Ludington High School - Oriole Yearbook (Ludington, MI)

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P innoeent Iflreslmmn enjoyed that long hot trip to Bass Lake.: how W9 gOt 111 on the wrong side of the lake and found a marsh fora picnic spot, and then how some ot' the fellows lightened the loads by taking all the grub across the lake in loaned Ol boats. while the rest of the bunch rode -or Walked around the south end of the lake and got there in the wee smallhhours of the afternoon with appetites that were at calution to all grub. But if I. reniember rightly. it was some feed eaten a la. French for porch, with Miss frilliding presiding very eonseientiously over the ice cream freezer and Miss bterling ditto over everything else and so on to the end of that Perfect Day when We got home as tired. hungry. sunburned. and happy a bunch as ever-but you have been there yourself so 'wattsdeusef I don't think We distinguished our- selves any farther than this as Freshmen. but in our Sophomore year we did again hold up our reputation by our-since made annual sleighride to Blanche Shappees. Before we nicely got started. a warning came floating down in the form ol' a slight mist that the sleighing which had been excellent might not be looked upon as sueh. but Sophomore like, we would go on in spite of a council of argumentation held on the fourth ward hill by the chaperones, and we tho't we were fully justified when the drizzle stopped and indeed the fun we had and the feed also would have compensated for almost anything and it was not long before it had a chance. Wlieii we. the chaperones rather, de- eided to go home. we found that the rain had been and was doing its best to make the wheeling splendid. but we had sleighs and before We had turned out of the door yard it was 'tall boys out and walk, and it continued so for about a mile where another council of argumentation was held and as the teachers had to be at the school the next day, or rather that day, they divided one load up into two and so went merrily on. while the other half started tdid l say merrilyl back to the farm home to enjoy ourselves the rest of the night. and we did until nearly noon the next morning when a wagon came out for us and thus endeth another lap of the race. In our Junior years things started to happen and here the multiplicity Qwhat a wordl and the brilliancy of the happenings has rather dulled the edge of memory a' little, but another filling of the pipe and we have memory pictures of a sleighride to OIdt's when we had such a splendid time that I will not try to tell of it. and of a picnic at Hamlin Lakes-ah! there I see memory starts with you doesnt it. so l'll skip that toog but the crowning achievement of this year was the tlarnivall tand that expresses itl at the Arbieter Hall. and the banquet given the Seniors in consequence of it. ' The carnival was the original idea of the class as a whole and as sueh lt wias carried out. l need but to mention the candy booth, hot-dog. food stutts emporium. the fortune teller. the House of Mystery, and many others and you too will be bringing up remembranees of the fun those two nights brought to you. but to we Juniors that fun meant more. it niealnt the success ot our enterprise, and the sheckles gathered in as a result of this made possi- hle one ofthe best banquets ever tendered at class of the Ii. H. S--please note that I said one of the best, because I think if l were to compare mv best ones with yours I think they would all be one of the best. l 'llhe baneIuet-original of course wats given at liugg House and the spirit 'll Pi good lllllth lree from the stitfness of too much conventionalism coupled with the splendid repartee thow's thatl '?g good toasts. etc, may,1,, it an Occa- sion never to be forgotton by the llers and lilitgl

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THE CLASS OF 1911. K In reveiwing the events that occurred during the four years of our High School life, it has coine to iny mind that perhaps if I should attempt to narrate and describe every iniportant aehievenient which we attained, in their true light, the reader would be prone to believe that the Writer was laboring under an egotistic imagination. In consequence of this it would be better to inerely suggest a fact or two froni our authentic record and from these as a. standard, allow those who peruse this annual to judge for theniselves the inerits and ability of the Flass of 1911. On the social side of High School life, let it suffice to say that the banquet we gave to the Seniors at the Stearns Hotel near the close of our Junior year, was preentinently the Atfair in the social history of L- H. S. It has scarcely bee11 equalled. let alone excelled either before or since. As to mental ability. it is a singular fact that about one-third of our class averaged above 90 per cent. for their four years' work. Surely we are entitled to soine dis- tinction in the records of the Alunini. But inasmuch as the purpose of High School is not to exalt those who enter its class rooins, but rather to inipart to theni knowledge and training which will be of benefit to thein in later years, it is well to give a few reinarks in that regard. lt is in High School that both the individual and collective activities. in athletics, social events and inental endeavors alre first brought before the eyes of the public. The student. here first finds his work under the scrutiny of the outsider and naturally begins to niould his actions in ace cordance with this wider criticisni. Just as the first inipressions of child- hood are inost lasting. so that instruction derived froni our High School course. where the results of our endeavors were first brought to light. prove to be of lasting benefit to us in alfter life even though the hard knocks of a worldly experience seein to have erased all nieinory of our Ludington High SCIIOOI. I ' Dave Mero. Class of 1911. Dear Editor of the Alinnni Department: - My reply to your letter of the 21st of February becaine inislaid and it was only today. during one of niy nionthly clean-ups, that I learned that it had not been sent, ln it I asked what the nature of the inaterial was that you wanted. as l have but a faint idea what forin that contribution should take, Dut I realize that it will take rather a little fast moving on Uncle Sanus part Jo get a reply back and forth and everything fixed up O. K. before the tenth However. I will give you now what material l think you want and if it is not what you wish, maybe we can hurry the P. O, service up a little and niake things nn-et' Necessarily. what l give inust coine from nieinory and perhaps it would be well to get the class seeretary's book from liottie Hainilton, for details and corroborations-is that alright without a dictionary? The first 1912 class event which memory recalls was the contest in Lec- ture Vourse ticket-selling which we won thands down' and. although ineinories do come erowding in about that campaign, they are not the kind one likes to tell about in public. so l'll leave them out. but the reward is what sticks. I think evelivone who partook ot' a bart ot' that reward, well reinenibers how Misses Sterling. Vv'ilcox. Gilding, Sinith, Ha.skell'???, and all the poor little

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Then just as all good things are reserved 'till the last, so with the history of the class of 1912. but our last years doings are still fresh enough to be easily uncovered so l won't speil any longer on that line of stuff. in fact I guess I already have too much. I suppose we might mention in passing. the joint Senior-Junior picnic. the -I-Banquet and the play 'given as part of the class day exercises, which by the way, is l think. responisble For several more recent innovations. And while we are thinking about it I suppose there are quite a few general things which might be ol' interest. Of course we were the largest class ever graduated-up to 1912 as every other class has been before and since. and ever will be too- Then too it might be ot little interest to know what has become of the thirty-nine that pulled down their sheepskins a-nd proudly marchd forth to conquer the world with the motto ot Not finished but begun before them. In 1913: Nine went to college. three to Ypsi. two to Kalamazoo, two to M. A. C.. one to 1'. of M., one to li. of NV. Five either started teaching or took work preparatory to teaching? eleven started work. and the remainder stayed at home. This year. 191-I: Two more went to M. A. C., two to the Nurses Normal Training school at Chicago. and several more began teaching. The others remained about the same. Orville Laidlaw. tflass ot 1912. A MIDSUMMER DAY'S DREAM- TIME ........ ................................. S TYMMER OF 1914. PLAVE .................... ............... L OTTIE RHORAS PORCH. FHARAVTERS ............... EIGHT MEMBERS OE THE INTER SESE. The occasion is a reunion of the club. The girls have been sewing and their work bags are scattered about on the tioor. Several ot the girls are gazing dreaniily into space while a few of them are sewing industriously. Silence reigns. FinalIy Edith breaks the silence. Edith- VVhy girls. it has been almost a year since we have been together, and here we sit without saying a word. Lottie- I didnt realize we had been so quiet. did you l've been thinkingf' Beulah- Girls. she has been thinking. Let all be qneit again and give her another chance. VVe ought not to interrupt anything like that. Heien- VVeII. Beulah. what has made you so quiet 1? You havn't said a word for a long while. I was beginning to get worried. Beulah- IJon't worry. Helen. Maybe I was thinking too. I can guess where your mind was- You were looking toward Lincoln. and dreaming. You don 't need to deny it. One dark night. dear old I3oswell's boat-house was the scene of a watery plight. tflara-L'Everybody must have been dreaming. Letfs all tell what we have been thinking about. Quite a few things have happened in the last year. don't you think so i ' Maybel-':Yes. Vlara. just a tew. Which one have you been thinking ot? Mildred- Yon mean Ucogitating upon. don 't you Maybel? l'lara ca.n't understand you when you use words of less than three syllables. Ileulah- Is that the kind ol' words they use in the kindergarten at Oberlin. Babe? I heard they had a couple ot well educated men down there.