Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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HI' Tllllv' T Y T H R I?If sv, XVhen the tahulated results were received every teacher was pleased. livery team had placed. mayhe not so well as in other years. hut several individuals had placed. The teams placedbas lollows: heginning hookkeeping 24. heginning shorthand 23, advanced shorthand 2. heginning typing 15, and advanced typing 5, lhe individuals winning in the mass test were: Ruth 'ilieichman won liourth place in advanced shorthand, lean llorden won liliteenth place in lieginning typing, and listher Crocker won fifth ylace in advanced typing. If As .Xpril 23 approached, mttch thought was given to the selecting ol' the teams. Who was worthy ol representing Mishawalia High school in such a great event? The teams were chosen as Iollows: heginning hookkeeping, Margrete Rogers, Paul Radomslii. Mary Federnokg ad- vanced hookkeeping. Iulia Versceg, Iulia Lie- poltl, lfsther Crocker: heginning typing. lean Borden, Ruhy Cripe, Marie Graveelg advanced typing, Pearl Press, listher Crocker. Eunice Palmer: beginning shorthand. Harriet Haugher. Marie Graveel. Margaret U'Dsllg and advanced shorthand. Ruth 'l'eichman. Anne DiFiori, and Catherine Areta. Because ol limited linances this year the teams were not ahle to go in a husg they went in several cars. Ol' course this did not cramp the fun that they usually had, they enioyed themselves just as much as ever. lfSaturday, April zo, was the eventlul day. This was the day the teams proved what they could or could not do. Although the teams were not so successful as they have heen in liormer years, Nlishawaka had something to he thankful for when the day was over. They had tied lor second place and had two lirst place winners. The lirst place winners were Ruth 'l'eich- man, who won lirst in advanced shorthand. and Pearl Press, who won lirst in advanced typing. The advanced shorthand team won lirst place. and the heginning typing won third place. llOn Saturday night the teams all attended the Victory hanquet held at the llotel Roherts in Muncie. Indiana. VVe don't lvnow, hut it's heing said Mishawaka didn't receive the lan- ciest dishes ol' dessert when that course was served.

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394 THF .IIISKO Dlflfll EXECUTIVES QF TO O you remember 'way back when-P No, of course you don't. No one in Mishawaka High school now does, unless he's a P. G. The Commercial club had its beginning in the Scribbler's club. This club included only advanced shorthand students. In I925 the club was enlarged so that it could include more com- mercial students and was renamed the Com- mercial clutb. The objective, which its mem- bers have set for it throughout the years of its existence, has been to acquire enough finances through the club's activities to send Mishawaka High school's best commercial students to the state commercial contest so that they could bring home the bacon. If The club entrusted its activities for the year to very capable oiticers. They were as follows: Ruth Teichman, presidentg Mary Kalicsak, vice- presidentg Ieanette VanHuH'el, secretary-trcas- urerg Anne Difiiori, Board ol' Controlg and Re- becca lireps, general program chairman. This year the club has been no less active than in other years. Its first social function was a Halloween party on October 27 which proved a success when everyone had the pleasure of exploring the ground within a few blocks of the school house hunting for the exciting thing called treasure. lf.-Xbout all this excitement there seemed to hang a veil of deep thought. Now, what could this possibly be? It was just this. The club MCDIQRCDW was preparing its annual production of the year. This year the custom was somewhat changed. Instead of having their f'Vodvil, which had been established in the past, a play called 'fApplesauce was presented. The cast included Robert Anderson, Bill McAIlisterg Muriel Iacob- son, Hazel Robinsong Charles MacDonald, Rollo Ienkinsg Lottie Mae Williams, Mrs. Rotbinsong and Harry Castleman, Mr. Robinson. Miss Moist was director and Margaret O'DelI was student prompter. The audience which viewed the performance pronounced it one of the best productions ever presented by the club. The club has been very fortunate this year in having several well-known speakers. One speaker well-liked by the students was Post- master Gaylor who spoke on the postal service and its branches. Another well-known speaker, Mr. Louis F. Buckley, professor of economics at Notre Dame university, spoke on Depres- sion and the Way Outf' Mr. Robison of the Equitable Life Insurance Company spoke on the sales and kinds of life insurance. VWhen April 15 rolled around, the whole commercial department was tense with excite- ment. The Hbig day', had come. This was the day for the State Mass contest. For that day and for several days following an undercut- rentu of excitement seemed to press everyone. How did Mishawaka place in comparison to the other schools? Every one said Mishawaka could do it and Mishawaka did.

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go THE MISKODEED MUSIC Tl-IAT I-IATI-I CHARMS By MARY GRIM ES ff USIC hath charms to soothe the savage breast as Shakespeare once said, and our music department has suited his words to their actions during the year. Some art stu- dents have complained that the sounds issuing from the room afbove theirs fwhich is the music room, of coursej have not resembled music in the least, but these students had to listen to re- hearsals while the general public heard only the Finished productions. WThe outstanding success of the combined glee clubs, excluding their spring concert, was the Christmas pageant, which they presented as their annual Christmas assembly program. The Art department made the scenery and designed the costumes worn in the pageant, the glee clubs told Christmas stories in songs, and mem- bers of the Speech club enacted the stories while the glee clubs sang them. Mary Frances Mc- Donough and Doris Pullman, cellists, and Ger- aldine Lenning, and Isadore Shapiro, violinists, accompanied, while Margaret Hanrbright, Ruth Ann Iernegan, Calvin Horein, Robert Anderson, and George Klein carried the solo parts. During the same week the two clubs pre- sented a program of Russian Christmas carols before the Woman's club, the girls wearing for collar and cuff sets. achievement, for the crepe paper ruffling the first time their new These sets are reall an . Y girls made them from Qyou're not supposed to know thislj isewed on cotton or linen foundations as a group project. It is too bad the boys haven't something as equally fetching to wear, for they were put quite in the shade. If The clubs' activities during May were rather varied, for they presented their concert on May 4. As a climax ,to a busy and successful year they sent the graduating seniors off by singing for Baccalaureate. llThe orchestra has been just as busy as any of the other musical groups, for it has played for nearly all the school affairs held in our auditorium as well as played for many civic affairs. They played for the Princess Misha- waka Centennial pageant held in Lincoln Park during the third week of May, 1932, thus start- ing this school year's activities before last year's had closed. Durinir this school year they pro- vided music for all the class plays, Open House, Commencement, Baccalaureate, and the Spring Concert, of course, as well as playing 'between- act music when the Masque presented 'KThe ln- timate Strangers in our auditorium the last week in December. Their one venture from the auditorium was when they played for one Ladies' Night at the Fellowship club, but that appearance was as successful as their others, so evidently location has nothing to do with their performance-