Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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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.

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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 Prophecaz.--continues. Ruby Syedell lived a very quiet life but she was very well known for her literary works and charities. Ruby was wedded to her work and needed no hus- band, and as Grace Conrad became a widow early in life the two lived together. Ruby wrote popular books and Grace was known far and wide for illustrating the same. Jesse Fleming taught school a few years and then married a very rich Ger- man lady. With her money he founded a German academy in Pennsylvania, and it was a great honor for even German children to be educated in this school. Faith Hines married her old sweetheart, Kirby Sprott, after many years of separation on account of a misunderstanding. Faith traveled a great deal as her husband sold a cold cream which would make hair grow on bald heads. Amos Adams did not go away to college as he expected. He clerked in several stores and finally set up an establishment of his own. His wife, the former Harriett Leasure, helped him in the store until household cares claimed her at home. Harry McIntyre spent his life in Auburn which had become a great city and it was generally conceded that it was through Harry’s efforts as manager of twelve great factories. He never married as he publicly declared that women did not know enough to vote and woman suffrage was agitating the whole coun- try at this time so Harry found little faver with the ladies. Ralph Refner took a position in a fashionable men’s clothing store as a model and before his death he purchased the same. He married Myrtle Mc- Clellan and it was an undisputed fact that they were the best looking couple in the city of Auburn, where they resided. I learned from the shades of my former schoolmates that Hurshel Fitch was justa shade too shady to belong tothe Associated Shades.’ Heconstructed several airships and before killing himself he killed four other people experi- menting with his machines. The shades of Hurshel’s victims refused to allow him to belong to the “Associated Shades.’”’ He married three times, and each time it was a girl from Garrett, a small suburb of Auburn. I was very glad that so many of my school mates became prominent men and women but was not surprised as we were a very remarkable class. As for myself, if you wish to hear of my life, come to Hades and I will tell you.