Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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ai.d lately the girls have been crazy after Pool. Cut it out—all the Juniors, and particularly illiani Link, Howard Benner, Elmer Valentine, Robert Ruck, Emma Heller, Kitty Crawford and Edna Leach. In closing we have but few words further to say. We deplore the con- ditions which inspire this advice and hope it will be received with the same spirit with which it is given. The road to knowledge is not always an easy one to travel, and the end can never be reached, for, no matter what distance one may cover, the way winds on and on. It is well however to make the most of your opportunities, applying yourself diligently to the tasks prescrib- ed by your teachers, so that when your life has been rounded out you can look back over the road you have traversed and truthfully say: “I have done my best.” The acquisition of knowledge is a duty you owe not only to your- self but to your country and humanity as well. One cannot become the best citizen unless he acquires an education and is able to impart to his fellowmen at least some of the benefits he has received. The Senior class can offer no better advice than this: Obey your teachers, be ever studious, considerate and industrious.

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tain young Juniors, imagining themselves better informed than their teachers, have dared to argue with, nay, even contradict them. O deluded young men! Why this impudence? Are you not aware that the teacher has it in her power to send you from the recitation room? Meditate over these words, O thoughtless ones. Hearken to the voice of your counsellor. I low modest and acquiescent are the Seniors! When the teacher issues her orders, who is the first to obey? The Seniors. When school is dismissed who is the first to get cut? The Seniors. When one of our teachers says “Let’s have quiet please,” who becomes the quietest? The Seniors. 1 repeat it sirs, the Seniors. Who is last? The Juniors. There is only one path to fame and that is the one trodden by the Seniors of ’08. Follow the leaders, children, and you will l.ve to become great men and famous women. When Mr. Pool knowingly asserts that “all straight lines are equal,” Mr. Haupert, that “Columbus dis- covered America in 1776, and Miss Conrath, that “Cicero was the greatest warrior ever existed,” don’t doubt them ; they know. And even if you do have some doubts go privately and consult Leslie Bowsher. Another line itr which you need advice sadly is athletics. Although the Seniors have this year carried off the laurels try to redeem yourselves next ear. Although you did lose four High School games of basket ball this year for the school, it will pardon you on the one condition that you do better next year. It is to be regretted that there were only three Senior players in the team this year. Yet,the school thanks them sincerely for the victories they obtained and only desire they impart their secrets and tricks of playing to the Juniors who it is to be hoped will be greatly benefited thereby. It is quite possible that you have conceived the idea that the Seniors have been indifferent and unmindful of your welfare. This conclusion is an erroneous one. All during the past year the eyes of the Seniors have been upon you, studying your weakness and shortcomings, and for this reason we are better enabled to guide your footsteps toward a brilliant future. Looking back over the past year in hasty review we are enabled to state un- hesitatingly that the greatest obstacle to your advancement is the lamentable absence of good order during school hours. This must be remedied if you desire to make even a near approach to the high standard achieved by the class of ’08. That you may more readily perceive the necessity of a radical improvement in your deportment, it may be well to cite the most flagrant breaches of discipline of which you have been guilty in the past: FIRST.—Whispering. Whispering only serves to arouse the sincere disgust of the Seniors who abhor anything that is unladylike or ungentle- manly. Further it greatly disturbs the studious Sophomores so profusely scattered about you. Cut it out Edwin, Leonard, Louis, Alma, Hazel, Helen. SECOND.—Rudeness. Juniors! How frequently do you so rudely burst into a laugh when one of your benighted classmates advances a ridicu- lous theory. Cease it Rena, Mildred, Emma, Leslie, William. THIRD.—Meddling in Laboratory. It is quite natural for Juniors to suppose that after having studied physics for a short while that they are inventive physicists. Under this delusion you go in the Laboratory during a period when you are supposed to be reciting, break everything, ruin the ma- chines, cause a fearful amount of noise and remain in there until the gong for dismissal sounds when you cause havoc in the whole school in your frantic endeavors to be out first. Cut it—Howard, Leonard, Robert, Roland, George. FOURTH.—And most important is Idleness. You sit in school, rest- ing your heads on your elbows, looking out of the windows, the boys thinking how nice it would be if “I could knock a home run next game,” the girls, “Will my green hat look good with my greener dress for tomorrow night’s dance?” Idleness is the most terrible piece of disobedience which the ingen- uity of the Juniors has devised. Idleness leads up to so many faults and eventually makes loafers of you. In fact many Juniors at the present time loaf up town, especially near the pool tables. The boys are crazy after pool

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JUNIOR RECEPTION o o o On the evening of the twenty-fifth clay, in the month of February, nine- teen hundred, eight, the Juniors held their annual reception in honor of the Seniors. 1 he Juniors realized what a truly great opportunity this was, and exerted their greatest efforts to make it an occasion long, even forever, to be remembered. For days, yes weeks, beforehand, one could detect a troubled look on every Junior's face, for each well knew what it meant to entertain a class like that of “’08.'' in an appropriate manner, while on the other hand, the Seniors all wore the brightest of smiles, even in the hour of Rhetoric, for they were looking forward with great expectation to this event and they were not disappointed. Nothing had been left undone which could possibly help to make the reception a success. Everything moved as if by magic, even to the fall of “Welding,” which was quite a jar to those present. Each guest was met by one of the Junior girls, taken to a dressing room, where they disposed of their wraps, and as soon as this was done, pro- ceeded to have a good time, which continued throughout the entire evening and a part of the morning. The entertainment of the first part of the evening consisted of several guessing contests, the consolation prize, which was a nice, large “Lemon,” done up very neatly, falling to the lot of Miss Bowdle and Edwin Timmer- meister. I hese were interspersed with selections of music, which were certainly enjoyed by everyone. George Hoskins, the rising young baritone, Louis Dobie, the noted violinist, Alma Loth and Emma Tacusch, our famous pianists, and Mildred Edntiston, one of our sweetest singers, each contributed generously to the en- tertainment of the evening. About ten-thirty came the summons to the dining-room, where long tables, loaded with dainties, greeted the guests. After all had been seated, the caterers came marching in, adorned with their white coats and snowy aprons. 1 he ravenous appetites of everyone were soon quieted with a menu able to satisfy the tastes of the most fastidious. After all had done justice to this delicious banquet, the president of the Junior Class, Mr. Louis B. Dobie, delivered a very flattering toast to the Senior Class, which was responded to, in equally happy terms bv the presi- dent of the Senior Class, Mr. Edwin B. Timmermeister. Then toasts by Supt. Haupert, and Mr. E. Leslie Nichols followed, the latter closing by wishing everyone a “Merry Xmas,” and a “Happy New Year.” The company then withdrew to the parlors, while the dining room was being cleared for the dance, the last feature of the evening’s entertainment. Excellent music was furnished by Martha Wiss and Charles Zaenglein. Rather early in the morning, each guest departed with sincere expres- sions of appreciation to the Juniors for their unequaled hospitality.