Gas City High School - Epoch Yearbook (Gas City, IN)

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T H E place today, and all the girls arc trying to make a hit. 25th.-Tournament tickets ar- rived. Everybody wants to go but don't know where to get the dough. 26th.-Miss Busby and the girls are busy making Maroon overalls for the yell leaders. 28th.-Today is the big day. Had a peppy pep session and the yell leaders looked happy in their new suits. Yea! Rah! Tigers- bcat Matthews! March 3rd.-We are very proud of our Tiger team, although Marion did beat them. They showed Marion and the rest of the county fans that they knew how to play basket ball. 4th.-In U. S. History, Mr. Hengstler asked: Why did John Brown say that this was a beauti- ful country as he was getting ready for his execution ? Don M.: Well, I guess he did think it was beautiful the last few minutes. 14th.-The radio has been busy all day today broadcasting the state tournament. We all heard the Gas City vs. Franklin game- in our imagination. 17th.-Wonder why everybody is wearing green today? Oh, yes, it is St. Patrick's day. 18th.-We started play practice today. 19th.-We ordered invitations today. 20th.-Mr. Kenworth, a well known traveler and lecturer, spoke on the subject of Some Racial Contributions to America. 21st.-Did you know we had champion checker players in the Senior class? Ask Ralph Atkinson and Ruth Bothwell for further in- formation. 24th.-Everybody practicing to put the play Aunt Lucia over the top. 25th.-The Seniors went on a E P O C H Effie ticket campaign. 26th.-Senior girls had a meet- ing to decide on commencement dresses. Isn't it a shame that girls can never decide what kind of dresses they want? 27th.-Nothing happened today. We had our regular classes. You know they are always interesting. 28th.-The play Aunt Lucia went over with a bang. Lots of money. April lst.-April fool! We thought we wouldn't write anything today, but we did. 2nd.-We hear so many talking about a spring vacation. 3rd,-Juniors are planning to give a market. Let's all go down and buy something good to eat. 4th.-Inter-class track meet. Who won? Why the Juniors, of course. 7th and 8th,-Spring vacation. 9th.-The band is getting in some extra practice. Here's hop- ing they get first place at Muncie. We Seniors are behind them. 10th.-Wake up, Julia, class is over. 11th.-We had a track and field meet with Jonesboro, Alexandria, and Fairmount, at Fairmount to- day. 12th.-The typing team com- posed of Ruth Bothwell, Virginia Dancer and Kenneth Brown, en- tered the typing contest at Peru and won first team place in the Novice A group. Ruth also won first individual honor and Virginia won third. This will entitle the team to participate in the state commercial contest at Muncie, April 26. 17th.-Good for Hazel Dawalt! She received a medal for winning first place in the Grant County Constitutional 'Essay contest. 18th.-Don't be surprised, folks. if you see all of us in Hollywood, for we are having movies made of 1 9 3 0

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T H E 13th.-Friday, the 13th, and Oh! What a team the Tigers are to meet tonight. Those strange farm- ers from Windfall. We are not su- perstitious, though. 17th.-Mr. Marshall gave two interesting readings about Christ- mas. 18th.-Gee-what a blizzard! 20th.-Well, here is Friday again and another basket ball game with Spiceland. The band entertained the inmates of the County Farm this afternoon. No more school until Dec. 30. We wish everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. January 2nd.-Everyone made New Year resolutions. I wonder if anyone made this one: I will study my lesson very hard and try to make A in all my subjects and even A in citizenship. 6th.-Everyone was happy Fri- day night until the very last min- ute. Then Fairmount woke up and gave us the small end of the score. Sth.-Wonder what the big joke was in English VI class this morn- ing? Ruth Bothwell discovered she had put her dress on wrong side out. 10th.-The Tigers will meet Frankton tonight and the Giants tomorrow night. 14th.-Rev. Powell, from Mar- ion, gave a very interesting talk this afternoon. 15th.-Final exams. Everybody is nervous. 17th.-Report cards were given out today. Such happy and such sad faces! 20th.-We greatly miss those pupils who graduated Friday. They are Walter Pratt, Pauline Stevens, Ruth Baker, Helen Morris, Willard Oliver and Dorothy Davis. Zlst.-The hour periods, which we had last semester, are changed to forty minutes, and everyone is pleased. E P O C H 1 22nd.-The business managers are out selling advertisements for our Annual. It shows what good workers they are. 23rd.-Big Joke: Gail Atkinson and Kenneth Brown fell out of their seats. Wonder what causes that? 27th.-Summitville beat us in the tourney. Ralph Atkinson was hurt in the game. 29th.-We journey to Windfall tonight to seek revenge. 30th.-We almost did. Windfall downed the Tigers 20-19. 31st.-The Highlanders are to be our guests tonight, and we are going to visit Summitville tomor- row. The Boosters' Club knows how to make pep sessions peppy. Good Work, Boosters-keep it up. February Srd.-One more victory and one more defeat added to our record. We can't tell you yet whether or not revenge is sweet. 4th.-Everybody is busy in the Senior class working on the An- nual. 5th.-The Juniors are still quar- reling about which one is going to give a play first, Seniors or Jun- iors. 10th.-Mr. Greet gave a few in- teresting sketches from Shake- speare this afternoon. 11th.-Boosters' Club had a tag day Saturday, for the purpose of buying suits for the yell leaders. From all appearances, they made a success of it. 12th.-Linc0ln's birthday. Supt. Reifel gave a very interesting talk on the life of Lincoln. 14th.-North Manchester comes to see us tonight. I hope we give them a nice reception. 20th.-The last basket ball game of the season. Had a big parade. 24th.-Boy, that was some game with Pendleton Friday night! First overtime game of the season. lVe had a new teacher in Miss Ooley's M 1 9 3 0

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T H E E P O C H the school in action today. 11th.-Baccalaureate. 25th.-The operetta Up In the 14th.-Class Day exercises. Airy, went over fine. 16th.-Commencement. Dr. Har- May per, president of Evansville Col- . . lege, was the speaker. 2nd.-Junior and Senior recep- tion. 20th.-School closes, and so does 9th,-M1-. phal-QS' School play, this little calendar of our last year A Henpcclced Hero. of school life. La FI EDITORIAL We wish to express our apprecia- tion to the business men of Gas City and Marion who have contributed so freely to the advertising, and also to all other individuals who gave their services to the Annual. Also we wish to thank all subscrib- crs who have purchased Annuals. The Editor Wishes to thank all members of the Staff for their earn- est efforts and co-operation in pro- ducing this year book, and all pupils Awho have aided in any way. Each worked for the honor of his school and performed his duties cheerfully. This volume of The Epoch is put forth for the approval of the reader, to be criticized and praised according to its merits. -Editor. l E ' El 1 9 3 0