Coplay High School - Coplayite Yearbook (Coplay, PA)

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Mertztown. William Fegley Bennett, Years gone by on a nice spring flay. He came to earth to make his way. Another's business to essay. That is what most of the people say. Here’s to “Little Willie,” “Jack of all trades,” whom we are now going to introduce to our com pany. He has just arrived from the isle of “nowhere” where he and Rip Van Winkle were napping, so he is in doubt as to when he was born. But we conclude that he has passed the bachelor line. “So, you old maids, put on your prettiest looks.” As near as we can figure lie and Methuselah are rivals in the old age contest. Though his eyes water at the sight of female beauty, he is in doubt whether it would be worth while to have the knot tied. He is wending his way up the hill of “Progress” and our sincere hope is that “success' will crown his efforts. Morris Allison Berger, .... Route i, Mohrsville. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ; I were but little happy, if I could say how much.—Shakespeare. On the morning of March 19, 1893, the bluebirds were busily flying over Penn Township, Berks County, announcing the arrival of a baby boy. He has now grown to the young man represented by the accompanying ligure. At an early age, Allison showed an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge. When the common school and the high school of Penn Township had offered what they could, Allison’s thirst was still unquenched. .So he took up that very good rule: To go to the Keystone Normal School. The one thing of slight hindrance to him seems to be his firm resolve to become a bachelor. The frequent proposals he is obliged to reject (especially since leap year began) are the cause of no slight inconvenience to him. Taking all in all, Allison is one of the most faithful workers of our class. After graduation he will teach in his native township, and will strive to raise the schools of that district to a higher plane. 27

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Jonas’ Heydt Bechtel, Landis’ Store. Unlucky Jonas swallowed by a whale, July the twenty-fifth was in a gale. Much tossed about, was cast up by the main, He came to find his father cutting grain. Noble aspirant of twenty-six summers sweet, for five successive years has had a taste of the bliss of instructing tender childhood, a mystery to most of us. A Lutheran in faith, while reading his Bible he saw the Lord’s words, “ It's not good for men to be alone.” Heeding this he at once announced his candidacy in the courting field and was elected by ‘‘the holy writs of matrimony majority,” receiving the office of husband. “A wife! A wife! my kingdom for a wife.” He at once entered upon the duties of office and filled it with such ability that he now employs a private secretary in his established office at Kutztown. We bid fair to the Democrat and hope his success in life as hasty as his candidacy for a wife. Elsie Emma Beers, ....... Weatherly. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over.—Prior. This is a very dainty girl. But it’s no use, boys. .She's as good as taken. She is strictly temperate, but she never objects to two “Beers” and a pretzel. She was born in Weatherly in 1893 and the pride of all the teachers in that town before she came here. She is a loyal Keystonian and always faithfully attended Y. W. C. A. She never allowed rain or snow to interfere with her daily tramp. We wonder why? We are no augurs, but by all signs Miss Elsie will not teach long—that is, children. She is quite a comely looking housewife. 26

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Ruth Louise Berkemeyer, 30 S. Madison St., Allentown. Never love unless you can Hear with all the faults of man!—Campion. Now Ruth is a very clever girl, but she doesn't know it. One bright August morning, in 1892, Ruth struck Maxatawny. But Ruth soon became a city girl and shone brilliantly in high school where G er m a n was her hobby. But Maxatawny had a strange attraction for her, and she came to Keystone where she has become one of our ‘Keystone belles.” Ruth never looks at the boys, she only loves the girls. Some day she will marry her roommate. But, secretly, she did admire one and like Elaine she suffered. She expects to teach until pensioned, but look out, Ruth, he’ll get you yet. Hazel Belle Bitler, ...... .Scarlet Mill. A sunny temper gilds the edge of life’s darkest gloom.—Guthrie. Hazel Belle Bitler, of .Scarlet Mill, Pa. Well, this name well becomes the girl, for, like the flowers (Hazel Bells), she always looks at the bright side of things, and her sunny disposition has won for her many friends. Her motto is Think much, speak little,” and she succeeds very well in carrying it out. Hazel, carry that bright smile with you along the rugged paths of life and it will aid in winning your success. Cheerful and faithful in every task of school life, in life’s school she will be a shining light, dispelling the darkness of ignorance. May she be happy, be successful, but not ever Bitler. 28