Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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l A1 - F. H. s.-.-- THE CAULDRON ---1 9 2 6-- DIILDREII Xl'lYY'l'0N HICIRNIAN BOOTS IRIFHARD CHAIN 54.0,-1.1in.,-,.flir4.,,,ur,.,. Prvsiclelll lxiifl'-I,I'l'NillPlll History of Class ol 319246 liver four years ago. lmetore the fire in fact. a new freshman class entered high school much as freshmen classes have a halmit of doing. The dropping of hooks. the tardiness to class. the failure to find the right room-none of these charteristics which mark the l reshie were lacking. lint time soon began its work of changing these timid slrangers into high school students. and the task was almost finished when the unavoidalule happenedgthe high school fire. Then followed the Masonic Temple, the l,egion home. the Com- munity lluilding, and a lew weeks of chaos in general. The next tall all this was changed, Our ranks were strengthened hy a brand new crop of l reshies. almost as green as we had lueen, and for our haclcground. so to speak. had lzeen provided an equally lmrand new gymnas- ium. lt was not a high school, hut it was just about the hest sulmstitute i1n'11fin'1lmle. Vve had never gone to a hiffh schoolg naturally we had never 'ri I ' . z-s missed one. Almost four years were spent in that gymnasium, and in those years we have grown from K'lfreshies to Seniors. lluring that length of time Frank- fort lligh School has come into recognition over the state as an athletic center. liach year our hasketluall team has heen among the sixteen teams which journeyed to lndianapolis for the state tournament, and in N25 we were the one team which journeyed home with the shield. Six of this year's team were memhers of the senior class. The music department has also expanded. Several operettas and con- certs are now presented regularly in alternate years. and for the past two EIGH TE HN

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----19 2 6-L THE CAULDRON -- F. H. s.- years both glee clubs have been participants in the state contest at Indian- apolis. The orchestra has grown and also a good band has been organized. ln 1925 and 1926 Frankfort was a triangular debate winner, while the students have been more or less successful in other lines of oratory. The public speaking department has produced several plays and sponsored con- tests. Iiach year the commercial department brings home several prizes in each line. The state wide Latin contests are also a means of competition which have been instituted in the last four years. as also has the McMurtry prize essay contest. ' These are only examples of the changes and improvements which have taken place in the school. ln all of them the seniors have made a showing of which we are proud. The last lap of our high school career has been spent in the new high school. XN'e fully appreciate its advantages, but the four years in the gymnasium have left their imprint on our memories, and it is there that our thoughts will center. XYe have been wanderers, but we have enjoyed the wandering. Some interesting statistics in regard to the class have been gathered from the high school records. ln the fall of 1922 there were in the class seventy- five 9-13 girls, and thirty-five 9-A girls. Of these 110 girls, who entered with the class of 1926, only forty-three are graduating. During the four years nine girls have entered from other high schools, making a total of fifty-two girls graduating this year. The boys class has suffered even a greater decrease in number. Of the original 108 9-A and 9-13 boys who entered in 1922 only thirty-two are graduating this year. The total number of boys graduating is raised to forty by the eight who have entered from other schools. The total number of students to start the four years of high school work was 2203 the total number finishing it is ninety-two. The class of 1926 will soon be numbered among the many classes which have been graduated from Frankfort High School. Not many years from now its members may be scattered and at times the class may be almost for- gotten. llut always in the minds of those ninety-two students. who made up itsienrollment will remain a memory of the things which, during these years of high school life. have been accomplished. NINE'l'l'1EN