Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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i6 THE SPECTATOR promises to be a very interesting, entertaining, and elaborate affair: Piano duet, Freda Haller and Clara Thomas; three- minute talks, William Grove and William Elder; vocal solo, Maud Boyer; declamations, Emma Sheeler, Faye Fearl, and Mary Kruger; original oration, Thomas Nokes; selected ora- tions, Maud Countryman and Robert Gipe; violin solo, Roy Galbreath. The committee in charge of the arrangements of this program are Clara Thomas, Roy Cunningham, Maud Boyer, and Robert Entwisle. At a meeting held shortly before the holidays, the fol- lowing members were elected to perform on the T. K. E. anniversary meeting, which will occur on February 22d : Dec- lamations, Ada Wertz and Emily Bauer; three-minute talks, Florence Berkey and Anna Liebold ; political oration, Ephraim Alwine; selected oration, Emma Riale; anniversary oration, Ernest Cohoe; T. K. E. oration, Margaret Trent; salutatory essay, Hilda Berkey. It is indeed needless to speak on this occasion of the merits of this fine program, for the members elected alone represent its excellent worth, while the following appointed committees are very efficient: the arrangement com- mittee, Robert Sagerson, Russel Blauch, Clara Suppes, Freda Brixner, Ethel Pinder, and George Stammler; and the music committee, Hilda Berkey, Katherine Endsley, and Ralph Butler. Near March 24th the Emerson Literary Society will cele- brate its Easter anniversary meeting. The participants had not been elected when this issue of the Spectator went to press, although a committee was at work arranging advisable plans on which the society might act. Again we were disappointed in not having the inter-society debate which was to have occurred on December 18, 1903, but which, after being postponed several times, was finally dropped from our programs. The question which is now before the senior societies is: “Resolved, that, in the interest of the other nations, the encroachments of Russia in the East should be checked.” We trust that this debate will find interest enough to be carried before the two senior societies for dis- cussion. Sagerson (in English)—A bout is a small prize fight. M.----(in German) Marietta whined bitterly. Miss McAdams (in English) What was a coffee-house ? Hager—A sort of cheap restaurant.

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THE SPECTATOR '5 port the society of their own establishment, the Kappa Gamma Literary Society. The Emerson Society, in respect to mem- bership, is very fortunate, possessing, out of its total number of 63 members, 44 who belong to the class of 1905. Consid- ering this, the question therefore arises, What should be the policy of the school in this matter ? Should it mantain a society that has lasted five long years or should it support a new movement ? Simply looking at this matter from the side of the T. K. E. prejudices, it seems rather unfair, even to the members of the Emerson Society, who have enjoyed the amicable riv- alry of their sister organization for years, that the T. K. E. Society should be placed in such a positijn as to affect the question of its very existence. The sentiment which prevails among the Emersonians is undoubtedly that of good, old-fash- ioned friendly feeling towards their old rivals, whose hospital- ity they have enjoyed for more than five years. It also seems certain that, when the senior societies act upon the question of the representatives of the Kappa Gamma Society to the Spectator staff, even more than society prejudices will turn up; for, if the Kappa Gamma Society should be given equal representation on the Spectator staff with the T. K. E. and Emerson societies, which established and support the publication of this paper, the Junior A Class will then have been given more members on the staff than the Senior B’s. The staff has already given the Kappa Gamma Society two members as representatives on both the editorial staff and business management; and a committee is now at work amending the constitution which will be presented to each of the senior societies for action. Besides, it will be remem- bered that neither of the senior societies has as yet taken any action upon the recognition of the Kappa Gamma So- ciety; the Junior A’s, who pledged themselves last year with these societies, are still held accountable. The name and motto of the Kappa Gamma Society is taken from the Greek, “ Kairon Gnothe, ” which signifies, ‘ Know Thy Opportunity. ” The society has a membership of 59, and in the absence of James Auman, their president, who quit school, Ross Aschom, the vice-president, has assumed full control of affairs, while Quince Jones has been elected to perform the duties of vice-president. The following members, who have been elected as participants on the first open meet- ing of the K. G. Literary Society, are already hard at work, and the event, which will probably occur on February 5th,

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n THE SPECTATOR The Exchange. - Reviewed H HAPPY and prosperous New Year to all our exchanges! May a creditable “leap” among all of you justify the name of the year of 1904. Surely, if you all begin this year and thus continue as you ended the last one, it will be but a short time until school papers take the place of other magazines in the home. Why should it not be so ? Parents send their children to high schools and colleges, and should certainly know, above many other things, what they are able to do and what their schools are doing. Of course we expect the Christmas issue of any magazine to be its best, but there should not be so general and marked difference between it and other issues. The general cheerfulness and good-will that precedes the joyous season of Christmas, we were glad to note, ran through many of our exchanges. Many interesting short stories wound about Christmas were chiefly the cause of this fact, and took away from the papers that dullness which any paper is so apt to fall into when no special season is at hand. The Mercury (Milwaukee, Wis.) seems to be particularly fortunate in securing a number of short but interesting Christ- mas stories whose plots seem rather well handled. “A Trag- edy” is indeed clever, and in its ending is a humorous touch of skill. Whatever may be the cause, too much space is given in the Wilkesbarre High School Journal to childish personals, although under various topics. The Monitor, evidently a new paper this year, makes a good and earnest beginning. We wish it a prosperous exist- ence. An attractive cover, together with sensible material inside makes the Courant a good paper. However, the advertise- ments might be more abbreviated to suit the size of the paper.