Wakarusa High School - Waka Memories Yearbook (Wakarusa, IN)

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Alumni In The War l l u Service Flag, Wakarusa High School A large number of the Alumni took an active part in the World War. The following of our boys served their country in France: ALBERT STROUPE LLOYD ELLlO'l l' O'l'lS STEWARD ELMER NUSBAUM JOHN NUSBAUM HAROLD MYERS CLIO DOERlNG EARL NYE MELVIN HAHN HALLET MYERS served in the Pamama Canal Zone. ELMER NUSBAUM was wounded by pieces of shrapnel in his shoulder and eye. All of these boys returned home. Besides the boys named, others had respondedf to the national need and were in training in various camps in this country. They were: Five

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We, the Senior Class of Nineteen Twenty, affectionately dedicate this the first volume of Le Meilleur to Miss Werntz who has for so many years served with untiring interest in our school, and to the Alumni. Four

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WARD DOERING VIRGIL STAUFFER FRANK WlSE BLAINE RHEUBOTTOM . LE ROY GARBERICH CLIFFORD PLETCHER EDWARD STROPE HUGH BERKEY RAYMOND SCHRYER OLEN EICHER QTransport Servicej CLEM HAHN ELMER LEHMAN MERL YODER - The following boys were in the S. A. T. C.: Ray Brown Clyde Eshleman Devon Frash Worth Yoder Chester Albin Dewey Lienhart Loyal Stewart Charles McDonough Ralph Culp Winfred Wagner W. H. S. has done her part of furnishing men in the late war by send- ing thirty-four of her Alumni. 0 The Boys' Working Reserve In the Spring of 1918 a Boys' Working Reserve was organized. .All boys over sixteen years of age were allowed to join. Two kinds of Medals were given as prizes, a Badge for thirty-six days labor and a Bar for one hundred days labor. The following received Badges and Bars: John Birk Glen Roeder Elmer Metzler Albert Herrington Ernest Chokey Huber Yoder Edward Chokey Paul Christner Joyce Lehman Emmert Roose Herbert Sailor Nelson Holdeman Norris Shirck Walter Lechlitner Hermit Eby ..-.-0 The Victory Boys and Girls Two Victory Clubs were organized, one by the boys and the other by the girls of 1921. Each club paid the fee of tive dollars. The members of the Clubs were as follows: Girls Boys Hattie Yoder Edward Chokey Mildred Hahn Keith Frash Bernita Morris Paul Christner Cora Null Walter Lechlitner Elsie Weldy Orley Wilson Gleta Schwalm Huber Yoder 1 Hermit Eby Six