West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Our motto which was accepted at this meeting was ' ' Clean Speech, Clean Habits, and Clean Athletics. It was moved that we have more friendliness between Saginaw High School and Arthur Hill High School, a measure which although adopted seemed un- necessary for many members of the Club were Saginaw men, and as 1 far as hostilities between the two schools were concerned, none ever existed. At the fourth meeting on February 22, 1915, Mr. Gault of Flint told his experiences while traveling through Europe on a motor- cycle at the time war broke out. On April 16, the sixth and last meeting was held. Dr. A. R. McKinney, Mr. Lloyd Crane, and Mr. J. E. Anderson gave final talks on their respective business positions and gave the members of the Club some sound advice on how to begin life in the Business World. The Club has been a success throughout and those who neglect- ed to join or attend the meetings surely lost something which they will never be able to replace. Many fellows will be able to look back on their school days and say with pleasure. ' Outside of good Arthur Hill itself there is only one place where I learned as much as in school. That was at the High School Club.

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HIGH SCHOOL CLUB A High School Club? Yes, we have one. The opening meeting was held October 9, 1914 in the Y. M. C. A. Banquet Hall. At this meeting officers were elected. Our esteemed fellow student, Mr. J. Jay Orr was elected President with his colleague, Mr. Harvey L. Myers, as his Vice-President. The other members of his select cabi- net consisted of Mr. Herbert C. Lee, Secretary, and Mr. Dan Hor- gan, Treasurer. With this body of competent men President Orr began his term of office by appointing a Social and Program Committee. At the opening meeting Lieut. Herbert P. Nordwall and his sister Wilhel- mina of Amsterdam, Holland were the guests of the club. Other speakers of the evening were Mr. Wyatt E. Harper and Dr. F. A. Poole. The second meeting was held at the Y. M. C. A. on November 6, 1914. The speakers of the evening were Mr. Kurt Opperman of the Saginaw High School who spoke on the coming conference and Mr. B. B. Johnson, State Student Secretary. He talked on The All Round Man. At this time the program committee presented the program which they had prepared and had printed. It consisted of the dates for future meetings with their speakers and their subjects. The program was very interesting and was accepted unanimously. A motion was laid before the Chair that the Club be broken up into separate groups consisting of Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors for weekly Bible study, and that the Club as a whole should get together at least once a month to discuss what they had done. This motion was carried and was followed out with great success. The third meeting was held on December 4, 1914. Mr. Fred Schmidt of Saginaw High School spoke on the State Boys ' Confer- ence and showed by his speech that he understood his subject verv well. Mr. Herbert C. Lee, Dr. F. A. Poole, Principal W. W. War- ner, and Principal M. B. Baker were the other speakers of the even- ing-

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ARTHUR HILL SYMPHONY CLUB Among the various organizations of the school we number a musical club which aims, not to instruct in music, but to give plea- sure to its members through singing together. This club which is un- der the able supervision of Mrs. Kate L. D. Miller, is known as the Arthur Hill Symphony Club. The officers are as follows: President — Miss Adeline Stewart. Vice-President — Miss Ruth Biesterfeld. Secretary and Treasurer — Lizette Diebel. Any girl of the High school who signs our constitution may join us. Mrs. Miller and Miss Pfieffer are the faculty members. The club has been quite pdpular during this, its first year, hav- ing appeared before the public five times. The first appearance was made at the Philomathic Society, the next at the Farmers ' s Insti- tute, which was held at the Auditorium, and then at the Oratorical Contest. On April 16, the Symphony Club united with the H. H. of H. H. and gave an operetta, The Spinsters Club , at the Michigan Ave. Baptist Church, which proved to be a success in presentation as well as in a financial way. So successful was this entertainment that we repeated it at the Fordney Ave. Baptist Church with simi- lar success. Judging from the remarks of hearers, the singing was favorably received. The ehab is planning to close a very enjoyable and successful year with a banquet. Since a number of the members of the club are Seni ors there will be some change in the personnel of the club next year but we expect that others will enter and fill the vacant places so that thin work, now nicely begun, may be carried on and become a strong or ganization.