Wayland HIgh School - Eclipse Yearbook (Wayland, IA)

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g THE • ECLIPSE 1922 ) Transportation Department With the advent of consolidation came the problem of transporta- tion. The board of education decided to buy three motor busses and these busses had very few tardy marks to their discredit during the school term, even while the roads at times seemed impassible. Eighty-two children were brought in from the rural districts by these hacks every morning and what a bright happy group of rural children they were, too. There were no more wet feet nor frozen fin- gers and ears, with the tears running down their cheeks as in the days of old, when they greeted their teacher in the morning. Some of us are often opposed to a new movement just as our par- ents were opposed at first to the rural free delivery of mail, the rural telephone and the automobile. But these conveniences have established themselves with such a firm grip upon the farmer folks that they would fight to the last trench were they to be deprived of them. The same state of affairs will come about with the motor busses when we get accustomed to the new role. Fred Klopfenstein, Carl Hensley and Fred Hixson were the congen- ial drivers and piloted their precious cargoes over the routes thru- out the year without an accident. Frank Forbes also brought in eleven children from the Cottonwood district in a horse drawn hack. The boys and girls from the rural districts have enjoyed the same educational advantages that their town cousins have and will long re- member the first year of consolidation of our schools from the stand- point of transportation. Page Sixty-four

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THE • ECLIPSE • 1922 CALENDAR 1921-22 AUGUST Aug. 29. — School opens with 88 students. SEPTEMBER Sept. 4. — Because of overcrowded Assembly Room, Seniors were moved to a class room. Sept. 8. — Hiking Club organized. Miss Schantz leader. Sept. 15. — W H. S. first football team was organized by Coach Hochstettler. Sept. 24. — First football game with New London here. Sept. 3 0. — Big game at Olds. OCTOBER Oct. 6. — No school. Teachers institute at Mt. Pleasant. Oct. 14. — Girls took their last hike to Olds. Picnic supper. Corn husking vacation begins! Everybody busy for two weeks???? Oct. 31. School begins again. NOVEMBER Nov. . 1. — Supt. Baumgartner organizes the Girls ' Glee Club consisting of eighteen mem bers. Nov. 11. — Football boys go to Richland through snow storm. Nov. 14. — Rev. Wittmer from Bluffton College Seminary, Bluffton, Ohio, addressed the H. S. in the afternoon. Nov. 15. — Seniors went to Eicher Church in a truck to at- tend a Bible lecture by Rev. Wittmer. Consid- erable embarrassment for Mrs. Baumgartner. ' : Nov. 16. — Singing period cut out because boys refused to sing. Nov. 17. — Seniors began preaching in Bible class. Nov. 18. — Glee Club girls make their first appearance in chapel exercises. Nov. 2 0. — Girls sang at Mennonite church. Nov. 21. — Juniors dismissed from class because they didn ' t have their lesson. Blue Monday! Nov. 22. — Mr. Bides gave a lecture to High School on Cigarettes, dances, etc. Nov. 23. — A good collection was taken for Henry County Hospital, erected for ex- soldiers at Mt. Pleasant. • ■ :■ ' -Page Sixty-six-