East Night High School - Rostrum Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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CARL E. WOLF. A gentleman in every meaning of the word? We never heard him utter a word of which he should be ashamed. He was manly and reserved, conscientious, yet active. l MARY BELLE WOODRUFF. And whispering, ll will ne'er consent,' consentedfl Why so silent, Mary? Did you fear to let us know your purpose? DOROTHEA le. llGenteel in personage. Conduct. and equipage, Noble 11y heritage, Generous and free? The only young lady of our class that came through from uOld Vllooclvmrdfl 28

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GARLAND O. THOMAS. A man's a man for a, that. Never serious, Latin not excepted. It is to be regretted that we never heard his promised talk en Mexico, for we know that it would have left nothing to be desired. BELLE E. VANCLEEF. ttIf the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman ap- pears. Sorrow or worry are t0 her unknown quan- tities. Her innocent questions and un- restrainable laughter often varied a monotonous period. HARRISON VVINKLER. ttSo milci, so merciful, so strong. so good, So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, puref' Harrison can well be termed the Fidus Achatos of the class. He has the un- equalled record of attending night school for the entire five years without missing a single night. 27

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Class History LIEJ EThey have been to a great feast ...... and have stolen the scraps. L131 FEAST it was; and a prolonged feast it will be. Now that our rapacious appetites have been satisfied, let Lis review the courses and consider whether our etiquette has been in keeping with our breeding; and if we have made ourselves ludicrous in the eyes of our hosts, let us mark the incidents. FIRST COURSE. We are an historic class. A few of us can lay claim to membership in the last night school class to leave Old Vl'oodwurclf' and all mu claim member- ship in the first to graduate from the New. While we feasted, the scene for some of us changed four times. From ltOld Womlwzml we went to the Third Intermediate, and from there to ltNew Woodward; all in the Short period of live school years. We had our beginning when two classes in eighth grade work enrolled October 8, 1906', the one under Mr. Harrell, at the Fourth Intermediate night school; the other under Mr. Willey at the Third Intermediate night school then temporarily located at the WM Woodwardtl building. Our ages ranged all the way from sixteen to fifty. Among us were HOIHC preparing to study medicine, some contemplating law, and many having 110 special purpose. From these two classes there were only six who entered the :mulemie department of the East Night High School and completed the four-yenr course. They were Benkeser, from the Fourth Intermediate, Winkler, Huet'ner, Sehmid, Miss Zix and the writer from thld Woodward. The rest of our graduating class came in mostly at the beginning of the Second Course in October 1907: i. 6., at the beginning of the real high school course. The work of the two elementary night school classes thus organized con- sisted of a study of the subjects usually given in the eighth grade of the element- ary school. In February, 1907, the night school classes; at Woodward were moved back to the Third Intermediate building, which had been remodeled after the tire of the previous fall, and was more suitable for night school purposes than was nOld Woodward.g On Mart-h 6th, at the close of the eleim-ntm-y night schools, the two eighth grade classes, one from the Third Intermediate, the other from the Fourth, were transferred to the Second Intermediate school building on Ninth street, where night high school was then being held. Here a three months, preparatory course was given. It was here that the most of us first met Mr. Harrell. From him we heard the cunning of t'ussius. the nobility of Brutus, the ruin pleadings of t'alpurnia, the funeral speech of Mark Anthony. Through him we saw the sour-faced Casca, and the artful Deeius. With many of us it was the first interpretation of Shakespeare; and now whenever we listen to Shakespeare, Mr. Harrell is always one of us. This course served to pick up the strands of :1 broken purpose; to whet our appetites, as it were, and prepare us for the courses which were to follow. SECOND COURSE. F our months had elapsed since the last course; and perhaps it was well that such lapse of time did intervene between courses, or else we may have 29