The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-18
The High School
Class Night Exercises
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"CLAss CHRONICLES"
BY Flossie Polly.


men entered the magnificent
old high school room. This
was very different from the
small, quiet room we had just
left, but thinking it wise to
keep on the sunny side" we
sat like good little children
humming the tune You May
Look and You May Listen, but
MUM is the Word" We or
ganized our class with Hillary
Osborne as president. But he
was soon forced to leave school
on account of illness, and vice.
president Alice Kimble assumed
the presidency. Wilbur Bodie
was chosen treasurer and
Maude Colwell secretary. How
ever, freshmen are too young
and insignificant to be very
prominent SO we diligently
studied our daily lessons and
paved the way to success, lay
ing the foundation for the fol-
lowing years.
At the beginning of the next
eventful year we were greeted
by some new faces. Among
them was certain precocious
young fellow, who, because of
his brilliant, witty ways soon
became known as Frey, the
child-wonder. He advanced
a new theory as to the meaning
of education. His idea was
this: Education is the ability
of a man to use words of four
syllables or more. He whose
vocabulary is composed of
words shorter than four sylla-
bles is illiterate and ignorant.
The advocates of this theory
were few, so we, his classmates,
did not loose all hope of obtain
ing an education. The sopho-
more class selected new Off
GERS. Col. Lemnitzer, Presi-
dent; Alice Kimble, Vice Presi-
dent, VIM. Freund, Treasurer;
and Helen Beck, Secretary. Our
treasurer became worried and
troubled with the responsible
ity of so much capital that he
resigned this honored position
and Wilbur Bodie condescended
to again fill the office. During
the winter we made our debut
at a dance given in honor of the
Seniors. All enjoyed pleasant
evening and enjoyed ourselves
equally as we'll at the dance
with which the Seniors honored
us. For a farewell meeting of
the sophomore class a picnic
to Beach Lake was planned. 1t
rained on the day appointed so
the affair was postponed until
the next Saturday, two weeks
after the dismissal of school.
The members had already scat
tered for their summer vaca-
tion and only few were able
to attend. The girls said they
had a good time, but is it any
wonder? The party was nearly
all boys. Snapshots are usually
little tale bearers, at least of
this picnic There she sits on
the end of the pier, shaded un-
der a large Merry Wdow,"
with her feet leisurely dangling
in the water, spooning in a can
of baked beans.
Our Junior year, we came
back with a strange feeling
which l hardly know how to
describe. A feeling of intense
sadness mixed with curiosity
and anticipation. Sad, to re-
turn and not be greeted with
that familiar smile of welcome
from Mr. Churchill; curious to
see the new vice-principal.
From his appearance one
would think him very jovial,
but --- we'll perhaps the
strenuousness of the class of
1909 was too much for his jov-
ial countenance. This year
our class was increased by five
promising members from Texas
High shool, whom we all strove
to initiate into the responsible
position they had assumed upon
becoming members of the jun
ior class of Honesdale High
school. We kept the same Of
ficers as our second year; how
ever, Wilbur Bodie left school
and the everchanging treasury
vacancy was filled by William
Freund. Alice Kimble, a form
er resident of Carbondale, be-
came tired of Honesdale, it's
schools, scholars and Coleman,
and returned to her childhood
home leaving us without
vice-president. 1t was now
time to choose colors. The
class was divided, half preferred
maroon and gold while the
others jealousy fought for
corn color and green. Several
disputes and arguments follow
ed but no decision was reached.
At last the colors were chang
ed and we decided to have
blue and gold. Our jaunty
little class pins were also Sc
lected. This was to be a Sc
cret, because it is unusual to