Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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HIQUOTY of the C11 aduatlng Class of 1925 lIlClL1Ll111Q 111 thc horrlble detalls Conccrnlng thelr four ycars Intellectual evolutlon On September twelfth 1921 twentv nlne eager httle Freshmen entered the old Yorktown Hlgh School bulldlng to beg1n thelr hlgh school careers each one anxlous to get an ldea of what hlgh s hool llfe reallv was babblmg over w 1th pent up enthu 1 asm and each trw mg to tell the other how much he alreadv knew al out the coming adventlre To lte m17e the blnch we fmd llsted Mlldred Abbot Ine7 McKmlev Kathrxn Kldd Anna Mae Faulkner Waneta Par 41 on Anna W1ll1ams Athel Garner Helen Brmdel Oreta Jone Flossle Qnodgrass Dcra Nelson Irene Lourtnev Lola Wllllams Rubv Fu on Pauhne lustlce Halhe Conner Marguerlte hpperson Danlel Nelson Lewls Klnses Ernest conovan Roscoe Ward Geor e Mlt hell Earl Antrlm Iumerv Applegate Jr Logan Henslex Robert Reed Call Ogle Arnold Brmwn and Clarence Land1s But alas' our class began to decrease ln number the verv next das Clarence Landls declded that what he needed was not school llfe but rather a blt of romance and adventure on the farm Hls enthuslam waned and dlsappeared under the shock of the hrst look at the Alfebra book It seems however that he has now tlred of hls farm hfe romance and adven ture for thls vear he buckled the courage to return he 18 now completmg hls Freshman year and expects to go on to attain the goal that he would have reached wlth us had he persevered We onlv wlsh that there were more of hls tvpe ln th world who after mak mg a mlstake seek tv undaunted efforts to redeem themselves m the face of opposltlon and extreme hard work He 14 begmnmg agaln at the bottom of the latter and has steadllv worked hls wav past the flrst round lookmg up at hls former classmates who are four steps ahead of hlm and who reach down often to offer hlm a helpmg hand We the class of 1995 extend to oar old classmate and frlend the best and most smcere wlshes for a uccessful future and that the class of 1928 graduates w 1th Clarence Landxs Durmg our Freshman vear SIX new students en tered our class some how ever left before the close of the vear Margaret Applegate was a member of on class for about a we k durlng October bemg tmere at the earnest request of the truant offlcer bhe then left to enter a mx thlcal Busmess College Harrv Rlchardson and hrnest Mlller also entered at about the same tlme and Opal Bolton Nxe came one month or tw o later Prlnce Wavmlre entered Januarv '30 and wltb hlS departure was the advent of one Arthur Davxs to the class In the mean tlme Anna Mae Faulkner Roscoe Ward and Harrv Rlchardson had dropped out leavmg tw entv n1ne students the ' ' ., ' , 'l V v ' ' L V I ' V I D -- 7 A 1 I 3 . . . L I. . , . . ' . 3 3 1 . . , ' Y cn - . V I 7 , . ' - ' L. Y ' V 1 . 1 X . A . . . , . . ' 1, V 7 - S.- tl K , ' ' . v. N 1 n . , ' I 1 I 1 1 ' Y , I 5 - ..z . . . , ' - ' '- - ' L J ' , s .. , , . . . ,, , - ' . 1 v w v' R 1 ' I Y p n q Y 1 1 Y , . . . , f K1 v L- ' as the.r valedlctorlan. A ' l V Y ' - -' v S ' P ' , M, . . sr i L , - , . . , Q , Q K , , ' 7 p Y K Y p L' 7 . N . . ' : , ' . , A f 1 v 9 . ' , ' , ' , V ' x I . wk 1 v 9 , - t v t . v K v n n ' ' T 1- ' . ' . 't 7 D V 1 Y A Y D 1. 1 F Y N ' L tl L n 'Y 'L Y 7 , . , . 1 x - ' L . A , , , . . . . . H 1 . 7 .. . . - s, . . , ' ' Q , . . . , w . ' ' Q ' , l ' v . - . . . . u gn . 7 1 K N v v '- . 9 D ' K 1 ,

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orlglnal number to complete the Freshman vear A much vslser and smarter bunch entered the new bulldlllg the followmg fall On October lb 1922 the doors of the new school bulldmg were thrown open to admlt mamlv tw entv nme Sophomores three of whom were begmnlng there flrst vear vw 1th us Claudla Dorton Marguerlte Clevenger and Jacob Lennmgton vu ho took the place of three Freshman who had moved Opal Bolton Nye Irene Courtnev and Halhe Conner MISS Lorncr however and Harrv Rlchardson are graduatmg wlth the class at Muncie Hlgh School thls vear Our Sophomore vear saw no new members dur mg the vear All went well wlth the ent1re twentv nlne of us untxl Earnest Mlller succumbed to an at tack of low grades and retlred from hlgh school on Februarv 16 1923 At about the same tlme Rubv Fuson and Waneta Parklson were forced to vuth draw on account of poor health and about one month later Marguerlte Clevenger also bade good owe to Y H S and surroundlngs Our next enemv seemed to be Sprmg Farm Work and two of our bovs Arthur Davls and Robert Reed answered the call vwhlle another Carl Ogle flndlng It easler to flsh along the rlver than to studv Latm followed the lmes of least reslstance and also wlthdrew about the same tlme Follovs mg these ravages of slckness, work and lazmess there were twenty two Sophs left to f1n1sh the second tear At the begmnmg of the Junlor vear Mlldred Abbott and Athel Garner vellded to the lntense cravmg for beautlful clothes and an exlstence that affords more so called pleasure than school and thev too made the great mlstake kathrxn kldd entered Dalevllle from whlch she lb graduatlng thls vear However three new students came and supplanted the three who had dropped out and started thelr Junior ve r Ru vv Fuson had loo' ed at the green people of Cammack long enough that she recovered ler p rtlallv lost eveslght and returned Marv Lolse Searls came from one of her alvwavs mvsterxous of the Class of 25 as a result of havmg taken too long a Chrlstmas vacatlon the vear before All went well untll Rubv Fuson agaln had to leave school on account of bad eveslght real or lm agmarx On Janualv 1 1925 Dora Nelson saw fmt to leave school for obvlous reasons and embark wlth the good shlp Elll on on the rough and stormv sea of matrlmonv Mav she have a happv prosperous and seaslckless vovagel Incldentallv four others vx ho have been at one t1'ne member of our class are sallmg that same sea Thev are namelv Opal Nve Bolton Marguerlte Clevenger Margaret Applegate and Waneta Parklson As far as anvone knows thev are maklng the best of a bad mlstake 7 A ' m. ' ' nv u , w D u l ' ' . a ' v I . 9 . . . , . Y - K , S ' Q . 5 . . W ', ' Y ! . ' . Y. um . . , 5 g 7 ' ' v - 5 x L, I 9 . S ' s v v ' ' ' . . ' I , , g . S A , I 3 . 1 . S A ' 1 u - 1 I Q ' ' A . ' A 9 . . 1 ' . I n Y Y . - 1 A 1 ' 64 i! ' - - ' - somewheres, and Howard Pullln became a member . n. ' . 1 , I 1 ' - , H n o . l ' l ' I 1 ' . f Y ' . ' ' . V' - 3' - 1 --- ' - , . - 7 V Y 4 . Y I 0 I in U ll ' ' li ' yy an - ' 9 1 X! n ' 4 4 1 v ' ' w 1' y Y Y Y K 1 ' p , . .3 , 1 ' ., V . ' n 7 ' V 1 1 . ' 1 'N 1 Y - x 0