Meadville Area High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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Our thanks are due to the merchants who advestised with us, to the Student body who contributed material to the paper and particularly to Charles Haas, our assistant manger, who conceived the idea of having dinner at the Stat? meetings to-nee a month. Hereto- ,gg fore these meet- ings have been all work form seven P. M., until eleven, but Charles conceived the idea of having the meeting call at four P. M., and dinner served at six. Much work has been accomplished this way and the Staff have enjoyed two very pleasant meetings. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Brown, who made Charle's idea possible by granting the Staff the use of the cooking sehool. But most. of all do we owe our thanks to Miss Isabelle Carroll who has made it possible to put this Red and Black out, as well as the previous High School An- nuals, and without whom the i Students would be fortunate if they received this book by December 25, 1922. lCl.lZ.XBE'l'Il K'II.XRL'1'ON .Ions 3? Pl? 3? Zilhank Hun A 'gllodern Problems 'Clulb could also be organized with much benefit to the classes. The Histlziry and Civic teachers complain that extracting current events from flnnhrrn History and Fivies classes is a job not for a Brnhlpmg teacher but for a first class dentist. Why not Qlluh organize a club and try the bainless method 'F The greatest agent in educating the modern man or woman, is the newspaper. Yet a num- ber of Freshies admitted that the only thing of interest in a newsbalwer was the Mlluttsf' This eluib could meet boy or girl, Page twenty-seven fo dance or not to dance that is the question. XVI? strolled into a elass one day in high school where the Causes ot crime were being discussed and also the remedies. All agreed that one cause was the public dance, and all suggested that as a Q remedy dancing under proper supervision should be recom- mended. Such people as Judge Ben Lindsay, Jane Adams, Thos. M. Osborne were quoted as suggesting that dancing be taught in all High Sehools and all Jun- ior High Schools: -+ that dances should be held at least one evening a week, with good music under the supervision of the schools. XVhy not try it? The gymnasium otfers a placeg a good dancing teacher could be hired, and dancing would reaeh at least 907 of the student body where our athletics do not reach more tlhan 201. Econoomics say the Greatest Good to the Greatest Number. Uhr Eanrv HEX ik fl? S6 I!lIC'l l'A ULADYS SUHADE every two weeks, occassionally dinner or luncheon could be served and the topics of the day discussed. Papers on things of special note could be read in chapel and so help educate the rest of the sehool. The new Intelligence Tests for ctllege enitranee have over fifty per cent. of the ques-' tions taken from information easily gleaned from the nuwspiaspers and eurrent magazine. More advancement has been made in education, reform, ete., in the last twenty years than was made in the three hundred years previous. lVhy not study Current Events? Do we need a Modern Problems 'Club 1' Yes I I When do we need it? NOW l

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iiilitnrial He who tries to do something and fails is vastly superior to him who does rwthing at all and beautifully succeeds. The great trouble is in our high school is the at- titude of the fellow who does nothing and fails. 5113955 Public sentiment. goes a long way toward the success of any measure but the puwblic sentinient that sneers at anothers effort will certainly not cause much of that effort to be put forth. 'We send out this issue of the Red and Black as the best we could produce. It represents many hours work on the part of every member of the staff. We have done our best, we are proud off this issue. We think it sp-eaks for itself as an issue Larger, Better, On Time, with More lllus- trations than any heretofore published. The new members on 'our Staff are very enthusiastic and expect the school to applaud our efforts but we know better. We have served on High School papers before. We now see tl1e sneers of some of our shouldsbe boosters, the sarcastic remarks of the critics and that 'tkno-w-it-all air of the High School people who have in no way helped us and never offered any assistance. Many movements in the hig-h school have failed for the same reason-lack of support, not allways inancial lsupport, but school spirit. We need it and we need it badly. Don 'tv be one of those people who do nothing beautifully and succeed. M. H. S. may not appreciate you if you try to do something and fail but you will get the halbit and you will not always fail. Success comes to the fellow who can the most endure. 56 SF ,Xi We wisfh to state that the girl's Basket Ball team cleared over eighty dollars in the season. The Athletic Associa- tion refused to sponsor the movement, although Pgihlpiirg as many girls paid a quarter to join this Assoc- fnr iation as boys and the girls get no return for Girlz their quarters. Our girl's Basket Ball team furnished all their own equipment. They ran all their iinancial affairs, and yet they paid their bills, put out a good team, and imade money. The Athletic Association are surely a wiser organiza- tion when this goes to press and also a polo-rer organization by eighty dollars. The girls were willing at the beginning of 'the season to run their affairs under the Association's management, but the Association feared they would go in debt. Some times it pays to take a chance. S? Pl? 3? The High School of Columbus, Ohio took a vote in their student body and by an overwhelming majority decided in favor of sensible dress for girls. At St. Paul, Minn., in one High School the girls decided to w-ear uniforms consisting of blue skirts and mid- En-gg dies. Many of the High in New York have adopted the slogan: No More Rouge. Give your skin a chance to heal. Get color and a. good: comiplexion by ex- ercise, right living, plenty of air, good food. VVe have quoted the above as samples of what other high schoo-ls have done. Why not ours? There are some girls in our high school who, to quote 'tDavid Harumtt do not wear clot'hes enough to wad a gun. Their skirts are too short and their stockings rolled down. Really if they lived in the slum districts of New York the Associated Charities would take up col-lections to dress the t'Poor Suffering Childrenf' Are they respectable? We say yes. Respected? NVe doubt it. It does not add anything to a girl of high school age to dress like a '9Scotch Kiltie and surely it is no add for M. H. S. Rouge must be purchased by the quart by some of the students and powder would be cheaper if bought by the ton. Remember good exercise, as right living, plenty of fresh air will do more for the complexion than all the cosometics known. We trust that another year will find the girls of M. H. S. a year older, a year wiser, and on the way ta' sensible dress. This applies to onlyi a few. 'Page twenty-six

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The Orchestra is necessary to the High School. When our new High School is completed this worthy organization will have a 'regular' place to preform, which will much enhance the beauty of our weekly Qbrplpgirg entertainments. Many thanks are due Miss Bond for her pe-rseverance. The Orchestra added much to the enjoyment of tfwo of Olll' Basket Ball games, and it is up to the whole school to give three cheers and a tiger for our musical organization. 13? as if What has become of our dramatic ability i? ls it still here? Decidedly HYes. NVe have had tiwo exhibitions of its 'presence in chapel this year and nothing 'was more appreciated. The pupils who took Dminr Flag part in the two plays showed much if not more ability than other high schools. VVhy can't we have a 'Senior play U? Some say the theatre costs too much. Pt dloes .but we shouldn't be obliged to rent a theatre. We should have an auditorium in the high school but since we havent we have to rent the only one in town. It has fbeen shown the enough money can be made to pay all expenses and have a bonus of one or two hundred dollars. Yes, we know some people don 't believe that but then is money everything? Where is the pep and push that used to be here J? ls it gone? No, but what chance have we to show it? Do we have the privileges ot other scho.:-ls? Do we have a glee club, a dramatic' club, or a literary clwb? No, and why Not? Do we have dances? Shocking, shocking. Do we give concerts like other schools? No, we haven't any of the equipment we should have. NVe can act. We e-an sing. YVe can play musical instruments but nobody knows it. Wake up, Mead- ville, and give us our rights. A dramatic clufb A should be organized in the high school. The Bramatir charter memlbers could be drawn from the Gluh student body taking an interest in dramatics and then new meimlbers added whenever stu-dents showed ability along that. line. Short plays, acts from standard plays, selections from Shakespeare, etc.. could be staged monthly by this society and add much to the Chapel activities. Even it we are not alble t.o go into our new high school by next Septemloer, we can get such a club started and be able to put. on a tirslti class play to open the new building. All we wlant is a leader. Somebody to organize the same. Are you the Somebody? i f i S ' t. hm Page twenty eight