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

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24- DEEDS AND MISDEEDS INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT NEWS 6A— MISS MAGLEY Minnie Moyer, Roscoe Smith and Miriam Haley represented our room in the Music Memory contest. Kenneth McNeal served as substi¬ tute on the basketball team. He play¬ ed forward during the tournament. Beulah Richards, Dick Sutton, Ruth Elzey, Minnie Moyer, Wilbur Reyn¬ olds, Edwina Shroll, Pauline Marshall, Miriam Haley, George Womack, Dale Myers, Odis Bodle, and Frederick Evans have not missed any words in spelling, on the Friday lessons, this semester. Max Stoakes entered our class from Greenfield, Indiana. Lester Bebont left our class May 11, when his family moved to Dayton, Ohio. Donald Earehart and Delilah McGough left earlier in the semester. Franklin Keller has been absent from school this last month because of illness. He is a good student and our only member of the orchestra and band. Dick Macklin, Wilson Hofstetter, Ruth Elzey, Miriam Haley, Minnie Moyer, Mary Catharine Toney, and Margaret Hebble have not been ab¬ sent or tardy. ---o —v- Last semester Vivian Lynch became ill. When we found out that she had to stay out of school the rest of the semester, we though we would try to do something to keep her from being lonesome. Miss Magley decided we would take turns in writing letters to her. We wrote these letters in school. Miss Magley mailed them after school so she would get one every day. Our plan worked out fine and she said that she always looked forward to a letter every day. —Sara Jane Kauffman, 6A. Our geography class made posters of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and Chicago. We collected pictures from advertisements of these slates. We pasted them on cardboard. We also made maps for each poster. We made our study of Indiana by making posters. We made a special poster of Indianapolis. —Richard Sutton. -o—-- In hygiene we read of an experi¬ ment with a frog showing how the corpuscles move through the blood. We wished to have this experiment so we could be sure we knew how the corpuscles worked. We appointed a boy to get the frog. We got the microscope from the office and ex¬ amined the frog with it. In order to see the corpuscles we had to tie the frog on a board and fix one of the feet securely to the board in order to see the corpuscles just as they flow through the web of the frog’s foot. It worked out fine. We could see the corpuscles flowing through the blood in the web of the frog’s foot as it really does. —Minnie Moyer, 6A. -o———i- 6B-5A—MISS ELZEY OUR HEALTH BOOK First came the clown with rosy cheeks and glee turned in breeches and looking at me. Next came an apple red as could be, waiting to be eaten by a little kiddie. Then an orange which had torn his vest, he was weeping and weeping because it was his best. Next came a glass of water singing and singing. Health

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —23 PENMANSHIP Total awards for school year 1926- 1927 issued up-to-date: The boys and girls who became freshmen at the close of the first semester hold the record for qualify¬ ing in penmanship early in the term. Up to going to press, the report on the last specimens submitted has not been receive dfrom the A. N. Palmer Co., so a number of our 8 A’s are not so sure of receiving their credentials Friday as an Improvement Certificate in penmanship is the minimum re¬ quirement in that subject. The following awards have been received: High School: Bernadine Shraluka, Isabelle Odle, Luetta Reffey, Mary Engle, Helen Frances Chrisman, Dor¬ othy Young, Gretchen Winans, Georgia Foughty. Finals: James Engeler, Walter Bodle, Daniel Schafer, Enid Walter, Gerald Smitley, Dorothy Summers, Erna Lankenau, Ruth Roop, Bernice Closs, Georgia Foughty, Elevena Lough, Dorothy Krick, Ruth Thornton, Ruth Macklin, Mary Murphy, Mar¬ garet Kitson, Frederick Brown, Inez Cook, Dorothy Stevens, Jesse Sutton, Mary Hower, Cecil Shaffer, Mildred Bright, Helen Chronister, Erna Lank¬ enau, Irene McClure, Pearl Ogg, Ruby Reinhard, Oneita Reynolds, Margaret Straub, Dorothy Summers, Enid Walt¬ er. Improvement Certificates: Inez Cook, Philip Baker, Harold Gay, Randolph Brandyberry, Guy Raymond, Russell Jaberg, Dwight Schnepp, Erna Lankenau, Martha Moser, Lela Yost, Isabelle Baumgartner, Marcella Ger¬ ber, Martha Moser, Rowena Myers, Gladys Whitright. THANKS Miss Martin, our efficient art teach¬ er, has always been generous with little acts of kindness but this year at Mr. Brown’s request she was in¬ strumental in having placed in his of¬ fice a real work of art. Marker Mount, one of her talented high school stu¬ dents, in illuminated lettering com¬ pleted a very artistic arrangement of the poem printed below: The Gates of Gold If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told, About another, let it pass Before you speak Three Gates of Gold. Three narrow gates First, “Is it true?’’ Then, “Is it needful?” In your mind give truthful answer And the next is last and narrowest, “Is it kind?” And if to reach your lips at last It passes through these gateways large Then you may tell the tale, nor fear What the result of speech may be. •-o- Sellemeyer—What is the difference between hospital and hospitable. Summers—Hospital is when you are sick in the hospital and hospitable is when you are sick at home. Taken from an examination paper) —The college Nathaniel Hawthorne attended was Bowdin and died in 1864. Pupil—Does B. C. on the map of Canada mean Before Christ? Teacher—Please tell us about Egypt, Sherman. No response. Teacher—Is Sherman absent? Sherman—Yes, absent in mind. Teacher—What are the three prin¬ ciples in finding interest?

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —25 is something that makes us full of glee. Then came the tub that said, “I give the boys a rub.” The soup came next laughing at a boy, who was sick and had no joy. I gave him soup to help him out, then he grew big and stout. Next came the sun as bright as ever; never to be shunned at never, never, no never. —Miles Parrish, 5A. •-o- In the music memory contest this room was represented by Eileen Burk and Robert Elzey, 6 A’s and Marie Teeter, 5A. News Outline meetings were held each Friday afternoon by the children of the room. They were conducted according to parliamentary law, the chairman being elected by the chil¬ dren. Topics taken from the News Outline were assigned by the chair¬ man to various children and reported by them at the next meeting. Oppor¬ tunity was given for questions to be asked and a general discussion was usually held. Three 6A boys from this room play¬ ed on the Central basketball team. They were John Hill, Chester Hill, and Ervin Fox. A cartoon contest was held between the members of the room. Many in¬ teresting pictures were turned in. The contest was won by Marie Teeter. —Glennis Elzey. -o-i- 6B—MISS DORW1N Our year has been very short or at least, so it has seemed to most of us. We have enjoyed very much our class club which had its meetings on Wednesday. In these meetings the lives of authors and composers in whom we were interested were re¬ ported upon by members of the club. We also discussed the current affairs of our nation. The chairmen and secretaries were appointed by Miss Dorwin, and it was they who planned the program. We are very proud of the record made by the Music Memory team, Glenice Tindall, Virginia Miller, and Mary Maxine Brown. They had the highest scores of any of the down¬ stairs rooms but were beaten in the final contest by the 8A team. We were sorry to have Williard and Willis Bebout move away. Lucille Debolt and Robert Gerod are two new members of our class. We also have three people who have not been tardy or absent. They are, Glenice Tindall, Gertrude Brandy- berry, and Stanley Hollopeter. We think that some of our class¬ mates show the ear-marks of great poets. Marion Baker says that if James Whitcomb Riley were alive to¬ day he would “certainly put him in the shade” with his verses. -o- 5B—MISS McGATH I IN MEMORIAM H GERALD CHRONISTER f Born November 30, 1915 Died February 1, 1927 During the second semester the 6 B’s lost a classmate and friend when Gerald Chronister was called by death, February 1, 1927. Gerald was well liked b yhis teachers and class¬ mates and is greatly missed by all who knew him. We 5 B’s are glad to be at Central this semester. We have enjoyed the privilege of being included in the activities, and we were especially pleased with Boys’ Day and the girls’ picnic. Just now our greatest con¬ cern is to become 5 A’s. -o-- 4A-B—MISS GILBERT One Friday our class decided to