La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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r n a m a p l n Pagt uinttetH ior class party also was held at his home in ()tis. Then the spirit which had prompted us when we broke all previous records in the junior year, began to make itself manifest again, and it was soon de- termined to edit the initial number of an annual, which we hoped would be taken up by succeeding senior classes. Needless to say, we arc proud of this venture. ( f our class play, our commencement, and the succeeding alumni reunion, which will follow, nothing can be said, as ibis is a history, not a prophecy; but they will certainly be marked by the same spirit of unity, which have characterized our entire high school career, and, as vve The attitude of the senior class of ev- ery high school is an important factor in the general welfare of the school. They can be of great assistance to the manage- ment of the school by inculcating the proper school spirit, or they can make it very difficult by encouraging disloyalty. I feel that the publication of the Maple bv our senior class is a school interest tint should be commended. The busi- ness-like way. and the splendid school spirit with which the class undertook the look back over that career, we arc proud to say that we belong to the class of nineteen twelve. —£. B. Wilcox, ’12. CLASS OFFICERS. i Iarold Brown—President. Howard Filie—Vice President. Katherine Francis—Secretary. Van Dien Terry—Treasurer . Donald Crawford—Member of High School Finance Com- mittee. Ruth Mann—Member of High School Literary Committee. project; their excellent judgment in the selection of staff officers and the staff’s good sense in always considering the best interests of the entire school; have not only been a fine demonstration of the right sort of co-operation, but have been an excellent training for all concerned in» team work. '1’he high school has received much substantial good as a result of the ear- nest and loyal effort of the class of 1912. —J. IT. Rittinger, Prin. THE CO Adah M. Austin.—E. Alfred Bormann.—S. Louis W. Bortz.—E. Vera Brooks.—S. 1 Iarold T. Brown.—S. Isabelle Burns.—S. Lula Carpenter.—C. W illiam J. Clark.—C. Donald Crawford.—I.. Edward Curran.—S. Louise A. Diesslin.—S. Walter S. Earll—S. Eileen Ellis.—E. Howard Ellis.—E. I lelen Egbert.—S. Evadna blood.—L. Katherine A. Francis.—L. Claude B. Freese. Alfred Gangwer. Julius Guenther.—S. Ross Hackett. Norene Harbert.—E. (iodfrey 11 art well.—S. U R S E S Nellie Heald.—L. Ruth Holland.—E. May Janes. Gladys Johnson.—L. S. Lillian Johnson.—I.. I )avid Kaplan.—I.. alter E. Kipp.—S. Arthur Irving Kunzc.—S. Erna LcRoy.—L. . Fayctta Lingard. Ruth Mann.—L. I Iarold R. Martin.—L. Warren 'I'. Mithoff.—L. Sheldon Northam.—E. F. Ixslic Osborn.—E. Cecil Roberts.—S. Fred Rummel.—L. Emilia Schallow.—S. William Tanke.—S. Richard Van Dien Terry.- 1.. Byers Wilcox,—L. Emma L. Youngstrom.—L. Marguerite Zumstein.—C.

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(Lite Jiistnru nf the (Class of HI 12 UR freshman year opened with Mr. Deamer as principal and Mr. Wood as superintendent. His son, Paul Wood, expressed a wish not to be nominated for the president” so Donald Crawford was elected, and presided at meetings which were models of order and decorum. The first real event in our high school career was a football game with the sophomores, in which we are proud to say that we didn’t get beat any more than five to nothing. Our memor- able class party at Francis’s followed. On this occasion we were honored by a visit from the rest of the town, including a few sophomores, who absconded with the limners of our bobs and made their pres- ence generally apparent. We passed the time in the thrilling games of barber shop and winkuni, and early next morning waded through the slush to the street car track; but we were happy. We had had a class party. Our president, Donald Crawford, and Gilbert I lennesey, at this time single, were the only real sports in the class. They took girls. The second year was like unto the first. K. V. D. Terry w as elected president, and captain of the foot ball team, which, by tin» way, was beaten ten to nothing this time. Great credit is due to Mr. Terry as it was under him that Physical Direc- tor Formalin began his athletic career. The class party this year w as held at the home of Lee McLean and was compara- tively uneventful. Winkuni was again the favorite pastime, and this year we de- parted in peace, visited only by a few juniors, whom we took pity on and fed. Fred Pummel was elected president for the junior year and early in the fall appointed committees for junior recep- tion. This year again under Terry, we held the seniors down to a tie—nothing to nothing—in our annual foot ball game. Our first class party was held at the home of Poss Hackctt. in Otis. and. hav- ing outgrown such child-like amusements as winkuni, we essayed “clap in and clap out” with great success. Some of the juniors who attended this party arrived home the next morning by three o’clock, while the last loiterers are reported to have crawled into bed at about seven. In the meantime the finance committee had bestirred themselves, and. on the twenty-seventh and eighth of November, gave a benefit at the Phoenix which net- ted over a hundred dollars to the class. With this as a nest egg. they gave a se- ries of six dances, several food sales, and a glee club performance at the school, for the junior reception fund. Late in the year we had another class partv, at the home of Norcnc Harbert, and then ev- erybody settled down to wait for junior reception. Friday, June the ninth, the entire junior class was dismissed and re- paired to Eagle I fall where the reception was to be held. All day the hall was a busy scene, and by six o’clock it was ready for the social climax of the class of nineteen twelve. It was decorated in the colors of the juniors and seniors. The entire evening was a tremendous success. W'e had danced until two o’clock and had spent more money than any other class in history and we were content. The Tuesday after the reception, we had our class scrap. This ceremony be- gan in the fifth ward when a small army of juniors, marching toward the fair grounds, was attacked and overcome by a band of seniors, attired in jerseys and tennis shoes, among other things: and was concluded when about half a dozen juniors walked back to town, after Lar- son’s Cadillac had left them about five miles out. Thus cndelh the third chron- icle. The class of nineteen twelve, seniors at last, elected Harold Brown president and defeated the rest of the school at foot ball, as a matter of course. The score was five to twenty. After much inter- nal strife, class pins were ordered and. after more strife, paid for. Poss Hackett again acted the part of host and our sen-

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Page lictu If Alfred Bormann Harold T. Brown Louis W. Bortz Isabelle Burns Adah Austin Vera Brooks Lulu Carpenter William J. Clark