Geneva High School - Legend Yearbook (Geneva, IN)

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Junior Class Histor On the second of September 1911 the jolly Junior class of '15 marched into the Geneva High School and was seated in the Assemblbf. We numbered twenty-three, namely: Mary Ineichen, Katherine Fravel, Ina Bolds, Virginia Pyle, Olive Shimp, Althea Throp, Ruth Dickerson, Pauline Greene, Met- ta Haviland, Isabel Weeks and myself, David Cross, Ray Mc- Collum, Brayton Pyle, Harry Steeckle, Ralph Waldo, Clyde Good, Ray Mann, Edward Blosser, Fred Shug, Earl Shimp, and Fred McWhinney. In February we were joined by Bess Wright from Albany. Our instructors were Messrs. Griffey, Roop, Sawyer, and Miss Cook. Our lives as Freshmen were busyg we took leading parts in all the H. S. entertainments, on account of the discovery of our wonderful musical talents. So that when Saul was given, several of the class had important parts. We were not slow in taking up our social duties either and at seasonable times we entertained the H. S. at the Coliseum. The next year we bravely took the floor as Smarty Sophies our class having only ten girls and five boys of our own Fresh- men class, Irene Reed from Chicago joining us but Isabel Weeks moved to Oklahoma, Ruth Dickerson to Illinois, and Metta Haviland quit to work. Ralph Waldo and Clyde Good moved to Indianapolis, Earl Shimp to Ohio, Fred Shug and Fred McWhinney also quit to work. Our teachers this year were Mr. Griffey and Mr. Millikan, and Miss Lung. About holidays Cupid's arrow struck Althea Throp and she married John Greene. We as Sophomores then barred Cupid from our class. This year we entertained extensively and won the name of the most active class. At the end of the term a meet was held with Petroleum in our town in which the Sophomores partook. Curly Mc- Collum being the catcher on the baseball team and Doc Pyle runner in the running match. Several of the girls took part in the music and reading thus helping our school win so many points. This year as well as before our girls's quartet consisting of Ina Bolds, Bessie Wright, Louise Mattax fclass of '14J and myself furnished entertainment for many social gather- ings. As we climbed higher and became Juniors we realized that only once would we pass this way. So the third year of High School found us more studious than ever not forgetting the time for fun. We realized that we get out of life just what we put in it. We are in number, four boys and twelve girls, Hazel Byers of Ridgeville, Nelle Jones of Pollingtown and Isabel Weeks of Oklahoma having joined us. David Cross deserting us and joining the Senior class. We followed the instruction of Mr. Griffey as Supt., W. H. Egly as Prin., and Miss Lung Ass't. A good faculty indeed. We decided that our class contained as much talent as any other so we gave a play entitled Plain People Dec. 4th. From all reports this play was the best ever given in Geneva. On the girls's basket ball team our class furnished Bess Wright and Isabel Weeks as forwards and myself as center and Curly always playing star substitute for the boys. This closes the history of the class of '15 up to this date. Our minds are debating where we'll have the Junior Recep- tion, also a big, hard exam, stares us in the face only a month hence. With all these splendid qualifications why shouldn't we be the greatest and largest Senior Class ever sent from the Geneva High School '? fWait and see., INEZ PYLE

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Junior Class FRONT ROW: Isabel Weeks, Nelle jones, Ina Bolds, Olive Shimp, Katherine Fravel. MIDDLE ROW: Pauline Greene, Irene Reed, Inez Pyle, Mary Inechen, Hazel Byers. BACK ROW: Bess Wright, Ray McCollum, Ray Mann, Edward Blosser, Brayton Pyle, Virginia Pyle.

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Sophomore Class FRONT ROW: Milo Lindsey, Arthur Zehr, Forest McWhirter, Forest Watson. SECOND ROW: Bland Stahl Glen Vorhees, Merle Lee, Rich Glendening, Sanford Acker, THIRD ROW: Edna Mesel, Mary Hoskinson, Ruth juday Dorothy Larue, Mary Pontius, Helen Hale, Mearl Burris. BACK Row: Lucile Greene, Mildred Pontius, Mary Hou deshell, Alta Fink, Mary Hale, Tina Ford, Ruth Shoemaker, Rena Macklin.