Liberty Township High School - Moraine Yearbook (Chesterton, IN)

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THE 1 9 3 0 LIBERTY ECHO OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR CLASS HISTORY “OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF DIFFICULTY E were fifteen curious and eager persons who seated ourselves at Liberty Center, one morning in Sep- tember 1926, in a 1930 model of the Toonerville Trolley. As we started out the tasks of high school loomed before us a huge, dark, dusky mass, as do the Appalachian Mountains at first sight. A narrow road lead to this range, the Mountains of Difficulty. Questions arose in our minds: Where does this road end? Should we turn around and go back? But as we journeyed on through the mountains of Algebra, English, Latin, and Civics we found that the road lead on up and through these mountains. We found so many things of interest, we made up our minds that we could not possibly turn back. At the dawn of the second day our road led through a sec- ond mountain chain. Three of our companions had grown weary of the journey, either the monotony of the scenery or the jolting of tho almost springless car got the best of them. As we looked back at them we saw the sun rising over the distant hills and the mist beginning to clear away. Why was it clear- ing away? Simply because we had traveled through the moun- tains of Caesar, English, History, and Geometry. At the beginning of the third day, Louella Dau transferred from the New Jersey bus back to the Liberty Center line. Arithmetic and Solid Geometry gave us quite a few jolts and caused considerable shifting. But in spite of it all we descended the third mountain chain at the end of that day. Here we stopp- ed so the skipper could repair our car. We all got out our note books and made a record of the events and took some pictures. These were published in the Liberty Echo of 1929 which we distributed among our friends. In descending on the fourth day we found the road quite narrow. At times it seemed as though our car was going to roll over the embankment, especially when we got the results of our Physics exams. But Bookkeeping and Typing gave us new courage again. Another member has been added to our crowd and it seems our journey will soon be ended. Perhaps it is a good thing because the boys of our crowd say our car is in a bad condition. They claim it is all due to the girls, who do not leave all the management of our car to the skipper, but have become six excellent back seat drivers. We are very near our destina- tion, the city of Commencement. We can see it outlined against the sky in the distance. Our car will soon pull up to the wharf against which beat the waves of the sea of life. —Louella Dau