Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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THE BOOSTER Class Officers Jan. 1916 , WILLIAM EBAUGH PRESIDENT MISS MARGARET BURNSIPL SPONSOR NORNA THOMS SECRETARY LOUISL STEWART VICE PRESIDENT OTTO 5CHOELLK0PF TREASURER THE AIM OF THE JANUARY CLASS. By William Ebaugh, President. The spirit of the January ' 16 class has been one of its most noticeable and useful assets. This spirit is best shown in the numerous organizations and activities of the school. Each organization and activity has its quota of January ' 16 Seniors. Although we may not always be in positions of great influence and power, we give the best we have and, realizing our own limitations, take our orders from the other fellow. Our aim has always been to serve Manual Training High School in every way possible. In our intimate relations with the various organizations and activities of the school, our senior class has de- veloped what is now its main charac- teristic — originality. Ours is the first January class to have an official sen- ior issue of the Booster. The January Senior-Faculty basketball game origi- nated with us. So it is with almost all that we have attempted. The adoption of an official school flower, the placing of the official school color and official school pin in the trophy case in the library has been done in order that the school may see the tro- phies beside the insignia of Manual Training High School and so develop and bring to the fore the spirit of loyalty and devotion to this school. All this has been done through a love for Manual. Our work in Manual will in a short time be done, but our work for Manual will never be done. We can best show our appreciation for her by toil in the bustling world. We ' hope that the little wc have accomplished will inspire in some measure the on-com- ing-classes to a higher loyalty and ap- preciation of Manual Training High School.

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THE BOOSTER team which won the ' 14 tournament; Norma Thorns and Julia Weghorst, who helped the Crimsons win last year ' s games. They also played in the monogram series, putting up a good fight for the first monograms awarded the girls of M. T. H. S. — lulia A. Weghorst. Our Standards Raised. The close of this term finds Manual Training High School supplied with clean, clear-cut, and honest athletics. A great change has taken place and people are noticing and compliment- ing the high standard on which Man- ual ' s athletics have been placed. Many outsiders may not know it, but the students of Manual realize that this sudden change for the better has resulted from the efforts of Merle J. Abbett, the present coach. When Mr. Abbett was appointed coach last fall, our athletics were undergoing a gen- eral slump. He undertook the work of building up an entire new athletic force under a clean policy and strict training rules. Provisions were made for an athletic training table in the lunch room where only such food is served as fulfils the training rules. Mr. Abbett has built up a squad of basket- ball players from which it is going to be a great task to pick a state team. This last fact makes Manual feel that it will certainly put out a winning- state team. The papers of Franklin, Indiana, confirm this feeling by pre- dicting a victory for our team in the next state meet. — Paul Church. The New School Banner The January ' 16 class has presented to the school a new M. T. H. S. ban- ner. It was made in the form of a pennant, the size being six by fifteen feet. The class noted the need of a school banner at the last Track Meet. At this time. Manual had nothing to dis- tinguish her except the innumerable shades of red worn by the students. The class, therefore, made this banner, which they hope will be carefully pre- served by all Manualites. — Frieda Wingenroth. Some Seniors Trounce Faculty Team The Senior-Faculty basketball game is a contest which will long be remembered as being the big circus event of the semester. The gym was packed until there was hardly breathing space. The Seniors simply just coundn ' t miss going, and the Freshmen attended because they wanted to see how the Faculty ap- peared doing the fox-trot around the floor in tights. Mr. Abbett and Mr. Koontz were the stars for the Faculty. The former scored ten of his team ' s twelve points and the latter covered the floor well — by actual count falling exactly 453 times. The Faculty, how- ever, did not have a monopoly on the basketball talent. On the Some Senior team, Miller caged six field goals, and Swede Iverson lifted in three. The success of the Seniors was due, no doubt, to their coach, Heinie Moesch. Although he ad- mitted that he couldn ' t distinguish a field goal from a foul, his whispered conferences with his team seemed to frighten the Faculty and to inspire the Seniors. — Paul Church. Fouls Fa nHir Field Foul Com- r acuity Goals Goals mitted Koontz F 4 Anderson F 1 Edwards C Abbett G 1 8 1 Ammermon G Senior — Miller F 6 Iverson F 3 1 Masters C 1 3 Ebaugh G 4 Conner G 2 The members of the January class have discovered that not only does Robert Hatfield look like an Indian, but that when he is on the trail of Senior Booster material he has the hunting instincts of one. — K. M. Why did they put Lucile Wakeland on the joke committee of the Senior Booster? Because jokes are always short.

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THE BOOSTER The B° oster published weekly by The Pupils of Manual Training High School Entered as second-class matter March 30, 1912, at Indianapolis, Indiana, under act of March 3, 1879. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA ( 10 Cents per Copy PRICE 25 Cents per Volume ( 40 Cents for 2 Volumes Vol. XIV JANUARY 25, 1916 Nos. 6 and 7 EDITORIAL BOARD Atlee P. Slentz Editor-in-Chief Robert C. Hatfield Asst. Editor-in Chief Mildred R. Hein Magazine Editor Irma Gulley, Gladys Benson, Assts. Elizabeth Moore Academic Editor Helen Sommers, Assistant Ramon Browder Athletic Editor Kearsley McComb, Ruth Harbison, Assts. Evans Plummer Science Editor Ernest Brunoehler, Assistant Paul Iske Art Editor Harold Stewart, Assistant STAFF Wilbur Appel, Laurence Brink, Eugene Ehrgott, Fugenia Clark. Julius Frick, Cyrus Clark. Mildred Clark, Louis Ewbank, Crystal Hanker, Alma Kott- lowski. Edna Dobbs, Louis Koss, Raymond Free- man, Norma Merrill, Earl Robison, Ruth Sanders, Helen Smith, Miriam Solar, Francis Duncan, Ken- neth Magers. Ross Mullin, Gladys Stevens, Burnett Willis, Eva Mills, Constance Gaynor. Edward Wagoner Business Manager Ruth Stinson, Marie Roesener. Eleanor Pollock Mary Jeters, Helen Hilkene Assistants Robert G. Barnhill Student Advisor FACULTY ADVISORS Miss Eleanor P. Wheeler, E.H.Ktmper McComb, K. Von Ammerman. OFFICES :: :: ROOM 26 EDITOR ' S PAGE This Issue and Its Relation to You. This issue of the Booster is the parting shot, as it were, of the Jan- nary ' 16 class at those of the students whose graduation day is yet to come. The class has endeavored to make this an issue of value to the under- classmen as well as to themselves. It is meant to instill the true Man- ual Training High School spirit into those yet in school, as a guide to the school ' s organization; as a record of their activities; and as an explanation of the spirit which prompted their formations. It is intended to serve as a history of the class, to tell what, it has done, what place the school holds in the seniors ' hearts, what the school has done for them and why they love it. The class has also managed to make this issue one of special value to themselves. It has been said that high school years are the four happiest years of one ' s life. One seldom realizes this until graduation. Granting that this is true, however, the natural tendency would be to secure some reminder of those four years. As a memento of this sort what is better than a special issue of the school paper which has been your comrade during your high school life — an issue gotten out in your honor, an issue full of the life of your class, an issue telling of the or- ganizations you have known and par- ticipated in — an issue you have helped publish? — S. L To the Underclassmen. It happens very often in this life that we can easily profit by the mis- takes of others or by their sugges- tions. It was with this thought in mind that the Booster obtained letters and interviews from several seniors in reply to this question, If you were to have the chance of taking your high school training over, what things would you do differently? The Booster publishes the gist o f a few of the replies. From a senior girl: I should not try to get out of taking gymnasium, for I now realize that those seniors who advised me not to take ' gym, ' ad- vised me wrongly. I missed not only a good time, but the many benefits ac- quired by taking physical training. From a senior boy: I should try to take a greater part in school activities. I might take part in athletics; I might join the Forum, the L. L. L. club, or the Booster staff. From other seniors: I should make an attempt to be more friendly with my schoolmates, for they arc the ones with whom I must associate in the future. Underclassmen, what do you think of these decisions? Don ' t you believe that you could profit by them? Try to do so. It will pay you handsomely.