East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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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

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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 in the illimvlight The name of East High is engraved on the Ohio State Campus by her sons who have made good at the University. Among those prominent is Henry Metters of '20, former editor of the X-Rays and CRUCIBLE and a member of the Honor Society. Metters is Editor-in-Chief of the 1923 Makio, Ohio State's Annual, a member of Bucket and Dipper, and Sphinx. He is also President of Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary Journalism fraternity, a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary Commercial fraternity. Besides this, he is on the Boost Ohio Committee, Junior Prom Committee, and the Sophomore Football Dance Committee. - John Harrison, '19, is Vice-President of Tau Beta Pi, honorary En- gineering fraternity, Secretary of Phi Lamba Upsilom, honorary Chemical fraternity, and a member of Pi Mu Epsilom, honorary Mathematical fra- ternity, and Sigma Xi, honorary Scientific fraternity. He is also on the Engineers' Council and the Boost Ohio Committee. John La Monte, also of '19, and former Editor of the X-Rays and CRUCIBLE, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary literary fraternity. La Monte was President of East's Honor Society for last year. Harold Harrison of '18, and Charles Adelbert Smith, '19, are both members of Pi Mu Epsilom, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Lamba Upsilom, Smith is also on the Engineers' Council. Thomas Metters, '19, is a member of Scab- bard and Blade, military honorary fraternity, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the' Ohio State Branch of the American Association of Electrical En- gineers. The list of these former East students grows longer each year. From the class of '20, besides Henry Metters, are Charles H. Breininger, Treas- urer of the Junior Class, John Cole, who was the Sophomore Basketball Manager, James Comly on the Engineers' Council, Frank Connell, who has gained his recognition in track as well as being elected President of the Junior Class. He is also on the Junior Prom Committee. The As- sistant Secretary of the Boost Ohio Committee is Joseph Downs of '20, who was also on the Sophomore Football Dance Committee. Walter Eng- lish, Jr., is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary Commercial fra- ternity, and was recently elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Zigma honorary Journalism fraternity. The Sophomore Intramural has as its manager, Roy McDonald, of '20, who was Assistant Business Manager of the X-Rays. He is on the Stroll- ers' Business Staff, as is Robert Zimmer, of '20. Sampson Winters was on the Junior Prom Committee and the Sopho- more Football Dance Committee. Wellington Fordya and Wilbur Snypp, both of '20, are connected with the Makio and Lantern staffs, respectively . As a budding author, Milton Farber, '20, has surely started to bloom. His article, How It Feels to Be Eighteen , was recently published in Scribner's Magazine. Otto Swisher, '20, is Captain of the R. O. T. C. Infantry. 12