Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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The Pilgrim 21 Arthur Cleveland is now mayor of Plymouth. He has devoted all his time to it, and is working out some of the plans he used as president of the Student Council. Gladys Parks and Ruth Rhinehart left shortly after they graduated for Europe where they became trained nurses. They like it so well there that they have decided to locate per- manently, as they have lately married two German officers. Erwin Haag is probably successful in the most peculiar business of any member of our class. He has developed a very good business in humanely killing dogs and cats, and has accumulated quite a little fortune in the sale of their furs. Grace Milner wanted to become a grand opera star, but she has given up that idea and is now a lecturer on the Chautau qua platform. She told me that she found she had de- veloped quite a talent for talking from her constant practice in talking to Charles Buck. Did you know that Maxey had finally succeeded in inventing something? For years he traveled around the world asking questions, fmuch as he used to in Physics and History classes, about great inventions. He came back to the United States and patented a child's toy steam engine. Ethelwyn Goodrich is one of the few girls in the class who is married. I hear she is living in Iowa. John Shoemaker, after having tried all kinds of occupations is again at Reynold's Drug Store. He is a pharmacist there. John is still inviting his friends to drop in and fave one on the house. ' Carol Humrichouser has realized her ambition of being a physical culture teacher, ard is teaching in a small school in Illinois. Do you remember how she used to scolcl Ellis Maxey when she was still in High School? I was visiting her not long ago and I found her scolding a poor little youngster who looked quite as uncomfortable as Maxey used to. She said he had closed a window in one of her class rooms. Martin Ness, our honorable president, is now business manager of the N ew York Sun. He found that he had become quite proficient at it as business manager of the High School Pilgrim. You asked' about me. Xvell, I have never acquired either fame or glory, and am now reporting on one of the Plymouth papers. Your friend, BERTIS M. TOMLINSON. IN PLYMOUTH HIGH If you have had geometry, And pulled a problem free From all the tangles of the proof, You've heard, UO! Yes, Isee! If you have read your Latin And proved yourself efficient, It's said to you with eloquence That, Wlqhat will be sufficient. If you have been in English: If you have had that sorrow, The first you hear in every class, The lesson for tomorrow. If you have gone to History And flunked a time or two, You've Hnally found the meaning of AlVliss Johnson's That'll do. -GAMB,

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20 The Pilgrim In study and in play, And now at last we're leaving To go upon our way. VVe're standfng on the threshold now To join the ranks of life. CHORUS We are Seniors of Plymouth High School. We are Seniors, so dignified, And we know that in Alumnfs Fondest ranks, we will be filed. But we ever will cherish fondly Memories so dear and true, And we'll not forget old Plymouth High School And tlie dear ones there, we now must bid adieu. GRACE MILNER. CLASS PROPHECY Plymouth, lnd., May 3l, l93l. MY DEAR MARIE: I was very glad to hear from you. When you left school in l9l 5, don't you remember you were going to stay at home? And now, you are governor of California, and considered one of the most famous women in the political world in the United States. You asked about the other members of the class. This is what l found out about them: Of course you knew that Walter Wise was running for president on the Democratic ticket. He has become known over the entire world for his unfailing work in cleaning up politics. But probably you did not know that Rolland Cook fyou know he always did like to talk, was making campaign speeches for him. Lillian Hahn fremembcr how extremely dignified she always was, is the dean at a very select girls' school in Virginia. She is extremely well liked, and seems quite contented. Cletis l-lammaker, one of the stars in the Senior play, The Colonel's Maid, is well on his way to fame, - is now taking the place of John Bunny in the moving picture world, and is one of the favorite players. Fanny Chart is president of the Woman Suffrage League in Rochester. She is an ardent sulfragette, and is the life of the organization. Donald Baker entered Purdue in the fall after he graduated with us, and he expects to graduate from there in l932, and will then teach Manual Training in the west. Reva Dotv and Gail Roberts are now acting in vaudeville, and are making good. Jesse Ritchey did become a farmer fyou know he wanted tol. He is quite successful at it, and is recognized as one of the authorities on Intensive Farming. Ruth Davis is also in California. Have you seen her there? She is running a suc- cessful fruit farm.

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22 The Pilgrim CLASS OR-ATION We, the Class of l9l5, are about to sever our relationship with Plymouth High School. As a class and as individuals, we have participated in many school activities, - we have suffered keenly in its defeats, and rejoiced in its victories. Now, we depart from it with a friendly feeling, for it is our alma mater. We have acquired, we hope, a certain amount of knowledge, fostered and encouraged good studious habits, raised our ambitions, and increased our capacity for good hard work. We trust that we may be of service to this community, and thus render to it full compensation for the training it has given us. While all these things are true, we would have to regard our school life a failure if we left Plymouth High School without a greatly increased number of friends. It would be unfortunate if our training here had not created and stimulated a greater capacity for friendship. For sincerely and candidly, we regard this capacity as the best asset any indi- vidual can possibly have. But you may ask, what is friendship? Friendship to the stoic was a blessed occasion for the display of nobilityg to the Epicurean it was the most refined of all earthly pleasures which make life worth living: to Aristotle it was the perfection of individual life, a beau- tiful and a noble thingg to Christ it meant this, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Friendship is love, and is to the soul as the miracle of spring to the cold dull earth. But we can not gain friends or all this loveliness of friendship without some effort on our part. And it is because of this lack of individual effort, that we do not make use of the opportunity given us, in our High School years, for making many friends. Our friends are few because we choose to let the number be merely within our social circle or clique, which means that we are robbing friendship of its real worth for our own selfish position or gain, and by so doing, we are depriving our own heart of the capacity for friendship. When we take out of our hearts the capacity of friendship, we are losing the beauty of living, for friendship is the wine of life. We need friends and need to be friends to make life worth living. But the only way to have real friends is to be a friend yourself. The best method for the culture of friendship is the Colden Rule, To do to, and for, your friends what you would have them do to you. In this lies the whole duty of friendship. But the duty is not with your friends, but is with you, yourself. Friendship does not consist alone in having friends, but also in being a friend. The Colden Rule does not mean that the in- stant a friend displeases us, we immediately turn against him, and do all in our power to carry out the old saying, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but the Golden Rule does mean that we should practice the larger spirit of forgiveness and love. Look for good in your friends and you will find good. Let your friends know that you trust them and then show them that you have faith in them, - for if there be no loyalty, there can be no great friendship. The making of real friends is the best token of a successful school career. Friendship will in turn bring to us, as Bacon says, peace in affections, support of the judgmentg and aid in all actions and occasions. It gives to us satisfaction of heart, for we live for admiration, hope, and love. It gives us satisfaction of the mind, for in no matter do we feel confident until we have secured the opinion of friends. Because of this fact. the responsibility of friendship is indeed a great one, -- for through our influence and ex- pressed opinions, the circle of many people's friends may be broadened, and if each indi- vidual would use his influence in this way, all humanity would, in time, come to be friends, and the human race would be one grand peaceful brotherhood. Friendship though, above all things, gives us strength of character, for by comradeship we get one of the finest arts and strongest forces in the molding of our characters. Friendships are elevating to the no- bility of conduct and strength of character, - they add a sacred responsibility to life. Then, what a miracle friendship is, -to possess it is to have one of the world's sweetest gifts.