Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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TT =£ of Latin, we extend to our teacher, Miss Quinnell, our heartfelt thanks and gratefulness for the happy days we spent together in her classes, with the old Latin masters. DOROTHY THOMAS. ART. OB ART High School offers its members a two years’ course in Art. Painting and drawing are the chief features and the classes do water- color painting, pen and ink sketching, char- coal drawing, stenciling and designing. The Class of 1914 always have been interested in Art and we made the most of the course offered, spending all our spare time in the drawing-room painting wonderful cucumbers, beautiful rose-hops, realistic strawberries, and glorious sunsets. We were very proud of these achieve- ments and were sorry we could not continue in our Junior and Senior years. At the time of the Junior Banquet we put some of our training to use by painting our place-cards and mak- ing candle shades, besides using the artistic temperament we had developed, to decorate the banquet room and the tables in a very beautiful and artistic manner. W e consider the hours spent in the drawing-room well worth while and shall look back upon them as some of the most pleasant in our High School days. EDNA SCHELDT. 19 t)

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r Q 0 Q=0 HELEN M. QUINNELL Prin. High School, Latin and Botany LATIN. THINK we can truthfully say that one of the most profitable and interesting studies of our High School course has been our Latin. The j!jl first year the class valiantly built up a good foundation on which to depend for the coming three years. Miss Quinnell also taught the children some amusing little nursery rhymes in Latin such as “O Mea Maria, tota contraria” and “Rubicilla.” Naturally these appealed to their childish natures and so they were recited with great gusto. The next year our foundations were greatly tried for we went through the great and terrific wars of Caesar and one thing especially was hard for us — namely that of building a bridge. We also learned many interesting things— especially that there was a hill which sloped up on one side and down on the other. Miss Quinnell was our valiant leader and to her we owe thanks for bringing us safely through all of those campaigns and back to our times with a desire to learn more of Latin and the lives of great Romans. The next year — oh! how different! — No blaze of glory nor blast of war but a sweet love story told in the beau- tiful poetry of Vilgil’s Aeneid. How eagerly we “scan- ned” those lines! We became so infatuated with Dido and Aeneas that when Dido died we all put on deep mourning and trailed into Latin class with sorrowful faces to read about Aeneas’ cruelty. We also had many ani- mated discussions on the actions of Aeneas — some declar- ing he was not to blame and others condemning him earn- estly. At last after visiting many interesting places — among them the infernal regions, which we all decided would never see us again — we found that we had finished the Aeneid and we laid it aside with a sigh. Then in our senior year the juniors joined us and together we studied the perfect oratory of Cicero. Here also our love of discussions became manifest and we weighed the pro and con of many questions which Cicero discussed. And so, safely piloted through our four years 0 G 0 = T1

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Q £7 EUNICE ROPER German and English GERMAN. FTER a Freshman learns the German alphabet and how to trill his r’s he thinks any other language would be a cinch to learn. For many weeks after he begins German, he may be heard making a noise suggestive of shredded wheat or corn flakes at breakfast time. The more sea- soned “Deutcher Gelehrte” listen to his attempts with disgust. After the grammar work of the Freshman year is over, then the fun begins. Such stories as, “Immensee” and “Holier als die Kirclie,” were delightful to some of the students on account of their sentimental qualities and many a blush was wasted while reading these stories. In our Junior year when we entered the Class with the Seniors we thought we would be “swamped” by their greater knowledge but in spite of this, we succeeded splendidly with “Die Katzensteg” and “Minna von Barnhelm.” Our Senior year was entered with much enthusiasm in our work because, having three years of German we were able to read and translate fluently. “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” was enjoyed immensely by the class on ac- count of its mysterious nature. This was followed by “Die Journalisten, ” which was quite different from any we had studied before, it being a political drama. We owe our thanks to our German instructors, Mr. Zaugg, Miss Frank, and Miss Roper for their patience with the “dumpfkopfs” of the class, and we will always remember our teachers because German was the favorite study of our class. MAYMK G. BARNES. 20 a 0 a