Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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THE ARSENAL CANNON 9 THE SECTIONAL TRACK MEET One Indiana high school record was broken and another tied in the Indianapolis district track and field meet which was won by Manual at the State Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon May 19. Manual scored twenty-eight points, Atlanta nineteen, Sheridan sixteen and Technical and Shortridge each nine. Shortridge won the relay. Hull of Noblesville bettered the state record for the high jump when he cleared the bar at five feet eleven inches. Garten equaled the best time ever made in Indiana high school competition in the 120 yard hurdles when he made the distance in 16 4-5 seconds. The mark was not allowed because of the strong wind at the athlete's back. Garten, captain of the Manual squad, captured individual honors when he won four firsts. The 120 yard hurdles, the 220 yard hurdles, the running broad jump and the pole vault were all won by him. As a result of the meet Tech qualified four men for the meet at Lafayette May 26. They are Capt. Perkins, Bill Jungclaus, A. Mcllvaine and Lefty Wagner. Perkie, who had not yet fully recovered from the measles, took third in the 100 and second in the 220 yd. dashes. Jungclaus took third in the high jump, Wagner third in the shot put, and Mac second in the low hurdles. SENIORS CELEBRATE TREE DAY The June '17 seniors held their Tree Day Exercises in the new lunch room Wednesday, May 2. Each senior brought a freshman to the exercises as his guest, and they marched by twos into the lunch room. The School Orchestra together with the Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs furnished the music for the occasion. The first speaker was Gladys Trout, who talked about the different trees on the campus and gave a brief history of Tech's seventy-six acres. Mr. Stuart then gave a short and interesting talk pertaining to trees. Josephine Woolling followed this address with a humorous reading. Mr. William Watson Woollen, the principal speaker for the occasion was then introduced by Mr. Stuart. Mr. Woollen told about the trees in Woollen's Garden where anything is allowed to grow that chooses to. He also gave valuable instruction as to the planting of different trees. He presented to Technical the four trees, the Maple, the Red Bud, the Burr Oak and the Persimmon, which were planted that day Mr. Woollen has given Indianapolis Woollen's Gardens, now com- monly known as Buzzards' Roost. Mr. Stuart then introduced Mrs. Stuart who read a poem of her own composition in which she tolfl of the beauties of Indiana. Her's was a tribute of real poetic va ue. After this, everyone went to the Arsenal Building Where the first tree, Woollen's Maple, was planted by Mr. Woollen himself. Then Rachael Todd, the vice-president of the class, presented him with a. bouquet of white roses. The Burr Oak, Mr. Stuart's tree, was planted between the Barn and the Barracks. Near it is Mrs. Stuart's tree, the Red Bud. And the Persimmon was planted in front of the powder magazine.

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8 THE ARSENAL CANNON TYPISTS WIN TROPHY Probably many pupils in Technical still know nothing of the splen- did records which the Typewriting classes have been making. Twenty- three high schools were entered in the Third Annual Indiana High School Typewriting Contest. Two of them were Typewriting II classes from Tech. These two classes entered as novices. One of the Typewriting II classes won the entire contest by making their class average, 32.1 words a minute, the highest. Doris Rucker, who made the highest number of words a minute, certainly deserves special mention. She made a record of 48.8 words a minute. This entitles her to a leather card-case given by the Rem- ington Typewriting Co. Other pupils who have earned honorable mention are Gordon Zink, who made a record of 44.4 words a minute, Gertrude Glockner, whose record was 43.8 words to the minute, and Howard Templeton, whose record was 43.2 words a minute. More honor can be attributed to these two Typewriting classes when we consider the fact that they had only about two-thirds as much time in which to practice as other contesting schools. This shortage of time was due to the weeks of twenty-minute periods at the begin- ning of the term. This department is now entitled to a trophy for the winning of the contest. TECHITES WIN IN LITERARY CONTEST In a recent contest conducted by the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, eight Technical High School pupils won prizes. The dis- tinguished are Myrtle Freeberg, Robert Schmuck, Henry Coughlin, Maisie McGowan, Helen Kitchell, Doris Carr, Mildred Hoffman and Charles Bridges. There were thirty-nine prizes awarded, one twenty- five dollar, one iifteen dollar, one ten dollar, one five dollar, ten two dollar, and twenty-five one dollar prizes. The theme was Why Buy a Home ? Even though five thousand would-be scribes expounded at length on that subject twenty percent of those who made money on their ideas were Techites. Who said Tech isn't on the map? ELECTRICAL SCHOOL HAS SOME CLASS On Tuesday, May 22, the June graduating class of electricity IV's held a short meeting to elect officers. Out of a class of forty-two starting in this work, only four are left to graduate. The class is twice blessed for is it not distinguished by being the smallest class on record, and is not Earl Wagner, of athletic fame, its president? Yes Indeed! Earl Wagner shall be known to the widest bounds of theffschool as the man who made the Big Four famous. The full sta is: Earl Wagner-president. Fred Maibucher-vice-president. Harry Southern-treasurer. Edgar Sanders-secretary.

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10 THE ARSENAL CANNON be inlhiers nf the bail QPrize Short Story.D A military spirit hovered over the little town, or rather that part of it near John Lincoln's house. In J ohn's back-yard it seemed to be particularly in evidence. There a group of boys were gathered about alsturdy twelve-year old boy who was lecturing them somewhat as o ows: Now, fellows, y'know my brother Dan enlisted last night an' he's goin' to iight for our country and flag. CHere John saluted the flag waving over the woodshed with a flourish-Brother Dan had just taught him how.l An' you know that we're goin' to have a big war-an'-well, I wanta help-don't you? he appealed. Sure we do, asserted the interested boys. But how c'n we? questioned little Cy Newton. Well, y'know that a lot o' men 'll 'list to be soldiers an soldiers eat a awful lot an' the papers have been full of talk about raisin' gardens and things. An' about its bein' just as paterotic to work on the farms as it is to fight the Germans an' all -John had to stop for breath and as he did so his eyes searched his small audience for signs of approval. Finding it there in abundance but mixed with a measure of questioning he continued. So I thought maybe we c'd make a army an' raise a lot o' things to send to our soldiers! John had struck a popular note for all boys delight in anything pertaining to an army and since these boys were no exception to the rule, they fell to planning with an unusual show of enthusiasm. And we'll call ourselves 'Soldiers of the Soil,' suggested Andy Jones the oldest boy. When Andy approved of any venture it was sure to succeed. The boys were perched on the benches and boxes which were ever conveniently placed in Jump's shop. CJohn was commonly known as Jump because of its apt portrayal of his character, perhaps.D Sug- gestions regarding the new idea were offered on all sides. Finally Jump said, Well, I guess the first thing to do is to find some land that we can farm. Say, my grandad said I could use his two-acre field over by the bridge if I wanted to, piped up little Cy. The tiny nine-year old lad was always known as little Cy because of his fathers unusual size. Cy, you're a brick an' so's your grandad! Let's go an' look it over right away, proposed enthusiastic John. I say 'Jump', wait a minute, advised soberer-minded Andy, we'd best talk about the seeds an' what we're going to plant iirst, hadn't we? Sure, I'd a fergot that part of it, laughed 'Jump', what will we plant on 'our farm'? Pa'll let me have a few seed potatoes, I know, contributed Harold Brown, popularly 'Hal'. So'll mine, said John.