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                                                                    JUNIOR CLASS
                                                                              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.