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

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True Blue Published five times a year by The True Blue Publishing Company of the Hudson High School. Entered at the postofflce at Hudson, Wisconsin, as second class mail matter STAFF Editor-in Chief ....................... Assistant Editor...................... , Literary Editor ....................... Local and Social Editor ............... Exchange Editor ....................... Alumni Reporter........................ Athletic Reporter...................... Busines Manager........................ Assistant Manager ..................... ......Stella Ryan .... Edward Vick — Sabina Fisher — Carl Anderson . Lois Zimmerman Plat Tourtellot .. Harry Goldberg .. Walace Gibson Robert Hosford FACULTY Wm. D. Fuller J. W. Burkholder Carol Smart Theda Howe Ethel Smith Edna Server Mary Heritage Laura Cunningham Laura Slaughter EDITORIAL The system of extemporaneous speaking is much different this year, from what it has been in former years Instead ot having the speeches three times a year, a list of subjects is given to the student every Wednesday and he chooses one subject to be prepar- ed on for the following Monday. The school is divided into sections presided over by the differ- ent teachers. At the end of the year the final contest will be held as in former years. Although these speeches are generally disliked by the pupils, the benefit derived from them is very great. They enable the pupil to speak before an audience without being self conscious and also the pupils are instructed in current events concerning which a great many would otherwise know nothing. In addition to the rhetoricals, each girl is to give two declama lions and each boy two orations during the year. The persons get- ting the highest standings iti rhetoricals during the year will be al- lowed to enter into the final contests, the Seniors against the Juniors and the Sophomores against the Kresbmen. This plan has never before been tried here in Hudson High, but it is believed that it