Leipsic High School - Le Hi Yearbook (Leipsic, OH)

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Many of our numbers have dropped out along the way for good reasons, and others have entered to help us enjoy our mental glee. To be a Senior was our ambition as Freshmen, and our goal has been reached. Surely good luck and prosperity will follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the Hall of Fame forever and a day. In any instance it is sad to say farewell, and it is with more regret than sadness, that we now say the parting, and go out to travel life’s highways. Those days will be recalled with regret and when we see the name of Leipsic High our hearts will echo “Hong Live the Maroon and Cream held so dear by its followers.” D. W.

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CLASS HISTORY Oui goal is won and what we termed a possibility, four yea s back, is now a realization. We are graduates cf L. H. S. and we take our place in record as one of those classes who have done things worth while. It is a sad event when we say good-bye but listen to our past and perhaps you will agree with me in thinking that we shall not be forgotten. In the fall of nineteen hundred fourteen we entered the courses of this task as Freshmen. Our initiation was postponed indefinitely by the Sophomores, and although we were green as any, our minds always chose the right way and methods of procedure. Mistakes are common with the best of us and we were no exception. As Sophomores our number was smaller and the times jolier. Our embarrassment wore off and we were as important at the school functions as the eats. Our conquest of Caesar was a glorious victory under the leadership of Mr. Edwards, now of the Y. M. C. A. in France. Talk is cheap, but we test the value of a word before we use it. Class reputation was considered first, in all our actions and our intelligent looks were attested to by the fact that one of our numbers was mistaken for a teacher. (No the teachrs fault.) Our class also had its stars in athletics and literary Our high aim in school often left its mark on the ceiling in the form of paper wads. Laws must be exercised or they are useless, hence our importance in school. Many a rumpus in the office, followed by short, sharp slaps, told us that the reward of the wicked was sure. As a truth this was all for the good of the pupils. Hip! Hooray! Here we are Juniors before we ever expected it. Then is when our superiority is shown. The greatest misfortune of being Juniors is to act as an inferior to a Senior. We did our duty and passed as Juniors always do. The Maroon and Cream came back in the fall of ’17, waving over twenty-six loyal fellows. After two or three weeks of vacation on account of epidemics and Christmas vacation we started in each time with a will. We all joined in making this our last year a great success. Loyalty to the U. S. was shown by two of our seniors. First Harry Wilson and later Earl Hummon, our star basketball player, entered the service of Uncle Sam to help swat the Hun.

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CLASS PROPHECY It was in August, the year of 1928 when I, traveling from Detroit to Philadelphia, found myself at Cleveland, Ohio, and with no chances of leaving that place until the next day, as I had missed my train. Time hung heavily on my hands and I decided to go to a theatre. I was undecided which one to attend when my eye caught the sign : “Kate Schomaker Stock Company.’ The name sounded familiar, but yet I could’nt place it—but I at once decided to go to that theatre. Upon looking about I saw that it was “The Hippodrone” the largest playhouse in the city. I entered and after a time secured a seat near the front. The show' began and imagine my surprise when I recognized my old class mate, Helen Schomaker, as the leading lady. Why I was more surprised than I can tell as ‘Kate’ always said she was going to be a Domestic Science teacher. I lost all interest in the play and I don’t believe I could now tell one thing about it—I was wondering how I could manage to see Kate and to renew our old time friendship. I found myself thinking of my other classmates and of the good times we used to have at Leipsic High School. At the end of the second act I decided upon a plan—Iwrote Helen a note asking when I might see her, and sent it with one of the ushers, and was very glad when he returned, saying that Miss Schomaker would see me in her dressing room immediately after the show. When the show was over, I went at once to the stage entrance. Others seemed to be having trouble to get in but I was admitted at once. Helen seemed overjoyed at seeing me and I was even more so at seeing her. We talked and talked and talked. I can’t say that Helen had changed much but since she had become such a successful actress, she seemed just a little different than when I knew her. I asked her if she had been at Leipsic recently. She had not, but she was well posted on the local news, as she corresponded regularly with Gladys Henry, another one of our class of ’18. Gladys is now teaching Latin at old L. H. S. and she is also secretary of the Leipsic Alumni Association. Gladys had at Helen’s request sent an account of the one’s belong- ing to our class of ’18. Of course as I was interested to know about each one Helen gave me the information, which she received from Gladys and it was something like this. Florence Franklin had gone to College and taken a complete course in music and elocution and is now traveling with a Chautauqua. This was not surprising as Florence was always musical and was a good talker. Earl Harmon who went away to war dnring our Senior year, is now Physical Director of a Y. M. C. A. at Chicago, Illinois. Dora Potts and Melvin Cook were married and are living on a large experiment farm north of Leipsic. This is interesting as it was the