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

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OUR IYESTERDAYS 47 THE NORMAL SCHOOL TELEPHONE You have heard of the wonders of the telephone, the radio telegraph, and the wireless telephone. You know what messages of joy and sorrow they may bring, but did you ever hear of the horror of the inter-connecting Normal School telephone? You may be placidly sitting i1I class, dreaming of what you did last night and catching phrases of the lesson when the telephone rings. Then the buzzer rings. It is the Normal School telephone. There is a pause. Steps are heard on the stair. You frantically look in your book, appearing very much occupied, but thinking to yourself, It surely can't be for me, I told him to call at 12:30 if it was absolutely necessary. You remember impressing upon him that telephone calls of such a nature were forbidden, and that such an act was a terrible disgrace. The door opens- VVho said my name? Oh, it was only the teacher calling on you to recite. At 12:30 you listen with bated breath. At last-the buzz! Three girls automatically station themselves at appointed doors and windows. You rush to the telephone and say, Hello, in a voice which sounds like a whistle on a rainy day. The voice answers confi dently, Hello, Peg. Another Hello is heard. It is in the other building. He keeps on talking as if nothing were wrong while you remain silent and frozen. A click is heard! The teacher rings off, for she was a student at Normal one time herself and she knows that those things just will happen. 1 7 POEM Miss Teerink comes from Iowa, Miss Ruggles from New York, Miss Andrews comes from Illinois, And they can make us work! Miss Cooley's from the Buckeye State, Miss Long calls Kansas home, VVhile South Dakota sent Miss Hrenn In our good state to roam. From the hills of Pennsylvania We have our dear Miss Yost, VVhile of her home in Michigan Miss Fiedler oft doth boast. From near and far these teachers come To teach us what they know: And to each one we say in truth, VVe'll miss you when you go. The rest are loyal Hoosiers- For them no parting tear, Instead, for them this cheerful thought, We'll see you all next year. AS OTHERS SEE LYS NAME. FAVORITE SAYING. CHIEF OCCUPATION. Chella Allmon ....... I don't know, but I think- ........... Giving opinions. ..... To Mary Eunice Eaton. .Good heavens !. ...... Dancing ............ To Dorothy Griffith. ..... Oh, helpl. ........... Singing . ........... .To Velma Holt. ......... Oh, there he is again.Flirting ............. To Grace I.ongsworth...No, sir! ............. Playing with her pencil . .... . ....... To Dorothy Mitchell .... Why? What for?....Asking questions.....To Martha More ........ Ye gods! ............ Drawing pictures. .... To Marjorie Osborn .... .Oh, my goodnessl. . .Writing lesson plans.To Helen Rapp ......... Well, I don't see. .... Arguing . ........... .To Florence Rohrer ..... Sure enough! ...... ..Making dates ........ To Henrietta Ross Helen Scott ........ . . Ramona Smith Ruth Tucker. ....... . Faith Wagner. ..... . Ruth Whittern. .... . .My word ! .... VVell, I don't care .... Teasing . ...... .... T o For the love of beer! Eating . ...... .... T o That is- ........... Bluffing ...... .... T o Oh, thunder! ........ Giggling ..,,........ To .Well- .....,. .... T aking notes. ....,... To . . . .Distributing poetry.. .To NELMA Hom, '22, -CLASS or '22, AMBITION. display her diamond be an actress. be a doctor's wife. find time to study. cultivate her voice. sing. remember. be a m1nister's wife stay single. go back South. get her ring back. find a cave man. get to class on time get fat. be an opera singer. use big words.

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46 OUR XYESTERDAYS Item 19. To Superintendent NN'ard and the members of the School Board we do be- queath our life-long services. Item 20. To Miss Teerink, we the Seniors, will the legal diction of this document to be used in making the school laws of Iowa conform to the superior laws of Indiana. Besides these enforced gifts we leave our blessing and pledge of friendship henceforth and forever. Tu Miss NX'ilber we will all our original and revolutionary methods of teaching and our knowledge of Psychology, to be used as subject matter for a series of illustrated lec- tures providing, that the proceeds from the overdow meetings be used to defray the ex- pense of erecting a monument on the Cannibal Islands to the illustrious Class of 1922. VVe ask also that the following epitaph be placed thereon: This be the verse that you 'grave for usp Here they lie 'neath the eac-tus. Home are the swimmers, home from the pool And the school-marms home from the school. And we do hereby constitute and appoint said Miss VVilber sole executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof we set our hand and seal this first day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. ' THE Simons, '22, lVfliffL'l1 by CHELLA ALLMON. Ruth IV.- Are you frying pork? i i V Dorothy M.- No, ham. Miss Rzzgglcr Cseeking the right wordiagain- Oh, what do you call those holes in a desk? Class- Pigeon-holes. Miss Rzzgglcr- I couldn't think of anything but 'dovetail'. GROYND GRIIJPERS! Small child, eyeing Miss VVilber- Lady, why do you wear man's shoes? 429 E. Kirkwood, Bloomington, Indiana, February 12, 1922. Dear Alma Maier: That means Peg'n Mary Eunice, 'n Helen Scott, 'n Dorothy G. 'n Ruthie NVhittern, 'n Ruth Tucker, 'n D, Mitchell, 'n Flossie R, 'n Martha More, 'n Helen Rapp, 'n Faith, Hope and Charity, 'n Grace, ,Il Henry 'n Bertha May, 'n me. I had to think up how we sat before I could remember everybody. Don't you thinks its kind of bad that a whole Normal School could let anybody as nice as I am go clear away without writing her a letter and expressing its regrets? It's just the talk of the whole school down here! I hardly know what to say myself-I. I saw Ed Thomas at a dance last night and ex- changed greetings. 2. Purdue-ewaccidentally won the basketball game yesterday. 3. One of my numerous roommates C45 is drawing microbes and is quite evidently blasphuming under her breath. 4. I had a very embarrassing date last night-a Theti Chi pledge who is undergoing rough initiation and is forced to carry a rornrob at all times, even while dancing. 5. I've got a new Spring Sui! Cquotation marks and capitalization absolutely necessaryj. 6. I have an adorable room and want every blessed one of you to come and see it Cand meh, Ialso want either Martha or Helen to draw tne a woman to put on the wall. Please-e-e-e-e. 7. I heard a good joke last week. Prof.'s Wife- John, you have your shoes on the wrong feet. Prof. Cabsentlyj-- But my dear, they're the only feet I have. S. Henrietta, there was a girl visiting here this week-end who carried a bottle of Lorigon perfume. Can you feature how nice I was to her? When you answer this CO, yes, of course you're going to answer itl I Want to know who's teaching where: how Miss Wilber is, are you going to have a May Festival, does Ruth T. still carry off A's by the car load: Cand Dorothy Griffith too?3g and by the way, is she still as frivolous as she used to be and does she walk with her hand extended lightly as she used tog does Frank still park just around the corner by the groceryg is Mr. Redding a millionaire yet or does he have as heavy a trade as hedid last winterg does Ruthie Whit- tern wear hair ribbons and does Peggy still shimmy even if it is out of date????? I'm al- most consumed with curiosity-I never was bothered with that before much-and I want to know everything, even if it takes 6c to send it and a business envelope. I have a chance to mail this so will draw to a close. Take some pictures and send me-do-do--do. And make me a woman and send it to me-you don't know what I'll do for you some day. Loads of love and everything else to everybody. IYIARIE JOHNSON.

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OUR Yusriiamys ON PRESENTATION OF iff BOX OF CANDY Class of 1907 Oh! dear Miss VVillwer, you'vc had much trouble To make us see one thing as double, To make us see two things as one And how many lines to an apex come. To show us that it was quite right That we should have a mental sight, A mental ear, a mental touch, And, oh, there was so very much Of which you spake and wrote and taught Before we ever grasped the thought. Now, believe it, we are sorry That we have caused you so much worry, But we are very grateful, too, For everything that you did do. This was, a lengthy preparation Next follows our presentation ' Of the thought which we have now conceived CThat your mind might be somewhat relievedj To give you a book for the holiday To occupy you in a different way From that which you must be all through the year NVhen so much of school affairs you hear. But such a book was hard to find, It is of a very peculiar kind. It's not on the brain, nor the eye, nor the ear, Nor on what we touch, or smell, or hear. It's not on the spiritual or social me,'l Nor will it enable you ever to see Why the philosopher Descartes thought That I am I and you are nought. It's not on the history of wonderful Ed., Nor the method by which a good lesson is said. It's not on the cray-fish, amoeba, or bug Nor the butterflies hiding in chrysalese snug. You must conclude, 'tis something strancre This wondrous book doth hold. But really, 'tis a common thing - In many places sold. ,Tis something that you can digest VVith perfect lack of thought, You need no skill in learning, You need not to be taught. So open up the book at once, See the edition's name From that you'll find out quick enough VVhat the great book doth contain. h . IN MEMORIAM The Senior girls had brains a plenty Till one sad day in nineteen-twenty VVQ saw their door in sorrow dressed And read, 'tOur Iwrainskthey are at rest. VVC moved about with solemn tread VVhen we learned their brains were dead. VVe'll miss those brains of theSenior lasses More and more as the winter passesg VVe're sorry that they've gone to rest VVe hope they live among the blest. And in some future reincarnation They ring rousing cheers from all the nation For the Fort VVayne Normal School.