Petaluma High School - Trojans Yearbook (Petaluma, CA)

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tion for municipal suffrage in the United States ; is undesirable.” Affirmative : Miss Perinoni, | Mr. Lauritzen. Negative : Miss Healey, Mr. ; Camm. After the program a business meeting was ! held. Officers for the ensuing term were nomi¬ nated as follows : For President, Mr. Camm, Mr. Poehlman. Vice-President, Mr. Foster. vSecretary, Miss Rodgers. At the next meeting of the society held March 21st, the officers were elected as follows : President,-Mr. Poehlman ; Vice-President, Mr. Foster ; Secretary, Miss Rodgers ; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Cromwell. The President appointed on the program com¬ mittee Mrs. Hubbard and Misses Sweed and Schluckebier. Not only had our accommodations to be in¬ creased but the numbers of our program were of a more varied character, and never failed to draw a large and interested audience. Follow¬ ing is the program of the above meeting : Piano duet. Misses Boekenoogen and Schluckebier. A Foot-ball Farce written by MivSS Kurtz. De bate : Resolved —“That an Income Tax, if Constitutional, should be incorporated into the tax system of the United vStates. Affirmative : Misses Ottie Smith and Martinelli. Negative : Misses Burns and Early. Ever since the organization we have con¬ tinued to meet almost regularly twice a month. It’s object—that of teaching the student power of expression, of self control and self-assur¬ ance, is being more and more fully realized. The benefits derived from such efforts cannot be over-estimated. The meetings held since March 21st have been of the same sort, with excellent programs first and business meetings afterward. There were five judges appointed by the president for each debate. Almost always two were out¬ siders and three students. To decide which side presented the better debate, one must pay close attention and follow the arguments care¬ fully. This habit of careful attention and close discrimination is of great use in life, and by putting students on as judges they are taught this habit. Debates thus benefit not only the debaters but also the judges. To Professor Ferguson belongs the credit of organizing this society. He proposed it first and has worked faith full} ' ever since its organi¬ zation to make it a succes s. We hope that the benefit derived from these meetings may so raise the standard of the school that he may feel his efforts have not been in vain. E. J. R. ' 03. ...ATHLETICS.- Football. Although the athletes in this school have not been up to the standard of former times, we have tried to do our best, and have done very well under the present conditions. The football season started with bright pros¬ pects, for we had very good material for the organization of a team. Practice was started about the middle of September of last year. Suits were donned three times a week, while the remaining time was spent in signal practice and formation plays. During practice on the day before our first game with a picked team known as the “ Katz- enjanimers,” our left half back, H. K. Brainerd, broke his collar bone, whereby our hopes for the following day were .somewhat shattered. The day of the game dawned, with the sun hid behind the clouds, and numerous heavy show¬ ers made the ground exceedingly poor for play¬ ing. Though our team was heavily handicapped through the superior weight of our opponents, after an hour’s hard playing the score stood o to o. Because of the mishap mentioned above, several members of the team were un¬ able to play through paternal objections, and so the sea.son ended. Field Sports. Our time was next taken up in training for the S. M. A. L. field day, which was to be held at vSanta Rosa on the 19th of April. Through the kindness of Mr. Smith, Agricultural Park was obtained as training quarters. Training

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The P. H. S. Literary Society. —« — The Literary Society of the Petaluma High School was organized November r, 1901. Be¬ fore our definite organization, e.xercises were Iield Monday morning in the High School, and were devoted principally to debating. The first regular meeting of onr present society was on the evening of November 1, igor, in the Brick School, I Ii. Clark very kindly tendering the use of his class room. I.ittle was done other than to appoint a committee to draw np the constitution and by-laws. The committee was compo.sed of Mr. Cromwell, chairman; Miss vSinith and .Air. McAllister. At its ne.xt meeting, November 15th, the society was given its present name, the consti¬ tution adopted, and the following officers nomi- uated : presi.lenls, .Mr. Cromwell, Mr. Mc.Allis- ster, Mr. Poehlman; vice-president, Mr. Brain- erd; secretaries, Mr. Foster, .Mi.ss .Schlnckebier; sergeant-at-arms, -Mr. Wilder. A debate at the meeting held Heoember 13th was the commencement of our programs, the i principal feature of the .society. The subject was: Resolved, “That Football Should be Ku- conraged.” -Affirmative, -Mr. Poehlman, Mi.ss Rodgers. Negative : Mr. Camm, Miss Sweed The meeting then proceeded to busine.ss and the following officers were elected : President, Mr. Cromwell ; Vice Pre.sident, Mr. liraiuerd ; Secretary, Miss .Schlnckebier. The following program committee was ap- pointeil : Misses Kurtz, .Aikin.son and Smith. Onr .Society no V being formally started, the i following program was given at its meeting on Jan. 17th : Recitation, Miss Duntou ; Banjo solo, .Miss Brush. Debate : Resolved— Foreign Immi.gratiou to the United States .should be I’rohibited.’’ -Affirmative ; Mr. Brainerd, Miss Idealey. Negative ; Mr. F ' oster, -Mr. Cromwell. .At each meeting the attend¬ ance increa.sed and often the room was taxed to Us utmost to seat the people. On February mb, we held one of our best meetings since the organization of the society. Following is the excellent program which was rendered : Reading, Miss Otlie Smith ; Pho¬ nograph selections ; Comedy in one act en¬ titled: “How -Airs. Haskell did not hire a cook.” Debate ; V.w frr -“That the Jury system should be abolished. -Affirmative : -Mr. ,Mc- -Allister, Miss Hays. Negative : Mr. Winsor ’ Ali.ss Raaf. I he Society contiuued to grow in popularity, and it soon became evident that accommoda¬ tions would have to be larger. .A petition was pre.sented to the Board requesting that the High .School be furnished with lights in order that , we might hold the meetings of our .society in onr own .school building. Rvery member of I the school desires to extend hearty thanks to the Board for its prompt compliance with their request. Before our next meeting, Feb. 28th, the school was supplied with the necessary lights, a platform was erected at one end of the hall provided with two drop curtains, the piano was tuned and polished, and from that time on such excellent programs have beeti lendeied, that althongh the .seating capacity of the hall averages two hundred, even the .stair¬ way has been required. Finally establi.shed in its new quarters, the program committee took renewed interest in its work and the facilities the hall afforded for an opportunity of display¬ ing our students’ histrionic ability. They de¬ serve great praise for their creditable presenta- tion of farces. On Feb. 23d we met in regular session in onr own building. Program : Instrumental trio, Mr. and Misses Winsor ; solo, Mi.ss Hood. De¬ bate : “That a property qualifica-

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was followed consistently for six weeks, at the end of which time all were in fair condition. The day of the games came at last and ’twas a merr}’ crowd that assembled to cheer our boys to success. The shot put was called first, in which O. fl. Lafranchi of our school was en¬ tered, but failed to qualify. Next came the loo- yard dash, in which Mr. Poehlman obtained third place, scoring our first point for the day. RELAY TEAM. In the 22()-yard dash Poehlman al.so took third place. In the 440-yard dash and high jump we had H. K. Brainerd who failed to score, yet did very well. In the distances were Lauritzen, Ilarte and Dean who, although they did not succeed in getting within the limit, promised well for the future, ' i ' he last event of the day, the relay, was verv exciting. First place was won by Ukiah, Santa Kosa second, Petaluma third, who beat the Healdsburg High and kept them from scoring a point. Baseball. The baseball season was opened after the completion of the field .sports. A league was formed, consisting of four teams; .Santa Ro.sa High, Healdsburg High, Santa Ro.sa Business College, and Petaluma High. Practice for the first game began w’ith great vim and enthusiasm and the first game was played on May 24th in this cit}’ between the .Santa Ro.sa High and the Petaluma High. The game was interesting and well played until the eighth inning, when the score stood 3 to 2 in our favor. Then came that disastrous last inning, wdieii our team went to pieces and we were defeated by a score of 8 to 3. Following is the line-up of our team : Catcher, Farrell; pitcher, Lauritzen; first base, Guyon; .second ba.se, Baldwin; third base, Poehlman; short stop; Kenneally; right field, Hart; center field, Tuttle; left field, Camm. Basketball. In 1S98 was started the first basketball team j of the P. H. S. The pupils were very enthu- , siastic at first, but the interest didn’t last long and basketball was dropped until last year, ' when a team compo.sed partly of High School I girls and partly of outsiders was formed. This ! team played two match games, one with the I .Santa Ro.sa fligh School and one with the At- i lanta team of the Girl’s High .School of .San I Francisco. In the first match, owing to each j team playing by different rules, we were de- j feated, but in the second game we defeated the ' .San ITancisco team by a considerable margin. ; This year the sport was again revived, though I not until late in the sea.son, and the team was ' composed wholly of girls going to the High .School. Through Mrs. McNear’s kindness we practiced in her tennis court for a while and later in an empty lot on Keller .street. The girls worked hard and conscientiously, the one disadvantage being that we could never get a large or strong enough team to play against, and therefore had to divide, so losing much team practice. Along with our hard work we had full, and many good times which we will not soon forget. The girls al.so claim that ba.sket ball aids in mathematics (for example- — ])roving propositions in geometry.) The basket ball officials this year were Kdna Rodgers, captain and Te.ssie .Sweed, manager. The regular team was comj o.sed of the fol¬ lowing :