Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 27 CLASS HISTORY. Cleve Stalbaum. ’Tv as a warm day in September, four years ago. A crowd of H. S. boys and girls thronged around the old Central School building as the bell announced that vacation was over and that school had begun again. At the south door the Freshman boys were being initiated by those of higher degree, into that noble order, the V. H. S. For this ordeal the number of boys was not so great as that of the girls, who outnumbered them two to one. This, then, was the Senior class of to-day, or rather, the Senior class of to-day is the remains of those sixty beings who bore the name of Freshies.” The history of this class through the next two years was only a struggle, hard but uneventful, and in those two years more than two-thirds dropped from the ranks. The next year the scene of the struggle was changed. The old building was torn down to make way for a larger, better, more magnificent structure. The entire High School was installed in cramped quarters above what is now the post office. This had its drawbacks, but the Junior class went on in its old unassuming way. The next year they found themselves addressed as Seniors, and to add to their dignity, class pins were pur- chased, the finest yet obtained by any class (at least in price). But, alas! what a sight! Less than a dozen re- mained to share this dignity or end the fight Their position called forth a challenge to a debate from the ambitious, honor-seeking Juniors. Too proud to sur- render without a fight, they accepted; but were defeated on the question; “Resloved, That the Chinese should be ad- mitted to American citizenship.” The Senior trio took the affirmative side and the best chance for defeat. Not daunted by their defeat, they decided to try their oratorical power and succeeded in sending four out of six candidates to the second contest, which marked the dedica- tion of the new High School building. But defeat again awaited them. This was soon forgotten amid their new surroundings. For the next week they left their old quarters, not without sighs of regret, and entered the new building. At first they could not speak distinctly on account of the echoes. Nor could they breathe without odors of varnish or smoke, but these difficulties soon passed away and they settled down to the completion of their work as the first class to gradu- ate from the New Central building. PAST. PRESENT AND FUTURE. PAST PRESENT FUTURE Club Woman Ada Roessler, Dutch, Blonde Amateur Elocutionist Martha Bentley, A Good Little A Good Little Change of Girl Name Girl George McNay, Plumber Hustling Busi- Henpecked ness Manager husband Bessie Clifford, Not Recorded Actress Kacid Lawrence, Studious Cleve Stalbaum, Farmer Studious Sprawler Typewriter Studious Farming at borne. Kate Lederer, Zada Carr, Ray Lawrence, Alice Talcott, H. S. Belle University of Chicago Born Silent Swell Dancer Librarian Dove, a Dear Little Bird Dutiful Wife Still Silent Died Silent Brilliant Latin Just “Alice” School Student Teacher

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 24 Cleve Stalbaum — “Cleopatra. “It was I who captivated Antony.” Neil Arvin — “Nanny.” What an appropriate name for a gossip. The O. M. S. has proven to be an ideal means for furnish- ing good times, not only for its members, but for others. The boys have met every two weeks since last October, for all kinds of fun — from all-night sessions in bakeshops to receptions. It is the hope of all the members that the club may hold together for many years to come and, from present indi- cations, we think it will. “They met by chance, They had never met before; They only met that once, And she was smitten sore. They never met again — Don’t want to, I avow; They only met that once — A freight train and a cow.” Zada has a new pair of green slippers, which she wears occasionally. Lost, Strayed or Stolen — One Floyd Sieb. Finder, please return to Senior Class. If you have any hide or skin, get highest cash price by taking them to Lippman, West Main Street. George McNay has a new pair of tan shoes. The Class of ’05 will graduate May 26. WILL. We, the class of Naughty Five, of the Valparaiso High School, in the County of Porter, and State of Indiana, with an average age of nineteen years (?) being entirely sane, despite the crashes resulting from some immortals slipping on a thunder peal in the unknown regions in the vicinity of the sky-light and about to end our mortal existence as a class, do make this, our last Will and Testament, and de- clare all previous wills null and voil. Item 1. — We do hereby nominate and appoint Floyd Sieb and William Schumacker to be executors of this, our last Will and Testament. Item 2. — We give to the Freshies our automobile, guaran- teed to carry anyone through Caesar, Cicero and Virgil at an A B C D rate. Item 3. — We give to the Juniors our Trigonometrys, in- cluding tables of trigonometric, logarithmic and natural functions; also including much hard work. Item 4. — We would give our back seats to the Juniors, but they already have them. Item 5. — We also bequeath to them our physics labora- tory, well supplied with apparatus, which, it is said, is very expensive, its estimated value reaching as high as $7.30. Item 6. — We give and devise to the Freshies and Sopho- mores the gridiron and all bones and buttons that lie thereon. Item 7. — As we die leaving no debts, we give our purses to the 0. M. S. for yelling for us at the final oratorical con- test. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals. CLASS OF ’05.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 28 JUST FOR FUN. “Beware of Boston, for fear of being canned.” — Fabing. “I’ll stay with patience; but the time is long.” — Adelbert Burns. “Look! He is winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.” — Gordon Durand. “He stood on the bridge at midnight, Interrupting my sweet repose; For he was a tall mosquito, And the bridge was the bridge of my nose.” Tho’ modest, on his classic brow Nature had written “Gentleman!” — Neil Arvin. “Are you Hungary?” “Yes, Siam.” “Well, come along; I’ll Figi.” Contact between two unlike bodies produces a charge of electricity. That is why people get such a shock when they fall on the ice. “Speech is silver, but silence is golden.” — Mary Comrick. Freshle — “What part of the body is the ‘Scrimmage?’ ” Teacher — “The wha-a-at?” Freshie — “I saw in the account of the football game that one of the boys got hurt in the ‘Scrimmage.’ ” Said Chester Philander Strong: “I’ve had me frock cut very long; I wear it buttoned on the street — It costs me more that way, perchance, But then it saves me buying pants.” — Cornell Widow. As two ladies were passing the school house, one re- marked: “This building looks like an insane asylum.” The other replied: “It is a home for the feeble-minded.” “Hear me a little, for I have been silent so long.” — LeRoy Morris on. Agents to handle the spice of life. A detective to unveil a grass plot. An audience to see a horse fly. A wag from the “Tale of Two Cities.” A nurse to rock the cradle of the deep. A collar for the neck of the woods. A wife for Father Time. A cobbler to fit shoes on poetic feet. — Ray Marine. Definitions of la Bill Shakespeare: Freshman — Comedy of Errors. Sophomores — Much Ado About Nothing. Junior — As You Like It. Senior — All’s Well That Ends Well. “Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.” — George McNay.