Davisson, Alma.... “There is no happiness save the heart.”
Beck, Russell.....  “He steps from mountain to mountain.”
Gregory, Mabel...... “She dwelt beside the untrodden ways.”
Sellers, Ruth..... “Bread of flour is good, but there is bread sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.”
Curry, Beulah......  “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Smith, Gladys.......  “Her heart is not in her work; ‘tis elsewhere.”
Winters, Mabel...... “For she’s a jolly, good fellow.”
Moore, Alice......  “Implores the passing tribute of a smile.”
Freeman, Warren..... “I know but one way – duty.”
(Prophet)
Nichols, Marvin..... “Wisdom doth sit but lightly on his brow.”
Graham, Helen...... “Order is heaven’s first law”
Fay, Catherine......  “For nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good.”
Nottingham, Karl...... “He carries himself like a man and has a heart, as big as his boots.”
Covalt, Fred......  “Its all in the system.”
Butterfield, Eura...... “There is no love like my first love.”
Alley, Agnes......  “Here is a dear, true industrious friend.”
Eiler, Herbert.......  “Small, but mighty.”
(President)
Griffin, Carl.....  “he longed for more worlds to conquer.”
Byars, Esther......  “A woman in hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please.”
Snodgrass, Neva...... “The world is never too much with us.”
Fowler, Lemuel...... “Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.”
Jones, Emerson..... “What’s in a name.”
Dragoo, Louise...... “And mistress of herself, though China fall.”
Lambkin, Elizabeth...... “A fair-haired woman.”
Huffman, Otto.......  “Nor the seas change us, nor tempests bend.”
Guild, Merritt......  “To bear a gift for mortals old or young.”
Kirshner, Marie...... “Whatever there is to know that shall we know one day.”
Sampson, Elizabeth..... “She walks in beauty as the night.”
Heil, Jessie......  “O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.”
Simmons, Ruth..... “And great souls at one stroke may do and doat.”
Weikel, Ruby.... “We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body; now a good book contains such food inexhaustibly.”
Tripp, Mary......  “A precious thing is all the more to us if it has been won by work.”
Throop, Elizabeth...... “The light of the whole world dies when love is done.”
Norris, Reba......  “When she passed, it was like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
Doyle, Ruth.....  “Her gentle goodness fairly glows.”
(Class Poet)
Quick, Mary......  “Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor.”
Frazier, Mabel.....  “All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
Hartley, Fred.......  “Business, that’s poetry.”
Dragoo, Lily.....  “Good, but not too good.”
Abbott, Mary.......  “To draw a bow, so soft, so low.”
Cordle, Ralph......  “I put away childish things.”
Miller, Claud......  “The glory of a young man is in his strength.”
Williams, Ruth...... “Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.”
(Secretary)
Shaffer, Cecile......  “Still we say as we go, - strange to think by the way.”
McClellan, William..... “He who talks much says many foolish things.”
Leffler, Paul......  “His looks adorned the venerable place.”
(Treasurer)
Casper, Grace......  “Her modest looks become the cottage.”
Wolfe, Mabel......  “I’m going away to always see for myself.”
May, Hazel.....  “She laughs as softly as she smiles.”
Creviston, Van..... “The village statesman talked with truth profound.”
Pittenger, Ray..... “Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death; only little men do that.”
Knox, Eula.....  “Sees life through rose-colored glasses.”
Tuhey, Blanche..... “And still they gazed, and still wonder grew, that one small head could carry all she knew.”
Turner, Harry......  “Ye gods, how she likes me!”
Sweigart, Joseph..... “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”
Snodgrass, Marie...... “As merry as the day is long.”
Lockett, Harry......  “Full many a joke had he.”
Collins, Mary......  “The world is sweeter for her living.”
Silverburg, Minna..... “When she speaks, jewel falls.”
Griffith, James.....  “Sang in songs of deep emotion, songs of love and songs of longing.”
Samuels, Frank...... “There is no time like the present.”
Hukill, Genevieve..... “Withal, a senior, singularly shy, serious, and sedate.”
Calvin, Jeanette.... “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Shuttleworth, Earl...... “All great men are dying, and I don’t feel well myself.”
Mason, Ralph......  “And wilt thou have one fashion into speech.”
Smith, Ethlyn......  “While we live, let’s live.”
Snyden, Esther...... “Tis the silent, ever advancing life that wins its way to fame.”
Stauf, Marie......  “She has a stern look, but a gentle heart.”
Vance, Helen.....  “Strong, sweet, and sincere.”
(Vice President)
Smith, Carroll......  “Love-I know not what thou art.”
Lewellan, Wendell...... “Every laddie has a lassie, nane a ane have I (?)”
(Sergeant at Arms)
Prutzman, Mildred..... “Behind her reticence and reserve lies a fund of good nature.”
Hardsog, Hazel....  “Wild bird whose warble liquid sweet.”
(Historian)
Rice, Luther......  “But for life the universe were nothing.”
Burton, Paul......  “Sir, I am a true labourer.”
Stephens, Helen.... “Ye gods, how I hate boys.”
Mann, Ruth L.....  “I smile, for while I smile, another smiles, and soon there’s miles of smiles.”
 

Yearbook Notes

 “In 1908, only four short years ago, 162 pupils entered M.H.S.  Since then the class has dwindled down to 77.  Lillian Hathaway will graduate this year in Los Angeles, Cal.; Marguerite Free, in Piqua, O., and Esther Tedrow in Middletown, O.

 “In 1910, the whole school was saddened by the death of three of its pupils, Hattie Miles, James Best, and Ruth Terhune, all of whom were our classmates.”

 “A great deal of agitation has been aroused concerning our high school.  Sometime ago the State Board of Health condemned the present building as unfit for school purposes, and ordered that it be closed by July 15, 1912.  There has been a great deal of discussion about a new building.
 The School board has considered the problem of a new building for sometime, and the Commercial Club has also been intensely interested in it. But had you ever thought, “where will we have school next year?”

 The students are not regretting that they must abandon this old building.  They are only too glad that they do not have to climb the rickety old stairs any more, breathe impure air, study without proper light, or walk in danger of falling plaster.”

 Thursday, May 2, 1912, every school in the city of Muncie was dismissed for a half-holiday.  Many people, considering only worldly matters, thought this was due to the fact that Buffalo Bill’s Great Wild West Show was in the city….”

Transcriber’s Notes

This list of 77 graduating students and other items about Muncie High School are taken from The Munsonian a school publication. The graduate list is, as it appears in the yearbook with the exception that I have listed the last name first.  The publication date is unknown although it is believed to be June 1912.  The book contains about 80 pages, individual photos of each graduate, class pictures for the classes of 1913, 1914, and 1915, a group photo of the staff, and also many pages devoted to advertising purchased by stores and firms doing business in Muncie.

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