Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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gg THE SENIOR ANNUAL had poked their heads above the dry leaves during the night. I believe in lauffin but your Latin teacher never grins but when she flunks a freshman. Now Mr. Editor I have great respect for you for I have heard a, girl say that you get mad quick but a bon bon and a sack of pea- nuts gets you sweet again so if 1 have been hasty in any of my spressions I will make due and ample repariation by enclosing herewith a ice cream ticket which will be redeamed at IVenzler's when accompanied by a friend of yours who has a nickel. And in con- clusion did you hear that one of the professors wanted the fellow who was curing with electricity all the defects of the body to apply it to his brain and he said 'twould be no use for he must have a germ to begin on and I haint wrote near all I know for my pen scratches so and if you like to put this in your book and need some more to fill up with I have some good poetry wrote this spring and if you find any misspelled words please correct though I am a pretty good speller and dont think you will find some and send me fifty books for this as most of my relatives know I have writ it and they want to preserve it for the benefit of coming consanguinity and excuse haste and bad pen, Your Loving, Teacher graduate of Former Century. HK If if JUNIOR BANQUET On Monday May Sth, at Hill's Cafe a splendidly appointed ban- quet was given by the members of the class of 1912 of the High School. Just before the banquet an informal reception was held. Covers were laid for eighty-four. The guests of the class included the entire Senior class, the H. S. Orchestra and the following, who acted as chaperons: Mr. and Mrs. Randall, Mrs. and Mrs. H. G. Schell, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Harris, Mr. O. E. McDowell and the Misses Chesney, Morrisey, McGuire, Southwick, Laura Shoemaker and Alice Langdon. After the banquet the following program was given: Music ....................................... H... S. Orchestra Toast, The Class of 1912 .- .................. Ralph McCormick Vocal Solo ................. . . . Erma Humrichouser Toast, The High School -- ....... Mr. Randall Toast The Faculty ........ ..... lN Ir. McDowell Vocal Solo ................... .... B lanche McCoy Toast, Our Superintendent .. ,,,. Roland Metsker MUSIC ...................... ,,,,,,, O rchestra Toast, 4'Our Orchestra ....................... Mr. Schell The Girls' Glee Club .................. - ........ Miss Morrisey Linnelle Schrock served as toast-master, and in that office was all that could be desired. The remainder of the evening was spent in dancing and all voted a long, happy and prosperous life to the thirty-six members of the class of 1912.

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THE SENIGR ANNUAIIM SERIOUSNESS By Unlmown Contributor. My Dear Mr. Editor of the Annual: Being informed that you are Writing a book for the enlightenment of the scholars of the present and of the future as well as for those there that have went before and being a teacher of celibacy and osterity Cl have taught 14 years in 24 counties of Indiana, counting the parts of terms which because the people did not appreciate my merits I did not finishland having wrote much both in poesy and prosaic for the publick press and having saw many things in the Plymouth High School which should ought to be different and thinking that the arduousness of writing the whole book yourself would cause you to welcome the effcrvescence of my seasoned in- tellectuality I take my pen in hand to compose you a composition on seriousness. Seriousness is one of the most cardinalous virtues which human flesh is heir to and exemplifycations of frivolousness and unser- iousness should be punctured in the embryoh and especially in school and hence I am often caused to mortify at observing the prevailing levicy which to an unpremeditated extent prevails in the scholars and forasmuch as likewise in the teachers some of them of Ply- mouth High School the verity of which observation can be verified by everybody who wants to. In our country schools the complaint is not so amazingly exceeding as in some of the contagious ram- ifications of the high school and especially in Prof. Chesney's dead speach department which all the scholars feel so big about though I don't know why since I bet not half of them ever taught school or knows anything about taking off their feet before entering the school ediface. Wliy, Mr. Editor, some of them girls who are big enough to shock sorghum stalks never seen a hectograph copy like we used to have when I went to High School and wouldn't know what was happening if some one should put a crock lid on their heads and fasten the top end of a mother hup-board about their neck on the night that Mr. McDowell passes out the rolls with ribbons tied on them. I notice that Supt. Randall has a fellicitious facility and fluency in teaching Geometry so that I can't understand a word of it and has bought a mill in Michigan that will change his Worries from the intellectual associations to the cullinary supply department and promises a digestive contrivance that will choke a pickle as easily as a beef steak has heretofore made pains and a sour dis- position. D Some of the teachers in the High School can have no acceptations taken to them on the ground of levity of which Mr. McDowell is a man of grave gravity and Miss C-hezsney who has laughed once in three years when the sophomore in his essay about Weather spoke of the frigid gale tearing across the meadows shaking hands with the morning glories and chilling the species of fungus that

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EMMA CHESNEY, A. M. University of Michigan A. M. '97 Kalamazoo College A. B. '92 Latin and German . 4.., yy EVANGELINE MORRISEY, A. Michigan State Normal College '03 University of Michigan '06 History HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY 0. E. McDOWELL, A. B. Principal Indiana University '08 Mathematics GRACE P. NORTON, A. University of Chicago '10 English M. ADALAIDE McGUl Chicago Musical College Columbia School of Musl Music and Drawing