Reedsburg High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Reedsburg, WI)

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ai d The Class of J9J2 in 1923. I spent' the greater part of the year 1912 in traveling in the Orient. Of all the places I visited, the temples interested me most of all. One day late in the afternoon I entered a most beautiful one. Services had just finished and people were just coming from the huge arched doorway. I went inside and as I stood gazing at the beautiful workmanship of the high altar, a sweet fragrance reached my nostrils. Attracted by this, I looked around and discovered far from me a vessel of incense from which clouds of vapor were issuing. Stepping toward it I saw a d iin shadowy form arising. I gazed spellbound and as the form became more vivid I noticed that the genii moved his lips. “Who are you? Are you real':'’' I asked in wonderment. “I am real. If you doubt it ask anything that you wish and I will answer, to prove my reality.” For a moment I hesitated for I did not know what to ask him. Suddenly an idea occurred to me. “Where is Herbert Miller?” I asked. “After Jane Loughney had insisted on living a life of single bless edness, Herbert Miller went to Germany to study music, where he is trying to console himself by the old maxim: “ ’Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. “Is Martin Behnke a great scientist as Mr. Olson once predicted ' “No. He is now on a tour through the United States displaying the numerous badges which he received from Andrew Carnegie for his many brave deeds. He is also high private in the rear ranks of the army fighting tuberculosis. “Tell me what has become of Agnes Croal. “Agnes Croal went to Africa for her health shortly after she had finished her high school course. While there she became interested in the natives and is now teaching them the way to civilization with great success.” “What is Hazel Hindes doing' “All of Hazel's friends are sorry to learn that she has taken up her abode in the Old Ladies Home, after many fruitless attempts by Dr. Arthurque Hulbertski to relieve her of galloping consumption. “Has Floyd DeBarr accomplished anything? “After many vain efforts to invent a perpetual motion machine.

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Purple aipl discovered that, if she has a chemical solution, a dime and a piece of copper, she can make pennies; another has learned that a Klarier (piano) is not some kind of a ame. The more we study, the more we realize how little we really do know and what a vast amount of knowledge is still in store for us. In going to school these four years we have learned how to live, for the function which education has to discharge is to prepare one for complete living. We have been taught to live and to get as much happiness out of life as we can. In this way, if in no other, we are superior to those who have no education whatever—they do not truly live, they merely exist, and thus are bereft of the happiness that ought to be theirs. When we were Freshmen we thought that four years was a long time to spend in High School - but how fast these years have Mown! It seems as though it was only yesterday that we entered High School! We are now standing on the stage of Life, the curtain is slowly rising and soon we will be acting our life roles. We have reached the point where we stand alone; we must work for ourselves. No more will we be led across the difficult places that we meet, by the guiding hands of teachers; we must tight the battle of Life alone. Let us not quail or falter as we enter Life’s school, let us never give up to Despair, but always rein ?mber that, “Where there is life, there is hope. E. M. K.

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JPupplf ai d $Tl ifce Ploycl DeBarr Anally succeeded in accomplishing his purpose. He is now living with his wife in Greenland, on a moderate income from the National Cloak and Suit Co., of New York, which is now selling his wonderful invention. “And who is his wife? “Why Veda Collins of course. “What is Frances Fish doing? “She is canvassing the hamlets and villages of northern Wisconsin selling a book entitled The Long and Short of Physics. She is endeavoring to enlighten the ignorant classes by this method. “Has Ethel Mallon become famous? “Ethel Mallon is now employed in the U. S. mint at New Orleans making pennies out of iron bars. The U. S. proHts greatly by her services. It is thought that she will be able to solve the problem, the solution of which old chemists have long been endeavoring to discover to turn baser metals into gold. “Where is the giant of the class? “The relatives and friends of Harvey Weidman are very proud to hear that he is starring in “Baby Mine, now being played in the Davidson Theater in Milwaukee. “What feat has Eliza Whitty accomplished? “She has made her name famous in the world of Zoology by writing a book entitled, “Bothersome Worms and Insects, and their Mission in the World. “Are the attached ones yet separated? “Aboard the Mayflower on May 1, 1920, which was bound for the south pole were two graduates of the class of 1912. They were recognized as Maurice Deppe and Doris Townsend. When asked the reason for the journey, Maurice replied that as it was leap year, Doris had come to Iceland earl in that }ear where he was engaged in the lumber business and had proposed to him. After some hesitation on his part, they set sail for the southern pole where they were to be married. “And where is Rose? “Rose Sparks is devoting her time, money, and life in the study of colors, particularly Brown, and their influence on diseases of the heart. According to the last report she has as yet failed to diagnose her own