Fort Wayne Normal School - Annual Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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24 OUR Ytisriinnzxvs Flapper-I'll bet he never told you what he studied. Second Flapper-Did they tell you what the Latin race was? Gargantua-No, what is it? Flapper-It is a race between the pony and the prof's goat. Gargantua-I don't quite follow you. To continue, the little fellows in the grammar grades seemed to be having a good time. I asked one of them to read to me but he said he couldn't then, he was busy with his project. l watched him for a while. His project seemed to be that of filling a sieve full of sand. As I was in a hurry I did not wait for him to finish. Everyone in all the schools seemed to be having such a good time. They evidently need music to write with. I watched them one day and they had a box on legs that played whenever they wanted it to. Then they would all write furiously until it stopped. They must learn quite a lot, too, for I asked some of them one day what they knew and they said they knew everything and the price of it. At any rate they all seemed to be having one grand time. as Tsme would say. It was all very different from our school. The teacher did not ask the children any questions they did not know, and the youngsters did most of the talking. I did not hear a child give a discourse on anything. The children did not have to mind or pay attention as ours dog each child seemed to do just as he pleased. Father Time-VVell then, you would say that things are not as rosy on earth as the Flap- pers say. You think that the children do not have proper training and that most of the people are unenlightened. - Gargantua-VVell, not quite as bad as that-but not so very good. Father Time-Then you think we better not change up here? Gargantua-Maybe we have been too hard on the youngsters, but otherwise, I think we better leave things as they are here. The people on earth need some of our things more than we need some of theirs. I should think it would be a great relief to get up here to peace and quiet after their noisy music, showless shows and garrulous people. Father Time-But what will we do with the Flappers? Gargantua-Tsme suggested that we use them to help Saint Peter. There is nothing they don't know or won't find out, so they can take the arrivals through the Beyond the Beyond and show them what a fine place it is. They can make anybody believe anything. Father Time Cto Flappersl-How would you like that? Can you make Beyond the Beyond as rosy for the newcomers as you painted the earth for us and keep them all as busy until they get accustomed to things as you have us lately? Mind though, no more of your new-fangled tricks. Flappers-,lust watch our dust! CLASS OF 1920 Vs. CUPID Two score and Five months ago our Normal School brought forth in this fair city a new class, conceived in intelligence and dedicated to the proposition that thereafter our matrimonial chances were one to ten. Now we are engaged in a great conflict, testing whether that proposition, when applied to our class of such superior intelligence and pulchi- tude, can long prove true. Forward into battle, we, the eleven graduates of this class marched, flinging high our banners, cheered and inspired by our watchword, Men may rome. For a space of thirteen months, with unbroken line, we boldly advanced, successfully dodging the arrows from Cupid's ranks, and securing a fair share of the spoils of war. ,lust when victory seemed most certain, we were ambushed and when the smoke of battle cleared, our ranks were depleted. Captain Gerard, no longer a Miss, was reported missing. Privates Scott and I-Ialler were seriously wounded. The rest of our company now seek the most exposed positions along the battle front, fearing and hoping that our names will appear on the next list of casualties. The world will little note or remember what we say here but the teachers of the Normal School can never forget what we did there. V Though the class of 1920 may have differences of opinion on many subjects, we are one in our devotion to the Fort Wayne Normal School. Our loyalty we pledge anew. Each added year but helps us to more fully realize that by her teaching and example, Miss Wilber has inspired in us a desire for more knowledge and higher ideals and a truer American citizenship. To all these sentiments we subscribe, Not one word would we blot. Standards and ideals are prized By Johnson, Bryson, Scott, Sherbondy, Pohlmeyer, Ulmer, too, Beahler, Gerard, and Glover, And Phipps and Haller, classmates true- Fort VVayne Normal School-We love her. ' -LAURA PHIPPS.

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26 OUR X7ESTERDAYS CLASS OF '15-L'ENVOI h To follow in the footsteps of the most correct writers, or reciters, one should in deliv- ering an epilogue ot this sort, carefully select as a point of departure, some proverb, or epigram which exactly tits the subject. Vile have listened to many such expositions, have even heard it proven, for instance, that People under the impression that are Someones, are usually Noones, while those who allow tliemselves to be considered Noones, are dis- covered by the discerning VVorld to be the real Someones. CThe particular Pretenders re- ferred to being typified by the Class of '15, while the Shrinking Violets crept out from the sheltering portals of F. VV. N. S. along about -Tune, '16.D However, after much unaccustomed thought, the only near epigram remembered which seems to fall a perfect fit on the broad shoulders of the Class of '15, is a geometrical axiom paraphrased perhaps out of recognition to read, Girls equal to the same thing are equal to anything. And that was us. Wie have always modestly contended, modesty being one of our chief and undoubted virtues, that IQI5 was a great year for old Normal. From conscientiously initiating the before mentioned shrinking and backward sub-grads, undeterred though the air rang with sl1rieks and sounds of strife unholy, to supervising the instruction of a certain learned pro- fessor of the Manual Arts in the habits of Self-control and the Rejuvenation of deflated bicycle tires-we were equal to anything. They all agreed to that. But our Normal Days weren't all occupied in hunting up rules to break-there was of necessity some real labor attached to working our way through Normal School and some not So necessary, self-imposed because of the loyalty we bore our school. No longer did athletics consist of taking an active part on apparatus day -but basketball was the order of the day, as we tracked down gyms from end to end of the city to get in trim for the schedule quickly arranged. Never did a team have more loyal support from school and faculty-how they gloried in the victories and discounted the defeats! Basketball was not the least of the things that drew us close together, and instilled in us the strong loyalty to class school. Normal School was never a sweat shop for the class of '15-it was our alma mater present, and future. And at last with what a start of dismay did we realize that the end was near, and pre- pare to make it a grand finale. Other classes could be content to call it finished with a formal banquet and more formal graduating exercise-we were going to close the chapter with all the festivities of a college commencement. So we inaugurated the first Flower Festival, and beautiful Lakeside Park formed the background for the Hower-decked parade, and the games and dances attendant on the crowning of the chosen queen. Flower Festivals have been a feature of graduation each year since then, growing more pretentious and beau- tiful year by year. But the joy of the very first June Festival was ours. Baccalaureate Services followed-we couldn't feel that our commencement was com- plete without that inspiring touch. So we decorated the church selected with our class flowers, and in caps and gowns imparted dignity to the first Baccalaureate Services of the Normal School. It was a happy two years, but as our romancing song bird rhyined it, Along comes June, it breaks our heart Wlien eighteen Senior girls must partg Some to their Franks and Charlies and Freds, Howards, Donalds, VVilkies and Edsf' CVVith all due apologies to the author for changing the original names to correspond to the actual ones.D And so our Normal days were ended. But the loyalty and love for the school im- planted in those days of sun and shower still endure, and should the Powers that Be see fit to allow the Fort VVayne Normal School to continue, will live on, even unto the second generation of the Class of yI5. Z -Blass!-3 Rowe WAGNER, ,I5. CLASS OF 1918 Four years have been added to the history of the efforts of our class to reach the goal of its ambitions and ideals since graduation in June, IQIS. Our Junior and Senior years were indeed prominent ones in the history of the Normal, not only in enrollment numbers but in all activities. Some of the general activities of the class included student teaching, playground supervision, Parent-Teacher Club duties, preparation of and recitation on chap- ters from Angell, Ellwood, Dewey, and Strayer, acquaintance with educational measure- ments and Simon-Binet tests. The unparalleled success of the Flower Festival and the an- nual banquet which was held at the Crescent Avenue Church were two noteworthy events. Anyone who saw our wonderfully fought basketball games, with their narrow margins of defeat, could not help but feel that, after all, a difference of a few points one way or the other means nothing, for even figures sometimes lie.