Hartshorne High School - Harts Horn Yearbook (Hartshorne, OK)

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PAGE FOUR THE HART'S HORN STAFF. Managing Editor ...,.....,.... T. W. Hllflliel' News Editor ...... Helen Louise Shankle Assoc, Editors ......................-- ---,---- Darlene Schmieding, Chester Mitch- ell, Lavaughn Whitehurst, Clyde Cornelius, Russel Grey. . Circulation Mgr ....,.. Katheryn Katigan ......-1-1-.i SCHOOL SPIRIT. What is school spirit? What do we mean when we say, you should have mdoe school spirit? Some of us probably haven't given the subject much thought, yet it is of vital importance. School spirit epitomized is the ener- getic participation in all school activi- ties, especially those in which you are best qualified to enter and in any other in which you might be of as- sistance. When we speak of school spirit we mean unity. All organizations no matter what kind must have a spirit of unity, and also must have a cause common to each of its members. His- tory proves that there was some form of unity in the earliest records of mankind, that they lived in tribes, each tribe choosing its leader in order to promote harmonious relationship with each other, and to insure domes- tic tranquility. This same spirit of unity means that in your heart there should be a genuine love for your school and a devotion to the principles for which it stands. School spirit takes in quite a scope, and to have school spirit many things must be considered in connection therewith, but above all, there must be an honest, conscientious elfort to do your best whatever you may undertake. All people have their peculiarities. In high schools especially there is a great variety of activities, some of which may not especially appeal to you. Almost every boy, and every girl is more or less enthusiastic over football, and nearly everyone will jump in with a will and boost it along: but will these same folk enter into the next activity with the same degree of pep and enthusiasm as dem- onstrated by their football spirit? When the football season is over will you lose most of your pep or will you carry it over into another channel as equally important? Yes, it is easy to have pep and zest in any activity in which you are vital- ly interested, but will you assist in other movements in which others might be interested, which might be of like importance, yet not especially appeal to you? Whenaboy or girl can do the things mentioned and do them right, then we can say truthfully that that boy or girl has a fine school spirit. ' What do you say-let's have a little more 59.13991 spirit? THE HART'S HORN I if Z I if RESUME OF CLASS ORGANIZA- TIONS. The Freshmen entered high school with an enrollment of sixty-five. Miss TALE Lmzs Roling was chosen sponsor and the following officers elected: President, Tommy Woods. Vice-President, Edward Morgan. Secretary, Hazel Ward. Treasurer, Thelma Holmes. Reporter, Jack LeFevre. The Sophomore Class is fortunate in having its last year's sponsor, Miss White, to guide it again this year. Officers for 1925-26 are: ' President, Uthana Woods. Vice-President, Philip Marco. Secretary and Treasurer, Janette Davidson. Class Reporter, Alta Lovelace. B2 is the motto of the Crimson and White Class. Although the Junior Class is not as large as some it has all the desired quality of lead- ership. Miss Brewen continues spon- sorship of this class. The following officers were chosen for this year: President, Eliot Rhinehart. Vice-President, Paul Willis. Secretary-Treasurer, John Savage. Reporter, Hasty Holly. The Senior Class shows an in- creased enrollment over last year and with three more recruits its number will be forty. The Class officers are: President, T. W. Hunter. Secretary-Treasurer, Faude Ald- ridge. Sergeant-at-arms, Chester Mitchell. Reporter, Allie Brashears. Sponsor, Iona Ballew Freeman. A new plan of organization has been effected this year. The class is divided into three groups, each group being in charge of a captain. Each member of the class is responsible for some part of every activity we under- take, Thus, we hope to strengthen loyalty and unity of purpose in the class. Captains are: Group Number 1-Clyde Cornelius. Group Number 2-Kathryn Kati- gan. Group Number 3-Chester Mitchell. -..H,,4... Somebody kill the jinx. On the eve of the Quinton game five regulars were on the shelf. Captain Aldridge had a seige of boils, Chester Mitchell and John Sikora both had injured shoulders, Clyde Cornelius had the flu and Walter Woods had a sprained elbow. The loss of five men from a small squad is a serious blow. Besides Andrew Yakubish has nursing an injured hand and Pierce is out of things for a because of a fractured wrist. ..,...HH-Li been Uell while know George Spangler wants to what becomes of an open door when you close it. Robert Matthews: Say, what be- came of that man that got killed? Faude Aldridge: Oh, he died. 1-ij-gil Miss White fin science classjs Edward, what is science? Edward Morgan: It's one of them things that says keep off the grass. .ig-1-H Uthana Woods trunning in breath- lesslylz Do you know Alvin Allen's neck? Miss Brewen: es-Why-? Uthana: Well, he just fell into the water up to it. i-..-1.94, Miss Pardone: Miss Roling, the doctor is here. Miss Roling: Oh, I can't see him -tell him I'm sick. i771-1,,1., James Henry was badly injured the other day while trying to whistle a bar of soap. -,H-... John Sikora thinks that After the Balls' was written by our football Coach. Professor grow absent-minded onw and then. Mr. Fair: I hear Bill Smith died yesterday. Mr. Freeman: He did, what was his name? Mr. Fair: Who?'T 1,..?H.i.. Philip Marco fin history classjz -and they coronated the King and put the crown on his head. , 7H .. The Freshman class is all torn up over the question of whether Copen- hagen is a fox-trott or a kind of snuff. ,?,.-H,, John Gorham says that all dogs are tale bearers, ..T..-H..,... CLASS ACTIVITIES. The Seniors are all excited. Wait a minute-you'll be too. We are go- ing to have a Halloween Carnival the like of which you have never seen. Fun - thrills - excitement - enter- tainment-and something to eat-and everybody invited. Think of it! There will be plenty of ghosts, gob- lins, black cats, witches, broom sticks, and jack-o'-lanterns for the most ad- venturous, besides a big show in the auditorium as a finale. A penny car- nival! And you know that the Juniors have their annual play selected and cast- ed 'Z Work starts October 19th and it will be presented sometime in No- vember. Daddy Long-Legs has been chosen. We challenge you to find the gentleman among the Juniors.

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THE HART'S HORN HISTORY OF HARTSHORNE SCHOOLS. One of the chief sources of pleasure given to man is the privilege of look- ing back over the past through the eyes of his own experience. Added to this is the benefit and joy he derives from the lives of his predecessors. How many times have you as a youngster rambled through the old vacant house and stood shuddering at every breath of wind whispering in through the cracks? As we grow older the fascination for old things may be pushed into the background but it never dies. For some there is a love of old coins that speaks of far lands and ancient governments, old furniture that hints of powdered hair and brocades, old china telling mar- velous tales of lights and shades, others content themselves with mem- ories. Before an open fire in winter our first legend must have come from the lips of one whose eyes were constant- ly turning backward over scenes of war and romance as he approached nearer and nearer the end of his day. And to this day youth receives with something like awe, feeling but not fully comprehending, the history of the past. As a student body we are more in- terested in Hartshorne High School than anything else. How fascinating then to gather around the Hreside figuratively speaking, of men who made our school and listen to their stories. As in all history the beginning was vague. A little log house in the southwestern part of town near what is now the Russian settlement was the first school house. Mr. Moore taught in those early days. How long he stayed and who followed him we have not been able to find out, but some- time later the miners built the frame building which until recent years was known as the South Ward building. Mr. C. E. Castle, now of Wagoner, Oklahoma, came to Hartshorne as principal of the school and many of the pioneer citizens of Hartshorne still recall the splendid teachers and the wonderful of Mr. Castle's school. Authentic history begins for us with Mr. Christian's administration in 1897. How fortunate we are to have the story told by Mr. Christian himself. We found him still engaged in his life's work of teaching boys and girls and filling his spare mo- ments with literary activities. No one has such a memory for details. Listen! I was in Hartshorne from 1897 until statehood. When I first went there, there was but one building, a frame structure, south of the tracks. While I was there a similar building was erected just back of the old one, which gave us seven rooms in all. The school was known as the Harts- horne Graded School and my four i PAGE THREE assistant teachers and I followed the Ft. Smith course of study. Since was no city government the was maintained by a revenue there school tax on the miners who comprised the major single month part of the population. Each miner paid fifty cents per and each married miner paid one dollar per month to the mine superintendent, who acted as presi- dent of the School Board. All miners' children came to school free, but the parents of other children had to pay a tuition of one dollar a month for each child, although no one was re- quired to pay more than five dollars per month. Some people saved money with this plan, it was a day of large families. The Choctaw Indians attended school and the Choctaw Nation paid for their tuition. There was a small separate school at the time for col- ored children. Members of the School Board at that time were Superintendent Edwin Ludlow, Owen McHugh, T. W. Mc- Laughlin, F. G. Ungles, Evans Jones, and B. Wilson Edgel. The latter was founder of the Hartshorne Sun. Our salaries were paid upon application at the end of each month in gold, silver, or currency as pleased us and we al- ways received it promptly. The next president of the board was Franklin Bache, the founder of the little town of Bache between Hartshorne and McAlester. The third was the late Mr. William Evans of McAlester, I think, although I'm not sure of that, In 1898 I saw that Wisconsin was giving a diploma for eighth grade graduates and I decided to adopt Wis- consin's plan. Many of our eighth grade graduates went over to Ft. Smith and were received into high school without an entrance examina- tion. We added the ninth grade in 1898 and the next year the tenth. Of course, this called for another teach- er, thus we had a six-teacher school. You may be interested in the per- sonnel of the first eighth grade grad- uating class: Austin Bryant, still lives near Hartshorne. Walter Patterson moved to Texas. Harvey Merrel lives in California. Lula McLaughlin teaches English in Southeastern Teachers' College in Durant. Anna Miller is now the wife of a prominent druggist in Hartshorne, Mr. Hammond. Alice Lewis, I cannot recall. My first teachers were Miss Lillie Frisby from Mississippi, Miss Jennie Unglesby from Indiana, Miss May Stallcup from Ft. Smith and Miss Ghaska Baker from Arkansas. They were fine teachers-fine! We had a kindergarten principally for the pur- pose of teaching the little foreign children how to speak English. I remember one incident with some pride. There had been many school entertainments given free. During my second year, I believe, we decided to charge admission to these affairs and found a library with the pro- ceeds, Mrs. R. I. Bond, who lives in Ft. Smith at present, offered to give dollar for dollar of what we made and we made fifty dollars. Mrs. Bond was a little surprised at the amount but handed over fifty more without a murmur and that was the beginning of the Hartshorne High School Li- brary. I would like to see it now! I mustn't forget to mention that Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Ludlow conducted a sewing school for years in connec- tion with the school giving their ser- vices free. In 1902 I left Hartshorne and was gone two years. Mr. Abbott came the first year and there was a com- plete change of teachers. Mr. Cowart came the second year and changed all the teachers again. In 1904 the town was reorganized unde'r the Ar- kansas law for incorporated towns. A mayor and other city officials be- sides a regular school board were elected. That Board of Education recalled me and I served there in the capacity of principal for three more years. In 1907 came statehood and in 1907 I was elected Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction of Pittsburgh County. I resigned in January of 1908 and Mr. Martindale came from Adamson to take my place, However, I lived in Hartshorne all the six years I was county superintendent. That is all, I believe, except many personal memories and intimate hap- penings that wouldn't interest you. In the large old record book in the present superintendent's office we find H1909-E. D. Martindale, Supt. Thus, we judge that he finished Mr. Christian's term in 1908 and taught another year for in 1909 and '10 Mr. McPheron's name appears on the records as Superintendent. Since Mr. McPheron is the present principal of McAlester High School he can speak for himself. I-Ie reports very little system in the school when he came as far as ranking the child- ren was concerned. And somehow the teachers employed had not been required to have very much college education. Mr. McPheron's first step was to re-grade the school and send iously they all ment to the Teachers' ipously they all went to the Teachers' College at Nashville, Tennessee. No more grades had been added since Mr. Christian left and during the three years Mr. McPheron stayed the elev- enth and twelfth years of High School work were added, The North Ward building was erected during 1910-11 and we think no more fitting name could be given it than The McPheron School, for through the force of his personal magnetism and wonderful QContinued on Page Eight.J

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THE HART'S HORN WHAT ABOUT THE SAXOPHONE? A Publisher Asks the Question. C. C. Birchard, Boston, Mass. It seems to be a moot point in the orchestral question for schools as to whether the saxophone should be provided for as an essential instru- ment, or only as a cued in instrument. I shall state briefly some reasons for viewing the saxopphone as an essen- tial instrument. In discussing the question it is necessary to state .in general the aims in teaching the 1n- struments, and the ensemble playing of instruments by the young people. Doubtless the aim most held is the cultural one, that our boys and girls be brought to an early appreciation of good music. fLearn to play and to love good musiclj The other aim is of music as a means of self ex- pression. This last, to my mind, is the true aim-to use music as an ex- ercise for the growth of the entire boy and the entire girl, for character development through pleasurable, spontaneous activity, an exercise, to the fullest extent possible, of the physical, mental and spiritual facul- ties. Innocent activity entered into with abandon and forgetfulness of self becomes a real safeguard in all the issues of life. When the boy and girl exercise in their games, they are more than out of mischief, they are forming the habit of good behavior. That form and exercise of music which engages enthusiasm is the one in which music should most persistently be presented to the young. Now, I hear you ask, what applica- tion has the above to the subject of the saxophone? The saxophone is the instrument which probably most attracts the young, therefore, why shall we not use it out and out? In many quarters the saxophone is still a discredited instrument. But not in all. The professional musician is coming around slowly to consider the saxophone as an instrument of im- portance in the modern orchestra. It isn't so long ago that Paul White- man, of Jazz fame, was pretty com- pletely discredited in high-brow musi- cal circles. Not so now. There are composers of the first rank preparing manuscripts in the hope of acceptance by Mr, Whiteman. At least two Bos- ton composers of note have submitted compositions to Mr. Whiteman. Leo Sowerby of Chicago is reported to have been in Milwaukee with White- man who is playing the latest com- position by this brilliant composer. We are told that only recently Mr. Stock of Chicago has played an im- portant new work using saxophones. Mr. Mengelberg of New York City has quite recently conducted a con- certo for violins and orchestra by Samuel Gardner in which saxophones were used. Mr. Ganz of St. Louis is, we are told, giving attention to the fContinued on Page Eight.J PAGE FIVE y 1 , Ni ...iff f' sl 'wad' - V55 . Q, . 'fill' HX 11 f XL x , Z -' h I s l x. x i i Q x it or . . fa ' 1. , Q x . f -A HARTSHORNE HIGH SCHOOL CO- OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. The nucleus of student life in high school this year is the co-operative association, This organization will function through the agency of a student council and a faculty advisor. Four members of each class, two boys and two girls, are nominated by the faculty. Each class elects two of these nominees, one boy and one girl. The senior class has the privilege of nominating two of its members from which one is elected by the entire student body as the member at large. The faculty advisor is elected by the faculty. This organization is to help solve many of the problems that arise dur- ing the school year, to develop a dem- ocratic spirit among the students, to train in citizenship, and to promote unity in the school. The following students have been chosen to repre- sent their respective classes during the first semester: Allie Brashears, Roy Long, seniorsg Regina Rothbaum, Tom Whiting, juniors, Janette David- son, Philip Marco, sophomores, Vera Katigan, Aubry Thompson, freshmen, Chester Mitchell, senior member at large, Miss Pardone, faculty advisor to the student council. A constitution for this new organi- aation is being prepared, which will outline the program of activities to be sponsored by the student associa- tion. .L..HH?x.. HEY! LET ME TELL YOU! The Humjingers are wearing their new costumes. Some style-what? A Spanish bolero all of blue, A nifty sash of the selfsame hue, Plenty of pep, ginger, and snap, Hartshorne High School's on the map! ..T,H-T..? The tragedy of the year: Mr. Fair came to school minus his collar. HUMJINGERS JING! The Humjingers are u and going. along P The organization was effected the same plan as last year's pep team. Three boys and three girls being elected to represent each class. Those chosen from the senior class were: Darlene Schmieding, Kathryn Kati- gan, Hazel Humphreys, Roy Long, Russel Grey, and T. W. Hunter, who is pep leader. Juniors, Regina Roth- baum, Janet Ross, Mae Ganner, Hasty Holly, Tom Whiting, John Savage, from the Sophomore class, Ara Miller, Uthana Woods, Alta Lovelace, George Spangler, Louis Anderson, and Frank Martindale, from the Freshman Class, Vera Katigan, Edith Chronister, Ruby Burk, Tommy Woods, Bob Sorrels, and Clarence Burk. Miss Virginia White is this year's sponsor and has brought originality of material and whole-hearted co-operation and fervor to all the pep activities. We've got it! We've got it! Doggone it, we'll keep it! Our pep! . ..H,,.L-,- CLUBS. ' GIRL'S GLEE CLUB. The Girl's Glee Club is growing by leaps and bounds. This year's club consists of sixty-five members. Prac- tice is being held on Monday and Thursday afternoons of each week under the supervision of Mr. Free- man. Kathryn Katigan has been elected secretary-treasurer. iL-,HL., -,-,- ORCHESTRA. The first meeting of the High School Orchestra was held Monday, September 28th. Approximately twenty-five members reported for practice. The orchestra is under the direction of Wyatt C. Freeman, Su- pervisor of Music. From all indications the orchestra of this year is to be the best in the history of the Hartshorne High School. Several new and exceptional instruments are to be introduced this year such as, the oboe and bassoon. The latter was purchased by the school this year and a number of the boys are taking lessons preparatory to a try-out for a perma- nent player. We feel that the addi- tion of this beauty instrument will add materially to the quality of our performances as well as to the ap- pearance of our orchestra. The members are beginning prac- tice with enthusiasm and the expecta- tion of winning the cup at Durant again this spring. L-- .7 LLHL, ..- .Lu Elliott Rineheart fat the parkl: Say what are those holes in the fence? Frank Mahan: They are knot holes. Elliott: Why they are holes too.