Fulton School - Fulton Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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5575 r-ui..-run gig Class History of Room Twenty ' vi so One bright September morning, in the year of 1912, a happy band, eager for adventure, boarded t.he good ship Fulton for a cruise in the World of Education. lVe passed inspection by the captain, Miss Marker, and we were assigned to Miss liucilc, who was to be our guide on our first yea1 s tour. The first stop was the little island of Kindergarten, and you can imagine how excited we were when we arrived there. lVc were soon made to feel very much at home and passed our time singing and dancing. Our stay was almost like a fairy story, for we heard of so 1na11y things we didn't even know existed before. Our guide, Miss Lucile, made everything so pleasant for us that two years had passed before we were ready to leave. When that time came, we were told of the little outlying town of Alpha- bet. Miss Huston, Miss Gundrum and Miss Freed were chosen to show us through this interesting town and they won us immediately by declaring a holiday of one-half day in our honor. Later we were shown places of interest and advised to climb the mountain of Oral Readingf' This was very easy for there were many signposts along the way and the paths were well beaten. Our success in climbing led us to enter the Cave of Numbers, but the wind- ings of this cave were so numerous and so dark that some of our band were still in the cave when the boat set sail. Vile missed our friends at first but at Port-0'-Second, where we were taken by Miss O'Brien and Miss Miller, we were kept so busy for the next year that we quite forgot them. The ways were new and very difficult to learn, but we soon became accustomed to them and were sorry when the time came to pack our grips and go on. Our guides gave us passports to the town of Ink on the Dark Conti- nent, and here our troubles began in earnest. Almost immediately we en- countered the dragon Geography, and this terrible monster took such a fancy to us that he followed us in our wanderings for the next. three years and every now and then devoured one of our number. Here also we found that the law required that monthly Reports of our doings be sent to our home country, by Miss Keplinger, Miss Campbell and Miss Fleming and in the future we found our freedom somewhat curtailed. Our courage and cheerfulness under all these trying circumstances, how- ever, secured us permission to explore the Land of Tests. Miss Simpson, Miss Mayhew, our new guides felt that we had traveled enough by this time to be somewhat independent, so they presented us with guide books called Dictionaries, which proved of use to us in all our later voyages. VVhile here we heard of the terrible stream of Long Division, which led far into the interior of the country and was thought by many to have no end. We decided to take a trip down this river and soon encountered sandbars, cataracts, rapids, Twem v-Three I

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575' il- L.II-'PSN e-53 floods and every possible obstacle to our progress. The trip was so hazardous that we changed guides many times before we finally reached the interior. VVe secured Miss Ebert, Miss Mleybourne and Miss Bramwell, for our new leaders and determined to rest from our trip in Central Fifth, but alas we found the country in a serious revolution owing to a division of Fractions. The Dividends wanted to keep the old stable government but the Divisors wanted to turn everything upside down. Our guides were in favor with both factions and this was lucky for us because whenever we got into trouble with the authorities they came to our rescue. At the end of the year, we gladly embarked for the Kingdom of Deci- mals. Some of our friends, we were sorry to find, were held as prisoners of war but Miss Marker said that General Summer Session would secu1'e their release and they could join us later at Decimals. The King of Decimals gave each of us a key to the capital called 'tDecimal Point and for the rest of the year it surely kept Miss Neja, Miss Yeslin and Miss Petty busy keeping track of our various keys. In spite of their etforts, some of us lost our keys before the end of our stay and had to use the special master-key Tutor to let us out when we were ready t.o leave. Here we met the most interesting character, 'tMiss Nature Study. lYe wanted to hear all the wonderful things she knew and through our interpreter, Miss Yeslin, we heard her stories of the stars, birds, flowers and trees. lfVe were eager to know more, but Miss Marker said our ship was due at History Hills in September, so we left. XVe were now chaperoned on our eighth journey by Miss Amesse and Miss Perkins. This latter friend lead us to our first athletics. Basketball and baseball were patiently taught us and we had many successful games. VVe did not have much time for athletics, however, for before us loomed the steep, rocky cliffs of History Hills. Beside us, as we climbed these dangerous heights, walked the veterans of the R-evolutionary NVar. Their long stories were ex- ceedingly interesting but numerous dates and laws they told us about weighed upon our minds. VVe were only half way up 'tHisto1'y Hills when our guides lead us over to 'tEnglish Plaines. There we met Mr. and Mrs. Verb and their family of little verbs, coming toward us. The smaller verbs seemed exhausted and Miss Perkins informed us that we should carry them with us on our journey. Some of the baby verbs were very 'tactive and caused much trouble, others were very passive, but we1'e even more confusing at times than the active verbs. After much hard labor with the verbs, Miss Amesse announced that we would have a rest from the verbs and directed us to Percentage Valley. On the way some of our friends took the wrong trail but were soon rescued by Miss Keplinger, our emergency guide. In this valley we found it was customary for certain citizens to car1'y 'Za signs and these signs made them one hund1'ed times as important as those citi- zens who carried no signs. As we were busy figuring out to XVll0lT1 the W signs belonged, we heard a loud cry from the distant hills. Our guides informed us that the noise came Twenty-Four