Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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lass Poeit--continnen. We Seniors with knowledge and wisdom supplied, With good credit for the work in which we've been tried; Are we not like the man, with his riches and fame, Who, after life’s battles, so honored became? So now that we have our old school and its ties: Thrown out in the world to the top soon to rise: Give us mortal memory, if we’re denied the divine, Please do not forget this class of “ought nine.”

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Glass Poe, My theme is a boy starting out into life To brave with mankind all the struggles and strife, That can come to a person throughout the long years; To brave them with boldness and not with weak tears. Although kicked and cuffed by those older than he, As a child he worked hard some great man to be. He saw great men and boys all around him each day; So he used all the power that in him there lay. The next time we saw him, a young man quite fine, He was all for gay fun, and a jolly good time. He had lost the ideals that he had when a boy, And now. cared for nothing but rollicking joy. But yet as years passed, and he older became, He came back in the race, without that disdain Of hard work, which he had a short time before; So he struggled and labored for many years more. As an old man his riches and worth became known, Throughout all the lands, where his great fame had flown. For wisdom they thought him to be without peer. When his death came at last his name remained dear. Not unlike this man’s life has our High-school life been; The same strifes and struggles have met us therein. The boy, with the scorn of his elders to cope, Was the small trembling freshman who worked with great hope. The young man who cared for nothing but fun, Was the Sophomore class of which they counted me one. The Juniors, with all the hard work at that time, Corresponded quite well to the man in his prime.

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Glass Prophecy, Haves, September 8, 1960. For the benefit of the surviving relatives and friends of the Glass of 1909: al PASSED from the world on the first day of August, 1960, having lived to a ripe old age. Immediately after death my shade was taken across the river Styx and set down in Hades to await the judgment day. I soon found out that the only respectable club in Hades was that of the “Associated Shades.” The club building was an immense structure and one of the most beautiful I had ever seen. I learned from the shade of Shakespeare that this had been planned and constructed by the greatest of modern architects, Merritt Bran- don. The name of Merritt Brandon aroused in me a wish to find more of my old school mates, and. looking up the club membership I found the names of every one of the class of 1909 except Hurshel Fitch. Consulting the shade of Cleopatria I found that it was quite possible for a new shade to give a club din- ner to the shades of former friends. So invited the class of 1909 (expect Hurshel) to an informal dinner in the club dining room and found out the princi- pal events in the lives of each. After leaving school Fred Shearer went to college and studied Civil Engi- neering. He married his first and only love, Gertrude Renner, and with her help, (as Fred always says) he constructed and put in working order the Pan- ama canal, which up to Fred’s time had been a failure. He also tried to turn aside the waters of the Niagara in such a manner as to produce enough electric- ity to light the whole United States, but he lost his iife in this undertaking. His wife soon followed him and | found them planning a canal through Hades. Paul Swisher became a great politician, but like many other men of his calling he found more money in stump speaking than in filling the presidential chair. He married Nellie Zimmerman and together they traveled over the country in a Zimmerman automobile. Leon Barnhart as a school boy had been very much interested in farm- ing. After leaving school he began raising potatoes and onions on a small farm just outside of Mooresville. He created a new vegetable with both the nour- ishing properties of the onion and the potato with the onion smell eliminated and at the time of his death Mooresville ranked next to Chicago in the world’s most important cities. Leon said very little about his married life so we con- cluded that it had not been a happy one. Merritt Brandon became the greatest of = A architects and he put before the public a new style of architecture which became widely used. He married a country girl and as they lived in the crowded city Merritt built a house with a barn in the basement and the chicken park on the roof.