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

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,!Xlf.j'Q-442-1 ALFRED G EPPS Mathematics and Manual ,l-YBlI'llHg 1914 slr oseph Williamson s Mathematical School Rochester Kent England Bachelor of Manual Tralnlng Valparaiso Unlverslty I9I4 MANUAL TRAINING l URINC our four years trammg ln the Hobart Hugh School all we had much work to do Of course lt was mostly bram wollt F and we had an easy llfe IH the class rooms But a few restless 9 ones were sent down to Mr Epps to toll with plane saw and hammer on the board pxle ThlS was not so serrous as lt mlght have been for we were glVCH considerable freedom Here we made boxes tables chalrs and VHYIOUS gewgaws whlch we took home and Imposed upon our frrends as real hand made artlcles of furnlture and very valuable The classes were not very well tralned ln honesty and as no strlct at tentlon was kept over the board pile many got credlt for slabs carved and pollshed by others At one tlme a crowd of glrls came down to the shop to recelve the necessary treatment or tralmng to fit thelr muscles to become first class car penters As manual tralnlng IS not braln work and glrls have all the brams and men only muscles the girl gang proved a sort of fallure and they dldnt get very good slabs of wood carved from the board plle Mr Epps however has a very hne Job ahead of hlm as the classes coming up from the lower grades contam many prospectne artisans who are ln serxous need of a few hours culture on the board plle Wlshlng success to hlm and also to the commg generation who are taken from the easy gomg routine of the class room and permltted to labor on the board plle the present workers and we Semors who have been allowed to keep away from thls place of toll for a year on good conduct hope to see many works of art come up from the lower reglons of the school house where we developed con sxderable muscle and a llttle skull and found some rellef from the abstractrons of the class room Wynne Thompson ll Tzcenfu one . J . . , . , , wf':f17x , W , , 5 'P . , A 1.1 'J . . L D -fl . , . - , 1 9 - y ' 1 - Y . . V . . . . , 1 ' 1 , 1 , . . , . . . , Y Y , . . I -Y - , .

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-JLf7 -D whlch everythrng rs composed The preparatlon and propertles of numerous compounds and elements are studred durmg the course The study rs rn truth very rnterestmg when we learn that some things rn exery day hfe are composed of and can be made by the chemlcal unlon of certam elements Then too the wonder ful and beautiful natural phenomena were formed by physical changes wrthout man s help Cn the whole the sclence course as rt IS studied IH Hobart Hlgh School rs very lnterestrng and rt IS to Mr Worthlngton that we are sm cerely grateful for guldmg us thru the two courses of physrcs and chemrstry Will Wollerrberg I7 HISTORY Deeds not dreams -g 9- S HISTORY not the recorded deeds of the past3 As Innocent X I Freshmen our mmds were not burdened wrth thrs subject but NB, 14, ln our Sophomore year we were mtroduced to the mysterles and profitably spent under the careful gurdance of Professor Stoltz On becomlng unrors a new teacher greeted our hlstory class lVlr Worthrngton patlently steered us through the rrse of the great emprres and other events down to modern tlmes The struggle for liberty seems small ln comparison wrth the present world war Let us sincerely hope that one of the results may be greater lrberty and a unrversal democracy of natlons Thls year as SCDIOYS we have studred the hlstory of our own country In connectron wlth thls work we have had some CIVICS whrch enables us to understand better and appreclate our lnstxtutlons of government We also realrze that a better knowledge of the past wrll enable us to help solve problems of the present and future ln the ever changing scenes of human progress lVlr Thompson has helped us to Interpret the events whrch have a bearmg upon our country today And we wlsh to thank hlm for hrs pa tlence and the lnterest he has shown m our work Cladys Flynn I7 Wrll WollenBerg C-racE Henderson CladyS Flynn Wynne Thompson Algot NelSon HelEn Wrld Clara l..1Nkhart Geneva Glll Ella ROssow Ruth MlllCl Elsa Cruel Tltrnty 5-1 lt ' ' I Q . l . - 'JAX splendors of the ancrent world. A year of thrs work was if Q74 Tb-. LJ A-Qi

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MATHEMATICS N COMING lnto the Hugh School as Freshles we thought we f S were WISC rn mathematics havmg had elght long years of arlth metlc but after the first day of algebra we felt conslderably I X' -75 humbled We found out that a b c etc occur rn other thmgs than the alphabet Durmg our Freshman course ln algebra we studred under the guldance of Mr Qurgley We wlsh to express our appreclatron for h1s patlence wxth us for we realize that vse were a rather troublesome class and dld not know much about mathematics The next year another teacher came to help us Mr Epps H steered us safely through our Sophomore half year of plane geometry and the half year of solid geometry The Hrgh School course requires only two and a half years of mathematlcs but those who wlsh may take another half year of lt solld geometry Generally the students by that tlme thlnk they have had enough of ab and the area of a triangle IS equal to and they declde to quit When the roll was called for solid lt was found that only four of us had declded to take It We were rather scared at first but due to the efforts of Mr Epps we got through the course safely and wlthout anyone s bemg affllcted wlth bram fever or semesters .l CcncvaM Czll I7 LATIN Facia non somma OOD thmgs are contamed ln small packages We were srx ln number Herbert Wynne Algot Thelma I..1II1an and myself Wrll when rn l9l3 we began Latln under the able mstructxon of Miss umnell who led us through the mtrlcacxes of word formatlon and Latm syntax craftlly concealmg the drfflcultles under the merry rhythm of a nursery rhyme Then Miss Glllllland steered us safely through the waters of Roman mrlltary Ilfe and forensic pleadmg I..1II1an was graduated ln l9l6 Herbert has passed forever from our num ber Thelma IS turnlng her knowledge of Latm to use ln a commerclal course but we three Wynne Algot and I wlll glide m a hltch and step w1II mount the rostra and there clellver our souls of the cream of wlsdom stored through three years of Latm graduates of one of the best Hlgh Schools ln the UHIOH And as I wrlte these Imes two pictures come before me-one of the past the other of the future I see us three on a memorable day when the vlslon of I..at1n s usefulness came to me more fully than ever before The thought pursued me and stayed wlth me throughout the day We were ln geometry our good Professor Epps was poundlng out mathematical truths and was trylng to explain Iocl maxlma mmlma segments acute obtuse reflex conjugate postulate quod erat dem onstrandum quod erat faclendum Iso perlmetrrc and manv others From geometry class we passed down the hall at the ring of the bell where the I..at1n darly paper caught our eye brmgmg lts message of the practical value of Latln this day s edltlon had a picture of a new scientific Tucnty tuu ATG!! 9 I I fxdkx . . . . . . K N 7 -1 xf.--as fx i ' ,wr-J. gm. X' ' ' LJ'--. 4 ffl . , , , ., . . . . . . V 9 . . 1 . . C U as 99 ss - - ' 99 9 ' I ' ' CC 1, - 9 9 - 9 . , .... - 9 c , u u - 99 ' , . WK nfs . . . . . - If 'nw I - , At'-.Pix , - ' ' Vi wr X 9 9 9 9 9 v . . . . . - - . 9 - Q, I gf: Q , 9 , - 9 9 i 9 1' 1 9 9 - 9 , . . . . , 1 - 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ' 9 9 ' , - 9 O I . . . , . . . . . 9 .9 - Q