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

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THE BOOSTER JUNE CLASS PLAY During the week of May 20, the June ' 18 Senior class staged one of the most elaborate and pretentious plays that ever was presented by any Sen- ior class at Manual. Because, of the splendid acting, of the help of the stu- dent committees and of the close co- operation of all concerned in the play, it proved a complete success. Especial- ly is the acting of Nellie Wallace as the heroic Joan, and of Lloyd Young as Joan ' s father, to be highly praised. Nellie, in her portrayal of Joan, put so much feeling and reality into the lines that the audience felt all the emotions and lived through all the ex- periences of Joan. The part of Joan ' s father, which Lloyd played, was such a finished piece of acting that this frank, matter-of-fact father became a real person to the audience. Paul New- man, in his interpretation of the part of the first French soldier, gave a vivid notion of the oppositions and jealousy that some soldiers of the French army felt toward Joan. On the other hand, Emory Bryan ' s part of the second French soldier, showed the support and sympathy of other soldiers for Joan. It was not long before we were introduced to the haughty, de- ceitful Bishop of Beauvais, who be- trayed Joan to the English for a bribe. The part, which was taken by Frances Turpin, was presented with unusual vividness, and finally, after Joan had been seen taken to the stake and after the audience heard the appealing speech of Nicholas Midi in the person of Oran Davis, everyone went away feeling more than ever the heroic, sim- ple nature of Joan of Arc. The Senior class is especially in- debted to Mr. Weigler of the shops, for the making of the stage furniture; to Miss Maltby for the scenery; to Miss Phelps, for the costumes; to Miss Iske, for the historical setting of the play, and to the many minor characters in the play. — J. P. BUSINESS DRAMATICS No, the Class Play wasn ' t the finale of Manual dramatics this year. The Business English Classes had the last word in the Lady Gregory plays, which they presented in the auditorium, Wednesday, June 5, at 3:00 o ' clock. The plays were: The Spreading of the News and The Rising of the Moon. Certainly, there was nothing very stiff or businesslike about either of them. The Spreading of the News was the hilarious tale of the complications that arose in the spread- ing of a piece of gossip, and The Ris- ing of the Moon was full of quizzical Irish humor. Both plays were carried off in a very spirited manner. Quite a number of the actors were Seniors. The characters in The Spreading of the News were, Tim Casey, Brooks Secrest; Mrs. Fallon, Margaret Wolf; Shawn Early, Roy Nevins; Joe Muldon, (policeman) Elba Bell; James Ryan, Vine Kercheval; Mrs. Tarpey, Helen Carter; Mrs. Tulley, Sarah Goldberg; Jack Smith, Gayle Baker; magistrate, Oran Davis; Bartley Fallon, Arthur Badger. The characters of The Rising of the Moon were: Sergeant of Police, ' Carl Strickland; Policeman X, Max Farb; Policeman B, Carl Jones; Ragged Man, Herbert Hauser. Many members of the Senior class took part in the work done by the Office Training Class, which is One of the useful activities of. the school. From the beginning of this term to May 20, the pupils have set up and run off on the multigraph, 10,000 tick- ets and notices. They have cut 75 stencils, turning out 8,000 mimeograph copies. Of ordinary typing with car- bon they have written 2,500 pages. Stenographic service has been furn- ished to three teachers regularly and to others occasionally. Recently Miss Herzsch took a trip to Camp Taylor to inspect the kitchens of the soldiers ' cooks and bakers school. While there, she told about the Boys ' Cooking Class at Manual. The officer in charge offered to send two instructors to Indianapolis to give the boys an outdoor lesson in emergency cooking for one man. Last Friday, two sergeants took the boys out in the woods. The boys car- ried camp equipment, and cooked rice, bacon, beef stew, flapjacks and coffee. Although the fires did smoke, and the flapjacks wouldn ' t cook, the cheflets had a fine time, and received some valuable instructions in outdoor cook- ery.

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THE BOOSTER April 22 ' 1918. Old Faithful: Isn ' t it peculiar that on the day we held our Ivy Day program, specially patriotic and enthusiastic, your men got a submarine? I suppose a descrip- tion of Ivy Day will be interesting to you, as it is no unusual thing to catch a submarine in the ocean. Our banner, designed by Esther Smith, and made by Miss Knox, was the most unusual thing in the way of banners that I have ever seen. On the right hand side is a beautiful em- broidered American Flag; on the left is the service flag made in like manner; holding the crossed staffs of the two is an American Eagle. Under this is the pin design worked in Khaki thread. Above all this, is our m otto worked in Khaki. The celebration was patri- otic throughout. Our poem, by Lenore Spencer, had a thrilling spirit. Your Flag and My Flag was recited. Our songs were to the tunes of Over There and Good-bye My Soldier Boy and America. Wherever there was room for a green plant on the stage, there was an American flag stuck in it. We have about 850 stars in our serv- ice flag now, two of which are gold. One is for Lieutenant John H. Holliday and the other for Corporal LeRoy Cros- by, who died in action in France. You may be sure that we are proud of their memory. Our class (combined with the school), is very much interested in Thrift Stamps and W. S. S., even if we do not do as much as we should. The Seniors are 100 per cent, savers. Of course, you know that I am not brag- ging. I am not even satisfied, I am merely telling you that we are com- ing up, and soon going over the top in all respects of the different campaigns. Hoping that I have given you the impression that our class is truly pa- triotic, As ever, Ted. May 27, 1918. Dear Jack: I never knew so much to happen in so short a time before. The Roines Boys gave us a party on May 1. They should have given prizes for the most artistic laughers. In the auditorium they gave a two scene sketch. Scene I, concerning the girls class books. Scene II, showing us how a Roines meeting progresses. After this we danced in the gym. On the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, we gave the play. Almost everyone thought it was fine. Those who didn ' t, were the ones who didn ' t like to be seen weeping in the show. Nellie Wallace was Joan and Lloyd Young was the father. For the remainder of the cast and assist- ants of play, kindly consult enclosed program. The evening we had lunch- eon at the school, they had the ice- cream cans guarded, so there was no excitement. Saturday, the 24th, was the State Track Meet. If any of your Manual friends over there ask you how it came out, tell them Manual won and I will be personally responsible for any terrible results. More news soon, as Class Day is to be the 31st. Yours most respectfully, Ted. P. S. Ralph Werner and Lewis Ward left school this week. Only to work, though. June 4, 1918. Dear Jack: On Memorial Day, we had a new sort of celebration. The Senior classes of the three high schools were invited to enjoy the exercises at Butler Col- lege. They were very impressive. After the exercises, we were invited to hold our Class Picnic on the Cam- pus. It was lots of fun. We ate, played three deep, like so many child- ren, practiced for Class Day, and tried to break Frank Garten ' s record. Re- sults were disastrous to at least one member of the crowd, though she did manage to survive. Bob Gladys fussed only three times. Friday was the farewell affair. Class Day was celebrated in that grand for- mal way that makes everyone feel like saying they will never go to such an affair again. It is really such fun to have just one day in which to act foolish and care-free and not have to take any consequences. Each of the three rooms (9, 10 and 11) gave stunts. None of them was just what you would call solemn. Later we had the usual dance in the gym. Just one more mile-stone. Say, Jack, what think you of the combination of graduation, getting married, and leav- ing town all in one night. Well, it is going to happen. I don ' t dare to men- tion any names, because I promised to keep it a secret. But she is very dark complexioned and since the class play (Continued on page 11.)

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THE BOOSTER JUNE 1918 PROPHECY BY LEWIS WARD I was sitting in my office in the Con- gressional building of the United States of Geremica, formerly Germany, but since the Allies had caused the com- plete surrender of the Imperial gov- ernment, the Allied forces formed a strong democratic government. My sec- retary entered and said in English, Letter, sir. I immediately opened it and found it to be from my old friend Polly, or as others know him, Gayle Pollster. He said that he was travel- ing around and thought that he would come with his family of eleven chil- dren and see me for a few days. Jo- seph Sharp, who had been an American officer, had risen in political life and was unanimously elected President of this new Republic, and on the follow- ing Friday was going to award some medals of honor to some distinguished soldiers. The Apple Corps had grown to a great strength before the war was over, and a great many of the Manual boys were to receive medals. I im- mediately wired Gayle and told him of the event so that he could be here for it. Friday finally came and so did Gayle. When we reached the place where the awards were to be given, the first man that I met was Emory Bryan, Lieu- tenant-General of the Apple Corps. He had changed and was gray but healthy looking. Carl Carpenter had been pro- moted to a Colonel and was also to re- ceive honors. After a speech by Pres- ident Sharp, the roll was called and the following were given gold medals for bravery: Robert Reed, Ralph Werner, McClaren Wright, John Booth and Mal- colm Dunn. I later talked to John Booth, and he said that he was Pro- fessor in the Zoological Department at the University of Berlin and his wife and able assistant was Mabel Hurst. Before the call to arms, Ralph Werner was the head chemist at the Indian- apolis Gas Company, and he and Frieda Kellar were living at 1255 Wright street, Frieda ' s former residence. While the ceremony was going on, Galdys Stevens anxiously watched the medal affixed to the coat of her hus- band, while Robert, Jr., stood at her side. Months passed without any more such excitement, until one day I was appointed as a committee of one to see about o ur commercial relations with South America, now of great commer- cial importance to the world. It only took two days to go across the water in an oceanic aeroplane, and, on my ar- rival there, I met Herbert Asperger, who was now a great political leader of the leading party in Brazil, which had grown out of the Roines Club. Some more of the members of this party were Robert Fay, George Gar- rard, Almon Knodle and Harold Kuehr- man. In opposition to this great male party, was one of the fairer sex. This brought to South America a great many of our Masoma Club. The leader of this party was Kathleen Woods and some of her assistants were Gladys Ewbanks, Helen Poehler, Flora Meyer, Lenola Andrews, Merle Gosney and Erma Hicks. As I walked down the street one day, I saw a sign Danse Studio: Garrard, Eliott and Summers. They were now professional dancers, while they began their career at the Odeon Hall. One Sunday while I was there, we went to church and the more I looked at the preacher the more I thought I knew him. I later figured him out to be Francis Turpin, Bishop of Beauvais in our class play. I saw and especially noticed the activity of the people in that country even to the children, and one day as I noticed a parade of young boys, I saw Horace Kaine, a former Boy Scout man, head- ing the procession. While in South America, I also visit- ed Argentina Republic for a while. The sale of rabbit furs and feet had ex- cited such an industry, and it was be- ing promoted in that country by Thel- ma Dold, who began at Martinsville at the tournament of 1917. One evening as I craved excitement, I dropped into a theatre and found, after the show had started, that the leading parts were taken by Nellie Wallace, now Mrs. Mc- Nulty, and Lloyd Young. As I came out, I noticed a sign over the door that said: Harold Stewart, Manager. Im- mediately I opened the door and walked in and there sat the other of the Big 3. We had quite a chat, and he told me that he had continued to rise since he took a position with an Indianapolis movie company. Within the course of another week, I carried on my business and finally one day, after seeing a man in one of the government buildings, as I left, I met Emma Watters, who