Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES 13 tlonal and popular entel tfunments Under the ausplces of the Red path Bureau a splenchd Ly ceum Course has been arranged The first numbers of the course have been hlghly p1 used by all who attended and we are assured that the rest fue equally good The enterprlse 1S not undertaken by the school for galn but for educatlonal benefit YMCA FLORENCE TENANT The one draw back of If ort Madlson 1s 1ts lack of an 1nst1tut1on to yn elcome young men commg to our tovnn a Y M C A 1n Wh1Ch men and boys may find desu able lodglng cozy and homellke Our need for a Y W C A though gl eat does not compare w1th th1s Further more does lt not seem too bld that ou1 athlet1c team of whom we are so yustly proud must t 1ke 1ts v1s1t1ng team to the basement of a Hlgh school 1n the condltlon of ours? Does not your consclence prlck you? ls It l1kely th1s team w1ll go home yy 1th such a good 1mpress1on of us? Let us all 1o1n together and boost and help w1n th1s The T1mes has espec1ally 1n the last two years added to 1ts repu tatlon as a leadmg Hlgh School Paper The present Staff 1S proud of havmg helped the deyelopment as contr1butors and IS prepared to make a strong effort to keep up the hlgh standard We hope that now as 1n precedlng years the T1mes w1ll have the entlre support of the student body and we feel sure that wlth two hundred 1nd1v1dua1 lntellects worklng for 1ts advancement our paper W1ll contlnue 1tS steady progress along the 1nterm1nable road to perfection C. ' L o A ' 1 ' v .3 1 . . ' I ' ' 'Z C ' c 3 I ' J c 4 ' ' . . . I . . c . . . . - . 7 , . . . . . .. L V l . Y ' ' , . . . . 1 . 1 . . c . K L . Y' ' I .- . . . ., , . V ' V 1 N - 7 . c c , . Y l Y . Y . . . . , .. c L A K , . . . . . ,. Y. 6 . . . I C n L9 9 . V . . . . . . I . . . 9 . .

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Q:-er-in-fa A gf The Faculty Thls ye-1r as usual our Faculty has undergone some changes We have lost M1sses Ogden Barge Carr Jones and Bower and have gamed an equal number of new mstructors Mlss Alle Roblnson who has replaced BIISS Ogden as H1story mstructor recelved her B A degree at the Iowa State Teachers Col lege Cedar Falls Ia She has also taken Post Graduate work at Co lumbla Un1vers1ty New York Mlss Gertrude E Funk mstructor ln Enghsh IS a graduate of the Umverslty of Mlnnesota and has studled at the Un1vers1ty of Chl cago and rn Germany Mlss Margaret Schllchter Domestlc Sclence Teacher IS a graduate of Stout College Menomome W1scons1n Mr Harold W Graber the coach of our wmnmg Football Team and head of the Commerclal Department graduated from H1ghland Park College Des Momes Durmg h1s entlre school career he was promment m athletlcs and the experlence he obtamed IS now benefit tlng our team MISS Loth successor of M1ss Bower as drawlng and penmanshlp teacher comes here from Havana Cuba where she has spent some tlme The Lecture Course. Th1s year the Hlgh School has assumed the role of ph1lanthrop1st and has presented the Clty at large wlth an excellent SGFIES of educa 1 lr y' 2 ea: if? A ., 3. f V V A u 4 7 V 1, 'T ff P - 1 at -P - of ,Z ,f ' ff? ,, K 'tif Q f n he ' - fa-: - : 1 ,a,.'L Egg: -4-i, :e,. ' . c , K , K - - ' 7 7 ! I . . Y Y . .L . . Y u, - , . . . 1 7 ' ' ' , . . , . . . . , . . . , . , . . . . . t , . . 1 , . , . 7 9

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M677 HELEN WINN 17 M1ss Dorothy Cook of Burl1ngton V1Slt6d school September 5 At 9 00 oclock A M Sept 5 young gen1uses were admltted lnto th1S famous school F M H S M1ss Alma Beach of El Paso Texas formerly of Fort Mad1SOH renewed her acquamtance wlth her old school frlends Sept 11 The first game of the season wlth New London was a vlctory for F M H S the score belng 39 0 Mxss Myrtle Brandes 16 was here vvlth fr1ends Sept 12 The Splflt of the Ft M boys and glrls was shown by the way they turned out at the Burhngton game played at Burl1ngton We found that the results of the game were dxrectly proportmnal to the Splrlt of the schools October 3 Mlss Gertrude Good of Ch1cago v1s1ted our school Mlss Sarah Ham1lton 16 who started to school thxs fall at Rock ford College IS home now on account of s1ckness A large crowd of rooters from F M H S went to Keokuk to the foot ball game and helped to make the score 19--O 1n our favor M1ss Wlllard Adams 20 was absent for several days wh1le at an Internatlonal Convent1on of the Chrlstlan Church Whlle there she had her VOICE tested As those who have heard her expected was told she would some day be famous George Flnch 15 VlS1t9d school Oct 27 Mlss Mar1e Gardner has been absent from school on account of slckness. M1ss Helen Stemple '18 was absent last week wh1le in Des Moines at a Klngs Daughters' convent1on. MISS Ardella D1etr1ch '17 was ln Chlcago Oct. 23. Mlss Irene Marsh spent Oct. 23 1n Burhngton. SE- K 1 ' . xxjg l . - J X I -A .-.i-- v . rf 4 Lf- 1 - .V - l ' , 1 ' 1 -zuihs 1,-1 f ,, 11, -1 mn. ...A A is .W a 7 , . . , . . . . . . , . 9 9 7 . Y , . . , . , . . . . ., i . . , . . , . . , . . . . , . - 9 . . , . ' 7 . , . .