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

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44 OUR Yus'1'i:RD.xYs REMINISCENCES OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL Letls slip back to school this afternoon and take one more look around the building. NN'e can get back in time to get ready for the Commencement Exercises. Do you remem- ber how disappointed some of us were when we saw this dingy old building for the first time? But now, how we hate to leave itgthis place where we have been happy and sadg where we have laughed and wept: where we have been praised and rebuked, disappointed and overjoyed, where our teachers have seemed like alternating dragons and angels, and our tasks hard and boresoine. The lawn on the nest side recalls unending practice for the Flower Festival on our junior year. lt was very hard to make those dances correct. Near that tree is the place where we sat in the grape pop, that the Seniors poured on the grass. On the other side of the walk, we often had Composition Class, when it was too hot indoors. Oh, those mis- erable attempts at composition! Do you remember our amusement when one read: The men emptied their contents into large barrels ? Here on the front porch we always stationed a look-out for teachers when some un- approved act was being committed inside. To the oliice on the left, unwashed dishes and pans often mysteriously found their way. A note usually appeared just as mysteriously on the board, as follows: Call 'for dishes and pans in the otiicef' F. W. Then the poor student, to whom the offending utensils belonged, was compelledto put on a bold face, ap- proach Miss VVilber penitently, say: Those are my dishes, and wait for the inevitable lecture. Hush! we are approaching the library where silence forever reigns, but where Miss Willver must keep watchful vigil to make it so reign. Here most of the assemblies have been held. Here the jazz Baby was performed in our second Junior Assembly. Oh, the blissful ignorance of juniors! Here also did we wring our hands in despair and agony when the speaker for our third Assembly did not arrive and we could have no program. Now we come to the kitchen. The first sight of the place suggests the K. P. duty we performed so faithfully each day. l can still hear someone shouting, lt's your day to clean the kitchen. How quickly we learned to arrange the cupboard so that the left-over food and dirty dishes would not show. There in the pantry are the jiggly little folding tables which aided so much in spilling cocoa and soup over their mistresses and neighboring objects. We shall go up the back stairs, for they are used most frequently. Little balls of fuzz and dirt play hide-and-seek in the corners of the steps. At our left, we find the rest- room-a tiny place strewn with soiled mirldies and orphan gym shoes. In the corner we see the little brown cot, which has so amiably served students who preferred headaches to attending class. This is the room in which we hid one day when Miss Snively was more than ten minutes late for class. Do you remember the consequences? That horrid test! Our class-room could probably tell more stories about us than any other room. Here we have undergone recitations, examinations, and lectures. Here we have transacted our business, told jokes, and made vain attempts to study, when certain members refused to work for the good of the group. There on the teacher's desk by the window, Miss Wilber explained the mysteries and wonders of the brains of students who are fortunate enough to have those unusable articles. . The science room just across the hall, has been inhabited at various times by ants, hsh, snails, frogs, toads, caterpillars, moths, butterflies, and their kindred. Wasn't it fun to stick pins through the beautiful moths and butterfiies, and mount them, but horrors, the cater- pillars and cabbage-worms! ln this same science-room we locked the contrary culprits who refused to join the I don't knows, and recited in Miss Ruggles' special History class. Here we are at the front stairs. On these steps we used to sit when it was too noisy to study elsewhere. But, be still! VVe are coming near the office. Tread softly, and close the door with care. , -RUTH A. WHITTERN. Miss Rugglvs- Miss Eaton, who was the Queen of France? Mary Emzice- I suppose she was the king's wife. FIu1'eizre--- Hazel lives at the Nine Mile stop on the Bluffton road. Ruth lI'.- How far is that? c'1lL'ffl1--uClJ1'lQ1'3.lS, Rapp, your test went off' like clock-work, Helen R.- VVell, it was a time-test.'l Pupil- Teacher, can anyone be punished for something he didii't do? Miss Ifiedler- Why, no, of course not. l'ztpiI- VVell, l haven't done my arithmetic.

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OUR YESTERDAYS 43 THE CLASS-ROOM CLOCK VVhat sorrow this Normal School clock has caused! The hands creep, the pendulum crawls, and one can count to ten between the ticks. In the embarrassing pause which fol- lows a call for a volunteer to answer some question these same ticks sound like the beats of a drum. They are so insistent that they even become entangled with one's thoughts and the worn and wearied student who is living for the end of the period must think to the rhythm of the beats. The placement of the clock only adds to this misery, for about one-half of the class must turn and twist to gain even the approximate time. First one girl and then another slips her desk forward, slides to the edge of the seat, hrmly grasps two corners of the desk in order that she may not fall, twists her neck, and casts her eyes heavenward until she can see the time. How often the hands appear to be five minutes ahead. Then the girls are scolded because they fuss and fret the last ive minutes of the period. One day to avoid this bad last five minutes, the clock was set ahead. The teacher came in, looked at the clock, looked at her watch, scowled, and said, This clock does not agree either with my watch or the other clocks. This class will be timed by my watch. Even doctoring would not make our ancient time piece more hearahle. VVhat a shock it would be to discover just once that the time by this clock coincided with that of the other clocks. How often the little story, But by the clock downstairs it is not yet time for class, is given. Only too often it is not accepted and the girls mark them- selves tardy on the chart. But after all this clock has also marked the minutes of the parties, vacant hours, and the intervals between classes, and at these times we were only too glad to have it stretch the time. And what teacher could have been more patient, more systematic, more persistent in discipline than the one who teaches us that time passes. Even though our poor clock has had no rest for many years it has always managed to keep its ticking loud and cheerful. Since it has given us pleasure and discipline as well as sorrow, let us not leave the school without an expression of the gratitude which is due. -XIARTHA STORE, Class of 122. AS OTHERS SEE US NAME. FAVORITE SAYING. CHIEF OCCUPATION. AMBITIQN. Miss Andrews ....... Coming, Helen? ..... Selecting her diet .... To make a basket. Miss Brenn... Suppose- . .......... Holding conferences..To grow shorter. Miss Cooley.. I couldn't be sure about that- . ...... Collecting data. ...... To keep healthy. Miss Erickson ....... Now let me tell you, girls- ............ Having operations....To own a Checker-Cab. Miss Hall .... . Now, young ladies-. Miss Hale .... Stop that!!! ......... Censoring pictures. ..To stay young. Miss Holland. Really, you don't - - mean it- ......... Dodge-ing .......... To demonstrate. Miss Fiedler.. No, indeed!!! ....... Correcting tablets .... To speak French fluently. Miss Long.... All right! .... ........ - Making flash sen- tences . ............ To increase eyespan. Miss Muller.. Now, isn't that fine?.Fishing for compli- ments . ............ To find her good workers. Mr. Miles .... Jazz! Bah! Miss Parry... Is that so?. .......... Missing street cars...To train students to co- operate. Miss Rinehart. ....... The fact of the mat- ter is- ........... Supporting the staff. .To make genius burn Miss Ruggles. Oh, what word do I want? . ............ Making diagrams .... To lose her Puritan con- science. Mr, Rogers... I, 2, Swing Swing! Miss Sauer... Say, you don't sup- pose- ............ Beating time ......... To abolish Jazz. Miss Teerink. Now, then- ........ Being natural ....... To get thin. Miss Snively.. Don't you know-.. . .Making footprints. ..To find a shoe with a flex- ible shank. Miss Wilber.. I've an announcement to make- ......... Hunting books. ...... To reduce everything to measurements. Miss VVilliams Off your feet! ....... Enjoying life ........ To make each festival the best. Miss Yost .... I think so too ........ Having dates ........ To reduce.

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OUR YESTI-:RDAYs 45 CLASS NVILL VVe, the Seniors of twenty-two, being about to leave this sphere in full possession of unsound mind, good forgettery, and misunderstanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and declaring void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. First, we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted in the rest-room by our friends and well wishers, the Faculty, only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in Normal School has merited. As to such estate as it has pleased the fates to give us, we do disposed of the same as follows: Item I. To Mr. Mason we do bequeath our abundant supply of immaculate dish towels as well as our extensive culinary outfit. Item 2. To Mr. Clear, the broom, the kitchen tables, the oilcloth on the pantry shelves, the Haviland and the silver, providing lfr. Clear takes unto himself a wife educated in the art of caring for such costly mealtime service. Item 3. To Miss Cynthia Ruggles we do bequeath our house and lot on Rivermet Avenue to be used as a Methodist Orphan Asylum. The following provision is herein made for the administration and transfer of the institution: I. Henrietta Ross shall be duly installed as laundress and general supervisor. 2. Martha More shall be engaged as chi-31' cook, jagiitress and trustee of the asylum. 3. Should Matron Ruggles enter into any state other than that of single blessedness, the estate will devolve upon the one next in line, namely, Elzie Redding. His share shall be further increased by reinstating him as owner of the milk bottles which have accumulated in the past two years. Item 4. Our over emphasized Senior dignity shall be equally divided between Miss Adelaide Fiedler and Miss Mary Katherine Muller. Miss Fiedler shall further be given the entire crop of strawberries and onion tops which the garden shall yield in the next two years. Item 5. Velma Holt bequeaths the exclusive use of the Normal School telephone be- tween 12:oo M. and I :oo P. M. to Desdemona Phoebe Hale, providing she uses said tele- phone only in transaction of very important matters of heart as has been the habit of the donor. Due caution must here be given, namely, that the mechanism of the telephone at this hour can withstand only the nieekest tone of voice. VVe do appoint Lulu Deal to be on constant guard to see that this above warning be duly heeded. Item 6. Ruth Whitterxi wills her tall and imposing stature to Miss Laura Brenn. This stature is to be used instead of the one she already possesses. Item 7. Helen Rapp wills her position as authority on Sociology to Edward Carey Hayes, author of Introduction to the Study of Sociology, this authority to be the sole basis for a new and up-to-dated textbook published for the exclusive use of Miss Ruggles, Item S. Ruth Tucker and Dorothy Mitchell do unite in bequeathing to Miss Beulah Rinehart the fathomless fountain of wisdom which has been the pride of the former, and the tongue of perpetual motion which has ever been the salvation of the latter, to be com- bined in an attempt to win for said Miss Rinehart a name in the world of oratory. Item 9. Helen Scott wills her marcel iron to Miss Martha Cooley, providing the reci- pient refrain from using said iron to extract molars no matter what her train of thought may be. Item IO. To Miss Marjorie Porterheld, Mary Eunice Eaton wills her interest in the Redding Grocery providing that interest be not carried to the extreme. Item II. Grace Longsworth wills her knowing grin and her talkativeness to Miss Esther Erickson. Item I2. I'nto Miss Adele Sauer shall be given Dorothy GriHith's musical ability, and as a special act of kindness, Miss Doris Andrews shall be given the capacity for worrying which the donor so carefully nurtured in the course of her career. Item 13. Florence Rohrer wills her sense of humor in Sociology class to Miss Ruggles, providing said Miss Ruggles respond to the same stimuli which the deceased found. Item I4. To all candy lovers, Ramona Smith wills her admiration for Wayne's aris- ing to the occasion. Item 15. Faith VVagner bequeaths the sanitary cot to Miss Andrews to be placed in her new home, and to be used in recuperating after her strenuous basketball season. Item 16. Marjorie Osborn's bold and forward manner shall be given to Miss Jessie Parry, and her accumulation of flash sentences, together with those donated by other stu- dents shall be given to Miss Ida Long for future use. Item I7. Chella Allmon wills her many excellent ideas and opinions to Miss Mabel Holland, to be used in the further training of the consciences of young Americans. Item IS. To Mr. Fortmeyer shall be given the May-pole and all other festival equip- ment, providing he erect said May-pole in his yard at least once each year and invite the Seniors of '22 to dance for his entertainment at these occasions.