Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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Mars High School eo open to the public. Among these was Carnegie’s Room or the Founder’s Room. We also visited the bone department, stuffed animal department, the Indian department and several others. About three thirty we left the Museum and returned to the city. Some went to the theatre and the.rest came home. We all enjoyed the trip and learned many new wonders of our wor ld. On the twenty second of May we held a social in the Robertson Hall. Our aim was to raise the money we had pledged for the new High School Building at the dedication exercises. Although the weather was wet and stormy a good crwod was present and all reported a good time. Our Junior year was not very eventful. We elected Anna Longdon Secretary for our class, our former Secretary, Clarissa Crawford having left our ranks. We had twenty six members, the same as when we were Soph- omores. Our last year in High School has not been very exciting but nevertheless | we have enjoyed it. This term we have a new professor Mr. Clarence A. Conley, who tis a graduate of the Class of 1910 of Mars High School. The school curriculum has been arranged so that the students only need to carry four studies. This year there is an enrollment of twenty-nine members on the Senior class roll. Katharine Smith of Charelvoix, Michigan, who attended High School last year at Spencer, W. Va., and Edna Seaberg of Fireburgh, New York, entered our class the first day of school. A few days later George Harbison of South Hills High, moved to Mars and added his name to the Senior Class Roll, then last but not least came Helen Boyle of the Sharpsburg High, who joined our ranks a few days before our Thanksgiving vacation. In the fall the Sophomores challenged us to a game of foot-ball. Our see won. We also played a game of basketball with them and came out the victors. After the Christmas vacation a committee was appointed to choose a class play and they decided on “Kicked Out of College.’ Miss Waldorf, dramatic instructor from Carnegie Tech, was hired to coach the play. At one of our late class meetings we chose as our class motto, “Launched, but not Anchored,” and for our class flower the American Beauty Rose. Now as we are about to leave forever Mars High School, and as we are preparing to leave school life and enter life’s school, we turn to wish our followers the greatest of success, and we earnestly hope that those who come afte rus will profit by our mistakes. Catherine Hooks, ’21. Page Twenty

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af Mars High School Senior Class History 18 is the 6 of September 1917, the first day of our high school career. How well we remember the expression on Professor A. H. Forman’s face as he gazed upon the students, of whom more than one half were fresh- | men. But one should never judge a book by its cover for though we looked | green and incapable of learning at that time, we now leave M.H.S. as the | largest and best class which has graduated from this school. | We had fifty-three students in our class as Freshmen. Soon after school opened we had a class meeting and adopted Lavender and Gold as our class | colors. The first part of our Freshman year was spent in the Common School building with only half day sessions. On the eleventh day of February, 1918, | we entered the new High School building. Though basketball was suspended | for the season owing to the late completion of the gymnasium we arranged a | schedule of class games. The first game we played was with the Sophomores | in which we were victorious, the score bzing 12-3. The next game was with the Seniors in which the score was 13-5, in favor of the Seniors. The only | game the girls played was with the Juniors, our class winning by the score | of 4-3. | The next term, 1918-19, we had an enrollment of only twenty-six. Ata | class meeting we elected Loyal Purvis as President and Clarissa Crawford as | Secretary of our class. ' | When the war work was on and our class was asked for volunteers of | Victory Boys and Victory Girls we answered with our usual zest and patriot- ism, and our class proved to be 100% patriotic. Our class pledging one | hundred fifty-five dollars. This money could not be solicited from parents | or friends but had to be earned by the student. Many seized the oppor- tunity of earning this money at the time when school was closed because of | the flu bug. | During the month of September we enjoyed several trips to the fields () : of the dates which will never be forgotten by the faculty of 1917- | where we caught grasshoppers and butterflies. After we had caught and | chloroformed the grasshoppers we enjoyed ourselves dissecting them. ‘The | butterflies were chloroformed and then mounted. | This term our school was closed from Nov. 21 to Dec. 23 on account of the Flu.” On May the ninth our class with the Freshman History Class visited the Carnegie Museum. We went through the halls of Sculpture and Architecture and saw many fine pieces of art, gathered from all parts of the world. Through | the kindness of Mr. Hyett we saw some parts of the Museum which are not Bace iINivereen

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t Mars High School Senior Class Play The Senior Play ‘Kicked out of College’? was presented in the audi- torium of the High School building. The characters in the play were as follows: poe tiecp ben Dawei aa. Ash Opulat SEMIOLss ratte ee Loyal Purvis MideGnescidine. ...... 6s. +. The College Cut-Up..-....... Milton Ellis emGlEN SMA Gr oe Sercs uss eds Fs alrevAce: of opAdesyn ee ante Paul Steiner peotche WicAllister: «0. 2... Do Lardostudentsana te ae ee David Roberts BMOCEYEUONG eter. es ts On the Glee Club.............LeRoi Norton BlivetsUViavee.. 268 2. ates. es Apiappyva| UlIOGs. qatar, © oem Graham deCoux Merapenjamime |. Benbow... Bootles Father: 3.0.2.7. .22. 5... Alfred Morrow MipoanrdyVvicCann:. 5.24. Coach of the Dramatic Club. ..Loyal Walters Oiicemhiley.. 2 aie fois os From the Emerald Isle. 4). George Harbison WAC ADS M chon girant. cree Of the Speed Motor Car Co... .Clyde Frisbee email Gray ioe: as) oi. a ‘abe Littles Ghattier, 28 aerecces Vera Hyett Betty DenbOW. cii4.2 6c... = Bootlessupist Chigast vac. cee tee Edna Hill VLEs he DeTLDOW vo... 2: Her Mother, a Sufferagette....Jean Vandervort MipsmeVi CC annie testes. wo ates Atlealouss Wy ies seer eee Mabel Werner PehnawNicGanh ©. s.e0.. 220: Aeoed= Lhirt een ivase 4 geet Mabel Cashdollar Miss: juliet Snobbs......... The College Stenographer..... Jane Stitzer Mies Mimi Fleurette....... Auirench Costumer 2c. ase Helen Boyle Salamanca Spivins.........A Black “Wash Lady.......... Edna Seaburg Story of the Play: Bootles Benbow, the most popular boy in college, is so busy with inventing a patent air brake and with his various social and athletic activ- ities that he finds it impossible to go to class. Accordingly he is dropped from the roll and is “kicked out of college.” This news is received at the college boarding house when the lads are in the midst of a rehearsal for the annual college play. Bootles’ father arrives and is furious to think that his son has wasted his opportunities at college. He threatens to disinherit Bootles but promises to relent if Bootles will marry and settle down. Sandy McCann, the coach of the dramatic club, is a lways trying to ietixastiinus 1On his friends. He therefore informs Mr. Benbow that Bootles is already married and introduces Bootles’ roommate, Tad Cheseldine, who is the “leading lady” of the college play, as Bootles’ wife. The scheme works successfully. -Bootles and Tad move to “Honey Moon Flats” and live off the fat of the land, entertaining the college boys every night and doing as they please by day. Bootles completes his blue- print drawing of his patent air brake and sends it to the Speed Motor Car Company. A colored wash lady, one Salamanca Spivins, calls to collect nn Page Twenty-one