Geneva High School - Legend Yearbook (Geneva, IN)

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Top Row-How do girls! Second Row-Why sponsor Third Row-Co-edsg Fourth Row-Seein' Fifth Row-Just we Bottom Row-Here hunting: Some Twenty-two you rate that? We protest! Closer, girls, closer! No gossip aliowed, so sober? Isn't one enough? Verda treats the crowdg The Juniors' Beauty and the beast: Three's a crowdg Swing it, sister! double? When he was single! Pigeon-toed, Mimg We want a smile, girls: Pull your neck in! A former Junior just a mistake. we are, don't we look a mess? Chet the candy salesman! Snipe future Seniors! In our solitude.

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listening To lady Meed Ideal was a young doctor. Fresh from college, with hopes and ambitions to do something, some- thing for suffering humanity, he began his practice in a small mining town where he was an absolute stranger. Unconth and Bluff were fellow doctors. At first he hated Uncouth. He was too smart for him. After a years practice he married the local school teacher, Miss Purity. Ideal was seeking a better job than he had. As a result he was chosen as a staff doctor in a great mining center. Due to his college friendships with Candidness and Undeceit he lost a lot of patients, but before three years had elapsed he had gained them all back. In this mining center he was working on a certain honorary degree. He passed the gruelling tests and finally da:hed away on a much-needed vacation-then to Lon- don for a city practice. One evening he and his wife were invited to dinner at a former college chum's apartment, Fick- leness by naxne. Other doctors were also present, namely Deceit, Fraud, and Miserly. When they reached home again, Ideal told his wife he had had a splendid time. His wife reflected, I didn't. Why!', he exclaimed, those are smart fellows! They have fashionable offices and all the latest equip- ment. For a few years Ideal kept the friendships going with the smart fellows. At length they arranged an introduction for Ideal to Lady Meed. He was quite delighted, but did not tell his wife. The grand evening came. Lady Meed was a gorgeous society woman but her beauty was not comparable to the beauty of his own dear wife. His evening was miserable. He went home, begged his wife to forgive, and broke the misleading friendships. His wife hugged him, tears in her eyes, saying, Ideal, you are just like you were when we were tirst married. LIL.-x C. SPRUNGER Collee Houses In the days when no newspapers existed, coffee houses were the chief means through which pub- lic opinion was expressed. Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his favorite coffee house to learn the news and express his own opinions on it. Each coffee house had one or more outstanding orators to which the crowd listened. The number and influence of these places constantly increased. Foreigners visiting London remarked that the coffee house was that which especially dis- tinguished London from all other citiesg that the cofee house was the Londoner's home, and that those who wished to find a gentleman commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, but whether he frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow. No one was excluded from these places who laid down his penny at the bar. It seems that each profession, each religious order, each rank, and the different political minded people had their own particular headquarters, The Grecian and the Rainbow were known as the most exclusive coffee houses in London. St. James and Wills were the places where politicians gathered, and Childs was the haunt of the clergy- man. These coffee houses reached only the masculine element in the population. The language spoken in many of these coffee houses was in that dialect, which long after it had ceased to be spoken in the fashionable circles, continued, in the mouth of Lord Foppington, to excite the mirth of the theater-goers. The chief peculiarity of this dialect was that, in a large class of words, the O was pronounced like A. MARJORIE INEICHEN AND ESTHER SOMMER Twenty-one

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President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Class Flower Class Motto Class Colors Sponsor Junior Data Franklin Armstrong Marie Stucky - Louise Smith Marilyn Augsburger - - Violet Paddle your own canoe - Purple and Gold Andrew C. Cook Junior Class Hislory In September of 1936, thirty-six proud boys and girls assembled as the first Freshman class in the new school building. The first officers of the class of 1940 were: President, Louise Smith, Vice President, Franklin Armstrong, and Secretary and Treasurer, Edith Hoffman. During the year we lost two members, Ralph Stucky and Dwight Felty. Everything went along smoothly throughout the first year and on May the fifteenth we left the schoolhouse for a vacation of four months. On August 11, 1937, Bill Blocker, a brilliant and well beloved member, was fatally injured in an automobile accident. In September of 1937, we reassembled as Sophomores with an enroll- ment of thirty-one. The following officers were elected: President, Edith Hoffman, Vice President, Warren George Haviland, Secretary and Treas- urer, Franklin Armstrong. In our Junior year, we were disappointed by losing two members, Floine Neuenschwander and George Boice. The officers for the year are President, Franklin Armstrong, Vice President, Marie Stucky, Secretary, Louise Smith, Treasurer, Marilyn Augsburger. On November 22, the Juniors presented a mystery play, The Phantom Bells. Twenty-three