Indiana Masonic Home High School - Ma Ho Hi Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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E1 ' 19 Mflf1Qi'll QFHQ I FEDERAL SCHOOL INSPECTORS VISIT MASONIC HOME HIGH SCHOOL Unexpected Visit Finds School Offi- cials Unprepared-Day Saved by Botany Class The first annual school inspection tour by a delegation from the newly formed Department of Public Educa- tion has brought much astounding information to light. Through a recent inspection tour of the Indiana Masonic Home high school, located at Frankfort, Indiana, some twenty-one miles north of Indi- anapolis, the Department of Educa- tion of the United States has the following record. The Indiana Masonic Home high school building is a large structure of grey brick. It appears to be of quite ancient vintage. As one enters the building he is impressed with the clam and solemnity of that institu- tion. Indeed, were it not for the sweet chorus of bells that divide the day into periods of eighty minutes each, one would most certainly judge the building to be unused. At those intervals when calm and dignified looking scholars pass quiet- ly from room to room, one wonders at the nun-like stillness of the change. The first open door that was passed on the tour was heralded by a gold- edged placard to be that of Principal Sageser. There sat Prin. Fred M. Sageser serenely smoking a long mild- looking cigar. His feet were cocked upon his highly polished and beauti- fully furnished mahogany desk, and he was chuckling over the episodes of one Jesse James. A very harmonius scene for such a large city high school, many of the delegates ejacu- lated. Upon the kind offer of the Princi- pal to visit Mr. Cade's room, the members were greeted with the most surprising fas it proved to bel fea- ture of the entire school. The Geo- metry recitation was on. The great hubbub of voices that was heard by the visitors was suddenly quieted by their entrance. Here, very unlike the rest of the school, was a very unruly and astoundingly hilarious class. Everything seemed out of order, initials deeply carved on the desks, comic cartoons drawn over the board, and everything in general disorder. There were looks of mortification and chargin on the faces of Principal Sageser and Mr. Cade as the visitors withdrew in evident disgust. Principal Sageser, now in a great desire to make amends, pleaded with the delegation to visit with him the Botany class that was now in confer- ence. As the men opened the labora- tory door, the attending teacher, Miss Mary E. Woollen, had just asked the class a knotty question relating to plant life, every hand was quickly raised. The visitors stood transfixed during an interval of ten minutes while the teacher asked and had an- swered question after question by the dignified, attentive, and surprisingly well informed Botanists. The day was saved. The visitors pleaded to be allow. ed to attend the Foreign Language department, presided over by Mrs. J. A. H. Miller, where the first year Latin class was in session. KNote by the Editorl I had just begun to get interested in a report pertaining to the extraor- dinary intelligence and keen intellect of the Freshman class. It's a little hazy now but it seems that this class had recently taken all major prizes in a Latin contest held at Washington D. C. They were running off declen-

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1 1 0 J. Pd G3 COOHOHII C9 FEW v X I Lucid Intervals Irene Slavey: Bucky, do you know The Sony In My Heart? Eugene Buchanan: What do you think I am-an ex-ray? Miss Coons: ftrying to teach man- ners inua Junior recitationb Wilma, use please in a sentence. Wilma Campbell: Cafter short hesi- tationj Charles Guinnup is a kitchen police. Mrs. Miller: fin Health classj Heydon, what are two functions of the blood? Heydon Buchanan: The bloofd carries waste. Mis. Miner: Is that all? fNo answer from H. BJ Someone else answers: It carries food also. Heydon: fto Mrs. Millerj Oh, I thought you knew that much. Mr. Thrams: fduring band reher- salj Emerson, didn't I tell you to play that strain in one flat? Emerson Boyd: I did. Mr. Thrams: It wasn't right that time. E. Boyd: Well, you didn't tell me which one and I've got my choice of four. Laura Duffy: Don't you put a silk worm in taffy? Miss Woollen: Why, no! Laura D.: I'll bet you do because right here it says to cook until it spins a thread. Miss Custer: Hubert, what was Edgar Allen Poe? Hub Griffy: He was a fiend. Miss C.: What kind of a fiend? Hub G.: Morphene. Hvelene Silvers: Martha, please hurry, it's six o'clock. Martha Hipkiss: Aw, you're nuts, it was five-thirty only half an hour ago. Emerson Boyd: Charlie, who in- vented the steam engine? Charles Irvine: fsleepilyj W'at? Robert Adams: fseriouslyj Fm getting along pretty good in printing. Last year at this time I didn't know anything, now I know twice as much. Mary Mae: What do you know about the price of peanuts? Freeda Terry: Latest quotations, Hubert Griffy and I were dancing and he stepped on my foot. He said he felt like two cents. H Claire Barnette: fseeing that Earl's watch had stoppedJ Earl, what is the matter with your watch? Earl Naylor: Oh, its just like its owner. Claire B.: How's that, too lazy to move? Earl N.: No, just in that tired and run down condition. Miss Woollen: Heydon, why are you taking Botany? Heydon Buchanan: Fm going to be an undertaken The Original Basket Ball Robert Pierson: Yeh, we used to pick oranges off the trees and bounce 'em on the way to school in Californy, me and my gang. In Need Of Old Age Pensions Claire Barnette: Some of Clay's ancestors are still living in his home- stead at Ashland. O DP QCA 'WC QC: i.

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J. Q FE CD 0906700169 as Q W C sions, cdnjugations, etc., like cata- clysms for the visitors when I was interrupted by the copy reader with a, Say, Mr. Editor, did you hear that one about the Scotchman who . . . ? and they carried him home in a bas- ket. Who likes to have a good dream interrupted anyway? 'Davis County. High School Cases Cause of Much Worry to Teachers Mrs. Miller: Mr. Sageser, don't you think these cases are getting to be quite a disgrace to our high school? Mr. Sageser: They certainly are and I'm glad you brought this ques- tion up. There are so many of them that even the most casual visitors can notice an undercurrent of turmoil and waste of time when the students should be studying. Mrs. Miller: Certainly, I have been studying about these little cases of the high school. As things are, there can be no efficiency of study or economy in school paper and supplies from writing so many trifling notes. Things have got to be better organ- ized. Mr. Sageser: Yes, I've realized that for some time. Here and there, at all times of the day, you can see the boys and girls with that blank look on their faces, looking, looking, always looking, as if for something the whereabouts of which was not even indefinitely known. It's almost tragic, no wonder the teachers report little or no results from special re- ports, readings, etc., so vital for an educational foundation. Mrs. Miller: I guess we'll have to refer this to Mr. Boyd. What this high school needs is bigger and better bookcases for our ever growing library. John Turner was stopped after read- ing 'a few lines of a newspaper article he had been asked to select for Jour- nalism. Miss Coons: Why did you select that article, John? John: fscratching headJ Well now, this is a coincidence, that's what puz- zles me. Claire Barnette remarked that she used arm movement because it was free. Heard During Basket Ball Game Charles Irvine: Watch out Adams, that boy is going to DASH in there! Ralph French: Something must be wrong! I've cut this thing off three times already and it's still too short. A. Butcher's Orchard Emma Naylor: Do sausages grow on trees? Clyde Parsley: Look at this J Dick, it has both beauty, strength, and vitality. Maxine Darrow: Oh, I'm just a dizzy blonde. Latin Shark Franklin Barnard: What did you do in school today? James Purdue: Well, I gave a book report for English and learned how to do square roots in Latin. Yeah, Well, That's pretty good, Uh huh, Hot dog, Ritzy, Peachy, Oh baby, Hot zizzety, Not bad, Well its settled then. You'll have to take turns though, I haven't enough bubble pipes for the entire Junior class. Using the ratio of a peanut shell, To a showman's trunk. Ike Pierson hoped to grow up big- That much his hopes have shrunk. C5 DP 0,01 '10 QCA lei?