Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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'22-THE SENIOR CLASS PLAY-'22, 5 HXVHY THE CHIMZES RANGJ' E Time-Dusk of a day long ago. l Ecezie-The interior or a wood chop- per's hut on the edge of a.. forest. Over, but not forgotten, is the class play that was given by the Senior Class at Normal on the even- ing of December sixteenth. Really one would think we were profes- sionals at the game instead of the amateurs we are. One of the bestl parts for one of its secret beautiesl ' was that each member of the wholel class had a. vital place to dll and actually felt the responsibility of having something good and worth-1 while. The class did everything ex-5 cept write the play and print the' programs and tickets: even the post- ers were designed by the girls. i The hut scene was as real as-oh! 5 but I'm telling too muchg a. number of things happened before The night. The easiest part of the whole thing was to get persons to take they parts and form the various commit-1 tees. Everybody just bubbled overl with a will to do and put thisj through. ! There was a property gettingni committeeg a stage managing com-g mittee: and an advertising and tick-1 et committee neededg as well as oneg for musict The costumes were found to be so simple as to compel us to make them through sheer, wanting to help all we could, and so what did some of our girls do but volunteer to make everything needed. Wasn't that fine? Did you ever see such a. spirit? And to think they were made, and so well thatl some thought them hired, as is the general custom. Miss Amberson. the Domestic Science instructor, un dertook to boss this job and it cer- tainly was done very successfully. But the scenery! We are no ar- tists. We could never paint or con-5 struct scenery that would be goodi enough for that. Oh! such pessi-' mistic remarks. Little did we think we could do when someone thought of the ln- dustrial Arts department and the Craft Club. With the vision of its. wonderful worker, Miss Greenlaw,' there was, and could not be, any' hesitancy whatsoever as to the re- sponse. And folks-what do you think she did? Refuse? I should say notg she and our committee rose to the occasion in much the same manner that a. cabinet has, when it declares its support to its President. And did those people work? Yon' should have peeped in on them. Yong would have seen girls in bloomers, climbing ladders and swish-swishing with paint brushes with all the vig- or of a whole-hearted senior. By the way, wasn't the 'finished product I 1 1 I , I . Fan astounding surprise? Folks do say it was. If you had ventured back of the stage door you would have seen other girls pulling the ropes so as to get the knackg and not let something fall on those who would be acting. Oh! we had our fun and otherwise. Sometimes if a rope or its manager were not quite in gear the whole scenery woulrd tumble in, but did we stop for that? No indeed! We straightened it up and went on conhdently--weren't we real sports? Of course you couldn't help but notice the honest art of the whole effect. Back of it are a few secrets. One big one was Mr. Davis, a Junior, who actually jumped at the oppor- tunity of being our electrician. I leave you to judge of his work. Those humans who have so much time with which to do as they wish say that one should have a bit of poetry, Aa laugh or two and a jolly good song, each day, to keep the blues away. Speaking of music- does a Normal student ever think of music without connecting it with Miss Sliurtz. l'm positive he doesn't especially after the way she helped the senior chorus get ready. Co- operation! Teamwork! Neither the instructor nor the girls can be beat. What made people want to come anyway? Just because it was at Normal? I don't think so. I be- lieve it was partly that effervescent advertising committee. You can vouch with us, they were ever- on the job. Now, weren't they? Who was your coach? Did I hear someone ask? Why, such a ques- tion, Miss Munn, of course. How could we do without her? She sure- ly can and does put one in his right place, at the right time land makes him stay there too.J But the cast. Did you ever see its equal! Everybody who saw them declares them simply wonderful. To see one transform herself from the tender age of a maiden to that of a hungry, forlorn old womang to see another act as a jolly old uncle was really great. But those two little boys. Do you still remember them? That little one who dressed in red and was just ,as full of fun and questions as he' could stick, while the other one was as thought- ful as he could be. I have said be- fore these were from M. S. N. S. ls that suiiicient? Honestly, .my patient reader, in the final tableau, when everything came to a climax and those chimes really rang, folks had tears trickling down their cheeks. You know what a success it truly must have been. Wasn't it a most fascinating and Christmas getting spirit of a play you would want to see? You say you like it? We are all so glad you did. Come again. TOOT, TOOT, HUM, HUM, BANG! It's Monday night again: who could doubt it when he enters the Administration Building and hears Ol-11' Splendid orchestra. Everyone knows that Monday night is get apart for Orchestra rehearsal: not one hour but two, and then time is all too short for the work and the joy we get out of those reahersals. Early in the year when a Normal Orchestra was suggested, a few timid souls thought they might like to play but were not very enthusi- astic. We had a drummer but no drums. a cornetist with a worncut cornet. two or three violins and an accompanist or two. These things in themselves would not make much of an orchestra, but the spirit and how that spirit grew! ' Miss Shurtz was not willing to let anyone who might apply take the directorship of her embryo orches- tra, so rehearsals were delayed un- til she secured Mr. Schoenfelder. Then we made up for lost time! The music department took over the li- nancial burden of some new instru- ments as school property. Individ- uals bought violins, a saxophone. the worn out cornet was replaced by a splendid new one. This was made possible by an agreement be- tween the cornetist and the depart- lment. One of the very interesting facts about our orchestra is, that although there are but seventeen boys en- rolled in the school, we have live of these in the orchestra as regulars, .with tive girls. Each rehearsal finds three or four faithful friends who do not yet own an instrument on play, but who want the hours of good music with their friends. I . So it is, that each Monday night we gather from all corners of the 'Campus for practice. Practice for what? We intend to offer our ser- vices to the Glee Club very soon and suggest that we go into partnership with them for the Annual Concert, heretofore given by the Glee Club and a professional artist. We hope. too, that as we work, t-here will be many calls for ,en the spirits land to flll in lneeded. . i R. GRAFTON, '23. l our services to light- of serious gatherings wherever we may be I , i-..l.. ? Virginia- Oh, Margaret, you've :let my scissors fall on the floor. and iSanta brought them all the way from .the North Pole to me. . 3 Margaret- I couldn't help it Jinny, they froze my hands. Service While You Wait! ,, Shoes Repaired . We Do It Electrically NICK CASTELLO L10 Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Md.

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'Q 4. I l l.. - -..i l ' I ai ii i ' -' ' P5123 SiN FTHORE THEWEEZEST 32-Zgtof ugotstogvfgloimdglemildlifgctglg. THE SMH-E ROOM' Third-Economic and Social As- 'pects of the Use of Machinery in the Who doesn't think that the period'Textile Industry, a very interesting from 11.15 until 12.00 o'clook on Italk by Dr. Broadus Mitchell, from Wednesday is the most dellghtfulithe Department of Social Studies at .axe of the whole week! Why that is when we have our regular assem- blies conducted by the various de- partments of the school! We started off this year with an ringing of bells and lively peals of laughter for it was thus that Cho- Cho, the Health Clown, greeted us. Now Cho-Cho likes to talk to chil- Johns Hopkins University. Thesee 'three assemblies gave us a. new con-' ception of the extent and importance of the textile industry. Wednesday, December the 21st, lwas an unusually busy day for us, 'but we gladly stopped for an hour :between five and six o'clock and gathered in the Auditorium to see HYQF11 Yum! Don't I smell SOHD? cried Ma.rY. one of our new students. H I reckon You do, replied Jane. f01' they are making some down ln the cafeteria. :The cafeteria? 'where is that? Why. down on the hrst door. Come, Mary, I will show it to you. If Was Just about twelve o'clock when MEF? and Jane entered a large. clean, attractive room. About the room were placed many tables, at dren, so of course' we had thelone of the most delightful assemhlwhich were seated dozens of chll- Elementary School with us. Nor could he have wanted a more en- thusiastic audience. They answered his many questions and laughed gleefully at his funny antics. With many changes of mood, ffor he iblies of the whole year. It was the dren with smiling faces But why 'Christmas story, old, but ever newlshouldnit they Smile-'theft Were' ln' and dear to our hearts, given in tableaux and carols by the Elemen- .tary School. We went away with a feeling of joy and reverence, of sometimes laughed and sometlmespeace on earth, good will towards weptl, he told us and showed us from the market basket that he car- ried with him what foods he would like to have us eat and why. We meh. These are only a few of the de- lightful assemblies we have had this year. Among the noted speak- all liked this assembly and feel in-fers we have heard was Mrs. Harri- debted to our own Science Depart-Qson, who told us of her experiences lnellli f0l' securing Cho-Cho fI'0m the in 3, Russian riggn, Who can ngw Child's Health Or anizatlon in New D deny that this is the very best per- s York. His fame is widespread. as iod of the whole week? Interest- he has traveled all over the -United States. English Week. This was a banner week. From breakfast time Monday morning until supper Friday night we found impertinent and colorful posters staring us in the face where- ever we went around the school buildings. These posters gave us many warnings and much good ad- vice about our use of the English language. On Tuesday Dr. French. assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, gave us a' very interesting and helpful talk on Personal English. I-Ie told us we should trouble about our speech Brat. because it is ours and second because it is not ours. This sounds very 'contradictory but he made it perfectly clear to us. During this entire week a wood- en coffin lay in our hall and in lt we placed all errors in speech that we wished to hear no more. On Thursday, after a very' dellghiful dramatic representation of the downfall of Bad English and some of his fellow bandits, such as Slang, the Pied Piper came, took the cof- dn and buried lt and charmed many grammatical errors from our classes. Since that time we have not seen or heard of them. C23 Other interesting series of assem- blies were those given by the House- hold Arts, Industrial Arts and His- tory Departments. It was a study of the textlle lndustry given in three programs as follows: First-Early Ways of Spinning and Weaving, a dramatic representation planned and given by Junior II. Second-The Modern Cotton Factory, a govern- ing thlngs also happen on other days than Wednesday. Monday is called Not long after this came GoodiPrincipal's Day ,and the forty min- lute assembly period is used by Miss iTall as she wishes. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we are as clay in the hands of the potter while Miss Shurtz moulds us into Carusos. Glucks and Carmens. ,On Friday the period is given over to any school organization desiring the period, usually the Student Govern- ,ment Orgalilzation or the Literary iSocleties. - ' B. R. C., '23, I CRAFT CLUB. , ...i 'The Normal has a Craft Club. 5 As surely you must know: We delved into the potter's art, And helped put on a show. fWe meet on Tuesday evenings. To be late's against the rule, i'I'o be absent is a deadly sin l If you can be at school. I 5On Friday nights we go on hikes, I And merry times have we! 'We roast our spuds and broil our chops, It is a sight to see! 5 Our watchword is co-operate, Our motto get things done And while we're doing all these things Be sure and have some fun. I M. L., '23. deed, happy because they were stu- dents in our Practice School and could 9350? the provisions for a. happy lunch hour. , They did not have to eat a cold lunch in some quiet, lonesome corner. Cho-Cho says that cold lunches are not good ,for us, especially for growing boys and girls and that is just the reason why our school pro- vides a good, wholesome lunch for its students, explained Jane. A wholesome lunch? What do you consider a wholesome lunch? Exactly what we are serving here-milk, soups, cocoa, simple sandwiches and well-baked muffins, desserts: as, fresh fruit, custards, simple cakes and ice cream. But how do they ever dnd time to prepare all of this food? asked Marv. Oh, that is quite simple, con- tinued Jane, many of the things served are prepared during our class periods in the Household Economic., Department. This is just a type of the work we are planning in our Senior III section. A great deal of the success in our serving here is due to the skillful management o one well-trained supervisor. Hex assistance in serving is chiefly pale student assistance. One feature li her unique plan is to have a Sev- enth Grade pupil suoervlse the smaller ones at each table. This ls surely the mf' 'dl'- ful thing I know of. . -led Mary, and just to think their moth- ers don't have to worry Bbout Pack' ing lunches. How glad my mother would have been had they had B cafeteria ln mv old Sch00lY But, my dear, I am afraid YOU have the wrong idea of 00 Cafe' teria. It not only Pfovldes the pu' plls with a. full lunch. B' well bal- anced lunch, but 21-90 Suvnlenffnm what he may br f0m home-I uoh, I seep - Mary, as the ben for the ,A,, class -quickly called them from the hanny scene. MARGARET STONER. 22. Dnwn's Wedding Invitations JAS. H. DOWNS. Ensraver 229 N. Charies Sc., BALTIMORE School SuDDHe9 at HERG-EN'RATHER'8 Films and Butterny Hall' Nets l l I I l l

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THE ORIOLE PUBLISHED BIONTHLY ei' THE sruosxrs or THE army- LAND srxrs NORMAL sci-root. 'rov.'soN. lin. LHRIAM SH.-XVFN - Advertising' Mgr, DOROTH Y JUMP - , , NOVILLA CA-LLAHAN Circulation Mgrs. Sl-lR'1'HAWOOD - - Buslnesshigr. '-l JANUARY. 1921! THIE ORIOLE. The oriole is a medium sized, well proportioned and beautifully plum- aged bird found most frequently in Maryland. although its range is as far north as the southern boundary of Canada. But it is best known as a songster and an architect. Its notes have a range. a harmony, a lilting joy that no other bird can compass. The Baltimore oriole, our State representative, the architect, truly has high ideals. He builds strong and beautifully on a. sure foundation. As this bird is, so, we believe, its namesake, our paper, will be: ms- dium in size, well proportioned, clothed only in beautiful and worth- while theughts, its circulation most numerous in our own State, the State Normal songster, having a range as wide as that of its feath- ered counterpart. We believe that its notes will always be a joy and inspiration. Ideals such as are represented in Our Oriole's home are the things we shall strive for, the things just beyond, over the next ridge, which will make for better education, education that means ser- vlce and co-operative living. A A. L. M. 'IEE GROWTH OF STUDENT GOVERNMENT. The class of 1921 deserves a great deal of credit for ,having startled student government on its way but the classes of 1922 and 1923 de- serve more credlt, for the fact that student government still exists and is progressing. Early in the spring of 1921 Mlss Tall gave us several talks showing the ditterence between a democratic responsible student body governing themselves versus a benign despot- ism on the part of the faculty. In- vestigation and study by s. group of interested students developed an as-' sembly at which Mr. Walter Cole, president of Student Organization at the University of Maryland. Col- lege Park, explained their system of student government. The same morning students gave reports of student governments ot other Wlu Noi Now? A p i fs-as 4 ,If Ax I I, l i-. Mill 1 . ri A lb ' fra- 1.1 . ,Z Q nj, ii' , . - X 'fif , l is . t 40 schools. Do we want student gov- ernment, was the question on every one's tongue. The girls were afraid -fearful of responsibility. We cou1dn't discuss the question for- ever so the day came, girls voted for it ,girls voted against it. Student government was rejected! In the meantime a committee was appoint- ed and a. constitution was drawn up. At the same time student govern- ment was rejected, the constitution was rejected. The leaders them- selves in the student body got to- gether and began healthy propa- ganda which resulted in the stu- dents having a second chance to vote on the plan. This time it was accepted. Ofhcers were elected and student government started on its way. There were several projects to begin work upon-care ot the lawns and groundsg responsible care of rooms: cafe of the mailg plan- ning a welcome to the new students: and assisting the social director in the students and their callers to have an attractive home atmosphere. School closed, everyone went away feeling that a new era had started for the Maryland State Normal School. During the summer through the student government organization letters of welcome were sent to every new student. School opened again on September thirteenth. Girls. and boys 'came flocking in and were made welcome by the old glrls. Council meetings were held every Wednesday night. We discussed and decided on the best methods for 'the Iife ot the girls and boys together Ln the resi- dence hallsg standards of conduct were set up. The organization be- gan to seek new ways of assisting the Social Director, members of the staff and the principal. The one piece of work for the year that was settled upon for con- centration of effort was the new regulation for study hours. The procter system helped to develop s. working organization. It has not been wholly successful but we mean to push on until the goal of having candidates oder themselves for election is reached. We expect that the time will come when students will feel it an honor to act as a ,procter. This is the process of evo- lution which all student organiza- tions have to go through. We be- lieve our goal is in sight. D. DUDDERAR., Sr. III. First Stranger Cat a partyi- Slow, isn't lt? ' Second Stranger-- Yes, very.',' First Stranger- Let's go home. Second Stranger- I mn't. I'n1 the host. A word to the wise is sumcient, V Now, Jr., hear this tale of woe If you every try skipping, Q You'll soon be dehclent, p And out the back door you will go. f3'5t3UQ