Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. IT E6c High School Annual Edited by the Class of 1906 Editor, Neil Arvin Bertha Tofte Jane Dalrymple Clara Crosby Cordon Du Hand ASSISTANT EDITORS High School Notes .Social Department Alumni Department - Athletics Department Business Manager, Ray Marine Assistant Business Manager, DeForest Evans Editorial Department. WHAT THE CLASS OF 06 STOOD FOR. VERY Class which enters and leaves the High School must stand for something whether it he much or little. But it need not adopt a set of resolutions or a motto which shall represent the standard of the class, for the real standard can only be found in what the class has accomplished during its history. The Class of ' 06 never held a mass meeting at which they adopted with great solemnity a list of resolutions in which they sought out the longest words of Webster’s vocabulary, nor did they patch together some Latin or Greek phrases as their motto. They made their motto in actions so clearly that every- one reading their history must see and understand it. r l he Class of 06 stood for one thing — Progressiveness — throughout their life as a High School class. Progress marks everything they have attempted, from the time they entered High School as Freshmen in 1902 to the 25th of May, ’06, when they graduated with the highest honors that have ever fallen to any class in the school. As Freshmen in the crowded room so graciously allotted them by the school authorities they soon forced themselves upon the attention of the school and the faculty as Mr. Geary’s “ Star Class.” During the period of the school’s exile, over the Post Office during their Sophomore and Junior years they were the most attractive class in school. As Sophomores they organized a literary society known as the Current Event Club, and for a long time enjoyed the benefits of that society. It was in this Club that the germ of debating and oratory was nursed, which later brought the class to its zenith of glory. It was

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Un flfeemortam In memory of Bessie Parks, who entered the Valparaiso High School September 5, 1904, and died March 7, 1906. Her name was found on the honor roll for scholarship each month. Her work was not only accurate and complete but original beyond her years. She was kind to her classmates, thoughtful of her teachers, helpful to all with whom her lot was cast. She had no enemies and was most tenderly loved by her friends. While fond of a frolic, she never intentionally or thoughtlessly harmed any one with her fun. Life was to her full of joy and promise and we mourn her absence from our midst every day but rejoice that God has given her a better por- tion, even immortal life.

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18 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. here that they, as Sophomores, did the unheard of thing of holding a debate among themselves, the Senioi-s and Faculty staying to see what they could do. It undoubtedly was not as polished and eloquent as it might have been, but it was the starting point for the defeat of the Seniors at the hands of the Juniors the following year. As Juniors they undisputedly won the championship in debating and oratory, defeating the Seniors in an interclass debate and forcing the Sopho- mores, who had begun to claim championship to everything in the school, to recognize their superiority without a contest. Nor did they stop here; they pitted five of their number against the entire Senior Class in the Oratorical Contest and won the representation in the First County Oratorical Contest and there came off with second honors. In the social line they went further than their predecessors. They organized the O. M. S. and The Bridgets, which came to be known as the leading social organizations in the school. The same year they found the door of opportunity open in a different way and showed their progressiveness by sending into the Phonography Department the first class which has ever completed the full two years course. They entered this new line over the protest of many members of the faculty who were horrified at this innovation an d who sought every means to prevent them from entering, some going even into open hostility against that depart- ment. But the Juniors’ determination won and that department now enjoys great popularity, not because it is new, but because it is one of the most helpful. How this spirit of progressiveness was shown in their Senior year is so plainly shown in the class history that we need not call attention to it. The spirit of progress was the spirit of the Class of ’06 through all of its school days and that spirit has so strongly found a hold in the character of each individual in the class that it cannot but help manifest itself in years to come through its several members. The Class of ’06 stood for progress and advancement in school and it will continue to stand for progress as long as the members of the class remain on the earth. HARRY DOEGE. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS. HERE are many kinds of girls, and you find several of these kinds in High School. There is the giggling girl, the studious girl, the society girl, the quiet little maiden, the boy-struck girl, the girl who thinks the High School can not run smoothly unless she is there, and last, but by no means least, the “ all round ” girl. The giggles are like the mumps. Everyone has them at one time or other, but some get over them sooner than the rest. Anything and everything is funny to the giggling girl. If three hairs on someone’s head lie north-north- east when they are supposed to lie north-west, off she goes into a fit of giggles. If someone drops a book, she is the victim of another attack. If she sees a