Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

Page 30 text:

-LV' Oo QKTQ I5 are Se ut. S. I Oh! I wished this wasn't the first day of my junior year because I don't Ieel like writing in you tonight and I know my junior year will be so im- portant that I ought to start it out right. Today was just like all first days. Speeches! l Advice l! Resolutions!! October 16. Something new--Mr. Dutter has a bright idea. Intends to read the number of honors and failure in each class before the assembly in order to stimulate class rivalry and thereby get better results from the pupils. That would be .all right if our class was flushed with honor students but as it is we're always rather embarrassed. But then anyway we're always sure of our one, Chauncey Goodman. Even if our clas did fall short on the honor list the members seemed to take a certain pride in the surplus on the failure list so I guess they didn't feel so badly after all. May 28,9 1918. Don't be so surprised Diary because I am writing in you once again. You know I always managed to think of you on the first and last days of school anyway and today was another last day. so see? that accounts for it. I've lots to tell you tonight. First of all I have been promoted so now I am a Senior. Dignified Senior isn't that what they say? Junior- Senior recep- tion was the big affair of the year. XVe certainly gave the Seniors a wonderful reception but some way they did not seem to appreciate it or at least they did not show itQ I guess they were sort of dis- appointed because it happened to be a reception instead of a banquet. It wasn't our fault though. Mr. Hoover wouldn't let us-war times you know. I hate to begin on school activities for there's so much to be told about our class. lfVe furnished more members for the events and organization than any class. Oh! yes, and Harold Pifer won a medal being the second best athlete in the county. Best of all, a member of our class, 1VIildred Lemert, was chosen to represent the H. S. in Northern Indiana Declamation Contest. Next time I write in you I will' be writing about my Senior year. Doesn't seem as though I've been in I'. II. S. three years. Does it? Sept. 9. Seems good to be back in school this year. More fun being a Senior you know. By the way we have almost all new teachers this year. livery- one was as good as gold today. Trying to get in good, See? March 1.4, 1919. ' Gave the Senior program this morning. Best one of the year so everybody says. All kinds of compliments on our class stunt XVhy XYe Never Mar- ried. March 19. 12 P. M. Here's the best thing our class ever did. XVon another Inter-class Tournament. Been up to school decorating ever since 9:30. My! won't 'IWVENTY EIC IIT

Page 29 text:

' Gln .922 g Sept. 20. Had our hrst class meeting this afternoon and managed to elect our of- ficers without the help ofthe Seniors either. Mr. McDowell suggested all our motions and Floyd Cullison made them so we got along pretty well for the first time. March 3, 1916. My! Diary, it has been a long time since I have written in yo.u and so much has happened that 1 don't know where to begin. Today the Fresh- men issue of the Filgrim came out and every one says it's the best one that has been published. Are we proud of it? My! Goodness Yes! The upperclassmen are treating us fairly decent now. Once in a while they even say nice things about us, say we have lots of pep, pretty lively bunch, and wait until we're Seniors and then old P.ll.S. will wake up. If it wasn't for the excitement and thrills furnished by some of our members, that H. S. would be as dead as a door nail. I'ifer has been playing on B. B. team all year. Mighty good for a freshman to make first team and be considered second best player too. Garn and Cullison are playing in the orchestra Two good players so Miss Scott says. April 4. Oh! Diary, I'm so excited I can hardly write. just think! we won the tournament. Against some of those two hundred pounders and experienced players too. My, but wont those upperclassmen be jealous now? lVe're going to celebrate in school tomorrow and Oh! yes we're to get a banner out of it too. May 28. All over. Now to wait for next Sept. Sept. 7. Back at school again and it seems good too. I am a real for sure Sophomore now. Had more fun than a picnic today laughing at the Fresh- ies. They're surely a hopeless bunch. Our class didn't make half as 1nany blunders. and we were bad enough, goodness knows. 1 lctober 2. Athletics!! Thats where we shine. XVon the tug-of-war this after- noon. Isnt it great? I thought No hopes at alll' when I saw those big Senior and junior men. Our men looked like pin heads beside them. NVe won it just the same. Making some name for ourselves in Athletics. May 30, 1917. Today was my last day of school and I am not one bit sorry eith- er. Those awful finals they are making us take this year drive me crazy. This last semester has been very dull. Of course our class not going backwards by any means. Two of our fellows won points in Track, live are in the Orchestra this year, one in High School Play and etc.--See? NVe haven't missed a thing. TVVENTY SEVEN

Page 31 text:

W! the underclassmen be surprised in the morning when they see our colors draped everywhere in the assembly room and our banner flying from the Steeple. I know some that are not going to take much pleasure sitting un- der them. Can't help it though, Freshmen. XVe have to celebrate some way so be good losers. lVe are going to pull off a little stunt in the morning. April 21. Inter-class Track-XVhoopsll Took first in everything except high jump and most of the seconds. Some athletes in our class. lVe're pround of them too. May 3. Oratorical contest!! Kenneth Lackey won the Uratorical and Rieta Zehner the Declamation Both the High School representatives were chosen from our class. Isn't it iust too good to be true? May 29. Diary Dear do you realize that tonight is the last time l'll ever write in you again? Aren't you sorry. just think it's all over now. Haven't decided yet whether I am glad or sorry. I know there are a lot of things 'l am going to miss terribly next year. For instance -losie's lecturers on whis- pering and all his favorite sayings. Also Crook's extemporanious speeches. llVhoever told that man he was good at that?l More than either of these l'll miss my class-mates. After all there is nothing more worth while in one's High School life than the friendships formed there. Then there's our class advisor, Miss Renwick. Don't think I've forgotten her in my Diary. livery Senior is sort of backward about mentioning her name simply because he never can find nice enough things to say about her. And I'm in the same lioat, Diary. No one who hasn't worked right with her knows of the time she spent on the Senior annual and of the worry and responsibility connected with it. XVe surely appreciate, it Miss Renwick. And now Diary I know I l1aven't told you about our junior-Senior banquet, Baccalaureate, Commence- ment or anything. But I'm too sleepy tonight. Some other time maybe. This was the end of her diary. The boy looked up from the book and said VVell Gramsey that class of '19 must have been some class. XVouldn't mind belonging to it myself. He received no answer so spoke again. This time in a louder tone but still no answer. He looked at the old lady and saw that she had fallen asleep with a smile upon her face like that of a school girl. OFFICERS :- NX President- Roy English ll, 3, -lil Harold Pifer 125. Vice-Presidents-Cleatus Hahn ll, 23, Harold Pifer Q3, 4j. Secretary-Mildred Lemert Ill, Rieta Zellner f2, 3, 45. Treasurer-Esther Bosworth ill, Ilo Mead KZD, Cleatus Hahn f3,4l. ESTHER BOSNVORTH, 'l9. D TWENTY NINE