Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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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

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-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

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vi v SKNQ We Class Prophecy 'U- It was on a wonderful day in May, 1925, that I came upon a little brook near the edge of a wood. Tired from my long walk, I sat down beside the stream and began to think of the class of '19, Suddenly I was startled to hear a tiny voice call me, and turned around to find a tiny fairy resting upon zz tiny white cloud. Noting my surprise, the fairy explained that she was the Goddess of the Things That XVere,', and that her special charge was the class of '19. Accepting her invitation I climbed onto the cloud, and was surprised to find myself no larger than the fairy. ' As we were in the country, it was only natural that we should first visit a farm. A large part of the farm seemed to be devoted to the raising of every kind of pig, from the Poland China, down to the Guinea Pig, and I knew that Alonzo and Goldie had united their efforts, and were making a success of their chosen industry. The cloud floated on for sometime when we drifted over the now thriv- ing town of Harris. A large sign reading The Harris Herald, told me that the town boasted of a newspaper. XVe fioated past a window, and to my surprise, I saw Cleatus Hahn seated at the editor's desk. Judging from the success of the annual put out in '19, I always knew Cleatus would make :1 good editor. Kenneth Lackey has secured a position as cartoonist. On the opposite side of the street, another window was open. As we floated past this window, I heard the rapid clicking of a typewriter, and upon looking in at the iwindow, I saw Naomi Schroeder seated at the typewriter, while our former President, Roy English paced up and down the room, rapid- ly dictating his next speech to be made at the next merchants meeting of the city. The now thriving town of Linkville was the next visited. The town was celebrating the election of their second mayor with parades and music. A shining brass band rounded the courthouse corner and I recognized the leader, Floyd Cullison. The next in line was a suffrage band, and I was sur- prised to see our former debator Flora Davis, at the head of the procession. Again we were in the country, and directly below us were a large num- ber of buildings. Lots of little kids were playing in the yards as we floated over the grounds, and I knew the place to be an4Orphans Home. And what do you think! There was Vera Mills, matron, and Marie Baugher as as- sistant. I now found myself in Burr Oak. The town had become a large ath- letic center. A large Gymnasium had been erected in the suburbs and Chaun- TIIIRTY