Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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4 TRUE BLUE While here, she became interested in music and, while yet a Freshman, she gained, by her talent for music, a place in the Be- loit Glee Club. She was also interested in the drama. While she was a sophomore, she joined a dramatic club and, during the rest of her college career, she took part in many class plays. In the regular college work, Miss Howe specialized in mathe- matics, one of the hardest courses in college. She graduated in 1911, and is at present engaged in teaching the multiplication tables to the Freshmen and Geometry to the Juniors in the Hudson High School. MISS LAURA LOU SLAUGHTER Miss Slaughter is the teacher of music and drawing. On Monday and Thursday noons she presides over the High School, song-book in hand, and inspires the students, by precept and ex- ample, to rival the performances of the musical celebrities who sing from the depths of the Victrola. Miss Slaughter was born in Whitehall, Missouri. Although the fact is not popularly known, she is an expert on the piano, hav- ing studied and taken lessons on it for fourteen years. She com- menced the course in 1897 and continued it up to the time present, having studied in her home town, in Chicago, and Green Bay. In training her voice she studied a year in Boston and then went to Europe and took a course. Besides studying music, Miss Slaughter took a thorough course in drawing and designing, taking an honorable mention for her designing, in St. Louis. She gradu- ated from Lawrence Conservatory and Art department in 1911. Previous to coming to Hudson, Miss Slaughter had a class in music and one in drawing in Green Bay and was director of the High School chorus at Appleton. She was organist of the Baptist and Methodist churches while at Green Bav. Her love for classical musicis illustrated by the pleasure she took in riding on the merry-go-round in the recent carnival. MISS LAURA E. CUNNINGHAM Berlin, Wisconsin, holds the honor of being the birthplace of Miss Laura E. Cunningham. It was in the common schools of Ber- lin that she gained part of the wisdom which she is now imparting

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TRUE BLUE 3 MISS CAROL MARY SMART Miss Carol Mary Smart, our jolly English teacher, came all the way from Wild Rose, clear across the state of Wisconsin, to teach in our High School. She was brought up on a farm, with no companions but Old Dan, the horse, and her chickens. She says that in her lonesomeness, she used to recite Kipling’s Recessional to the Plymouth Rock rooster. Her primary education, she received in a district school, learning while there those ancient subjects—“Reading, ’Riting and ’Rithmetic.” From there she went to Lawrence preparatory in preference to taking regular high school work, and by taking extra subjects each year she was able to complete the preparatory and college course in six years, between 1902 and 1908. While at Lawrence, she made herself famous by playing on the Lawrence girl’s basket ball team and by taking part in several class plays. In 1906 and 1907 Miss Smart was on the staff that edited the Lawrence school paper, “The Lawrentian,” and they still say down in Lawrence that never, since, has the paper been so thick and so interesting as it was that year. She was also on the staff that edited the Ariel Year Book. In 1908, Miss Smart was elected president by the Lawrean Literary Society, and when she graduated in 1908 she was one of the three wbo gave orations. After graduating she taught two years at Whitehall and then procured the situation of teaching English in Hudson High school. MISS THEDA FRANCES HOWE Miss Howe is the mathematics teacher. In the mathematics room she reigns supreme, her will is law. While in her room, no Freshman is seen pulling the hair of the girl in front of him, no Sophomore ever playfully jerks the chair from under a classmate so that he may behold him sitting down with emphasis on the solid hard wood floor. Her will is law—her rule is iron. She was born away down in Lancaster in the south-western part of the state. It was in the schools of Lancaster that she laid the foundation of her greatness. She graduated from the Lancas- ter High School in 1907, but, not content with a mere high school education, she entered Beloit college in the same year.

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TRUE BLUE 5 to her Junior Medieval History class. Miss Cunningham entered Berlin High School in 1903. It was here she showed the first signs of future greatness, taking part in several declamatory contests, and winning first place in one and second place in another. She graduated from High School in 1907 and entered Ripon college to take an English course. After she had gone through the adversities usual to Freshmen in large colleges, it was thought by her fellow students that she had the ability to manage a school paper, so she was appointed to a place on the staff of “College Days,” the Ripon college paper. She took a great interest in dramatic work, and won a reputation by starring in several class plays. In the absence of the regular teacher, Miss Cunningham was frequently called upon to substitute in the English department, which goes to show that, although Miss Cunningham took an active interest in outside work, she did not neglect her regular studies— an example which many Juniors might follow with good results. She graduated from Ripon in 1911 and commenced teaching at Hudson in the same year. L. K. ’12 MY FLOWhR BED This year I sent for a collection of flower seeds I had seen ad- vertised in a paper. Among them was a package of mixed seeds. These 1 planted in a bed by themselves and watched them with in- terest. The number of different plants in that bed was surprising. First lettuce and parsley came up, then old-fashioned flowers, such as larkspur, pholx, and “love in the mist.” I noticed a small, feathery plant, whose flowers were white, bellshaped and small, and grew in clusters of five or six on one long stem. Another curious flower was dark red with yellow spots on it. These also grew in clusters of five or six on one stem, and were very small. I was surprised to find a number of coxcombs in my mixed bed. Some of these were a splendid dark red, while others were lighter and not so velvety and large. The foliage of some cox-comb plants is dark red, some bronze, and some green. Most of these plants bloom at different times, keeping the bed full of blossoms from early spring to late fall. This flower-bed reminds me of a bright, sunny day. When we