Geneva High School - Legend Yearbook (Geneva, IN)

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THF INFORMER PAGE 0 year were Supexmtendent Deo W Horton pr1nc1p'1l Helen Ryors and V109 prmcxpal Nilss Heck a very good faculty Our SUIGIES were L1teratu1e under '1I1ss R1o1s Caesar DIISS Ry o1s Feomet1v NTISS Heck Hlstorv IHIQS Rwors and Nluslc Nllss Herm 1111 11 11111111 Pluffton 111 e were '11l p1ettv good 1n o r st d s It X6 X11 1111111111 0111 class 111 o th1tc sccllons 'Ind each se111o11 w 19 to Q1 91111111110 11 ss e 11s p1 s 111111 'tt the home ol N W aldo no one present but our '1n1 11111111 T11s was '1f1Ilt'l1hO11l 0111010 p'1rt1 1l1fO1'II'l'11 '1nd Jollx and t we were 111051055111 'tlon soc1'11 1111134 g1YIll1'11 Jart1es we1e 111111 at the homes or N11 lr1111 P01'lll11S and lesse 13111112 Tests ani eXam1n'1t1ons took up our t1I1'l8 at 111 terxals But It was dllflllg our Sophomore year that a great thlng happened 1n wh1ch our class played an 1m1o1tant part It w as the County Hlgh School Meet between the h1gh schools ct Berne Decatur and our own school ot Genewa Th1s meet was to be '1 con test 1n all l1nes of m11s1c and htera11 work and all klnds of athletlcs The meet was to be held at the close of th term at Decatur So we began to prepare for the meet about a month and a half before the meet Pr1ma v meets 1 ere to be held 1n each of the school and ea h w as to send 1tS best m n 1n tl1 1 IIOUS l1nes to the 111 meet at Decat11 The pa1 ts that the d1fferent members of 0111 class w 0111 that IS 1n the pllmafy meet Tress1e Glendenmg Cla11de BTlbgS and n1vs111 trled out fO1 the O1at1o11 FOIQSI, F1ke and mr self tr1ed Ollt for the 1oc'1l colo The result of t11ese two trv otts 'was that I was successful 1n both events Other members of the class ,sent to the meet w1tho11t try outs were Claude Bmggs, readmg Lrun Pont1us dxscusslon Forest Flke, ln a duet Forest Sull1van VlOl1X1 solo and Lloyd Fre1dl1ne 1n a male quartet In athletlcs our members sent to the meet were R1chard Brlggs Lloyd Freldhne Ieland Buckmaster Claude luggs lee Mattax and Forest F1l1e The result for our class 1n the meet at D9C'ltl1l w as that lo1est F1l1e 'md 'Nladehne '1IcV1h1nnew won the DPIll1Il1, fOl the xocal d11et and I w 011 the pennant for me xocal solo C'1I'llP 1l1lf1SPW pl1w1n the RCCOl'DDlI1l1'Il6I1t 111 d11lnt aff 111111 11 'Il the l1tera1J 'md 1n11s1c 1 ex ents 11thO1 11 we desert ed mo11 11011018 than we 1e111xed l311t 11111111 we 111r11ed R1rh'11d P1112 s loose o '11 1 et1cs xou should haxe secn them Slllk He won the quarter m11e runmn., race the twotwentv 'wud and the one hundred 11111 dash He also won the hlgh J11mp and the broad J11mp ITIS hlgh Jumpln record 1S hve feet and seven lnches w h1le 111, broad J11mp at Decatur was n1neteen feet and eleven lnches He went far ahead of any of the other contestants Rlchard also ran thlrd place ln the shot put contest Through Wir Brlgbs reat work our class and Geneva won efreat honors In fact all the honors of the athletlc field 'md easxly carried the pennant Our class certamly w-1s a booster for the G H S 1n that meet Another memorable ew ent of our Qophomore vear was the basket ball game 111 wh1ch a team from our Soph omore class played '1 team taken from the other three classes The res11lt tl .Jllllfl w as that wewona great ucterw ox er the other classes Hem as well as other places d1d l11ch'11 1 BllggS prowe h1S ab1l1ty as '1n athlete Knd thus 011' Sophomore year ended w th great honors At the begxnnmg of our .Iumor xear we were agam much surpr1sed to find that even when we were thus far along we had lost three of our former Nophomoxe class Jesse Burdg quit J 1 ., 1 , , . .V , , , I 1 1 1 , . . . . . V 1 . f 1 A J ' . ,1 ,, , . I I . A . , 1 , 'Q , J , . . 1 . . - . 1 1 Du - . I ,, 1 1 , ,,: 1 , 4 1 . . j , 1 , . - 1 ' 5 - 1 1 1 Asl 1: ' V, 01 1 , 1 1. W K . , 5 . f, ' , ,. - j , 11 . 11 K - , v - , . th: A' 121l'. 1 ' 1 ' - 1 5 1 .. . . . , , . , 1 , ,1 , lt ' 1 '11q'.'. T11 , 1'st EVIL' - , , , Y- C, . - ., ' ' T , w.1 1 . . .1155 l1l111.1 v, - 1 ,, . ' - .. 1 . cl' ss ,- H 1 .. . , 1 'I 1, , .1 ,, -, . .g , .. , 1 ' ' ' 'N' . 1 . . 1. 1. 1 1 1,11 - ., . . 1 1 , , 1 c 1 h , 1 X v A , fl ' 1 K . , 'L g 5 we felt 11:1 ', 'J , ff' .3 H - . , t - ' n I1 1 .l 1, .,, , . gg .f ... 1 1 ' 1 - . , ' 'A 1. ' . 2' ' .' '. C ' - - ,, , 1 1 7 .- 1 . ,.. ' M. 1 1 . . -, 1 :J 1 , . ,1 . I ' v ' ' 1 1 ' 1 . g ' v ' 'v Y C 7 ' ' T 1 1 . 7 1 Q H ' Y 1 ll Y ' ' I 1 , , , UQ, 7 1 h g I , , . Y . v4 K ' . . 1 , , , , G . 1 1. ,, - , , . 1 C I ' . V, Y . 1, 5 1'-4 ' 1 K 1 ' . , s f 1 c ' ' ' ' 9 Y ' 9 '13 ' y 'g ,c , 1 1 1 - - f - Y fu' 11S U. , ' 1 ' ' , ., , . , . .,. ' .U Er 1 V 4 4 , V 1. 1 , , ' . 11 . ' .vs 4 . ' ' ' ' 1, , H , ., v . , J I . V . fl . .1 1 1 2 ' K ' ' A ' Y . 1 'I . , . A 1 , - ' ,, ' , ' , . s . -Y 1 , 9 ' fy ' . -. 1 w ' 1 . 1 V. ' 4, . -1' , . 5 ' 1 , u .4 'f V. . I

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