Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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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.

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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 2 5 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE of the management of the Valparaiso High School has been CLASS OF ’05. a history of repeated tests and examinations, having as a ! direct object, the forming of a brilliant senior class and to When in the course of human events it becomes neces- prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world. sary for the pupils of a school to dissolve the bands that The principal has refused us the right to whisper, making connect them with their principal, and to assume among [ violation thereof punishable with “standing up in the the people of the earth the free and equal station to which isle.” the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a de- Prof. Miller has endeavored to compel us to pick up cent respect for the opinions of said principal demands that tricks with a magnet. they shall declare the causes that impel them to the sep- Prof. Skinkle has requested his Trigonometry class to aration. prove the law of signs (sines). We hold these truths to he self-evident — that principals Miss Benny has asked her Virgil class to tell which was and pupils are created equal; that the latter are endowed the more interesting to them: To witness the love scene with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, of Dido and Aeneas or the games held by Aeneas in cele- liberty and the pursuit of no lessons; and, whenever any bration of his father’s death— although we had witnessed form of school becomes destructive of tnese ends, it is the neither. right of the pupils to alter or abolish it, instituting a new We, therefore, the members of the Senior class, in general school, laying its foundations on such principles and organ- school room assembled, do, in the name and by the author- izing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most ity of the members of the class, state that this class is, and likely to secure their diploma. of right ought to be, free and independent; that in future Prudence, indeed, would dictate that customs long es- they shall have full right to go to school, stay at home, do tablished should not be altered for light and transient their lessons or not, with other privileges which independ- cause; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that ent graduates enjoy. And, in support of this declaration, Seniors are disposed to suffer — while evils are sufferable we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our chances of rather than to right themselves by adopting the former ' honorable graduation and our sacred excellence in deport- custom of retaining the back seats. But, when a long train ment. of cramming and examinations pursues but one object, and Signed on the 26th day of May, 1905. that the establishment of a graduating class, it is the right THE SENIOR CLASS. of this class, it is their duty, to throw off such forms of school and provide new guards for their future greatness. Such has been the patient sufference of this class, and Miss MacQuilkin — “And now, Cleve, where was the Dec- such is now the sad necessity which constrains them to laration of Independence signed?” sever their former relations with the school. The history ; 5 Cleve — “At de bottom.”