Kalona High School - Centerika Yearbook (Kalona, IA)

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16 THE (C END ERsiKeA MAKING THE STUDY OF AGRICULTURE PRACTICAL Believing in the theory that we can best learn by doing, we do our best to make our class work in agricu lture resemble in nature actual farm prob- lems. We have made various field trips to nearby farms for the purpose of finding practical problems. We have had some men come to talk to us about farm problems. And in connection with our school, we have a large hotbed and an acre experimental plot. We have taken orders for many thousand garden plants. We are going to plant potatoes, popcorn, new grain varieties, etc., on our acre, and we will exhibit our produce at next year’s Fall Festival. It is our aim to make Center a vital part of this community. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Henry Wallace, editor of the ‘‘Wallaces’ Far- mer’, was the Commencement speaker. The exer- cises were held at Center High School, May 17. The Baccalaurate program was held at East Union Church, May 13. Edward Deiner of Well- man delivered the sermon. Remember Way Back When Delmar Brenneman walked-up the aisle using the joints in his knees, Lloyd Fry forgot his necktie. George Hess got into a fistic brawl at Cosgrove. The Juniors and Seniors went to Economics class without their lessons. Arvilla could sit still. Francis Palmer was tardy. Harold Miller tore up the road with his Ford. Charles Semler would not study his lessons. Esther Yoder had a supply of chewing gum. The Juniors and Freshmen were bitter rivals in basketball. Can you imagine the answers? What happens to a person with only hopes? They are hopeless. What happens when a fellow looses his head? He never misses it. Why is a man who never makes a wager as bad as a gambler? He’s no better. OPOrOS Otha: Can you tell me the difference between vi- sion and sight? Jacob: Iam a vision; you are a sight. The tightest person we ever heard of had coffee cups that were rough on the bottom so that when you put in your spoon you imagined there was sugar in it. Paul: My clothing store! My clothing store! Chfton: What happened to your clothing store— burn down? Paul: No, I sat on a nail. My clothing’s tore. Come To Center. One Two It’s good for you. Three Four Your troubles will be o’er. Five Six You’ll learn some tricks. Seven Hight It simply great. Nine Ten Say it again—Center. When troubles come And you miss the nail and hit your thumb; Don’t cry, nor give such a look. You never learned such things in a book. Mr. Osborn: I forgot my umbrella this morning. Mrs, Osborn: How did you come to remember that you had forgotten it? Mr. Osborn: Well, I shouldn’t have missed it, only I raised my hand to shut it when it stopped raining. Schools are many But there’s not any That’s to our hearts so nigh As dear old Center High. Mr. Osborn: Can you tell me what steam is? George: Steam is. Why—er—it’s water that’s gone crazy with the heat. Mrs. Robert Katz was looking for her husband, and, not finding him at the village grocery, she went over to the barber shop. The proprietor met her at the door and inquired what.she wanted. “Bob Katz here?” she asked. “No, ma’am, we do not,” replied the barber as he closed the door. Delmar: Would you—-er—advise me— to— er— marry a beautiful girl or a sensible girl? Ervin: I’m afraid you’ll never be able to marry either. Delmar: Why not? Ervin: Well, a beautiful girl would do better and a sensible girl would know better. Frederick: I thought she was bugs about you! Lloyd B.: I thought so too, but because I looked at some one else she stung me, MR BUG PROPOSES TO MISS BEE Dearest Honeybee, I’m bugs about you. You’re so cootie. Your mother tried to send you away to visit your aunt, but I spider letter. Come! Let us Flea where the Butterflies are and Drone the hours away.

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dy OB CENTERIKA 15 Economic Girls j LEFT TO RIGHT—Mrs. Hanson, Teacher, Leona Swartzendruber, Emily Slaubaugh, Edna Yoder, Leoan Liebe, Marjorie Hukill Agnes Ferne Wertz, Arvilla Eimen. Swartzendruber, Lois Bontrager, Marvle Palmer, Verda Gingerich, INTERVIEWS Jacob F, Swartzendruber is going to leave the community to spend the summer. If anyone wishes to see him, he can be found at Coe College engaged in school work preparing himself to teach. “There’s no place like home,” says Vernon Bon- trager, ‘“‘so I will help my father on the farm this summer.” Clifford Hess after much discussion and debating with himself, has also decided to spend the summer at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He will teach in the fall. Mary Eash will probably spend most of the sum- mer at home unless something unforseen happens. Home is a good place to be. Harold Miller plans to help his father on the farm. If possible he wishes to get a new Model A Ford. Francis Palmer will, as he always does, be seek- ing for more knowledge this summer in Coe College. Next fall he intends to start on a trip West where he and his folks will spend about a year. Fern Swartzendruber has definitely decided to stay at home and help her mother. We admire her for this. Otha Jones will be found at his home this sum- mer. His work will be farming, Maynard Reber will also spend his time in school at Coe seeking knowledge which will prepare him for his teaching position this fall. Marvle Palmer is going to take a trip west next fall with her folks for her health. She will be back with us the next year. Lois and Cecil Bontrager will not be with us next year because they are going to live in Goshen, Ind. They will finish their high school work there. Miss Bontrager, grade school teacher, is going to attend school at Iowa University this summer after which she will be with us for another year. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn will spend the summer at Solon, Iowa, and return in the fall for another school year. Mrs. Hanson intends to complete the work re- quired for grduation from Iowa University during the first six weeks summer session. Although she has not definitely decided where, she intends to teach next year. PRECEDENTS There seems to be a desire in every occupation to follow a precedent. ‘‘That’s the way they did it” is not an uncommon expression. But what about the persons establishing the precedent? Did they know just how their actions would be interpreted? This seems impossible and many a person would have acted differently had he known just how people would interpret his actions. The class of twenty-eight has made a precedent. We have tried to make our school what a school should be. We may have failed in some respects, but we also feel that we have succeeded in doing some good for our Alma Mater. It is “up to the classes” of ’29, 730, and ’31, in fact, every class which ever enters this school, to correct our wrongs and maintain the standards which the faculty with the cooperation of our class have established. We are depending upon every class which follows us to maintain the standards which have been set so that any alumnus visiting his Alma Mater in years to come may recognize this school as the school which he attended in the days of 728. Ae Sheets

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