Monessen High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Monessen, PA)

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nhnhpki tarp September- 6--School Starts. Hail! Hail! The gang's all here. 7-Second day. Only half day. Nobody objects. 8-Everything running as smoothly as an auto with three wheels. First foot-ball practice. 9-A very short prelude to the season for the Black and XVhite . I2-Nothing exciting. lt's torture to go to school this swimming weather. I3-Indications of Flunk Fever beginning to crop out. I4-XVonderful! Only two dozen Freshmen get lost. I6-First real Black and XVhite. I-lear the nickels rattle in the hall! 19-Ready for another week of double-barrelled torture. 20-First Chemistry Lab. Up in the Chem. Lab. Hear that crashing sound. Sing to Old Black joe. 22-Girls' Chem. Lab. Patience of blob ordered for Towney. 24- Lost to Rochester via loaded ollicials, 7-6. 26-Blue Monday again. XVill 'lhanksgiving never come? 27-Girls have Chemistry Lab. again. :X fortune for someone in invent- ing steel test tubes instead of glass ones. 29-Cheer leaders elected. Peg - Butch - Poochu-- L'lara . 30-XVe make out our program cards. How brite some of us aren't. lfirst Shakespearean Literary. October- I-XVe beat Uniontown. 25-0. XV,hoopeel Guzwopl 3-Record for number of announcements broken in Chapel this morn- mg. 4-RAIN! Hut the team practices anyway. 5-Boys get their fingers burned in Chemistry Lab. L'an't hold a pencil now. ' 7--The team goes to Duquesne and brings back 27 points leaving none. .lim Hanlon meets his friend Murphy. I0-Sang about ilowers and birdies while the rain poured outside the chapel Walls. ll-Dick Bow swallows a 'chicken bone while eating lunch. Plans to swallow another tomorrow and Hnisli the suicide he started today. 9

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VVe have dropped the old method of having certain courses from wvhich the student chooses one and is then required to take the sub- jects specihed in his course. 'Dhe student now has the privilege of selecting whatever subjects he thinks will best suit his need so long as they conform to the State requirements. Another mark of progress is the ten-hour day, adopted two years ago. The students are required to stay in school only eight periods, some coming at eight o'clock and others at 8:45. Recitations are in progress the whole day except for the twenty-live minutes at noon for those who bring their lunches. The others go home for lunch when they have a vacant period. VVe realize that some recreation is necessary for the students. For this purpose it is the custom toihold class parties and other social affairs. Among the activities of the school are the Girls' Glee Club and the Boys' Glee Club. NVQ also have a school band and an orchestra. A new organization known as the Stringers was organized this year. The Literary Societies give the student an opportunity to improve his speaking ability. These different organizations give the student ample opportunity to develop individual talent. A In athletics also has progress been rapid. The first football teams were coached by members of the team and by graduates. Until 1915 there was no regular coach. ln that year Mr. Townsend arrived in Monessen and became coach. The teams since then have shown a very decided improvement. In 1919 M. H. Sfvvon the VV. P. I. A. L. basket ball cup after a season which clearly showed their supremacy. The baseball and track teams have been a credit to the schpol ever since they were organized. ' ln view of the fact that we have progressed so rapidly in the past it seems reasonable to believe that we will continue to advance. When the new Junior High building is finished the High School will have a better opportunity to broaden out and improve and in time become the large-st and best High School in the valley. ' 8

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I2-Bad news. Pokey hadnio chicken in hisilunc-h today. 13-First reports. Oh, my goodness! Ye Gods! Gee VVhiz! Jiminy! Hot Dog! My Go-sh! I4-Cheer Practice in Literary. Peg presides. l5-McKeesport 0, Monessen 7. Rooters all admitted to Star free after the game. 17-First Senior party announced for next Friday night. How happy those dignitaries look! I9-The Freshmen desire a party. Are denied the honor. 21-Senior Masquerade party. VVHO IS IT? Some won't get home until morning. 24-Remember the Punch! 25-Orchestra Practices! To set the air with music bravely ringing is far from wrong' but the song neglects to mention knocking dishpans down the cellar stairs. 26-Literary! Not interesting enough to detain some of the boys. Kirk's 'corner is popular. I7-Tony gets his hair cut. 31-Junior Mask Party. Paul Ely has non-freezable legs. November- l-Cheer practice in Gym. XVe rattle the seals loose in the Auditorium. 2--Browney pressed his trousers. NVho is she? 4-'Nother lecture on Fire Drill. 5-Monessen 2l. Mon. City 0. VVeeping and wailing--in Mon. City. 7-Everyone feels good over the game. Sing Capital Ship in chapel. 9-Basket ball talk begun and Foot ball not buried yet. II-All set for Connellsville. I2-Connellsville 0, Monessen 42. 14-Big celebration in Chapel. Brass Band! Addresses by Towney and Berny. Team enshrined on the stage. l6-Chlorine in Laboratory. Everyone is Chlorinated. I8-Cooking Class overheats oven and ruins the pies. Smell rubber burning. l9-South Hi. 0, Monessen 61. Post Season game. 2-2--junior-Senior Party. They improve with age. 23-Thanksgiving Literary. Bye-Bye for ten days. Nov. 24-Dec. 3-Incognitum. December- t 3-Oil City 0, Monessen 42. Another Post Season game. 5-Oh! How we love to be back! OOF! 6-Heinz movies in Auditorium. 8-M-O-N-O-T-O-N-Y. 9-Everybody sleepy and dissatisfied with life in general. I2-W'e receive tablet of Dante from Italian-Americans of Monessen. THANKS! 10