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

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS 15 mwmmmmm mm Spelling Team—A and B PARTIES! PARTIES! There has been a real epidemic of parties this spring. Every section has enjoyed one except the 7 B’s and Mr. Brown says they must “grow up” be¬ fore indulging in such frivolities. Miss Sellemeyer and Miss Mutscniei who always serve as the menu com¬ m ittee, have become so proficient that they are able to figure how many “hot dogs” forty hungry boys and girls can eat and yet live. Owing to the fact that April weather prevailed during the month of May, these jollifications were held in the old gym and from the constant din that prevailed for the two hours ev¬ erybody forgot his troubles at least for the time being. Miss Coffee says words cannot tell How much she misses Billy Bell, For every evening after school He did observe the Golden Rule. All the blackboards he’d erase And never leave there e’en a trace Of anything to mar the place. So from her heart she thanks the boy Whose motive was to give her joy. - • - Jest do your best and praise or blame, That follers, counts al the same. I’ve alius noticed great success Is mixed with troubles more or less, And it’s the man who does the best That gits more kicks than all the rest. —James Whitcomb Riley

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14 DEEDS AND MISDEEDS ROBERT SHRALUKA “B” SPELLING CONTEST The annual spelling match proved an interesting factor in our school year. Several preliminary contests were held between the fifth and sixth grades, creating an added zeal and a quickened interest in the little blue spelling book. In the final local match the following seven won first place: Madgeline Miller, Dorothea Young, Harold Strickler, Luetta Rieffe, Lucille Phillippi, Dwight Schnepp and Robert Shraluka. In the sectional meet the last three above mentioned won a place on the “B” team to represent Decatur in the coun¬ ty match. Two evenings of spelling, one at Decatur and one at Berne, were required to decide the winner. Robert Shraluka proved himself the county champion and Ellen Ray, of Geneva, won second place. Robert Shra¬ luka deserves much credit for his splendid spelling as do the others on the team. As a token of merit those on the county team from Central were given copies of Riley’s poems. EDITH DAGER “A” SPELLING CONTEST In the county spelling contest we spelled well, but not well enough to win the championship. However, we did not feel that de¬ feat in this case meant disgrace, for Margaret Rawley, the winner, was also last year’s champion. She thus had the advantage not only of two years’ drill, but also, self- confidence with which her former suc¬ cess naturally inspired her and she stood as an impregnable bulwark against the other spellers. Edith Dager, 8-A, won second place for us. Besides Miss Edith, Pauline Niblick and Harry Dailey were yet in the running when the contestants were called together for the third time. Della Johnson, Helen Myers, Virginia Steele, June Miller and Anna Elizabeth Winnes were the other rep¬ resentatives of our school. As a mark of appreciation each member of the team was given an il¬ lustrated copy of Riley’s poems.

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16 DEEDS AND MISDEEDS Boys’ Basketball Team First Semester ATHLETICS The past school year has been one of great pleasure and success in athletics. We have been represent¬ ed in every branch of sports and tasted both of victory and defeat al¬ ways striving to be as gracious in the one as in the other which, after all, is the ideal of all sports. Our attention was held in the fall by an inter-school tennis tournament the winners of which were deter¬ mined by the process of elimination. This was hotly contested before the winners who proved to be Helen Haubold, Sadie Fisher, Billy Bell, and Richard Stoneburner were finally determined. The cool weather ushered in the football season. This being a new sport to us as actual participants we could not hope for a great deal of success the first year, but we prac¬ ticed untiringly and had a great deal of pleasure in learning. We are look¬ ing ahead however, with high hopes. When football season was finished all eyes were turned towards basket¬ ball, a sport which most Hoosier schools delight in, and we were no ex¬ ception for we were represented by a team from every department. Our var¬ sity lineup for the first term was com¬ posed of: C. Reynolds, Capt., W. Bell, R. Baumgartner, R. Stoneburner, D. Aughenbaugh, J. Dierkes, R. Kiess