| |
1926 Yearbook Home |
|
 |
Macedonia High School Yearbook
Senior Class History, Prophecy
and Commencement
1926
Click photo to enlarge
Click photo to enlarge
Click photo to enlarge
Click photo to enlarge
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 Patten. Fern
Hooker joined us in the second grade and Miss Pierce was the
teacher. In the thnird year Fern moved to Wymore, Nebraska,
leaving the boys in the fourth grade with their teacher, Miss
Elsie Riggle. The fifth grade teacher was Miss Miles.
When the boys reached the sixth grade, the school was con-
solidated and on account of lack of room, that grade was moved
to the Methodist Church until the new high school building
was completed. Miss Heft was the teacher this year.
In the seventh grade, everything went fine, the boys were
under the 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 graduated from the Junior High School:- Walter
Besore, Sam Braden, Stanley Dye, Lawrence Babbitt, Floyd
Carroll, Ivo Deakins, Lynn Galloway, Froava 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, Froava Nicholson and
Virgie Stone; but Maxine Casson, Marie Carley, Elaine Babbitt,
Fern Hooker, Ruby Casson, Pearle Metcalfe, Cecil Booton,
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 (1922-25) was made up
of Supt. A. B. Alspaugh; Irin Luella Dye, Ruby Ellerman and
Clyde Molten.
The Sophomore year seemed unlucky as we lost so many of
our members, 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. Frank took Mr. Alspaugh's
place, Miss Carrie E. Wikoff became principal and Mr. Vincent
I. Mercer took Mr. Molton's place.
Dortha Swarens dropped out during the Junior year, but
Roland Jones made up for the loss in numbers. The only change
in the Faculty was that Mr. Cox replaced Mr. Frank 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
fatal 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 good fellowship.
SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY
Twenty Years from Now. 1946 ? ?
On a beautiful day in early autum, 1946, I decided to
take a trip to wear off an attack of the summer blues. Start-
ing East, I stopped at a friend's home 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.
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 had bought this hotel. It was a model
of comfort and beautiy and certainly was worthy of the name
"Paradise." One of the peculiar things I noticed about Paris
was that there were as many Americans as 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 "Sheckey"
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 con-
test 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.
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. Fall in that city was in need of a superintendent
and decided to apply for the position the next day --- then
I woke up.
---Pearle Metcalf.
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.
|
|
|
Contributed by Kimberlee Smith Johnson
|
|
|
|
|
