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

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iiltcuiri IIIQSIJERIONA P. HALE Assistant Principal lKiI'Zl.ill1ZllC, Flirt XX'ayne Nivrrnal Schinflz Stu- dent Liniversity nf fhicagw Stullent Teachers' College, Cnluniltin L'nix'crsityg F-tnilent, lnfliana L'nix'ersity. ,TOANXA TEERTNK, A. B, Directnr of Practice A. H., lnwa State Teachers' Cnllcge liEL'l.gXH RIXEHART, l'h. ll. Nnrmal School, English Training Teacher, Fifth Grarle Faculty .'Xclx'iser, Our Yesterdays

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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.

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B. S., Teachers' College, Columbia Llniversity OUR XYESTIQRDAYS DORIS ANDRENVS Kindergarten Assistant Kindergarten-Primary Certihcate, University of Chicago LAURA M. BRENN, B. S. Training Teacher, Fourth Grade Graduate Spearhsh State Normal, South Dakota MARTHA COOLEY, B. S. Normal School, Geography and Science Training Teacher, Geography and Science B. S., Miami 'University ESTHER ERICKSON Training Teacher, Kindergarten Graduate, Grand Rapids Kindergarten Traniing School Student, Teachers' College, Columbia University Student, University of Chicago ADELAIDE L. FIEDLER, A. B. Normal School, Teachers' Arithmetic Training Teacher, Sixth Grade A. B., Michigan State Normal College ALICE E. HALL Normal School, Art Student, Purdue University Post-Graduate, Chicago Art Institute