Piqua Central High School - Piquonian Yearbook (Piqua, OH)

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DECEMBER 12wDr. A. B. Carson gives a talk on osteopathy. 17-Final exams start-cards to come out Friday, February 20. 22- A Christmas Phantasy is presented by the Dramatic club before the student body. Returning alumni report their progress in colleges near and far. JANUARY 3-Alas! Christmas vacation is over. Seniors start the last lap of their high school education. Much progress is shown. ' 16-William Herbert Blough, assistant professor of education at Wittenberg, tells the seniors how to select a college. 19-Art class puppet show of Jack and the Bean Stock. All progressive schools have puppets. 25-Mr. Butcher from Heidelberg tells us Who Should Go to Collegefl 28'-We hear some progressive remarks from Dr. W. W. Trostle on Medicine as a Profession. 31-Hurrah! We see the Olympics without leaving Piqua when Mr. Bearmore presents a splendid movie and talk. FEBRUARY 3-Engravers, contract signed with the Fort Wayne Engraving Company. Our Annual progresses. 7-Glenn Morris tells us about sciences. Are any of us afraid of electricity? lt's shocking. 13-We welcome Miss English of the Y. W. C. A. for a profitable and inspiring talk. 17-Rev. J. W. Van Kirk represents world peace and exhibits his flag for the nations. Z3-Seniors select their announcements. MARCH 6YHonor society chooses another member. 6-Mr. C. L. Whitney, our city manager, tells us about progressive cities. 7-Progress is noted when first semester grade cards are handed out. 9-Junior Piquonian staff elected by the junior class. Z1-Mr.lCreager tells us about advertisements that people believe in, with dire resu ts. 24-Junior class play, Ult Won't Be Long Now, continues the school's progress. 27- The Value of Plush is explained by Miss Nellie McCabe. 27AQuill and Scroll election and induction. The boys should progress more in literary fields. 28-Our geographic knowledge progresses through an address by Mr. Elude on Siberia. 29-French club is organized. School activities grow in numbers. APRIL 10-Mr. Edward Spooner gives the history of furniture and its progress. 17-Dr. Art Smith, federal meat inspector, shows the progress made in our health protection. MAY 5-6-Cperetta, BonVoyage',, is presented by the senior class. How some seniors have developed their talents! 9-Class play reviewed by prospective cast. 9fSeniors take second tests and many find how little progress they have made. 26-junior-Senior reception is a wow and a big time is had by all. The juniors are certainly progressive entertainers. 28-Baccalaureate is bringing to a close the school life of some of the seniors. Z9-31-Class play. Well, well, some seniors do know how to act'--at least on the stage. JUNE lvffhe seniors have progressed since their freshman days and now reach their goal-f-graduation. Z-We attend the alumni reception and take our places in the progress of the world outside the school. THE . . . PIQUONIAN

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Calendar r SEPTEMBER 6-The year's progress begins with an inspiring talk given to the student body by Rev. H. C. Carson on Standards We Should Have in Work and Play. 13-Dr. Cvuy Morris Bingham uses the word Are as his topic and presents a very interesting program to the students and faculty. 14-Dr. Charles Reign Scoville and his evangelistic party present a short program. Dr. Scoville choses as his topic, A Triad of Ideals. 16-The teachers picnic at Evergreen lake. 18-The Student Congress is again seen at the desks in the halls as they study and rake charge of affairs for the first time this semester. 19-Supt. Dietrich introduces a class of psychology that is entered by many of the students. More progress. 19-22-Z3-Student Congress elections by the different classes on Monday, Thurs- day, and Friday. 21-Cheer leader tryouts in the auditorium. The school yells again resound through- out the building. OCTOBER 5-Mr. Sims' Uforewarned is forearmedn hint is well followed out after his short talk on unnecessary absence. 6-13-Honor students are selected by the faculty to become members of the National Honor society. Congratulations! Still more progress. 12-Columbus day is observed in several of the schools throughout the city with special programs being given. 13-The Debate club organizes today in the auditorium. Oiiicers for the coming year are elected and programs for the coming meetings planned. 17-The names of many juniors and seniors appear on the blackboard as the students prepare for the coming Piquonian staff election. 19-The seniors meet to appoint the ring and pin committee that will confer with representatives of numerous companies to select the class jewelry. 20-Tryouts are held this week and the first meeting of the Dramatic club. Many good plays are expected from the large and gifted number of students that are members of this club. 13-The Piquonian staff is elected by the students. May their choice be successful. May the stai'f's work be excellent. 20-Eirsifeven weeks grade cards are handed out. Let us strive to progress more rapi y. 23-Informal initiation for honor students is held in the auditorium. NOVEMBER 1--Senior class jewelry is chosen today. 1-2-3-Girls' Glee club tryouts and the first meeting. 6-12-National Education week. 8-Hugh Fuller presents the student body with a new variety of entertainment in the form of clever inpersonations when he appears in the high school audi- torium on the first number of this year's school assembly. 9-Open night is held in several schools with a program in the auditorium and the seventh period classes open to the public at Central. 11-Armistice day is iittingly celebrated in the schools. Supt. Dietrich of Columbus speaks to the students. 11-The High School band gives a concert on the public square at 11:00 A. M. 14-Chief Gehle instructs the students in safety in his talk. 16-17-18-Ohio State University tests are given to the seniors and sophomores. 19-Thanksgiving holiday. Many students, like the season's turkey, are stuffed. 21-Quill and Scroll induction is held in the auditorium at which time three girls and one boy are taken into the society. Little progress, boys! 22-Dr. Stevenson gives a talk in assembly on the Fine Art of Thinking. 23-The Rotary club entertains the football squad at their noon meeting. 23- The Courtship of Miles Standish is given by the Dramatic club. The boy progresses in this play. THE . . . PIQUONIAN

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Jllumni UNQJtes UST as we, the youngest alumni of Piqua High, hope to progress in the future, the ones before us had the same purpose in mind. Some of the members of the classes of 1883, 1893, 1903 and 1913 have consent- ed to write articles on their personal views of progress either in their particular profession or in general. Mrs. Kirk Kerns QAdgie Bakerj, of the class of 1883, contributes the following article: PROGRESS This is a wonderful world in which to be living, beautiful and most interesting. ln the past forty years progress has been great. Better schools are found today in which one receives a broader education. Those subjects are taught which train not only for a vocation but also for the proper spending of leisure time. This is being done in the regular school curriculum as well as in the outside activities, which include household arts, manual training, various clubs and musical organizations. In the rural districts, centralized schools are replacing the one-room buildings. This affords a com- munity center which furnishes an opportunity for sociability and leadership. We have had the privilege of living in an age of great inventions and prosperity. The world at present seems to be at a standstill, but we must not give up, for the future holds great possibilities. Dr. Clark E. Hetherington, of class of 1893, goes back to the gay nineties to- start his conception of progress. ' PROGRESS ? Forty years ago there was a depression. We are back where we were in '93. i'The youth of '93 was not much disturbed by the financial conditions. We never had much money anyway. Nickels were larger than they are today. Nickels and dimes bought most of the small things that we wanted. And yet those were the gay nineties! We had just as much fun then, somewhat unsophisticated fun though it was. Our mischief was abundant but more or less harmless. Our tobacco was indulged in fervently but furtively. Alcohol was not unknown but indulgence frowned upon. Billiards and cards were more or less evil, if not forbidden games. A scholar from Oxford, England, was refused the privilege of addressing our high school after he was seen playing billiards at the hotel. Our athletics were simple and in modern eyes most unsophisticated---a little baseball, leap frog , one and over , black-man . Everybody joined in. Vfe had no coaches, no uniforms, no band, no interurban or even class rivalries, but we gloried in our individual rather than our col- lective prowess. Our studies were few and simple. They did not prepare us for jobs, but we got one somehow. We studied more or less earnestly and left the result to Providence. i'The family exchequer did not provide many books, so we spent weeks reading the voluminous book of the day. The lurid fiction of today we did not have, but our sleep was not disturbed by the horrendous figures of the murder mystery. We had our jokes, but puns that now bring applause and five grand a week over the radio were not tolerated. Forty years of progress? Well, draw your own conclusions. Mr. Leonard Hill of 1903 class writes: THIRTY YEARS OF PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE Ult has always been necessary for man to spend a large portion of his efforts in obtaining food. The time thus used has been lessened with each new improvement in agricultural practice. Probably a greater change has come about in this respect in the past thirty years than in any other equal period of time, at least in American agriculture. Of primary importance to economical food production is a fertile soil. Among the improved practices in this field, probably the use of commercial fertilizers has been the most outstanding. Large amounts of rock deposits of suitable analysis are now ground up and spread on the land, to the betterment of succeeding crops both as to quantity and quality. Within the last thirty years, two THE . . PIQUONIAN