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

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Our Yesterdays BHS Class Poem CLASS OF TWENTY-ONE We are the students of twenty-one. Our hard-fought battles are almost won; Our laurels of credits we now may say. Accomplished by hard work and little play. We entered as Freshics green and shy Coining to learn the whereiore and why Of subjects to us then vague and dim, But we worked with a will determined to win. Next year we were the Sophies gay, Easily having our own sweet way, With lots of parties and lot of pep Twas then we received our wonderful rep. Then as Juniors our work piled high. We struggled vainly to reach the sky; Made Seniors and teacher sit up and look As we wisely expounded on every book. We’ve weathered the storm of credits and grade, We've learned that poets are born, not made; We’ve all decided to succeed, and that, We ll be sharp, be natural, but never be flat. EDNA MARIE METTLER. Commencement T night the twentieth of May, We’ll leave you, dear Berne Hi, For this is our Commencement Day. And we must say good-bye. We ll set out on life's ocean wide A place there waits for all. With education as our guide. We’ll answer duty’s call. And one and all we’ll try our best To make of life a success. Regardless of how hard the tests, Just for our old B. H. S. The years we’ve spent within your walls Were happy, busy years. Sweet memory every day enthralls, Good-bye we say with tears. A. G. | Eighteen )

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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

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Our Yesterdays B H S [ Nineteen ]