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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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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 3 Faculty

From top to bottom

Howard T. Cox,  A. B.
  Superintendent, Physics, History, Band, Boy's Glee Club
"Doesn't know when he's licked"


Carrie E. Wickoff, A.B.
   H.S. Principal, English, Latin, Literary Society.
" Oh, that smile!"

Margaret Marie Whistler, B.S.
   Home Economics, Mathematics, Literature, Camp Fire Girls
"We'll never forgot that Pop."

Ray C. Fall, Ames 2 years
   Manual Training, Agriculture, Science, Basketball Coach, Radio Club.
"We all love that smiling face."

Mrs. Merle W. Fitzgerald
   Music, Girl's Glee Club, Operettas
"Always mean business."

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book

Where does the time go?  I meant to keep up on this but somehow it just got away from me.

This is another wonderful find from Ebay--the original post had some photos but the images were cropped so that you couldn't see any names on the bottom of the photos.  But I figured that my Grandma (Dad's Mom) should be in it because she would have been about 15 at the time.  Like I said, no names available but in looking at the pictures I saw a least one that had to be her--she looked like my aunts Janice and Jeanne.  So I bought it and Bingo!  There she was in two separate photos.  I got it in time for Father's Day and ended up sending it early by mistake.

It turns out that the photos are the only photos my Dad and his siblings have ever seen of their mom as a girl.

Editorial

While the custom of issuing an annual exists in many schools, but a single thought to do

anything of the sort has been made in the history of Macedonia High School.  In 1905 the Junior class had printed a year book which was a credit to any school its size.

A study of that ancient volume shows that the 'Donia spirit existed to as marked a degree as at present.  Probably the most curious and interesting feature of the 1905 Annual to modern readers in the fancy masquerade costumes worn by anyone who posed for a picture in the book.  At least, the disguises would be considered perfect according to modern modes of dress.  We hesitate to draw any hasty conclusions, but we are willing to wager that if our present superintendant were to wear a costume similar to that worn by the Mr. Caillet who was Principal of the school in 1905, (with mustache and all other fixin's) there would be a striking resemblance.  The safety razor has indeed been kind to the human eye.

Here is a partial list of the things which did not annoy the Principal of M.H.S. in 1906:

Flat tires            Radio Blah!

Late Busses                    Bell gone dead (no juice)

Drain pipes stopped   Trips to Omaha to shows

Mail plane overhead            Noise in Shop

Band practice    Cooking odors, D.S. or Shop???

Mimeograph gone bad   Saxophone music (?)

It is the sincere desire of the Class of 1926 that the class of 1946 will stand ready to continue the pleasant custom of getting out a year book every twenty years at M.H.S.