Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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♦ ••• ♦ •••♦ ••• I 1923 I Wilda Beery Vonda Blank Cleta Bowman Glenn Brackney Louise Brokaw Marcele Bubp Mildred Burden Joseph Burke Hulcla Campbell Garnet Chesbrough Pauline Craft Mary Crow Dorothy Diegel Dorothy Doering Marvin Ebinger Gladys Eckemviler Horace Fenton Lloyd Finke Marian Fischer Carolyn Fleming Boyd Frazier Harold Frideger Robert Ganther Richard Gesler Robert Gross Laurena Gutmann Cecil Hastings '• ♦ ••• ♦ • ■! RETROSPECT 1923 ♦ ♦ ♦ Junior Class Poem Three years at Blutne High you’ve spent, In studying, learning, and pleasure And knowledge from many books you’ve rent Seeking their greatest of treasure. You are coming nearer your goal, As each year you steadily advance. Doing well your every role Seeking, always a greater chance. By careful study and hard work. All your hopes you may attain. But you must never, never shirk. Or you will lose in the game. You desire to Great “Seniors” be. But your path as you clearly see ill not be easy all the way But will, require study every day. F. R. Junior Roll Xed Hoegner Mary Horn Ralph Huebner Ralph Jimison Norma King Margaret Knarr Alma Knatz Ruth Knierim Margaret Knost Marjorie Kolter Edith Krabach Alberta Kreitzer Alvina Lanning Margaret Lear Doris Lehman Anna Liokumovitz David Logan Forest Lotridge Carolyn McFarland Daphane Minnich Kathryn Minton Alvin Mollenkamp Madge Musser Kathryn Xiswonger Leslie Phillips Irvin Presar Helena Rickert Carl Rinehart Howard Rontshe Orville Runkle Robert Runkle Richard Ruppert Catherine Sammetingcr Margaret Schaub Salome Schuler Vennard Seigel Violet Selover Donnet Shaw Minor Sibert Robert Slushcr Bernard Spces Bernadine Spees Ethelyne Spees Richard Slonaker Oral Swonguer Harold Thomas Ludena Veit Kathryn Weaver Stella Wehner Alvin Winget Elizabeth Whiteman Goerdis Ziegler

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 1923 j RETROSPEC ♦ ♦ JUNIOR President..... Vice-President Secretary..... Treasurer..... Junior Class Officers ......................Horace Fenton ..................Robert Slusher •............Elizabeth Whiteman ..............Marian Fischer

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I 1923 I RETROSPECT ! 1923 I Junior Class History IN tlie furthermost recess dee]) down in the cavern of knowledge, the great 1 god of wisdom held a meeting. To this meeting came his comrades, the god of strength and the god of loyalty. ’I here the three sat around a crackling fire which cast its crimson light about, throwing huge grotesque shadows on the rockv walls. After a deep and lengthy silence, broken only by the merrily bubbling caldron over the fire, the god of wisdom arose. His aged and bent figure approached the caldron and he raised his hands above it. “I will give them brilliant minds'’, he said and he sprinkled a grey powder into the seething contents of the caldron. A short silence followed and the god of strength arose and strode to the fire. What a splendid picture he made—tall, handsome, and graceful with great muscles rippling smoothlv beneath his brown skin. “And I”, he said. “Will give them success whether it be on gridiron or track, basket ball or tennis”, and he dropped a generous handful of red powder into the caldron which caused it to bubble and lrss more violently. The third, the god of loyaltstepped to the fire with a friendly smile and said I will make them loval and true to their class, friendly and helpful to other classes, loval to their school and city.” And so they stirred the caldron and talked far into the night of the great class to which they had so generously contributed their aid. . . In the early hours of the morning they were seen leaving the cave by the goddess of beaut ■ who upon seeing the three together, immediately suspected some conspiracy. hen they were out of sight, she stole softly down into the cave and came upon the last dying embers of the fire over which the slowly cooling mixture hung. She perceived the nature of it and could not resist the temptation to add her gifts to the lot. , “And may the girls of that class be pretty and graceful, she added and fled quickly away. . The merits of that never-to-be-forgotten class which graduates in -4 were in this way planned out for them and thus far we may truthfully say that the prophecy has been fulfilled. The class is now finishing its third year in triumph and is fully prepared to step into the role of the dignified senior where it will doubtless conduct itself in a manner fitted to the honor, and will look upon the underclassmen with that friendly and paternal attitude so high- ly commendable of the Seniors. ROBERT SLUSHER. Junior '23