Selma High School - Retro Yearbook (Selma, IN)

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.-X5 for our class Jay Kirklin was an athletic teacher in Flotrida. Carl Bailey. who was once so brilliant in physics, was now a great seienee teacher in St. Louis. Last, but not least, comes Ralph Lewis, who wrote our class poem so many years ago. He was now a great writer of L l1llLll'6Il,S poems, and was taking the place of James XVhiteomb Riley. M. E. R4 and G. M. L. Class Poem Hail to the class of twenty-two, XYith her colors blne and white: All these years she has strived to do That which was noble and right. There may have been classes wfth greater fame ln the world since classes began: . we honor its name For the noble XVe go ont this lnto the wild To see if we be Can stand or XX'e have worked ln the XYe have true race it ran. year from Selma School troublesome world or fool -- and . man be downward hurled. with ambition and zealous trust classroom and with the ball: struggled on, for we thought we must, Thru Latin, linglxsh, and all. And now to the Except this, our .XllllOSt we have come to the end of the year, end of our rhymingg molto, and never fear- Xot at the summit, but ellmbingf' - R. l.., '22,

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Senior Prophecy FTliR graduating from Selma Iligh School in 1922, I left my friends and went on a long and interesti ng trip to the Iloly Land, Egypt, and all those wonderful places we used to study about in our Bible lessons not many years ago. About live years later, on my way home, I was walking in the streets of New York City when I caught sight of a large opera building. I de- cided I would go in, as this would help pass tl1e time while waiting for my train, The house was beautiful, a11d I hadn't been seated long until the curtains were raised. and w ho should come out but Helen Holt, a very noted soprano singer! Immediately after the performance I asked permis- sion to speak to the great soprano. This privilege being granted, Helen and I had a long and interesting talk. She said, Dorothea Leeper is living in this city. It has not been very long since I was at her home. She sits by the tire and knits while a pretty cat lies at her feet. t'l'his surely signifies that Dorothea is an old maid.l My train had arrived by this time, and, alter bidding her goodbye, I set out again. Again I stopped at Bullalo. where I knew Marx Tliornburg was a very prominent citizen, There I learned, too, that he was a ve1'y learned lawyer of that place. The little girl with curls hanging over her shoulders when last I saw her, was now a Latin teacher in a Buffalo high school, whom everyone recognized as tleneieve Pickard. Then, at Columbus, Ohio, as I stepped oll' the train, I saw Gracie Lykins witl1 her two small children who had black, curly hair and dark eyes. They looked just for the world like her. She then told me that she had married a very wealthy young man and was living very happily in a large home, as she had always longed to do. I told her about seeing Helen and hearing of Dorothea, and she said, Lucite Ilolt and Mildred Russell are the only ones I ever hear from. Lucile's I'ortune turned out queerly. You know she intended to he a music teacher, XVeIl, she went to college and made plans for her work. But her plans all failed when 'the man in a thousand' asked her to make a cozy home for him. Mildred, let me inform you, is now abroad. She went to college and there met a very nice man and later they were married. She is enjoying life immensely, I am sure. At last I arrived in Muncie and there I saw Agnes .Iones, just as little and tiny as ever. She informed me that she was working in an olI'ice in Muncie, and was just on her way to visit Carl Rayn and his family. Carl was a professor at the Indiana State Normal, was married, and living nearby. She also told me where the other classmates were and what they were doing. Noel Iiast and Lowell Lewellen were no longer together. Lowell was a minister in Georgia and was preaching sermons which were well worth hearing. Noel was a doctor in California. Neil Moody was living on a large farm and was a very prosperous farmer. Iiphriam Cecil was a math- ematics teacher in Chicago. Mary .lane Lewcllen, our president and leader. had gone to college, and was now teaching in a girls' college somewhere in New York,

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Last Will and Testament XVe, the Seniors ot' nineteen hundred and twenty-two, being of sound 111ind and body, do hereby will and bequeath all our worldly effects and property to the several students. classes of students, as teachers mentioned below, as follows: Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section -t. Section 5. To the Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Section 0. Section ti. ARTICLE l. 'lo the High School as a whole: Our ability to get along with ali teachers at all times. l'o the Juniors: Uur ability to stick together. l'o the Sophomores: The right to have all the parties they please. l'o the Freshmen: The privilege ot' initiating the incoming Fresh- man class. the prospective Freshmen: The right to enjoy High School as we have. r r To ARTICLE II. Faculty: To Mr. Neher: Our thanks tor co-operating with us during this, our last year. To Mr. Clark: Our good will and respect. To Mr. XVrighl: A pair of suspenders. To Miss Sawyer: The right to send the Senior boys from English class, To Mr. ltarick: The right to tell all the jokes he pleases in Bible class. To Mrs. Clippenger: The privilege ot' spanking some of the little Senior boys. Section 7, To Miss Williams: A recipe hook. ARTICLE lll. To imlividual students: Section 1. To Cecil Groves: Good behavior, Section 2. To Martha Reese: A play house. Section 3. To the Freshman boys: The right to tlunk in Latin. Section 4. To Claudie NVilliams: The privilege of playing on the basket Section 5. Section ti. Section 7. Section 3. Section Sl. Section 10. Section ll. Individual Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section Section 5. 4. ball team. To Garvice Clark: A nose guard. To Clarence Thornburg: Vera Andrews. To Jean Current: The right to get peeved at anyone at any time. To Yera Andrews: A box ot' rouge. To Thelma Dotson: Joseph Roush. To Adrienne Cecil: The right to write all the notes she pleases. To 1 ,. lzugene Ryan: lhe right to boss the whole high school. ARTICLE IV. students bequeath the following: To the Andrew twins and Mildred Mott: My comb tthat is. the remainder ot' it! and my ll1lI'l'OI'.- Agnes. To Russell XVeiss: My place as center on the basket ball team, provided he gets hurt in every game.fMarx. To any Sophomore boy who will accept: My place as the only male member ol' the Cicero class.- Ralph. To Harold Jones: The right to ask Senior girls to parties, -Lucite. To Virgil Rubleg My good grades in deportment.- Jay.