Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The Forum ,ff 'FS HIS has indeed been a red-letter term for the Forum. Al- ,A A- though the term is still young, our hump has assumed considerable size, as witness the following accomplish- ments. In our spelling match with the Round Table, Wolf, Cook and Pachter spelled down Elizabeth White, the sole survivor from the Round Table after a long, hard, contest. Subsequent- ly Wolf spelled down the other boys, becoming our champion speller. On February 23, Mr. W. B. Harrison, champion debater of Michi- gan University for four years, gave the members of the Forum some ex- cellent pointers on public speaking and debating. His points were il- lustrated by stories of some of his own experiences, and made a very in- teresting and instructive talk. His visit will long be remembered by the Forum. We consider the organization of the Congress, the new literary so- ciety, as one of our accomplishments, because the idea was originated and developed by members of the Forum. We have long felt the need of a society similar to the Forum, to stimulate debate and declamation by occasional contests. Consequently we welcome the advent of the Congress and extend to it our best wishes for a successful career. Our Fools' Day program was as successful as usual. Craig and Schnepf succeeded well in making QD fools of themselves. Selden faflir- mativej and Stillman fnegativej debated the weighty question, Re- solved, that a doughnut isn't, without a hole The negative, curiously enough won, producing as proof, a doughnut without a hole. CIt was a doughnut, we tasted it.j Our crowning achievement and the one we take most pride in, is the defeat of Central in an interscholastic debate on March 24. This gives us the privilege of debating Cleveland next fall for i-irst honors and the first lap on the beautiful Amherst College Alumni cup. This cup is to become the permanent property of the school winning it three times. '.i ll'JlLX1,. Wit? pglv' f - gk ii-.ba . B 79

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l9l7 New juniors, fanuary,

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,T-,f- --- . , , f -.,, , -W.,-.....,,.,. ,Y -, ,gh A Y ,5 - 3-1.--.- Jyirv L-PJ ,,.1 L 51 57 's im As yet no one has a claim on it, but we hope to make the Soldan trophy case its final resting place. These are not the whole of the Forum's activities for the term, how- ever., We have a debate with the Round Table under way, a mock-trial planned, and a picnic of some sort under consideration. Then there are our weekly programs in which some live topics are discussed. In short, something interesting is going on at the Forum all the time. Our meet- ings have been changed from every Friday to Wednesdays of even weeks and Thursdays of odd weeks to meet the schedule of military training which many of our members participate in. Remember we are open7for inspection in room 211 at three thirty, and give all visitors a hearty welcome. -Wm. H. Penaat, 8. 1 A-fe' 'Soldan Botanical Club HIS term is going to see the crowning success of all the suc- fi I I cesses of the Botanical Club. So much enthusiasm has hill. if 'A been shown that the limit of membership has been in- . ' i creased from twenty-five to thirty. A We have already had two field trips, besides our reg- I f 4V'W H' i ular Tuesday afternoon meetings. The first trip, on March lil, waslto Creve' Coeur lake which always affords a great variety of trees and shrubs for study. It also affords a number of trestles to cross. Thesetrestles, by the way, furnished the girls a chance to crow over the boys? for one of our noblest and most honored masculine members w'a1ked'un'der every trestle, while every girl marched bravely and fear- lessly 'aetiossf l Our next trip, on March 24, was to Sugar Creek, where we found hepaticaswaiting for us. The hepatica is a small, delicate flower, pink, white, onlavender. It is one of the earliest and most beautiful of spring H0wers,i and is especially interesting for study. On this trip all previous records of, :attendance were broken. Members and guests together numberedmhirty-eight. In the afternoon, we had our usual baseball ga-me, andlthen we walked about four miles through the woods. ,. - Five.-more-trips are planned, most of them into new regions recent- ly discovered by our exploration committee. Y Weghave finished mounting all our specimens collected last year andvagewpatiently waiting for more to grow. V , VMr,'Sackett is our faculty representative for this term. The offi- cers arexlpresident, Hale Mooreg vice-president, Beatrice Buckmang sec- retary, Mary Callaghang treasurer, Leslie Grener: sergeant-at-arms, Edward Stillman: Scrip representative, Walter Wolf. Although the club is full now, there will be several vacancies next fall, through graduation in june. Watch your chance to get in. -Mary E. Callaghan, 4. so