Central School - Deeds and Misdeeds Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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GIRLS BASKET BALL TEAM

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —19 Johnson, substitutes. At the beginning of this semester we played a series of three games with the St. Joe boys which resulted in our winning two of them. We again played at Monroe. This was a very rough game and Monroe defeated us by a score of 18-9. Our last appearance on the local floor was in a game with the Berne team. For a time it looked as if we were domed but we fought hard and won by several points, 13-10. Mr. McClaflin was our coach the second semester and the following was the line-up: Beel and Merryman, forwards; Peterson, center; Baker and Brentlinger, guards. WALTER BAKER. - 9 -- GIRLS BASKET BALL The girls’ team for the past season had some really good material but litle opportunity to prove their skill. Miss Sellemeyer the coach, assisted by Miss Stevens,, gave the girls every attention during their practice periods at the gym. They won two of the three game played with the St. Joe girls and lost the third by a very small margin. The lineup was as follows: Forwards—Gretchen Kocher, Helen Farr.. Guards—Dorothy Peterson, Joseph¬ ine Anderson. Side Center—Edna Swearinger. -,-•-. THE STORY OF A STICK OF GUM Mary Burrell had a cent.. Straight way to King’s she went and bought a stick of gum. She chewed’ it all morning then lent it to Phyllis Kosht. Phyllis chewed it all afternoon and evening and when she went to bed she stuck it on her shoe sole. She let it rest all night and morning and at noon she found it, and lent it to Bernice F ' ike. Bernice chewed it for the next day and a half. That night she left it on the table and a mouse gnawed away about half of it. She took it back to Mary who exercised her jaws on it for another day. That night thinking it had served its pur¬ pose, she threw it away, but Stanley Callow found it and at the last report, was still chewing it.—CECIL LUX. - © -- JOHNNY MOUSE l ittle Johnny caught a mouse; He brought it to our school house! Mouse in his pocket, string and all, Little Johnny went through the hall, And when teasing the girls and boys Cur Johnny made an awful noise,— And ’twas found out by Princ’pal Brown— (Now this is known by all aroun’) — And oh! If Johnny didn’t shout When he found that he was found out! We saw him next after the close,, And poor Johnny had a red nose—- For ’twixt Mr. Brown and the rubber hose Johnny’s mischief had been told out in blows! —DORIS RILA PETERS, 8A2. - • -- Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? Answer: Harriet was a northern woman. She wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Beecher Stowe was a north¬ ern man. He was the editor of a newspaper and he died in the war try¬ ing to save his printing press.

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THE TIME OF HIS LIFE Following a custom of four years’ duration we, the eighth grade, pre¬ sented the play “The Time of His Life,” April 27-28. Because we are so young and unexperienced, we were assigned our parts at the be¬ ginning of the semester and many an hour did we spend in practice. Miss Coffee, who directed the play, is a firm believer in doing well what you undertake, and if we are to believe the many compliments we were giv¬ en we feel amply repaid for all our efforts. Mable Staley, who, as Marion had a difficult part to play and commit, especially in the second act, could not have done better. The part of Uncle Tom, the negro servant, was taken by Don LeBrun. He looked, acted and talked like a real-for-sure plantation servant. He experienced some difficulty, however, in bowing gracefully, owing to the fact that Johnny Baumgartner’s evening suit fit a little too snug. Miles Baker, who impersonated Uncle Tom easily won his audience and caused no end