Winamac High School - Totem Yearbook (Winamac, IN)

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ScnxDt-s W ILI.IAM JACKSON. ' |-h. sis: ' VaLMliclory Addicss, And si ill the wonder giew. I hat on siuill head cnuld cai ry all he knew. This hashful youngster his (• mil ' into prominence since the Senior play. ' •.iiiniiiy can l everything ' from playing basket hall down to r dling marbles. The rest is silence. ' MA BELLE MILLER. Thesis: ( lass Poem. ' iM ' ank and ingenuous, s)nietinies ji ' oubled willi atVairs of the heart, ' tis tiue. but bi ' inirul ot witcheiy ever and always is (uir All-of-a-Sudden Peggy. HAZEL .lOllNSON. Thesis: ' Ei|ual SulTrage in England. Ha . d s smile is hidden, but it ' s Ihei ' e just the same. No one can a|i|M ' oach lliis ' •|itlb ' dams(d without a smile on accounl of her pleasing ways. KAI ' llltYN liOCII. Thesis: I nilcd Slates Pensi(Uis. Call me up some rain - arieniooii. Kalie was asleep at the tele|dionr (iltice. and lli iitor haled to awake her loi- a more dtdaUed slatenieiiL

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Seniors HA RRY PARROTT. Thesis: The Present Chinese Prohlem. Harry is our athlete. He stands six feet eight above sea level. He is a stanch member of the Anti-Cupid Association, never once having vio- lated any of its rules. FTHEL LINN. Thesis: The (rrowth of Labor Unions iti the U. S. This dear child of ours will soon be far away in the jungles teaching the natives, but we ' re hoping she ' ll not forget W. H. S. LENORE BRINGHAM. Th sis: Equal Suffrage in the U. S. Irish just came to us this year, and has proved a star in all her studies. ]M :ARL KISTLER. Thesis: The Consolidation of Schools in Jiidiaiia. Pt ' ai-1 is oui ' oi ' alor. having fi ' c«ni(Milly pleased lh ' H. S. Willi lici ' readings. She is a general favni ' ilc, a (Mile lilllc ,i:ii ' l Willi clianiiiiig mainiers.

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mm (EIess -Historx) HI AlxtuI twelve years ago thiriy-li f ' lillle six-year-t)lds, care- fully coached by theii ' anxious mo i;he rs, were sent off to school for fhe lirsl time. They eiileied Ihe building witli fear and tiembling. On being takyn to liist grade rooiii their ter- ror nirrrased. Many gave v( lit in t ai s, mingled with sdbs for mamma, v hile others idoked about, in awe at the roDiii 111 whicii they were to be,.: i ) their scho( career. (ira(hially t iu ' y In came accustiimed tn tl suroundings, and linauy their work became a p ea ure. Each year as we entered a higher grade (nir pride increased. W ' e were im longer bei iiiners, but now ranked witli tliose wlm knew and could !« ' regar.led with soiiie- lliiiig (dlier tlian pity or ainusi ' - iiieiidiers o f our class droppeil out. but troin time to time others were added; thus we retaineij about the same iiundier. II came to iiass t bat in I be year urns we were ready to graduate from II iglilli gra le and enter High S(dio(d. ■nnu ' e were twenty- graduates, only se en of tins iiial tbirly-tive. (iraduati(Mi ex- ercises were Indd in May at tlie Metliodisl (diurdi. And, l. ' sl I forget, ours was the last class to hold eighth grade com- mencement exercises in Winamac. In the autumn of the same year we en- tered upon our fa- mous career in our dear old High. Many tiom other schools ed us and we were for- ty-live. Regarded with amnseineiit and sometimes coiiLempt by the other (Masses we were painfully aware that we were fresh- men. We Vv ere a studious (dass, however, giving lit- tle allention to the more tl i (dous events of scho(d litv. riKuigb our Sophomore year was in natst respects like the |)re ious (Hie. the uninteresting a|)p(dlatioii ot f ' reshie could be stiak(ni like dust from mir feet and I bat, at least, was a triumph. We liegan our .Innior year with a resoKc to be successful in our studies, but as a side line to have a go. Ml time. We succeeded in b(d b. Tlie crown inu e -ent o t mir nian. ' social affairs was mir re- ception to llie Seniors, wherein we tried to surpass all iwex ions atleni|.ts. .Most ot the UKUiey to :i c tlie rece| tioii was obtained tr. iir play ••.Muldooirs Blun- ders ,ui en in february, I ' .) I I. I ' be success ot the |day and the receplion was due to the etforts ot I ' idt. ( ). T. S|»encer, wlioiii tlie