Rensselaer High School - Chaos Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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ilmtinr Class Colobs : Eed and White (Class Thomas Padgitt Nell Parkek Lee Adams Ray LaRue Aileen Allman Three years in Rensselaer High School and the Junior Class attained! A hat a wondrous unfolding of the hud into the blossom ! W hat a passing from the quavering query, “Is this the Algeherry Class?” to the sonorous reverberations of classic Cicero’s orations and the mystic wonders of Solid Geometry! It is a brilliant career that we look back upon, quite like the tail of a comet trailing behind us. And like the comet, we carried destruction — to our enemies on the football field and the chairs in the biology lab. As Freshmen we started out with forty-seven mem- bers, and now number twenty-nine. We count as one of our greatest achievements the fact that we have suc- ceeded in towing Howard Clark into the Junior Class. history Class Flowers: Red and White Carnations OMtrrra President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Class Historian Lucy Healy was elected president and, after choos- ing our colors, we promptly displayed a banner of red and white on the water tower. Even as Freshmen our class was represented in athletics, five of our members having played football. Among the pleasantest recollections of this first year are the trips we made in the interest of science— and other things. We entered on our Sophomore year with renewed energy and several new pupils. Florence Ryan was given the task of guiding our political and domestic affairs, and the duty of presiding at a so-called class meeting was a stormy one. V T e had not yet learned the art of adjourning.

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JUNIORS

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This year we had again been foremost in athletics, six of our members having played football and five basketball. We are proud of the fact that our class has always stood first in percentage of members in the Ath- letic Association. The social event of the year h as been the Senior Ke- if you talk about school spirit With good results as is the rule Think of what T3 has done For the honor of the school. In football ’13’s men have starred And have made full many a goal Think about what this has done For the honor of the school. In basket ball vict’ry was ours, Won by T3’s veterans cool Don’t you think that this has added To the honor of the school ! ception, which was given in our honor on St. Valentine’s Eve and was a very hearty affair. The closing days of the year will he spent as Junior classes before us have spent them — in collecting the dues for the Junior Reception. Aileen Allman ’13. In baseball ’13 o’ercame all O’er the enemies’ eyes they pulled the wool All this and more ’13 has done For the honor of the school. Athletics have again been saved As has always been the rule By ’13 ’s steady shelling out For the honor of the school. But in studies too, they do surpass In all the class there is no fool, The ’13 class ahead of all Has added honor to the school. Wm. Babcock.