Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

Page 27 text:

Fern Reisch a-I ,Jw -:ng . Henry V Smlth ost Graduatn Track ttam 13 I w 'lil' 444 llwllil 'L il' Mil Schuyler P Perkms lost Gfdlllldtl L lass Ilay L ' Hu- H ll lx if '1 xl ,- Fire Dept. Spring Frtshu lrcsident to L XV wc leave this c'mt tt show .ll that this place will be hnld until he can fill it. 25 '13 '98 As 'm inducement hn

Page 26 text:

, mn Y 1: 24 V-.f 1 ? fz Tx-L

Page 28 text:

CLASS HISTORY After struggling through the throublc-d waters of four years of High Slchool life, the ship of state of the class of 1913 tonight comes triumphant into port. The memories of that voyage across the sees of our Freshman, S-orphornor-e and Junior years will remain forever with us and no matter h-ow rough the waves, there is not one m-em-ber of hor crew that wishes' the journey unbegun. Some of our fellow sailors turned back, or dropped anchor in mid ocean seafbut the majority' are safe aboard th-e ship tonight. ' Four years algo on that September morning, sixty strong, we set sail i.n the perilous deops of our Freshman year. How s'ma.l.l, how insliginiiici-ent we felt. How .little we dreamed that we sho-uld over be of sufficient fame to deserve at czlasvs' history. The first rock our stout bark struck was that of cl-as-s organization. Piloted by Mr. MicDowIe1l into the quiet cove of the Latin room, we lay anchor several hours listening with awed faces to the pilot makle all the speeches and all the nominations. Mfaylbe we voted, although the act of voting quite failed to leave any impression of the terrified bland of our innocent rnindxs, We have a dtim recollection of hearing that Henry Hnmrichouse-r was to be our captain. A little blank was brought for our funds and put in the care of Helen Armstrong. We presented Vida Kebert with a black log-book in which. to keep a record of our voyagiesl. Wh-en we brought our first 1nonth's cargo to port, the prices We .got on our cards were starvation wages' and We then and' there set ourselves to work t-o ascertain modes of raising marks in the easiest and quickest way. Our valuable experience in this line we .guard with the greatest secrecy. Then we ran the photographers battery on our way to the Senior Annual receiving the applause of all the High School wlorld as we boldly sailed out of the Assembly' room. All of ns got safely through the Maelstrom whirpools of Botanyt which was a. much more difficult passage than either Physics or Chemistry, because we were not on such intimate terms with the Professor In the course of twelve months steady sailing to the east- wardr, we struck the Sophomore Sea in the Assembly Room Ocean. This was in th-e year 1910. We had our sea. legs by t--.s time and- ,greatly enjoyled the sea-sickness of the Class of 1914. In the year 1911 we sailed I'18jOilCfll'11gi into the beautiful b.uo waters. of the Juninnd-om and saw in the distance the sun- kis-sed land of the Seniors. Our captain was still Henry Hum- riicnouser, first mate Water Bowell. Vera Sanner now kept th-e log-book and Donald Stephenson was in charge of the money chest. The world began to take notice of o-ur voyage now andz wie saw our names' i.n print. We appointed Barton hnnehamt to edit the accounts of our voyage. So good was our news that Knight Houghton audi Donald Stephenson were chosen as the comic and athletic ed-itors of the great Senior Annual. The Seniors began to beckon to us from the shore. They' invited! us to join them in their class parties and even let us share the receipts with them. In return we gave aboard our ship a sumptuous. banquet at which Donald Stephenson presi-ded in jolly fashion. In the cours-e of our voyiage through the Junior waters we met with pirates from Culver, Argos, Bremen and Bourbon in the .narrow stxraights of the Track Meet. Here Keith Richter single handed put their hopes to flight and brought back a golden treasure to the amount of the gold medal, as the best track athlete in the county. Earl Schroeder sunk the third ship and covered himself wilth glory. It was i.n this stage of our voyage that the .girls in the crew took a little side trip into the realm of basketball, but were chased out of the region