East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH , g V . , ,I V Ennis Elrark Glhampinnn-1921 when the Orange and Black again won high honors. The track champion- ship was won by the Franklin Avenue cinder stars in 1921. In 1922 the football squad tied with South and North for gridiron supremacy. This same year saw a high school tennis league formed and the East racquet wielders proceeded to Win the bunting in this sport. Summing up this survey of the great teams of the past, we find that the Orange and Black copped twenty-one titles in the twenty-five years of its existence. Considering that in its infancy, East High did not have the facilities of the other schools its record is remarkable. However, this survey did not take in the many other aggregations which finished high in the race year in and year outg a type that was numerous in the years gone by. We look upon our athletic standard of the past with a feeling that after all we're not too modern to look with pride upon those athletes who passed from our doors in past years. 10

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YE CRUCIBLE , EAST HIGH East High Basketball Umm-159 H East in 1912 but it was not until '13 that his athletic prowess became known. When one speaks of this great star, he cannot form words strong enough or adjectives forceful enough to characterize his playing. Suffice to say that no one before or since has come even close enough to make us place him in the class of our immortal Chic. Mr. Frank Gullum, now Athletic Director of Ohio University, was at the helm of the 1913 gridiron team. Mr. Gullum repeated his football success in 1914 but missed the baseball title. We captured the track title this year, however, and so made up for the baseball loss. The cinder men were coached by Mr. Robert Collins and were conceded to be cham- pions of the state. The Orange and Black managed to grab one scalp the next year, 1915, by stowing away the title of the three-sacked arena, i. e., - the base- ball championship. This diamond success was snagged again in 1916 with Coach Palmer Cordray in charge. Mr. Harold Emswiler, at present principal of night school and head of the Americanization work in Colum- bus High Schools, coached the 1917 football team which copped the grid- iron honors in superb fashion. Lloyd Pixley, last year captain of the Ohio State football team and Peggy Fuller, 1921 Ohio University leader, were members of this titular squad. Mr. Sylvester Noble was coach of the '16, '17, '18, '19 basketball and track aggregations and it is a notable fact that these teams, every one of them, were in the race to the finish. A period of rather mediocre squads followed and it was not until 1920 that East again broke into the front ranks. The swimming team, with the Addison boys showing the way, cut through all barriers and emerged triumphant and brought another title to East. This aquatic supremacy was manifest again in 1921 and 1922, 9

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YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH Eaat in Bramaiirn Miss Jane D. Sullivant, first head of East High School's English De- partment, blazed the trail for Columbus secondary dramatics when- she directed the presentation of Nicholas Udall's Ralph Royster Doyster with a cast taken from East's class of 1902. This was the first high school play given in Ohio schools. Miss Sullivant, grandchild of Lucas Sullivant, founder of Franklinton, as Columbus was originally named, is a daughter of the pioneer scientist and great educational leader in whose honor the new East High School is to be dedicated. The Class of 1922 gave as an ovation to Miss Jane Sullivant its first night's production of The Taming of the Shrew . Miss Sullivant was guest of honor. Of the seventeen plays presented by East, ten have been Shake- speare's. Besides Udall's, the other dramas which have been departures from the traditional choice are Percy MacKaye, whose Canterbury Pil- grims was presented in 1903, Howard Pyle, whose novel, Some Merry Adventures of Robinhood , was dramatized and directed by Miss Juliette Sessions in 1904, and Oliver Goldsmith, when She Stoops to Conquer was enacted by the Class of 1920. To these are added Rachael L. Field, whose playlet Three Pills in a Bottle , together with Mrs. Edwin John- son's dramatization of Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta was chosen by the Class of '21. Other Senior Class plays have been Pyramus and Thisbe , 19033 A Midsummer Night's Dream , 1907, As You Like It , 19083 L0ve's Labor Lost , 19093 Much Ado About Nothing , 1914, and Two Gentle- men of Verona in 1917. Only six graduating classes in these twenty-one years have failed to present some drama. Shakespeare's last comedy, The Tempest , was chosen by the Class of '23. This closes the splendid series of comedies which have been given under the supervision of the Misses Grace R. Peters, Mary E. Ferrell, Helen O. Lemert, and E. Pauline Brittain, besides those already mentioned. - .....1 Among East Sftuhrnta nn the lgrufvaainnal Stzigr avr:- Mary K. Campbell .................................... Miss America, Keith Circuit Dale Winters ...... .............. S chubert's Irene Dolores Peters ..... ..... G reenwich Village Follies giorgi1a1Peti1ii ....... ................ C oncert Stage eo i us an l ., . ,, Earlpmban 3 ..... ............. T he Mikado Cecil Randall ......... ......... Z iegfeld Follies Jewel Sonnenstein .... .......... U niversal Films Arne Lundberg ......... ..... I nterpretative Dancer Robert Nelson Lawrence Nelson And many others. l .... ..... V audeville Magicians 11