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

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T T £ Q= Piano Solo Silver Sprays Gladys Snyder — ’16 Violin Solo Serenade Freda Nagel — ’15 CENSUS TAKER Mrs. Norton Ethel Halsted — ’14 Sympathy Norton Helen Wild — ’17 William Norton Elmer Nikscli — ’17 Census Taker Willie Wollenberg — ’17 Trio Galope Militaire Helen Smith — ’15 Gladys Snyder — ’16 Alice Sarver — ’14 ‘ ‘ THE HEAVENLY TWINS. ’ ’ Geo. W. Barton, Students at Yale, Elmer Nikscli Tom Jackson, “The Twins” . .Herbert Peterson Miss Samantha Brown, Principal of Miss Brown’s Select School for Young Ladies Thelma Fetterer Miss Sophronia Brown, her sister Florence Strom Mrs. Prof. Barton, mother of George and friend of Miss Brown Loretta Malone Helen Clark, Helen Rose Adele DeCourcy, Girl chums in School . . . .Helen Smith Lou Brighton, Clara Cole, Girls in Miss Jennings, Miss Brown’s School Miss Johnson, Janitor Philip Waldeck Detective Raymond Wood . . .Elsie Gruel .. .Helen Wild . .Ruth Miller . Gussie Bowen r? ‘HOME TIES.” Martin Winn — With memories of the past Willie Wollenberg Leonard Everett — A son of the soil Philip Waldeck Harold Vincent — From New York Raymond Wood Josiali Tizzard — An umbrella mender George White Kutli Winn — Martin’s daughter Alice Sarver Alma Wayne — Her friend from the city — Dorothy Thomas Aunt Melissa — Martin’s sister Hazel Stevens Mrs. Poplin— A widow, with a pension and “symptoms” Mayme Barnes Lindv Jane — Who “helps around” Ethel Halsted The High School Play. “Home Ties” was great! The cast was well chosen and each character was splen didly presented. There was not a weak spot in the entire cast. Prof. Thompson must feel gratified at the smoothness and vivacity with which the play moved off. The large audience enjoyed a pleasant evening, and added materially to the fund necessary to publish this year’s issue of the “Aurora” in fitting style. The girls’ chorus gave two selections very acceptably and Miss Richey’s playing of her own composition between acts added greatly to the pleasantness of the occasion. — Gazette. 25 ; £J == T!

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t r? MATHEMATICS. HE High School course of mathematics requires a year and a half of algebra, at least one year $ of geometry, but the solid geometry, which only takes half a year, is an elective. When the class of 1914 entered High School we were initiated into the wonders of Algebra by Miss Quinnell. We learned how to substitute x, y, z, and a, b, c for numbers and be able to work out an answer. For several months we continued in this pleasant manner until we received the terrible news that the High School lacked a drawing teacher and that Miss Quinnell was to take that position. Mr. Thompson then took the Fresh- man Algebra class under his wing for the rest of the year. Mr. Wiley was our mathematics teacher during our Sophomore year. Under his supervision we finished Algebra and then came Geometry, with its isosceles tri- angles and many others, with names which some of the students struggled hard before they could pronounce. In our Junior year we finished plane geometry with Mr. Haughtelin as our teacher. The mind of one member of the class seemed to run to the axiom that “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other” and afforded the class many pleasant jokes and laughs. When it was time to decide who would take solid geometry there were many negatives and only three affirmatives, so with a class of three, we worked our way through many hard propositions, at the same time enjoy- ing them. At the present time the mathematics course of three years is under the supervision of Mr. Quigley. RUTIT SMITH. 24 DRAMATIC. “Oh ye gods! ye gods! must I endure all this?” “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare. O ONE realizes how much expression can be put in this simple line until he is up in front of the class quoting from Caesar and all eyes turned in his direction. But all through our High School life we have, more or less, enjoyed the dramatic work. Every year we have given at least two plays and our class has always been well represented. And during our four years of High School there have been seven medals won by our class in Reading and Oratory, four silver and three gold ones. At the beginning of our Senior year the High School was divided into two Literary Societies with Dorothy Thomas and Alice Sarver as presidents. Every two weeks one of these societies gave a program. The fol- lowing were the programs given. “Home Ties” was given for the benefit of the “Aurora.” Violin Solo .Traeumeri Myrtle Wild— ’16 Reading How Sockery Set a Hen The Dutchman’s Snake Agnes Lennertz — ’15 Quintette AH Thru the Night Elmer Niksch — ’17 Isabel White — ’16 Herbert Petterson — ’17 Myrtle Wild — ’16 Evelyn Mantueffel — ’16 Reading ’Ostler Joe Ethel Halsted— ’14 G £T Q

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a G. H. THOMPSON English ENGLISH LITERATURE. r ALL, I believe, it will be agreed that one of the greatest foes of progress in any age is a narrowness in the development of the minds of the people. However, this narrowness is rapidly growing less, and the present age is progressing because the interests and activities of the people are gradually becoming more extensive. Many agents are at work in creating a many-sided development of the public mind. Some are working among the present generation, bringing before the adults a variety of new subjects for their thoughtful consideration. But it is also agreed that the work which yields the most certain, the most lasting, if not the most rapid results, is the work among the rising generation, whose minds, still in the formative state, are ready to be shaped and molded by any potent influence. It is vitally important that the influences which are brought to bear on these young minds are influences which tend to combat narrowness and to promote their greater development. The greatest broadening agent at work in this important field to-day is the study of the English language in the High Schools of America. This stndv not only broadens the view and gives the needed variety to the ideas of the student, but is of great aid to him in grasping the full meaning of the text-books in any other line of research, which meaning often escapes the understanding of those who, from lack of proper study or from a meager, inexpressive vocabulary, are unable to comprehend in its entirety the idea presented. Then, too, with a good understanding of English, the wonders, the beauties, the pleasures of the great world of English literature are open to him. He may pass the day in monotonous, mind-dulling labor, and spend his evenings with the greatest minds of all time, thinking their thoughts, and adding to them observations from his own experience, thus preventing his mind from becoming nar- rowed to the unpromising confines of his uneventful daily labor. Surely the study of the English language by the rising generation will be a great factor in aiding the prog- ress of the race. Hobart High School has always stood for progress. G