Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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To The Right AlwaysI ® b i t o r i u l s 9 : Twenty-five Dollars To Ath. Ass n;— The ( ' lass of 1914 makes no apology for the many new things it has started during its Senior Year. It makes no apology for the precedents it has established. It has been out of love for the Alma Mater that the work has been done. When the Athletic Association found that it needed money to send the Basket Ball Team to the Western Illinois Tournament, the Senior Class started the list of subscriptions with twenty-five dollar . This is the first time, we believe, in the existence of Granite City High School that a class has responded, to the call of any organization with a donation. All the honor lies in the little phrase “We started it!” i t The Why and Whereof Answered.— This book is published with the belief that it will prove a good investment, and yet the possibilities of the same from an educational standpoint have been borne in mind since its inception. Consequently in decorating the book the har- mony of the example and of the paper, ink and type has been considered. In all ways the effort has been to make the book an honor, not only to the CLASS of 1914, but also, to the printer’s art, in the hope that the various illustrations and articles shown will be suggestive and beneficial, and instill a further desire to produce only such printed things that are really worth while. Therefore, if the book is at all successful along these lines it will in some measure have served its purpose. 9

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®abic of OTontento Frontispiece 4 Dedication 5 GRANOIS Staff Picture g Editorials 9 Board of Education Faculty 14 Salutatory By Maude Bader 16 ' e Joyous Revue By Martha Cowan Win. Thomas 17 Trial by Jury 21 Athletic Association Girard Varnuni. .22 Literary By Georgia Coudy Maude Rader 27 Baccalaureate and Class Day Programs 30 Commencement Program qj ( lass History By Mary Cowan Wm. Winter 32 Staff Cartoonist Joseph R. Kelehan 35 Class Prophecy By Amos Rode 36 Officers of Senior Class 39 Members of Senior Class 40 Class Will By Fred Elmore 46 Class Play (Synopsis Cast of Characters) 48 J u n ior Section 49 Sophomore Section Freshmen Section 54 Alumni Section 55 Oration By Henry C. Deterding 58 Sophomore Girls Basket Ball Team 60 Valedictory By Hetty Pick 61 Jokes and Personals By Mary Cowan Elza Wells 63 ADVILLE 77 THE END 95

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Permanent Name for Annual.— When this year ' s class decided to publish an Annual one of the many obstacles met with was the selection of a suitable name for the book. It was the intention of the class to adopt a name that would be a little out of the ordinary. A name that could be remembered because of its oddity. A name that would possibly be ac- cepted by future Annual-publishing classes as good enough for their book. Perhaps an ex- planation of the name would not be out of the way. “Granois” is a compound of the two words Granite and Illinois. The accent is on the last syllable. The pronunciation is “Gran- oy’.” We think that it is about time a permanent name is decided upon for the Annual that will undoubtedly be published at Granite High School every year, from now on. We are of the opinion that until a school adopts a permanent name for its year book it is behind the times. Of course, our opinion is nothing compared to the opinions of some people we know. However, it is our opinion, and as such we ask the future Senior classes to think over the matter of a permanent name. Merely as another expression of opinion (thank goodness, we are permitted to express our opinion anytime, and under any circumstances) we think • Gran- ois is just about as good anti approprite a name as could be discovered or invented. =:■ t Honor Society— An Honor Society proposed and entirely directed and composed of stu- dents would be a great undertaking. A Society inaugurated with the particular intention of uplifting the standard of the school would be a noble undertaking. The sum and substance of an Honor Society is that it is an organisation to which a person can aspire only after he has accomplished certain honorable deeds which are set down as req- uisites for entrance. These requisites should be of a prescribed number and applicable to the four different classes in School, viz : Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and Freshmen. The list of requisites should be drawn up by a Committee (elected by the whole school) in consultation with the Faculty. A detailed announcement of this list should he made. From that time a record of the notable deeds accomplished by the students should be kept. At the end of the first semester, before the student body, the names of those who satis- factorily fulfilled the nominated requirements are announced. After that the Honor Socitey is formerly organized by those persons whose names were announced. At the end of each semester thereafter the officers of the Society make the an- nouncement regarding the admittance of persons to their organization. Cap and Gown. -When any new project is launched there are objectors. That is natural. If that project is at all weak or narrow in its conception those objections are considered. Hut if the ultimate adoption of the project will without doubt better the conditions, then there no need to consider very seriously the objections. The particular project we have in mind is the passing of a resolution by the Board of Education permanently, adopting the Cap and Gown as the official or regulation garb of the graduating classes of Granite High School. The fact that it costs entirely too much to graduate from the High School in this city has been proven by a little talk Principal Coolidge made before the Senior Class at one of its first meetings this term. Mr. Coolidge said, in part, that he had received complaints that did not in any way credit the school. The complaints came in the form of threats. The threats meant the following: If the Senior Class did not take the matter in hand, the complaintants would place the matter of “High Cost of Graduating” before the Board of Education request- ing that body to limit the graduating classes, with regard to dress, etc., during commence- ment week. After Principal Coolidge ’s talk “cap and gown was placed before the Senior