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

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS mmttm ■ i-H £ SMrt SA Fii ' st Row: Martha Erma Butler, Martha Elizabeth Calland, Harriet Fruchte, Pauline Affolder, Jeanette Beery, Clifford Jolly. Second Row: Kathryn Hill, Kathaleen Odle, Sephus Jackson, Helen Gay, Mildred Gause, James Beavers, Charles Whitman, Evelyn Kohls. Third Row: Marceil Leatherman, Marjorie Johnson, Richard Brodbeck, Alice Jane Archbold, Donald Gage, Eula Meyers, Mary Foreman, William Elston. Fourth Row: Marion Jackson, Madaline Spahr, Gladys Doan, Genevive Light, Louise Kiess, Fane Cingenpeel, Donald Baiier. Fifth Row: Edward Shoe, Martha Jane Linn, Idora Lough, Mable Parmer, Calvin Magley, Stanley Hollopeter. OUR TEACHER Our home room teacher is Miss Coffee. Every minute we are in her room she is watching our speech and writing and we all realize what an ad¬ vantage that is to us. She is enthus¬ iastic in all undertakings and we are sure no one can equal her sense of humor. She teaches writing, gram¬ mar, spelling and composition. We consider the next class to get Miss Coffee lucky. -o- (By popular vote of the 8A) EIGHTH GRADE HALL OF FAME Most popular girl—Martha Elizabeth Calland. Most popular boy—James Harkless. Best looking girl—Pauline Affolder. Best looking boy—Dick Brodbeck. Best arithmetic student—Bill Elston. Best girl swimmer — Martha Erma Butler. Best boy swimmer—Calvin Magley. Best singer—Madeline Spahr. Most decided blonde girl—Kathryn Hill. Most decided brunette girl — Mary Jane Shaffer. Best liar—Clifford Jolly. Best music student—Donald Gage. Tallest girl—Jeanette Beery. Tallest boy—Stanley Hollopeter. Most humorous girl — Harriet Fruchte. Laziest pupil—James Beavers. Most quiet boy—Charles Whitman. Most talkative girl—Marjorie John¬ son. Liveliest yell leader—Mildred Gause. Best basketball player — Genevieve Light. Best piano player—Mable Parmer. Most brunette boy—Donald Bailer. Most blonde boy—Marion Jackson. Girl with bluest eyes—Louise Kiess. Most quiet girl—Eula Meyers. Best Girl Scout—Evelyn Kohls. Best speller—Mary Foreman. Boy who smiles least—Forest Ken¬ worthy. Boy who laughs most — Raymond Roop. Best roller skater—Helen Gay. Best tennis player—Alice Jane Arch¬ bold. Most attractive pupil — Marceil Leatherman. Smallest boy—Sephus Jackson. Smallest girl—Jane Linn. Best tempered—Fane Clinganpeel. Happiest girl—Kathleen Odle. Most brilliant girl—Gladys Doan. Most sincere girl—Idora Lough. —8—

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS A Frenchman once wrote a drama, called the “Blue-Bird of Happiness”, Two children, Tyltyl and Mytl, left their home on Christmas Eve to search for the blue-bird. They were so certain of finding it they took a wicker cage to put it in. It was a ■(fanciful tale and their wanderings took them to many strange places. At the climax of the story they reach¬ ed the “Palace of Night.” The air was filled with blue-birds. Dozens, hun¬ dreds of them! They caught all that they could and started for home. Dawn, however, revealed the birds limp and lifeless. They could not stand the light of day. Finally they returned to their home and banished the “Bird of Happiness” from their minds. A neighbor child was ill and fretful and, moved by a generous im¬ pulse the children sent their own tur¬ tle dove which they loved dearly. Sud¬ denly they beheld the bird was blue. This story is rich in moral: when we search for happiness it eludes us. When we busy ourselves with some¬ thing worth while happiness flies in at the door. Happiness grows at our own fireside and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Health has a, great deal to do with happiness. Every girl and boy wants to be good-looking and popular. It is hard to smile when you have a tooth¬ ache or be the ‘life of the party’ with a cold in your head. Here are seven good rules of health: 1. Get plenty of fresh air and sun¬ shine. 2. Drink plenty of water. 3. Eat balanced meals. 4. Keep clean inside and ' outside. 5. Work hard and play hard. 6. Get sufficient sleep. 7. Don’t forget how to laugh. Work is essential to health. It exercises our muscles and brain, it gives us a definite hobby or purpose, and for grown-ups is a means of livlihood. “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit cf work” If you don’t have to work you should have a hobby. It will keep you active and interested. Anyone who has something in life to look for¬ ward to does not have the blues. For heaven’s sake don’t worry! Don’t fret nor fuss. No friends claim a person who has that long-drawn- wild-eyed expression worrying gives. Temper helps too. There’s nothing like a few good tantrums to wreck your sense of humor and charm. A person who has been born with a sense of humor is lucky. However, every one can cultivate one. If you search hard enough you can find some thing amusing to everything. Exercise plays a great part in peo¬ ple’s lives. This is nature’s own pre¬ scription, for a sound body and clear mind. Tennis, golf, dancing, riding, or driving, rowing, and swimming are excellent. When you are walking, walk briskly with a swinging gate. Don’t stroll aimlessly along. This can be taken to extremes, tho. Don’t let any one mistake you for a jumping jack, or an engine in full steam. Last but not least keep up your courage. Don’t think of what might happen, but be brave enough to en¬ ter into things and don’t let an in¬ ferior complex get the best of you. Being cheerful is the best habit one can acquire. Gray days, tho, will come in spite of us. Our best intentions will be misunderstood by our best friends. When this happens just do the best you can — then forget it. Everyone knows that after rain the sun shines. Wouldn’t it be fine if you and I could look upon life’s rainy days as “Just a spell o’ weather?” —M. E. C. Think smiles, and smiles shall be; Think doubt, and hope will flee; Think love, and love will grow, Think hate, and hate you’ll know; Think good, and good is here; Think vice! it’s jaws appear. —Bush — 7 —

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A WEE BIT MUMPY “Ow, ow, oh, ugh, ugh, gee, gosh, No not a pep session as you might imagine but just what was said by some people with swollen jaws when they tasted a. pickle (or any other sour thing for that matter of fact.) Edward Shoe was the first to take advantage of this broadening experien¬ ce but Stanley Hollopeter and Harriet Fruclite were soon to follow. This was too much for Mary Jane Shaffer and Forest Ken worthy, “What? let the afore mentioned people get everything good. Not on your life! They got it, too. When we thought the whole thing was through, who should get it but James Harkless. So with the “flu bugs” and all, we had a grand time keeping track of the absentees. This manuscript was duly signed and turned over to the editors who promptly lost it. Well my dear readers, I pride myself on my mem¬ ory. Just as I caught my breath after my labors who should get them but Bill Elston, if I had a shot gun and him at the same time, I’d pity him ’cause just think of his spoiling a perfectly good story. After this article was written many people felt so bad because their names were not in this illustrious and most remarkable item so they contracted the mumps. To fool them we’ll place their names here instead of in the ar¬ ticle. Gladys Doan, Kathleen Odle, Clifford Jolly. ----— o- CAN “U” IMAGINE Evelyn K. talking without her hands ? Idora L. being seven feet tall? Alice Jane A. studying without her pencil in her mouth? Mary F. not cutting up? Kathryn H. as a cabaret dancer? Dick B. not talking through his teeth? DEEDS AND MISDEEDS Don G. with a brilliant sense of hu¬ mor? Pauline A. as a poet? Martha Elizabeth C. not trying to start something new? Kathleen O. offering humble apol ogies to any one? Sephus J. not falling down when lie is playing basketball? Martha Erma B. as “The Thinker?” Bill E. not studying? Marion J. reading up on natural history? Cal M. not making some bright re¬ mark? Donald B. smiling? Stanley H. hating the fair sex? Eula M. talking as much as Marjorie J.? James B. not sleeping in class? Mildred G. settling down? Jeanette B. without her gum? Clifford J. studying? Madaline S. with a deep bass voice? Mar y Jane S. as a prima donna? Louise K. as a wild and wilful flap per? Mable P. eavesdropping? Raymond R. with an industrious streak? Edward S. thinking? Forest K. being so dumb that he thinks a goatee is a baby goat? Martha Jane Li. liking big boys? Fane C. coming to school one week without missing? Marceil L. not trying to see some one else’s paper? Gladys D. getting up to tell a story and knowing what she is going to talk about? Genevieve L. not being able to use her eyes? James H. liking anyone else better than himself? Charles W. acting like Clifford J.? Helen G. hunting elephants? —Alice Jane Archbold. —Pauline Affolder. -o- Well, Genevive, we hand it to you. You’re the only one who can “follow the trail of half an elephant!” -— 9 —