Corona High School - Coronal Yearbook (Corona, CA)

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LITERARY SECTION At the beginning of the term the president of the literary society and the e xecutive board mapped out a program for the year. This program was in the form of contests which were to take place between the classes. This was to arouse as much interest in literary as already existed in athletic work. Points were to be awarded for each contest, which were as follows: Story telling, fifteen points; story writing, fifteen points; oration, twenty-five points; debate, twenty-five points, and parliamentary drill, twenty points. The class winning the most points was to be given a pennant. At the present time all the contests have taken place except the parliamentary drill. The Sopho- mores won in the debating, the Seniors in original short story writing, short story telling and oration. The first literary meeting of the year opened with a mock newspaper. This created a great deal of merriment for very few failed to appear in some part of the paper. A parliamentary practice followed in a few weeks between the Seniors and Juniors. The question to be legislated on was, “Resolved, That the Juniors should return the Senior Pennant that had been taken a year previous at the time of the Junior-Senior banquet.” Legislation was successfully blocked by the Juniors, and the period came to an end without the Seniors passing the question. The first debating was on November 1 4th, 1913. The question for debate was, “Resolved, That the United States should intervene in the affairs of Mexico and seek to bring about peace.” Clair Hutchinson and Clarkson McNary supported the affirmative, and Helen Hilt and Lloyd Towne the nega- tive. The affirmative won. Dorothy Tuthill gave a piano selection and Ethel Farrar a vocal solo. On December 1 2th the first literary contest was opened by short stories. Irene Nonhof opened the program with a piano solo. Those who told stories Page Twenty-three

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“WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED” Friday evening had at last arrived, the evening of the Junior-Senior banquet. For weeks everyone had looked forward to this event with eager anticipation. Now it had really arrived. All day Thursday there had been rumors that the Sophs intended to steal the Toastmaster. The Juniors deter- mined that they would prevent it. In the evening a council of war was held and plans were made to outwit the Sophomores. Friday morning they began to put their plans into execution. One by one they caught each of the Sopho- more boys, dragged him into a corner and threatened him into promising he would not carry away their Toastmaster. Then they felt secure for a promise made by any of the Sophs was good. Now that the evening had arrived they felt sure of being unmolested. At 8:45 the Toastmaster was to lead the way to the banquet room. The guests had all arrived but — where was the Toastmaster? Everyone exclaimed at once that he had been there at eight o’clock. Yes, they were sure of it. But what had become of him now? They waited for half an hour, still he was not there. The Juniors were getting angier every minute. Hadn’t the Sophomores promised they would not take him away? What wouldn’t they do to those Sophs the next day? Well, they must begin the banquet anyway. Another Toastmaster was appointed and the banquet was served. The last speech was being made by the very dignified Principal of the school. All were listening intently, when suddenly there was thud-thud-bump. Some of the girls jumped and turned around but they saw nothing. A whisper ran around the table: What was that noise?” There it was again — thud — bang — crash. It seemed to be coming from the direction of a big case near the door. A light broke over one of the boys, and he nudged one of the others. They simply could not wait for the speaker to finish, but quickly got up and tip-toed over to the case and drew aside the curtain. Then there was loud exclamations and laughter. Even the dignified speaker was interrupted and joined in. There was the lost Toastmaster, so successfully bound and gagged that he had just unloosed one foot enough to kick the wall; half dead now from struggling. The Sopohomores had kept their promise; they had not carried away the Toastmaster. E. H., ' 14. Page Twenty-two

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were: Ethelyn Hampton, Lloyd Towne, Roy Root, Leo Thomas, Idelen Miller, Mabel Aldrich, Christina Fear and Charles Harrington. Ethelyn Hamp- ton won first place in the contest. Bernice Blanchard played a piano solo, and the program was closed with a duet by Lovel Engle and Ruth McNeil. February 1 2th, 1914. The first debating of the contest took place. The program opened with selections by the Girls’ and Boys’ Glee Clubs. The question for debate was, ‘‘Resolved, That the Present California Anti- Alien Land Law is Justifiable. Two teams debated, one made up of Juniors and Freshmen, the other of Seniors and Sophomores. The affirmative was upheld by Lewis Fredley and Dorothy Tuthill, the negative by Esther Carter and Paul Gleason. The negative side won. The Gettysburg address was delivered by Catherine Scoville. A Lincoln reading was given by Ethelyn Hampton. The second team of debaters was made up of Catherine Sias and Clark- son McNary, supporting the affirmative, and Harry Bell and Helen Miller the negative. The affirmative won. A poem, appropriate to the day, written by Dr. Staley, was read by Miss Clark. On February 23rd, 1914, the program was opened with a vocal solo by Dorothy Tuthill. The seven ages of Washington’s life, by Ourn Wister, were given by Jewel Allensworth, Catherine Scoville, Bernice Fairbanks and Page Twenty- four