Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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Senior Glass Prophesy NE evening in the year 1965. my wife had retired early as so many people of seventy odd years do. I sat before the open fire thinking of by-gone pleasures. Yes. that is a sign. I was getting old. it had been nearly 54 years since I graduated from High School. Well. now. I wonder what has become of all my old classmates, most of them dead. I expect, was the thought that came to me. At this I took my reflectroscope from the table and spelled out lliff Hursh. Now I don't know how many of you have ever seen a reflectroscope or have ever heard of one. It is a small box in which is arranged a stage and by spelling out their names, you may see the principle events in the life of every earthly being. lliff Hursh graduated from Purdue with the honors of the Electrical Engineering Class. He then returned to Auburn to claim his old sweetheart. Hazel Bailey. Later in life, ho constructed an electrical railway around the world, which received its power from a heavily charged strata of air. He lost his life in an attempt to bridge the Atlantic. Verne Buchanan returned to Auburn as editor of the Auburn Dispatch, one of the most influential papers of the time. He became a hater of the fairer sex as the suffragettes were putting his paper to the bad. His articles will be remembered as the most logical arguments ever produced against equal rights. These nearly caused tho imprisonment of all suffragettes in insane asylums. Russell Sheets became a famous electrician. He wished to form a partnership with lliff Hursh. but lliff was afraid of him. Be that as it may. Russell prospered in business in spite of an extravagant wife. Miss Schulthess of the backwoods town of Garrett, who Russell succeeded in capturing in spite of her popularity. Earl Coe intended to be a preacher but he married Sadie Grube and changed his mind. Sadie being the better orator of the two and as his church was about ninety-nine per cent of women, did the preaching and Earl spent his time in tidying the house and in scientific research. Philip Cool took to writing weird stories under the assumed name of Patrick Casey.” He became a master of English and attained a higher place in literature than Poe. His tales at longth became so weird people dropped dead on reading from heart failure, so the government suppressed his writing to save the population. Calvin Ludwig became a botanist and discovered a very useful plant, that looked like an onion, tasted like fried potatoes and smelled like a nasturtion. This plant found special favor in Africa where Calvin lived, as itcould be grown only on the Sahara. Here he renewed his acquaintance with and married Elsie Farver who. after finishing her education, became a teacher in Africa.

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Senior Glass History c T the opening of the school term of '07-'08. about fifty Freshmen entered the Auburn High School. When you are a freshman your trouble begins so it was with this class. Several became discouraged and quit Yot these few leaving did not diminish the ardor of those remaining. It is well to note that this year brought Miss Mary Baxter into the High School as a Foreign Language and History instructoress. The Sophomore year finds this class with a few less in numbers but just as much enthusiasm and good will as ever. Students who have been through the Sophomore year say it is the hardest of all. It seemed so for the Class of T 1. But one great help in the time of their troubles was tho presence of Willis D. Maginnis. The Junior Year, or '09-'10. finds tho class with twenty-five members. Yet they keep up their former records and establish new ones. A High School paper is published by the class and liko all matters they take into their hands, it was a success. The social event of the High School year was the sumptuous banquet given to the Senior Class and Faculty by the Juniors. Tho end of the Senior Year finds the Class of'11 with a membership of nineteen. Although not of great numbers they graduate as one of the most polished and ac- complished (in their studies) that the Auburn High School ever produced. In their studies through the whole four years they strove to excell, not for selfish reasons but to raise the standard of the school. In their social life they put all their spirit and all the social events were carried through as a series of brilliant successes. While engaged in their social activity friendships were formed which will last forever. In athletics this class holds a record to be envied. No base ball or foot ball team in tho last four years representing the Auburn High School ever played away or at home but the Class of'11 was well represented in the number of players. With clean, square playing the Auburn teams have won the respect of all the surrounding schools. It may truly be said that the athletics of the surrounding territory have been greatly bettered by having the honest players of the Class of'11 participate in the contests. So with the respect of the townspeople, faculty and all the schools with which they have come into contact, the Class of M 1 bids adieu to her school life and goes out upon a broader field where the qualities they were noted for on the Athletic Field, will gain for them the respect of the world—Philip Cool.

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Louise Kuckuck after finishing High School taught for a few years, but as there was a great call for missionaries to China, she went into foreign fields and did a great work. Harve Williams became an eminent physician. He studied in both countinents and discovered a cure for tuberculosis. He fought a duel with a Frenchman over a beautiful girl and was successful. He spent the rest of his life in the gay city of Paris. Ruth Smurr became a teacher and after several years of teaching and attending school received an A. B. What was the use? John Nugen of the Juniors claimed her shortly after. Dalton Croy had a financial career. He started in the real estate business in a new country and became very wealthy. He lives in New York City and spends his summers at Lintes Lake, a fashionable resort four miles northwest of Auburn. Pearl St. Clair was wedded to books and home charities. She never married, but has had a profitable career as an authoress and philanthropist Ford Wyatt lived a very romantic life. After taking a course in dentistry he rcturnod to Auburn. While there he became interested in the airship business. Liking aerial navigation better than teeth, he went into the Transcontinental Aerial Transportation Co. with an old friend. He made a fight to Monroeville. Ohio, and had an aerial honeymoon. Marie Fitch, being a good cook, didn't have a chance to finish her education for an enterprising young man realized her ability as a cake baker. George Woavor. Ph. D.. bccarno a chemist. He discovered a way to compress oxygen and thus made it possible to travel to the planets. He discovered a new element on Mars which would make tho lazy man industrious. His success was due to his cultured wifo. Nollio Zimmerman. who made George “hump. Nellie's career as a mathematician was blighted by numerous household cares. Bonnie Seiler educated herself along the line of domestic science and. as good cooks were scarce, she became very popular. Even to the extent her father bought a bulldog. She became the wife of her only love. Frank Shepard. L. L. D.