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

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D CL A= 7 LATIN Q 0 a A 0 N ENTERING High School as a part of our course we made the choice of Latin or German as our foreign language. There were eight who took German but there were eight of us, five boys and three girls, who made a jolly class for Latin. Our first year of work included a thorough study of D’Ooge, and some sight reading, and composition given to us by our instructor, Miss Gillilland, who the three years since has been our instructor. Next we started to read Caesar, one of the most interesting and instruc- tive texts, about the wars of Caesar and the expansion of the Roman Empire, also giving us a glimpse of the habits and customs of Rome and the Barbarian tribes surrounding Italy. John and Hosea made a wooden model of the fa- mous bridge across the Rhine. Latin card games livened our knowledge of vocabulary and derivation. This year we began editing our Latin daily “Hermes” which is now in its third volume. Beginning the third year the famous Latin poet Virgil was introduced to us; so we began the study of Virgil’s Aeneid. We read the description of Aeneas, the city of Troy, the Laocoon Group, the wonderful Troian Horse, the description of Aeneas voyage to Italy and of the land of Italy as they first saw it — vivid pictures painted on our minds that will never fade with time. Having completed our course for the year in Latin, we decided to give a Latin Play called “A Roman Wedding”, the play was presented in Latin with Roman costumes and scenery. Invitations, A la Roman, were sent to friends and schoolmates who appreciated and enjoyed this presentation of Roman Life. Ralph and Llorence starred as the bride and groom, Hosea as Cicero, Evelyn as Mrs. Cicero, Lolita as matron of honor, Vera and John as the parents of Ralph. This year we organized our club — Sodalitas Romana. The fourth year the Seniors and Juniors combined and began reading Cicero’s orations and letters. Cicero was one of the world ' s greatest orators and we enjoyed translating the orations and observing the skillful and clever way in which Cicero “put it over the other fellow”. We were glad to have the honor as a club of presenting two classical pictures for our classroom. A man who does not understand Latin is like one who walks through a beautiful region in a fog; his horizon is a very few steps away from him and the outline of everything becomes indistinct or wholly lost. But the horizon of the Latin scholar extends far and wide through the centuries of Antiquity; the Middle Ages and Modern Life. The class as a whole has gained a knowledge that will be indispensable to them. We see Cicero, Caesar, and Virgil not in a dim and wavering light, but in a clear, vivid outline, as only those who have studied Latin can. We have had our knowledge of English increased and als o that pleasure of de- ciphering Latin phrases, that those who have not studied Latin are incapable of doing. Twenty-eight 0 = V A r rJ A V

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GOING- DOWN! OUR LITTLE GRAYC E UNCLE BILL AND THE KIDS GAUGHT! JUNIORS THREE Twenty-seven

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This class as a whole has taken pleasure in studying Latin and in years to come we will be led back through the annals of memory to the hours spent in the Latin classes of Miss Gillilland, who by her tireless efforts and efficient teaching has made the class a success. - — Hosea A. Bay or, 78 Latin Notes The beginning class enrolled 33 members this year. In an advertising contest held in October, Elmer Wetterland of the beginning class received first prize for bringing the most and the best advertisements which made ref- erence to Roman and Greek mythology or to words derived from Latin and Greek ; Helen Grosse received second. The prizes were copies of the pic- tures which the Latin Club purchased for the Latin room. The members of our Latin Club — Sodalitas Romana — presented to our Club two large, handsomely framed pictures of Maccari’s “Cicero Against Catahne” and Hector Le Roux’s “School of the Vestals” respectively. These pictures make a soul-satisfying difference in our classroom. In an English word derivation contest, held in the beginning class in March, the class was divided in three sections, of which Ida Maclver’s division won first as she found 350 English words from the Latin word, facio: Hugo Zobjeck’s section found 1 60 from duco, Clinton Cavender’s 1 90 from dico. These lists were not exhaustive. The officers of Sodalitas Romana for this year are as follows: Consuls, Helen Linkhart, Irene Carlton; Censors, Milton Thompson, Lois Gross; Tribunes, Rita Jordan, Anna Hideen; Quaestors, Willard Dorman, Edwa rd Wollenberg; Aediles, Jessie Owens, Hosea Bayor, Selma Hideen, Dorothea Crisman. The Latin Department, in May, presented two plays in Latin: “Cicero Candidatus” and “Amdromeda ”, In “Cicero Candidatns” the Senior and Junior classes were assisted by the beginning class in various parts. Cicero, Hosea Bayor, is a candidate for the consulship at Rome, and in these scenes appears amongst his old friends and supporters at Arpinum, his native village, which turns out en masse to take part in a lively political rally. In “Andromeda” the Sophomores took the leading parts, assisted by the begin- ning class with a few minor characters, and with a chorus of maidens who sang the Wailings over the sacrifice of Andromeda to the ravaging monster, and later sang the wedding hymn of joy at the marriage of Andromeda and Perseus who has rescued her from the monster. Leonard Nelson appeared as Phineus, the disappointed suitor; Irene Carlton and Lois Gross, the parents of Andromeda, Raphael Pierson ; Harry Hawke, Perseus. — Hosea A. Bayor, 78. Twenty-nine