Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Dedication To Superintendent Arthur G. Erickson, whose earnest efforts have made possible a new gymnasium, we dedicate this twenty-seventh volume of the Ypsi Dixit.

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4 Por YPSI HIGH The School Year—1924-25 On the second Monday of September, school again started, with its daily round of curriculi and activities. The enrollment was recorded practically the same as last June, but the senior class showed a noticeable decrease, there being in the class of 1925 only seventy-eight, as against ninety-five who received diplomas last year. The faculty list showed little change, only three new members at the outset: Mr. Robert Spiers, who was to take charge of the various teams; Mrs. Wheelock, to supervise music in the public schools; and Mr. Melvin Erickson, a younger brother of Superintendent Erickson, to teach algebra and its successor, geometry. However, as the year progressed Mr. Spiers left us, and his work was taken over by Mr. Schimel in basketball, Mr. Erickson in baseball, and Claude Snarey, of the Normal College in track. Mrs. Wheelock was also succeeded by Miss Yates. Under the direction of a competent teaching staff of twenty-five, Ypsi Central has spent the best season in its history. The Budget System The Student Council decided after many heated discussions that the best means of financing the enterprises of the school year would be to sell budget tickets at two dollars and seventy-five cents a ticket. In order to guarantee the necessary funds at least four hundred tickets would need to be sold. An intensive compaign was then launched in each of the session rooms, with the result that the necessary buyers were secured. This plan had an advantage over the former arrangement, in that the money for the whole year was definitely acquired at the beginning. In that way it was easy to apportion the required sum to each activity, and know where the finances stood. — | A budget ticket entitled the owner to admission in any home game, any debate here, the schoolpaper, the all-school party, and certain other specified events. This is the third year that such a plan has been operated and each time it has proved more successful. The All-School Play For three successive years the students have put on a Carnival to help finance athletics. The first year this was an unqualified success, but the two following years marked a decrease in interest as well as in moneyed. returns. Ypsi needed a change. Finally a play was decided upon, and “Just Out of College” was the result. Dramatics have never been a paramount feature in Ypsi High, and unquestion- ably a large measure of this play’s success was due to its novelty. 7