Elyria Public High School - Elyrian Yearbook (Elyria, OH)

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To National Light Squad Saves Electricity 35 Are Elected School Appreciates Their Dependability Light Squad First Row-Earl Pallas, Leonard Moody, Bob Penfound, Judson Weyman, Henry Hart, Bob Smith, John Price, Tom Vaughn. Second Row-Paul Hayes, Bill France, Leroy Gotro, Frank Bedocs, Merton Mason, Louis Hecock, Robert Dyke, Harold Blake. Beside the monitors another group of boys have been selected to make the in-between-classes traffic less congested, by assum- ing the responsibility for addi- tional lighting of corridors and for turning off lights after classes begin again. The light squad of 16 boys renders a real service to the stu- dents and teachers as well as to the Board of Education and the tax payers. Principal Shively feels that the lessons in thrift shown by these boys in their cheerful co- operation should be of inestim- able value to each student and teacher. On dark days students emerge from class rooms to find that gloomy hall ways have been flooded with electricity and that dim corners of locker alcoves have been transformed into light places. Students have not had to grope about for light switches to banish dimness in corridors nor have the latest comers to class or study hall needed to think about turning off the cor- ridor lights for the ensuing 45 minute period. Two boys are assigned to each period of the day: one has the responsibility in Lincoln and Washington Buildings, the other, in the Technical Building. Twenty-Two L I L l l L I I I u Honor Society Principal Shively announces the names of 35 students as members of the National Honor Society on May 21. Of these 24 are 12 A's, four are 12 B's, and 7 are 11 A's. This is the largest number to be elected at any one time since the chapter here was organized in 1926. The largest number heretofore was 14 in 1929. Membership selection is based on scholarship, service, leader- ship, and character. New members this year are as follows: 12 A's Richard Bell Earl Demos Josephine Faulkner June Gregory Ellen Howenstine Betty Jackson Robert Lec John Lersch Louise Lersch Jeanette Linville Emily Pitkin Jean Plocher Elizabeth Prunner Robert Roe Betty Schaefer Mary Emily Scott Florence Sellers Jeanette Sheppard Jane Shively Anna Stolz Merle Van Oster Gilbert Walker- Wanda Wylqrent Virginia Zaiser 12 B's Beverly Foley Lucille Mohrman Cora Louise Ramser Virginia Stewart 11 A's Robert Crandall Emma Curtiss Margaret Herald Carl Davis William Lersch Richard Fey Homer Price

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Latin Students Augment Interest In Classics sp X. Report Research, Make Ingenious Yule Cards, Picnic, Too Sapientes Club Left to right: lst Row-Miss Young, Elizabeth Collins, Elizabeth Prunner, Mary Emily Scott, Josephine Faulkner, Alice Kolineck, Eleanor Robson, Lois Ann Nell, Bernice O,Donnell, Nancy Oldfield, Miss Parmelee, Miss Jones, 2nd Row-Margaret Herold, Jeannette Linville, Betty Jackson, Emily Pitkin, XVanda Wfykrent, Evelyn Shirack, Neomia Davis, Lillian Dowdell, Liberty Campbell, Agnes Fav. Xlargaret Halpin, Tom Stephens, 3rd Row-Almeda Martin, Paul Hayes, Homer Price, Dick Bell, Leonard Moody, John Price, Harry Wasserman, Bob Rheineck, Bob Bannon, Gordon Holton, Le- Roy Moody. The Sapientes Club of 33 members is carrying out the pur- pose of its organizers to pro- mote an interest in Latin cul- ture, to establish a closer friend- ship between Latin students, and to study a little more deeply in- to the classical background of Latin work. Any sophomore A, any junior or senior, who has maintained an average of B in Latin the pre- vious semester and an average of C in each of his other subjects, with no failures, is eligible for membership. The activities of the organiza- tion have been directed by Dick Bell, as First Consul, and his as- sociates: Mary Emily Scott, Sec- ond Consulg Jeannette Linville, Scribag Josephine Faulkner, Quaestorg Elizabeth Collins, Auctor Rerumg Homer Price, Praetorg and Wantla Wykrent, Aedile. Last semester the Sapientes were headed by Betty Jane Jack- son, First Consul, Dick Bell, Emily Pitkin, Josephine Faulk- ner, Homer Price, Robert Lee, and Jeannette Linville assisted. Wfhenever possible the pro- gram is appropriate to the sea- son. At the December meeting several members presented a play, lo Saturnalia, which dealt with the old Roman festi- val held at the same time as our Christmas festivities. The Sat- urnalia was further explained in a short talk by Margaret Hal- pin. All joined in the singing of the Latin version of Oh Come, All Ye Faithfulf, Each member had previously made a Roman Christmas card with a Latin in- scription. These were on dis- play at the meeting and were given away by lot just before the club adjourned. At the January meeting Rob- ert Lee gave a talk on the two- Twenty-One headed god, Janus, for whom that month was named. Dur- ing the year other talks on Greek and Roman Theatres, The Value of the Study of Latin, and The Vestal Vir- gins were presented. This year the Club required new members to decide their own initiation. lnitiates were given can rubbers which they aimed at a hooked board. Under each hook was an explanation of the task which was to be per- formed by initiates. Ten min- utes time was given for prepa- ration. These tasks included re- ports on interviews with teach- ers, translations, recitations, songs, and speeches. This year's activities for the Sapientes closed with the May picnic. The Misses Jones, Parmelee, and Young have acted as advis- ers.

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Monitors, Slip Collectors Give Real Service Courtesy, Devotion, Dependability Widely Commended l'XVait a minute, buddy. You can't go out. That,s right, I forgot that this was a lunch period. I'll go to Lincoln Building through the passageway, not the street. Such situations confront the 33 noon monitors who are sta- tioned daily from 11:35 to 1:35 at the various doors of the three buildings to prevent the exit of all students except those who have permission to eat lunch at home. The monitors, under the di- rection of Mr. E. G. Baxter, not only have to watch the en- trance and exit of these certain students, but are expected to co- operate in preventing loitering about the doorways. Each monitor serves during two half-hour lunch periods. When he is not checking depar- tures and arrivals, he may work on his lessons in the chair placed near the door for him. Every three weeks the office issues a list giving the names of the students who are permitted to go home for lunch, the time they may leave, and the door by which they depart. Each moni- tor regularly receives his door list. It is quite generally agreed that the monitors face perhaps the greatest test of honor offered to any group of students in the school. With nearly 300 students leaving the building to eat lunch, it is recognized that it may be a great temptation to a moni- tor to let one or two intimate friends leave without permission. These boys are to be com- mended for their courage in re- sisting temptation, their cour- tesy to their fellow students, and their loyalty to their school. Besides the monitors another group of boys facilitates office routine by collecting the absence lists each morning from 43 home rooms. More than a dozen boys make this collection trip. Each boy calls at certain home rooms and gets the slips which the home room teachers have left outside the door in the name plate. From these lists, a stu- dent typist assembles the Daily Absence List, types, and mime- ographs it. By ten a. m. 11 copy is in each teacher's nameplatc. During the last period each day boys collect the classroom absence lists andtake them to the office for checking. Monitors and Slip Collectors 1st Row-Robert Smith, Chuck Niegowski, Richard Davies, George Pogan, Lyle Scott, Russell Gleason, Gerald Morris, Earl Pallas, Robert Rieth, Frederick Stilgenbauerg 2nd Row-Mayo Roe, Leroy Gotro, Joseph Horvath, Jack Meyer, John Steinbinder, Robert Wissinger, Edgar Burr, Robert Lay- port, David Dehm, John Price, Bill Davidson, Dick Fey, 3rd Row-Judson Wfonderly, Kenneth Johns, Leonard Koehn, Robert Wilcox, Bill Minch, Francis Mockler, Warren Platner, John Garney, Earl Bosley, Robert Rheineck, Gordon Holton. Twenty-Three