Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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DA XI MI, M. COMSTOCK T w c n t y • t h r c c

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Z b e G a u I r o n Che Sallic flfray; IIK Sal lie May Byers Prize, awarded to those nnst proficient in scholarship, F.nglish Composition and elocution. was offered for the first time in the spring of 1891. 'This prize is derived from the interest on a fund given to the Frankfort High School by Mr. Daniel K. Comstock, ns a memorial to his hethrothed wife. Miss Sallic May Byers, who died a short time before the marriage was to have been solemnized. The names of this generous, cultivated gentleman and this noble, talented woman are thus recalled to generation after generation of grateful students, who find this prize an incentive to greater (ffort. Miss Byers, a young woman of unusual ability, was a member of the class of 1S7«;, which was the first class to Ik gradu a ted from the Frankfort High School. Miss Byers. Ix sides being an exception. ! student, also possessed considerable talent in elocution, a gift which received ju-t recognition, and was ever at the disposal of the community in which she lived. Mr. Daniel Comstock is an eastern capitalist who has spent most of his life in New York City. Mr. Comstock’s interest in the construction if the Frankfort and Kokomo B.ilroad. now known as ■ part of the Clover Deaf system, brought him to Frankfort, where, fortunately for us. through Miss Bvers. he !x eame inti u sted in our High F.clio 1. to which, in 1891. he gave the sum of one thousand dollars, ’to lx known forever as tlm Sallic May Byers Memorial Fund.” The City Council was appointed trustee, with the proceeds at six per cent to he disposed of annually, forever, in aw: rds of merit. Such interest was manifested the fiist year in this prize, that in 1892 Mr. Comstock added five hundred dollars t . the fund, making a sum of fifteen hundnd dollars, one-half of the proceeds ol T w c n t ; 3G ct'S iPrise. which, was to he paid annually in prizes as follows: thirty doll. r to the one winning; the greatest number of points for “General Scholarship” in his senior year; fifteen dollars to the whiner of the second prize in “General Scholarship.” (In 1 i ‘ 1 a system of mid-year promotions was adopted in the schools of t rankfort that made it necessary to divide these prizes to award four instead of two scholarship prizes, annually.) One-fourth of the income from the fund constitutes the Sallie May l-tyers Prize for Klocution, “to lie awarded to those evidencing the greatest elocutionary ability at a public performance. The time, place, and judges, are selected annually. by the faculty of the High School. The first prize is fifteen dollars and the second is seven dollars and a half. One fourth of the income from the fund is paid in Sallie May Byers prizes for “English Composition ’ awarded to those ”evidencing the greatest ability in the writing of English Composition.” Members of the graduating class who have attended the Frankfort High School for at least one year previous to graduation, are eligible to this contest. The basis of the composition is the subject matter obtained from the reading of a b ok specified by the faculty of the Frankfort High School. Since this is the year of the Dickers Centenary, the book chosen is “Hard Times’ by Charles Dickens. The contest is held in the library building, where a subject is submitted to the contestants. A fiist prize of fifteen dollars and a second prize of seven dollars and a half is awarded to the winners of this contest. The first winner in elocution was Effie Montgomery; in English Composition. Ada Cook; and in general scholarship, Rosemary Hinds, all of the clrss of 1S92. Martha Kramer, 1912. r-two

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Z b c Z a u I a r o n CLASS OF 1912. JANUARY CLASS. Veda Good Frank Keene Alice Leisure Blanolle Martin John Redmon Lenore W'ilmot George Leisure MAY CLASS. Hazel Alexander llepsa Boolier W alter Oobee Page Conley Florence ('ornthwaite Hattie ('ampbell Julia Dillen Sarabelle Harmon Lillian Berryman Milo Curts Blanche DePoy Morris Derrick Claude Dudley Russel I ortune Man' Gorham Pauli Gossett Helen Guenther Lawrence Holmes Orplia Holmes Ruth Henricks Hazel Heaton Funice Krdel Doris Hoke Mary Jenkins Martha Kramer Dorothy Meredith Ray Kern Ceorgie Moore. John MoClamroch Paul Mo Masters Paul Meifeld Otis Miner Herman Rnthenl eger Lester Ruoh Ruth. Morrison Dale Shanks Harry Sheridan Fred Tioen