Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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l l Qtlass laistnrp we tell our high school history, let us name those who Ni , had a part in educating us in the grades. First, Miss Bessie 4 Brown, second, Miss Frieda Price, third, Miss Edith Johnson, fourth, Miss Mable Tusing, hfth, Miss Anna Iifert and Mss Edna Evans, sixth, Miss Edna Evans and Mr. C. J. Holloway: seventh, Wilbur Miller, Miss Ida Fields, Miss Lantz, and Miss Zartman, eighth, Mrs. Ida, Fields Neff, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Strycker, Miss Lantz, and Miss Zartman. In September, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, a group of seventy- three students, seeking more knowledge, entered Nappanee High School and were named the Class of '29. Regardless of the tortures inflicted upon us by the more experienced students, we thoroughly enjoyed our Freshman year. We were permitted to attend the high school Hallowe'en party and we had two parties of our own: one, a picnic in the baseball park and the other in the gym. Mr. Trabue was our class advisor, Chester McCuen was president, Wilma Abell, vice president. and Helen Frederick, secretary-treasurer. Sixty-two returned for our Sophomore year. It was a pleasant sen- sation to hear the underclassmen called green rather than us. Mr. Trabue was again selected to be our advisor with the assistance of Mrs. Bartholomew. Chester was reelected president, his twin, Lester, was elected vice president and Helen Frederick was again secretary-treasurer. We had a skating party at Blosser's park during commencement week. Then came the Junior year with less leisure than before. We selected Lester to be our captain, Chester, assistant, Maxine Wright, treasurer, and Julia Welty, secretary. Miss Iffert and Mr. Longfellow were our class advisors. On December 13, we gave the play Miss Somebody Else and were well pleased with the results. Then we gave the Seniors and the faculty a Japanese reception. Geisha girls from the class of '30 were our waitresses. We had two parties at Blosser's park and would have enjoyed another. The Seniors entertained us at a Hallowe'en party at the park. Our Junior class enrollment was fifty-seven. Ruth Weber, Kathryn Knobel, Launa Beechley, and Howard Field became new members of the class. Y Page Twenty-six 1

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NAPAN6 ZBipInma Iiauur A graduating Class 'of 1929 .numbers forty-seven students. lheie are thirty two girls and fifteen boys. 't ii The Class of 1928 had nine pupils born in the month of Septeml er. The Class of 1929 has one born in that month. The month of August with nine birthdays leads the list for the class of 1929. There is one pair of real twins and there are two other graduates born on the same day, December 20, 1911. All other birthdays are so scattered that no general statement can be made. Birthdays do not fall on important holidays. One pupil celebrates January 1. another February 12, while two others celebrate Christmas on December 26 and 27 respectively. According to India.na custom, most pupils enter school about the age of six years and spend twelve years in school, providing they complete the high school, hence the average student graduating in 1929 should have been born in 1911. Of this class, one was born in 1913, eleven in 1912, twenty-six in 1911, six in 1910 and three in 1909. The average age of the girls is 17 years, 9 months, 11 days. The average age of the boys is 18 years, 0 months, 29 days. The girls of this class graduate 5 months and 4 days younger than the girls of last year's class, the boys graduate 1 month and 14 days younger. The .oldest member is a boyg the youngest a girl, age 15 years, 11 months and 14 days. Sixteen members of this class have been absent less than tive days during the four years in high school. Attendance honors go to Lester McCuen, who has been neither tardy nor absent. Next in line is Howard Field who has been neither tardy nor absent during the two years he has been enrolled in Nappanee High School. The other fourteen in order ol' least absence are: Virginia Coppes, Carlyle Mullett, Kathryn Knobel, John Stauffer, Ruth Barnhart, Oscar Kline, Verna Herr, Evelyn Yarian, Opal Brumbaugh, Chester McCuen, Julia Welty, Ferril Miller, Lillie Crow and Hazel Metzler. The class of 1929 put on their own commencement. The class play was entitled The Genius . The Salutatory was given by Chester McCuen. The Valedictory was given by Virginia Coppes. Commencement date, May 24, 1929, Place, the city Auditorium. 1 Tig! rwgifi,-fin

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FF And now, in our Senior year forty-six have returned to complete their course. Three of our members, LaDoris Yeater, Edna Gooch and Lawrence Yeater, graduated from the New Paris High School this spring, and Willa Walker graduated from a high school in Defiance, Ohio. Madge Miller was added to our list this year. We again chose Lester for our president. Mr. Yoder and Mr. Abell are our class sponsors. Our class has been well represented in the athletic activities as well as in the band, orchestra, glee club, and music memory. The play The Geniusw was presented. We were splendidly entertained by the Juniors. Our course has not all been a bed of roses nor has it been all thorns. We have tried to deserve our diplomas. To you, who have fallen from our list, we are sorry that you cannot enjoy commencement with us. We feel that you have missed a goal worth striving for. This completes our class history. That which we are now awaiting is graduation. Tomorrow we will have left Nappanee High School, and our places will be taken by the underclassmen. These treasured days will have gone but they will not be forgotten. They are written in our Golden Book of Memories and even Father Time cannot erase them. We are reminded of one hundred years ago of the famous class of '29 when Holmes and many other prominent men were graduated from Har- vard. We hope that from our list will arise similar geniuses. We hope that the future will not disunite us from our classmates but this is only a class history and you must consult our prophetess concern- ing our future. Helen Frederick '29 1929