Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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ORGANIZATIONS -www VAGABOND CLUB The Vagabond Club was organized in the year l925 for the purpose ot promoting interest in dramatic work, and also to develop the ability of the club members. Miss Wills with the assistance of Mrs. Thompson was the first director, the club start- ing in the second semester. Seventy people tried out for member- ship but only thirty were chosen for the new organization. The constitution drawn up at the first meeting barred all freshmen CContinuecl on page 341 THE DEBATE CLUB The debate club started the year as a rather boisterous organization without seemingly much thought for achievement. Soon humorous debates were given and from the members ot the club two teams were chosen. The Debate Club then became uni- fied so that there was an assembly program in which three boys de- fended themselves against three girls very successfully. As debates with other schools loomed out, the sponsor, Hoyt Rawlings, called Continued on page 345 Page Twenty-six

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Page Twenty-five ORGANIZATIONS X A . is wif? :Nj 0 by XX COMMERCIAL CLUB The Comnnercial Club is a newly organized activity at M. H. S. All students taking or having taken any of the following subjects are eligible: shorthand, typing, commercial arithmetic, commercial English, commercial geography, bookkeeping, and commercial law. About eighty students have joined the club. Inspirational, and entertaining programs are presented at the meetings. Aside from the social activities, these programs are given with the basic tContinued on page 343 LIBRARY CLUB The Library Club is one oi this year's new organizations. The club is composed of 26 student librarians under the direction of Mr. Bradner and the president Myriel Hinman. lts meetings are held every other Tuesday. At these meetings all questions concerning the use ot the library by the students are settled. At the beginning of the second semester it was decided by the teachers and students that student librarians would have tContinued on page 343

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Meiffffe ORGANIZATIONS l SENIOR CLASS PLAY - The Youngest he iii 1 VAGABOND CLUB PLAYI ,Tlo-Ma' 'K 5 -U v.4 Page Twenty-seven -' 'Heart Trouble' ' v' 3 , I JUNIOR CLASS PLAY - The Ghost Train SENIOR CLASS PLAY- The Youngest l'The Youngest, by Philip Barry, was the three act comedy chosen tor production by the Senior class of Macomb High School. The play is an ingenious variation ot the Cinderella theme, in which the hero, a down-trodden son, comes into Contact with a charming busybody. The youngest eventually learns to assert fCcntinued on page 345 ok, t 4,14