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

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S. R. WELLS MISS AIMEE JOHNSON H. B. iMMELL MISS MAUDE R E YNOLDS OF THE F. H. SIMONS miss agnes Anderson The faculty in LaPorte High is one of great variety. Its character is everything from frivolity to piety. The heights in its do vary from six feet down to four, The ages vary also, but of that we know no more. Some of them are married, some don’t care a jot; Some of them wear glasses, some of them do not; Some of them are females, some the other sex: Some of them have left us, others come to vex. But in order in the future that of them we may remember, Let’s pick out each’s oddity since the beginning of September. The first one that we think of is our worthy Mr. Harris. The first time that we looked at him he almost seemed to scare us, But after finding out his ways, that is, “figuritively speaking.” He caused us no more deep regret, his aid was our chief seeking. HARRIS MISS MA U DE L. WATKINS CONNER MISS MARY BE T H STEVENS H P. KELSA Y Page eleven

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F. H. SIMONS. A. B. School of Technology, 78. HARRY B. I MM EL. M. A. Commercial Instructor. Goshen High School. Goshen. Ind.. 1888. Tri-State College. Angola. 1902. South Bend Business College. 1908. Valparaiso University. 1914. IN MEMORIUM. MISS RUTH PRITCHARD. A beloved member of our Faculty. Loved by all who knew her. Died April 5. 1918. MR. S. R. WELLS. A. B. Butler High School. Butler. Indiana. Otterbein, 1914. MR. ISAAC L. CONNER. A. B. Instructor Physics. Botany. Gen’l Science. Lagor High School, Lagor, Indiana. Purdue University. Lafayette. Ind.. 1895. MAPLE BYERS. Instructor in Domestic Science. Franklin High School. Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana. Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Pase ton

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Three of them did leave us and of them we’ll ne’er forget. Mr. Bravy, with his cheery smile, his word of “do your best,’ Mr. Connelly, with his fondness for all things that tasted sweet, Miss Nowland, with whose English one never could compete. These three did leave our High School and of them we will repeat, That their help to us in High School benefits in life will reap. To take their places, came these two, Miss Johnson, Mr. Nielson. The former is quite “homelike’’ and the tallest in the squad. The latter is so recent that we haven’t gained his fad. Of other teachers we’ve a host, in fact there are so many That to walk around the school halls without bumping one is funny. There’s Mr. Wells, whose fluent tongue does that of girls surpass, And who’s so deep that oftentimes he’s the only one that laughs. Across the hall is Kelsay, the coach of all the teams, Whose handsome face did always gain the fair sex’s glowing beams. Mr. Immel is a business man and has not time for jokes, In fact he is so busy that he usually provokes. Now of all teachers that can keep a room without frequent commotion, Miss Anderson sure takes the cake and not a word is spoken. Mr. Simons teaches people how to draw and how to paint. Miss Pritchard tries to keep us from saying that word, “ain’t.” Miss Stevens, who from Indiana U just graduated, And who, from care and worry is freely emancipated, With giggles and with laughter she teaches French and Spanish, And when she starts to talk why then your speaking hopes just vanish. Miss Reynolds teaches pupils just how to “sprechen deutch,” She teaches them with earnestness and with a plaintive voice. Mr. Conner is the midget, and he teaches Seniors Science. He owns a farm some place down south, which he tills with stern defiance. He is a very single man and ’tis said, he’ll never wed. We hope, howe’er the day will come when he’ll yield and then be led. Miss Watkins teaches English, what to say and how to say it. Miss Faville teaches music, what to play and how to play it. Now Mr. Hefflin teaches one to saw and plane and file. Miss Wertman shows the girls just how to cook and bake and “bile.” All these compose the faculty, a group both short and tall, Through four long years they’ve helped us within the schools four walls. And now that we are leaving them to fight fate single handed, We know their teachings on our hearts have thoroughly been branded. Their faces and their oddities, their whims and all their likes Will always be, on land or sea, with us on all our hikes. Page twelve