Fowler High School - Prairie Gold Yearbook (Fowler, IN)

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PRAIRIE GOLD I, Margaret Colescott do will to Margaret Mount my ability to capture and retain one, and one man only. I, Ilernian Forshey, do give my luck with dice, and my ability to graduate before I am old enough to vote to Russell Headlee, Tuff Ford or L'yclone Kota. I, Agnes Hanson, make a special request to the class of '29. I wish to have all the gum l have chewed while in Fowler High collected from under all the seats and tables and molded into a memorial trophy. I, Stella lieird, do will and bequeath my ability to take down short- hand notes, to any .lunior who may be foolish enough to want to take the course. All the rest, residue and remainder of our estate, real, personal and mixed. we give, devise and bequeath unto the unclerclassinen of Fowler High School. Signed, sealed, declared and published by the Senior flass of '2S. XYitnesses: liugene Crabb Veggie Sheetz Harold Yanderipe shlyrtle-Alice Ifllsworth To Youth Fair days of youth, we grieve to see You steal away so soon: As now we have not had our fun: Oh! give us one more moon. XVait, wait. Until a later date llas COITIC And we will laugh and play: And. after tiring in this way XYill go with age along. And yet, we cannot stay, say you? Wie Can't forever play? XXX- too must. as the flowers do, Grow old and meet decay, XVe go As time's young minutes go, Away. And dwell in memory Of happy days in school we spent .lust playmates. you and I. -Halcie li. Ilamilton '23 I 9 2 8 Page twenty-eight

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PRAIRIE GOLD under the earth, to be used freely in designing his six-weeks' report that it may be pleasing in his own sight and in the sight of teachers and parents. I, Margaret Sheetz, do hereby give. devise. and bequeath to Esther Robbins the secret of my permanent wave, with the stipulation that she use it carefully. I, Iiverett Penick, do bequeath to Leonard Edwards many afternoons of leisure whether present or absent from classes in Fowler I-ligh. NYe, Harold Yanderipe and Ralph Shonkwiler, do bequeath our musical talents to any budding virtuosos among the succeeding classes. Z5 25 I, Ruth XN'orley, leave my retiring, quiet. unobtrusive and modest char- acter to Irene Burroughs. I. Oakley McClain, do will to blames R. Price one perfectly good second- hand can opener to be used in case he can't open the doors of his Ford some day. I, Donald Griffin, do bestow my popularity with the weaker but most willing sex to john Sampson that he may win the smiles of each new gi1'l1 also my ability as an orator. I, Jeannette Hall. feeling generous and big-hearted, also sympathetic for the victim, do hereby bequeath all my blushes and self-consciousness to jeanette Comley, as I feel that she can make profitable use of them. I, Halcie Hamilton, do leave my haircut to Bessie XX'illiams that she may use or misuse it as she desires. I, lone Y. Swan. do hereby bequeath my studious nature which has kept me up into the wee small hours of the night writing English compositions: and also my extensive popularity to Agnes XYindler. May she be as suc- cessful as I have been. I, Ida Thornbrough, do bequeath my ability to write a calendar to Gladys Irlenriott, so she can keep her dates straight: and my singing ability I leave to I.ela Pratt, one of those foolish Freshmen. I, james Dumas, desire to present my misunderstood feet to Melvin Cox: also my curls. which I so dislike, and which would improve his auburn hair extensively. l, Minnie Nunn, do will to Jeanette Gilbert my ability to take notes fon lecturesl and my long list of jokes: also all my popularity with the opposite sex. I, Keith Smith, do will to Stanley Culbertson my unusual liking for Domestic Science products and my ability to acquire them without being caught. I 9 2 8 Page twenty-seven

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PRAIRIE GOLD Average Girl's Struggle Through Physics Average girl was on her last lap bf the big race for Secondary liduca- tion. From the very first it had been a struggle and a very hard one, too, but at the end of each lap she had come out with flying colors. Once she had stumbled, during the third lap, when she ran up against a huge obstacle in the path, the Hindrance of Geometry, but she had tackled it from the very bottom and with slow, careful work finally succeeded in overcoming it. Consequently she had reached the fourth lap, she had put up a pretty good showing in the race and had a fine chance to win her fourth lap as she had the others. She started with four obstacles in view, three of which she found to be conquerable with a reasonable amount of struggling, but alas, her fourth obstacle was almost unsurpassable-the liottomless Pit of Physics, As she came to the brink of this terrible black liottomless Pit she was terribly tempted to back away from it and seek some other path for somewhere from the depths of the Pit she heard faint moanings and crys for help from some Average Girl acquaintances of hers who had attempted to cross the Pit-but had fallen into the depths of it with no possible hope of recovery. Hut then she looked ahead of her and there she saw in the distance three happy and triumphant Average Girls who had found a strong wire, the XVire of Hard Work. strung across the Pit, and on this VVire of Hard XYork they had swung themselves slowly, inch by inch. Average Girl noticed that the wire was a very long one and had many sharp points along its way, and again that weakening of hers to turn back and seek an easier route to the Goal of the fourth lap, came back. But as there were some other Average Girls, some Brilliant Boys, and Average Boys starting to cross, she shook off this feeling and with a grim determination started to climb down the banks of the Pit in order to grab hold of the NVire of Hard XYork and start off. However, just as she did this, two strange men, Doubt and XYorry, came up to her and addressing her said, Average Girl, do not try to cross the liottomless Pit of Physics. You will never be able to reach the other side for you do not have the ability to do so. lt is a very difficult task and you will only fail miserably in any attempt that you make. Come back. For one second Average Girl hesitated, and then thinking of that glor- ious Goal that she was headed for and the good start she would have on her next race for Higher Education by being able to overcome this diffi- culty, she dropped down off of the brink of the Pit and reaching hold of the NYire with trembling hands, followed the group. For a while the XYire of Hard XYork seemed comparatively smooth and she slipped along very nicely keeping up quite well with the rest of the group: but alasl this did not last l 9 2 8 Page twenty-nine