Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL. Athletics. The Athletic Association. Nghe oy in the Rome Free Acad- 41 emy have in the last two years been placed upon a new footing, that is in a financial way. This branch of the school work, for it properly should be school work as much as any study, is controlled by an organization known as the Rome Free Academy Athletic Association. This association is open for membership to any scholar or teacher in the school who will pay twenty-five cents a year for the support of athletics. The Athletic Association has a written constitution in with which it acts. A most important provision in the constitution is that one of the faculty must be treasurer, which office has been accordance very ably filled by Mr. Harris for the past two years. The present officers are: President, ‘Thomas Flanagan; Vice- President, Walter Secretary, May Wilson; Treasurer, Mr. Harris. These officers are elected at the annual meeting, held in December; the managers of the various teams are also elected at this time. When the association was re-organized in the fall of 1902, the various athletic teams had contracted debts amounting to nearly $200. Since then the associa- tion only met all current expenses, but has paid up, by degrees, $125 of the Evans; has not indebtedness. received are accounted like manner and a detailed report is required of every manager. ‘Ty . . - . lhe association now feels that it would be better justified in asking support All moneys for in.a business from the citizens of Rome, since it has paid all debts for two years, besides $125 of the old debt, than it would if it were In order to keep poorly involved in new debts. out of debt the teams have been equipped, thus possibly accounting for the number of defeats Rome has suffered in the past years. A team needs a good outfit and careful training in order to do its best. ‘This has not been given to the teams lately. Naturally the question arises, ‘“Why not?” evident to any observing member of the Academy. The most important reason is that there is no support given to the teams. The games are poorly attended and then the teams are blamed for not a winning game with a few The answer is self- playing students in the grand stand or on the side lines. Every person who is able should attend the games. The effect on a team of a large, enthusiastic body of students cheering them on cannot be measured. Another reason for lack of money is due to the small membership of the Asso- ciation, in comparison with the number in the school. There are about 100 members of the Association and about 280 pupils in the Academy. This comparison shows a great lack of school spirit. It must certainly be lack of school spirit, because the dues are only twenty-five cents a year and anybody can afford to pay them if he chooses. Let the next year start off with every student in the Academy a member of the Association and working. in conjunction with the teams, to make the athletics of 1904-1905 victorious from start to finish.

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Tuer SENT The Athletic Association Entertainment. ( N February 19, 1904, in the study hall of the Rome Free Academy, was held an entertainment for the benefit of the Rome Free Academy Athletic Asso- Glee and Mandolin Clubs were secured for the ciation. The Colgate University evening and rendered, in a finished and pleasing manner, the following program, also responding to encores. 1. Mulligan Musketeers GLEE CLUB. March and Two-Step Ws Ms MANDOLIN CLUB. Pale in the Amber West QUARTETTE. Selection Root, ’ ay, Park Laughing Water MANDOLIN CLUB Out on the Deep MR. W. A. ROOT. Rhymes GLEE CLUB. Hager Bass Solo Nursery Gustanc INTERMISSION, from Carmen MANDOLIN CLUB. Karl Matys Op KING. Selections Romance MR. O. T. The New Couple GLEE CLUB Cello Solo Dan Dore Mandolin Club Selected MR. PHEIFER. Salmagundi. R ANNI AL. the Athletic Association gave a dance in Grand Army After the entertainment Hall. Three pi ces of Yordon’s orchestra furnished music. There were about the The the Rome girls sixty couples, including Colgate fellows, in attendance. Colgate fellows seemed to find attractive, in fact several invitations to the Colgate Junior Prom were the out- The but Miss Mabel Wilson did not leave the hall later the ‘King’s Carriage” was late in arriving. come of that evening’s dancing. dance broke up at about one o’clock, until about an hour because The members of the Athletic Associa- tion fed and lodged the men during their stay in Rome. Every one of them was a gentleman and the Romans will always be glad to see any of them. The dollars; ten from the dance and eighteen net proceeds were twenty-eight dollars for the entertainment.