Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-08-31
CLASS OF 'O5
HOLD REUNION
Twenty Members Present at Ban
quet Held at Devils Lake -
Teachers Invited

" the bafaDoo High school in 1905,
an account of whose reunion was
published briefly in a recent issue of
thSs paper, desired to have a more
complete record of the reunion in
order that it might be preserved and
also sent 10 the members of the class
who could not be present The fol
lowing was prepared by members of
the class.
One OF the most pleasant and sue
cessful reunions ever held by any
class Of the Baraboo High school
was held on Thursday evening, Aug,
10 1922 lat the Kirklond hotel, Devils
Lake, by the class OF 1905.
The members Of the class and their
guests left Baraboo at 4:15 p. m,
this being the same train which took
them 10 the lake IA years ago to at
tend their class day banquet and ex-
ercises, and there they reproduced
the program OF 1905 as nearly as il
was possible TO do so. The menW
carGS were printed in the same mar
ner and form as on the former &C.
CasTOn and we're used as place cards.
There were twenty members OF the
class present, and had as their gaests
-Four member of the faculty who were
reaching at the time of their gradua-
tiOn. Prof. G. W. Gehrand, DIR. E. w.
McGrath, Miss Katherine Falvey and
Miss Chrissie Wright, and Josephine
Hollenbeck, high school clerk. They
sat down TO teh banquet tables at
seven o'clock, and enjoyed a banquet
that for excellence of cuisine and
service, would be difficult to excel OF
even equal The menu was exactly
the same as that served II years ago.
The tables we're PRETTY decorated
with the class colors. purple and white
this scheme being used on the small
nut baskets and the large center
piece, which consisted Of a basket
filled with the beautiful purplish blue
blossoms Of the wild HyssOp. the
basket handle being aied with huge
spurplo bow.
After tne banquet, the program
was given, with Atty. J. w F'renz
presiding as tcatmBter VIII. ~ his
witty and humorous in;rOGuclions
and .Cmmcnts made the program a
decided success.
Or. r. w. McGr,th left the teach
ang profession ttaAt year, ant was
presented with a copy of the 'Prin-
cess He was called upon To tell
where ii was, why Il was given him.
etc. He responded very graciously,
saying the matter was still a puzzle
10 him. He said that the meaning
behind such a meeting was to him
the real vital thing; the wanting to
come together after this length of
time and renew the real friendships
OF youth
The class prophecy, as read by
Edna Reynolds furnished much
amusement as compared with the life
works really pursued by the various
members Of the class referred to.
The class history, read by Gertrude
told how the class had en-
tered high school with 102 members
and after four years, there were AZ
60 graduate She told of the many
stormy sessions when the question Of
the changing of the class cOlOrs was
advocated. and of the many good
times. sleigh ride parties. etc This
was the last class TO graduate from
the OH high school building, as it
burned the following year.
In memOriam, was next on the pro
gram and Mary Grace Terry said in
part. In the midst Of all these happy
"reminiscences of tine past. the dis
.cuesions " the vital problem of the
present. and the various prophecies
for the future, ii seem only fitting
and proper that we pause rOr few
moments in memory of those who
nave left our ranks forever. There are
FIVE. Hettie Irish. who died in Dallas,
Texas. Feb. H. 1910; Ida Weidenkopf
Jensen, who died in KenOsha on
oct. II, 1915, leaving her husband and
two small children; Glen E. Pelton who
died in Baraboo Dec. %, 1918, leav.
ing a wife and two children; Mary
Thomas. our gold star, who died at
Camp Cody. NY. of flu contracted
while a Red Cross nurse there; and
Lila North Wilcox, who died in
.Baraboo June 20, 1920. leaving her
husband and one child. The going of
each was a tragedy, because each was
in the prime of life. with his or her
life work just begun. Four are sleep
ing on the hill in Baraboo, but l an,
sure they are with us in spirit, and to
quote whitcOmb Riley:
I cannot say and will not say
That they are dead
They are just away
With CHEEKY smile and wave of the
hand
They have wanderede into an un-
known land
And left us dreaming how very fair
II needs must be since they linger
there
And Won. on YOU who the widest