South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Ui N I 'i of .mm 1111: Uma' wk Mes I Y. M. C. A. Campaign HEN the campaign for funds for the Y. M. C. A. war work was planned, it was decided that the boys of the United States should be assigned a quota of 3l,000,000, of which sum the boys of Minneapolis were to subscribe 35,000. - The Minneapolis committee in charge of the campaign here decided that at least ten days would be necessary to complete the work of gathering the needed funds. S-teps were taken immediately and soon each high school had two teams of ten students eachg one team composed of upper classmen and the other of lower classmen. Besides these, there were several church and neighborhood teams. All teams were organized by the captain appointed by managers in charge. On Monday morning, November 12, 1917, the campaign started off like a shot. Everyone was enthusiastic and the members were encouraged greatly by the hearty co-operation of all the boys. At the supper that evening which was complimentary and provided by the central Y. M. C. A., a report was made out by each team and when all was tallied up the required quota had been over-subscribed by nearly 31,000 the first day. It was decided that one day more should be devoted to collecting sub- scriptions and accordingly the next day the Y. M. C. A. campaign machine worked diligently. That evening when all reports had been made out, the quota had been more than doubled and the total sum collected was 311,674.75 Of this sum West High School contributed 32,890.75, Central, 32,562.85g South, 3l,897.70g North, 3909.105 East, 3456.25 and the remainder was collected by the church and neighborhood teams. Lest we forget, Miss E. Friedlander contributed 330.00 and Miss A. Cotton 325.00. South's teams were as follows: Upper Classmen. 1. Irgwald Remen, Capt. 2. Henry Larson 3. Carlyle Jacobson 4. Earl Jensen 5. Lief Larson 6. VValter Hagen 7. William Sime 8. Arild Hansen 9. Carl Anderson 10. D. Holtzermann Lower Classmen. Maurice Wolfson, Capt. Frederick Maurer George Haynes Leo Ganyaw Sam Smilowitch Benj. Kleckner Harry Hagman ' Maurice Hersh Fred Dumas William Petersen. INGWALD REMEN, '18

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El 1 1-in-iam UlWW Soldiers' Library Fund WO campaigns for the Soldiers' Library Fund gave the following results: Money Books Vol. Mag. Teachers ............. .... S 41.00 First week ............. 168 86 lfdda Club .......... . . 1.00 VVeek from Apr. 1-15. . . . Room contributions .... 34.48 From Troop 9. S. High August Meyer and f Boy Scouts ........... 20 12 George Monahan . . . . . 1.00 John Nelson ..... .... 1 .00 Total ................... S7848 Total ................ 188 98 The manual training department provided each room with a neatly paint- ed, little brown wooden box, in which students dropped their pennies. In this way the fund swelled, yet the pocket-book did not suiier. Every individual was requested to contribute standard or late books and magazines to the American Library Association, where they are distributed for use both in camps here in America and also for our boys over there. That even text books are acceptable is demonstrated by the fact that over three-fourths of the books having the greatest circulation are books of instruction. Besides doing their share of knitting and sewing for the Red Cross, Miss VVheeler's room completed three hundred scrap books to be sent to the Amer- ican camps. Her pupils were very industrious, working during vacant periods and after school as well as during the Red Cross Period. They plan to make many more of these books during the term. Miss Knappeifs room made a large number of the scrap books for soldiers' libraries and hospitals. They consisted of jokes, stories, cartoons and some more serious reading in the way of editorials. Mrs. C1ark's room made 200 scrap books consisting of jokes, current events and cartoons. SYLVIA HENDRICKSON, '18 X... N I 26

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if-: 4 f4'l U ' UU? YU lCl !2J'lHME Red Cross Teachers' Club Canvass for Red Cross ED Cross memberships to the amount of 381.00 were turned in to the Teachers' Club, December 18. The committee of teachers consisting of Miss Ferguson, central commissioner for the club, and Miss Holtz, Miss VVheeler, Miss Davidson, Miss Sheardown, Miss Knappen, Miss Marchant, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Raymond, made a thorough canvass of the faculty and all others connected with the school. Mobilizing Child Power F 1600 pupils devote two hours a week to the Red Cross, how much will be accomplished in the forming of thrifty habits and the training of the eye and hand? How much will be accomplished in sewing, knitting, oakum picking, and surgical dressings? How much will be accomplished in the mak- ing of citizenship? ln a movement toward more thorough nationalizing of foreigners? Answers to these questions were formulated when South High turned attention for two periods a week to patriotic work. The plan was carried through successfully by the cheerful co-operation of teachers and students, and the further co-operation of these with Mr. Jorgens and Miss Sheardown, director of Red Cross activities. The whole sch-ool gladly turned from reading, writing and arithmetic to braiding rugs, hemming handkerchiefs, knitting socks, finishing sweaters, and picking oakum. Under Mr. Adams the oakum picking was carefully organized, vacant classrooms and laboratories of the old building being used to good advantage. War Orphans The following teachers in connection with the pupils of their respective rooms have adopted war orphans: Miss Becker, I Mr. Hegel. Miss Marchant, and Mr. Biddlecombe, 2 Miss Fish-I ' Mr. Parrish, I Miss Klampe, I Misses LaVigne, I 28