Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY. N A Kl'NNY September morning of 1907 a number of shy boys and girls gathered before the Kouts Higli School. We were conspicuous for our timidity and our earnestness of purpose with which we faced the future. Some of us had worked to- gether the previous year, but the majority were strangers to each other and to Professor Wright, who began his career in Kouts with the Freshmen of ’07. In the process of getting acquainted 1 am afraid we lost the greater share of our timidity, and our earnestness of purpose was not always kept in mind. At the end of the year the class was not so large, but the faithful eleven were all there—minus a few credits. In 1908 we came in and took our places like people who “knew the ropes” and had been “behind the scenes.” The condescension with which we treated the Freshmen was something magnificent. Miss Leach had been replaced by Miss Atkins, but Prof. E. E. still con- tinued to instill Mathematical and Historical knowledge into our fertile (?) brains. The second year of our High School course was one of the pleasantest we have had. The long talks in Mrs. McClure’s English classes we still consider a rare treat and the declamations and orations which we were trained to give will surely reflect glory upon her career as a teacher as long as the fame of the K. II. S. endures. They were a source of great pleasure and mutual admiration for us even though we did sometimes stir up unusual commotion in the basement where we met as orators on common ground, and professor was more than once occasioned to descend to the above mentioned regions and silence the disturbing elements whose enthusiasm knew no bounds and whose elo- quence sometimes penetrated even the remotest corners of the class rooms above. It was during this year that one member of the class won renown for himself and the K. II. S. by his work in the Oratorical Con- test. There was a break in the class the second year—one of our bril- liant members leaving us to attend the Frances Shinier Academy, but we are glad to have her with us at “the finish.” I he third year found us all working hard, our work in Commercial Arithmetic and German being a great pleasure to us. We take great satisfaction in remembrance of the night when we covered ourselves with glory and reflected honor upon the K. H. S. by the all-star perform- ance ol “Sarah’s oung Man” to a crowded house of enthusiastic Kouts citizens. Our fourth year has been remarkable mostly for its Solid Geometry, which has been a source of terror to all the normal members of the class. But with Miss Tofte and Professor at the helm to guide and steer we managed to row together in harmony, and after a long pull and a hard pull, and a pull all together, we have reached the climax of our High School career. FANNIE HANNON, ’ll.

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EUNICE NICHOLS, Secretary When looking back on High School day And taking retrospections, A knowledge of your model ways Affords the best reflections. LEVI STIBBE, President Y our vices true, Your virtues, too. In all, our admiration May well be told. When we unfold. Each, our consideration. s.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 15 LIVING IN DEEDS. (Class Poem.) UR trumpet sounds no ill retreat, Nor leaves us vantageless to stand; The vanquished ills we hourly meet, Leave firm our feet with sword in hand. We choose the path we might pursue, An illusion of a beautiful dream; A deed that’s true we all ean do, If apparition dull may seem. When shall we reap the longed for seed That sprouts in manhood’s rugged way? From man’s first want to his last need, It faithfully ’waits his long delay. By slow degrees we steadily rise, While history is a lengthened rhyme; In lowliness we’ll be more wise, And live the life that is sublime.