Gas City High School - Epoch Yearbook (Gas City, IN)

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0--i-4-THE EPOCH,1927-- O BAND The possibility of organizing a school band has been under discussion for a year or more. The shortage of instruments in the school orchestra aggravated the discussion somewhat this year. So just before the close of the first semester the superintendent asked the Board of Education for authority to start a band and take all necessary steps to assure its success. The Board heartily gave not only its consent, but its wholehearted support. Mr. Ralph Bailey, a bandman with marked ability in starting bands, was called in to take charge. Arrangements were made for him to come to the schools three afternoons and one evening a week, to give free instruc- tion to all who went into the band. After six weeks he had a band of thirty-two pieces make its first public appearance, and four weeks later they played during the intermission of the high school play. The progress of the band has really been marvelous. The proposal for starting a school band was enthusiastically sup- ported by students and townspeople. Parents willingly purchased ex- pensive instruments for their children. A Tag Day benefit Was given hearty support and netted about a hundred dollars for a band uniform fund. The student body arranged a benefit basketball game which added seventy-five dollars to this fund. The employes of the Illinois Glass Com- pany raised and presented to the band fund 325105, which made it pos- sible for the uniforms to be purchased this year. Gas City school children are very fortunate to have such splendid support, and the student body are determined to do all in their power to show they are worthy. Parents, fellow students, Illinois Glass employes, and all who have helped make the organization of our school band possible, we thank you! We know your satisfaction will be in our progress so we are going to give our best.

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,-,..T?THE EPocH,1927--l--0 l lim 'Y3 f L L. ':' GIRLS' GLEE CLUB Director-Miss Ruby Guilliams Geneva Walker Mildred J etfrey Ruth Baker Vivian Gent Dorothy Boller Bernice McKaughan Zora Wilson Thelma Richards Margaret Brown Bessie Mae Lyons Wilma McPheron Inez Davies Ruby Street Mildred Crouch Margaret Mittank Erna Van Valer Helen Atkinson Virginia Crowell Students who took the leads in the operetta were William Williams, Virginia Crowell, Erna Van Valer, Bessie M. Lyons, Charles Harris, Richard Van Valer, Frederick Gordon, Geneva Walker and Eleanor Green- wood. accompanist. The Glee Club helped to share the success of the Community Carol sing which took place December 22, in the Auditorium. They also gave some splendid numbers during Exhibit Week, for National Music Week, and for Commencement activities.

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01i.1-THE EPOCH,1927 0 FRESHMAN RECEPTION The 9A class entertained the 8B's with a very pleasant reception the evening of September 17, 1926. The evening was spent in the initiation of the new Freshmen. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served and a good time was enjoyed by all. HI-Y CHILI FEED On the night of October 3rd, the Hi-Y held a chili feed at the high school. Afterwards Willis Hutchins made a speech on the Hi-Y principles and expectations for the coming year. Next a iibbing contest was held in which Mr. Routh and Mr. Gotschall starred. The succeeding and last number on the program was an indoor baseball game between the fibbing contestants and the remaining members present. The game was very ex- citing, the outcome being indefinite. THE CRANK PARTY On the evening of October 25th, 1926, the Four Cranks entertained with an elaborate banquet at the Wayside Inn in honor of the seventy- third anniversary of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, which oc- curred the preceding week. The first speaker of the evening was the Right Honorable Beesicks Joshua Brophy, who spoke on the subject, Evolution and Its Relation To Me. This address was very loudly applauded. The second speaker was Bishop Horatis Lincoln Routh, who spoke on Love, a subject always highly entertaining to an audience such as that present. Other orators of the evening were Madame Methodist Episcopal Jacoby, Sir Lancelot Aristotle Gotschall, and Lords Romeo Caesar Car- mony, and Wallace Hagenbach Leach. Guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Job Pratt, Mrs. Wallace Hagenback Leach, Mrs. Beesicks Joshua Brophy, and the Misses Harriet Beecher McCormick, Mercuria Compton, Mignonette Riordan, Letitia Amanda Albertson, Gretchen Walling, Gabrilla King, Ferdinanda Riley, Lucinda Longfellow and Faith Andrews. I The menu consisted of steak fGas City's specialtyj, H. S. Freshman's Misfortune, Policeman's Favorite, Jeweler's Delight, and Everlasting Sweet. Miss Rowena Guilliams and Miss Cordelia Zell sang a number of negro spirituals, which added a most pleasing contrast to the serious pro- gram of the evening. The hostesses were the Misses Oleomargerine Kerr, Hallelujah Over- man, Miranda Jones, and Mehitable Standiford. Y-HI HALLOWE'EN PARTY The Y-Hi girls held a Hallowe'en party at the home of Erna Van Valer, October 29. The evening was spent in playing games and dancing. Refreshments of orange ice and wafers were served to the Misses Louise Smithson, Dorothy Boller, Ruth Lewark, Margaret Howard, Elizabeth Howard, Bessie Lyons, Thelma Richards, and Messrs. Russel Smithson, Fred Gordon, Willis Hutchins, Clarence Hollenback, Charles Harris, Dee Adrianson, Ralph Groves, Arthur Walsh, Albert Spurgeon, Dick Van Valer and Miss Erna Van Valer.