Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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Indiana Auburn, 1916 The Shield Helen E Baxt ew

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The Shield 1916 Auburn, Indiana Class Will ag NOW all men that we, the Senior Class of 1916, of the Auburn M iiivi School, realizing that our days are numbered and that no ww injore will we have voice in the affairs of A H. S. do make, exe- cute and declare this to be our last will and testament. ITEM ] ficient instructors who have striven, in some eases to the wee small hours, to enlarge our mental capacity. In return we wish to present our most humble and heartiest tnanks. iit RST of all, we are deeply in debt to our kind and most pro- ITEM I] As a class we desire to have constructed a High School building for those who follow in‘our footsteps. Said building to contain a register and lights in the attie for use of teachers in making out their test and exam. questions. We will present our note books to teachers to dispose of to whom they so choose. We further desire the school board to furnish new musie and a new stool for the piano; also to furnish Miss Armstrong a stool to sit upon when she gently reprimands some evil doer. We desire Argyl Houser to apply to Miss Mulvey for a position as fly-spatter. ITEM II] Certain members of the class desire to dispose of their personal belongings as follows: Lucile Buchtel will give all empty gum papers to Mr. McKenney, Irene Swarts gives her speedometer to Nellie Car- nahan, Wayne Clark presents Kenneth Wilderson witn his bashful- ness, Cleota Carmer leaves her shoot tae chute ‘‘stairway’’ to whom- soever desires to ride upon it free of charge, Harry Altenburg pre- sents the easiest seat to the sleepiest Junior, Robert Brown = and KMugenia Berry leave their brown-berries for the thrush to feed upon, Van Showers will leave his showers to moisten the air so Miss Mulvey ‘an work dew-point experiments. We leave our respective physi- oenomies to decorate the wall of the office. Tne class desires the new name of the annual ‘‘The Shield’’ to be used hereafter. ITEM IV As there are certain customs established in the school, it is our desire that they be continued by the following persons. Gladys Town- ley will eall class parties by writing upon the board ‘‘Class party wanted.’’ Arthur Steele will burn rubber under the Freshmen room door. Much to the annoyance of Miss Armstrong, Edward Picker will continue to come in late. Clement Walker will continue the cum chewing, In testimony hereof, we hereunto set our names an@ cause our seal to be affixed. (Seal) THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1916

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The Shield 1916 Auburn, Indiana Junior History tember fiftn, 1913, in the big assembly room down stairs. Our eyes were open so wide and stuck out so far that they might have been ‘‘knocked off with a elub.’’ All ‘was new to us and we were eager to see and know everything which we had not heretofore learned. On that particular morning there were seventy-six of us, and our size was the talk of the whole high school. But even be- fore the first semester had expired some of our number had found that it wasn’t so easy to be a Freshman after all, and had ‘ dropped hy the wayside.’’ In spite of this, as several new scholars enrolled at the end of the year we had a membership of seventy-four. Fi: the jolly Juniors of the elass of ‘17 found ourselves, on Sep- During the first month we organized with Joe Zimmerman, Presi- dent; Carol Dawson, Vice-President; Paul Farley, Secretary; Ethel- wynne Weaver, Treasurer and Miss Armstrong, class principal. In social events we were more active than many of the Freshmen classes before us. We gave two elass parties, at Morgan Rhoads’ and Joe Zimmerman’s, and a bob-party. Four of the Freshmen boys on the baseball team, and both boys’ and girls’ basket ball team repre- sented the class in athletics. We came back in September ’14 with a somewhat decreased mem- bership, there being only forty-four Sophomgres out of the seventy- four Freshmen, but we always rememberéd that quantity and quality are entirely different things. At a class meeting we elected Howard Bundy President; Harlan Dennison, Vice-president; Aiice Bishop Secretary ; Carol Kratzer, Treasurer; and Mr. Wells, class Principal. In athleties we were represented by two players on the basket ball team and two on the base ball team. Our two elass parties, in October at Joe Zimmerman’s and in March at Buella Fulk’s were beth enjoyable affairs and everyone had fine times. We received quite a compliment from Dr. Barker ‘when he gave a talk to the high school. He said he wanted to congratulate the Sophomores because they knew more right then, than they ever would afterwards. Of course we had known it all the time, but it was a ereat comfort to know that we were appreciated by such a noted man. We reassembled in September 1915 with a membership of forty- one. Harly in the term'we elected Arthur Shoudel, President ; Walter Huffman, Vice-president ; Dorothy Rowland, Secretary ; Ferris Bower, Treasurer and Miss Baxter, class Principal. Although in the first two years our studies had been confined to practically two courses, this year various branches were taken up. We found there was much more work connected with the Junior year than there had been during our first two years. We have three boys and two girls on the basket ball teams. In the ‘‘College Politician,’’ the Senior-Junior play, we furnished the majority of the cast. So far this year in social affairs we have given a class party at Carol Dawson’s and a reception and lunch at the Y. M. C. A. in honor of the Albion and Auburn basket ball teams. We also put on a benefit show at the Weaver theatre. At the time this is being written we are making great preparations for the annual banquet given to the Seniors by the Juniors and we expect to make it the most suecessful one yet given. We sometimes think that Dr. Barker erred a little in his state- ment during our Sophomore year when he said that we knew more then, than we ever would afterward, because we feel that even now we know more than we did last year and we are looking forward to even greater things next year—perhaps even a new high school building.