New Lexington High School - Lexingtonian Yearbook (New Lexington, OH)

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SENIOR ( LASS PROPHECY I, Hathmar, having searched the secrets of the revolving planets at the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune, proclaim to you certain hidden truths. The N. L. H. S. has reached the zenith of her glory. She will never in the future graduate a class that will rank with the class of T3, the star class of all history. As the pupils make up the class, so the individual characteristics, as a whole, will determine the future for the class. Glenn Park, the curly-headed boy, will learn the tinner’s trade, and at the age of thirty fall from a high building and suffer the loss of his egotism. Ethel Sycks will, at the tender age of twenty-two. become a member of the firm of ------- Co. Paul Wolfe| the second E. A. Poe, will finally become unbalanced and end his life traveling the road to and from Somerset. Mae Leach, the society editor, will choose teaching as her life-work, and will become a famous expounder of the A. B. C’s. Warren Donnelly will pass the time away sitting around on the hilltops, gazing at the heavens. He will not idle his time away, but act in the capacity of a weather prophet for Uncle Sam. Helen Lewis will fret out her life trying to find an antidote for “Blue Monday. Errett Le Fever will serve eighteen years as supervisor of Bear Run, and later be elected Congressman by the “Ruffneck party. Eugena Quinn will become an instructor in domestic science at O. S. U., and many savory odors will issue from the kitchen under her supervision. Charles Elder will be a pharmacist, and a good one. He will fill prescriptions that will cither kill or cure—invariably kill. He will die suddenly, and on his monument will be inscribed the following lines: “Maxie” has departed for the better shore, For what he took for H20 was H2S01. Enid Spencer will, at the age of forty-seven, become the President of the United States. The first one under the suffragettes. George Brown, having completed his college course, will settle down on the farm and, with the help and encouragement of his golden-haired wife, will raise corn that will average two hundred bushels per acre. 18

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VALEDICTORY CLASS POEM, 1913 It is all too true that the hour draws nigh When farewells must be said to this dear old school; But ’tis with a feeling of sadness, when we say good-bye, Thinking of the hours we have spent in learning each rule. Four years we have spent in the dear old place, Four years did we study and labor and cram; Memories have been formed, which time ne’er can erase, Of how we dreaded and feared each terrible exam. Now those days are but things of the past, Those tests and exams we shall know no more; Our books have been laid on the shelf at last, And all too soon we will knock at life's school door. We have followed Caesar in his long campaigns, And saw Wilhelm Tell as the apple he shot; We know all about man, his muscles and brains; To grind through mathematics has been our sad lot. The wonders of electricity, we know them by heart; We can name all the great men and their deeds oi renown. But now we must forget them in life's busy mart. For their purpose is accomplished, their mission is done. Thus endeth our first lesson, Soon in life’s school, with its great problems, we shall be. May our teachers in every session, Be that Great Teacher, the One from Galilee. As we pass from this school, a young, hearty throng. We remember with regret, those who have left us; Some have dropped by the wayside, some to other schools have gone, Yet we will never forget that they were once among us. Just a word of thanks to our teachers is due, Who have so faithfully helped us on our way; We can never express our praise and gratitude. To them our indebtedness we can never repay. We have tried for twelve years a foundation to build. So that our lives to others more useful may be. Now to those younger, our places we yield, Only hoping that they may be more successful than we. When long years have rolled around, And we return to the scenes of our youth, We trust that some of our class a victor's crown May bring back to our dear old High School. George L. Brown, '13. 17

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Bertha Beckett, the aforesaid golden-haired wife, will preside in the kitchen and dairy, and will always wear a contented smile. Judge Greely, formerly known as “Red,” will hang around musty-odored, tobacco-spattered court rooms, making them shine with his eloquence and hair. Minnie Love will continue in her loving ways, until a certain Mr. Curry decides to take the fatal plunge in the matrimonial sea. Joe Braddock, having completed his electrical studies, will become famous. H. S. pupils of 1967 will study Braddock’s Law, instead of Ohm’s. The poet of the class will be Mabel Rinehart, who will discover her ability in her thirty-fifth year, and each month will send enough manuscripts to the editor to keep his fires going. Grace Trout will finally get caught by a certain angler who resides in Zanesville. He writes: My net is love, and it will not break; And your heart in it I soon will take. Mr. Strosnider will continue in his painful business and will continue to relieve people of aches, pains and money. Audrey Kinsel is doomed to be wealthy. She will acquire it by running a hotel. A German nobleman will claim her and take her to the Old World, where she will end her days. Our beloved Professor Van Atta will serve so well as County Clerk that he will gradually rise to the exalted position of Governor of Ohio. He will be honored, and bring honor to the class. Alveda Wallace will join the Red Cross Society and minister to the soldiers, and be as attentive to them as she used to be to a certain person “From” Somerset. I, Hathmar, having revealed to you these secrets, assure you that they will be fulfilled as foretold. “Here endeth our first lesson.” —CHAUNCEY RIDENOUR, 13. 19