Winamac High School - Totem Yearbook (Winamac, IN)

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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.

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