Madisonville High School - Annual Yearbook (Madisonville, OH)

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On St. Patrick's Day, we gave a dinner and dance. In the afternoon, two basket-ball games were played and then we entertained over two-thirds of the school with a fine supper. After this came dancing, Which was heartily enjoyed, and thus ended one of the most success- ful affairs ever given in M. H. S. Our Annual has been published and Class Night and Commencement will soon be over, and, with these, our school days will be ended. We do not see how the school will get along with nothing .but Kewpies, Goops and Freshies, but we hope that it Will weather the storm. C. W. SWORMSTEDT. 13

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t. .g..:. .;. HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1916 0:0 .-..:. 1:. HEN the opening day of school came in 1912, a bunch of boys and girls arrived and declared theme selves to be Freshies. For the first week or so, we were found all over the building, dodging in and out, disturbing all the other classes and being generally in the way, a trait which every Freshie class seems to have. With this class the activity did not end, however, after the first two weeks, but has continued to the present time. The flag rush came along with a technical victory for the Sophs, but it was contested fiercely. The lights raged for a day and a half, with frequent intermissions, when Mr. Peoples came out. It was even written up in the papers. ' When Class Night came, in recognition of our activity and industry, we were named the Bees, a truly appropriate name. The next year we won the flag rush decisively, and then proceeded to break precedences and establish one for ourselves. We gave a party. This was an unheard of thing in M. H. S. for a Sophomore Class to do, but we did not care, despite certain Senior threats. Every Sophomore Class has since followed our example. In the Junior year we slowed down a little, but still had plenty of good times. On Hallowe'en we had a party at the home of Floriene Roberts. The crowd went in machines and, while we were in the house enjoying ourselves, some boys from school, not mentioning any particular class, let all the air out of the tires, crossed the Wires in one machine, and took the connections completely out of the other. This only added to our enjoyment, for 12 Louie Jones was greatly excited and swore all kinds of revenge on the culprits. We always suspected a certain bunch, and took great pleasure in inflicting our revenge upon them at a later date. In May, we entertained the outgoing Seniors. This was the most brilliant event of the year. The night before the day assigned, it rained, and Mr. Merry advised us not to go to Lake Allyn, as we had planned. So instead, we took the Possums to Woodland Park and then returned to the school. There a. fine supper was served and the remainder of the evening spent in dancing. This year has been the best of our whole career. There has been plenty of excitement, activity and hard work for every Senior throughout the entire ten months. The first job undertaken was in the painting line. We decided that the front of the school was too unattractive, so we assembled one night and painted the steps in our class colors, Royal Blue and Silver Gray. This was the most daring stunt ever ttpulled off. on the faculty. The second job we undertook was to remove the said paint. And, in so doing, spent the biggest part of a second night and wore out several good wire brushes. Shortly after this, we undertook to publish an Annual. Every class has dreamed of this for the past five years, but it has remained for us to really accomplish it. Despite the pessimistic advice of the faculty against this project, we persisted in it and, by hard work, we raised five hundred dollars in subscriptions, in advertising and class dues. The school supported us loyally and the Seniors appreciate it greatly.

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EARL T. ALTMAN Football Team,'1915; Philologian Literary Society, 19154.6; President and Critic of Literary Society, 1915-16: Editor-in-Chief of Annual. If Earl displays, in his affairs through life, the samq splendid executive ability He has shown in his work as Editor of our Annual, his success will be assured. EUNICE B. AUBREY She is her selie of best things the coHection.-Philip Sydney. Although shy and demure, Eunice has proven a good worker in all class affairs. SELMA BAADE Assistant Social Editor of Annual; Glee Club. 1914-16. Known to all as Sam. A11 giggles, smiles, and good nature. 14