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

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TRUE BLUE NOVEMBER NUMBER, 1914. STAFF. EDWARD VIK .................... ISABELLE UTMAN ................ BURNIECE GRIDLEY .............. EILEEN BURKE .................. i CARL BORGE .................... HELEN SIATER .................. FLORENCE PEARSON . ( NORA STAPLETON ... LEW COIT ...................... RALPH PEARSON ................. LAWRENCE SINGER ............... .....Editor-in-Chief. ...Assistant Editor. ----Literary Editor. ......Ix cal Editor. ....Athletic Editor. ..Exchange Editor. ...Alumni Editors. .Business Manager. Assistant Manager. Assistant Manager. WANTED—SCHOOL SPIRIT What is the matter with our Hudson High School? Who knows? We’re dead; d-e-a-d, DEAD. We are so dead we don’t even realize we are dead. Why did we die? We died because we lacked school spirit. In this editorial we are going to show' you that our Hudson High School is dead, and that we must either wake up “mighty quick or be hopelessly lost. Students of Hudson High School, do you know that we seldom if ever have any contests, either athletic or literary, with those schools we competed with eight or ten years ago? Do you realize that the institutions we now send our first teams against, and fnd it difficult to defeat, are the very schools we formerly sent our second teams against? Do you realize that now if w'e compete with one of the schools w'e contested with ten years ago it is usually our big game, and that we invariably lose such a contest? How many of our students can name the institutions we competed with eight or ten years ago? Well here they are: Superior, Ellswvorth, Menomonie, Stillwater, Eau Claire, New Richmond, River Falls High, River

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CONTENTS I. EDITORIALS: Wanted—School Spirit. Our Aim. Basket Ball. Our Policy. A Square Deal. The Story Contest. II. HISTORY OF THE NEW TEACHERS: Frank Gordon Jones. Courtney Clarence Sherman. Miss Agnes Feeney. Miss Helen M. Brown. Miss Eva P. White. Miss Lilah Holden. Miss Sidney Pattee. Miss Ruie Thurston. III. LITERARY DEPARTMENT: The Girls' Glee Club. “His Reward.” IV. LOCALS: V. ATHLETICS: Purpose of Athletics in a High School. Foot Ball. Boys’ Basket Ball Girl’s Basket Ball VI. EXCHANGES: VII. ALUMNI REPORT: VIII. CLASS REPORTS: Freshman. Sophomore. Junior. Senior.

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TRUE BLUE 3 Falls Normal, .Minneapolis Central, Minneapolis South Side High, St. Paul Central, and St. Paul Mechanics Arts. And we won from them in any line of work. What kind of a football team did we have in ’02, ’03, ’04, and’05? Was there anything around this part of the country that could defeat them? Indeed there was not. How is our football team nowadays? We have not had a football team for the past two years. O yes, we had one this year. We actually played one game, and any high school that can get enough eligible men to play one game is “some school.” Why have we descended to the class we are in now? Ft is because we did not have school spirit. For another example take girls’ basket ball. Eight or ten years ago, the Hudson High girls’ basket ball team irtet and vanquished by decisive scores the strongest girls’ teams in this section of the country. They played such teams as Menomonie, Baldwin, Dunn County Normal of Menomonie. Minneapolis Central, and South Side High of Minneapolis. Today what is the outlook? We have not had a girls’ basket ball team for several years, and this year at first practice only seven girls turned out. Still another example is found in debating. Eight years ago we had two debating societies, which had debates every few weeks, and there were several teams each year to debate such schools as New Richmond, Ellsworth and Grand Rapids. A noticeable feature is that the members of these de- bating societies were boys and girls prominent in athletics. Ten years ago when debates were scheduled with New Richmond, a special train was chartered to convey our enthusiastic High School students to New Richmond. Last year when Hudson High debated River Falls High (at Hudson) less than twenty high school students were present. Last year when New Rich- mond debated (hat same River Falls team, over two hundred high school students were present. It is a startling comparison (or rather contrast). Even our True Blue has deteriorated within the last few years. But this is not because the editors have been poorer, but because within late years the paper has not been the student’s, but the editor’s. You read an issue of the True Blue published in, well 1905. What do you find? You find in it articles of interest written by many different students. In fact the majority of the articles were written by students prominent in Athletics. At present many of our athletes consider themselves such great rough- necks” that it would disgrace them to write an article for the True Blue The High School is not supporting the True Blue financially. And those who are not taking the paper please remember this: seventy-five cents means just as much to us, and is just as hard for us to secure as it is for you. The only difference is that the subscribers have a little school spirit while you hove not. Many of you have not even enough grace to say you won’t take the True Blue. Recently, in the main room, all students who would take the paper were asked to stand. The majority of you did stand, but many of those who stood did not subscribe for the True Blue. Those who did this will probably “swipe” the paper from their neighbor’s desk