Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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DECEMBER Listening to Radio Discussion The month of mistletoe and holly was joyously welcomed as a breathing space between Thanksgiving and Christmas. On December 1, Auburn defeated the Goshen team by the margin of 14 to 12. Two evangelists, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, from the Christian church entertained the whole school in an assembly program with music and a clever chalk drawing. Mrs. Thomas played an accordion and Mr. Thomas did the chalk drawing. Zeke proudly awarded members of his football squad with the dazzling silver footballs which, needless to say, were not retained for too long a time by their worthy receivers. We wonder where they went? Drums of Death, with all its harrow- ing episodes with blood curdling screams was successfully presented by a Junior and Senior cast on the 14th and the 15 th. A good crowd was in attendance. The Portland quintet humbly bowed to our boys ' onslaughts to the tune of 21 to 15, but the Kendallville team re- mained unsubdued. Auburn at this time lost another thriller to the South Side Archers. This was, by the way, a con- ference game. Gunga Din ' ' organized his followers into a History Club, whose members chose Albert Sockrider, president. To aid him they also chose Joe Lumm, vice president, and Charlotte Lochner secretary and treasurer. The first meeting of the club was celebrated by a gift exchange, con- sisting chiefly of furry monkeys and diminutive dollies all of which were turned over to charity after the meeting. We hope some child will enjoy them as much as the History Club did. Everyone rushed to the little gym at 3 o ' clock, to watch a Christmas program given by the student body. After this was over they all rushed home to enjoy a much longed for vacation which was to last until the second day of 1934. In this program, Ruth Lige was a winsome maid of the 80 ' s to say nothing of Johnny Morris who depicted an old Roman states- man, and Tommy Mason and Basil Mc- Dougall as the two Black Crows. The sophisticates, coming home from college, gleefully visited Almy and aided in bidding farewell to the end of our 193 3 school year. They said it seemed like old times to get back into the portals of the old school house. Our net heroes chalked up another vic- tory on the home floor. They defeated Bluff ton by a two point margin. Coming from Pi ' p Session

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Teaching the Students Good Citizenship NOVEMBER November ushered in days more brisk and breezy than we had hitherto exper- ienced. Maybe that was just a trick of Ol ' Man Weather ' s — not Mr. Weathers — to encourage a little scholarly activity. Zeke organized his hardwood squad, which gallantly defeated the Ashley squad by the score of 28-19 in the first game of the season. Ramsey was elected to the post of basketball business manager by the Athletic Association. The drive to sell season tickets was enthusiastically carried out with the Sophomores carrying off the laurels. The rest of the classes have to give them a program. The Civics classes patriotically formed two political parties, the Progressives, and the Twentieth Century, and proceeded to vie with each other in achieving the favor of the student body. Mr. Miller was doing his best to con- vince his eager disciples that Napoleon did fight at Waterloo — much to his future chagrin, and at about the same time, our Red Devils gracefully bowed to the on- slaught of the Butler quintet, the score being 19 to 9. This was Auburn ' s first home game of the season. Mr. Fribley talked turkey, and let ev- erybody out of their last class on Wednes- day for a Thanksgiving program. He also graciously let all the pupils out of school Thursday and Friday. On Friday, the Auburn squad had no reason to be thankful. LaGrange won a hard fought game 1 5 t o 14. The next game on the Red Devils sched- ule was one which everybody had been waiting for. Auburn went to Angola to battle with their quintet for possession of the coveted keg. The Auburn squad was mercilessly downed by them, 23 to 15. We said a fond farewell to the keg until a later date. This was the first time An- gola has had possession of the keg for the last 4 years. The next game on the schedule was supposed to be with Wakarusa, but due to their getting put out of the state as- sociation, South Side kindly consented to fill in, although they were still not through with football. This was a closely contested game which South Side won by one point. This was the first time that South Side has been able to win over an Auburn squad for the last ten years. Most of the students returned the fol- lowing Monday after Thanksgiving only because they had had three days to re- cuperate. The grind has started again. Coming from Noon League

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Library JANUARY So this is what the New Year has brought us! Many expressive groans greeted the tolling of the bell at 8:3 a. m. on the second day of January. But good times must always have an ending so back to biology, typing, and French and other studies much to the sorrow of most of the student body. The Faculty made Kenney Walter the Editor-in-Chief of the Annual, with Leroy Close as the business manager. The basketball fans witnessed a thrill- ing game in which the heroes took Cen- tral 26 to 2 5. More cheers! For Gar- rett also went under the yoke to the tune of 19 to 8. Where was Garrett? The Five Furies next attempted to take Decatur and Wabash but they failed to do so. Preparation for work on the Follies was begun in earnest with the election of the other people on the Annual Staff. The other students who were placed on the major staff were Fay Thomas, Gordon Merford, and Albert Sockrider. The semester grade cards were passed out and fifty-one scholars qualified for the honor roll. The Sophomores again led the classes with 19, and with the Seniors run- ning a close second with 18. The Senior Group for the four years of high school was announced. Those who made this were Jean Buss, Alice Whitten, Leola Ford, and Ermel Weaver. The Home Economics girls sadly said adieu to Miss Kreft, their teacher, who was transferred to Technical of Indian- apolis. In her place the girls cordially welcomed Miss Swaim, who has done her best to make her classes the best in the school. We will say that she has cer- tainly done a good job of it too. Discussion enthusiasts were treated to a debate at Purdue University, and came home competently prepared to rave about radios and how our government should run them. Mr. Anderson, author of New Moon, wittily and educationally engaged our at- tentions with his descriptions of how to write a book. The Auburn team on playing in the Blind Tourney, seemed to be a little blind, at least during the first game. We lost the first game in the afternoon, but wo also won a 9 point victory over one of our most bitter rivals, Kendallville. Miss Dawson made us read all about Poe and Irving while other pedagogues ply us with harsh admonitions and man- dates. Freshinttn Math Class