Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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14 THE TOOT Btbletics Athletic Association A one hundred per cent membership, the aim of the Athletic Association, has been realized. The whole student body formed a procession and marched past the desk where the dues were received. The teachers and many of the grade pupils are also members this year. The officers of the Athletic Council were elected as follows: President, Mr. Simmons; treasurer, Mr. Crisp; secretary, Helen Te Winkel; James Culver, Darwin Gregg and Avery Merwin. Our Team A strong team for the coming basketball season has been organized. Since “Jim” Culver is the only surviving member of last year’s players, the team will be made up almost entirely of raw material; but, under Mr. Crisp’s direction, it will surpass records made by teams of former years. Manager “Archie” Maynard promises a good schedule. The first game was a double header with Chittenango on December 10. Girls’ Teams The Freshman, Sophomore, Junior-Senior and Varsity teams for girl’s basketball have been organized. The Varsity team, of which Marie Gustafson was made manager, was chosen from the best material of the class teams and is considering an out-of-town schedule with Chittenango, Cazenovia and other surrounding towns. The managers of the class teams are: Junior-Senior, Lois Te Winkel; Sophomore A, Erma Prosser; Sophomore B, Ruth Tufts; Freshman A, Margaret Daily; Freshman B, Mary Tuttle. Baseball The Sophomore-Freshman baseball games played during the early part of the school year showed Canastota’s school spirit. The two teams were supported not only by their own classmen but by cheering squads from the Junior and Senior classes. The “Sophs” proved the better players, winning two games out of the three. Cheer Leaders In view of the basketball season, the student body elected three cheer leaders at a meeting held before school on November 30th. Glenn Mowry was made cheer leader and Dorothy Donnelly was made leader of the singing. The cheering this year is peppier and more distinct than it has been for many years.

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THE TOOT 11 GREATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD RUTH TUFTS The Red Cross was originated in 1864, where a flag with a red cross on a white field was adopted. The first woman to open the pro- fession of nursing for women was Florence Nightingale, a wealthy English girl. She was inspired when a young girl by a visit to a hospital and moved by the unsanitary and unclean conditions, she decided immediately that she would become a nurse. In America few people knew of the society or of the work of Florence Nightingale. During our Civil War the sick and wounded were cared for by an organization known as “The Sanitary Commission.” Dorothy Dix was a well known American worker. After the war broke out Miss Dix was in one of the cities of our country and was moved by the suffering of our men. Miss Dix went directly to Washington and volunteered to give her services. She was made superintendent of the women nurses and set about her great undertaking to distribute supplies, select nurses and see that the soldiers were properly cared for. During the four long, hard years of the war she never had a holiday. When, at last, the great struggle was over the Secretary of War asked her what she wanted for her noble work. Miss Dix asked for a flag and was presented with two beautiful ones, which now hang in the memorial hall of Harvard College. Mother Bickerdyke was a prominent worker at the time of the Civil War. Another noted worker during this same period was Clara Barton who, while in Washington, heard of the wonderful work that Miss Dix was doing. She saw some soldiers who were suffering from wounds which had not been properly treated and made it her duty to have their wounds cleansed and dressed in the right way. The young nurse wrote home to her parents, suggesting that supplies be sent for the boys’ comfort. Later she obtained a pass to go behind the fighting lines and there nursed Northerners and Southerners alike. When the war was ended Miss Barton went abroad for a rest and while there she heard of the Red Cross Society. In the war between France and Germany, she saw for the first time the medical staff of two opposing armies working together in care of the wounded soldiers. Upon returning to this country, Clara Barton organized the Red Cross in America and was made president. Miss Barton was born near Oxford, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1821. Her training in school subjects was as varied and as thorough as her Continued on page 24

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THE TOOT 15 Semi-Annual Promotion The Faculty and Board of Education, after much consideration and discussion, decided last fall to adopt the semi-annual promotion method in the Canastota schools. Since there are two sections of each grade up to the eighth, it was decided that it would be to the ultimate advantage of the pupils to adopt this system, in that a pupil who failed to pass his examinations at the end of a year would have to repeat only a half year instead of a whole year; and, on the other hand, a brilliant pupil, if allowed to skip a grade, would pass over only one-half year’s work. The only disadvantages found in these plans were that a pupil, upon entering the high school in January, would lose a half year be- cause most of the full year high school subjects are started only in September, and that in keeping a pupil only a half year the teacher would not become as well acquainted with him. These difficulties, however, were overcome by a plan which permits the teacher to rotate with her own pupils from a B to an A grade, thus keeping them a full year, and which allows a pupil entering high school in January to take a course of four half-year subjects which will count towards his regents’ diploma. After a careful study of most of the schools in the state, it was found that many large high schools and several smaller ones use this system. The plan offers a better grouping of the pupils and allows them to cover the work in less time than before if they are able to do so. To be promoted, however, a pupil must pass all subjects in his class before going on to the next grade as in former years. Armistice Day Armistice Day was the scene of a patriotic rally in the Canastota schools, when all the North Side pupils gathered in the High School study hall, where they listened to a lecture on “Americanism and Patriotism” by Mr. Forkell. After the lecture, the students marched