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

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The contest was the next public affair. It consisted of three afternoons. The winners of both afternoons spoke the third day. Those taking part were : Margaret Tabbert As the Fleet Goes by Margaret Gerber The Courage of the Commonplace Lois Gross He Dies for the Flag Lillian Canavan The Littlest Rebel Anna Hideen The Man Who Planted the Hungary Grass Mildred Wild Mother Love Dora Owens Dona Dolores and King Phillip The winners were; First, Dora Owens; Second, Lillian Canavan and Anna Hideen. Of the boys: Hosea Bayor, first and Martin Frederick, second. The enthusiasm over Hobart’s victory at Gary in which Dora Owens was awarded second, has not died out yet. Hobart proved itself worthy of recognition. Hosea Bayor also did us credit in the evening. The Senior class play, A Corner of the Campus, is to be given May 20. The cast of characters are: Ruth Day, Just one of the girls Dora Owens Ann Short, Ruth’s roommate and an honor student.... Grace Murray Gale Marshall Flo Ferris Margaret Summers Min Davis Dora Mills Thelma Fetterer Evelyn Fredrick Students Vera Barnes Mary Gearhart Lolita Smith Miss Pnsman, The Vigilance Committee. .Margaret Tabbert Tilly, a maid Esther Nelson Hiram Hayman, a country boy John Martin Mrs. Hayman Rubye Skaggs Evelina, a colored maid Florence Pio Sordelet William Williamson, Her Sweetheart. Ralph Melin Billy Brown, a college youth Ralph Melin Eve, ! Ward 1 Ru,h S ,w0 loVelS j Glen Burris The Professor - Hosea Bayor Ruth Day, a college girl, is led to believe that her brother Tom has stolen a large sum of money through the influence of Charles Steele, the man she loves. Evert Ward also loves her and is the one who has told her about Tom and Charles Steele. She meets her brother on a certain corner of the campus, and is discovered by Miss Prisam who does not know it is her brother. She is expelled from college and Evert Ward follows her and continues to tell her stories about Tom and Charles. She has refused to see anything of him and is very miserable. The girls from the college come and surprise her on Christmas eve, and it is discovered that Evert Ward has been telling lies and that Tom is not guilty of the theft. Charles Steele is also cleared and it all ends happily with Ruth and Charles, Evelina and William and Hiram and Tilly under the mistletoe. — Florence Pio Sordelet. Twenty-four

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D Q= Q a 7 7 away the wilderness. Pioneer children play their singing games. A hymn of Thanksgiving. Episode III The spirit of Patriotism pays her tribute to the pioneers, and welcomes the Spirits of State and Little Town followed by Little Town interests, rural, town, school and church, who dance for State and Patriotism. Grown Town spirit with Grown Town interests — Christianity, Education, Community Spirit, Music, Art, Welfare led by a child; Play, Eorest Preservation, and Peace present a flag drill. Spirit of New America enters. The French English, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese folk groups, each dance. The Amer- ican flag is unfurled. The flag salute. Recessional. During the progress of the Art Exhibit on the evenings of December 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th, programs were given. The first evening the program was furnished by the Reading Club. They presented music and living pic- tures representative of the pictures on exhibition. The programs of the 5th and 6th were under Miss Gillilland’s direction. She offered a farce, flag drill, and several other features among which were scenes from Macbeth. On the 7th the grade pupils furnished the program. The money raised from these programs was spent on pictures. Each room received one or more as a result of the hard work of pupils and teachers. o Q a b BELOW THE MILL, ON DEEP RIVER Twenty-three

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C 7 MUSICAL APPRECIATION VA Oh, Music! Thou who bringest the receding waves of eternity nearer to the weary heart of man as he stands upon the shore and longs to cross over! Art thou the evening breeze of this life, or the morning air of the future one? 0 0 c Q 1 d USIC, in order to be appreciated and understood to the fullest ex- tent by the casual listener, whether he be of a literary turn of mind, a business man in the heart of a great commercial center, or a man who, after a day of manual toil returns home to seek rest and comfort, must be brought to him in a way in which it will most readily meet his approval. It is interesting to note in what ways music can be brought to the man of letters, even in one of its most beautiful and charming forms. The master musician has taken the familiar and oft told fables of the Minnesingers and Meistersingers of central Europe, and skillfully woven them into gems of unquestionable musical merit. A predom- inating feature of this type of music is that it is highly dramatic. The opera is a broadly developed musical product perfected only through long years of conscious thought and deep study. In short, it is an intellectual product, and should be studied with the intellect. Therefore, the man whose literary knowledge is broad as well as deep, will undoubtedly keenly appreciate music of this particular type. We have a long list of the greatest musicians the world has ever produced, who were scholars of their time and pursued other branches of education as persistently as they did their chosen art. The business man, just because he is a business man, can offer no accept- able reason or excuse for not being appreciative of music in some form. Nat- urally a man of this type requires relaxation, mental even more than physical relaxation, and what gives him that more than to attend a light opera? One in which there is constant motion to relieve that tired feeling? Or even within the privacy of his own home can he not have the privilege of hearing Mme. Galli-Curci pour forth from the friendly Victrola, with simple elegance Home, Sweet Home”? Who can be mentally fatigued after hearing a per- fect rendition of Dvorak’s “Humoresque” in all its wild, care-free melodious ramblings? The listener finds himself partaking of the cheerful atmosphere of the music he hears, and out of this grows a fondness for the kinds that give him rest m a time when he needs it most. Q (? O O Now we come to discover in what ways this art creeps into the life of a man who does manual labor. His greatest desire is to forget how tired he is physically. Immediately there comes to his aid all that is sensational in music. The dance, in all its forms, and there are many ; the stirring Military marches that take him miles away from himself over a bounding sea of rhythm. Or if preferred, a dreamy Barcarolle carries him out under star-lit skies and he feels himself drifting leisurely over the glassy bosom of a shadowy lake. Twenty-five