Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Staff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Florence Norris ASSOCIATE EDITORS Julia Davis JOKES Ruth ('ripe Hobert Campbell Helen Travis LITERARY ART Chester Coulter Margaret Williams Helen Bartrou Anna Thurman DRAMA Ruth Tedford Mildred Brant ORATORY AND DERATE Leland Wainseott Cyril Flanagan ORGANIZATIONS ALUMNI Martha Yount Cyril Douglas Lulu Cue Edger Mlinger IIUSINESS M. 1NAGER Carroll Shaw A SSI SI 'A N T RESIN ESS MA NA GER Robert Lucas A DYERTISING SOLICITORS Ruth Pavey Raymond Sheets

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Foreword Y FAR the most difficult task for a senior to do, editorially speaking, is to voice an appropriate farewell to the high school which has been his Alma Mater for four years. It must be brief, perforce, and one’s emotions in such an event are not to be lightly nor briefly expressed. Instead of a short, unsatisfactory editorial ,then, we desire to present this, our annual, as our farewell “speech”. If it falls short of the high standard made by previous classes, it will not be due to lack of work and concentration, but to a dearth of knowledge, perhaps. If this be so, we crave your indulgence as you remember the joy with which you saw a work of your own hands completed. We know that from now on we shall not be students of a class or of a high school, but students of Life. And Life is the hardest, the most trying, hut withal the most delightful of schools to enter. With mingled regret and anticipation, as we stand on the threshold of Life’s school, then, we wish to give a tangible farewell to that less difficult and perhaps less exacting school, F. II. »S., in the form of this—our annual for 1916.

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EDITORIAL The Relationship of F. H. S. to Frankfort P. H. S. is a miniature Frankfort, for it has its officers and citizens, its council meetings, and its streets and alleys to clean. Do not the teachers guide and direct the students just as the city officials look after the welfare of the citizens? Are they not taught to care for their own premises at school, just as citizens must care for their home premises? Thus the boys and girls learn to keep the school yard, the building, and their own desks in a clean, sanitary condition of the school. Learning to care for school property is learning to care for town property. Moreover, the pupils upon the whole become law-abiding citizens of P. II. 8. They obey, not through fear, but because they soon realize that no organization can be managed without obedience to certain laws. They know that each one must do his part willingly in order to make the whole run smoothly. Thus they learn the need of laws and why they should be obeyed. Every course of study in our school, and every activity in our school help to make better future citizens of our young people. Since our high school is a young Frankfort, the town should take an ac tive interest in it. Out of it will come tin future population of Frankfort. Probably some F. II. S. boy will be mayor. For these reasons Frankfort should further the ability of the high school. She ought to be interested in securing the best instructors, for no other factors of the school influence the boys and girls as much as they. She should see that the students are learning those things which make strong citizens, and that they are showing their desire for victory in the high school activities, for this will later result in enthusiasm for town affairs. The Chamber of Commerce works for everything that tends to increase the growth of Frankfort, from Hallowe’en celebration to bringing factories here. Then, it should aid the high school and help to make it a better one. Even recognizing it as an important part of F'rank fort will make it a stronger institution. The above does not indicate that we feel our school is not appreciated, for F. II. S. does recognize the fact that the people are loyally supporting it. It has learned that the entire city is gratified when plays, debates, operas, and parties are successful. And, in return, the Frankfort High School is trying to do its part in making “Frankfort First.’’ i x