Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

Text from Pages 1 - 28 of the 1928 volume:

Cbc IjJcarlv tattler Editei and Composed by the .Seniors of The Wisconsin State School for the Deaf Delavan Published by the School Press T. EMERY BRAY Superintendent K. W. WALKER Commencement Speaker HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS MISS MATTESON Science and History MRS. LOWE English MRS. CROSBY Reading BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS SUNDAY. MAY 27. 1928 At 2:30 o'clock Song:— “All Things Bright and Beautiful Sung: by . . . Dorothy Breitkreutx, Lucille Neesnm. ana Anita Crosby Signed by . . Pauline Long, Vinona Long, Mamie Panella, Elsie Kutxner Scripture Heading Prayer ..... Rev. Estes Baccalaureate Address Song— “Commencement Sung by . . . Mrs. McClellan and Miss Ruth Babcock Signed by . . The Seniors COMMENCEMENT THURSDAY. MAY 31. 1928 At 8 o'clock Song— “In the Golden Evening” Sung by . . . Mrs. McClellan Signed by . . Irene Einbcrger, Sylvia Shadowski. Stella Krukowksi Invocation . . . Rev Boardman Salutatory Address Valedictory Howard Fisk . E. W. Walker Harold Larsen Presentation of Diplomas Song— “Commencement Sung by . . Mrs. McClellnn and Miss Ruth Babcock Signed by . . . The Seniors Benediction . . Rev. Boardman CLASS OF 1928 ETHEL ELSIE CASS Kenosha Camp Fire Art. Domestic Science Ariadna HAROLD CLIFFORD LARSEN Janesville Foot Ball Carpentry Printing Phoenix Green Valedictorian WILLIAM HOWARD FISK St. Croix Falls Foot Ball Shoemaking Printing Phoenix Green Salutatorian ARTHUR LEON SZABLEWSKI Milwaukee Foot Ball Banket Ball Shoemaking Carpentry Phoenix Green CUu Motto Etvr Higher Clan Flower Pansy Claaa Officera Claaa Colora Royal Blue und Silver Gray Harold C. Larsen Howard Fisk . .. .. President Secretary ( Treasurer VALEDICTORY By Harold Larsen To the friends gathered here, to the teachers and to our classmates, I wish to say farewell for the class of 1928. For a number of years our little boat has carried us safely down the stream of school life. We are glad to reach this part of our journey, but our hearts are heavy at the thought of leaving the scenes and surroundings that we love so well. Tonight we pause for a moment at the bend of the stream. We are reluctant to leave those calm pleasant waters. I know wo shall never forget the good times we have had here, nor the friends we have made. The memories of our school days will be the brightest and happiest of all. We do not know what wc shall find ahead of us as we reach the deeper channels, but we hope we may always press forward even though we must finish the course alone—without the help of faithful teachers and advisors to guide u� . To the Member of the State Board of Control: 1 wish to extend the thanks of this class for your interest in our education and welfare. We feel very proud of our school and appreciate the improvements that you have made from year to year. We are about to sail out of your lives but no matter where our course takes us, we can never sail entirely away from the memory of happy days here. To our Superintendent: It is hard to find words to express our gratitude for all that you have done to make our school life happy, comfortable and worthwhile. As we have had your help and encouragement in all our problems here, so may we have your blessing as we leave. To Our Teacher and Supervisor : You have our most earnest thnnks for the help you have given us: the interest and patience you have shown throughout our days here. We shall miss your encouragement nnd guidance, but 1 am sure your efforts have not ncen in vain. The waters nhead of us may be rough but we shall remember not to be easily discouraged, and I trust you will never hear of one of us being shipwrecked. We bid you farewell, and we thank you. Fellow Schoolmates: We are soon to leave this school, and you. The thought of parting brings a lump into our throat hut the memories of our good times together will never leave us. As we look back, we shall recall the many happy times we have hud together in this assembly hall, on the athletic field and in these institution buildings. We would urge you to continue your studies here, doing your best until you finish, and remember that the happiest days are your school days. Farewell, dear friends. And now, dear classmates,—when we meet again, it will not be as pupils of this school but a« Alumni. We have seen ench other almost daily for a number of years and now our ways must part. What does the future hold for each of us? We have chosen for our motto, “Ever Higher.” Higher education for those who are about to enter college. For those who are to stay at home, this motto will also be a guiding star. Let us seek the highest things in life. Let the noblest thoughts be ours nnd the cleanest men and women be our companions. We want our Alma Mater to be proud of us. Now—“with steadfast loyalty to one another, with a heart bent on high things wc go forth— and Godspeed. SALUTATORY By Howard Fisk Slat Board of Control, Superintendent, Teachers, Classmate and Friends: In behalf of the clan of 1928 I deem it n privilege a well a a pleasure to extend to you a hearty welcome to these fifty-eighth commencement exercises of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, which mark the greatest event of our lives thus far, one thut will he fondly cherished in our memories, although I feel sure the very utmos-phere of the place has already bespoken our welcome far better than I can do so in words. All through our school career we have been looking forward to this day of days; but now, that it is here, as we look hack over the path we have been trending und catch the fragrance of the flowers strewn along the way, we long to repose again beneath the shade of the sturdy oaks, that so generously offered protection. We are Mlruck with admiration at the golden sunoeums that have Illumined the way. True, now ana then n storm cloud hovered over our young heads, but It was soon dispelled. We now realize more fully than ever before that here we have been building Arm foundations for life's temples of learning, and we are grateful, indeed, to those who have so kindly aided us in this great task. Not only have we gained u working knowledge of the three R's, but we nave had the golden opportunity of getting well acquainted with various trades, therefore, we should with this adequate equipment prove thut we can go on with these temples for we have learned that the material for the erection of ench is double the amount of that which was gathered for King Solomon's. “Unto him who sees aright This life is opportunity. Our class is smull consisting of only five members, one girl und four boys, the former having entered the full of 1926. Previous to this she had attended the Iowa School for the Deaf since early childhood. It is not often there is such n scarcity of girls in a class but this particular one has been thus ever fated, for, from the Primary department up to our Junior year the class has been entirely composed of boys. We regret that they are not ull sitting here on the platform tonight, sharing with us the joy of this occasion; but ere their foundations were completed, they � onsed such an earnest desire to start in on the construction of their temples that they left us. Our motto Ever Higher was chosen tie-cause it is our honest intention not to stop here and allow these foundations to be hidden in ruins beneath the tull waving grass and creeping mosses of indolence, apathy and discouragement, but to work on laying one stone upon the other, daily endeavoring to faithfully perform the tasks set before us. The pansy, our class flower, was chosen for its modesty and humility, two precious stones we very much need in this character building if we would have it express beauty and sublimity. Royal blue and silver gray, us you doubtless have already observed, are our class colors. The royal blue urging loyalty to the high ideals implanted in us by our dear old Alma Mater and the gray symbolizing the gray dawn of tne new day now rising before us. And if we live as (Jod has given us power; No blind fatality can shut the living soul From its high power Of building up a glorious destiny. So my friends, one and all, we ask you to join with us with gladsome hearts in the celebration of this hour and to hold in thought as we are doing, the optimism that the best materials possible for these individual temples we are going to build are ever obtainable and that, we, the workmen under divine control are fit. Again I welcome you, however, not I but the class of 1928. for whom I am speuking. JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD By Mux Lewi Jimu's Abram Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, was born in a poor log hut in Orange, Ohio, November 19th, 1831. The Garfield family lived on an eighty acre farm which his father hud purchased at two dollars per acre. The Garfield home was not far from the railroad. When James was eighteen months old, u spark from u pussing locomotive set fire to their wheat field and his father became ill from fighting the flumes and died. His body was put in a plain box and buried in a corner of the wheat-field. Mrs. Garfield was then left alone to support her four smnll children and had to work hard. She helped her nine year old son, Thomas, split rails and fence in the wheat field. She got wool from her sheep und made clothes for her little ones. Mehetohel, Thomas and she ploughed and planted the field and gathered in the harvest. Mrs. Garfield wanted her children to receive a good education so with the help of neighbors she erected a log school house. The scholars sat on logs for benches und learned how to read, write and spell as best they could. James was then nearly three years old and went and sat all day on the hard benches with his brothers and sister. Mrs. Garfield was a Christian woman and taught her children her simple faith. Garfield began to earn money working for neighbors when he was ten years old. One job brought him nine dollars a month and board. He was fond of reading and studied arithmetic and read books about the sea every night. Robinson Crusoe was one of his favorites. Once he got a job cutting wood for his uncle in New-burg and cut one hundred cords of wood at twenty-five cents a cord. When this work was over, he went proudly home with twenty-fiive dollars. He urged his mother to let him be a sailor and at lost she gave him permission. Putting his clothes in a bundle, he started off for Cleveland. Ohio, seventeen miles from his home. As soon as he hnd reached there, he went down to the wharves and on board a schooner and asked for work, but the drunken captain told him to get off the boat. James did not know what the reason was und he was somewhat disheartened. At lost he met a cousin who gave him a job driving mules along n canal. The salary was ten dollars and board per month. During the three months he worked on the canal he fell into the water fourteen times. He caught a fever and went home where his mother took care of him until he was well. In 1849 he decided to enter Georgia Seminary at Chester, Ohio. He, an eighteen year old boy, went on foot to Chester carrying plates, knives, forks, a kettle and other utensils as he must board himself. There were four boys in the room he secured. At the start James had seventeen dollars but they soon melted away. He then found work in a carpenter shop where he worked nights and mornings while out of school. In the school library there were one-hundred fifty volumes. James eagerly seized the opportunity to reud specializing on biography and history. He joined the College debating team and made good. In the winter he was appointed an assistant teacher. After he hnd graduated from the seminary, a friend of his urged him to attend college. He told James that his chances for success would be much better if he went through college. When Garfield was twenty years old, he entered Hiram College, Ohio. Every morning he rang the bell for the students and the teachers to start for school. He was always cheerful and became one of the most popular men in the institution. After two years in Hiram College he went to Williams College, Massachusetts. When twenty-five years old he graduated from Williams College and returned to Hiram as a professor, and the next year became its president. A year later he married Lucretia Rudolph, one of his pupils. In 1858 Mr. Garfield was elected State Senator. Later, in 1861, he was chosen Colonel of the -12nd Ohio regiment and left the Senate to lake part in the Great Civil War. Nearly one hundred Hiram College students went with him. In January 1862. he with his men. fought the battle of Middle Creek driving General Marshall with five thousand men out of Kentucky. The battle lasted five hours. As a reward ho was made a Major General. In the summer of 1880 Mr. Garfield was elected United States Senator and in 1881 was elect- ed president of the United States. Four months after his inauguration while going with Mr. Blaine, Secretary of State, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Washington he was shot by Charles Guiteau. a disappointed office seeker. For this crime Guiteau was hanged. Garfield lingered till September 19th when he passed away, the whole country mourned his death and when Queen Victoria of England heard of it she sent Mr . Garfield her sympathy. Two days Inter his body was taken to the capitol to lie in state. Thousands of people went there to sec him for the last time. After that his body was brought to Cleveland for burial. Rev. I. Errett, I). D. of Cincinnati, Ohio, preached the funeral service. Mr. Garfield was greatly revered by all and especially by the deaf us during his short term in office he greatly aided Gallaudet College, the only college for the deaf in the world. THE STORY OF FOOT-BALL By Arthur Szablewtki Foot-ball, next to base-ball, is the moat popular athletic game in the world. It is played principally in the United States and the British Empire. The Indians in North America and ahorignes of the Pacific Islands played a game much like it. The Greeks seem to have taught it to the Romans and the latter, through their soldiers, to the Britons and other races of the North. The game was played at Rome by opposing teams and was handed down to the Italians. A famous foot-ball field was in existence in a square at the end of the Church of Santu Croce, the Westminister Abbey of Florence. There judges, former players of renown, sat in a commanding position three on each side of the field to render decisions. Of the twenty-seven men, fifteen were runners, five interferers, four half backs and three full backs. The ball was kicked over a goal. The names of the Medicis and other noble families appear in the lists of players. In Germany. France and England, the bladder of the hog was used much by children as a foot-bnll after it was dried and inflated. In the British Isles, in the Middle Ages, foot-ball was ployed by whole communities who kicked the ball without clear design through the streets and over the meudows. This game became so rough that it was forbidden by law. In 1314 Edward II issued a proclamation: “For as much as there is great noise in the city caused by hurtling over large balls from which many evils might arise, which God forbid, we forbid such game to be used in the city in the future.” Various monarchs objected to football as it tended to cause archery, of greater military vulue, to be neglected. In 1457 the Scottish King. James III, decreed that “foot- balle and golfe be utterly cryed down and not to be used.” while his successor with equally queer spelling gave orders that “In na place of this realme ther be used futeball, golfe, or other 8ik unprofitable sportes.” James I of England declared foot-ball Meeter for lameing than making able the users thereof.” Never-the-less the game was for centuries u favorite pastime throughout Great Britain. When it ceased to be a pastime for men at festivals and fairs, it was kept alive by school boys. It was not until the nineteenth century that it became an organised game, with fixed numbers on each side and a definite method of keeping score. Weight, physical fitness and endurance are requisites in players, but quick thinking is very necessary. It was at the great English schools like Rugby, Harrow and Elton, that foot-ball was first made practical. The boys’ playground at Rugby was largo and there was plenty of room for running and tackling. At other schools the game was confined to kicking and bunting the ball. Two distinct types of football have developed, namely; Rugby, which permits running with the ball, and soccer or association which prohibits tunning with the ball. Rugby includes English, Canadian and American Rugby, three distinct styles of play. The name, American Rugby, sounds strange to foot-ball players in the United States, but it is the correct name for the game. The early Virginia colonists brought the older English games to America, and soon after 1830, students at several eastern collges began to play them. Ten years luter at Amherst, Brown, Harvard. Trinity, and Yale, there were inerciass games something like the class rushes which some colleges still have. These games became so rough that in I860 the faculties of Yale and Harvard prohibited foot-ball. At Princeton a more orderly game was played somewhat like the English “association game. In 1861 the fit at inter-collegiate game took place between Princeton and Rutgers nnd in 1871 foot-bull was revived at Harvard with rules which permitted running with the ball us in Rugby. Not long after this, McGill College in Montreal challenged Harvard to a match. On May 15, 1874 these two teams played the first intercollegiate Rugby match in America. The McGill pluycrs were used to English Rugby rules and the Harvard ployers to their own version of them So. on the day before the game, the two teams courteously coached each other in tactics. On the 15th a game was played under Harvard rules, Harvard scoring three time . The next day under the McGill rules, neither side was able to score. This mude Rugby more populur. In 1875 Harvard and Yale played a game under a compromise set of rules which permitted both running with the ball und batting the ball with the hand, but the compromise was unsatisfactory. In 1876 Columbia, Princeton, and Yale abandoned this form of foot-bull in favor of straight Rugby. A code of rules much more complex but permitting a far higher development of team play has gradually taken the place of the original Rugby rules. Every year since li 06, coaches from different colleges nnd universities have met to make rules to emphasize good sportsmanship, to do away with unnecessary roughness, and to give the spectator better opportunity to watch the movement of the ball while in play. Today college, university, and amateur teams play football from the opening of the fall term till about Thanksgiving time, and few games have ever attracted wider attention or been played with greater interest and vigor by the youth of any land. THE LIFE OF HELEN KELLER By Ethel Cm Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, a small city of northern Alabama, on June 27, 1880. She was the oldest of the children, having one brother and one sister. Helen’s father, an officer in the Confederate army, was descended from Casper Keller, a native of Switzerland, who established himself in Maryland. Another Swiss ancestor was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich. Her father's mother was a direct descendant of Alexander Spoils wood. Colonial Governor of Virginia. The child's mother, Kate Adams, was descended from Benjamin Adams of Newburg, Massachusetts and was a relative of Edward Everett and Dr. Edward Everett Hale. The Keller home in the South wus called “Ivy Green us English ivy covered it. In the garden there were many beautiful flower ; such us roses, honeysuckle, jessamine and clematis. Roses hung in long festoon from the porch. Helen loved their fragrance. At the age of one und a half, Helen became blind and deaf following n severe illness, congestion of the stomach und brain. Then she lived in silence and darkness for several years. Before her sickness she could talk some ana was a bright child. Afterwards she remembered only a very few words and those she spoke very imperfectly. Her playmates were dolls, one of them called Nancy, she liked very much. She had several pet dogs, her favorite was Belle who was old and lazy. She often tried to teach the aog the signs she used. Sometimes Helen knew that Belle refused to do as she wanted her to. A little colored girl named Martha Washington, a little older than Helen, was ner constant companion. She always seemed to understand what Helen wanted to do and many were their mischievous pranks. One day they went outside and were busy cutting out paper dolls. It happened that Helen cut ofT one of Martha's wooly pigtails, so Martha was angry and seized the scissors and was about to cut off one of Helen’s golden curls. Just then Mrs. Keller uppcured so Martha gave up the idea immediately. Helen often hud terrific outbursts of temper or of affection, and sometimes she acted as if she were insane. One day she found her little sister asleep in her doll’s cradle and she was so ungry that she overturned it as she wanted to put her doll in it. Her sister would have been killed but her mother caught her before she reached the floor. Mrs. Keller rend of a blind and deaf girl named Lauru Bridgeman who had been educated by Dr. Sumuel Gridley Howe of Boston. This made her wonder if he could help her blind child. So, when Helen was six years old, her purents took her to Baltimore to see the great Doctor Chrisholm who had cured several blind people. They were very much disappointed when they found that he could do nothing to help Helen but ho sent them to Washington to see Dr. Alexander Gruham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. He became very much interested in Helen. He had taught many deuf children to speak by means of symbols and he told them about the school for the blind at Boston, the Perkins Institution. He told Major Keller to write there in regard to a private teacher. He did so and Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan who was partially blind became Helon’s first teacher. When Miss Sullivan came to the Keller home, Helen was stubborn and often unruly so her teacher had to win her confidence in order to secure co-operution from her pupil. After several weeks of hard work this seemed accomplished. The first word Helen learned to spell on her fingers was “doll and it aroused her interest for then she knew that things had names. Miss Sullivan let the water from the pump run over the little hand and spelled the word, '‘water” in Helen's other hand nt the same time. In about four monhts she had learned to spell more thnn four-hundred and fifty words. Miss Sullivan had a true teacher’s sympathy for a pupil and she always tried to make her lessons pleasant. In studying science and nature, they went to the out-of-doors and Helen learned many different things about the trees, flowers, birds, insects, and the farm-yard fowls. When Helen studied geography. Miss Sullivan made raised maps in clay, showing mountains and rivers. Then the little girl could tell the difference between damn and islands as the dams were made of pebbles. She learned to read in raised letters called braille which were made for the blind to feel with their finger tips. She also learned to write that way. At the age of eight, Helen studied History at Bunker Hill where she climbed the monument, counting the steps. Then she had her first voyage in a steamboat to Plymouth to learn about the Pilgrims. She spent that summer nt Brewster on Cape Cod where she dug in the sand and bathed in the ocean. Helen had a pony named Black Beauty which had been presented to her by n friend. She greatly enjoyed riding and driving. When Helen was ten years old. she heard the story of a blind and deaf girl named Ragnhild Kuala in Norway who hud learned to speak. This mode her wish to learn to talk very much. Then Miss Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston gave her several lessons in speech. She made some sounds and let Helen feel them by touching her lips and throat. In an hour Helen hnd learned six elements of speech: m,” ”p. ”u,” “t,” “i.” She was so eager to talk that she practiced speech almost constantly and most of all she wunted to go home and talk with her mother and sister. The whole family met her ut the station und they were very anxious to hear her too. So Helen said, I am not dumb now, for she could talk with her parents and sister and to her beloved dogs whenever she wished. One day a dog. Lioness, which had been presented to her by friends, died. When sue was told that they wanted to buy her another dog, she asked them instead to help educate a small deaf and blind boy named Tommy Stringer of whom she had heard. He had no mother to love him and his father was rather poor anu could not afford to send him to school. Helen raised $1000 to send Tommy to the Perkins Institution in Boston. One of the chief events of the year 1893 was Helen’s visit to the World’s Fair in Chicago with Miss Sullivan and Dr. Graham Bell. She stayed there for three weeks, enjoying everything. She hud permission to touch many of the exhibits so she learned about many new things during her stay there. The next summer Helen attended the meeting of the American Association to promote the Teaching of peech to the Deaf at Chautauqua, New York. While theie, arrangements were made for her to attend the Wright-Humnxon School for the Deaf in New York City where she could receive more instruction in speech training and lip-reading. So that fall, Miss Sullivan and Helen went to the New York school where in addition she studied arithmetic, physical geography French and German. In the year 1896 real grief came to Helen for the first time, for her father died after n brief illness. She had finished the eighth grade studies und began to prepare for entrance to Rnd-cliffe College, all her written work being uone on the typewriter which she hnd learned to use. In 1899 she passed the college entrance examinations and the next fall saw her at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For four years she enjoyed college life. Miss Sullivan always attended classes with her and spelled all lectures and instructions into her hand. Helen enjoyed her work in composition, English Literature und Economics more thun in some other necessury subjects. Examinations were the greatest horror of College life. She lived in one of the pleasant homes near the school with several girls. Some of them learned how to talk with her. Since he graduation from RadclilTe College in 1904 her greatest pleasures have been reading, out-of-door sports, playing with her pets and talking to her friends and meeting people. She has always tried to Unci ami make happiness for herself. All her life, Helen Keller has been interested in animals and one of her most exciting experience was a ride on the back of a great elephant. Miss Keller has been in many different states as she was a member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and so she has addressed many conventions in the United States, telling people how she wanted to help the deaf and blind children. She has written several books, “Out of the Da� k,“ Optimism, The World 1 Liveln, The Song of the Stone Wall. She hus also written articles about her life for many of magazines, such us McClure’s, The Youth’s Companion, the Literary Digest, the Outlook and others of a similiar nature. Miss Keller has always shown n greater interest in the blind than in the deaf, but the following extract from u speech made in New York before the German Scientific Society in 1913, shows that she does appreciate the great handicap under which deaf children are held. I am glad that so many intelligent people are interested in helping the deaf to speak. You have asked me to come here and tell you how you cun help in a work that is near to my heart. 1 am happy to stand before you, myself an example of what may be done to open dumb lips and liberate mute voices. 1 was dumb, now 1 speak. Intelligent instruction and the devotion of others wrought this miracle in me. What has been done for me can be done for others. Y'ou can all help the deaf child. Y’ou can help him by being interested in his struggle. You know, now, if you have not known before, that he can learn to apouk. and you can spread the knowledge that shall save him. What the world needs is enlightened understanding on many subjects. There are plenty of brains ami plenty of Good Will in the world. All that we need is to put them together. We must put thought and understanding into our efforts to help people. So much time and money are wasted every day because we do not eet to the root of our difficulties. In the case of the deaf, phvsirians and parents often retard devtdopment of deaf children because they do not realize the necessity of un early start. When the physician knows that the organ of hearing is permanently iniured, the child should be placed under the guidance of a skilful teacher, even while there may still be hope of improvement. Nothing can be lost by beginning. The psychological period for the acquisition of speech and language will not have been lost, and the difficulty of teaching him will be lessened, and the result will be far more satisfactory. Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child’s one chance to keep in touch with his fellow . In many ways deafness is a greater disaster than blindness Blindness robs the day of its light and makes us dependent und physically helpless. Deafness stops up the toun-tain-heud of knowledge and turns life into a desert. For without language intellectual life is impossible. Try to imagine what it means to be deaf and dumb. Perpetual silence, silence full of longing to be understood, to speak, to hear the voices of our loved ones; silence that starves the mind, fetters the spirit and udds still another burden to labour. Deafness, like proverty, stunts and deadens its victims, until they do not realize the wretchedness of their condition. They are incapable of desiring improvment. God help them. They grope, they stumble with their eyes wide open, they are indifferent. They miss everything in the world that makes iife worth living, and vet they do not realize their own bondage. We must not wait for the deaf to ask for speech, or for the submerged of humanity to rise up and demand their liberties. We who see, we who hear, we who understand must help them, must give them the bread of knowledge, must teach them what their inheritance is. Let every science do its part—medicine, surgery, otology, psychology, education, invention, economics, mechanics. And while you are working for the deaf child, do not forget that his problem is only part of a greater problem, the problem of better ing the condition of all mankind. Let us here and now resolve that every deaf child shall have a chance to speak and thut every man •‘hall have a fair opportunity to make the best of himself. Then shall we mend the broken lyre of human speech, and lessen the deafness and blindness of the world. SOCIAL EVENTS At the Homecoming Party, held in the Girls’ Gymnasium, the evening after the Wisconsin Illinois game, there were over four hundred in attendance. The evening was spent in cheering the foot-ball teams and dancing. The committee in charge served punch, ice cream and cookies during he evening. The Gass sisters entertained the guests with their dancing. The Hallowe’en Party was given in the chapel Saturday evening, October 29th. The committee in churge was made up of the following members, Mr. Moore, Miss Thorpe, Mr. Pleasant and Miss Mary Williams. All of the pupils from the third grade up attended the party after the movie. Fortune telling by Mr. Pleasant, games and other Hallowe’en stunts furnished the entertainment. Refreshments were served and a good time seemed to be the report of all who attended. The New Year’s party for the older pupils wus given in the teachers’ dining oom, the chapel being too cold. This being the first party in 1928. the leap year custom was followed when refreshments were served. Miss Rossi, Miss Mary Williams and Mr. Lange composed the committee. On February 14th, a Valentine Party was held in the chapel nt seven o’clock. The valentines for each pupil were put in a separate envelope and handed out to us. The refreshments were fine and consisted of ice cream and cookies with peppermint candy valentines. After that wc danced in the girls gymnasium. We had a wonderful time. The party broke up at ten o’clock. As the children were in quarantine a long time, Mr. Bray gave them permission to have parties on Saturday nights during April. Miss Brock man n kindly furnished the music. On the evening of May 4th the Welfare Committee gave the annual May party in the form of a dinner dance. A dinner in the teachers’ dining room preceded the dance. The dance was held in the gymnasium as the chapel was being used for vhe Industrial Exhibit. Music was furnished by an orchestra directed by Mr. R. C. Bcswick. PET SAYINGS OF THE TEACHERS Mi Mary— You know” Mr . Croaby— ”Oh, say ! Mr. Lange— Any new ?” Mi . Hobart— Oh!” ”0h!” Mia Welch—She just smiles Mi Miller— Don’t kid yourself George Wood— Don’t you know” Mr . Holliater— Simply exquisite. Eather Brockmann—She just yawns. Mr. Moore— Ask any new teacher Mr. Bray— Did you ever hear this? Mr . Fowler— Aren’t they darlings? Mr . Dunn— Charley says-------- Mi Bo i— I am right here to tell you Mr . Elli — You see, it’s this way- Mr . Pynn—“What do you think of that 1 Mr. Dunn— I don't know, but —------ Mr . Kaiiermann— She's a regular little Indian Mi� Oak —Oh girls, I’ve got something to tell you Mr. Cameron— I do not know how thut will work out. Mr . Lowe— What do you suppose, yesterday Bobbie- Mr. William —He does not say a word but he looks volumes. Mi Katherine— Now what would you do in a case like this?” Mi Thorpe— I could not get my Ford started this morning Mi � Matteaon— Now, see here------- and then she goes on nnd on and on. Mr. Neesam—He rubs his hands together first to get the inspiration then he tells you Mi Glcnore William —“I wish I had a hamburger sandwich and a glass of lemonade GRINDS We Never See The One Without The Other John and his gun Max and his song Harold and Selma Nona and Richard Farris and Dorothy Stella and her pose Curtis and his book Louise and her band Carl and his stump Mitchell and his jokes Gerald and his medals Ernest and Elizabeth Orlie and his camp fire Elmer nnd his mouth organ Irene and her troubles Ethel Cass and her tears Reuben and his linotype Donald and the dictionary Alfred nnd his day dreams Angus and his stately w’alk Orrell and her funny stories Marian and her new dress Mary nnd her pretty smile Sylvia and her winning ways Arthur and his traveling bag Linda nnd her Campfire money Howard Fisk and his sore finger Leona and her flaming red heart Graduating Classes from 1861 to 1928 1861 •Alpbostso Johnson Maine A. Dudley • Washington Fairer ‘George Taylor 'Thom ' A. June i86j •Charles Clarkson ‘Benjamin II. Baird •Amelia Bishop 'Matthew O'Neil •Sarah Fountain (Briningrr) 'Harvey Kolfe •I hartea Bishop •Theodore Brnnecb •Volena Hairy (Hughes) •Julia McCoy (Mar.hall) William Sullivan •Anthony Kull •Martha Scofield (Jarria) Kleeta Dr Frees (Grout) Christopher C Byrne Matilda Taylor (Ben neck) Peter Chapman •Franci H. Hawley • Louisa Short Amelia Jcrmark (Taylor) •tt Kdvar VaiiWintrr •John Downey «866 •Phillip S. Er.gelhardt A delta Perry (Taylor) •I asm. Scofield •Annie Harrison (Downey) 1868 •Sarah Taylor (Tyson) Belle Thompson (Baird) •Emm Tenny (Van Winter) •Charles Reed l.ouis Dverson •llenry Kirchoff •William Urophy •Charles Barnhart Henry Groanick Ernest Boeckman Hugh Cork George Jacket Harry Reed •Mary McKee (Conery) William Cullen Gunder Gunderson Elisabeth White Theodore Kargr Erie I.. Sampson 1877 Sidney Barker •Phillip J. Conery Louis Meeker Ella Overton (Blair) Lydia Bailey Charles Henry Dennis O’Connct 1878 Edmund Deubel Michael Ryan John Dill M.eonard Englert George F. Worden •F. Meinert (Schurkamp) arren Robinson 1880 Dora E. Andrews (Reed) ‘Mary Kbcrkardt (Tschudy Emma Rossman (Ewing) Nancy E. Derby (Derby) l!k. irles W. Scott «$8 Cynthia Williams (Tetilaff) Mary J. Hackett (Coke) Myron J. Clark Edwin I. Falk Thomas Foy James P. Cullen •Edward Lewis •Mary t. End (Jarvis) Edward Evans 1800 'lame M. Byrns (•eorgr S. Rogers •Mary E. Griswold •Dennis Gorey tUi •Emil Wetter nuift W light (Deubel: 1870 •Theodore Stone •James C. Dalis Allied Could t hales Demari •Magg.r II ul ton •Agnes Rutherford (Downey) •E. Vedder (Eugcihardt) l rmiia Dmirh Joseph Mo.list •George G. French •Wales Trowbridge Stephen Babcock 1871 1881 Evaline M. Ktngrose •Nettie Diekaou (Falk) Egnita Prplcntki August Sotinenberg •Lottie Bacon (Kngelhardt) Lawrence Gromackt ‘William Calkins Elmer J. Florry Albert w. ilubuer .884 •Simon P. Carney Thomas llagerty John Dahl Christian Larson Phoebe Smith (Ross) David T. Spencer •Frank S. Hutson 8ya Static Minert •Frederick Weller •Minnie Rapp(Sulltran) Ella E. Dudley (Riley) Benjamin P. Round .88s •Kate E. Coughlin (Miller) •Urban Ilroiggs •Hrlgr Harrison •James Rutherford Ada Rutherford (Goold) � 8yj Maggie Christie (Briggs) lames J. Murphy •Philomena Kngelhardt |88 •Richard E- Dimick Adron T. Henry •Sarah Mtiler(Karges) Henry Wakeman Ralph I'dall Anna !Urtholomew(Stnne) Olivia Blair ((kxdd.) •Herman Riplinger •Helen Tenney Frederick German Charles A. Tetilaff 1874 Simpson Moon Edwin K. Tyler Garret Mr men Joshua Tschudy •August Klug 1875 •Wilmet Grant (Gronberg) 'Carrie M Bunker 1888 Lillie Hibbard (Stickles Boss) Violet Hibbard (Angle) •Carrie A. Parker (Henry) Myra E. Parker (Henry) Olto Langner George R. Ilehatd Ellen L. Cowham (Bu hnell) Frank Mormsey t88f Alfred Cashman 'Joseph Coughlan Mary llagerty (Meyera) William H. Cusack •Albert Henry Ada Rubhop (Fish) •Edwin H. K Ernst Lara M Larson John V. Blair Mlcundcr Drinkwint M. Stillwell (Bishop Ridrout) Louis II Busbnrll Alda liunncl (Tyler) George Tolies Marr Johnson (Toles •William F. White 1WWV Louisa Diesburg (Wotswick) Irma M EaseDtyne (Ryan) Linme Bailey (Hagerty) Linda Lancland (Rumble) Hugo A Kt'frlder Nellie E Ward (Johnson) •l.lTlie P. Morev Peter Herr Wallace R. Williams 'Emma L Ruka Joaeph E. Wachuu Frederick Gierloff Michael Dowling •Thomaa Carney Edward Hannon William J. O’Neil « o Bernard Gallagan William Kcxh Allichaon •Edward May Gustav Torgeraon 180a William Bohling Alma Poster (Lawrence) •Al«ada i-nillio (Ryan) Charles W llt. ford •Philip Kimball Chauncey Dickey ®9J Florence Morrison (Coulth� .« ‘Frances B Gt om Gustav Middlesuorf Herman Kuh Bertha Rntnihure (Warhut, Emma J. Richter (Black) Allien Pticberg ►‘••ward W Nelson Ellen Schildhauer •James Conrad George C. My era 94 •Mary Power (M ddle dorf) Sophia M Stout (Bottling) Ptancia J Reynolds l.oui Rtrat William L. Paruh Helen May (William ) Anna Wartrok fGoff) Mary E. Molater (Henry) Henry S Plunkett Rudolph A. Fenake Mamslaus Pororski { antes A. Goff lettry P. Poran Patrick J Rvan •Guatav A. Winkleman 1895 Severine Moreau (Kircher) •Pranci C. McGurie •John Kircher Emil S. Mendabl •William Malloy Ida Nehnng (Falk) Walter E. Redmond A ay B. Etheridge (Roth) •George Horne Emm Crebcl (Larson) Edgar Lawrence George Paruh Otto Yaeger llan K. Hannon Fred J. Nerww Topping Stephen O’Leary 'lire Sehumarher (Redmond) Carrie Jacobson (Nelson) Bertha L. Kuehn (Frirberg) Lizzie Huhn (llarter) Frank I., llarter Tracy Jones lohn A. Niroll •Velma Schumacher Milton C. Goff 899 Julia J. Carney (Rirkel) Gertrude Fleming (Peterson) Nettie K Hopkins (Hodman) r.nga C. Anderson ( � yle� ) Catherine Peterson (Adelman)William II. Hurmet tct Karl J. OI«m Jo� eph Mullen •Mary Stiles Almon II. Bell Duncan A. Cameron Bridget K. Dovle •Thom A. Irving Arthur J Meehan Anna Northrop Otis Zentzis 1901 •Rudolph Kuehnl Malina Jerdee (Goff) Ferdinand Smith Rosa Wartzok (Jones) (.aura Hroten George F. Gtlkey Halite McCbetney (Kopie ki) lohn Amond«on May I. Bushy (Nelson) Patsey Downey Clarence Herald John Otto •Henry I Pocan 190a Hen� y Berholt lohn Doro Rot Grim e •William C. Miller loseoh Rvan Ida Nehrtng (FalkI Amelia Siegert(Burch) Elizabeth Urickley (Kurry) Bridge Dieveney (Kolman) Carrie A. Jacobson Leon A. Puke Amelia A. Ra«mu (Foker) Guy Vergeront •Archie F- William Joseph J. Betsang Walter Dowe Minnie II. Schweiger(Downey) Carl Harare Annie Mostedt (Smith) 1904 Dauy Wood (Wortnan) ‘Dennis Sullivan Edna Tyler (Hughes) Fred Christianson Jossic Thompson •Evan Robinson Myrtle O. West (Byrnr) AlWrt O. Urault Eunice R. Taylor Joseph M. Angore George H. Sprague 995 Agnes M. Jacobs (Heme) Milo E Hodge Jennie M. Williams Raphael H. Motelrt William Wood 1906 Alvina Berndt (Brown) ilas Phillips Jean S r«iygie( Kline I Ray Foster Lawrence Sehotss 1908 Otto Schulz Annie Geisdorf llelmer llanson Harry llanaman Ludwig Landsverk Harold Linde Martha N'euhau (Miller) Carrie Gersdorf (Thompson) Helen Wilcoa (llanstuan) Gwen Broderick tCasbman) Floyd Itulmrr Carrie Fleming (Miller) Emily Hirte (Robinson) f'urtis Kidd •Guy Miller •Lottie Sprague (Conklin) Edward Svac ms Emma Wartzok (Davis) • 909 Leslie Davis “Walter I.orch Tony llylleberg Roy Thompson I 1910 Edward Svacina Ludvig Landsverk Annie Gersdnrt tOlson) Carrie Crersdorf (Thompson) Gwen Broderick (Ca hmans Floyd Bulmcr •Plorence Wort wick (Bulmer) Tillie Gunther (Landsverk) Etta Grenheck(Christensen) Aithur Leisman Dorothy Conover William Wilson Georgr Rubin Nona Cass (Bauer) Peter Bengaard 1911 Gladys Sodders (Grimse) Ruth Rock wood (Svacina) Guy Anderson John Capper Alma Anderson Henry Olson Henry Hein 191J Vlartha Hluemcl (Otto) •Hubert liuchthausen “Mary Kallrnbach Belle Kamsour Charles Kuscbel ••3 Arthur Nueske Myrtle Holverson Merle Hook Harry Lind Mary Greenheck (Adleman) Ii9i3 Flora Toombs Dorothy Conover (Schowc) Alma Anderson (Falmoc) Anna Johnson Aithur Lettman •9 4 Anna Rauseh John Jours Edward Rasmus Herman Riege Beatrice Betnis (Pleasant) ilubrrt Fiedler Theodore Lee •Mary Kallrnbach 11914 Leon Bongey Clarence Krdshl Joseph Brandi Nellie Stone Jacob Cohen Lawrence McKeefry Meta Hansman 191s Earl Hinterthuer Tillie Jensen Elise Lee Sibyl Smith Leonard Weiss Oliver Ducharme Beulah Smith (Wilson) Arthur Nueske Merle Hook Myrtle Holverson tigis Harry Lind Laura Bush (Jones) S 19 6 Anna Bauscb (Dalil!) IQt6 Benjamin Greenbeck Arvtn Klemme. Emil llorger Boko Wert, almmr O'Brien (Kr rn«) Arilla Berrard Dorothea Pranke Birdie Metises Melvin Oilern Kvrrett Redmond 19 ! Marlin D� e«-� Percy Coif Nellie Ntlum Pncda WillelTh irnber j) t«9'J Jacob Cohen (Jrck Kondell) •Joseph Brandi Oliver Ducharnte Men I! unman (Kondell) Cordon Bristol. Victor Broberg. Edwin Drinkwine. Stella Goff. Elmer Stellmacher Nor.i Hirtc (DuCbnmr) Sibyl Smith ((iallcnbcTger) Tilt Jenaen (Nweske) Leonard Wdaa. 1017 Ernest Larncrnbrtg. Clara Maali. Thonm Meredith Andrea Sehrannki. Arthur Hanson Clara Marita (Meredith) My ton I r rtiak( Wa h'tnn) Marvin Larson Andnna ONon I.rah Berrard Vera Tinney t IOJI Mathis Kirk Walter Scbrnnler ti9li Helen IMatte (Rrrland) Cu-kie Moody (Daley) [da Hamen lohn Rraelaut Marvin Goff 19 - Harold Scbratdt 0 ar Beaver Janie Epstein Bernice M. Schol Benjamin J. Gtcrnhcck I.tie tile Bolide ti William I Kagan Georgia M. K.itney Enr t C. Langcnbcrg Arthur llanssn Plo. Strllmat her (Hanson) Marie I.. Finnic (Jones) Lester Bongry Kthel A. Calkin Kline M Lee (Lind) NeHr M. S.une (Booth) ki8 Lillian Speich Rost nr L. Center W Prank McGill t«9«o Clara M� fli«.alkins) Cordon Urivtol 1919 Alfred Baer •William H. Scbrank Mary Stein X Lucille Hodden (l.lndholm) Ko.enc Geiger (Buimcr) Andtia Schramski Elmer Stcllmacher •Crrtchen [ u r(lUcri Francis JacoUon Vera Tinnejr Helen Riley Hilda Hanneman Lillian Pranke (Drew ) Ella Maertr Joe Polakowski Minnie Thompson El ic Buckingham (Gross) I9J0 Lillian Spcich Georgia Korney (Krohn) William Eagan 19m Aodrina Ola so Helen Platte Veda Billings Emily Anderson Bernadette Editing Harry Jacob Leab Berrard I i9« Mabel Krdahl Bert Thompson 19 1 Alfred Baer 119 1 Birdie M nnr Jack l cey 19-JJ—Atamnal Louise Martinka fliirtr) Esther Bena h (Hanson) Delmar Moore Frank Spear Vera Van Matrc (Scbramiiri) Thoma Hanson Lloyd Platte Alvin Mattrson Dorothy lienlinger Ann Koch Clyde Urhling I9U- Ora Edith Ebrlirb Gladys Rockney Pranci McLean Della KittIe� on John Brae taut Ruth Turnquist tiw Ida llan� on Esther Brockman Ruth Babbitt 1 I a hirl) Dorothy Dcnlinger Anna Koch Clyde Urhling Prank Spears 119 5 Edith Ehrlich Gladys Rockney Francis McLean Gladys Dieckhoff Mabel Smerchcck Cither Rn enfielil Genevieve Goa ttVJd Richard Schl« � er Harry Wille Marvin Hint Nellie Geiger Ethel ('� « Harold Lar«en Arthur Saablrwski tro.'ft Max Lew Howard Pi k 1 Vocational {High School. •Deceased. Mary Stem MEMORANDUM % f