Berne French Township High School - Our Yesterdays Yearbook (Berne, IN)

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Our Yesterdays BHS at Indiana University. She added that she had grown to he six feet, three inches tall. She had reached the height of her ambition. The next letter came fn m Wyoming. My. how widely the class had been scattered. Martin wrote he was holding a responsible position at Yellowstone National Park feeding the giraffes and elephants and turning off the water which issued from the geysers when the supply was sufficient. Agnes Franz wrote she was playing in New York’s largest churches, causing the most austere to burst into tears ' y her weird and beautiful music. Helen (iilliom sent one of her poems and paintings for which she had received first prize in the Intcrnatu nal Art Contest as a proof of her brilliant success. She was also contributing articles to the Atlantic Monthly. Another letter came from Washington. Louise llilty was a suffragette, showing the people that it is possible f r women to take part in politics and at the same time ably perform duties at home which she illustrated by the peaceful home life of which she was a co-partner. Krnest’s letter came at the same time, telling that he was in the law business with Preston. Fdna's letter came from Purdue. She was living on a farm near Purdue. Amos was teaching agricultural classes it Purdue, while Kdna dusted at home and made fancy desserts. Kathryn’s letter contained the news of her career as an actress but she had abandoned work on the stage rind taken possession of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Ksthcr Sprunger had attended business college and was a very efficient stenographer for Preston Zelir. From Yale came a letter stating that Dennis Moser had graduated from Yale and was president of Yale University. He wished to add that he owed his success to the preparatory work iu old Herne Hi. After reading all these epistles the years were recalled in my memory when we sit at our desks as students of the Herne High School and stumbled through our recitations to place our names in the “Hall of Fame. What a glorious time we would have when many of the old graduates would gather for the Home Coming Week! Billy. ( Fifteen ]

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Our Yesterd BHS ays Class Prophecy All was excitement. Sh p windows were being cleaned and beautified. The town was bright in its festive flags and pennants. Herne was to have a “Home Coining Week. Throughout the land invitations were sent far and wide. One evening something peculiar happened. The street corners were held down with crowds of people, remarking and joking about a certain article in the Adams County Witness. Upon investigation I discovered the cause for all this disturbance; it was a very extraordinary advertisement which read as follows: “Wanted—All Alumni having graduated within the last ten years to send informant n to the Witness as to their whereabouts, and the years since graduation from the Herne High School. This is to be one of the most interesting features of the ‘Home Coming W eek. The reports will be posted in the Community Center to show the community how well the graduates of our t wn have fared since leaving the portals of their Alma Mater.” Soon the letters came thick and fast. 1 took especial notice of the letters from the class of 1921. 'I'he flrst letter was a real surprise. I'he stationery was headed: Zehr and Hiestand. Attorneys at Law. Washington. 1). C.” Preston’s letter stated that as soon as the wheat crop yielded the cash to pay for the course, he had taken np the study of law. I'he same day a letter came from Anna Luginbill. She had completed a successful tour as accompanist for an evangelistic party. A letter with a one-cent stamp, which indicated it came from Berne, was received from Agnes Gilliom. She was living on one of Indiana’s most modern farms. She added that if anyone wished to bin potatoes for planting she would sell them cheap and deliver them with the Ford. On the second day a letter came from the Woolworth Five and 'Pen Cent Store at Xew York bearing the message that Knnna Schug was leading saleslady on first floor. Gertrude Sprunger had spent her years taking a few terms of work at Oberlin College, then teaching Kindergarten. Later she took a course in music. At last she hoped the real Prince Charming had arrived. I Jessie’s answer also came on the second day. She was Dean of W omen | Fourteen 1

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Our Yesterd BHS ays Class Will We. the Seniors of 1921. of the Berne High School. County of Adams, State of Indiana. being of sound minds, broadened by four years of the most thorough education and realizing that the day of our departure is near, do hereby declare and publish this, cur last will and testament. ARTICLE I Item 1. To the Berne High School, we the class of 1921, do give and bequeath fifteen portraits of our fifteen honorable selves, to be displayed among the ancient photographs, antiques, and curios in the school’s art gallery. Item 2. I nto the I)icti nary we bequeath a host of words and phrases coined to express our various sentiments and opinions while going through the different stages of our four years’ High School career. Item 3. To the Juniors, we. the Senior Class bequeath the privilege of taking our places and enduring the hardships and sufferings that must be borne by all who would-be Seniors. Item 4. Unto the Sophomores we do give and bequeath our best wishes for success and prosperity. Item 5. For the maintenance of their health and protection of their property during their high school career, we. the Seniors, do give and bequeath to the class of 1924 our dear friend and companion. Dan. the janitor. ARTICLE II Item 1. Unto the faculty, whose kind advice in publishing this Annual has been invaluable to us. we give the privilege of spending a lengthy vacation at any summer resort they can afford to patronize. Item 2. To Miss Hirschy, we give thanks for educating our lower classmen and for keeping us in the paths cf good behavior. Item 3. To Mr. French do we bequeath the one-cylinder mouse-trap lying in ambush in the southwest corner of the Assembly. Item 4. What is le.t of our brains after our last English theme has been written, we, the Seniors, do give and bequeath to Miss Shorden, that our sacrifice may be made complete. Item 5. I nto Mrs. Lehman, we. the Senior class. lo bequeath one pair of hornrimmed spectacles, in order that the entire faculty may consequently be equipped with these convenient magnifying glasses. Item 6. To the guiding care and protection of Mr. Lehman, our inestimable superintendent, we. the class of 1921. do bequeath Mrs. C. O. Lehman, teacher of English and High School students. Item 7. Unto Miss van der Smissen. do we bequeath all that remains after the other members of the faculty have I een satisfied. ARTICLE III Item 1. I, Dessie Amstutz. do give and bequeath to the longest haired boy in school all my antiquated hair ribbons and all my disabled hair pins and curlers. Item 2. Unto Arvilla Sprunger. whose w ish to be remembered has won her a place | Sixteen |