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

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Our Yesterdays ' - } I [ J h i l i i I i ; : : • i ; : : : : : ; Me 5 Me J i « 1 j : 1 I • 4Hfr 4r- : Berne High School Alumni Association 1926 OFFICERS President ..... DALE BRAUN, ’22 Vice-President • • - • E. .1. SCHUG, ’15 Secretary...........................HILDA MOSER, ’24 Treasurer - - • MERLIN ELLEN BERGER. ’25 Members of the Executive Committee Mrs. V. A. Eiclienberger, ‘11 Mrs. Albert Wintcregg, ‘12 Ernest .1. Stengel, ’12 Just twenty-five years ago Berne High School had its first graduates. Four years later on the evening of March 8. 1905, members of the graduating classes of 1901, 1902, 1903. and 1904 met at the home of Peter Soldncr for the purpose of organizing an Alumni association. Martha Schug, Nora Smith, and Asa Sprungcr were appointed members of the committee on constitution for the purpose of drawing up a constitution and by-laws for this association. The first officers were: President. Amanda Soldner, 01; Vice-President. Nora Smith, ’02; Secretary. Ada Wittwer. ‘02; Treasurer. Martha Schug, ‘01. (1. A. Lehman, ’04. was the member on the executive committee. The first banquet was given for the class of 1905 on April 28, at the home of I). S. Wittwer. We greatly appreciate the vision of those early graduates in organizing this Alumni Association which has inspired many hoys and girls to receive an education and which has had a great influence on each succeeding graduating class. Today our Alumni Association has grown to a membership of three hundred seventy, including this year’s graduating class. Many of these have continued their education in higher institutions of learning, others are scattered in different lands and different climes living true to the ideals which were implanted in their hearts while attending dear old Berne High. A large variety of vocations arc represented among our Alumni. There are teachers, preachers, professors, nurses, missionaries and many others. Years have passed since many of us have attended high school. Nevertheless, we feel a deep-seated interest and concern in the welfare of every boy and girl in school and we arc confidently expecting the members of this year’s graduating class and every other graduating class in the future to be loyal to our ideals and principles and to cherish in their hearts a determination to live lives which will serve the perpetuation of these, our standards, Shakespeare has said: 'To thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Great changes have been brought about since the first members of our Alumni Association have graduated from high school. However, our precepts and ideals have not changed. We have always stood for all that is good and honorable and during all the years of our existence we have emphasized just those things which make for true citizenship. Let us then be true to the responsibilities which we as members of the Berne High School Alumni Association must meet. FRIEDA LEHMAN, 13. i i i r t mxsxut.