Bluffton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Bluffton, IN)

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mz T jm Wc THE FORWORD To tile Students, Alumni, and Friends of Bluffton High Sehool. we, the elass of 19, submit this book, ' The Retrospect, ■■ as the product of our combined eiforts. W ' e have no apologies to offer, though we know the faults are numerous. We have done our best and it is with a degree of i)ride that we oft ' er to you tills result. We extend our heartfelt tiianks to those persons without whose aid we could not have published this memento. lay the perusal of this book be the source of pleasui-e to them because they have lent us a h(l|iing hand.

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mz 3 0=1 :m ESTHER McKISSIC She was y phanroni of dclig ' ht. ' 19 y the sRining i aBasR J j wir, i3v tHe glistning, nnding river, Stands tHe scRocf, tHe [iiffton 3£}gfi cRoof. ( reai is it among tfte greatest, JiloSle in its ancient grandeur, jQiOved and cHerisRed 6y its students. ' DdZong tRe classes from its portals. Came tRere one, of alt, tRe greatest. Came tRe cfass of 019. Of tRe lads and of tRe lasses, treasured 6i] tRis jllma Di)(ater, ' TjRese alone led all tRe otRers. ' CoRese the f)rain, tRe firarvn, tRe purpose, Rese the sllill, the talent, beauty, J2ed aft otRers in tRe J£igR School. 0 to you, dear cfass of ' 19, isR rcf nou a Rappij future, ' )isR ' f no S ' a ZiWidrous future. Start ijou nou upon your travels, On your long and distant travels. Safely may you journey onward. ■ffii ' ays onward to tRe Righest, ' (JO the RiqRest, best and noblest, J-arWell to you 019. J2ola Tunn

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1 : CHRONICLE OF ' 19 This is the High School of IMuffton. Its vine-covcied walls and its classrooms Will long be i-emembei ' ed and loved by each of its many alumni. All its alumni will stand at the first sti ' ains of the song ' Black and ' rimson : ' ' Cherished by eaeli is the memory of days snent in this dear old High Selmol. List to the history of ' 19, the thirty-sixth class of tiiis High School ; List to the tale of its days that were spent in tliis seliool of the liapi y. I Into the Bluffton High, by Washington Street and by Oak Strei ' t, Basiiful, secluded, still, the youthful members of nineteen Walked with high tension of heai ' tstrings. Wise faculties moved hei ' e and yonder Asking each ])uiiil his name; and cruel Sophomores without nundjer Greedily gazed at us Freshmen, and thought of the time tliey would iia e us. This was the year 1915, the time was Sejitember. the sixtii day. All of the faculty board who watched us in that large assembly Seemed to us Freshmen to change, to assume the lread shape of the Tlydia. Terrible monster of Greece, by Hercules ' j)ower torn asunder. Straight were we sent to room 5, by Principal Algernon iloiris; There we were coddled and soothed by Misses Smeltzly and Christman. Yea, we were cheered and encouraged till all thought that life might he pleasant Lived in this old Bluffton High, — all 1 will say but one laddie; He ' d never heard of a period, and got all mixed up in his classrooms. So that he finally left us, and went to far distant high school. After the starting of school a number of da.vs, — ten or fourteen. When we had learned who were Freshmen and each knew the names of the othei ' s. All in one room we were gatliered to have our fii ' st freshie class meeting, Officers for us to choose, and also to choose our class colors. Jolm Kapp for president chose we, and vice-president, Wilheit (1. Heynohls, Ida may Brown was our treasurer and also she was secretary. Then, after thought and contention, we chose blue and gold for our eoloi ' s; Gold was to signify goodness, and blue that we ' re true to old ' .l Once every week ] lr. Morris called all into geiu ' i-al assembly Where the announcements were made and the athletic victors api)lauile(l. Into assembly WP] came — yes — but not till the rest were all seated. Green being good for the eyes of the Sophomores and .luniors and Seniors In then we marched, and the Sophomores and Juniors and Senior gazed on us with Eyes that were nothing but slits in their faces distorted with laugiiter; Loudly they clapped as we entered, and loudly they jeered as they greeted. Frida.y, the fifth of November, we got us a team and a wagon. Covered the wagon with hav and rode oft ' for oui ' very tiist hMy-ii le.