Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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John Wandry His home town spoiled him. Herrold Cannon Our only defense. Cameron Betterton Why should I study and make myself mad? Edwin Koester A very gentle boy and of a good con- science. Jessie Mansfield A quiet lass and good, sincere in all she does. Josephine Cincoski Dainty, sweet and good. Jessie Blachley She is a girl of many virtues and few vices. Bethel Wheeler With a smile that was childlike and happy. Dorothy Detlefs Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Ruth Wandry Her sunny locks fall around her tem- ples like a golden fleece. Hiram Berlin A student, nothing else. Anita Rosenbaum She’s a busy girl. IDALINE TRINKLE, ’15.

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ROLL CALL Seniors. Bessie Wolbrandt A blushing bud of innocence and bliss. Mabelle Salzer Modesty is the essence of purity. Idaline Trinkle Uneasy lies the head that bears the frown. Lester Hayes Those who live in a melancholy state, live miserably. Leo Shutske For e’en tho vanquished he could argue still. Albert Honehouse A bashful, mild mannered youth, also in love. .1 uniors. Louis Pahl A real chauffeur, generally in good luck. Alice Kruell One who to herself is true, and there- fore must be so to you. Florence Boedeker She speaks, behaves and acts just as she ought. Louise Kosanke Why don’t you say something? Sophomores Frederick Metherd At the head of his class. Anna Hartman I want to be a scholar and with the scholars stand. Hattie Hartman Young and good. Hattie Wolbrandt That childlike expression on her face. Emil Werner Nature hath oft her little joke. Emil Jarnecke His only labor was to kill the time. Bertha Drazer Exceedingly precocious. Genevieve Hannon The favorite of the school. Lydia Rosenbaum One of the twins. Leona Rosenbaum The other one. Sadie Welch Diss iss a hart vun to say nuttings about. Agnes Laurer Who said 1 laughed? Leona Williamson Her name is common, her virtues many. Paul La Count Too energetic for so small a fellow?? Bessie Williamson Simple, sweet and unassuming. Florence Nichols Brevity is the soul of wit. Warren Wright. He is all Wright. Fresh men. Harry Maxwell He walks as if he was stirring lemon- ade with himself. Dorothy Anderson With a smirk and a smile Her profs to beguile. Wilbert Dunkel He swings along. Laura Kosanke She improves with age. Marion Williamson All great men have big noses. 25

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY. nllK Class of 1 fH7!” Those few words mean much to the Sophomores of 1915. We are the largest class in the history of K. H. S. and with this distinction we have good right to claim that the Class of 1917 is to he Kouts High School’s greatest. So we wish to interest you in the history of the first two years of our High School course. There were twenty-two excited boys and girls, who gathered in the venerable Kouts High School building that first day of school in the autumn of 1913 to take up the duties as Freshmen. As members of our class there were nine boys and thirteen girls, namely: Jerry Danielson, Bertha Drazer, Genevieve Hannon, Anna Hartman, Hattie Hartman, Emil Jarnecke, Eddie Kosanke, Paul Kraker, Paul LaCount, Agnes Lauer, Clarence Lawrence, Florence Nichols, Leona Rosenbaum, Lydia Rosenbaum, Ruth Stoddard, Sadie Welch, Emil Werner, Bessie Williamson, Leona Williamson, Warren Wright, Hattie Wolbrandt and Frederick Metherd. The faces of the superintendent and the assistant principal were not new to most of us, who had learned to know Mr. Robertson’s beam- ing countenance and Miss Kring’s ever exemplary demeanor. But Jhe kind, earnest face of the new principal, Mr. Alexander, was as yet 27