Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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1910 THE CRIMSON 19 PRESIDENT ' S ADDRESS BY OREN BRONSON BATCHELOR RIENDS AND CLASSMATES: It was the will of the class that I should serve it as president during the past year and as such I shall address you tonight. The field of Commence- ment Addresses, particularly that of the president, is extremely limited; the same old route has to be trodden over and over again. I do not want to burden you with its repetition tonight. Suffice it for me to say that the members of the Class of 1910 are very grateful for the privileges they have enjoyed during the past four years or more. The importance of this Commencement for us can not be exaggerated. It marks, perhaps, one of the turning points of our lives. The life that we shall lead after tonight will be essential- ly different from that which we have led. In a way, with tonight we cease to be dependent upon the protection and the pocketbooks of indulgent parents ; we are expected now to use our own heads and our own hands. Untried, but not un- willing, we are thrust head long into the future, willy-nilly blowing. Our fate the future holds ; both the end and the result of this hazardous journey are hidden behind a dark and inscruta- ble unknown. The mystery of life overawes us, especially tonight, brought face to face with change as we are. More than the beginning of a new life, does this night mark the close of the old. To me it seems as though this were the severing point of the last bond that holds us to childhood and youth. The careless, carefree, happy-go-lucky days, eyen now, are but memories. The first days of spring are not what they used to be. The days are not so long, the sky is overcast more frequently, and somehow, even the breezes are not so balmy and fresh as they once were. So enrapt do we be- come in the problems and necessities of life that daily confront us, that Nature loses her fairy- land aspect, and we see more of the rugged side of life, which must be, of necessity, the phase of life with which we must become acquainted. Only for the poet does Nature remain the same. The rest of us have only memories of the days when we were all poets — in childhood. Happy though those memories are, and hard though the trials of life may be, yet not many would live them over again. Still there remains the regret that they are gone. Tonight most of you make your first acquaint- ance with the Class of 1910. Perhaps you have been scarcely aware that there was such a class. Now as the passing show, we attract your atten- tion. Tonight, in the words of Shakespeare the Class of 1910 struts its little hour upon the stage. In a day or two it will have been for- gotten and we that were members of that Class will have sunk again into the life of the world, from which we now for a moment emerge. Thus far we have been preparing ourselves for the World ' s Workshop, developing a little thinking apparatus and enough character to varnish — the qualifications that the master of the workshop demands. Now, being able bodied and suppos- edly sound of mind, and having been adjudged as in possession of enough common sense to bal- last us for a time, we are to be bundled out into the world to apply these things. We go to live in a new environment. We assume the responsibilities of men and women. The state has given us all that we have. It has lavished money upon us, bestowed care upon us. In return all that it asks is that we be worthy men and women — that we be good for something. Upon twenty-seven members of this class the state has bestowed the ballot. When the time comes to-use it, may they use it with intelligence. Let them be grateful for the privilege they enjoy and make the highest interests of the state their own interests. We have a representative form of government, but it is representative only of those who take part in it. But there is one thing above all else for all of us to remember — to make our lives worth while — to be of those who live to push the world along — to make it better, more worth while, instead of laggards who follow after like driftwood on the tide. On the sea many derelicts , wrecks of once proud vessels, float, a menace to life and property. On the sea of life, too, we meet many derelicts who are a menace to life and property. Let it be said of the Class of 1910 that it did not add to the number of these.

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18 THE CRIMSON June THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN CAST The Hon. Jim Hackler, The County Chairman Harry Whitmer Tillford Wheeler, His Junior Law Partner Jack Frankenstein EHas Rigby, Opposition Candidate for State Atty Otis Kercher Riley Cleaver, Editor of The Patriot Loyd Stettler Wilson Prewitt, Editor of The Banner Ormond Smith Jupiter Pettiway, Manager of the Fife and Drum Corps Wallace Mehl Sassaj ras Livin rston, A Touch of Local Color Kenneth Knox Uncle Eck Milbury, an Old Settler Morris Elliott Jefferson Briscoe, A Store Porch Orator Russell McCann Vance Jimmison, the Store Keeper Oren Batchelor Jos. Whittaker, the Windmill Agent ., Glenn Wiseman Cal Barcus, the Station Agent Vincent Vallette Chub Tolliver, the Smart Boy Samuel Peck Lucy Rigby, Daughter of Elias Rigby Ora Davis Mrs. Elias Rigby Mary Butterfield Mrs. Jefferson Briscoe, Boarding House Keeper Donnita Woodford Lorena Watkins, the Village Milliner Henrietta Smith Chick Elzey, Orphan Who Works for Mrs. Briscoe Madge Butler Tilly Pauline Piatt Members of Fife and Drum Corps. Henry Leslie Leidner Glabe Overton Calvin Madlem Amos Whitney Forrest Funk Dawson Montgomery Earl Weaver School Children, Towns People, Campaigners, Village Girls, Etc. SYNOPSIS. Place: Antioch. County Seat Anywhere in the Mississippi Valley. Period: 1880. Act I. Main street in front of Jimmison ' s store in Antioch. Day of convention. August. Act II. Court House Grove. Opening of campaign. September. Act III. Interior of Hackler ' s law office. Four days before election. October. Act. IV. Interior of town hall on election night. Getting the returns. November.

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20 THE CRIMSON June CLASS HISTORY BY ORMONDE SMITH Y FRIENDS, we have assembled in this beautiful theater to perform the last sad rites over the body of the Class of 1910. On the sixteenth of January, 1906, thirty-eight awkward but well-mean- ing freshmen entered the Goshen High School and assumed the responsibilities in- cident to that institution. The following fall a class of fifty followed in the wake of these path- finders. Out of the two aggregations only ten of the first and five of the second rightly de- serve the title of survivors of the fittest. But these are not all of the glorious class of 1910 who will receive the stamp of approval from the old G. H. S. The rural districts and towns around Goshen have contributed as their share twenty-one good representatives of miscellane- ous accomplishments. Nor, did the class of 1909 depart intestate. By the will of our worthy pre- decessor, Harry Whitmer, Nelson Blough, Glenn Wiseman, Frank Rhodes, Pauline Hatch and Ruth L arimer were devised to our kindly pro- tectiofL They, with those enumerated above, comprise the roll of this most illustrious class. Of the original number not with us tonight, a few have sought other schools, many have made their debut in the world of business, and some have decided that the double life is the only life to live. The first year of our high school course pass- ed rapidly. We spent much time becoming as- similated to conditions and in trying to solve the value of the algebraic X. One event worthy of note happened. THE CRIMSON was first pub- lished, which has proven to be a great success. During our Sophomore year a subscription was circulated among the students and faculty in order to raise money to equip the gymnasium. This fund was generously contributed to, $450 being raised and the gym fitted out in a short time with suitable apparatus. At the beginning of our Junior year we were spurred on in organizing by remarks dropped by the seniors and overheard in the halls, as ; that ' s a fine bunch, — they haven ' t any spirit, — its a wonder they don ' t organize, et cetera. We did organize and started speedily on a career by electing as President Oren Batchelor, the boy with the sober visage and genteel voice. After numerous meetings we decided to give a sleigh ride to Millersburg, where the Juday Brothers entertained us royally. Shortly after that trip we gave a high-school dance and the following month ' s Crimson com- mented that at last the Class of 1910 was absorb- ing a little spirit. So we strengthened our ad- vantage by a party at Miss Pickering ' s where we enjoyed a pleasant evening playing cards and pulling maple taffy. By the way, I think some of the boys lacked experience in the latter line. Just before spring vacation we were con- fronted with the difficulty of obtaining funds to defray the expenses of entertaining our worthy superiors, the senior class of 1909. We were in desperate straits as to what to do, when some- one proposed that we give a Junior carnival, an idea we eagerly grasped. It was a large and costly undertaking but it was our only hope. All through spring vacation we worked hard and when the opening evening arrived we were sur- prised at what we had accomplished. The crowd and its enthusiasm were more than we had antici- cipated. When our expenses were settled we were $120 to the good. Now, wouldn ' t that make a class feel important? But we took the seniors ' advice and refrained from getting the big-head . We immediately expended $40 of that money on a dance and card party. The re- mainder we used in giving a farewell reception to the class of 1909. We stopped at nothing in its preparation and we surprised them by our ability. It left a high standard for them to live up to, but they were equal to the occasion and excelled us by their entertainment. Our festivities took place one week before examinations and there was not much left to do. In order to keep things lively about fourteen of the boys succeeded in placing a banner on top of the high school, but Mr. Davis did not seem to catch the spirit of the affair and removed it early the next morning. Thus the events of our Junior year were brought to a close. Meanwhile many of the boys were making names for themselves in athletics and incidently making history. The school succeeded in cap-