Lincoln High School - Ahdawagam Yearbook (Wisconsin Rapids, WI)

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Senior class play, “All of a Sudden Peggy,” one of the cleverest comedies of the modern play world, will be given Wed- nesday evening, May 27th, at Daly’s theater. The cast chosen is an excellent one, each and every member answering perfectly all requirements of the part assigned. Moreover, there has been a faithfulness and interest in rehearsals which always assures the success of any production. A brief synopsis of the story is as follows: The wealth and property of the (Tackenthorpes, an old and aris- tocratic family of England, had been left to the elder son, Lord Anthony, who, among his other oddities, has taken as his hobby the study of spiders. Lady Crackenthorpe and other members of the family regard him as rather a good th'ng and object strenuously to his marriage with Peggy, the pretty, impulsive daughter of the late Professor O’Mara, R. I. S., an eminent authority on trap door spiders. Peggy’s mother, Mrs. O'Mara, conceives the idea of marrying her daughter to Lord Anthony and uses all her knowledge on spiders to this end, thinking that such a marriage would be an excellent thing for both mother and daughter. The Crackenthorpes, however, are determined that no such plans will mature, so they persuade Jimmy, the second son of the family, a handsome, im- petuous young man, to “dazzle” Peggy, thus distracting her atten- tion from Anthony. As soon as Peggy and Jimmy meet they decide to marry Mrs. O’Mara to Anthony, in which scheme they succeed with apparent satisfaction to everybody but Lady Crackenthorpe. Because of the suddenness of Peggy, many humorous and com- plicated situations ar se, but Jimmy is always there to untangle the most intricate knots. He even sticks a torn marriage license to- gether which Peggy all of a sudden tears to pieces and as suddenly changes her mind and decides that she and Jimmy may need it at some future time. The cast of characters is as follows: Anthony, Lord Crackenthorpe.....................Leonard Hatton The Hon. Jimmy Keppel. his brother......Harold Babcock Major Arch e Phipps (retired), brother of Lady Crack- enthorpe..........................................Walter Stamm Jack Menzies...............................Harold Timm Parker (footman at Hawkhurst)...................Delbert Trudell Lucas (man-servant at Jimmy’s flat)........Arthur Leder Lady Crackenthorpe (Lord Anthony’s mother)........ .......................................Carolyn Schnabel Hon. Millicent Keppel (Jimmy’s sister). . .Genevieve Hayes Hon. Mrs. Colquhoun...............Bernadette Schlatterer Mrs. O’Mara (mother of Peggy)....................Ruth McCamley Peggy................................... Ida Wittenberg ACT I “The Suddenness of Peggy.” White Hall at Hawkhurst, Lord Crackenthorpe’s country house. ACT II “The Suddenness of Consequences.” Jimmy’s flat in London. ACT III “Consequences of Suddenness.” White Hall at Hawkhurst. on the evening of the same day. Patt Twenty Six

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Commencement Program MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1914 HICH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM “Waltz from Faust”—Gounod Girls’ Glee Club Address Leon Francis Foley, President Class of 1914 Response Dean Babcock, President Class of 1915 Presentation Oration .Marie Aline Smith Vocal Solo selected .Carlton Frederick Stamm Demonstration in Domestic Science Girls of Domestic Science lass “Farewell Song —Charles Harold Babcock, Leonard George Hatton, Carlton Frederick Stamm, Mr. B. W . W ells Criticism - Frank A. Brandecker ( lass Song Senior Class FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29. 1914 Music, “The Isle of Nid-Nod”—Eduardo Marzo Girls’ Glee Club Violin Solo: Legende, Wieneawski Miss Roberta A. Hudson Salutatory Regina B. Mueller Piano Solo: Barcarolle, Adolph Jenson ..Charlotte Katharine Gibson Oration: The Need of Commercial Education Olga Lillian Buerger Music, selected Boys Glee Club Violin Solo: Mazurka, Musin Miss Roberta A. Hudson Valedictory - Edward Alexander Meczkowski Vocal Solo: The Years at the Spring, Beech Mrs. Donald Waters Presentation of Class Presentation of Diplomas, Mr. Isaac P. Witter, President of Board of Education Page Twtnty Five

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY The memorable day was in September. 1910. One hundred and eighteen of us entered this high school as Freshmen. We were as green as the flag of old Erin. Most of us came here to gather knowledge from this institution of learning, some to pass the time away, while others came to teach Prof. Kell how to take care of the high school. A few determined to take physics and solid geometry but were kindly persuaded not to by Mr. Schwede, who gently told them such studies were not for little Freshmen. We received many lectures from Prof. Kell, who carefully explained to us that the hall was not a race track and that the clock was not a target for paper wads but an instrument by which the t me of the day could sometimes be told. These were dreary days for us and we waited impatiently for the time to pass. The football season finally opened and some of the less timid Freshmen attempted to make the team. We were veiy agreeably surprised when we learned that Louis Barret had made the team. We shall always remember him as a warrior, not as a football warrior, but one who uses his fists, for he was ever engaged in a physical combat with a Junior. At last the first semester came to a close and we had to wr te our first big examination. We were so frightened that we changed fiom our natural greenish color to a pale white. Most of us pa ;sed the examinations successfully, though some who had squandered too much time away started the Freshmen studies anew. The second semester passed even more slowly than the first and a3 the time dragged slowly along some of the Fres! men could en- duie the strain no longer and they left us more fortunate ones to ursue our studies. We then dete? mined to finish the school year, most of us because we were forced to. Slowly the end drew nea and as we once more took our pen in hand to write the final exam at onB, we wished that all of the evils that can befall any human being would fall on the person that had invented high school. But ns most of the unbearable times usually come to an end. so our first year at high school passed, and as a traveler in the desert feels when he sights some water, so we felt when we saw our vacation days looming before us. And .the only thing we could think of a3 a reward for our long year of hardships was that we were no longer Freshmen. The next year we entered the high school as Sophomores. Fifty of our number had left us but we were still considered a large class. We tried to make the best of things and we settled down for an- other nine months of confinement. This year we were busier than the year before. Besides our studies we had to teach the Freshie; manners and to respect their elders, especially the Sophomores. We thought that we were now firmly established in the high school, but we trembled when we heard the words geometry and botany. The first game of the football season opened with two Sophomores on the team. To most of us this year passed on as slowly as the previous one. The manual training boys thought themselves expert specialists who could be consulted on large engineering projects such as the Panama ('anal. Pate Twenty Seven