Logansport High School - Tattler Yearbook (Logansport, IN)

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Janitors believe Cleanliness is next to Godlinessf' MQryM0rgQn,,,1921 overs and clothes made news THE YEARS: 1917 to 1926 ln 1917 Miss Mary Hartz conducted an orchestra of twenty- one pieces and a glee club of torty-two girls, that some year the football team carried on without a coach . . . 1918 was a year of sharing: L.H.S. gave boys, money, and time to the war . . . in 1919 a flu epidemic closed the school but didn't stop the basketball team, who came back to win the district tournament... 1920 introduced a hot-lunch program and the long-hoped-for athletic coach. . .the fol- lowing year three arts gained recognition with the debut of Junior Music Club, French Club, and the Magpie, Tat- tler pictured the Hickville Peppers, a drum corps which kindled enthusiasm at basketball games . . . in 1922 a band boasting twenty-one members was organized . . 1923 brought Hi-Y andthe construction of what is now the old gym . . . 1925 opened with a bang, sounded by the new Rifle Club. 6

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Buttons and bows or bobby-sox and bluejeans, '08 or '57-frash differ little. he beginnings were simple THE YEARS: 1907 to 1916 Calendars, senior prophecies, jokes, poems, essays, and a few scattered pictures made up the early Tattlers . . . the book which went to press in 1907 pictured three hundred students and a graduating closs of forty . . . highlighting 1909 was an undefeated football season, all opponents fail- ed to score . . . not even a raging flood prevented the jun- ior class of 1913 from publishing a monthly school paper, the Reminder . . . from the 1914 book came the following: Tattler meetings have three excuses for existing: first, to give female members of the staff an opportunity to tat, second, to let the hemoles play poker, and last, and most important, to make an excuse for not having any lessons on the next day. . . . the present building, started in 1912, was first used in 1915... 1916 saw the first an- nual football banquet and the reorganization of track. 5

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l Logansport still has a warm place in its heart for the state champions of l934. onors came with added slcills THE YEARS: 1927 To 1936 Photos of the new Berry Bowl spilled from the pages of the i927 Tattlerg diptheria caused many empty seats in classrooms that year . . . borrowing from the past, the i928 book used as a theme the original Tatler, Richard Steele's famous series of essays. . . Logansport's neglect- ed Indian lore provided material for the next book . . . in l930 Aladdin and his lamp cavorted through the pages . . . history repeats itselfg today's short haircuts actually came into vogue in l93l . . . in the spring of i932 the band won the district championship . . . Coach Clifford Wells guided L.H.S. to its first N.C.C. basketball championship in i933 and on to the state title in I934 . . . an Honor Society charter was awarded in i935 . . . I936, not unlike 1957, saw students sidestepping cement mixers and wheel- barrows as terrazza floors became a part of the school. 7