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

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14 SENIOR BOOSTER Senior Athletes ALWIN IVERSON. Our class president distinguished himself on the 1922 football eleven, playing a guard position and helping to win the city series that year for Manual. A pesky rule of the I. H. S. A. A., which sets an age limit, put a stop, however, to Al ' s athletic career for the Red and White, but he has certainly made a name for himself since then as one of the staunchest boosters and helpers the school has ever had. Al possesses one of the only two block M ' s owned by men now in school. A little lad by the name of Hutton has the other. EDWIN (Ham) EICKMANN. Through his graduation, the school loses one of the foremost all-round athletes it has ever had, and we are surely proud to count him as a member of our class. Eddie has the remarkable record of making a position in any sport he has gone out for. Just last fall, as left tackle, Ham was a bulwark on the football team, though playing the autumn sport for the first time. The opposition certainly knew they were hitting something when they stacked up against Ed ' s solid bulk. We only wish he had started playing foot- ball sooner, but, at that, he quite made up for his staying away by his stellar play last season. Ham was elected captain of the basketball squad for the ' 24- ' 25 season and took our big Red five to the sectional finals, earning for himself a ranking among the best back guards of the state. Ed was a regular on the net squad for three years. His baseball ability also earned Ed the captaincy of this team for the current season. He played third base last year, but Coach Skinner developed him this season into one of the finest catchers that Manual ever had. We are betting on Ed to captain his mates to a city championship before the season is over. The gap left by the graduation of this versatile ath- lete will be hard to plug up. (He ' s a real speechmaker, too ; ask Miss Perkins.) HARRY CEDERHOLM. Basketball and tennis are Harry ' s sport specialties. Two years ago he started on the second team in basketball and was a whiz as a forward on last season ' s varsity five. His racquet ability has also been a big help to the tennis team for the last two seasons. Another fine athlete Manual will sorely miss. MARVIN COCHRANE. Marv is the boy who made Shortridge think that Red Grange had been substituted in the Manual lineup last fall when he turned the football game with the northsiders into a track meet. Result : 59 to 0. Marv played halfback, but the year before he played left end, though greatly handi- capped at that time by injuries. Then, in 1923, he was a member of Coach Morrison ' s state championship track team, excelling in the high and broad jumps and running on the relay team. He has been an outstanding track star since that time, always good for his share of points. He is a splendid athlete who will be hard to replace. AVON FOSTER. This boy shines in baseball and has played second base like an Eddie Collins this season, being a big factor in his team ' s success. Avon also flashed on the basketball second team last season, playing floor guard and for- wards. He must say good-by to Manual in June also. FRED GREGG, alias Bud, Newt, and others equally distinguishing. Al- though he has not taken part in athletics this year, Fred was once a reliable track man and has tried his hand at football. JOHN LAMB. Jawn has made left guard practically impenetrable for the last two years on the fighting Red eleven, and has showed real ability. Other high school teams of the state, who are on Manual ' s schedule for next fall, will probably be glad to hear of his graduation. VERLIN (Bolsh) LITTLE JOHN. How he got the nickname, we do not know, but it is short for bolshevik. We do know that he is a crack athlete, however, as he held up a tackle position on the football squad for three seasons, played fine basketball with the second team, and is a flying fool when it comes to hurdle events in track meets. Another sigh of relief from honored opponents, but one of sadness from Alma Mater. (Continued on Page 33)

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SENIOR BOOSTER 13 K f - ■ ; i JS »-■ 1 ' ' fe --, -- ' 1 Mi M i 31 1 ■ ■■ ■■■■ : ' : BI ' m tTf ' --■■-. . ' ■■ ■ ' ■■ ■ ' --■•• ' Queen of Manual and all three city high schools ! Bessie Sellers, another of our June ' 25 ' s attained fame and prominence. She was chosen by the student body of the Emmerich Manual Training High School to be the May Queen. Then to top it off, the Girls ' Reserve Club, composed of girls from all the schools, selected our Bessie to be the city queen. Congratulations ! A KISS FOR CINDERELLA With what excitement, with what thrills and hopes, we awaited A Kiss for Cinderella! From the very begin- ning everything had been too exciting to allow any member of the class to yawn and say, Class play? I suppose so. In the first place Miss Perkins and the committee, of which Marguerite Young was chairman and Gracie Robb, Alethea Sullivan, Eugene Coffin, and Alton Jacobs the members, could not decide immediately what play should be presented. Finally — glory be ! — A Kiss for Cinderella was chosen. Cleora Rob- ertson was selected to play the part of little, dreamy, wistful Cinderella and Eugene Coffin to play the part of the handsome policeman-prince. The play is written with all the graceful, sym- pathetic art of the great British author, Sir James M. Barrie. It concerns a young girl whose life is filled with glory and romance because of her dreams. Every day as she goes about the sordid tasks by which she makes her living, she dreams of going to the king ' s ball and of dancing with the Prince of Wales. The play ends with the realiza- tion of Cinderella ' s dreams — but the realization comes in an unexpected manner. The prince becomes the police- man again, and he, understanding Cin- derella ' s pure girlhood and her great imagination, gives her two tiny silver slippers instead of an engagement ring. Critics from all over the city com- plimented this excellent production, one even saying that it was the best exam- ple of a high school production that she had ever seen. No wonder ! How could it have been anything else with Miss Perkins and Miss Sanders coaching it and the old Manual spirit backing it to the limit? The cast included Fritz Schnepf, An- thony Giuffre, Flossie Heshelman, Do- lores Friedman, Felix Mastropaolo, Gracie Robb, Helen Ridout, Thelma Ta- coma, Bernice Kirch, Edna Werner, Ida Watkins, Margaret Martin, Dorothy Roberts, Mary Hester Smith, Dorothy Mast, Marguerite Baker, Harold Jor- dan, Charles Dant, Irvin Putt, Leo Selig, Harry K. Miller, Lawrence Con- drey, Ruth Robinson, Lena Rogin, Leona Rahn, Sadie Lehner, Helen Stickle, Dorothy Kritsch, Helen King- ham, Lucille Whiteford, Helen Rilling, Frieda Kennedy, Fern Lyster, Marga- ret Gerdtz, Mary Russell, Lawrence Caplin, Ruth Leech, Sam Rabinowitz, Ella Mae McMillan, Lee Nicholson, and Virginia Keith. The class extends its sincere appre- ciation to all those others who in any way helped to make A Kiss for Cin- derella a success. TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND, AND NOT TO YIELD If you will strive and seek, you will find. You may strive and seek, but if you yield, you will not find. Without the determination not to yield, you will find nothing. What is the good of either striving or seeking if you yield and do not continue to strive and seek? Many an athletic contest has been lost because the players cease to strive and seek their goal. If they had the deter- mination not to yield, they would fight to the end whether they were winning or losing. So it is with the battle of life ; if we yield in our striving and seeking, we will not find.

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