Logansport High School - Tattler Yearbook (Logansport, IN)

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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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Y 'x I so l IQ' wish Li in i X l lvl lit ill xtll xii Y My ly X ' XX Nln I XA. Twelve meet the first deadline. i sl its il y6al'S have bl'OUghf Cl7al7g6S For fifty years, as surely as the coming of autumn has brought a colorful pageant of falling leaves and the fa- miliar sounds and scenes of school life, September has meant the outline of a new school yearbook, and month by month, day by day, the carefully planned pages have been filled with reminders of valued friendships, hard work, and happiness-stored there, lest, as realities pass into memories, the memories fade from recollection. For that half century, Tattler has preserved each nine- month span of life at L.H.S. As styles and habits have changed from year to year, so has the annual, but basi- cally all yearbooks have shared a common objective-an accurate and interesting record of school achievements. Paper backed and string-bound, the Tattler primer of l907 was produced by twelve students. To mold this edition, a staff of thirty have put their ideas into pictures and writing. While these ideas are, for the most part, orig- inal, from each previous year has come some scheme or design that has helped fashion this 1957 Tattler, another proudly added to the unbroken chain of annuals at L.H.S. sails: vmyq. ,mwbs gi by te-QI.,-1, VXA t ' 4 'Nfl

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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