Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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FRESHMEN CLASS

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CH. ESSA RN ee in ede pied with Geometry, Physics, beginning German and English; some ingenius members of the class attempted to introduce new methods into the high school, such as using rubber as fuel, valerian and crushed onions as perfume; but as the faculty did not consider them practical they were immediately blotted out and the boys returned to use up their surplus energy in trying to decrease (2) the trials of the teachers. This year the promised Tennis courts were laid—one for each class—and many friendly contests were fought out there. This year the Senior class pub- lished an annual which they called The Star, and it was a foregone conclusion that our class would also publish one the next year. After another three months vacalion, ten of us met at the High school building as Seniors and commenced the most eventful and important year’s work of our high school course, for at its end we would receive our “sheep-skins for which we had struggled so hard. This year we found anew teacher, Mrs. Leasure, who took Miss Hodge’s place. At the beginning of the term, after many stormy sessions, Jesse Shull was elected presi- dent; Rosamond Mclntyre, secretary; Bessie Kinsey, treasurer, and Guy West editor of the Star with Maud Harrison, Rosamond McIntyre and Ray Thomas as assistants. Shortly after the opening of school the three upper classes united in giving a reception to the Freshmen. This class was so large that it was necessary for it to be seated in the west room in charge of Mrs. Leasure. Soon after the reception the freshmen gave a party to the upper classes and faculty which was very much enjoyed. Then everything was quiet until toward the close of school the Juniors gave a banquet to the Seniors which was very enjoyable and will serve as a pleasant re- minder of our Senior year. And now, that our happy high school course is ended, we look back over the past four years and recognize the fact that we are one of the most remarkable, if not the most remarkable of all the classes ever graduated from the Auburn High school. Although not greatest in num- bers—there have been three larger—there has been no other class with an equal number of boys and girls. No class but that of '05 ever attempted to introduce the methods before spoken of. Our class was the first to give those highly enjoyable parties. The sum total of our ages is one hundred eighty five, and of our weights is one thousand twelve hundred sixty, making our average age eighteen and one half and our average weight one hundred twenty six. And do you not think that a class which has maintained itself so brilliantly though high school will also make its mark in the world?

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: G HE -S@AzR: — Ninteen Hundred Five. i‘ | Gless Prope aaa BY HARRY CASEBEER Do you believe in dreams? Why yes and no. When they come true I believe in them, When the come false | don’t believe in them, —Longfellow, It was a midnight, strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the shadowy present and the eternal future grows dim, | slept and had a dream which was not all a dream; it seemed more like a revelation, Me thought I was in a very beautiful city, Every thing seemed stange at first but presently | began to see familiar objects, the old M. E, church, the dear old High School building, the Modern Buggy factory and others, all of which had grown grey with age. I looked for the old court house, fully expecting that it had survived the ravages of time, but in this | was dissappointed, for a beautiful structure of blue and red granite, stood in its place. Of course you all know (from the hearing of former class prophicies) that Auburn had grown to be a very large city, and that all the surrounding towns were within her limits. Jt was a beautiful city, up-to-date in every respect, It had the most perfect lighting system I had ever seen, which, as I learned, had been de- signed and constructed by my old chum, C, Raymond Thomas, After leaving high school, he took a four years course in electrical enginearing, and was then appointed city electrician, which position he has always kept. He married his first and only love, Velma Suman, They have a beautiful home in one of the supberbs, and as Ray is such an inventive genius, everything around the house is run by electricity, Even the cradle is rocked by an electrical device. Ray looked so funny in a mustache and chin-whiskers, the color of which was a cross between terra cotta and old gold. 1 didn’t think they were very becoming, but Velma thought that they were just lovely. You know we always thought that Jesse would he an electrician too, but his father wanted him to be a farmer, and so he spent two years in an agricultural college. He graduated from there a full-fledged farmer, having had both the practical and theoretical knowledge. He bought a farm near the old homestead, and married his old sweetheart, Joy Shutt, who by the way, was the only one of '04 that went back on her spinster vows. He took Joy home, and made a place in his heart for her and cherished her Then she sang to h im when he was working in the furrow. Their country home was beautiful and as we sat on the porch talking, a black-haired chap, about ten years old, came out of the kitchen door, eating a huge section of pie. He looked so much like Jesse did thirty years ago, that I burst out