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

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was formed to the groom s house headed by musrcrans followed by a lad carrymg a torch and vase next came the brlde supported on elther srde by a boy the groom throvu mg nuts to those about the arsles throwlng of r1ce IS a survlvall was followed by a boy carrymg the brrdes spmdle the rest of the weddmg party whlch consrstecl of all classes followed all carrymg torches and slngmg a hymn ln Latln to Hymen the god of marrrage march mg down through the mldst of the audlence out through the hall and back by a front entrance to the stage presenting now the grooms house The bride wound the door posts wrth woolen bands and annolnted them wx 1th orl to srgnlfy health and plenty The family alone entered the house and amldst the slngmg of the crowd outslde Tullla kmdled the flre on the altar wlth her torch and then threw lt to the grrl outslde who as wrth bouquets today at weddlngs was fortunate enough to catch the torch as a slgn that she would be the next brrde At the concluslon of the plays a prlze was presented to the puprl ln each class offering the best prepared Latln tablet of the years work Between plays lVlr Worthlngton presented stereoptlcon vrews of Roman llfe ANNE OF OLD SALEM Anne of Old Salem wlll be grven as the class play under the dl rectlon of MISS Grllllland The cast Reverend Cotton Mather Hosea Bayor Captain Hardman ohn Nlartm Roger Hardman rll Wollenberg Ezeklel Brown Algot Nelson Mistress Hardman C-race Henderson Goodwlfe Ellmwell Geneva Crll Phyllls Clara Llnkhart Ruth Ruth Muller Prety Gladys Flynn Truth Elsa Cruel Peace Atkins Ella Rossow Nathan Ellmwell Ralph lVlel1n Anne Elllnwell rs loved by Roger Hardman whose mother has other plans for hlm She has picked out Phyllis an Englrsh grrl for hrm Anne rs accused of wltchcraft but through a number of compllcatlons she rs proven Innocent Nathan Annes brother helps Ruth a uaker mald to escape and ln so domg wms the love of Phyllis Prety and Truth are begullmg Ezeklel but Peace at last entraps hlm Geneva Gill 17 , . . ' 1 ' - f ' . . 1 , ' f . . . , . , 3 . 9 9 1 . 1 1 ' Y Y ' 9 9 . 7 , ' 9 Y U 9 , . . . , il , 99 , . SK 91 ' ' ' Q 'A Q Q , , -' Anne Ellinwell .............. Helen Wild n l . , u . . . , , . . , , . D - 1 1 1 Q 1 9 1 ' l I , , . Twenty-seven

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f TI-IE PRELIMINARY CONTEST The contest was gnen Tuesday evenmg Aprrl I0 The dlrector was Mrss Glllllland The program was as follows Plano Solo The Chariot Race-Dramatrc Madam Butterfly Dramatlc The Lost Word Dramatic ean ValJean and the Brshop-Dramatlc The Abolltron of War Oratorlcal Illustrated Talk B 606-Dramatlc The New South Oratorlcal The Light on Deadman s Bar Dramatlc Lrncoln Called of C-od Oratorlcal Sidney Canton s Death Dramatic The Slgn of the Cross Oratorlcal Song DCCISIOH of J Rudolph Scholler Margaret Tabbert Thelma Fetterer Margaret Gerber Anna I-lldeen Edwm I-Ialler A C- Epps Gladys I-Iumes Hosea Bayor Raphael Plerson Wrll Wollenberg Evelyn Frederick Llllran Canavan School Chorus The wmners were In Dramatlc FIYST Thelma Petterer second Anna I-Ildeen third Llllran Canavan In Oratory Plrst Wlll Wollen berg second Hosea Bayor thlrd Edwm I-laller Our representatlves at the contest at Clary were Wlll Wollenberg and Anna I-Ildeen SODALITAS ROMANA PRESENTS A ROMAN SCHOOL AND A ROMAN WEDDING At 2 30 P M on Aprll 27 ln the I-Ilgh School Audrtorlum the Sodalltas Romana formed recently by the Latm department held nts first meetmg At thls openmg sesslon of the club two plays A Roman School and A Roman Weddrng were presented under the dlrectlon of the Mag lstra Miss C-lllrlland In the first play spoken ln Latm Raphael Plerson the Magister called from the roll the names of the Immortal Clcero Caesar Pompey Antony Brutus and many others of the republican perlod represented by the mem bers of the begmnlng Latm class and the two Caesar classes glvlng a plc ture of a school rn Caesars tlme The scene closed after a display of Caesarlan and Clceronlan oratory on the part of Irene Carlton and Edward Wollenberg wlth the rendltlon of a humorous recltatlon entltled Pome of a Possum given by the young Rhodes scholar Dorothy Wood 1m personatmg Clams Crassus The second play translated to Engllsh showed Crcero and Terentla at home ln the persons of Hosea Bayor and Evelyn Prederlck respectrvely Florence Pro their daughter Tullna and Garus Prso Ralph Melln the son of Lucrus Plso ohn Martm and wrfe Vera Barnes were marrled accordlng to good old Roman custom, with the Pronuba, Lollta Smlth asslstmg the priests rn the weddmg ceremony The weddmg cake eaten, a procession Twenty szx 7 . I . ' . I , I ' , . ........ z ............... . . ' Song ...................................... ....... . . Audience , T .................. . , . . 3 i 1 Z 1 1 1 ' T 1 I 1 S 1 - if lf ll 1, : . . , , I 1 ' ' ' ' ff ff ' 9 Q fl I ,l ' ' ' - , . Y Q , , Y 1 1 Q 1 1 ' 1 1 ' . , . . ' Y . . . . . . ,, f l Y ,, ' ' 1 1 9 ' 1 Y l Y I ' 1 , l Q 1 J 1 1 1 ,

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QL EUNICE ROPER German and Englrsh I9l3 Hobart Hrgh School l907 DePauw Unrversrty ENGLISH HE relatrve value of all other studres may be debated but the N P posrtron of Englrsh as first cannot be questroned Good Englrsh Gt rs necessary for a comprehensron of the scrences srnce no one L structed That any drscussron may not be confusrng rt must be wrrtten rn a clear drrect manner verbs must be rn correct tense and all ante cedents used properly Any translatron loses rts power and beauty and usually rts meanrng rf rt rs not prepared wrth regard to good grammar To attarn and hold socral posrtron good Englrsh rs requrred for the habrtual use of slang and a general neglect of elegance of speech rs and should be looked upon as bad form A lrttle observatron wrll show that the use of slang may lend novelty whrch wrll wear off but slang never lends force By far more rmportant than these rs the value of Englrsh to the busmess man No man who uses faulty language can secure a posrtron of trust and rmportance nor do people wrsh to do busmess mth such a man for hrs errors wrll draw therr attentron from what he rs sayrng thrs may become so great that the hstener may really be made mrserable Then agarn hrs letters and orders may be so bad as to be hard to understand resultrng rn expensrve mrstakes C-ood Englrsh rs not only xaluable rt rs a duty of erery patrrotrc crtrzen Hrstory wrll teach you what people drd By readrng works of ht erature we get more rntrmate mental prctures whrch tell why thev drd rt T be able to vote speak and act rntellrgently on eyents of today and tomorrow a knowledge of hrstory rs essentral but a knowledge of hrstory mthout a Tu only czglrt l W Gif! 'nffii . . . . . ' Q could follow a screntrflc drscussron whrch was carelessly con- I , L ' - 9 S V l l ' Y 1 . , . . y. ' . Z ' 9 - 9 . . . . V . .l 0 7 . . . V . V. , C Z ' is-C Q