Athens Area High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, PA)

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ACTIVITIES OP SENIOR GIRLS The girls of the high school always do a great deal in keeping up the spirit and standards of the school, and the present Senior girls have done their part. In their first year they were active n basketball and the Girls’ Chorus. There was no regular team of basketball as it was necessary to practice in the old skating rink. Nevertheless the girls made a good showing by coming to practice. They proved to be good material and of use later on in athletics. The Girls’ Chorus won fame for themselves then, and many of the girls of our class entered in. It Is needless to say all could not join, but those who did. showed their musical talent. The chorus was kept alive and very much appreciated during our four years in high school. We began our second year by again entering into basketball and with more spirit than the year before. Having the gymnasium to play in. a regular team was formed, and here the girls of our class “shone.” Several were on the team and at different times others acted as substitutes. The Girls’ Chorus again appeared to take its place and appeared at many events with the girls of our class always doing their best. The girls revived the Philomathean Society which had been dropped for several years. In this we enjoyed ourselves greatly and also profited by it. A program was arranged for each Friday afternoon and each had to take part at some time. We took up a study of certain artists and musicians and also entered into debating. I see’ no reason why this society has been dropped, and am sure if the girls reorganized it. they would not only profit but enjoy it greatly. So here’s hoping it will again appear as an active society in our school. In our Junior year a great deal of our time was spent in doing war work. To do this more easily, we divided into groups of ten and called ourselves the High School Auxiliary. In this we made sweaters for soldiers and layettes for the Belgian children. The money which we raised amounted to fifty dollars, which we used this year in adopting a French war orphan. We entered on our last year of school with a desire to do more than in the other years, and in this I think we won. We did a great deal in raising money which will be used for a good purpose. We also desire to do our best when we become Alumni of this school, and be an honor and of use to our community. MARIAN SHERMAN. ’19. EFFECTIVE WAVS OF EARNING MONEY In the last two years many demands for time, money and service have made it necessary for the high school to get busy and earn some money. The students have felt it their duty to earn all the money that they could to help win the w'orld war. One good way to earn money is to have a home bakery. In order not to have this home bakery a burden, each girl should bake every other week, taking out the cost of the materials. Another way is for the girls to serve lunches. Soups may be made easily and cheaply. Macaroni with cheese tastes good with a cold lunch. Potatoes and gravy draw the pupils to the kitchen. Along in the spring, on warm days, ices go well, especially after school at night. Girls, try making doughnuts or cookies and see how long they will last after the boys have found them. Candy can also be made and sold without difficulty. The boys can earn money in some of these ways as well as the girls. All of the students can sell extra copies of The Athenian, Christmas seals, or may have class parties. All these ways that have been mentioned have been tried and found to be very effective in earning money. GRACE SMITH, ’19. 14

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priced for him to wear, and when I saw that platinum ring that he had on, I went to police headquarters and received a description of the missing jewelry.” What did the editor say when he sent this back? He said it was fairly good for a beginner (though I don’t see how he knew I was a beginner, because I didn’t tell him), and then he went on to enumerate some of the most prominent faults in it. I received twenty dollars for it though. Twenty dollars! I’ll bet he does a lot of rejuvenating on that piece before it is published. Perhaps I can’t write a story, but I can at least criticize one. Why you’ve made the description of the race so plain that I can almost see them coming in. I can see them in my mind with their tongues hanging out. and rolling from side to side as if every breath was going to be their last. Honest, that’s the deadest race I ever saw, read or heard tell of. Still, if everyone’s first story is like that, there is one recompense. You can’t be a beginner forever. I don’t see anything to laugh about. If you think it’s so funny—” Funny! That’s what’s the matter. It’s a tragedy. It makes me weep every time I think of it. But I have a confession to make. I read that piece in .the paper the same as you did. I thought that I could write a better one; so I wrote my story and sent it to the publisher. I got it back in about four days. That editor didn’t say a word of criticism about the story, but he couldn’t have said more if he had filled a dictionary. I thought it would be a joke if you fell for it the same as I did. so I brought it to you. You know the rest. I promise now that I’ll ftever try to write another story. WILLIAM GEROULD, 19. REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AUXILIARY WORK The members of the High School Girls’ Auxiliary are justly proud of the work which has been accomplished this year. It is gratifying to note the increase both in numbers Of members and in the amount of work done. In October, 1917, we organized an auxiliary to do our part in helping Amerisa win the war. The end of this school year finds this auxiliary not only aiding French war orphans and doing similiar duties made necessary by the recent war. but also, the High School Girls' Auxiliary is found to be a great help in all high school affairs. Now that war duties are not so pressing, we intend to do more for the high school itself. The Auxiliary has been divided into twelve groups of ten girls each. Groups eleven and twelve, however, are composed of eighth grade girls who will be accustomed to this organization and its work when they enter the high school next year. We have earned $255.00. A large part of this sum has been earned by the weekly bake sales held during the fall and winter. Four groups have been known as cooking groups and have cooked and served hot lunches to high school students living out of town. By doing this, the funds of the Auxiliary increased and the noon hour has been made more pleasant for many students. Group two has been particularly busy. They have given a New Years’ dinner and recital. Group four, was very successful in a party given last winter. The Auxiliary has spent $188.00. We have given $55 for the United War Workers’ Fund. $50 for the support of two French orphans besides quite a sum for local and high school work. Next year we hope to have the girls of the present Senior Class form an Alumni Group. We are very happy at our fine success this year and have great plans for the Auxiliary of the future that it may go on and on. GENEVIEVE BROWN, ’19. 13

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THK HIGH S('HOOL BOVS’ AUXILIARY Although the High School Boys’ Auxiliary has not been as active this year as the High School Girls’ Auxiliary, it has raised proportionately about as much money for war work. They subscribed and paid $50.00. The money was raised through the five different groups into which the Auxiliary is divided. Each group had food or candy sales during the year and raised its allotment independently of the other groups. Although the war is over there is as great need of service as before. There is so much to be done in relief and reconstruction work in Europe that we should not consider slackening our efforts in aiding the suffering multitudes of the war-ruined lands. In fact, the whole world must be rebuilt on a firm and substantial basis. The Auxiliary has had photographs enlarged of Floyd E. Arnold and Howard A. Delaney. These, with a suitable inscription, will be placed on the walls of the high school auditorium as a token of the appreciation of the Athens High School for those who were willing to give up all that we might enjoy the benefits of peace. Here’s hoping that the boys of next year’s high school will stick to their auxiliary work and make it as influential and as thoroughly efficient an organization as the High School Girls’ Auxiliary. HOBEHT HORTON, ’19. SHOULD IMMIGRATION TO THK UNITED STATES BK PROHIBITED FOB FIVE YEARS? The late European War has brought to the surface many old questions and chief among these is the problem of immigration. Yearly there have been throngs of people from all the nations of Europe and Asia pouring into this country. Do these people tend to make conditions better in this country or worse? One thing that we do know is that the greater majority of foreigners lower the sandard of wages in this country. They do not spend so much as the American born citizen and so are able to work for less money. Would not the lowering of wages be a dangerous move at this time when prices of food and other necessities of life are so high and men have been used to such high wages during the last few years? Such moves cause panics, and panics are what we are trying to avoid. Therefore, would it not be well to take some means of prevention? In five years the country would be normal in prices and wages. Would it not be a wise preventive to restrict all immigration to the United States for a period of five years? Our soldiers are beginning to arrive home. They must have something to do. and most of them will take their pre-war jobs back. This will necessitate that the person who held the job for the period of the war should find work elsewhere. If a throng of foreigners are pouring into this country they. too. must have work. While jobs are scarce enough now. they will be even more so if immigration is not restricted and we will have a class of men who. if they do not find work, will find some evil to do and the result would be a large class of criminals. The war had hardly ended when the work of reconstruction began. Cities and villages are being built over again. Men are needed for various tasks and those already over there are best fitted for the work, for they know the country better. If immigration to this country were restricted for a period of five years, these men would stay at home and go on with the work of reconstruction, who otherwise would come to this country, inexperienced and penniless, to be dependent upon our people. 15