Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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MIRAGE 27 school. Item 7. Because of the inability to find a sufficiently talented vocalist, we were un- able to bequeath to any one the place of Guy Jackson, soloist and entertainer of the Boys’ Glee Club. The Senior Class air leaves a great gap in the choral clubs, which time alone can fill, and as for our singing in Chapel, Well! any kind of a noise is pleasing to hear sometimes. Item 8. To the school we leave such personages as Forest Brandt, Bess Baker, Vorys McLaughlin, Wright Amerine, Will Kiefaber, Judson Morris and John Sil- baugh, who started out the year with us, but, because of a love for the school, the teachers, (or vice versa?) other classes of individuals, have postponed their depart- ure just a little longer. Item 9. To those who have gone back “to the farm we bequeath the hope that they will carry throughout life their abil- ity to forsee coming disasters and thus es- cape such things as examinations, rhetori- cal and note books. Item 10. And, separately, we make the following individual bequests: To a local optician, we leave a Maxwell, which we trust will be guarded safely; to Mr. Flood we bequeath a supply of chewing wax, garden implements and a limited amount of bluff and hot air; to Mr. Sutton, the lady admirer, we will the surplus athletic funds and a dictionary of varied slang phrases; to the teachers who will have to endure Vorys McLaughlin in the vears to come, we bequeath the right to use, as projectiles, all movable property, such as vases, erasers and books. (Will the President of the Junior Class please come forward- Pres. Carl Nourse appears. Also Gerald Hewetson with an unplaned ladder and Russell Lloyd with a finished one decorated in green and white.) This first ladder, still in the rough, is the one with which we started off our high school course. The second, which was sim- ilar to the first, but which has been worn smooth by four years of laborsome climb- ing is the ladder by which the Senior Class has risen to their fame. We bequeath to the Junior Class this ladder, decorated with our colors, green and white, in order that they may attain a degree approaching our present sublimity. We give, devise and bequeath equally all the rest and residue of our personal property, whatsoever and wheresoever, of what nature, kind and quality soever that is not hereinbefore given and disposed of. (after paying our debts and Commence- ment expenses), to Miss Drinkle and Mr- McCandlish, when they shall have reached the age of 21. And we do constitute and appoint Miss Curtiss, Miss Larimer and Mr. Hickson, of our said faculty, as the executors of this, our last will and testament. In Testimony Whereof we, the said Sen- ior Class, have to this our last will and test- ament, set our hand and seal, this the thirt- ieth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. (Signed), CLASS OF 1917. Lancaster High School. —By George H. Rutherford. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Senior Class as and for their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our nam- es at their request as witnesses thereto, in the presence of the said Senior Class and of each other. Russell Lloyd. Mildred Baker Mary Hood. Gerald Hewetson.

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26 MIRAGE CLASS WILL LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CLASS '17 OF LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOL. We, the Seniors of Class 1917, Lancaster High School, county of Fairfield, and StaU of Ohio, being of sound mind and disposing memory and understanding do make, pub- lish and declare this our last will and test- ament, hereby revoking all former wills and bequests of whatever nature made by us at any time heretofore. Item 1. We bequeath to each member of our loving and idolized faculty a clus- ter of that aromatic shrub—rosemary for rememberance of us. Item 2. We give, devise and bequeath to the Freshmen Class, a new school build- ing and hope that they will continue thru- out their irksome days the spirit with which the building was secured; also, all the jour- neys homeward after delinquent grade cards. For information concerning the tricks of this trade, we refer them to Ger- ald Hewetson or John Silbaugh. And we leave to them a copy of D. M. Hickson’s tried and true rules which follow: 1. When you come to school, come in person and get here on time. You must economize on account of the war, and yel- low paper pads are much more expensive than white ones, even though they are sometimes less desirable. 2. Go to class once in a while, it reliev- es the tedium and helps to escape work and to pass away the time between 8 and 4:03. 3. As soon as you arrive, pick out a girl and then take her to everything. (They like it?) 4. If you want to say anything dove- like, don’t tell her she is pigeon-toed! Finally: Don’t stay away from church, even if beds are not furnished. The preach- er expects you! We do advise that these rules be follow- ed, for it is frequently quoted that “an ounce of prevention is better than an hour of period eleven.’’ Item 3. To the Sophomores we be- queath the supreme right of class spreads, in whatever manner or under whatever name they may think best, and we sincere- ly hope that they will receive as much pleasure from their functions as has been received by members of the Senior Class from their frequent parties, hay-rides, sleigh-rides and “Hot Dog’’ roasts during the past year. We gladly will to them the best and most comfortable seats at the fre- quent entertainments, provided only that they pay the required admission. With en- viable regret we leave to them the rather unpleasant and suddenly sick feeling which is felt about every six weeks when mother answers the telephone and hears a few re- liable reports about her delinquent son. If you desire further knowledge, see Wright Amerine. We also impart to them a ray of hope that they will enjoy the frequent chapel exercises of next year as much as we have the long tedious ones of this year. Item 4. To the Juniors we give and be- queath the Senior Dignity, which we should have had, but didn’t, for Miss Reasoner continually assured us that we acted worse than Freshmen; to them also we leave per- haps the greatest item of our will—our standard! and we direct that it shall be maintained in the same High Degree in which we have placed it; we bequeath to them our student government and hope that they will carry it forward to such a success that the cause of its origin will dis- appear; and we will to them Robert Giesy’s book entitled “Common Sense Physics”, which, although rare, delicate and contain- ed in a few pages, may with care be stret- ched over an entire year. Item 5. To Mr. Thomas we bequeath a simplified, modernized, standardized, un- debatable German Grammar. Item 6. To Donald Hunter. Claude Jewell, and Pats Pairan, we will the arts and devises for framing “white slip” ex- cuses, now held by Harry McClanahan, Ralph Brenner and Walter Noles. These have reduced the practice to such a condi- tion that it is easier to skip than to go t'

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28 MIRAGE CLASS HISTORY (Louise Wilson). The raindrops, falling from Heaven and alighting upon the river, instantly become a part of it. Scores of these tiny drops form a ripple, which little by little becomes stronger until, at last, there is a mighty wave. Some of the water is taken up into the air again, some drops become separated from their wave and join others, while all along its path the wave is joined by small drops of water on their way to the sea. Such has been the history of the Class of 1917, one of the largest, and not the least illustrious classes which ever entered Lan- caster High School. Four years ago, ninety-six rain drops coming from various tributaries of the river of Education, entered the main stream and formed the ripple of 1917. This ripple be- came stronger and stronger until there was a mighty wave, from which some of the drops departed to join the wave of the Work-a day World, while two floated away upon the wave of Matrimony. Our Freshman activities were neither numerous nor varied, consisting of a single class meeting called for the purpose of ap- pointing a committee to arrange a stunt for the Senior Carnival. This meeting was characterized by the usual pandemonium of Freshman gatherings, and by Mr. Cur- rier’s heroic attempts to bring order out of chaos. He must have succeeded to some de- gree at least, for the committee was actual- ly appointed, and the stunt, “The Seven Wonders of the World”, as finally pulled off, reflected credit to the committee and made the Sophs. Juniors and Seniors sit up and take notice that what they may have considered a bunch of innocents would soon prove to be a force with which to be reckoned in L. H. S. The usual tragedies came at the close of the Freshman year when a number of our drops assumed the past tense and were dropped, so many in fact that the roll call at the beginning of our Sophomore year was responded to by only seventy. Since this was a scriptural number, however, we still had a feeling that we were the chosen ones and proceeded to fortify ourselves against future losses by making friends with Caesar and his associates of the Soph- omore year. Unfortunately, too many joined the Cav- alry branch of Caesar’s army and when forced to dismount for tests, exams, and finals, found that their long unused pedals would not support them, although Miss Curtiss almost equalled the marvelous feats of Bonesetter Reese in her valiant ef- forts to save them. It was during this year that the class proved its title to a place in the Hall of Fame of L. H. S. by producing a master- piece in art under the title of “The Human Organ”, as its stunt for the Junior Hal- lowe’en Fair. It is beyond the scope of the historian to attempt a detailed or technical description of this instrument and it is per- haps sufficient to say that it was fearfully and wonderfully made, skillfully manipu- lated by Emmett Speriky, having numerous internal workings. The raindrops, during the latter part of this year, visited Buckeye Lake. It was supposed to be a picnic of Sophomore rain- drops only, but there were others there as the cohorts of Jupiter Pluvius held a con- vention at the Lake the same day and got rather mixed with our crowd. Our ardor was somewhat dampened but neither rain mud nor automobiles ditched, could separ- ate us from the good time we set out to have. The record of this year could not be com- plete without mention at least of the de- lightful journeys o’er time and o’er space we took in Ancient History under the hap- py guidance of Miss Davidson, for who has ever known her but to Jove her? But hark ! the thunders crash, the billows roll, the waves dash high-nay, nay, noth- ing but the Soph Finals, but to some of our sprightly drops they meant finis. They might just as well have splashed over the