Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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26 THE LINCOLNIAN CLUB AND CLASS NOTES Y. W. C. A. OFFICIALS THE Y. W. C. A. CLUB. After two years steady pull the dream of this club has almost been realized. This dream was to have every girl in Lincoln High School a Y. W. girl. This being a short year and also a very busy one, we have not been able to do much but we have now about ninety per cent membership for the school. We have two one hundred per cent classes. This record can never be forgotten. On April the twelfth of this year a cam- paign was started in this city to raise $20,000 for the purpose of buying a home for the Y. W. C. A. The workers were divided into fifteen clubs or teams. Our club was represented by team number eleven. We were not to solicit money from the outside but just to get members in our school. An offer was made that the first class “going over the top’’ was to be ban- queted by the other three classes, and of course the Senior class was the first to go over the top. The Sophomores fol- lowed closely, and so they were treated also, but not as royally as the Seniors. During the campaign the various clubs met every night in the cafeteria of the Y. M. C. A. to make their reports for the day. The campaign was started and con- ducted by Miss May Belcher, who is the secretary of the Southwestern Y. W. C. A. organization for the Negroes. After each report the teams were cheered by the cheer team, otherwise team number eleven. The following are the team leaders for our High School Club : Bernice Lancaster and Rosa Everett, Senior Class; Ruth Washington and Anna Mae Gates, Junior

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THE LINCOLNIAN 25 has learned to love him devotedly. Her- mia and Lysander plan to elope and leave Helena a heart-broken lover. At this stage, enter the fairies. Oberon, King of Fairyland and his Queen, Titania, are both! suspicious of each other and therefore, live very un- happy together. At this particular time they quarrel over a little Indian boy whom Oberon wants Titania to turn over to him. Upon her refusal to do so, he is so an- gered that he vows vengeance upon his wife. Accordingly, he sends his attend- ant spirit, Puck, into the woods for an herb whose juice, if squeezed on one’s eyelids, would cause him to love the first object he beheld upon awaking — no mat- ter what it was. Oberon desired Titania to love some vile thing. The herb is found. Titania falls asleep and the juice is squeezed into her eyes. There were some ignorant workmen in Athens who were desirous of higher wages, and felt that they must in some way win the sympathy of the Duke. Ac- cordingly, they decided to present a play before the bridal party on the night of the Duke’s wedding. Puck picks out the star actor of this crude company, puts an ass’ head on him and arranges that he shall be the first person Titania sees when she wakes. This star actor, Bot- tom, is singing when Titania awakes. She thinks his voice the sweetest and most wonderful she has ever heard and she loves him with her whole soul.. Oberon, while planning vengeance on his wife, overhears bits of conversation between Demetrius and Helena as she begs him to marry her. He feels sorry for her and orders Puck to put some of the juice on Demetrius’ eyes so he will love Helena. Puck anoints the eyes of Lysanda instead of Demetrius. Lysander, then, forsakes Hermia and becomes a de- voted lover of Helena. Puck tries to rec- tify his mistake by searching for Demet- rius and finding him sleeping anoints his eyes. It happens that when Demetrius awakes he also sees Helena. She is be- ing wooed by Lysander. Both men deter- mine to have the girl and decide to settle the matter by fighting a duel. Puck succeeds in keeping the men apart until they are worn out with hunting each other and fall asleep. He also by means of his magic art brings both women to the same place and charms them to sleep. Finally Titania and her donkey lover come in and also fall victim, to sleep. Now the errors are all rectified and the spell is taken from everyone’s eyes. Oberon and Titania become reconciled and all the lov- ers become happily mated. The crude company of working men of Athens pre- sent their tragedy for the amus’ement of the bridal party. Upon the stroke of midnight the fairies go to their own king- dom and leave the mortal couples to work out their own destiny. This play is a very interesting and en- tertaining one and we hope that the very large audience which will be present when the play is presented at the Auditorium Theater will be even more pleased with this one than they were with the former. Not only have the Seniors made won- derful progress along dramatic lines but the Juniors, too, have taken up the work. For the entertainment of the Senior class, the Juniors presented in the school audi- torium June 6. a play, “At; the End of the Rainbow,” with which everyone was well pleased. The scenes of the play are located in a college town. The students are prac- ticing for a football game with a rival college team and much interest in the outcome is shown. It develops that Douglas Brown, a football expert from an- other college, is in town on business con- nected with his father’s estate, and to dis- tract attention enters this college. Phyl- lis Lane induces him to consent to play with the team at the request of the cap- tain. A love romance is thus created. Robert Preston, a lawyer, secretly loves Marion Daton, his ward and she recipro- cates. He intrusts the combination of his safe to her and tells her of a packet of important papers lying therein. Louise Ross and her mother, Mrs. Brown, step- mother of Douglas, learn that a second will disinheriting them has been found and is among the papers in Preston’s safe. They plot to obtain possession of the document at a mask ball given by Marion. Louise wears a costume identical with that of Marion’s; deceives Preston; learns from him the combination of the safe ; ob- tains the paper by the aid of Jack Austin, unaware of the fact that the original packet has been removed by Preston and other documents substituted. The “Imp,” a girl student, sees and recognizes her. Preston enters and recognizes Jack, who is assisting Louise, in the belief that she is Marion. Marion enters and com- prehending the situation as she fancies, shields Jack by assuming the guilt. Her innocence is finally established by the “Imp,” who exposes Louise. Meanwhile Douglas wins the game for the team and realizes that he loes Phyllis, but when he learns that she has trifled with him he becomes cool. This, however, passes away and happiness follows. When Marion’s self-sacrificing effort to save Jack is brought to Preston’s attention through the exposure of Louise’s duplicity, he descovers that he loves her and their dream of the pot of gold at “the end of the rainbow” is happily realized. Each one in the cast played his part well and deserves commendation and we hope that such experience as they have received during the past school term will enable them to win even greater success next year.

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THE LINCOLNIAN 27 Class; Anna Moore and Ruth Dixon, Soph- omore Class; Birdie Davis and Effie Pegg, Freshman Class. Bernice Lancaster was appointed cheer leader for the club and these are a few of the yells : I. “Strawberry shortcake, gooseberry pie Are not half as good as working for the Y.” II. Say! Say what? What do all say? Lincoln High School and Y. W. C. A. 1, 2, 3; 3, 2, 1, Lincoln, Lincoln on the run. Stand on your head, stand on your feet But team No. 11 just can’t be beat. BERNICE LANCASTER. HISTORY DEPARTMENT. During the month of May, Chapter No. 1, History Class, which is under the in- struction of Mr. Thompson, has turned its attention toward the Treaty of Peace, and the Civil War. We are all interested in knowing how Germany will be treated for the cruelties she did during the four years of war. Along with this we dis- cuss the rights of the Negro and from the splendid suggestions we hear from the different pupils we will certainly have some splendid race leaders in the future years. Friday, May 16, 1919, Chapter No. 1 stu- dents discussed what the following nations received through the Treaty of Peace: England, discussed by Erna Parker; France, discussed by Vuelta Green; Italy, discussed by Helen White ; Belgium, dis- cussed by Raymond Williams; Japan, dis- cussed by Vauncile Oliver; Poland, dis- cussed by Willene Webb; Jugo-Slavacia, discussed by Caroline Dudley. ERNA PARKER, Chapter No. 1 Reporter. LINCOLN HIGH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The L. H. A. A. went through the state of hibernation this year, but has now come out of its -dormancy and is at work to pre- pare for its annual program during com- mencement week, for its reception to the graduates and for its scholarships. The new officers for the fiscal year are : “Lee Whibby, ’9 7, president; Neosho E. Vener- able, ’09, vice-president; Nannie Richardson Smith, ’09, secretary; Ruth Doniphan, T 7, assistant secretary,; Edgar Irving, T2, treas- urer; James Williams, ’09, chairman of pro- gram committee; Helen Ball McDonald, ’06, chairman of executive committee ; Benjamin Moore, T8, and James Williams, ’09, cheer leaders. An enthusiastic drive to obtain a 100 per cent paid up mem- bership for this year has begun. Mem- bership fee, $1.00. Let every graduate pay. Notes on the Graduates. 1918 — Hilda Lee Bailey, Christine Davis, Blumer Gilham, Clarence Lyons and Wal- ter Page have done post graduate work at Lincoln High School this year. A little bird has whispered that the wedding bells are to ring for Miss Irene Cowden in June. Much happiness to her if it is true. The following members of this class spent the year at an out-of-town school : Lauretta Gatewood, Lincoln Institute ; Edna Ham- mett, Western University; Goldie Price, George R. Smith; Margaret Spencer, Sum- ner High, St. Louis ; Helen Wheeler, George R. Smith, Mabel Williams, Lincoln Institute, Felix Goodwin, University of Kansas ; Neal Herriford, Arizona Univer- sity; Noble Jones, Fisk University; Earl Gray, Colorado University; Harry Rober- son, Coburn Walden, William Smith, Lin- coln University. Bertha Maddox is now the wife of Oswald Bartlett. Forrest Wil- son was appointed as a teacher of domestic science at Sapulpa, Oklahoma. That most of the members of this class have kept steadily employed in good paying posi- tions since their graduation is a very, very commendable fact for busy hands seldom find time for mischief. In the 92nd Divis- ion the class of 1918 was nobly represented “Over There” by Lieut. Edward Fladger, one of the youngest and bravest officers at the front. He is now stationed at Camp Taylor, Ky., but is planning to return to Kansas City and to Lincoln where a hearty welcome awaits him. T 7 — Lucile Pryor and Willie Kimsey have been members of the commercial class at their alma mater. Tressie Clark and Yvette Jones were Sophomores at Wilber- force during the years T8 and T9. Miss Clark is expected home soon for com- mencement Helen M. Brown, clerk at the high school, continues to increase in ef- ficiency and to set an excellent example for other young ladies to follow. Harold Bledsoe was a student at Howard University this year; Emmett Highes, at University of Kansas; Theodore Nix at Lincoln University; James Pryor, K. S. A. C. ; Vassal Tolbert, Fisk; Edith Williams, Lincoln Institute ; Dbris Wells, Wilberforce ; Hazel Hickum, clerk at the Y. M. C. A., Kansas City; Irene Thomas, Musical Con- servatory in Chicago; Henry Monroe, somewhere in France; Annie Weaver, suc- cessful teacher in Texas. T6 — Crawford Baker is now attending Biddle University, a Presbyterian School at Charlotte, N. C. ; De Norval Unthank, a student of medicine at the University of Michigan; Edgar Unthank, at Lincoln, Uni- versity; Doris Novel, Fine Arts, University of Kansas; Edlena O’Neil, K. S. A. C. ; Pauline Rone, Lincoln Institute; Irma Fra- zier, college course at the University of Kansas. Maysie Diggs and Edith Robin- son are to finish their courses at Wilber- force and the Old City Hospital, respective-