West Technical High School - Technician Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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quarantine we had only one debate this year. Two members of our class, captain Mraz and Clifford Laisy made good. Our captain believes that music helps the morale of the crew-We have had an orchestra every trip and sometimes a band. Seamen Bohmer. Scott. Hauschild and Mutersbaugh have helped a great deal toward the success of both organizations. During our third year a ship paper was published every month and this trip a weekly has been printed with great success. Six yeomen and three seamen of our class hold important positions on this paper. On our last trip the admiral has ruled that drilling for seamen is compulsory. Mraz and Stcigelmeier of our class have received commissions. Our military companies have become very efficient and compare favorably with any in the fleet. Now that our cruise is ended we must decide whether we shall embark on another four years cruise with a higher training ship or whether without further training we will launch on our own ship “Ambition” on the stormy sea of life. God grant that we may reach the final harbor in safety. GORDON MUTKRSBAUGH.

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satisfactory that he was promoted to admiral of a small fleet. Our new captain has proven a still more able seaman. He has had many difficult problems to solve. He received a crew of apprentices who are not yet ready to become seamen, and disposing of them about the ship was a difficult task. The personnel of our officers corps has been changed almost completely in the last four years and first officers Axline, Elmer and Marshal and some of the chief engineers are all of the original corps that are left. We all served our apprenticeship in the hold under engineers Thomas, Klee and McMillan. Some of us liked this kind of work very much and decided to become officers in this line while others of us were more interested in the theoretical handling of the ship or in the explosive department. In our last year we may work in that part of the ship in which we are most interested. Some selected the cooking department, some the drafting department and others the explosive department. Our cooking department is very efficient and our mess hall is the best regulated and we get the best food in the fleet. We have nearly as many yeomen as seamen on board. ()ur commissary department is made up almost wholly of yeomen. They have many activities of their own and their Corinthian society hold dances and plays which the seamen like very much. We have a great deal of fun mixed in with our work for our officers realize that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. There is a great deal of friendly competition between the ships of our fleet. The crews engage in football, basketball, track and debating. Our ship has always had a good record for its athletics and many members of our class have participated. Seamen Schmitz, Sloat, Gaskcll, Cole. Nealon. Laisy and Christopher all did their share towards making our ship victor in many a contest. Although the yeomen did not participate in athletics between ships as the seamen do, they have athletics of their own. They also have a rooting club to cheer on the seamen in their contests. The success of our athletics is due partially to the hearty cooperation of our yeomen. On every cruise it has been the custom to have a ship play. In the last play six of our members played important roles. The debating team also has been especially successful. Led by Clarence Mraz our ship has triumphed many times. Due to

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iCast Hill anil apstamrnt nf the » iFrbruariT (Class nf 1910 M As we, the Class of February, 1919,. are about to pass away, we bequeath upon you. Class of June, 1919, the most wonderful edifice ever conceived by a Chinese Architect (the name of whom we will not attempt to pronounce). Its broad, spacious halls, where many interesting love affairs and dances have been sadly interrupted at the most opportune moment, by one who is fitted to hold highest office in the Burn’s Detective Agency, namely, the renowned Hawkshaw, alias Mr. Richards. To you. we leave the little room wherein doth set the dread and fear of pupils. “His sceptre shows the force of temporal power.” Here many future lawyers, cooks, physicists, dressmakers, mathematicians and artists have found that “the quality of mercy is not strained.” But do not fear. His bark is worse than his bite. His 'first thought is always for the good of the school. In the same way that he helped us. he will also help you, the succeeding class. Now. Class of June. 1919, “Lend us your ear.” for we are about to disclose the hiding place of a kingly treasure. From the room, aforementioned, take ten steps forward, three to the left, then walk to right three feet. Here you are confronted bv a large cupboard, behind whose spacious doors lies that for which you are seeking. To you. and you alone, we disclose the fact that it is a stack of “blue permits,” large enough to supply you all in the time of need. This fortune will be distributed to you this coming term, as it was to us. with the liberal hand of the diminutive teacher of higher mathematics, the well-known Mr. Marshall. His kind-hetarted assistant. Mrs. Elmer, is not so generous with the treasure. If yon