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

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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.

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OUR YESTERDAYS 27 It was during our Senior year that the house next to the Lakeside School was purchased for the pleasure and comfort of the Normal girls. This building has contributed advan- tages in Normal School life which were unfortunately denied our predecessors. As a class we pulled together at all times, and much credit is thereby reflected upon our class officers and leaders. We net er were at a loss for capable girls to serve in any capacity. Loyalty was and shall always be our standard. At the present time, eleven of the class are teaching in the various schools of our city. Five are married. Mrs. Howard Abbott is the proud mother of a tiny daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott and daughter reside in Reading, Michigan. Mrs. Albert Mason and Mrs. Wil- lard Ensleu are each rejoicing over the birth of a baby son. Could this history have been written a short time later, the number of married classmates would have been six, for our Dorothy Saviers will be leaving the ranks of pedagogues soon to enter the bonds of matri- mony. Welcome to our group, Dorothy! What fate has in store for us remains a mystery, but here is a wish for the girls of 1918-that their future may be as happy as the two years they spent at Normal. -RUTH REE1-ILING GUMPPER. CLASS or 1372 Commencement Day meant many things to the Class of 1872. Four of the number had been classmates during the High School course and a second graduation'l had lost the charm of novelty and taken on the dignity of responsibility. An innovation in dress ap- peared that year also. Both classes, High and Training Schools, to gratify the wishes of the Superintendent, wore light colored calico gowns and by the accessories used to soften and lighten effects, demonstrated that the ordinary white dress was the more economical of the two. The exercises of the graduating class of the High school and those of the Training School were combined. All members of the High School class read an essay, or pro- nounced an oration, and one representative of the Training Class also read an essay suggestive of VVomau's Woiek. The essay was censored by the Superintendent and the writer made what she thought a brilliant allusion to Susan B. Anthony and the rub-a-dub of agitation she kept up, which the Superintendent promptly cut out. Seven of the eight members occupied positions in the schools of the city until marriage or death called. One of the number is left in the fold. Three are deceased: Rosa Bennett, Mary A. Humphrey and Florence Requa. Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Michigan are made richer by the possession of these remaining four splendidly trained women-Fannie Hass- ler, Ada E. Remmel, Deborah Robertson and Carrie Solomon. Written by ATARGARET S. ATCPHAIL, Class of 1872. THE ROLL CALL OF THE 1916 CLASS Roll, roll, watch your form, was chanted to us so often that our initiation into the Fort Wayne Normal School was accomplished by rolling us in the coal bin. The bin is still there and we are thinking seriously of immortalizing the spot with this sign, VVhy roll to music and grow warm when you can roll in a coal bin? Rolling was injected so early into our systems that it has become one of our most apparent capacities-Lydia Honeck is now rolling around in a Ford although our big Mal- tese purred that Professor Miles had had his stolen. Mary McGuire Kocke, Dorothy Eckhardt Meyer, Helen Oren Prill and Blanche Bauer Knowlton are rolling their own. Erma Comparet is best at a la Doebler rolling although in the last few days she as well as Clara Blondoit and Mary Zent have been rolling along on Napoleon. Napoleon is a blond horse Whose rolling is of such a character that anyone having ridden the animal always prefers rolling to walking for three days after the performance. Helen Thompson is still rolling her eyes while the male population of Washington University, St. Louis, are extracting eye lashes. When you consider that Hattie Qrieder Merton and Helen Trisch Herring did not possess this trick, one wonders just how their end was gained. .. Gertrude Zucker almost rolled out of our gang when she became a probation officer- Erna Tapp actually did by joining the railroad's pension list. Georgia Bauer can still roll tones that really sound as they came from her heart-Now Bessie Cleary is still attempting the same and they still leap from her solar plexus which causes an Irish monotone that is most invigorating. Vivian VVithers rolled west one summer and they say there was one who didn't see any reason why she should roll east-in fact he blamed it all on the pension. Now as it was in the beginning so it is in the end. Ruth Logue was our most inde- pendent roller and Mabel Bates is still our most quiet one. -By One of the Rollers Who was Rolled and Hopes to be Rolling for the Next Decade.