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

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Class Will We, the class of 1924 of Berne High School, in the county of Adams, in the State of Indiana, and in the United States of America, being of insane mind and unsound judg¬ ments, do hereby declare this our last will in the testament, revoking all others hereto¬ fore made. ARTICLE I. To the Junior class, we reluctantly bequeath our reputation of being the most “ideal class”; in accordance with this one agreement, that they will cheerfully meet the hard¬ ships and trials which we, the Seniors, have met. To the Sophomore class, we hereby as one joint body, do will and bequeath all our superfluous knowledge; in the hope that it will be gratefully accepted and divided ac¬ cording to the individual needs of the class. To the Freshmen, we bestow the right to take full possession of the Mathematics room, with the beginning of the next year; under the condition that they will behave ac¬ cordingly. ARTICLE II. I, Walter Nagel, hereby bequeath to Enos Zuercher my great oratorical ability, to be used in the next political campaign. I, Dale Eley, do give and bequeath to future teams of B. H. S. my athletic ability. Forest Brickley: Unto Sambo Liechty I do bequeath my ability to use diplomacy with teachers. Arvilla Lehman: I bequeath to all Freshmen my sobriety and good behavior. I, Melvin Lehman, bequeath to Marvin Lehman, my abnormal ability to run. Lloyd Lehman: L nto Miss McDorman I do bequeath my speed on the typewriter. Kenneth Snyder: I bequeath to all students my habit of being at school every day, with bell-bottoms. Newell Rice: 1 bequeath to future Seniors my ability to recite perfectly in American Literature. Tillman Habegger: I bequeath unto Roscoe Bockman, my shortness in longitude, in great quantities. Harold Long: I bequeath unto all baseball players my love of the great national pastime. I. Elva Baumgartner, do bequeath unto all who will use it, my ability to whisper out loud in a hurry with great deliberation. I, Edna v. d. Smissen, bequeath to the fair sheiks, my Mary Pickford curls. Mildred Sprunger: 1 bequeath unto Freshmen the dignity of Seniors in gallonum through the hall. Agnes Sprunger: I bequeath unto the glee club my ability to throat a wicked so¬ prano. The foregoing was signed by the said Senior class, as their last will and testament, in our presence and at their request, and in the presence of each other, we now subscribe our names as witnesses, this eighteenth day of April, 1924. Ralph Amstutz, Milford Balsiger.

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Class Prophecy We being two members of the class of 1924, do solemnly swear that this class shall and will make a mark in the history to come of the city of Berne, and of the world. The strongest evidence is brought forth by the undaunted members of the class in their trials and temptations. May this be a pleasant surprise to all doubters. Signed, Eloyd Lehman Agnes Sprunger. Few of the most noted future happenings are: Harold Long is writing up sports for the Long Daily. Elva Baumgartner is head lady in one of Broadway’s beauty parlors. Walter Nagel is running a taxi cab in the modernized city of Berne. Dale Eley shall be hired as athletic coach in the new high school of Berne. Tillman Habegger continually giving public speaking lessons from his training re¬ ceived in the commercial class of his school years. Melvin Lehman has consented to the nomination as boss of a group of school boys’ bad days. Newell Rice is running a private restaurant on Main street. Arvilla Lehman has acquired the title of school inarm of District No. 8. Foresit Brickley has not followed the line of work suggested in his last name, but rather that of his first name. Magdalena Hirschy is the housekeeper of a prosperous farmer. Frances Burkhalter is a professioral actress as an orphan in Paramount pictures. The remainder are so scattered over the face of old Mother Earth that we were not able to follow up their movements. [ 21 ]

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