Gnadenhutten High School - Goal Yearbook (Gnadenhutten, OH)

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THE GOAL Page Twenty-seven 305 'C un T Qjlwona, C .3 J if 'nd MTEW The ultimate value of our literary socie- ties is unknown. The budding prodigies in oratory, in politics, in literature, in salesmanship and in science put forth their first efforts for the light impelled by the force of our literary societies. Those who take part in them become accustomed to standing before an audience and speaking and finally to thinking on their feet. This ability is needed by everyone, especially by those in public lifeg it is trained by practice in extemporaneous speeches. Even our fu- ture presidents may take their first lessons in moving the world to great issues by their eloquence, at our literaries. Our sales- men may get their first experience in con- vincing people by taking part in the de- bates, which have the added virtue of bringing prominence to the town. Our scien- tists obtain their first experience in writ- ing up their discoveries either for other scientists or for the public. Our literary men and women get their start in writing stories, essays, and poems. Some people have already begun to acknowledge the value of giving young authors a start. Mr. O. C. Wheland offered prizes for the best essay on the Monroe Doctrine. The Gnadenhutten Bank offered a five dollar gold piece for the best origin- al story written by a student. We are cer- tain therefore, that our patrons approve of developing lite1'ary genius, and we feel sure that they will support us in trying to de- velop the other geniuses of our school. We know, nevertheless, that even geniuses are sometimes indifferent. Consequently to stimulate interest, our societies compete with each other. Their names are Shake- spearean and Lincolnian. Every two weeks, the last periods of Friday are taken for a meeting of the societies. Their leaders bring in judges from outside the school to say who gave the best recitation, which side won in the debate, and so on. Each number counts so many points. The so- ciety whose members have obtained the highest total of points at the end of the year wins. We think that interest will be heightened also by each society's retaining for the next year those of its members who are still in school. New members will be chosen from the new pupils coming in. In this way we hope to be more able to say next year, as we say this, that those who graduate from this school are trained to be- come the nation's greatest men and Wom- en. -Edith Healea

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Page Twenty-six THE GOAL .. GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM LEFT TO RIGHT-Clara Reed, Blanche Dichler, Gladys Brown, Florence Everett, Mary Bender, Mary Schreiner, Vera Shull, Edith Peter. TRACK The annual county track meet was held The Sug- Oct. 28, at the Dover Fair Grounds. schools participating were Strasburg, arcreek, Gnadenhutten, Baltic, Bolivar, Dun- dee, and Wooster Highway. Sugarcreek took first place for the third consecutive year and by so doing won the silver cup. Strasburg took second, and we had to be content with third place. We entered the track meet with a team made up of entirely new meng all of the old team were lost by graduation last spring. BASKET BALL Spring baseball was started in earnest April 17, 1923, when Gnaden High School went to Tuscarawas to play the nine of that town. G. H. S. won 10 to 11. We also have two games scheduled with Newcomerstown and New Philadelphia and one more with Tuscarawas. BASE BALL On account of having no place to play, all of our games but one were played away from home. Our home game was played on our outside court on Thanksgiving Day with Newcomerstown as our opponent. During the basketball season our team played six interscholastic games and two tournament gamesg making a total of eight games played. Three games were won. This is a good showing for the team be' cause of the great handicap of having no place to practice. The games played were: G.H.S. 17-Dennison 19. G . H . S. 27-Newcomerstown 17, G.H.S. 14-Newcomerstown 31. G.H.S. 9-Sugarereek 21. G.H.S. 14-Uhrichsville 11. G.H.S. 19-Tuscarawas 23. TOURNAMENT GAMES L Afternoon Bolivar Mineral City Dundee 6 .......... .. . Strasburg 35 Gnadenhutten 29 .......... Tuscarawas 7 Evening Strasburg 20 .. ........ Mineral City 12 Strasburg 52 . .. Gnadenhutten 16

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Page Twenty-eight THE GOAL DEBATERS LEFT TO RIGHT-Dorothy Gilmore, Franiis Nussbaum, Alma Kinsey, Albert Sind- linger Cstandingl, John Gray, Edward Milliken. DEBATES Rah! Rah! Rah! D-e-b-a-t-e-r-s! We the students of G. H. S. certainly feel that we have a right to cheer for our debaters, first because they are among the best debaters in the State: second, because they can beat any other debaters in the county when it comes to a show-down. Do you know that out of the ten inter' school debates in which our school has par- ticipated we have won nine? For four years a silver loving cup has been awarded to the school having the best debaters, and for two years Gnadenhutten has held it, and quite fully have we decided to take first place again next year, then the silver cup will be our permanent possession to help adorn our own little trophy case. The inter-school debates this year were held on April 6th, The question being, Re- solved, That the Open Shop is to the best interests of the American People. There were two triangular debates, Tuscarawas, Strasburg and Gnadenhutten forming one triangle, while Mineral City, Bolivar and Sugar Creek-Shanesville formed the other. Our negative team, Edward Milliken, John Gray and Albert Sindlinger Calternatej, re- mained at home to defeat Strasburg in an animated debate with a score 303 to 285, While our affirmative team, Dorothy Gil- more, Francis Nussbaum, and Alma Kinsey falternatej, went to Tuscarawas to deprive them of their long-hoped for victory with a score of 306 to 297, thus Gnadenhutten be- came the victor of the T.-S.-G. triangle. were now ready to combat with the We winners of the other triangle, had it not been for the fact that a. week before the debates the principals and superintendents decided to eliminate the final debate this year, and award the cup to the school hav- ing the highest score on the night of the triangular debates thus Mineral City, due to the fact that she scored high in one de- bate, became the proud possessor of the silver cup. But beware Mineral City! Gnadenhutten is not out of the game yet. -Alma Kinsey