Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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CLASS POEM Commencement time has come again, This class will soon a memory be, When we, the class of Nineteen-ten, No longera reality; To High School life must bid adieu; And may the friendships which we’ve formed, For Freshmen, Sophomores,—ah yes! Be fostered while our lives shall last, We once have been,—and Juniors too, And blood within our veins be warmed But now we are,—you need not guess. For happy hours that here were passed. For polished Seniors now are we, For four long years we’ve stood the test, As all who look can plainly see, And tried through all to do our best. Old gold and black, our colors are, We once were more than now we are, Which speaks of lasting quality, But as time passed, we fewer grew; And mourning friends, who wretched are Few though we are, our High School “Star” Since they in school, no more our faces see. With compliments we give to you. Though High School life for us is o’er, And as a class we'll meet no more; Though time has thinned our comrads out Since High School life began—but then ‘Tis done, and let us give a hearty shout, And ringing cheers for Nineteen-ten. —[Roy MAxwELL.

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Senior Glass History ANGiaele Settinc— Auburn High Schoo! Building. Curtain rises September 5, 1906. Forty-two badly scared Freshmen enter, making obe- isance to the props. and upperclassmen. The spirit of humility and greenness begin to wear off as an antagonism springs up between Freshmen and Sophomores. The spir- it of class jealousy breaks out in the form of hazing, in which certain Freshmen are the victims. Curtain falls on a scene of tumultuous disorder. Win- throp Ketcham plays the leading role. Act Il. SettTinc — The same under different circumstances. Curtain rises September, 1907. In Act Il, Arthur Rakestraw assumes the star part and endeavors to pilot his caste of thirty over their peril- ous voyage. The Ex-Freshmen, now known as Sopho- mores, seem to have inherited a dislike for the little lambs who have taken their places as victims. The climax comes at the end of Act II, when the Sophs. gloriously defeat the rest of the High School in a class rush, and in order to get revenge the Juniors, Seniors and Freshmen undertake to steal a Soph. bob sled, but are caught in the act and dis- persed. Glory for the Sophs! Curtain. Aer til: SETTING — Ditto. Gurtain, September, 1908. Enter twenty-one Sophs. disguised as Juniors. Opening Song—' We're IT.” Fiendish desire to rough house: Freshmen gone, but still in sympathy with Sophs. Juniors wallop rest of the High Schoolin Basket Ball games. Song-—— 'We’re More IT.”’ Work and Play. Juniors give “hum-dinger” reception to Seniors and when complimented, sang “We're Most IT.” A. Rakestraw starred and did most of the singing. Curtain. Act IV. SETTING — You can guess by this time. Curtain. September, 1909. Enter sixteen Seniors dressed in a sanctified air, car- rying a stack of books. WORK. The players after strenuous endeavors are blessed with a new super, Mr. Langston, and several as- sistants. Senior class center of action. Wint Ketcham is leading man. Preparations for Year Book. WORK. Act draws to aclose with tears and moans from caste. GRAND FINALE: Distributing of Diplomas. Awful agony of sobs. Enter porter with supply of clean handkerchiefs. Class sings, “We've Worked and Won.” IR WA tel il “O), Faust JOHNSON. 10

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CHASSeER@PErRCGy OW ignorant those people on the earth are! I have spent 4) this entire evening listening and watching a group of men, called astronomers, as they discuss the probability of the habitation and development of Mars. What ridiculous things they do say, too! I believe their sense of sight must be very uncultured and their hearing worse. Why, I have yelled myself hoarse trying, in vain, to make them hear; that Mars is in a greater state of civilization than the world can ever hope to be; thatI, having been a water carrier to the constructors for over one hundred years, know Mars is interwoven with a network of canals, which the magazines of earth consider as the greatest problem under the subject of Mars. I know that it is true that the inhabitants of earth have not that sense of sight, and of hearing. as the people of Mars possess, for if they had, they could not be as ignor- ant of us as they seem to be. Earth, however, is not one dull mass. It seems to be striving against great disadvantages. But one section of earth, known as the U. S. A., stands bright and clear. Educational institutions are situated in every section. Among the secondary schools that make the land famous, Auburn High School stands first, for schools of its size. Not only has the fame of its graduates spread throughout the world, but it has even flowed to Mars. This High School has been the father of many classes, but without doubt, the Class of 1910, is the greatest of them all. The greatness of this class liesin the fact that they are the children of Mars. We, seeing in them, at the time of their graduation, great promises, adopted them as our own children. From us they inherited their adva nced stage of intelligence, which has hurled them forth, before the eyes of the earth. It has been a great pleasure for us to watch and to guard the members of that class in the various paths of life which they have chosen. Helen Fitch probably has come before my gaze more than any other member, due to the wonderfully good work in which she is engaged. As President of the Aerial Nat- ional Red Gross Society, Helen is rarely seen on earth, nec- cessity demanding that she should be continually in her fly- inz machine, sailing from one field of duty to another, with only a stop now and then bn earth for extra provisions. Likewise a discoverer, Albert DeLapp, has attracted my interest. He spent years wandering and prowling about trying to discover the south pole. And now, I can see him there in his old boyhood home, where he returned after the discovery that there is no south pole. I have watched him as he wandered over the city that was once merely ‘the fairest village of the plain.’ He has been 12