Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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Senior Class of 1913

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There, in another place, we are gather- ed into the laboratory and Mr. Stout, our Science teacher, is demonstrating to us the truth of the statement, that it is one of the laws of nature to “follow the paths of least insistence. A truth which, lie says, as he can readily sec by our work, our class fully understands. Hut he. too, leaves us before the term is ended. His place is taken bv Dr. Bolton, more appropriately, Dr. Cheer- up. who talks so much and takes so many different positions in a second that lie al- most takes our breath away. Now we come to the Senior room. How learned and dignified we are in appearance! Misfortune in the way of teachers is again ours. Quite unexpectedly Miss Colictte leaves 11s, and we are without a Civics teach- er. Then Miss Nixon, our much loved Eng- lish teacher, is obliged to give up her work on account of ill health. Again Mr. Rey- nolds takes charge of us until two new teach- ers come. Miss Thompson takes Miss Col- lette's place, and Miss Fissel assumes Miss Nixon’s work. But our class rises above all misfortunes sent by the unlucky (?) '13. And though only forty-eight are left we have drawn closer together and no doubt all will regret the parting that is so near. The beautiful light is fading. My good fairy says we must hasten. On the way back she explains these wonderful hall in the clouds. Only the lives of the really great are thus recorded. And because of our merit as a class, each day of our lives a new panel is added up there and nothing that we do is ever lost. And each evening those beautifully painted galleries are il- luminated and make the glorious sunsets. “Most eagerly,” said the fairy, We await the future history of your class, for there are those in it who will be world-wide famous.” Now, dear readers, you will say that I was only dreaming: but. truly, I was not. LENA BAKER. There is no one of us who will not re- call pleasantly some peculiarity of speech, pet expression, or foreboding state of anger or amusement on the features of the mem- bers of the hacuity. They have become dear to us all through their self-sacrificing charity and great patience, and if they oc- cassionally became ruffled, let us not forget that it was because of our perverted incli- nations. If at times we had individual dis- sensions with the teachers, we had only to go and say “peccavimus” and their wrath was wafted where the wind listeth. Per- haps it will take the passage of time to show some of 11s how greatly we are indebted to them, but this interval can but increase the value of those dear memories of intimate relations in which we have moved. Some day as we look back through the many years that have elapsed, those memories will become sweeter and more precious and none will be more often recalled and more mused upon than those memories of the noble men and women who directed and moulded 11s into better shape, who made allowances, and who saw in us not the im- perfections of youth, but the possibilities of mature manhood and womanhood. O. B. THOMAS, Instructor in Mechanical Drawing. T VV ENT Y-ON K

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In 1923 For ten long years 1 labored hard, itli law practice very keen. And then a yearning o'er me came To see my dear friends of '13. So dropping my business affairs, And thinking my time fitly spent, I boarded a train for the west And was soon on my mission bent. First, stopping off at Chicago, I was much surprised to hear, That Mr. Dudley Nichols as a doctor for the ear. 1 thought I'd call upon him, Old friendship to lenew. So I took the elevated car For Columbus Avenue. When 1 jumped aboard the car, 1 felt right out of sight. For who should the conductor be 1 Jut a man named Harold Seitz. We had a chat about old times, I low at school we used to dream, lint suddenly I heard a voice That for joy sheer made me scream. I turned and grasped the speaker's hand, The man knew me, 1 guess; It proved to be Max Menschel The editor of the Press. As he was a city editor He had much to relate. And 1 listened with much attention Till the hour grew very late. He stated that Ralph Bibler Was an athlete of great fame; Pauline Hoegner and Alvina Link Had long since changed their name. Of course this much surprised me But the next 1 couldn't stand; He said that Llovd M. Kridler Had joined the German band. TWENTY-THREE