Mitchell High School - Gold and Blue Yearbook (Mitchell, IN)

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Reminiscences o Four Years In M H S When twenty'two freshmen entered high school in January nineteen twenty' two it was the beginning of the famous class of twenty-six. In the class was the flirtatious Juanita Mary Sue the pianist Clarence Alice Frances Mary Ball Wahneita Childers Morri. our basketball player Hugh Frank' lin of the famous Pickens Coupe' Eckie Paul Kelly Otha Fletcher Opal Conley Grace Lowery Ellen White Mattie Short Vetrice Bonds, Tommy Smith John Junior Emmet Ramey Fred Brinkworth Ruth of many romances and Rozetta. Then in the fall of nineteen twenty'two some still greener freshies entered high school. Among these were conscientious Bertha busy Burl Kathryn the mimic the two Helens, Johnnie the II Arthur Mabel Bowers Hazel Barnes Nova Scotia Rex Isom Doodle Clarence Walker Johnnie Bundy Robert Keane Menlo Miller Bur' lon Lewis Jim Root Lowell Wright, Delo Moore Irene Hill Grace Greer Belva Jones Hilda Tranter Alberta Mitchell Tony Jenny Mary Cutsinger Helen Shanks Evangeline Lewis and myself. Before we had hardly started on our long joumey to the gateway of the World of Men and Women, Paul Kelly, Grace Lowery, Vetrice Bonds, Tommy Smith, Em- met Ramey, Clarence Walker, Johnnie Bundy, Robert Keane, Menlo Miller, Delo Moore decided to leave and go to work. So when we reached the Sophomore year, the first stop, many had dropped out. Then Belva Jones decided to get married, Mattie Short and Alberta Mitchell moved to Indianapolis, Jennette Qjenny as we called her thenj moved to Bedford, and Ro' zetta decided it was too hard for her and got out and started walking. But we had some additions to our class in Lysle Hackler, who is quite a long asset, Louis Beas- ley and his little brother, Augustus, and Stanley Smith. When we made our next stop,'the junior year, a few more familiar faces had disappeared. Doodle had gone to Bedford Business College, Mabel Bowers went to work, Hazel Barnes moved to Mt. Carmel, Illinois, and Olive Erwin moved to Wash' ington. During this year we published the school paper, the Hi Herald, and beat Bedford. We did both up in fine style. Then Minnie Naugle and Mary Sue de- cided to rush on, and they grabbed the bus that the class of twenty-five was on and graduated with them. At last we reached our last stop, the senior year. We published an annual which we tried to make worth while, upheld the standards of M. H. S. and bettered ourselves. At the beginning of this year Solon Coyle moved to Bedford, and Helen Shanks and Irene Hill dropped out. But Leland Bryant decided to join our famous class, and with this force of thirty'nine members we passed through the gateway to the World of Men and Women, h .M HE. .1-Mm XID l KN-Jlf I MXN I LIIIJN I I Y NX 4 N I YV I I' If' l . . f . . . , , 1 3 ! :D Q . . , .,,. . Our colors, purple and white, are still flying, maintaining and proclaiming our motto: -lus Qbf is Qbff -J. DEISHER BURTON, Senior, .Z6. ' ,,, N, ., .. ,mN,,,.,.. ,,. ,, . ,, . .W .s3.....,....nnr.s-Zssw., , 26

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r. onooccwo. noon :wJri'v.f,-2-.. 'T rr 'f,,,.-'- --V -a.ex,x.1.1- , .5 V VVYVV . - N . .... LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT-Continued O. Ruth Harrison leaves her ability to make Mrs. Hostetler laugh to anyone who Ncan. Sh k . Otha Fletcher hequeaths his habit of sleeping in the assembly to Hisle ee s. 22. Fred Brinkworth and John Sims leave their love for the women to William Williams and Stanley Henderson. 23. Louis Beasley bequeaths his individual scat in the assembly to anyone who is worthy of such IL place. 24. Leon Green wills the remainder of his Ford roadster to Wilma Dietz, for: the purpose of driving to school, providing that Wilma will attend school regularly, and not damage the said car. 25. Hugh Pickens leaves the privilege of riding the girls to anyone who is pro- vided with a nice Ford coupe. 26. Edgar Porter unwillingly leaves Kathryn Burton in charge of his brother, Lawrence, since he does not wish her to get out of the family if he is forced to leave her. 27. Deisher Burton bequeaths his yellow slieker and knee trousers to Holland Elgin. 28. Hilda Tranter wishes to leave her love for the Roots in the care of LaVeme Lewis, who she believes will do it successfully. 29. Edgar James Eckensberger leaves a portion of his superior culture and high intellect to Henry Root. 30. I, Evangeline Lewis, wish to leave my sympathy for the one who has the hard task bestowed upon him of writing a last will and testament for the annuals to be published in the future. 31. We hereby appoint the juniors as executors of this last will and testament and only wish that they will follow the example set by the famous class of '26, by leaming all that is to be leamed in the senior year. , In witness whereof, we the seniors, of Mitchell High School, do affix our seal on this nineteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. s 1 M- fs J -J 1 ,f-754 MV ,,,y'f' G 0 L D a n d B L U E . 2 21 Signed: EVANGELINE LEWIS. s..,.... ,..s.... a t . ,.....e.....2...m...,.. IQZ6 ...W .,. . .. M ws w w 25

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