Van Buren High School - Van Yearbook (Van Buren Township, IN)

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L THE VAN OF 1932 J CLASS HISTORY In the year 1928, fifty of us started our first year of high school. A short time after we enrolled in our school subjects, we had our first class meeting. Mary Frances Caress and Raymond McHargue were our spon- sors. We elected the following class officers: George Starinsky, presi- dent, Virginia Altman, vice president, and Woodrow Wilson, secretary and treasurer. Soon after that, we gave a Hallowe'en party which all enjoyed. Later several members of our class gave two plays entitled, Smiles and Matches are Matches , written by Della Pell. In the inter-class basketball tournament our class came within a few points of beating the Sophomores. George Starinsky of our class was a member of the varsity basketball team. Maradean McIntyre, a Freshman, was elected assistant yell leader. That first year, we heard the upper classmen boast continually about what they would accomplish before and during their Senior year. How- ever, we shouted our ambitions to the Wind . In spite of this fact, we obtained knowledge and created ideals that would help us thereafter. In the second year of our high school life, the following class officers were elected: Della Pell, president, Thelma Mathis, vice president, and Maude Marian Herbert, secretary and treasurer. Socially, athletically, musically and, no doubt, studiously we were en- gaged, and we had about as good a time as anybody. However, we can- not say that the Hallowe'en party was as much enjoyed as the one which We gave the previous year. Many contests in athletics were won by us during our second year. The Sophomore girls won the final inter-class baseball tournament which was against the girls of the Senior class. One of the feature events of the year was a funeral given to the Senior girls after we defeated them. In addition, our boys won the inter-class baseball tournament. In the Junior Class, we retained the same class officers that We had when we were Sophomores. As usual, we gave the traditional Hallow- e'en party for the Seniors. In return the Seniors gave us a hard time party . In that year, our first victory in athletics was the defeat of the Sen- ior boys in the inter-class baseball tournament. The next day, the Seniors, at chapel period, presented us a goat in token of defeat. To repay, we gave them a funeral . Yes, we were proud of our basketball players: Compliments of J. A. Turner'-F'irst class auto repairing Page forty

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THE VAN OF 1932 J we contributed five to the first ten . These were: William Thompson, Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stevenson, Freddie Hillman and Irvin Landes. Our J unior-Senior reception was a very elaborate affair, held in Bra- zil, at the Glenn home. Si and Ezra of radio station WBOW furnished fine entertainment. Also Mrs. Paul Isenbarger interpreted a play and gave several readings which all greatly enjoyed. Both Juniors and Sen- iors were much pleased with the reception. This completed our social activities for the Junior year. Our class has at last reached that goal that looms up before the little Freshman when he first enters high school. The path has been rugged, and many have dropped along the wayside. Our band now numbers only twenty-three. We have at last gained the crown of Seniorship, and our leaders, Johnson and Erwin, who are guiding us carefully and faithfully, have helped us to gain the title, DigniHed Seniors . QA doubt lingers in our minds as to whether or not we gained this title honestly.J We are a carefree, happy group, and, although we are weary from travel, we have enjoyed our journey through the Wilderness of High School so im- mensely, that we regret that now we see a faint glimmer of light fFutureJ not so far ahead. We have become merely beginners once more. 'It is now our task to prepare for that sudden light ahead, and accustom ourselves to it. We know not what the new territory holds for us. Oh, that it were the Wilderness of High-School! The time is almost here when the pathway ceases to be one continuous, path, but many paths. Each one leads to a different destination. Some are good and some are evil. We must make our own choice and travel our own path, our own way without leaders. Some of our band will travel the pathway to the Jungle of College, which is much more dense and complicated than the Wilderness of High-School. There is the pathway to Matrimony, and some few have already chosen this path. The path toi Employment looms up before most of our band, and it is a very rugged one., In late years, old travelers tell us, the road-bed has been completely destroyed and one must be alert to keep on the right road, for a yawning desert surrounds it, and hundreds have lost their way and have died from thirst. We have been so engrossed in our travel, and the duties which we must fulfill, that we have had little time for recreation. We gave a movie, in order to secure funds for further travel, but, so many were engrossed in their journeys on the road to Employment that they could not turn back. The attendance was not so good, and since we made so little we decided that funds must be raised otherwise. The band of students just a mile behind us, called the Juniors, gave a delightful Haye Lofte Party at which we were the honored guests. Then Happy Days , a benefit minstrel sponsored by the Brazil Business Women, came to our rescue. For satisfactory meats go to W. H. Grass, 117 E. National Ave. Page forty-one