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

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Uhr Clialhrnn tion throughout the school year. The staff believed there was plenty of abil- ity to compose excellent, original sto- ries, to get together interesting school news and doings, to secure from mem- bers of the faculty articles that would be both helpful and enjoyable. and to collect an assortment of jokes and jibes that were neither too old 11or too strong to help make a good school paper. This has been its purpose and to this end it has labored. How well it has satisfied the hopes of the editors is of personal concern only, how well it has fulfilled the expectations of its classmates a11d other readers it leaves to them to state. It feels grateful to those who have cheerfully contributed the splendid stories that from month to ll10l1tll have filled these pages, with especial praise to the business management for its success in maintaining so large a sub- scription list-about three hundred and fifty monthly-and for the large vol- ume of advertising. lt is hoped that every advertiser received full value for each dollar expended i11 these columns. The present editors 11ow lay down their pencils and scissors with the feel- ing that to them the service has been at least helpful and pleasant, and with the sincere wish that their class mates and the school may feel satisfied with the service rendered. Long live the Ualdron! May it continue to increase in worth as it does in years. Be to our faults a little blind, And to our virtues very kind. Hi if I The May number of the Caldron put out by the Juniors was a11 excellent one in every respect. The cover design by the clever artist E, A. li. was fine, one of the best ever seen on any high school paper, and the other cuts throughout the issue give tlSSlll'21l1C6 that there is a treat in store, in the way of illustrations at least, for all readers of next year's Caldron. The stories were first class and the general appearance of the paper was uncommonly good. With that issue as their experimental number the Ualdron for 1913 appears to be in good hands, .H- and none wish the COlllll1g management greater success than the ones who are just ending their year's service. ill If i Principal Lane, in t.l1is issue, has something to say in regard to Class Offices, and calls attention to a sub- ject that concerns the students of each year. Ile urges the importance of pay- ing greater attention to the scholarship and class regularity of candidates for offices, than has been the usual custom. This applies especially in the first three years of high school life, where often students are chosen to represent the class who have studies in two or three different years. He believes the in- terests of each class are better looked after when the offices are filled from the list of those who rightly belong to that class o11ly. lf the facts in the matter of class standing were brought out more fully at the time of election, possibly this condition might be improved. Pros- pective candidates will hereafter need to show good class work as credentials to election. li lk if ln the April lllllllllltl' of the Ualdron mention was made of the decision of this year's class to dispense with the elaborate graduating dress and one a.nd all to wear the cap and gown. This statement was published in the local papers and since that time much com- ment has arisen as to the innovation. In every instance the change is com- mended very heartily. Aside from the greatly lessened expense, which some papers place at one hundred a11d fifty dollars for the average person, the practice will tend to break down any petty feelings or jealousies that elabor- ate gowns might arouse. Seventy-nine attired in black cap and gown will, no doubt, be a novel sight at commence- ment time, and it is believed this change will prove a very sensible one. Other schools have adopted this custom and found it satisfactory, and doubtless tl1e innovation of the class of 1912 will be followed by the graduates of other years.

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l XVliat's what dldl' ll Vol. IX, No. 8 JUNE. I9I2 Whole No. 80 Marian Ingham .. . Marion Leonard. . Kendall Pffeiffer Katherine Cook . Carrie Stiefel James Barrett Richard Bohn .... . . . Ellie Qlalhrnn Sviaff Editor-in-Chief ..Asst. Editor .. Athletics .' i' H' E Literary Vesta Thompson .... and Why Catherine Vesey . . . . . . William Bohne . . . . 1312- Jokes Bertha Tower . .. ... J Viola Welty ..... . . . Q Illustrators Helen Puckett .... .... J Societ Josephine Travers .. ...... Q y Carleton Corey . . . . . . . J Rush McClure .............. C Exchanges Howard Carter ......... Business Manager Hollis Logue ..... Asst. Business Manager Phillip VVarriner, '13... 2 Pauline Saylor, '14 ..... Associate Editors Dorothy Knight, '15 .... l THE CALDRON is issued monthly, November to June, inclusive, in the interest of the Fort IVayne High and Manual Training School, by a Staff of Editors chosen from the Seniors, with representatives from the other three classes. ARTICLES for publication are solicited from members of the High School and from Alumni and former Students. CONTRIBUTIONS should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Business Matters should be ad- dressed to the Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION Price, One Dollar per year in advance. Single Copies, Fifteen Cents. THE CALDRON will be on sale the 10th of each month at the Book Stores and News Stands. Entered at the Postofiice at Fort Wayne, Ind., as Second-Class Matter. I 'ttf' I I..Q-J-.--Lffgjgxl'-x. j?jg: '1ft:-. . 'M l 1 -1-.,,.,.,,,,.,,,.,-Q Wi -no ,, 5 -aa ,. :,i...,Q '.. ' , ' 1'--i--.Fla 1- VALE to press for the last time. Early in the Witll this issue of the i12lltll'Oll the class of 1912 hitls amlieu to high school life, aml severs its comieet ion with the school paper. lt was but a few months ago that the present stat? llllilUl I.OOk to look after the interests of the Valtlroii during the school year. 'l'he time is now at hand to close the form and go I2 school year the static took up the work assigneml to it with hopes that were large and with experiences that were small. lt hail a. pride in the high regard in which the Ualtlron was helcl by mem- hers of the school aml hy other schools, and it purposetl to maiiitain that posi-

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Ehv Glalhrnn ' l 0 ,I P, . i 1 A ,F lp, an p, l I ,Q W 'l . l , l , pp 5 pp p p 1 lb. ' 1 rl H, fl 1 li W ffl if CLASS OFFICES. Class offices should be class honors. As in city, state, or nation, so in school, an office is an honor when out of all candidates proposed the one fittest for the office is chosen i11 accordance with the sober judgment of the qualified voters. To be eligible to certain offices in city, state, or nation candidates must be citizens and residents in the district they seek to represent. Just so in class offices the rules of eligibility ought to require that candidates should at least be members of the class in which they are candidates. lt has often happened that a student has been elected to the high office of president of a class to which he did not belong at all or only in part. This puts a class in so ridiculous a position that no one not familiar with the modern system of promotion may well wonder how it can happen. The explanation is easy and the means of avoiding the absurd situation are no less easy of application. Students naturally assume that all who enter school together continue to constitute a class. But when promo- tions are made by subjects, as is now the custom, it is at once apparent that at the beginning of the second year, or even the second term of thc first year some students will have fallen behind their class through failure in one or more subjects. The number who have fallen Wholly or partly bel1i11d the class with which they entered school in- creases as time goes on. Wliatever may be the reason of failure, the mere fact of inability to keep up the regular Work of one 's class ought not to be consider- ed a mark of special fitness for class office. The chief purpose of this article is to point out how classes that have a proper class spirit can, if they choose, be assured that their officers belong to their class. A meeting of each class should be called early in September. At this meeting a date for the election of officers should be fixed. A resolution should be adopted to this effect: No nomination for any office shall be ac- cepted unless the nominator shall give the class status of the person he nomi- nates. Thus in a meeting of any class, the second year class for example, the statement accompanying a nomination would be something like this: I nominate Mr. Smith for the office of president. He is enrolled as a regu- lar 1013 student, as a regular 10A stu- dent, or as a EJA in three hours Work, 1013 in ten hours work and a 10A in seven hours work, as the case may be. The facts in regard to the status of any student may be secured in the princi- pal 's office. After such a statement the class would at least vote understandingly. if the majority prefer that its class of- ficers should be lame ducks, or mem- bers of another class, that would be its own business perhaps. About matters of taste there must be 110 discussion.