan for the Junior-Senior reception. At last after the invitations were sent, decorating done, amusement and program planned and the refreshments arranged, the banquet w'as held on the evening of Vay the seventeenth in the parlors of the Christian church. Although outside the weather was damp and rainy, all was gay and jolly inside and everybody had a wonderful time. After the final examinations and the Commencement Exercises at which the members of our class were ushers, were over, our junior record was closed. Following a pleasant and busy summer vacation, our class assembled once more. During the summer one of our members, Elizabeth Delano, decided to substitute married life for school life. Three new members, Pauline Frederick and Bertha Perkins, from Stroll, and Preston Moody entered our class. We elected as class officers: Ralph Lampman. president: James Williamson. vice-president, and Barbara Cline, secretary and treasurer. Soon we held a class meeting to discuss the matter of class rings and pins. After choosing the design, the pins and rings were ordered and they arrived about the middle of December. When the mid-year examinations were over, we began to plan for the Commencement Issue of the ‘‘Key,” determined to begin early so that we should have plenty of time to prepare an especially good number. In February we began working on the opera “The Mikado” which was to be given as a Senior production with the assistance of choruses from the sophomore and junior classes. After a great deal of hard work on the part of Mr. Braman, the cast, and the choruses, it wras presented on Friday and Saturday evenings. March 23rd and 24th, in the Community Buildinig which w'as packed with spectators both evenings. The opera was very highly complimented and was said to have been the greatest success in the line of dramatics or music ever produced by Angola High School. After the excitement following the staging of the “Mikado” had subsided. we began planning the different matters connected with our graduation. Although graduation will close the chapter of the grade and high school history of our class, still each member as he goes forth to meet the problems of life, and we hope each one will become distinguished in whatever path of life he follows, will help to form the future history of our class. Among the original members of our class who are graduating are: William Croxton, James Shearer. Lawrence Wolfe. Sarah Barron, Barbara Cline, Byrona Allison. Yoland Miller. Rolene Rowley, Eleanor Robertson, Helen McNeal, Mildred Thomas, Ruth Williamson, Martha Wood. Ruth Wert, Areline Fast, James Williamson. Emmet Spade and Adeline Hughes. —Ruth Alvison, ’23

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Class History Otic morning' in September, 1911, when we were mischievous six-year-olds instead of dignified seniors, we were awakened unusually early and then dressed with most painstaking care as if for some event of great importance. Then we were taken to the schoolhouse for that was the place which we were destined to know for the first time that morning. We were greeted at the door by our new teacher. Miss Ricketts. At first we were simple and bashful but we soon became wiser and lost all trace of timidity. Having been accustomed to nothing but play we felt that there were many hardships and restrictions but in a short time we adapted ourselves to the new situation and decided that we liked school life. We went on through the next six grades of hard work mingled with good times under the instruction of Miss Keep. Miss Reynolds, Miss Kunkle, Miss Luton, Miss 1 Iranian and Miss Kint. During this time many new students joined us. among them being Mary Taylor. Pauline Taylor, Ralph Lampman, Allenc Lowther. Robert Ramsay, Howard and Beulah Flaishans. Our last grade teacher was Mrs. Utter. During this year the class dramatized and successfully presented “A Man Without A Country.’ When the end of the vear came and we were presented with our diplomas, we realized that one chapter of our school life was closed but we were eager to begin the next or hi Mi school. In September. 1910, our class of fifty-eight began the high school course which we had looked forward to with such eagerness. Early in the year a class meeting was called to organize the class. After choosing our class motto, flower, and color, and after electing the officers, we adjourned feeling that we had raised our class to a most important position. The officers chosen were: Ralph Lampman, president: James Williamson, vice-president: Sarah Barron, secretary and treasurer. Among the large number of new members entering the class were: Marv Benfer. Audra Faulk, Ruth Barber. Lucile Fry. Pauline Clark. Ruth Alvison, Maisie Bair. Josephine Sutton, Hcr-schel Sutton, Cleveland Collins and Marian Graham. At the beginning of the second semester, sixteen mid-year freshmen who had finished the eight grades in seven and one-half years, joined us. It was immediately shown that our class was talented in different lines by the large number who entered the orchestra, chorus and athletics. Our first representatives on the Boys’ Basket Ball team were Ralph Lampman and Cleveland Collins and later ones were Wendell German, Oscar Pence, Lawrence Wolfe and Et gene Yockev. A large percent of the orchstra and chorus and the entire String Trio were from our class. Time flies very swiftly when filled with fun and work, so soon vacation time rolled around and our freshman year was finished. After a seemingly short vacation, we assembled again to begin our duties as sophomores. This year we elected: Ralph Lampman, president; Byrona Allison, vice-president: James Shearer, secretary; and Barbara Cline, treasurer. During this year Dorothy Burns and Mary Williamson entered the class. This year a Girl’s Basket Ball team was organized in which our class was represented by Margaret Fast. Pauline Taylor, Adeline Hughes, Teresa Beil, Wava McKenzie. Lucy Graf and Martha Wood. Further evidence of the talent in our class was shown by the fact that two members of the Girls’ Quartet, which won first place this year and next were from our class. Our representatives w-ere Ruth Williamson and Margaret Fast.

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Last Will and Testament We. the members of the Senior Class, residents of Steuben County, Indiana, and, being of sound and disposing minds and memories, do make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by us made: We. the Seniors, do leave our most sincere respect to Mr. Allman for the patience and the tact with which he handles the delicate situations which sometimes arise in the management of the school. To Mr. Estrich we give our apologies for the trouble which we have caused him and wish him to know that we appreciate his many efforts to make our school life pleasant as well as profitable. We, the Seniors, do leave the services of Robert Ramsay—alias I. B. Candid—to next year's Key Staff. I. Jack Mayfield, do leave my reputation of being hard-boiled’’ to Vernon Sniff. I. Josephine Sutton, do will to Carina Haley my ear puffs and my laugh. I. Audra Faulk, do hand down my rosy complexion to LuRayne Ober-holtzer, warning her that said rose-color is entirely natural and to be acquired only by a mad dash to a 12:15 class. I, Lawrence Wolfe, do bequeath my man-of-the-world” air to Horace Fifer. I, Iona Iddings, do give my ability as a Latin student to Helen Schin-beckler, providing she agrees never to get better grades than I have. I, Helen Shutts, do will to Ketha Powers my hearty voice and blustering manner. I, William Croxton. do bequeath my reputation as a “sheik-passonatc” to Daniel Bessie, provided said recipient of said reputation uses said inheritance often enough so that it will lose none of the fascination and notoriety which I have given it. We, Pauline Frederick and Bertha Perkins, do give our sympathy to any stranger entering the senior class next year. I, Wilma Harmon, do hand down my power of making speeches that are right to the point to Marion Dick. I, Clark Bowles, do will my little black string tie to Tubby Douglass. I. Ruth Wert, do leave to Marjorie Ryder my curly hair and my pink face powder. I. Lurene Klink, bequeath my grey coat to Lois Golden, providing she wear it with an artistic air. We, James Williamson and Wendell German, do leave our magnetic power over the freshman girls to Fred Starr and Collins Burns. I, Teresa Beil, do bequeath to Edytha Shank my love for certain of the college students. I, Helen McNeal, do hand down my green sweater to Sarah Elizabeth Ramsay on condition that she wear it as calmly as I have. I, Cleveland Collins, do leave my good will and best wishes to next year’s captain of the team. I, Dorothy Long, do bequeath my dramatic ability to Hope Johnson. I, Adeline Hughes, do resign my position as governess to a certain underclassman in favor of Maple Ogden. I, Howard Flaishans, do give to Ketha Powers my strickly paternal affection.