Geneva High School - Legend Yearbook (Geneva, IN)

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Senior Class FOSTER PIKE Ohlagatzif' s born at Findlay, Ohio Dec. Q, 1892. llis great desire is to study cicctricity. Foster is our cxcc-llent tenor singer and we shall miss him very much. lie has our highest regards :md host wishes for succcss. llis motto is : Keep plugging away. ,aff ,.,,f-f +- ,,-fix if -2 I S-.--f

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Senior Class David Cross Anna Armantrout Louise Mattax Milton Eckrote nlflzls- Ilixliii-y. ': :t': 'L al. - - ,- - . H . . I mm l L ml .llifs lniiisu ln-grin lit-r lilc iii lllll' iizitivc Xillxigi- in iii-lim-xii, .Xiigii-K lldlti-i' lJ'ii'iil LR-iiv WN hum In I mm uhm NIM, I NW, HC hw 13, 1890. Slic if iwtcrl mostly fur licr i-xc:-lleiit iiiiisirzil tailviit-, lt liz:-. . . .5 .. . , ., , , , 1 . ., l I ' ' l Q A , V . . . .' . I . lu-un suiil tlizlt l':ulc1'cwski is Zl iliftunt i'clutix'c in liors, l.iviii-tw :iiiilmi lwvii YCFQ'J1k'llYg'2lll1Ill.fllll' lim-5 ul iiratiwy. ln ileliutiiig' Iii- eqiizil is liaril , . I I V . . . . . . timi is tw lie ll great piuni-t :intl tu ti-Jivli viviiiig .Xiiii-i'if:ii1s l.iiw lu tw liml. llziviil is lczulur in zitlilctius. liciicva scliiml lust-N xi Qmiil Ntucli-nt A ' ' ' ' IllZlIllIDLllZ1lU tlic ivurius. lit-iicvzi Scliiml will mi-Q In-iiiw 115 tlivii' wil :mil strung 5lllllMll'fL'l'. ling uiicl cu-1' 1-cruly pianist. ANNA E. ARMANTROUT IWLTON ECKROTE U 4 A i I I H Notable liixviitiiiin :xml 'l'l1i-ir lllllNlI'lIllll'k'.U Six lzpuclif wt Iuiiglisli llistory. Xliltiin lfckrutc was lmrii im Il fziriii, in-:ir l.inii liimvu, Intl., .Xugii-.t Xliss .Xnnzi lf, .xl'lll1lllLl'HlllXXZiS lwrn in 'l'ex:z5 Der, 3, INQ3, Slit' i- ZS, 1305. llc' attunrlerl the sclmul :it l.im1 Grove fur twrlvc vczir- :ini mir quiet Ftiiulent, llcr great :imliitinn is In lx- ai st-lirml niistrt-ss. Anim tlien camc to Cleric-va for his Si-niiii' win-ls. llis uiiiliiti-iii i- hi lic fiwciiixlii ix Ll stiimlioiis, t'llCI'gCtlC sturleiit. llcr iiiuttu is, nrlillillli lic-fore you act. of an electric stone criislicr.

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Prophecy of Class of '14 In 1930 we shall see John Eckrote as a farmer, he is as successful as his neighbors, is prospering stea lily and has his prosperity wrapped in the four letters, weo-r-k. When sixteen years have passed Ruth Linten will be a school teacher in the same school house that she had gone as a girl. Being merely a teacher of boys and girls she is not quite con- tented for her dreams in youth have n-ever come true, not be- cause of never trying but that a fate has fallen upon her as it has fallen upon the uncountcd millions before her and will come to the unnumbered myriads after her. When the specified time has passed Foster Fike will be a Civil Engineer. While Foster's plan for the future came to him in an evening, a look into his, life shows that uncon- sciously to himself it had grown for years. In 1920 a certain man built a cottage which sheltered Doris Acker, in turn that cottage sheltered others. She began her new life with a man whose arm was strong enough to protect a wife and whose should-ers were broad enough to carry aloft their children in a sort of grand gladness, while that young man took unto himself a mate which made for him a home in every sense of the word. Merrill Pyle, until he had reached the age of fifty, was a financial wreck but like Kipling I believe he was accumulat- ing experience, knowledge and the effective wisdom which enabled him to get his second wind after he had reached the half century mark, for when he did gain back his dry goods store he not only made it a paying proposition but caused much trouble to his struggling competitors. Perhaps it will be a surprise to most of you if I should tell you in twenty years Milton Eckrote will be crushing stone, by that statement I do not mean he will be in prison but owner of the Linn-Grove stone Crusher. A manufacturer once saw a young man, bravely struggling, bravely fighting and gave him some assistance but with this assistance David Cross never became a Henry Ford,.a Swift or a McCormick but he did become wealthy, the only person in the class of 1914 who ever received a really liberal portion of this world's goods. As a lawyer Charles Drew had tried hard to get a position in higher politics but because he would not become corrupt and join party bosses had never succeeded so he had to be con- tent to act as prosecutor of his county for the remainder of his political career. Have a doctor look you over every six months or oftener no matter how well you feel, such will be the advice of Merle Vance in a number of years for Merle will be a doctor in a small New England town. No person can say I have taken lessons of Louise Mattax on the piano and I have received so many ounces of harmony, of expression so many ounces, etc., for music is too high an art to be measured in pounds and ounces. Louise started to be a music teacher in her school days and 1930 still sees her pursuing the same occupation. Many times do people give up the ideals that they have formed in youth for something that by fortune comes in their way. Thus did Marjorie Reddout abandon the idea of marry- ing rich when a certain young man of moderate means asked for her hand in joyful wedlock. In fifteen years Anna Armantrout will be a bookkeeper for the Ford automobile works. Being above the average in neat- ness and accuracy she has reached her position. I am number thirteen in the class of 1914. In fifteen years if I say I will be a senator I will be an egotist, if I say I will be a 'bum' or a tramp I will be a person without ambition, so let it be hoped I may be a lawyer, a doctor, a preacher or a member of some other noble profession. Harold Wegmiller. '14,