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| GIRL'S BASKETBALL TEAM |
BACK ROW:
Velma Plumb, Nina Carley, Miss Gladys Hooker-Coach, Dorothy Bolton, Vola Hendrix
FRONT ROW:
Marie Carley, Lucille Boraff, Mildred Shuck - captain, Lois Koast, Pearle Metcalfe
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BACK ROW:
Velma Plumb, Nina Carley, Miss Gladys Hooker-Coach, Dorothy Bolton, Vola Hendrix
FRONT ROW:
Marie Carley, Lucille Boraff, Mildred Shuck - captain, Lois Koast, Pearle Metcalfe
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| BOY'S BASKETBALL SEASON 1925-1926 |
Sam Braden, forward; and Dale Miller, guard. Guido Stemple, forward and Harry Braden,
guard completed the quintet that played nearly all of all the games. Substitutes who were in
action in several games when badly needed were, George Ginger, Royce Parker, Fred Koast and
Oran Androy. Under the clever coaching of their new coach, Ray C. Hall they developed an
offence that enabled them to pile up top-heavy scores in many of their games. The team was not defeated on its home floor and had the pleasure of defeating decisively every team which it lost
to during the entire season. Dye and Braden will be lost by graduation and Parker may not
return to Macedonia next fall, but the material on hand indicates that there will be another
whirlwind team representing "Donia" next season.
SCHEDULE
Macedonia 19 - Hancock 21 Macedonia 34 - Hancock 13
Macedonia 30 - Oakland 13 Macedonia 34 - Oakland 10
Macedonia 43 - Treynor 23 Macedonia 24 - Treynor 10
Macedonia 25 - Carson 12 Macedonia 16 - Carson 10
Macedonia 22 - Henderson 19 Macedonia 23 - Henderson 28
Macedonia 23 - Wales 27 Macedonia 24 - Wales 14
Macedonia 23 - Silver City 24 Macedonia 29 - Silver City 26
Glenwood Tournament - Macedonia 15 -- Silver City 18
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| BOY'S BASKETBALL TEAM |
Supt. H. T. Cox Coach R. C. Fall Oran Androy
Harry Braden, Guido Stemple Sam Braden, Dale Miller
Stanley Dye, Captain-
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| FRESHMAN CLASS |
President. . . Wilda Miller Sec-treas . . . . Irene Plumb
Vice-president. . . .Lloyd Dye Sponsor . . . .Ray C. Fall
Class Colors: Blue and Silver. Class Flower: Pink Carnation
Motto: "Backbones, not Wishbones."
Samples of Freshman Compostion
1. He kissed her upon her reappearance
2. She whipped him upon his return.
3. He kissed her back - Lloyd Dye, Author.
4. She fainted upon his departure.
5. Do not forget the sad case of Mr. Bodkins, who was
accidentally shot in his bottling works.
6. Will Irene be sore, Lucile a fisher, or Ivan still a teacher's pet?
1940
Lloyd K. Dye - Farmer Charles DeBolt - Book Agent
Everett Noel - Bootlegger Roy DeBolt - Mechanic
Ward Babbitt - Orator Evalyn Keener - Poetess
George Clark - Bishop Evelyn Stevens - Red Cross Nurse
Ivan Fisher - Manager of a Lucile Taylor - Manageress of it.
Dairy Farm Frances Taylor - Waitress
Irene Plumb - Actress Wilda Miller - School Tracher
Marion Boruff - Policeman Paul Forristall - Professional
Vernon Aukland - Acrobat dancer
Guy Ford - Self-pronouncing Mr. Fall - ? ? ? ? ? ?
dictionary
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| FRESHMAN CLASS |
Vernon Aukland, Charles DeBolt, Ivan Fisher, Everett Neel, Marion Boruff, Ward Babbitt.
SECOND ROW:
Paul Foristall, Roy De Bolt, Mr. Fall, George Clark, Guy Ford, Lloyd Dye
FRONT ROW:
Wilda Miller, Irene Plumb, Evelyn Stevens, Frances Taylor, Evalyn Keener, Lucile Taylor
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| SOPHOMORE CLASS |
President........Emma Bisbee Sec-treas............Laverne Moss
Vice-president...Lucille Boruff Sponsor......... Miss Wickoff
Class Colors: Silver and Pink Class Flower: Lily of the Valley
Motto: "Light, not Heat"
OUR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS
One dismal, rainy September morning, we, a group of thirty green students, entered high school as FRESHIES. We were the largest class that had ever entered M.H.S. and we are proud to say that we still are the largest class in the school and hope to be so until we graduate.
We are now a peppy bunch of twenty-one Sophomores. We have published the monthly edition of the high school paper, the "Purple and Gold" and we try hard to make each edition better than the preceding one.
Our class is largely represented in every extra-curricular activity of the school, there being seven of us in the band, four in the Camp Fire, four in the Literary Society and eight in the Radio Club. The high school pianist, Lucille Miller, is a Sophomore. In Athletics we shine above any class in school with four girls on the first team and two boys on the first team and five out of the six substitutes for the boy's team.
We hope that when we leave old 'Donia High two years from now, we will leave the best record in scholarship, school life and all-round usefulness ever left by any class. We want it to be a record other classes will be anxious to try to equal.
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BACK ROW:
Laverne Moss, Marion Maynes, Nina Carley, Vola Hendrix, Miss Wickoff, Vivian Long, Oran Androy, Merle Cramlet
SECOND ROW:
Kenneth Taylor, Guido Stemple; Merle Walker, Harry Braden, Franklin Stemple, Royce Parker, George Ginger.
FRONT ROW:
Thelma DeBolt, Leora Bradshaw, Dorothy Bolton, Lucille Boruff, Emma Bisbee, Lucille Miller.
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Officers
President..........Lewis Dale Miller Sec-treas...Fred S. Keast
Vice-president..Donald Udell Fisher Sponsor..Miss Whistler
Class Colors: Blue and White Class Flower: Tulip
Motto: "A Live Wire Never Gets Stepped On."
Lewis Dale Miller - "Toad" Fred Summers Keast - "Fritz"
"Harmless and Blameless "Don't make excuses,
and free from all goodness." make good"
Lola Pearl Keast - "Snooks" Mildred Margaret Shuck - "Millie"
"We are proud of Lola, you know; "She has fun as long as
She is not tall, but she'll grow." there is fun to have."
Donald Udell Fisher - "Don" Laura Ruth Boyer - "Babe"
"A face that cannot smile "There is weight behind
is never good." her words."
Velma Evelyne Plumb - "Eve" Leo Paul Mickey - "Chaser"
"The only one of us who really "A tall and silent youth
ever cared for love." is he."
"Tis hard to tell just what he'll be."
Eva Rose Plumb - "Eve"
"Grin and Grind"
The annual Junior Play this year was "The Second Puncture, " A three act comedy involving the characters in a camp in the mountains, a burglary, a stolen car and a pair of pajamas. It was well attended and quite a success.
The Twenty-first Annual Junior-Senior Banquet at the High School building April 21st was a colorful and jolly affair. Decorations were symbolical of Holland even to the costumes of the waitresses.
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| JUNIOR CLASS Leo Mickey Donald Fisher Miss Whistler Dale Miller Fred Keast Velma Plumb Ruth Boyer Eva Plumb Lola Keast Mildred Shuck |
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SENIOR PLAY
"ENGAGED BY WEDNESDAY." by Grace Owen
Characters
Martin Henry, laziest man in the county . . . Sam Braden
Arthur Watson, Our Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stanley Dye
Jack, friend of Arthur's . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Besore
Ted, another friend . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald Fisher
Miss Abigail Persons, a woman of ideas . . . Maxine Casson
Mrs. Watson, a gentle person . . . . . . . . . Pearle Metcalfe
Lucille Persons, Our Heroine . . . . . . . . .Fern Hooker
Marie, a friend of Lucille's . . . . . . . . . Velma Plumb
Jane, another friend . . . . . . . Marie Carley
Mable, another friend . . . . . . . . .Elaine Babbitt
Mary, Martin Henry's aunt, cook at Person's . . .Ruby Casson
First Girl . . . . . . . . . . .Ruth Boyer
Second Girl . . . . . . . . Eva Plumb
First Gypsy . . . . . . . . Lola Keast
Second Gypsy . . . . . . . .Mildred Shuck
Boys at the party . . . .Dale Miller, Lee Mickey, Fred Keast
The date set for the play is April 30th. Mr. Cox will coach the play and have charge of the stage lighting.
"All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players." - Shakespeare.
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One day while shopping I saw a wonderful hat in a shop window and upon entering the shop was pleasantly waited upon by a demure little lady whom I discovered to be Fern Hooker.
She and Marie Carley owned this store; she managed the millinery department and Marie designed all the dresses.
They were making a great deal of money as they knew just what the rich Americans wanted and both looked and acted enough like French "madames" to deceive even a Frenchman.
When I returned to New York I noticed a huge sign on Broadway. "Big Basketball Game, World Championship Series." The newspapers gave a list of the players and Stanley Dye was captain and center of one of the teams and a star at long shots at the basket just as he was at old 'Donia. His team had not been defeated in two years.
After all this traveling I found myself anxious to get back to my work as a nurse in the Sun Set Hospital and upon my return to Chicago I learned that the new Hospital built by Dr. Ray C. Hall in that city was in need of a superintendent and decided to apply for the position the next day --- then I woke up.
---Pearle Metcalfe.
COMMENCEMENT
Annual Commencement exercises will be held May 13th, 1926 at the Opera House. The speaker will be Superintendent Allen R. Nieman, of Magnolia, Iowa.
Baccalaureate services will be conducted by Rev. Wm W. Shugg, Pastor of the M. E. Church, Sunday, May 9th.
The Annual Inter-class Track Meet, All School Exhibit Day and the Senior Class Day exercises will be Wednesday, May 12th.
Eighth Grade Commencement is scheduled for Tuesday, May 11th,.
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| Senior Class Prophecy (Continued) After wishing Elaine good luck I decided to go to Paris and boarded a giant airship for that city the next morning. Before the huge bird-like vessel was well under way I noticed a man in uniform staring at me curiously and soon he came and spoke to me, introducing himself as Dr. Walter Besore, the ship's doctor. The trip to Paris was short, but we had time to listen to a radio program in which we were surprised to hear that our old star forward in basketball, Sam Braden, was running for President of the United States and in his speech to the radio audience he was very boastful in his assurances that he could improve conditions all over the world if people would only give him a chance. In Paris I stopped at the Paradise hotel and soon found out that the owner was Miss Ruby Casson, my old chum in school. She had inherited a fortune from an aunt and had come to Paris where she and bought this hotel. It was a model of comfort and beauty and certainly was worthy of the name "Paradise." One of the peculiar things I noticed about Paris was that therre were as many Americans and French living in the city. I did not realize what this might mean until I decided to go to church. I was told that there was a good American church a block from the hotel. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the minister to be our own "Shockey" Babbitt. I was so astonished you could have knocked me over with a feather, He had decided shortly after his graduation from high school that he wanted to be something worth while and had decided that the host of Americans seeking divorces in Paris needed spiritual guidance about as bad as any savages in Africa and so had become a sort of missionary to them. He told me that Maxine was taking part in the finals of the contest to decide who was the world's champion elocutionist that evening. The prize was a fortune in money and world-wide fame. I heard later that she won easily. |
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Senior Class History (Continued)
The Sophomore year seemed unlucky as we lost so many of our members, including Jewel Rash, Lyle Houser, Lynn Galloway, Dewey Purdue and Verne Bisbee, but Gerald Babbitt joined us. There was not only a big change in the class, but also a great change in the Faculty. Mr. Frink took Mr. Alspaugh's place, Miss Carrie E. Wickoff became principal and Mr. Vincent P. Mercer took Mr. Molton's place.
Bertha Swarens dropped out during the Junior year, but Roland Jones made up for the loss in numbers. The only change in the Faulty was that Mr. Cox replaced Mr. Frink as Superintendent.
This year, our last and most important one we were again deserted by several of our members. Our class dwindled down to only ten with the loss of Lawrence Babbitt, Ward Scott, Norris Pilling and Roland Jones. Matrimony claimed our former sponsor Mrs. Ruby McCready, nee Ellerman, and she was replaced by Miss Margaret Whistler, but according to custom, the Superintendent Mr. Cox became our advisor for the year before we take the final plunge into "life's school." A new coach in the person of Mr. Ray C. Fall has helped us to get a new conception of the game of basketball and all 'round goodfellowship.
SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY
Twenty years from Now. 1946 ? ?
On a beautiful day in early autumn, 1946, I decided to take a trip to wear off an attack of the summer blues. Starting East, I stopped at a friend's house in New York City for a fortnight. We attended a vaudeville show one evening and to my astonishment, who was the leading dancer but Elaine Babbitt, known as "Joe" back in our high school days. She seemed to have a wonderful position and was happy in her work.
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| Senior Class History |
The original members of the class of 1926 started to school in 1913. Walter Besore and Stanley Dye are the only ones who started in the first grade together and have gone through. Their first teacher was Miss Edna Patton . Fern Hooker joined us in the second grade and Miss Pierce was the teacher. In the third year Fern moved to Wymore, Nebraska, leaving the boys with their teacher, Miss Elsie Riggle. The fifth grade teacher was Miss Miles.
When the boys reached the sixth grade the school was consolidated and on account of lack of room that grade was moved to the Methodist Church until the mew high school building was completed. Miss Heft was the teacher this year.
In the seventh grade everything went fine, the boys were under the direction of Miss Alexander. Sam Braden joined them and Miss Lisher was the teacher.
When these three jolly boys stepped into the eighth grade they helped organize the new Junior High. The following pupils were the first graduates from the Junior High School:- Walter Besore, Sam Braden, Stanley Dye, Lawrence Babbitt, Floyd Carroll, Ivo Deakins, Lynn Galloway, Freava Nicholson, Norris Pilling, Virgie Stone, Ward Scott and Jewel Rash.
When this large class assembled as freshmen in high school four of their grade school comrades were not with them. These were;- Floyd Carroll, Ivo Deakins, Freava Nicholson and Virgie Stone; but Maxine Casson, Marie Carley, Elaine Babbitt, Fern Hooker, Ruby Casson, Pearle Metcalfe, Cecil Booten, Dewey Purdue, Verne Bisbee, Lyle Houser and Florence Parker joined them, making this the largest freshman class M. H. S. had ever known.
The high school faculty this year (1922-1923) was made up of Supt. A. B. Alspaugh; Prin. Luella Dye, Ruby Ellerman and Clyde Melton.
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PEARLE PAULINE METCALFE
Basketball '24, '26. Band '25, '26.
"She's more serious than she looks."
Our only blonde, with blue eyes.
GEORGE GERALD BABBITT
Captain Jerome in the "Gypsy Rover." "Smile awhile."
He uses most of his smiles plumb foolishly.
Dramatics is his failing.
RUBY GRACE CASSON
Pres. Literary Society '26.
"Always present"
She is very strong minded and should be a suffragette, but probably won't
WALTER ROLAND BESORE
Class President '26. Band '25, '26.
Basketball '25. Baseball
"Always blowing--the saxophone."
He's plumb daffy over a girl.
ELAINE JUANITA BABBITT
Camp Fire '26. Basketball '24, '25.
"Small, but mighty."
"Joe" has worked hard to become a professional Charleston dancer.
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FERN GENEVIEVE HOOKER
Class V-pres, '25, Pres. '22, Pres. Lit. '23. Sec. Camp Fire '26,
V-pres. Glee Cl. '22
"Let me call you sweetheart." She is a heart breaker, but Don doesn't think so.
CHARLES STANLEY DYE
V-pres. '26, '24, Sec. '22. Basket Ball, '23, '24, '25, '26. Base Ball '24, '25.
"Beauty is only skin deep." He has a winning way as dancer or hopp artist.
FERN MAXINE CASSON
Humerous Declam. Winner '25, '26 "I love you but one."
"Brown eyes, why are you blue?" She dyed an old maid.
SAMUEL COLUMBUS BRADEN
Basketball '23, '24, '25, '26. Baseball.
"Oh, I wish that I had someone to love."
That bunch of golden hair should win.
GAIL MARIE CARLEY
Class sec. '26. Pres. Camp Fire '26. Basketball '24, '25, '26.
"She has two eyes so soft and brown.
She gives a side glance and looks down.
Take Care!"
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Board of Education
N. L. Hobson, President
Carl Jones, Secretary George C. Free, Treasurer
A.C. Lewis Val Plumb R. D. Cramlet W. J. Alston
HIGH SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY
Freshman Juniors
English General science English Literature Latin
Algebra General Training or American History and Gov't
Home Economics Biology
Sophomores Seniors
English General History American Literature
Geometry Agriculture Sociology and Economics
Latin Physics
Some of these courses are given alternately so that Juniors and Seniors have two classes a day together. This year during the second semester the choice of the following has been given:- Girls - Advanced Home Economics; Boys - Animal Husbandry or Algebra.
Macedonia High School does not pretend to be a Normal Training School but with the sollikd foundation for straight thinking built up in pursuing the above course of study, supplemented with the required twelve weeks normal training work in summer school, many of the graduates have done excellent work as teachers in the schools of the surrounding community.
About one third of the pupils in the high school are tuition pupils from outside the consolidated district.
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