Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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THE ANNUAL Mr. W. A. Baldwin, Mathematics. A stern, sedate, scholarly bachelor. Would be easier to handle, were he not so mathematically precise. Miss Helen Simpson, English Literature and French. Petite, alert, resource¬ ful. Never lets us go to sleep. Scolds us in English and praises us in French. Miss Mabel Holland, Mathematics. Fair, frank and fearless—as much friend as teacher. Miss Gertrude Jenner, History. Who could criticize Miss Jenner? Much as she expects of us we would willingly do more. A home-grown teacher, and we’re proud of her. Miss Mary Aberle, History and Physiography. A perennial enthusiasm pre- vades her work. She makes us interested in spite of ourselves. Mr. E. L. Marting, Science. The more you know of him the better you like him. Versatile, resourceful and good natured. We couldn’t possibly get along without him. Miss Helen Brown, Latin. After a year’s leave of absence she came back to us, but is no better teacher than she was before. She couldn’t be. Miss Cora Garrison, Latin. Above her door, should be hung this sign, “Let him who enters here, leave sloth behind.” Even a “horse” will not help us to evade her seaching questions. Miss Emily Abbott, English. Quiet, wise and unassuming. Too patient with block heads. Miss Gilbert, Commercial English. Capable, energetic, master of the occasion. A foe to laziness. Makes us work too hard, and practices what she preaches. Gathers us in and watches over us as if we were a brood of chicks. Miss Kate Moore, Algebra. Demure, sympathetic, too optimistic of our abil¬ ity to absorb Algebra. If the Freshmen were not sieves they would contain enough Algebra at the end of the year to supply the state. Mr. H. A. Welday, Public Speaking. Always optimistic, hard-worker, and hard to work. Miss Helen Felger, Study Room, wide-awake, watchful, critical, always on the job. Miss Anna Kemp, Study Room. It’s a pleasure to keep good order in her study room. - 19 -

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THE ANNUAL Of course we couldn’t publish this Annual without some reference to the Faculty. Everybody knows we have one; so what is the use of trying to conceal the fact? We might as well own up to it at once, and make the best of it that we can. A Faculty is a lot of trouble. It takes a long time to learn their dispositions and habits, and then, just as you find you are acquainted with them and able to manage them without any further trouble, the year is over, and next fall you have an entirely new lot to tame. It is discouraging, too, for sometimes after working a whole year with a re¬ fractory teacher, you have to feel that you have failed to reach her or influence her for the better in any way. It is some little comfort though to think that even if we have failed, we have perhaps hewn the way for the next class that is put in charge of her. We are compelled to admit, however, that this past year the task of handling the Faculty has not been at all unpleasant. They are, with a few exceptions, a well behaved, tractable set of teachers. We have reasons to hope that with another year or two of the same sort of discipline that we have given them this year, we shall have them completely subjugated and ready for exhibition to the most exacting of our friends. We trust that when they see this article, with a few of their shortcomings pointed out, they will strive more diligently to mend their ways and will be more amenable to their next year’s instruction from the present under classmen. We Seniors have done all in our power to make them toe the mark, and the advice we leave to the coming Freshmen is this: Begin ear¬ ly, and never despair. Let us examine the Faculty individually, and see what improvement can be suggested. First, there is Mr. Hall, our principal. A pretty good sort of a fellow in a way, but a little too inclined to interfere with our fun in the hallways and else¬ where ; also, always making speeches to us and calling us down. Had the nerve to tell our Art Editor Tie ought to study more. Treats too many students better than they deserve. Always on the firing line. Won’t let the boys smoke in the study room. Plenty of chance for improvement. Then there is Miss Bertha Ruess, our teacher of German. She makes us study too hard, but, nevertheless, she is dear to us all. And Miss Margaret Feldner, also of German proclivities. Another member of the contrary sex. Asks too many questions in class. Sits down too hard on the vivacious ones. Set in her ways, and pretty hard for us to handle. Mr. pr Mrr Beckett, Commercial Branches. Teaches us how to attend to other people’s business. Not much trouble to the main body of students, because he is confined to the third door. Came here from Marion, and we decided not to send him back. - 18 -

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