Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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ANTI-BARBERS' CLUB OR THE LOYAL FOLLOXVERS OF SAMSON NIOTTO fu L f-:1 g fd7QfiHr7jI' Tbf ,:-fw is Sf 1-1' ugglv. MEMBERS UNMITIGATED SONS OF Q1lil12iiU,,.. l51llfl'QiLi. iflilig... MINISTERS Prest lvrm . PURPosE: To prove that ministers' sons are negatively good in the same degree as their fathers are positively so. CHIEF DEMQNSTRATOR Mr. Crowe. ABLE ASSISTANTS Preston. Fleming. YVagenhals. Brackenridge. Sawyer. Schaaf. Leeper. AxCiIlIQ'L'IJTLT1gAKIJ CLUB 'IRI-IEIR YVORTHY SISTERS IN MISFORTUNE Corons 1 Three Shades of Green. LUIS Field' Jessamme Baile? Elimbeth IVill1an1s. Adelia Sauer. SPECIAL GIFT 'I-0 Look Like 'L AgrlC0l2i6.U MEMBERS 'Iihe gentlemen ul. the faculty. A R T C L U B Co1,oRs 1 Every One in the Rainbow. AIM To do Their Share in Disliguring the YVorld. MEMBERS C. I-Iaherkorn. IJ. Saylor. E. GrihBth. P. Shephard. Nutting. Kinnaird. VVilliams. Erickson. RENIECTED SUITORS' CLUB Collins: All Shades of Blue. MOTIO lf' nf ll'Ii1'.Yf Ibn Dmfr Sn I-t'i'r'i I, Yiir, Yin' .Qwlfzn M E M BE RS Wlagenhals. Thorward. Kinnaird. Beers. Eeustel. Preston. Noni.:-YVagenhals pleads that he nex er got enough steam on to pop.

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THE SENIUR DRANTATIC SOCIETY Pi'EJ'B7ZfZ.7ZQ' ff The Prq ei',t0r'.r DZ'J'C0'Z'67:1'i, April 2, tool. Broadway Theatre. Professor C. T. Lane, F, XV. H. S., Professor Raven, Professor of Biology, Bill Cutting ,.... Dorothy Alldense, Hardy Night, . Louise Cutting, Iflinore Bondy, . . L General Manager: ROYDEN TITIGAR. Stage Manager : A. Griirsrs b xxx xi R DRAMATIS' PERSONAE PAGIZ YARNELLE . ALBERT SCHAAF ARTHUR PARRY . ALICII FOSTER ROBERT FECSTBL , GRACE SMITH liLIZABliTH EVANS Rags ,..., Jessaniine Daly, Hilda Lane, BliRNADliT'l'l2 MONNAHAN . . FAVUR VRI-QELAND Frank Ramillun, . . GEORGE THORXN.-XRD Chester Gunten ,,.. . VVM. SCI-IADEN Harry BItCvinty, . .... ROYDEN TIGAR Patrick Dooley, Janitor High Sthuol, , . ROBILRT KINNAIRD Other Students, . . XV.-XGILNHALS, TWINING, GRUSSIILAN , SCHOOL MASCUT ACI' I. In the iirst act of the play, the audience is introduced in a general way to the students and the professor who take the parts throughout the whole of the farce. It is here that Professor Raven makes his first public statement regarding an experiment by which he expects to create life in the form of a star-fish. After the class has been dismissed there is a little general gossip, and some remarks which show the different opinions of the students in regard to the professor and his work. The climax of this act is the determination of Bill Cutting and his sweetheart, Dorothy Alldense, to fool Professor Raven by a joke. .ACT II. The first scene of this act shows us the biological laboratory. Professor Raven, assisted by Hardy Night, a student of marked scientific ability, does his work which he fondly hopes will result in a star-fish. Before Professor Raven arrives, however, and while Night is gone on some mission, Bill comes sneaking in to play his part in bringing about the desired results. He def'ly slips a small star-fish into the iar where the form of life is to appear, and then 'tmakes tracks. In doing so, however, he forgets his notebook. This book is found bv Night upon his reappearance. Then Professor Raven arrives and together they work out the experiment to a successful end as they suppose. The second scene is a short one. It takes place the day after the professor's discovery and the whole scientific world rings xvith the praise of Professor Raven. The papers are full of it and a party of students meeting on the street exchange comments about it. Then comes a second exciting topic. The football team has defeated the Huntington ICEIIU-5-O. Preparations are made for a celebration on the campus that night. In the next scene the students are out xvith horns, and colors, yells, songs, speeches and gossip. The campus scene is one of the most realistic of the play. ACT II. This act marks the beginning of the end. The professor, seated in the laboratory, is reading the messages of congratulation that pour in from all parts of the country. Then he repeats the experiment to get exact data. YVhat is this? The star-fish fails to appear' The professor begins to get nervous. just then Hardy Night comes in and notices Professor Raven's dejected attitude. The professor explains that he has repeated the experiment and no star-lish appeared. He sees that he has been the victim of a practical joke. He charges Night with it and Hardy, to keep disgrace from the brother of the girl he loves-for he feels sure that Bill Cutting did the trick,--does not deny it. ACT IV. In the last act all wrongs are righted. The students as a body learn that the professor's discovery was a farce, and consequently there is much conjecture as to who the perpetrator of the trick was and how he managed it. Then Professor Raven comes in and explains the falsity of his discovery to the class and lays the blame on Hardy Night. This is more than Bill Cutting can endure. He jumps up and confesses his guilt. Then Dorothy rises and explains how she urged Bill on and kept him up to the scratch. These confessions startle the worthy teacher. However, he forgives both Bill and Dorothy, and reinstates Night, who has been expelled from school.

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NAVY BLUE AND GOLD ASSERTS ITSELF AT THE 'oi COMMENCElXfIENT HXERCISES XVhen the members of 'OI were making final preparations for graduation, they firmly resolved that no demonstrations by the Juniors should mar their peaceful repose. How they succeeded is alluded to in the 'ol history. The occasion was so great, however, that a more complete discussion is appropriate. The boys of the Junior Class were comparatively small, and not particularly distinguished for athletic talents, while the boys of the Senior Class were large, strong-limbed, vigorous fellows. Mentally, however, the two classes W'61'C inversly proportional to their physical endowments. Knowing that they must depend upon their brains for successful operations, the Juniors held frequent councils of war, and hnallv succeeded in mapping out a promising plan of campaign. i At last the eventful evening arrived. The Juniors, who of course served as ushers, appeared in white duck trousers, and dark coats for contrast. Beautiful insignia of the glorious navy-blue and gold fastened on by the 'oz class pins presented themselves to view. This tasteful uniformity in dress immediately won the hearts of the whole audience. The more stirring surprises came a little later in the evening. .lust as the salutatorian had finished her charming address, several of the ushers walked down the aisle with a mysterious bundle in their hands. VVhen they were in view of the whole audience, they let go, and lol three baloons, bearing gorgeous streamers of navy-blue and gold rose on high, midst the deafening cheers of the spectators. Two of these baloons, like good little children, remained aloft in their exalted positions, but the third one was vvafted about by gentle Lephyrs and rose and fell at its own sweet will. At length it seemed to decide to head for the speaker of the evening, who was just then making his address, though probably no one in the whole theater including the speaker himself could tell what he was talking about at this critical moment. Everybody in the house was bubbling over with suppressed excitement Speculation was rife, as to whether the baloon would hit the speaker on his bald spot, and prove a hair restorer, or whether it would merely graze his nose. The Seniors were nearly wild with shame and anger. Hamilton was ready to faint, and Hopkins looked as though he were about to charge through a foot ball line up. At last after long, long moments of painful suspense and anxiety, the baloon reached the stage, and before it could do any further mischief, one of the musicians made a wild lunge and succeeded in capturing the bold scapegrace. Before the exciting descent occurred, the valedictorian had made her debut. At the close of her masterly oration, she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of white roses, the class Hower of '02, tied by long navy blue and gold ribbons. She did the best thing possible under the circumstances by gracefully displaying the noble colors. Thus another plan had succeeded. The enterprising Juniors were not yet satisfied. At the conclusion of the address by the speaker of the evening, the ushers in the balcony stepped to the front and unfurled long rolls of navy blue and gold tissue paper, and tacked them to the balustrade. This concluded the most elaborate, most successful, and most pleasant series of tricks ever worked at any high school commencement exercises. The friendly character of the tricks is well shown by the fact that later, both the Seniors themselves and the faculty congratulated the juniors on their success. May succeeding classes, if they desire to assert themselves at commencement exercises, follow the example of Nineteen Two in this regard as in all others, and work harmless, unollensive, and yet exciting tricks.