Prairie High School - Commentator Yearbook (Sharpsville, IN)

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, f : 'Si'E' '57533 CLASS OFFICERS President ---------- Roscoe Shuck Vice-president ----- Robert Lineback Secretary-Treasurer- Leone Hicks Sponsor ------------ Mrs. Watson CLASS HISTORY On a sunny, September morning in the year of 1925 twenty-seven boys and girls wended their way to the Prairie Township School for their first lessons. At the ringing of the bell twenty-seven pairs of feet skipped into the school room where the owners were greeted by the smiling teacher, Miss Gross. UI sh ll have a very interesting class this yearn, thought Miss Gross as she looked into ' the beaming faces and noted thc different expressions - fear, happiness and wonderment. Although all the pupils were eager to begin their school careers, now and then a tear rolled down a little cheek. But soon all became accustomed to school life and grew more bold and mischie- vous each day. My, how grown up they became! The next few years were comparatively uneventful. Of course, there was a change of teachers, and new scholars en- rolled while others left the community. The class steadily progressed in their three r's - readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic as well as taking up added studies and entering the usual school activities. When they had advanced into the sixth grade, their teacher, Mr. Lineback, prepared them for that much-talked-about room, the assembly. At last the much-anticipated time arrived in the sev- enth year when these students moved with their belongings to the assembly. At first it seemed difficult for them to become accustomed to the change, but by the end of the sev- enth and eighth grades they were quite at home there and were now ready for high school. In the fall of 1933 there were twenty-three Froshies ready to be initiated into high school. Oh! what troubles they had, but they found consolation in this poem:

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