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

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Uhr Olalhrnn 1 5 iff .,:g.5.'i- ..'5'- ' 'Kham X l ds? '-S! M21 :,. .J-X5 it .f 0 My lim' 'lu' lx the M X it , .L gf,-frfmmu A -1 ' ' l l , p 1 A G , 'F' in . 'fp ,W A I 1915 SOPHOMORE. 'l'hc timc is tlrnwing ncur :incl thou- l wish 1 was 21 rock hut first comc those luitcd exams. llc-rt-'s hoping wc shall gct through with colors flying, :intl that Scptcnnbcr will bring all us Sophoniorcs Qgct tlult, Sophoniorcsl lmck, for our your ol' trials is almost ovcr. ls it possihlc that any onc of us coulml possibly hc thinking of stopping school. Surcly not. A high school cml- uczltion is csscntinl in :ill kintls of lnusi- ncss nowtulziys, husinm-ss that counts, mul no onc shoultl lu- contcntcsl to do souu-thing that cli1ln't count. So if any llll'llllN'l' of our class luis nn itll-an tluit lu- will stop school lct him forgot it. Our high school cnrccr has just ln-gun. Now in rcfcrcncc to our aspirations for ncxt yczir. First ot' all nonc of us must stop school, lwcnusc wc want thc 1915 class to lac thc lzirgcst that will huvc cvcr grznluatctl l'ron1 Fort. Wzlync lligli School. Se-contlly wc wzlnt to numkc our Sophomorc your an glorious onc. 'l'l1c gm-cn fm-cling thnt ull I rcsluucn lmvc will hc ours no longcr, :incl wc shoultl ass:-rt oursclvcs morc in thc school by showing thc othcr clnsscs that wc can do sonicthing in thc nth- lctic licltl :is wcll as by showing thc fuc- ulty that wc intcnml to work ll2ll'll. lint it won't lu- all work. just think ol' thc fun wc shnll lnivc at thc class tlnnocs. Oh, it is hountl to hc ai glorious yt-ur. so wc slulll sny good-l1yc in Junt- but in Scptcnnbcr wc niust :ill bc hcrc t oszty hcllo. A-sottin' on a. hill. l woulcln't likc to mlo ei thing lint just kccp scttin' still. l supposc wc all lmvc thc sznne feel- ings :intl although it is so vcry XVill'll1 that wc can lun-ally cxpcct the Sopho- niorcs to gct up cnough enthusiasm to play lmll, still thc cx:nninz1.tions arc coming :nul wc must work on until thc cntl. Sophomorcs, wc 1li1ln't clo vcry lllllCll this yczu' hut ncxt yczn' wc will bc Jn- niors and wc must try to sct :L good ex- zunplc for thc othcr classes. Whcrc oh whcrc :irc thc gay young Sopholnorcs? Whcrc oh whcrc :irc thc guy, young S0pll0lll0l'l'Sl? Whcrc oh whcrc are tho guy, young Sophoinorcs? Silllt'-IIUXV, in thc Junior class. 'l'hcy'vc gonc up from lt'rcslnncn Liter- uturc. 'l'hcy'vc gonc up from Ancient History. 'l'hoy'vc gonc up from Physical Geo- grnphy. Safe-uow, in thc Junior class. JUNIOR 'I'hc class of 15913 intcnds to make its Scnior play nm-xt yczn' 'tsonic show. Hy thc tinu- this issue is off the press, thc counnittcc, chosen two ll1011iZllS ago, tl'ontinucd on Page 165 15

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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.

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Uhr Glalhrnn mhafa what anh H3113 in thr lllnrt mugnr igigh Everybody's doing it. Doing what? What,-that is the question that others will have to scratch their heads over after this. Keeping tab on eight hun- dred human animals and trying to get all of the What's What concerning them is our task no longer. This Cald- ron goes to press and is 011 sale before the happy vacation days so, if you will, please pardon a11y advance announce- 1ne11ts of what will be what and why. May9-10. Mr. Mclllillen was HbS0l1t. Did we know it? Well, yes, even some because so, eh-how shall I call it?- that Mr. lNIcC'ormiek found it necessary to drape the benches to subdue the mu- tiny. May. The juniors are already pre- paring for their preliminary work 011 their next year's class play. Some of the seniors laugh. Stop Hllll think, is not that a pretty wise move. May 13. Have11 't heard just what the results are at the photographers, but we do hope that no cameras were broken. f'Look pretty, smile, just a little more expression now. The seni- ors have all heard this. Others took a look at the pictures and see the results. May 14. Mr. Ward announces that hereafter no excuses will be accepted except on account of sickness. How will we get around that? Well, We'll leave that to the individual. May 15. Welker Wentz was assured by Mr. McMillen that he would be elected to the be11ch but he didn 't even pass the primaries. May 16. Tommy Griffin goes a roamin' and Miss Sihler fi11ds it neces- sary to give him a front scat. Miss Sihler is getting rather hard-hearted lately. She also has established a new department. She directed James Bar- rett, Marion Kiess and Alfred Wermuth to the 'Lnursery Cso she called itj and they we11t directly to what We used to call the office. How appropriate. May. Tests, tests, tests, etc. That is what we have to look forward to now. As we scramble like eggs to get ready for the final day we have to be fried with the su1111yside up at the same time by these beloved tests. May 31. The results from field day were up to the standard and We all en- joyed the holiday allowed on Decora- tion day. June 3. Senior excursion was a suc- cess and We all had a Hjim crack time. -Dh, what is so rare as the thir- teenth of June? SCHOOL NOTES. CContinued from Page 15D will probably have selected the play to be given. Mac Tower, chairman of the committee, says that he expects to have the east selected before school closes for the sunnner vacation. Ronald Daw- son, to whom the class of 1912 are in- debted for so much of the success of their play, 'tThe Ulster, will choose and coach our cast and help select the play. The committee is beginning its work early in order to give the main characters opportunity to perfect their parts and to offer a first class amateur production next fall. In the story, The Future, on an- other page of this number, one of the editors of the 1913 staff has given a suggestion of the wonderful future We are planning for the Caldron. The out- going Senior staff has condescending- ly assured us that the Junior number really wasn't so Worse for a starter, and we expect to improve right along with each number 11ext year. For con- tributors, We shall have writers who have made reputations in the school by their stories, published regularly in the Ualdrons of the past year. Several new writers of promise, Whose Work has not often appeared in the Caldron, have bee11 Hspottedf' We hope to se- cure more articles by alumni, like Hi- ram Moderwell's in the last issue. Our illustrating staff will have some- thing novel and surprising for our readers each month. We are going to make the Caldron worth all you pay for it, and a little more.