Spring Valley High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Spring Valley, WI)

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l- Book III. School Life

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PURPLE AND GOLD 1913 SPRING VAILICY IRON FI'RNAl'I'I AT NIGIIT

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Q PURPLE AND GOLD 1913 Chapter One THE LITERARY IOCIETY 'l'ln- litvrary sovivty ol' tha- Spring Yallt-y Iligh Sc-hool was or- ganim-xl in 11101 hy thc- ms-mln-rs ot' thc- high ss-hool, and has he-4-n in vx- istvnc-0 4-vt-r since- that timv. ,Xn an-1-onnt ol' it has ln-1-n givvn by thc- first l'rt-sich-nt, as follows: f ln tht- wintl-r of 1901 wt- organizs-rl a litvrary som-it-ty antl I was 1-lt-4-tt-rl l'r1-simlvnt. As far as l know, that was thc- first litl-rary soc-is-ty in tln- Spring Valle-y Sc-hools. 'l'ln- funny thing l rc-ml-lnlx-r about it happt-nm-sl at the- first mvt-ting. living 4-ntirc-ly in ignorant-0 of parliame-ntary law. I 4-alle-tl for a volt- on a qnvstion anml l saitl. All in favor signify by standing np: all opposml signify by sitting clown. lt brought mlown thx- honsv, ancl math- ml- ls-1-l likt- fill cc-nts. Our mm-1-tings consists-ml ol' short mlm-hats-s mostly, with thru- on a simlc-. Wm- varn-ll this on-1-asionally with papers on intl-rl-sting snhjects. rt-c-itations antl mnsir-al programs. I ln-lievc wc mot onc-0 a we-uk, ancl always in tln- 1-vt-ning. in what is now your gratis- school lxnilmling. We nswl kvrosvm- lamps for lights the-n. 'l'hc-n. alta-r tht- me-1-ting, I know what a grm-at timm- l always hail to get npr-onragc1-nongh to ask to set- ont- ot' tht- girls homo. Ilnt l firmly 114-lie-ve that this last stunt hronght as m'1ny ot' ns kills to thosm- nn-clings as all of' tho rc-st of tln- rm-asons 'itll to- gm-lln-r. Thu- sovim-ty was rm--organize-tl in 1910, :mtl a 4-orstitntion anml lay- laws wa-rv writtc-n np by a 4-ommittt-0 appointval for that pnrposm-. Aftt-r tln- first organization tht- parliamentary me-thoml was flroppvcl, anrl xlnring a few yt-ars thc- lmnsint-ss ol' the- soc-it-ty was 1-arrie-ml on hy two captains, UIIUSUII lay thx- st-hool. Now tln- pirlizlmi-ntary mx-thotl has again he-4-n atloptvcl anrl a pr:-simlc-nt, st-crm-tary anal treasure-r, choscn every half yt-ar, 1-arry on thc work. The print-ipal anal 11-ac-ln-rs he-lp, liowe-ver, in tht- matt:-r ot' re-he-arsals anrl programs. as statt-ml in artim-lc-s 12 and 13, as follows, l'lv4-ry nn-rnlwr ol' thx- soc-it-ly shall havm- the privilege- of 1-hoosing the-ir own sc-I4-4-tions, snhjc-rt to tht- approval ol' a nn-mln-r of tln- l.2lC'1llly.u llowc-vc-r, amcnflml-nts wt-rv t'ill'I'll'lI at ont- of the- last lll1'0llIlg'S, hy which tln- work is to hc- pnt almost 1-ntirt-ly into tht- hanmls ol' the stnrlc-nts, as will ln- sm-1-n in thc following 4-opy of the-m. 1. 'l'hat a program 1-ommittm-v of thrx-0 mm-mln-rs, holrling oflivc- for ont- sc-nwster, shall ln- appointe-fl hy the- l'r1-simla-nt, whose- tlnty it shall ln- to assign se- ll-ctions to thc- stnmlc-nts anal assign 1-ac-h stmlc-nt to an instructor who shall haw- 1-hargv of thc- gc-nm-ral stanrlarrl aml the rt-lu-arsal ol' the- sv- lvm-tionsf' -3. 'l'hat an oflic-4-r. to ln- known as t'ritic-, hx- e-loc-11-ml from