Francesville High School - Francillian Yearbook (Francesville, IN)

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l'- THE FRANCILLIAN BACCALAUREATE Francesville High School Sunday evening, April 18th, 1937 7:80 o'clock Methodist Church Processional -----. . In the Garden of Tomorrow, by J. L. Deppen - Invocation - - - - . . . Ave Maria, by J. Arcaldelt - . Scripture Reading - - The Silenit Sea, vbly Marzo - - . SERMON, The City of Tomorrow - Listen to the La-mb, by R. N. Dett - Benedictlon ----- . UOMMENQ 'EMENT Francesvillc High School Friday night, April :I8rd, 1037 8 o'cIock My:-rs Tlleatrc March ---- I Love IJite, by M-ana Zucca - Invocation - - - Dark Eyes, by B. Treharne - ADDRESS - - - Old Man Noah, by McKinney - - - Presentation of Diplomas - - - Rev. Gilbert - - Eleanor Gitzlail - Girls' Glee Club Rev. J. A. Hornlck - Girls' Glee Club - Rev. Gilbert P. Frohne - Girls' Glee Club Rev. Gilbert P. Frohne - Girls' Glee Club Rev. J. A. Hornick Eleanor Gitzlaff - Girls' Glee Club P. Frohne - Ginls' Glee Club - - Hon. Floyd I. State Superintendent of - Girls' McMurray Education Glee Club - Guy G. Sharp Principal of High School Barcaro1le, by Offenbach - - Benedicition - - - - 1937 - Girls' Glee Club Rev. J. A. Hornick

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THE FQRANCILLIAN SENIOR CLASS PLAY STREAM LINED SUE Presented at the Myers Theatre, April 6, 1937, at 8:00 P. M. CAST OF CHARACTERS Jenny Groves --------- Mardella Eide fwho lives in the village of Pine Grovel Lucille Babson --------- Maru Relsh ia pretty neighborj Ben Crump ' ' ' ' ----- John Hancoc.k fwho directs the aiairs of the villagej Charlie Boone -------- Wilhite Foster fwho returns to the villagel Clarence Elliot ----- ---- J oe Manion this friend, 'with a fondness for climbing trees? Sue Gray - - ---- - - - Hilda Gutwein f S'treamlined Sue J Mrs. Cornelia Cobb - - ------ Doris Kopka. fhead of the Women's Clum of the villagel Jonathan Boone -------- Ralph Koebcke fthe village bankerl Oscar Schulz ------- Perry Long fwith a fondess for gumdropsj Bunny Bartels --------- Alice Hill fa pretty but embarrassing visitorb SYNOPSIS Charlie Boone and his friend, Clarence Elliot, have come to Pine Grove for a. visit. Lucille Babson, a neighbor, sets out to catc-h Clarence, and David Bo-one, with the help of Jenny, who is Charlie's aunt, try to make a match between Charlie and Sue Gray. Sue is known as riff-raff. A roaring girl who is after Charlie with a shot- gun for 'thirty dollars damages .she says he did to her farm. Nancy Brent, a school -teacher, was t-o come to Pine Grove. Sue decides t-o be Nancy, and by doing this she manages to fool the town, and Charlie also, who falls desperately in love with her. Things go along smoothly until Bunny Bartels comes, saying she is Nancy's sister-in-law. Jenny and Ben, the mayor, manage to get her out of town, telling Charles it is a trick. Then it is proven that this Nancy is a fake and is Sue Gray. Sue then shows them their place and ruins a parade that Mrs. Cobb, a woul-d-be aristocrat, has planned in favor of her grandfather. Then Sue, with Ben Crump's aid, changes it into one for her own grandfather as it should really be. Finally Charlie, with the help of Jenny, does ask Sue t-o marry him. After a little arguing Sue consents. Publicity and Advertising Management - Wilma Koebcke, Chairman Margaret Wolf, Assistant Ticket and Seating Arrangement - - June Morgan, Chairman Glendoris Tillett, Assistant Stage Manager -------- Junior Wuethrich Property Men ---- Ralph Steffel, Roy Osburu, Kieth Jackson, Herald Bailey, Jim Hamblin Ushers - - - - Odetta Kesler, Patricia Kearney, Lucile Sohlatter, Florence Kruger, Dorothea Severns, Lenora Kelley Prompters - Ruth Gutwein, Margaret Wolf 1987

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TI-IE FRANCILLIAN THOUGHTS AT GRADUATION Guy G. Sharpl THE Amer can people are new hold- ing one of .their .greatest of events -graduation exercises for their Sen- ior high school students. The graduate receives what he has given, and takes what he has putt into the school life. If he has learned this, he has learned one of the laws of life. The student who has had special obstacles to overcome and has fought bravely with adverse circum- stances has won something more precious than all the curriculum holds. Under wise leadership clear ideas and high ideal-s in life may be attained. Here the finest type of manhood and womanhood that the world has seen may be molded. For here is to be found the greatest op- portunity in life--that of character training. We talk about receiving an edu- cation. Education is not received. It is won. All good Americans know how Lincoln tramped twenty miles to borrow a grammar: how he read through the volume of Illinois stat- utes for lack of other reading: how he read by fire light to -save the can- dle, and wrote on a wooden shovel for want of paper. This picture should impress our youth with their good fortune in having the advantage our affections lavish upon them. Lincoln overcame those hardships and became the great man he was in spit-e of them. The lesson for this generation its not that Lincoln acquired an education despite obstacles, but that he acquired that education largely because of them. The graduate does well to think upon these facts, and to take note of themselves, to see the real rela- tionships of life, and to think of some of the dominating ideas that mus-t guide any life that is to be happy and worth while. The commence- ment season is a time of dwelling upon those truths of life which are ages old, yet ever new: those words of wisdom that every parent and teacher cannot too much dwell on, for they are the chart and compass of human life and progress. If -the young people have not had sound habits, attitudes and apprecia- tion built into their .lives during the months and years that have preceded commencement, the ceremonies and bits of parting advice cannot bridge the gap, but they may help a little. Who is the Galilean who spoke in the imperative and atlirmative, Fol- low me and I will make you fishers of men? He is the -Son of God, the author of Christianity. If the graduate follow Jesus in life and never bend to the mediocre of crowd morality, but maintain a high degree of religion and ethics their lives will grow in power and influ- ence. Keep faith with the One who gave His Life a ransom for all, and receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him. THE CLASS GROUCII FOLKS: I been asked to tell you the good qualities of dis class, but for the life of me. I can't find any. The more I look our class ober de more disgus-ted I is. If any ot' you can tell any good quality it has I'll be glad to hab you do it. Some one said beauty, but good land! I don't believe dey eber go-t a squint at us. Another one sa-id Ubrilliancy of in- tellect. Now what do you think of that? Still another said patience, but dat ain't so, 'cause many's de time we been impatient over the dif- ficult lessons and stubborn problems. And that reminds me-we've had the longest and hardest lessons of any class in the history of this school, and the examinations have been cor- kers. It's a wonder that any of us got through them at all. As for ath- letics- -baseball, basket-ball and so forth. I must say it has been uphill work all de time. Somebody got sick or hurt: the wrong side most often won: the referees were partial and unfair: if we had parties there was a lack of cordiality, and we never made as much money as We should at our candy sales. It has been the same old story in the election of of- ficers, selection of our class flower, motto, and class play. Things never went exactly right. The teachers have been cross and exacting: the faculty has been altogether too watchful of us. So you see we hab a hard row to hoe. with very little pleasure and a gre-at deal of hard work. It's a wonder how we've ever succeeded in graduating at all. THE CLASS OPTIMIST HOWDY, Folks: You have no doubt .heard of people who kept late hours and who partake of rich viands 1937