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FRESHMAN CLASS

BACK ROW:
    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

                                                                 Officers
               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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                                        SOPHOMORE CLASS

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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                                                                    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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