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

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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 |

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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 Yesterdays BHS of mention in my will. I, Agnes Franz, do give and bequeath the key oi km wledge and wisdom, in other words, the key to the library. Item 3. To Myron llabegger. I. Agnes Gilliom. do give and bequeath my class ring as a token oi the Platonic friendship existing between us. Item 4. 1. Helen Gilliom. in absence of any pers nal property ■ r possessions, do bequeath myself to the lender mercies of bate and the future. Item 5 To Louise Hilty. I. Ernest Hiestand, do gladly bequeath my trusty old flivver (with me in it). Item 6. 1. Louise Hiltv, in return tor afore mentioned flivver and contents do willingly bequeath my future debts and bills to Ernest Hiestand. Item 7. 1. Anna Luginbill, at the urgent request of Miss Shorden. 1 hereby be- queath all my extraordinary knowledge of Latin to the Freshmen on condition that one, bv nickname of Poodle, gets the lien's share of it. Item 8. To the nearest hospital. I. Edna Mettler, do bequeath my remains the moment this Annual is published. Item 9. 1. Dennis M( ser. bequeath to all ambitious students a practical illustra- tion of how easy it is to finish a four-years’ High School course in three years. Item 10 I. Emma Schug. bequeath my delightful style in writing billet-doux to II ward Lehman who is in sore need of it. Item ,T. I. Katherine Schug, do give and bequeath all my interes s in Decatur, Indiana, to Edgar Clauser. Item 12 I. Esther Sprunger, bequeath my diploma to Howard Stucky who might otherwise have to do without one next year. Item 13. 1. Gertrude Sprunger. the despair of order loving teachers (and lovesick youths) do give and bequeath one box of Monkey Grip to Forest Ilricklev, to be applied whenever the inclination to talk during school hours becomes too great for human effort to restrain it. Item 14. 1. Preston Zehr, do bequeath my infant whiskers to Tilman llabegger. Item 15. 1. Martin Zuercher. full of gratitude to the teacher whose timely warnings helped to give me a passing deportment grade, do give and bequeath to Miss Hirschy my most beautiful sketch of the famous Senior bird of 1921. Also to Mr. C. O. Lehman do I bequeath my remarkable debating ability and to Edna Mettler my love for the negro race. In testimony whereof we have affixed our seal to this our last will and testament at Berne. Indiana, on this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. CLASS OF 1921 The foregoing instrument was signed by said Class of 1921 in our presence and by them published and declared as and for their last will and testament, and at their request and in their presence, and in each others’ presence, we hereunto subscribe our names as attesting witness at Berne, Indiana, this 21st day of May. 1921. Howard Lehman, ’22. Howard Stucky. ’22. Of the law firm of Lehman. Stucky Co. [ Seventeen 1