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

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(i TRUE BLUE HISTORY OF THE NEW TEACHERS There were several positions left vacant last spring by the resignations of Mr. Fuller, Mr. Burkholder, Miss Smart, Miss Server and Miss Heritage. These positions have been filled by five new teachers, whose names, posi- tions and history will hereby be related. Miss Feeny and Miss Holden have never had the honor of a biography in this wonderful magazine, so we will also record their histories, as well as Miss Thurston’s. Miss Smith is the only teachdT who has had honorable mention in these illustrious columns, so we will not include her little biography, but for the satisfaction of the inqusitive Freshmen we refer them to page three of issue number one of volume XIII. FRANK GORDON JONES Shawano, Wisconsin, holds the honor of being the birthplace of Frank Gordon Jones, our new superintendent. He secured his elementary educa- tion in Shawano, and graduated from Shawano High School in ’99. While in high school he took part in oratorical work, and was also President of the Literary Society for three terms. He first taught in the country schools, and later taught in state graded schools for four years. He then took up the regular Normal work at Oshkosh, from which he graduated in ’08, raak ing the course in a year and a half. While in Normal he went out foi basket-ball, and made center for the first team. At this point Mr. Jones

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TRUE BLUE 5 ture is that every year the class reporters, report the same thing. That’s mighty suspicious. If the True Blue reporters send in such reports this year, this staff is going to be minus four class reporters and class reports will be done away with entirely. For the past few years the best themes have been published in the True Blue. This has excited a great deal of ad. verse criticism. This year this will not be carried out unless we have ex- ceptionally good themes which are very humorous and interesting. Another department which will be remodelled this year is the Athletic Column. We are going to have better, longer and more interesting reports. The Exchange Column will also be improved. We are going to attempt to have at least fifty exchanges on the reading table. The exchanges are of in- terest to every student and we will attempt to satisfy them in this respect. This year remember that this True Blue does not belong to the staff. It belongs to you Y-O-U YOU. See that you make it yours. Ever since 1 entered high school I have heard nothing but unpleasant remarks made of the True Blue editor. Now you just remember that poor True Blue was not the fault of the editor or the staff. It was your fault. In the future make this your True Blue. Have a better paper, better athletics, better lit- erary work, and more school spirit. Let us get out of the ranks of the dead and enter the ranks of the living. A SQUARE DEAL If it were not for the advertisers, we would not have enough money to pay for the True Blue. So we must give our advertisers a square deal and, in turn, patronize them. It’s the right thing to do. THE STORY CONTEST A few w-eeks ago, we asked for some good themes for the first issue Only a few were turned in. .Most of them were not up to True Blue stand- ard. Only one was good enough for publication. This theme was written by Gertrude Kelley.

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TRUE BLUE 7 had an accident and sprained his hand very badly, which terminated his basket-ball career. The principalship of the Prentice Schools was held by him for one year. From Prentice he went to Fairchild, Wisconsin, acting as superintendent of the Fairchild schools for two years. He then attended the University of Wisconsin for one year, attaining his degree. For the past two years he has been superintendent of schools at Kilbourn, Wis consin, and from Kilbourn he journeyed to Hudson. COURTNEY CLARENCE SHERMAN Courtney Clarence Sherman is the assisiant principal, and is also the science teacher and athletic director. In “Lab.” he instructs the intelligent Seniors in the mysteries of Physics, and although the year is only two months on, the Seniors are willing to swear that anything he does not know about Physics is not worth knowing. He was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and attended the common schools there, as well as the High School. While in High School he took a prominent part in Athletics. He played quarter, half and end on the football team, forward in basketball, and field and third base in baseball. He was also captain of the track team. He also took part in debating and was on the team which defeated the Milwaukee, Whitewater, and River Falls Normals. The fact that Mr. Sherman took part in so many outside school organiza tions shows that he must have done good school work and so affords an ex- ample which some of our own althletes would do well to follow. MISS AGNES E. FEENY Miss Feenv, our jolly Mathematics teacher, was born not far from here, in the city of St. Paul. It was there, at Central High School, that she began her progress toward future greatness. While attending High School, she was placed on the staff, of “The World,” the school paper of Central, as reporter of locals, and was also a member of C. H. S. Glee Club. She graduated from this school in 1906, with honors; ranking fifth out of her class of one-hundred and sixtysix, and again took up the furthering of tier education at the University of Minnesota. Here she specialized in Mathematics, one of the hardest courses in College, and was also a member of the Minerva Literary Society. At this time, she was known to take a “Weekly Constitutional” from the University to Bedford Ave. in order to save five cents car fare, with which to buy ice-cream soda in summer, and to be squandered on popcorn or peanuts, when the weather was cooler. She graduated from University in 1910. She took charge of her first classes at Hastings; and from there she went to Fifield, where she taught both Mathematics and English. She accepted the offer of teaching Mathematics here, about the middle part of last year, and we hope she will remain here for many more years.