Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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of a lengthened daily regimen, and then 'we could stand it no longer: we were on the point of distractioneewhen the Health Department relieved our ern- barrassment by again putting on the official lid. Upon this occasion our Henforced vacation, as the dear teachers termed it, lasted for something like three weeks and terminated on December 30th. Profuse were the tears shed when the announcement came that there would be neither mid-year exams nor any frantic efforts to llmake up for lost time.H Heartless as it may seem, I deem it the part of real consideration to observe in passing that tears may be shed for joy no less than for sorrow. The next event of note in Hughes, chronicle for 1918-19 is the change which took place in the ofhcial parenthood of the schoolethis great family. Mr. Lyon, under whom we had passed our high school days, had been called to a field of greater promise in the line new East Side High School. Regret was in our hearts at the loss of him, whom we had come to link so intimately with all that was Hughes and our life therein. But the sense of our deprivation was tempered in no small degree by the trust, amounting almost to a perfect assurance, that in his successor we should find one who might ably and amply Hflll Mr. Lyons shoes.H And how hnely has Mr. Merry done it! By his own words were we assured that he could do just that, and in the brief time of his sojourn here he has proven that he can Hfill those shoes with a nicety and full sufhciency that leaves nothing to be desired. It was an almost inevitable consequence of the cessation of hostilities that patriotic efforts should very pereeptibly lag. Hughes must plead guilty on this count, but only provisionally, for, despite our interrupted term, the Thrift Stamp sales have gradually mounted up to the very respectable total of $530,000.00, and in the Victory Loan Hughes will surely be there in good form and with all her old time pep and vigor. Thus, we have concluded a year, disrupted by long periods of absence and inactivity, with all the confusion attendant thereon; taken leave of one whom we had come to regard as indisputably our own, and welcomed in his stead one whom time is rapidly making dearer to us; and have, above all things, witnessed the advent of that great day and time which cannot but make the year 1918 the Hannus Mirabilis of modern history, and the school year of 1918-19 one unparalleled in uniqueness and moment by any that have gone before, and a serious, if not unsurpassable rival of any that dear old Hughes may meet in the unknowable stretches of the future. 112'1

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FACULTY CHARLES M. MERRY ........................................ Principal J. W. SIMON ......................................... Assistant Principal Art Department Henrietta C. Fischer Mary Elizabeth Hyde William P. Teal Botany, Zoology and General Science Department Rose Agerter M. J. Doherty Maximilian Braam Mabel G. Spellmire Mabel 'Willard Chemistry Department 0. W. Martin Susan Foote Commercial Department I. R. Garbutt Elizabeth King Mary G. Barnette M. C. Leipholz Alma Burke Mary McSurely Florence Callahan Paul Messersmith J. K. Condom A. M. Wonnell English Department Jennie S. Allgaier Erna Kruckemeyer Bertha M. 'Baehr Eleanor Passel Elizabeth Bogle Irma L. Stoehr Hazle T. Cairns Alice Von Stein Jessie Eger A. M. Walker Mary B. Furness Bertha. Evans Ward May B Hoban Elizabeth Zanoni French Department Louise E. Bentley Erna Lotze Luella Geode Fannie M. Madden Carrie M. Perin German Department Valeska Danziger Greek Department Wm. H. Pabodie 14 1