Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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D E, THE Seniors of Hobart High School, County of Lake, State of Indiana, being of sound mind, do give and bequeath the following articles and instructions, to- wit: To the class of 1914: Item 1. The labor of compiling and publishing Volume VII of the “Aurora.” Item 2. The right to first choice of seats in the Senior Room. To the class of 1915: Item 1. The custom of giving a Junior Reception, with the hope of getting one in return. Item 2. The responsibility of inducing a few more members to join the class, and help fill the empty seats. I To the class of 1916: Item 1. The pleasure of enforcing the celebration of Saint Pat- rick’s Day by the Freshmen. Item 2. The duty of finding the real meaning of the Greek word P “Sophomore.” To the class of 1917: Item 1. The right to be the most care-free, irresponsible class in l H. H. S. Item 2. The canned Botany specimens, to smell and admire and study. . 1 , j 4j J Item 3. The big microscope, of which they must be careful and considerate of its value as an antique. To the business classes: Item 1. The typewriters, each with its own disposition and temper. Item 2. The privilege of spoiling reams of clean paper. Item 3. All the red ink, rulers, penholders, surplus blanks and envelopes they may find left by the present class. To the art classes: K Item 1. The privilege of exhibiting in the halls their handiwork, provided they do not become post impressionists, futurists, nor cubists. To the science classes: Item 1. The opportunities of spoiling clothes, books, and dimes in the laboratory work. Item 2. All the glassware, et cetera not broken by the present Seniors and our predecessors. I 2 0

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0 0 In the conventions Edna Scheidt was nominated for president on the Progressive ticket, Fred Rose was proclaimed the Republican leader, and Fred Hillman was the Democratic candidate. Then came Registration Day and much fear was expressed by those living out of Hobart Township as to whether they were eligible or not. It was decided that since all were members of the High School they were entitled to vote. So we all went up, one at a time, to the library, where two Republicans and two Democrats sat in control of the machin- ery. There we answered the questions and signed our names. But November fifth was the greatest day of all, for this was to show the fruits of all our campaigning, and bribery, you will perhaps want to say. After the tables had been arranged out in the hall and the little room by the stairway assigned as the booth, it was announced that the ballots were ready. We were told to go and vote one at a time, and a feeling of pride and fear, too, and a swelling from that organ that St. Valentine Day could not do without, came, as we went to cast our first vote. “Our first vote”; what does that mean! Why, it means that in after years (1 don’t say how many) when folks say: “Well boy, how do you feel after your first vote?” (it may be girl, too, then) we can smile and remember that it isn’t our first vote as we think of the good old days in school. Well, the outcome of all this was that the Democrats won and Fred O 0

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v=Z7 u a Q= Item 3. The privilege of tinkering with all the apparatus that does not work according to the book. Item 4. The duty of tasting all salt solutions, alums, et cetera, when so directed hy the teacher. To the Faculty: Item 1. Our grateful thanks for four happy, useful years. We do hereby appoint Mr. Haughtelin executor of this our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we, the Seniors of the Hobart High School, have set our hands and seal, this twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. R ALPH BANKS RALPH KRAFT RUTH S. THOMPSON BERTHA C. BUSSE GLADYS A. MAXWELL LIGHTNER G. WILSON WALFRED L. CARLSON FRED W. ROSE OLIVE E. WOOD FORREST CRISMAN EDITH E. REAM Signed, sealed and published and declared by the Seniors as their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, in their presence, and at their request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto set our hands as witnesses, the day and year last above named. EDITH E. SYKES SPENCER G. STOLTZ U Q t