Winamac High School - Totem Yearbook (Winamac, IN)

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THE TOTEM. As usual he was working on some new experiment, trying to rival New- ton and the rest of the preat physi- cists. After a long ehat with him I went through the normal department and was surprised to see Mabel Hare, in- structing the Literature classes. She chanced to be having a recitation in English Literature. This of course brought up old memories of our own struggles with poetry, and I inquired concerning Miss Patterson. I was in- formed that she was in Illinois, con- ducting a chicken farm much after the fashion of Chantecler, except that she was feedfmg her hens a great variety of dye stuffs, thus as- tounding the country with what she was pleased to call Rainbow poultry, since her hens laid the most beauti- fully colored eggs. Mabel had an- other visitor that afternoon whom I Avas pleased to meet. It was Ethel. But no — not the same Ethel of old. Perhaps it was because she had mar- ried Mr. Petifer in earnest that she has changed so much. After spend- ing the afternoon there I came on to Winamae. The very first person I saw was one of the old class — Fran- ces. She, too, was visiting her home town From her I learned that four of the girls — Eva, Anna, Nina and herself — had been out in South Da- kota teaching in High Schools there with marked success, and that Mary was the vocal music instructor in the Winamae High School. Also that several of the girls from our class had left he paths of single blessed- ness and were now trying to get battle axes back in vogue as weapons — since rolling pins were so dull and ineffective. Mabel Werner, Lelah Werner, Pearl Stout, Nellie Olds and Lenora Obright were at the head of this movement. The last I heard of Amy she was head operator in the new wire ' ss telephone system that has its Indiana central at Indianapolis. Well, Amy could certainly manage that job all right, for I remember how she used to ' get into electricity when Mr. Har- ker taught us the first principles of those things. During my visit in Winamae I chanced to step into the lai ' ge public library which had been built since my last visit, and imagine my sur- prise on being greeted by Rhena, who was the librarian and who was cer- tainly enjoying her task, since she always loved to be surrounded by her books. It is safe to sav I enjoyed my stay there very much. After a long visit about the state I returned to my work by way of Chicago, and during an evening there Avas charmed to hear one of the latest and what is considered by critics to be one of the best piano compositions of late years, composed by Prof. R. P. Harker and rendered by Miss Jessie Heise, the president of the class of 1910.

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THE TOTEM II • S» H» jH 4MH» ' J« M ' M ' t«- H»4 » 3» - f I (Kltigs Hist rD Some twelve years ago a crowd of six year old youngsters started to school. Among these were Frances Kelly and Anna Cox, the only two Avho from the class that started in Room One will graduate in the spring f.f 1910. During the time passed in the grades many pupils from other schools entered and others from the old pupils dropped out. Among the newcomers was Mary Blew, who en- tered during the fourth year, and vsho is still with the class. During ihe time in the grades death twice entered our class, taking classmates; first in the second year when Carl Stowman was taken, and again in the eighth grade when Bessie En- yeart met her awful death. When we entered the high school Ave were a small class, having only nbout twenty members, but that year we claimed Walter Lowry, the field meet champion. Many pupils entered the Freshman year from country schools, making up the gTeater part of the class since only seven gTad- uatfd from eighth grade at Winamac. Some of the pupils found the work too hard or for various other reasons quit during that year, others though thev finished the Freshman year did not enter the Sophomore. Ethel Smith entered the second year class and is with it. At the beginning of the third year Jessie Heise, an ac- complished musician, entered the class and has during the past year held the oflflce of president. The last part of the third ear wr,s quite eventful. We all remember the operetta, of which we claimed the heroine, one of the other leading characters and the pianist from our class. After the operetta came the Junior reception Avith its duties and pleasures. The night of the Junior reception the Seniors put up their flag of red and green. Before that they had had one flag up, but our one boy thought it not placed rightly on the flagpole, and for that reason took the flag down. After the reception Homer came to the school house and, though he had but one match and the night Avas dark, only when the lightning Avas flashing, started to the flagpole. He found the doors wired shut nnri the ladders taken to the basemen r. Not at all discouraged by this he went to the basement, brought the ladder, unAvired the doors and went to the flagpole only to find the flag wired on the pole. This made little dif- ference, for the flag came down. After this folloAved a small scrap, Avhieh didn ' t amount to anything.