Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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ARCIS li-.-.-N W-- '....,,,, ,i'm: SENIORS' PSALM OF SCHOOL 'l'ell me not, with troubled sighing, School is but an endless grind! For if you will brave demerits, You can 'liven it you'll find. Wisdom's lore was oft so puzzling That our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, with fears, were loudly beating, When our cards the teachers gave. Some enjoyment and some study VVas each Seniors usual way, And we worked, that each tomorrow Found us ready for the day. We shirked no lesson, howe'er easy, But prepared it just the same, So that in class if we should fail, We'd not have to bear the blame. When we saw the names of others Carved upon our desks with care, How we yearned to follow likewise, Names, which seen, perhaps, by others, Plodding on their weary way, May give them more desire for study. And rouse their courage for the fray. For school means labor, school means study, To attain what's been our dream. Through four long years of patient striving, lVe've seen commencemenfs beck'ning gleam And, as now we leave the High School, The scene of many hopes and fears, Success has filled our hearts with gladness: The parting hlls our eyes with tears. Then, in the Worldls broad field of learning, In the scholarship of Life. Shall we let the word, Defeated , Overwhelm us in the strife? No, we'll all be up and doing, As fn Life we take our stand, And show the world that '08 Seniors Are loyal, faithful, true and grand. And View with pride our own carved there. GRACE 1-IETZNER, 'O8. 29

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MABEL LOUGH RAN. Be to her virtues very lcindg Be to her faults a little blind. Themeg The Spell of Egypt as Revealed in Her Monuments. ALFRED JOSEPH BERGMAN. Familiarly known as Dutch.', ln Athletics he is the pride of the School. Sergeant-at-arms Senior Class -08: Captain Foot-hall Team 'O7g Captain Foot-ball Team ,085 Athletic Department Narcissus, '08. Theme: Government Ownership of Railroads. ZULA REBECCA RUSSELL. Has never spoiled anything through silence. Theme: The Possibilities of Woman.

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W'-- W A eefef as - N ...,. ww 0 8 N .., S CLASS PROPHECY N the year 1960, a great tournament of air ships which started from Hamburg, Germany, arrived in peaceful Peru, in honor of two very scientific inventors, john Banks and Ralph Conradt, who in the good old golden school days were the kid won- ders in Chemistry. They conceived the air ship idea in the year 1907 when the peaceful village of Peru turned out into her streets and the people gazed heavenward to see the first air ship pass over the village and the sages shook their heads and said, l'VVhat wonderful things will our grandchildren see. In this tournament was another noted visitor, also a native of Peru, George Opp. George could have been President of the United States all right, but he wouldn't stand for dirty politics, so he went to Germany where he is teaching bugology in a select school for young ladies. In honor of these visitors the remaining alumni of 1908 planned a banquet at the village Tavern to talk over old times and consider the careers made by their classsmates,-and indeed, dear reader, -30 when there wasn't a pupil in this great- Class but had a career for better or for worse, it grieves me greatly to say that the majority of them just faded away in the course of human events and have left no dents on the hard-Walked sands of time. Grace Hetzner, for instance, who could vvarble like a bird and hit the high notes might have been a grand opera star, except for her failing for Ko- komo and when last heard of was singing I Am As Happy As the Little Birds in May at a five-cent theatre with a good-looking manager in Kokomo. Then Kate Cox, the girl wonder of the Class, at least ought to have been President of a Young Ladies' Seminary but she just married and settled down being a prominent member of the Peru Read- ing Club. Anna Rife started out being a strong advocate of woman's rights and when last heard of was in Utah. Pleasant Iicll, who had a fondness for the girls, is in Utah also where they say many pleasant bells are tolling. Karl Koontz went west to make his fortune and turned out to be a jolly bachelor and treats the