Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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them could have Church Schools too. They're goin' to have ours again next year and father said maybe they'd let other grades besides the fifth and sixth come. Anyway, maybe by that time they'll have one for your school. Whew! I sure hope they do, and believe me, I'll be there. Well, I promised Clifford I'd see him some more about our hike, said Dick, as he started off. Well, I'll go with you boys sometime, when it isn't Church School Day, called John. But I can't afford to stay away a single day from that. I'd be sure to miss something goodg then I'd be sorry. It's Church School for me every time. Miss Churchill fannouncin: the closing hymn in Sunday Schoolj : Let us rise and stand. Miss Swartz fgiving homilyl z Lincoln and Washington were not such great men when they Were boys. A person that believes he is so good that he can't fall is the one that is ready to fall. D A resolution that will not withstand a certain amount of temptation is of no use in life. Miss Wallace: How do they drive the nails in ? Miss Shoemake1': With a hammer. Chapel was announced to be an hour late. Miss Krepps, failing to hear the announcement, came to the chapel at the usual hour and bowed her head in prayer. When she loked up she was surprised to find herself in the Homiletics class. Retreat was fin order ?J Joke Committee meeting. Mae Fuller: Isn't there something funny about Miss Hill ? Miss Spencer fsoberlyjz No. Page 76 TO DISTINGUISH THEM. Ethel Wyatt-- May I ask a question ? Avis Wallace- Isn't that exciting? Miss Curry-- Well, now isn't that so ? Millicent Fuller- Be still. Dora Butler- I don't think I understand the question. Edna Muir-- For goodness sakes. Miss Garretson- Not by any manner of means. Miss Wolfe- Various and sundry. Miss Oltmanns- Meine seit. Miss E. Hill- Now, honest Injin ? Helen Rink- Now listen. Esther Bahnson- Good enough. E Mary McCulloch- We don't do that way in the ast. i Miss Britt-- I believe I will go and get me an onion. Ruth Oldham- Pass the pickles, please. Florence Lyon- I got it in the encyclopedia. Miss McCulloch Cfrom Pennsylvania, teasing Miss Shoemaker about Iowaj : I never heard of Iowa until I came here. Miss Shoemaker: That's because of your lack of ignorance.

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Who do you mean by teachers? Same ones as you have at Horace Mann ? No, there are some ladies from a school over at 15th and Denver, called the Kansas City National Training School, they come over and teach us. Oh yes, those folks that are goin' to be mission- aries some day, but they don't know how to give a fellow any fun. Oh! why, you don't know all about them! Last month, Valentine Day was the same day as Church School. When we marched in, the chairs and tables were all pushed back against the wall. After we had our worship service, instead of telling us 'to go to our classes, the teacher had us get in a big circle and the next thing we knew, we were playin' the finest game. They hadn't told us anything about it. We made Val- entines too, and we had the greatest fun. Yes, those teachers know something beside Bible stories, why, they knew the most new games that afternoon, and they played with us too. Say! it must be fine to go to that.sChO0l, Said Dick, who was becoming more and more interested. Yes, and one afternoon we played a Bible story. My class and two others have the same lessons, so we all went together and did it. Whew! it was great. l'll always remember that story. It was about the time when King Rehoboam lost most of his kingdom because heuwas unkind. We boys figured out how to do it fthe girls and Miss Gar- retson helped just a littleb 5 but we did most of it our- selves. It was fine to go to the platform then and act it all out. W And here's our Church attendance book, ex- plained John, as he took a small blue-covered note book from his pocket, I take that to church every Sunday. See, here's a place to write the name of the hymns that we sang, and here's a place for the preacher's text, and for one thing he said. Say! you know Since I've been keepin' this book I've found out our preach- er's sermons aren't so dry after all. The teachers grade these books too. Can anybody go to that school? No, not just anybody. No one can come unless their father or mother .signs a card, asking that they be dismissed from Public School. Those who don't go stay at school and study. There's only about twenty- five though in both the fifth and sixth grades that don't go to Church School. Do you have to pay ? No, you see they have a Board of Religious Edu- cation. .There are people on it from five different churches. My father belongs to itg and he helped get this school started, and he knows all about it. I heard him say the other day that these five churches were payin' the money for it. Do the teachers at Iflorace Mann care if you go ? No, 'cause the Public School Board said we could be dismissed at 3:00 o'clock, two afternoons a week, if our parents would sign the card. Couldn't I come then if my daddy would sign for me ? Not this year. H Aw, I don't see why? Well, this year the Board my father's on, de- cided that only folks who go to Horace Mann School could be dismissed. It's only in our part of town that they'y-e tryin' it now. Father said, the other night, that Mr, Settle had told him, that a lot of other churches were wanting to form Boards of Religious Education so that boys and girls from the schools near Page 75

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Uhr Ctrratrr Art Z' T WAS a warm spring afternoon, nearing Com- mencement time. Plans for Commencement were talked of everywhere, and many arrangements were being made for the important event. The class of Madison High, '20, was the largest ever to graduate, and the High School was proud of the scholarship and honor of the class, as well as the size of it. Two members of the class, Elizabeth Morrison and Helen Ward, were walking home from a committee meeting, in the late afternoon. They had been discuss- ing Commencement exercises, plays and parties, but now their thoughts and words turned to a different subject. Elizabeth and Helen had been friends all through High School and their friendship was one which had ennobled both. Now they were discussing their plans for the next year, half glad and half sorry to leave the old school. What happy days these have been! Elizabeth said, yet we need not regret leaving them, for we are going on to something nobler and finer. Elizabeth was planning to go to Baker University where she hoped to prepare herself for a teacher, while Helen ex- pected to study to be a kindergarten teacher. I wish I were ready right now to begin teaching, Elizabeth said, and how I hope that I may be a teach- er like Miss Robertson has been. She has always in- spired me to do my best, and I feel lifted and lifted after being with her. Helen had been silent for a few moments. Now she surprised Elizabeth with a question: Do you ye- member what Dr. McDowell said the other night about the urgent need for trained and consecrated workers- those who would give all? Ever since he spoke, the faces of those forlorn little folk, which we Saw dgwn on Fifth Street the other day, have been coming be- fore my mind. Surely someone is needed to help re- St0I'6 happiness '00 them. I believe this is God's way of calling me to service for him. What greater art than to restore the image of God to faces that have lost it ? Elizabeth quoted. Perhaps we can both help to restore His image, you, helping .the little folk, and I, the young people. Per- haps you may work in a Settlement some day. Yes, I might be sent to some Settlement some day, Helen said, or even across the seas. But she trembled as she said this, for she thought of the pos- sible separations, the loneliness, and the hardships to be endured. But she seemed to hear a voice saying: I am with thee, and will keep thee whithel-Soever thou goest, and she said softly, I will go anywhere with Him. 1...-..-i Miss Garretson was deeply absorbed in a Week- Day Religious Education council when a knock was heard on her door. She remembered that she ought to Say Something but could not think what, so she called desperately, Hello. - .i..1 n If 'a thing really needs to be done, it can be done lf we know how to do it. Pniw 77