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

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THE BOOSTER Class Poem By Anna Cowen I ain ' t a-goin ' to cry no more, no more, I ' m ' ist so tired I ' ist had to bawl, ' An John Bane Stickle is so tall ' At I stretched my neck A-tryin ' to see on which side he parted his hair, ' Nen it wasn ' t parted! Shoot the luck! But I ain ' t a-goin ' to cry no more, no more. We all want on the honor-roll, But we ' re afeard o ' bein ' jeered at For carryin ' books, and we are sceered That we might miss a real good time By stayin ' home a-studyin, ' and never goin ' out ' An nen we cram for tests, ' an get bawled out, But I ain ' t agoin ' to cry no more, no more. Frank Cox has willed evethin ' we got to someone else, ' An Pauline Lewis has told all about us ' An Craw Barker has made of our futures a muss, But Newton Dodge just lets ' em do it. Some of us is sensitive, too, Gol blame it! An it hurts our feelin ' s it does, But I ain ' t a-goin to cry no more, no more. There ' s a case ' tween John Rice and Ruth Smock ' An they meet in the hall ' an just talk ' an talk. ' An Byron Mathews goes around lookin ' like soured cream ' Cause soon he can ' t yell, But will have to keep still ' An act like other civilized folks, he will. But I ain ' t a-goin ' to cry no more, no more. ' Oo ' I ' m ' ist heart-sick, ' an I feel so bad I guess the whole June ' 19 class is sad; ' An I ' ist can ' t help but cry, ' an can you believe it, Our own Emmerich Manual we soon must leave? ' An I ' ist can ' t help but grieve ' an grieve, ' An — oh-my-oh I ' m a-startin ' again, But I won ' t, for shure; I ' ist ain ' t goin ' to cry no more! Benny ' s Farewell to June Class Fellow Classmates: It is but natural for me to feel my own self importance and self insuffi- ciency on this momentous and dire- ful occasion; but as I seldom have recourse to the absurdity of apologiz- ing, I will continue to proceed w ith my discourse. Classmates, you are going out into a great reservoir of Roman liberty. You are to swing the flails of justice over this immense uni- verse, in hydraulic majesty and con- jugal superfluity. You are the mag- nificent triumphal arch on which will evaporate the even scales of justice and numerical computation. You are to ascend the deep arcana of nature and dispose of world problems with equiponderating concatenation, in ref- erence to the future velocity and re- verberating momentum. Such are your sedative and stimu- lating characters. You are all people of domestic eccentricity and matri- monial configuration, not permitted, as many are, to walk in the primeval and lowest vales of society; but you must endure the red hot sun of the universe on the heights of nobility and feudal eminence. You will no doubt all have beautiful wives, or hus- bands of horticultura l propensities, who will henpeck you the rest of your days with soothing and bewitching verbosity. You will no doubt all fContinued on page 4.] ris, the young minister, and Rose Rufli and Paul Stanley as Lowry and Guto Prichard. The Gift, the larger and more pre- tentious of the two plays, is based on the story of Pandora and the box. The leading parts were taken by Mar- garet Lostutter as Pandora and Burke Robison, who played the part of Epi- metheus. One of the most attractive features of the production was the dance of the Muses, a fantastic in- terpretation arranged and staged un- der the direction of Miss Anna Smith. The musical score of both plays was arranged and partly written by Mr. Winslow. Much credit for the success of the plays is due to Miss Perkins, who had entire charge of their pro- duction.

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THE BOOSTER Mr. Ammerman Our popular manager of the ath- letics of the school, and head of our Commercial Department, K. V. Am- merman, was born on a farm in Hunt- ington County, Indiana, in the year 1880. Most of his education was received in Indiana schools. After having com- pleted courses in a number of schools of the state, he became a teacher. After teaching for a time, he took a post-graduate course in Marion Nor- mal College, and a penmanship course in the Zanerian School in Ohio. Mr. Ammerman was fitted by his educa- tion and experience to fill most satis- factorily the position of head of the Commercial Department of our own E. M. T. H. S. Before coming to Manual in 1911, Wabash High School had him as the head of its Commercial Department. In 1911, however, he became a mem- ber of our faculty for the first time. As head of a department here he has done much to make Manual known not only for the athletics and speak ers it produces, but also for its able graduates trained in real business methods and practice. There is no need now, as there probably was at one time, for a high school graduate June Class Plays This year ' s class departed from the usual custom of giving one long class play and presented instead two shorter plays, The Merry, Merry Cuckoo, and The Gift. The four perform- ances, at three and eight p. m., Thurs- day and Friday, May 22 and 23, were attended by audiences which taxed the capacity of the school auditorium. The Meiry, Merry Cuckoo, a sim- ple drama of Welch peasant life from the pen of Margaret Douglas Rogers, included a cast of five with Marcia Orme and Thomas Gallagher as Annie and David Dalben in the leading roles. Other members of the cast were Ro- ert Kryter who took the part of Mor- (Continued on page 3.) to enter a business college; for the same thing that is taught in business colleges is taught in our own school by competent teachers. Antiquated methods are not known in this de- partment. It is up to date and is supervised by an up-to-date man. But the great popularity Mr. Am- merman has, has not been gained in the class room alone. Many of us have never come in contact with him in the class room, yet we all know of him through his connection with the athletic teams of our institution. As business manager of our teams we can see the evidence of his work. Him- self a clean-playing and clean-living athlete, he (together with our coaches) has instilled into the players the love of clean sports and the dis- approval of unfair playing. This is the policy that will win out, and which has won out this year as never before. As students w e are probably in- clined to consider the members of our faculty as teachers only; we seem to f rget that they, like ourselves, have homes. In Mr. Ammerman ' s home there are two children, John and El- len, who, we hope, when they grow up, will come to Manual and perhaps be ' athletes and feel the fine spirit that their father has instilled in the student body. We are much more than glad to boast that Mr. Ammerman is a thor- ough Hoosier; and we think it entire- ly fitting and proper that an Indiana man, educated in Indiana schools, should stand as head of the Commer- cial Department of the best high school in Indiana.

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THE BOOSTER The Booster PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY The Pupils of Chas. E. Emmerich Manual Training High School Entered as second-class matter March 30, 1912 at Indianapolis, Indiana, under act of March 3, 1879 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 11, 1918. I N D I A N A P O L I S . I N D I A N A J 5 Cents a Copy j 40 Cents a Semester Vol 21 June, 1919 No . 13 Booster Committee. Glen L. Campbell Editor-in-Chief Crawford Barker Art Editor Frank Cox. Athletic Editor Thomas Gallagher News Editor Benjamin Jordan Personal Editor Robt. O ' Conner. .Asst. Personal Editor Myron Buker Business Manager Morna Pellam Stenographer Helen Carter Stenographer Anna Sandler ...... Stenographer FACULTY ADVISORS. Miss Eleanor P. Wheeler, Miss Eliza- beth Hench, Edward Holloway. EFTH5 In considering the achievements of the year past, let us begin with bas- ketball. Our team easily won the sec- tional and then went to the state tournament. In this we were defeated by the state champions. Five mem- bers of the team are June seniors. Next, Manual triumphed over her competitors in the district and state discussion contests. The winner of these contests is a June senior. Along this line, the debating team, com- posed for the most part of seniors, broke even by winning one debate and losing one. Our track team next in line, won the sectional meet and finished third in the state, being nosed out by the narrow margin of one-third of a point. This team also had as a nucleus a group of seniors. The Roines and Masoma clubs have accomplished a great deal this year. With all these facts, who can doubt that JUNE, ' 19, is peer of them all? Credit for Booster? i or the first time in history, the members of the Booster Staff have received credit for the work done. Is this fair? First, what is the Booster? Is it not a school project, like athletics or debating? Should there be credit the Booster work? Track is as hard, if not harder, than the Booster work. For the lat- ter the student receives credit, for the former he does not. If credit is given for one, why not give credit for both? If the students have too little pride to work for the school without credit, they should not be allowed to stay within its walls. With this issue, Volume twenty-one of the Booster is brought to a close. Next year there will be a complete change of staff, with Walton Cash at the head. Because we have had ex- perience along the Booster line, we bespeak for Walton your hearty co- operation. (Continued from page 2) have families of domestic children who will gather round you in your peaceful homicides in tumultitudinous consanguinity. Sometime, seated in some lovely re- treat in the back yard, beneath the shadowy shades of an umbrageous tree, you will gather round you your wife or husband and the rest of your orphan children. You will there take a retrospective view upon the diagram of futurity, and cast your eye like a flashing meteor forward into the past. Seated in their midst, aggravated and exhaled by the dignity and indepen- dence coincident with honorable pov- erty, your countenances irrigated with intense glows of self-deficiency and ex- communicated knowledge, you will quietly turn to instruct your lit- tle assemblages. You will endeavor to distill into their minds, useless les- sons to guard their juvenile youths against immortality. There, on a clear sunny evening, when the silvery moon is shining forth in all her indulgence and ubiq- uity, you will teach them the first sediments of geometry, by pointing out to them the bear, the lion, and many other fixed invisible consterna- tions which are continually revolving in their bearings, through the blue cerulean fundamu? above. From this (Continued on page 9)