Milroy High School - Yorlim Yearbook (Milroy, IN)

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YOR 1926 LIM school l accepted hls offer and brought to fall thls vacancy Zella Whlte from cDl1lO .she was my mece and became head of my household How well she ucceeded as teacher IS known to all and l think those who knew her wlll bear me out when l say that l thmk she was a Grand good glrl and a splendid teacher She taught wnth me nlne years l00l lllft INN I0 1 ROW I Miss Mat Culbertson Miss Ida Boys M1 s Yella White and Mr C E Burt all were my asslstants the Hrst year and thlngs began to grow We wer crowded In all classes Mr Wilson fixed up the llttle room ln the thlrd story the cons of Temperance room and MISS Laura Bowling was Installed as teach But yet not room enough How l drd enjoy this crowding and growing When Mr C M Kung became trustee and the need of more room be tame again so pressmg he bought out the M sonlc Interest ln the bulldlng and we moved higher And when the whole lzulldlng was occupied every room full of young people and no HTC escape the Lrg stove ln the lower entrance ometlmes red hot l wondered what we would do had the fire got hold of th rxckety old stairway Well the fire escape was put ln and lt seemed as lf most of the nolsy part was done during school tlme When MISS Maude Ellls was made assistant ln the hugh school we thought that no more could be a ked for Among the teachers somewhat previous to that time were oe ,Jtevens Thomas Nadal Mlttle cnmlth Della McKee Al bert .Jmlley Erma lXordmyer l..l1.ZlC Booth and Delphla Dawson XNUI I' PKI Although the work was of a strenuous character l enjoyed lt every hour The County Board of Education adopted a course of study and we were ask d to put lt mto effect Latin was NOT an electlve study Every boy and glrl took Latin and l suspect some of them dld not enjoy lt l desire here to re nate one Instance of my experlence m putting thls rule mto effect A young fellow brlght and hnely drsposed told me thls My father says he will declde what l am to study ln thls school and lf he cannot he will take me out of school and wlll send me where l can take what he wants me to study l told hlm that l should very much regret his leavlng now but that l would wrlte his father a note and l thought xt would be satlsfactory all around 0Il IN Nl Url l wrote the note and recelved a scorcher ID reply and bade the boy good bye at the door l-le left not very well pleased at the turn of things You see l was carrjlng out orders and Latin was not elective Well the ctool went right on and ln a few days the boy came back took Latin was one of my best boys graduated wlth hrs class went to DePauw graduated there has become very well krown m his Western state and wlll dellver the I4 an-nnn +g , C u C 4 A q . . . . I ETS V l ! I Sf! , Ii . '.' H i 'Z l'IX'l'llil4I lil'Il.lHXG Uffl' 'Hill - . ' . 'S - ' ' , . . . . , ' ' . e . . . , LI y A. ' . . i er. . C . - I .. , -, - , . s . ' . l J Q . . C . - - , , , , C . , .W . . . , , . l..K'l'l.' .' Il. I WYE C . . i . . . . , . .... . r K - Y 5 . , . . y 3 . . .X X ' ' 'I .' .' CNT: .X X ' 'I IS Rl'llfl'llYl'1ll I . K . Y v. 1 , I . . . , sz . ' . ' ' , ' , I . ' I Y , A . . ' . .

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YOR 1926 LIM Commencement address at lVl1lroy soon How l should llke to see him' And now l am convinced that too many subjects both m hugh school md college are electlve With such an asslstant as Miss lVl rude Ellis we could not but succeed and ln regard to the grade teachers we knew no dlscord for all worked for the success of all SX XIXN XS NMKXIN The Cwaln and McRae socletles were a great help ID keeping Interest W lad no champion basket ball teams to attract attentlon to our s hool and l believe ln basketball and other sorts of athletlcs l got mto that phase of xt at Arlington and Morristown l thunk lf basket ball had been as popular and well krown then as now l could lsawe trotted out a team that would have been a state champlon uch men as Pearl om rvllle Wnll Newbold Ray Qelby Wilbur Fisher Rex lnnls Edgar VanHook Guy Root Gus ghauck l could have had two or three strong hves We slmply had no place for ath letlc sports either indoors or out But l must not extend thls or lt wlll be thrown mto the waste basket If l ever agaln come to Mllroy l want to have a reunlon of some of my old puplls and with them rehearse cme of our experlences of days long gone by L P l never called a boy by his nlckname Do you know Samuel Rlley C ewart5 Who calls hum R1ley3 Dnd Clifford Power have a nlckname3 Dnd Clyde Archev have such a name3 Wlsat boy ran agalnst tlse old blackboard when l was ln the act of ralsm If so we might open the slldlng doors? Who wrote the bear story and closed by saylng So ends the bear s ory 3 Who put the saturated sponge on the seat of a girl who stood to reclt 5 Who put the frozen lnk bottles on the stove ln Mr Burt s room and re sult mk splattered on ce1l1ng5 What two boys sang Larboard Watch out of tune3 Three girls solved every problem ln Algebra and never asked me to 33513 them They were Wllda DHVIS Canme Barton and Nelle Bosley and they had r-o pony Does Bert Lawson still quote po try3 l wonder lf Grace Power remembers who were United States senator om lndlana Will some one tell me Grace s address3 Who was the glrl wl ose best wxshes Albert Stevens most devoutlv raved3 ame the gurls who later took nurse s tramln course Name the boys who later became M D s I6 F K m m Q . . . . . . l C ' . S- S e ' , ' , ' George Hardesty, Harry Sclby, Rush Tompkins, Billy Bob Vansickle-O yes, . S . n J. . S. . gl. l - 7 . . on. ' ' 5.7. . . A . X . . . g Y , .. . . C- . . . , . , - 4 y . .. I . . Y. J k I. Q . . Q . Y C l Q fr ' . ' ' . N ' . ' ' ' ' Q .