Central School - Deeds and Misdeeds Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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Seated—Clyde Cline. Don Grove, Don Hunsicker.

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12 - DEEDS AND MISDEEDS from Superintendent Worthman, in¬ terested patrons, The A. N. Palmer Co. and the State Department. —Miss Coffee HISTORY. History is a narrative of events and of the lives and acts of men, of fam¬ ilies of tribes, and of nations. History first took the form of tradition, and was handed down orally from genera¬ tion to generation. Much of this tradition was obscure and mythical, assuming the form of religious belief. Written history is as old as the inven¬ tion of letters and among the earliest monuments were sculptured inscrip¬ tions and records of facts of rulers especially their victories. The oldest known historical writing are on the temples and pyramids of Egypt and the ruins of Greeeiaii an l Phoenician towns. In the fifth century B. C., Herodotus the “father of history,” was born and his works so far as known, are the earliest that can be classed under that name. It is to the authors of the long se¬ ries of works of this character, cov¬ ering a large portion of the history of early civilization that we owe the preservations of a knowledge of events absolutely essential to the writing of a complete history. As history is but the combination and inter-weaving of human biography, it follows, the works of a biographical character are among the most import¬ ant implements of the historian. The study of history is very essent¬ ial for two reasons. First, it acquaints the readers with the activities and achievements of civilizations of the past. Second, a knowledge of these activities and achievements, the suc¬ cess and the failures, is most bene¬ ficial for the guidance of the civiliza¬ tions of the present. —Lee Anna Vance Miss B. (5 A History).—Tell about Sherman’s March to the Sea, Virginia. Virginia Hite—Why that is just the one I don’t know. Helen Haubold—Miss Brandyberry, are there any splinters in wood al- (ohol? Miss B (5A Language).—Virginia, you shouldn’t write, Miss in front of your name. Virginia Hite—Well, I’m not a Mrs. am I? Thurman Elzey—Reads several lines and then omits one. Miss B.—You skipped a line. Thurman (Looking for the words and not finding them reads). You skipped a line. Catherine Smith—Say Miss Brandy- berry, do we have gizzards? Mr. Brown (Talking of Eighth Grade Play) Who would like to be the leading lady in a play when you are in the eighth grade? Calvert Earehart—I would. Miss Vachan entered the room wearing a large bunch of cut flowers. Helen Devor said: “Hello Miss Siion, who’s dead?” Harry Sheets’ feet Are surely the beat, Though they look very neat, They smell far from sweet. When Miss Coffee wishes Richard Miller to recite, she notifies him a day in advance because it is against his principles to make a quick move. A GREAT FALL A broken seat, A knee full sore, And Thelma Brown Upon the floor! Oh! what a fall Oh! what a roar, When Thelma Brown, Fell on the floor! —Doris Peters

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14— DEEDS AND MISDEEDS BASKET BALL BOYS BASKETBALL. The basketball season of the sev¬ enth and eighth grade boys for 1920- ’21 opened October 28th when we played a game at Monroe with their eighth grade team. It proved to be rather a one-sided affair due to the condition of the court and the inex¬ perience of our boys. The Monroe boys had all played together the pre¬ vious year and the final count showed the score to be ten to four in favor of Monroe. The next game was played on the local floor with the Monmouth high school boys in which we came forth with flying colors, winning by the overwhelming score of sixty to five. On December 12th, we were loaded in the big Overland belonging to Mr. Myers and journeyed to Berne where we again met defeat at the hands of the Junior high school team of that place. The game was closer and more interesting than the final score 28 to 14 would indicate. Our boys fought hard, Miller starring for our team with four field goals. Our next encounter occurred on the home floor December 30th with a team from Bluffton, consisting of high school boys, boy scouts and eighth grade lads. Their weight and ac¬ curate goal shooting from near the center of the floor proved our undo¬ ing and we left the floor after a hard fight, defeated twenty-eight to twenty- one The next evening, smarting from our defeat with Bluffton and stiff and sore from such a strenuous game we stocked up against the St. Joe eighth grade boys. The St. Joy boys were fresh and displayed a fast brand of ball, but our boys fought doggedly and only in the last few minutes were overcome by the stellar work of Myers who sent his team into the lead by several accurate throws from near the center of the floor ending the game thirty-seven to twenty-seven. January 7th we again took the floor against the St. Joe boys. This was one of the fastest games of the sea¬ son for both teams were at their best. At no time could anyone have a certain guess as to the outcome. Time and time again our boys nosed ahead only to have the score tied by the op¬ posing team. In the last four minutes however, we took the lead by six points. Our opponents fought des¬ perately but had to be satisfied with twenty points to our twenty-three. The Geneva lads were our next vic¬ tims. They journeyed to our city January 23. Though they displayed spurts at times they failed to ever get in the lead and were sent home with the short end of a seventeen to nine score. The last game for this semester, which was the last game with all the members in the line-up who began the season, was staged with the St. Joe boys. This was the last and de¬ ciding game of a series of three. It was not so full of thrills for the su¬ perior team work and accurate goal throwing of the Central lads soon gave them a lead that put the St. Joe boys out of the running. Kenneth Lake starred for his team with six field goals. When the final whistle sounded we were leading twenty-eight to twenty-two. As this was the last game in which Miller, Swearinger and Lake would appear with our line-up we were tak¬ en to John Joseph’s by Mr. Brown and Mr. Heller and given a treat. The line-up thus far had consisted of Kenneth Lake and Milton Swearinger, forwards; Carl Tucker, center; Walter