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John tries to impress it on your mind, If you don't take his advice, you're left behind ; He's a great debator an' with words is quite free, And when he makes a point he chuckles with glee ; It's no use for us to make any complaint For he says things without restraint, His logic is shaky, yet it's a treat No matter how it's decided he's never beat.
Having within these lines, I'll not longer linger, Three cheers for 'em all, they're the humdinger.
-OWEN SEANEY.
SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Street Scene-Peking, China
It is evening, and all the narrow streets are filled with pleasure seekers. A young Chinese couple are loitering in the entrance of a Pell Tong Theatre. "Ah! my pretty maiden, let us see the new picture. It is from America. See they call it the "Eight Famous Americans." "Yes, yes, those Americans! They're so wonderful," responded the maiden.
They enter.
The picture has just started, there are a double line of International trucks in front of a fine brick building. It is the head of the Great Central Creamery Company. Here are the officers and the president, Miss Erma Cooper, Queen of the Business World. Hundreds of feet of film flash by showing the amazed Chinese the magnitude of the enterprise headed by Miss Cooper.
Here is a scene in a large class room of a Southern University. Miss Edith Mitchell, instructor in foreign languages, is being featured. Miss Mitchell is regarded by the foremost critics as paramount among all French instructors.
The next reel brings the whole Chinese audience to its feet.
It is an especially produced film of the last game of the nineteen-thirty World's Series. The New York Giants are battling the New York Yankees. The game is a joke. While the Yankees are at bat the Giant gardeners all drop in Morris chairs and ring for a coke and fags, like regular fans. For when
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Chester Miller is in the box and Horace Hatfield is playing the back stop po- sition, the umpire merely closes his eyes and yells "One!" "Two!" "Three!" "Down!" at the top of his voice, then runs for an adding machine to keep tab on the runs which Hatty poles in while the Giants are at bat.
The next reel takes a more rational turn. Mrs. Mary Macy Cory is shown in her palatial home which she maintains on Fifth Avenue, from her pension ; which all women now receive who are brave and sacrificing enough to marry school teachers.
The dapper young Chinaman remarks that the American ladies are very charitable and contribute their wealth and chances for a career to missionary work.
And we must not wonder that it comes to pass, that the next reel features a famous American lady who has traveled the world o'er studying the condi- tions of the neglected people.
She has become the head of the National Geographic Society and the rec- ognized authority on the "Ways of Man and Their Correction."
Behold Lillian Ruth Williams.
The next reel makes the Chinese girls sit up and take notice. Featured here is the social queen of America. Scenes showing great balls, formal cere- monies, stylish summer resorts, winter homes and long lines of suitors from traveling salesmen to foreign dukes fighting for an audience. Then a long tiresome collection of close-ups showing the wardrobe of the Queen, and then her name. Ye Gods! Ruby Leibold.
The picture is drawing to a close, the Chinese are becoming sleepy, when this sentence flashes on the screen "Most Popular Film Actress in America." Oh, man! See the small slanting eyes of the Chinamen flash in their anticipa- tion, and the sighs of the Chinese maidens as her smiling countenance flashes on the screen, Edith Davis.
-OWEN SEANEY.
SOPHOMORE
SNYDER 7 /19
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SOPHOMORE CLASS ROLL
Willis Aughee Glenna Bailey Vera Boren Harry Evans Kenneth Knight Claude Lacey Mildred Longfellow
Ralph Lane
William Leibold Mary Martin
Robert Pike Dow Rupe Arnold Thomas Myrle Wright Herbert Brown
OUR SOPHOMORE CLASS
There have been other classes It may be, Made up of lads or lasses Of degree ; Which made a strong contention That they deserve some mention But it meets with some dissention Here, from me.
We're the finest and the brightest That there are, The loveliest and the brightest, Near or far. We are all brave and witty Good looking, if not pretty, We're the brightest in the city, Each a star.
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Though the class be large in number, And high our aim, Everyone has hitched his wagon, To a star, We've had visions of our service We have seen that we are needed
And these calls shall well be heeded By we students here.
THE SOPHOMORES
The greatest problem with which the Fountain City High School have to deal, is the sophomore class, which numbers sixteen.
We graduated from the Common School in the spring of 1920, our number twenty-three, the largest class that ever graduated from F. C. H. S. We slipped into our places last year as green and humble Freshmen and awaited our turn to show ourselves as somebody. We are now dignified (?) Sopho- mores and enjoy the life and position immensely.
Dorothy Showalter,our class president, has proved herself an executive of much ability. At our class meetings she could usually keep us all together for as long a time as five minutes.
Vice-President Arnold Thomas, is a leading basketball man, and in the far distant future we see him proprietor of the corner grocery, a successful successor to its present occupant.
Our highly honored and esteemed secretary and treasurer, Myrle Wright, better known as Itty Bitty, was greatly mortified one day when he was mis- taken for a measly common-schooler.
Every day we are sent into peals of laughter by the antics and sayings of our vaudeville star, Harry Evans, for whom we predict the honor of being Al Jolson's successor.
Six of our boys have shown great ability as basketball players. They are : Kenneth Knight, Harry Evans, Myrle Wright, Claude Lacey, Arnold Thomas and Dow Rupe.
While we might talk for a week on the glories our boys have won on the basketball floor we must confess their names on the honor roll have been con- spicuous by their absence. The girls of the class have been more fortunate in this respect.
The future alone, can tell to what height of eminence we may rise. Suf- ficient to say, what is true of us in the past may be equally true in the future -We will bear watching.
-MARY CATHERINE MARTIN, '24.
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FRESHMEN CLASS ROLL
esther arnett esther bailey carl blocker florence cooper idris hinshaw lula huddleston philip hampton
violet murray minnie north max reynolds ruth reynolds pauline reynolds carl showalter leona thompson
THE FRESHMEN CLASS
When the Freshmen class of '22 Sailed into the land of High school grand, We made a showing that will stand, Among the highest of the ranks, We have no grouchy ones or cranks. But only ones that make things go, And keep them going just so.
The Freshman class of '22, Will long remembered be, As the brightest class you e'er did see, Of course we sometimes make a fault, But never do we make a halt, We'll always come out on the top, Although some folks may think we'll not. -P. H.
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FRESHMEN CLASS
The Freshman class of 1922 was a very awkward person when he made his first appearance in the High School. But as he grew older and wiser he gained a new look and lost most of his awkwardness. This Freshman soon knew what his hardest subjects were to be and the ones he must study the hardest.
As every Freshman is teased by all of those higher up and lower down, he did not escape. This boy soon learned who the leaders were and therefore tried to do as they did.
He was only eight years old when he came and he was a very frightened person, afraid of what others would say and do to him. As every Freshman knows, a Freshman may only be a "freshie" as he is called by his friends, but like all little boys he did not know how to act in this new situation, but he is now very enthusiastic about his work and is always trying for better things. Because of this he has adopted the motto "Not at the top but climbing."
He will soon be nine years old and not only that but, people are begin- ning to think more of him. They are also beginning to realize that he is go- ing to be more than just a "freshie" and his friends will soon be calling him an- other name. He cares not for anything except what is made of the numbers that are high and worth trying to get.
Let us all be friends to him and try to help him over all the hard places, encouraging him and giving him praise and support.
-IDRIS HINSHAW.
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Harmony is the law of life, the quality of harmonious relationship exist- ing between color and form, or between the parts and the whole, or between the worker and his material in any field of labor, constitutes ART. NO ART is so fine as to be unfit for daily use. The principles of ART can be intelligent- ly presented to the understanding of the ordinary individual so that he may see his application to the affairs of his occupation, his business, his profession and in his home. The public school offers the best opportunity for bringing the influence of ART into the lives of all the people. Through the mediums of the pencil and colors, the students achieve results which are definite and tangible ; the cultivated emotions and trained intellect find expression in those inevitable selections of form, proportion and color which tend to make our material environment more pleasant. In striving to express his ideals through whatever task comes to the hands, he may make his own life and the lives of others happier, more worthy and more beautiful. It is being emphasized, ART is expressed in the humblest implement of man as well as in the most lordly decoration. The weaver at his loom, the potter at the wheel, the smithy at his forge and the carpenter at his bench, may have an equal share in its produc- tion with the sculptor, the painter, the architect and the musician. So ART may be found at any time, in any place ; it may reveal itself in small things as well as in great, hearkening always to the universal law of order, perfect fit- ness and harmony, it will uplift all who come in contact with it.
-FRANCES LEE NICHOLS.
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BEREBEREBERE
MUSIC
AN APPRECIATION
"God made humming birds in a pleasant humor Tired of suns and planets was He He said, 'I will add a glory to summer Gifts for my children banished from Me.' "
So sings Kate Tynan.
Robert Ingersoll is reported to have said: "Let me go out like a wind swept fiddle string that thrills with Master Melody and Snaps."
Even Bob thought music a gift of the God he spent his life in denying. Music needs a Master even as do the winds in their waving fluctuations over the tightened strings.
Before the fearful war George Bernard Shaw asked : "Why will England never fight with Germany?" And answered his own question in one word, "Beethoven."
"The common appreciation of both nations for the Music of Beethoven should form such bond that men, women and children would hesitate and struggle among themselves rather than shatter the ideals his music brought to their minds." Shaw was wrong because selfishness is stronger than Music. And yet 'tis said : "The singing army always conquers." Again must we hesi- tate in our acceptance and say "In the end the army that sings of truth, of beauty, and of unselfish love must conquer."
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In our own fratricidal war the "Yanks" and the "Rebels" would challenge a rendition of the songs they both knew, at least so 'tis told by some of those who remain. "Away down South in Dixie" was quite popular among north- ern soldiers even while fighting.
Music knows no bonds save the bonds of human emotion. When Han- del's "Messiah" seemed to fail elsewhere he took it to Dublin, Ireland and its first singing there established his fame forever.
We know little of Wagner's music beyond snatches from his choruses. We all know much of Verdi because he wrote "Il Trovatore," or rather be- cause the so-called "Miserere" (Oft have I sighed to rest me") has been so frequently and sometimes so hideously dinned into our ears.
It is for us therefore to learn more of the great Authors of Music. When we become tired and worn or something is on our conscience, how pleasant it is to throw ourselves into the arms of a Mother or some one who takes her place, one perhaps who could not begin to sing, "Hush a bye, darling, don't you cry-Mother is near you and day dawn is nigh."
Fear ye not-While Music breathes.
-LUCILE CARNEY.
HOME ECONOMICS
Of all the many classes, In our dear old F. C. S. We'll hand it to our D. S. girls, For being the cleverest.
Usually in the grades or before leaving the High School it comes into the mind of every girl what she wants to do for life work and plans to carry this out sooner or later as the years roll on. She may have decided to be a teacher, a stenographer, a nurse, an artist, or a musician. Whatever the decision has been it is quite necessary to make plans for a better course in high school or college. She would not consider herself capable of entering into any one of these callings without a certain amount of professional training.
Probably many of the girls have decided to be home-makers. Undoubted- ly there is no profession of greater importance and requires more careful train- ing than that for an efficient home-maker. It is only within the last few years that it has been considered proper for the public schools to train girls for the work which most of them will be doing for the longest period in their lives -- that of home-making and not simply house-keeping.
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It was Mrs. Ellen H. Richards that was the first to say the schools ought to teach "right living," and it was largely through her efforts and inspirations, that plans have been worked out whereby girls while in school can be taught many things about right living. Right living begins with the home, and while the man may provide the money to build, equip, and maintain the house, it is the woman who plans and manages the home. It is then her business to see that the family lives in a sanitary and attractive house, and that every mem- ber of the family has clean, properly selected and well cooked food, that every one is suitably clothed, that the family income is wisely spent and that all in the home are helped to lead a happy and useful life.
No girl should consider the making and managing of a home an easy task, for in fact nothing requires more careful and intelligent study than that of the home.
Tell me not in words of boasting Domestic Science's an idle dream, For you'll find there is no coasting, Through on bluffs as it may seem.
Although it requires much careful and diligent study to be an efficient home maker, the girls of the Fountain City High School are not found lagging in this fascinating work. So greatly enthused are they that they are often working overtime and at extra hours. They are anxiously looking forward to the day when much more time may be given to this work in their High School Course. Their artistic talent was quite well demonstrated last year, at the county exhibit where the aprons, gowns, and self-designed dresses attracted the eye of every guest observing the show. Many favorable comments were passed on the selection of material, combination of colors, and well finished seams used in the various garments.
As expert cooks they are not going to be outclassed. Just happen around some day at the regular cooking period and the tempting odor of dainty dishes and well-balanced meals they have prepared will be sufficient to tempt any one to want to linger longer and be a frequent visitor.
They, too, believe "the cook stove and not the hearth is the tie that has bound (and unbound) since Mother Eve prepared the first breakfast in the first suburban home in the outskirts of the Garden of Eden."
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And when the One Great Scorer comes To write it by your name ; He'll write not that you won or lost, But how you played the game.
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ARNOLD THOMAS
"Arn" played a good season and to him must be given the credit for the highest type of sportsmanship. The success in the Economy game at the Hagerstown Tourney must be attribut- ed to him. He has always taken vic- tory and defeat with the greatest of seriousness.
CHESTER MILLER
"Ches," one of our regular forwards is a fast offensive player. The fans have been very appreciative of his ef- forts and have rewarded him with a gold watch and chain.
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HARRY EVANS
Though only a Sophomore, plays like a veteran and is unsurpassed in drib- bling, passing and shooting. Harry is known for his sportsmanship, both in the "gym" and outside. Besides play- ing basketball we think he could quali- fy as a preacher.
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HORACE HATFIELD
"Hatty," our 1921-22 captain is a sen- ior and we will miss him next year. He plays center, is a good shot and an ex- cellent floor manager. Under the basket it takes two men to hold him.
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JOHN PEGG
John has served faithfully as all- around utility man, having played for- ward, center and guard. He is aggres- sive and a dangerous man to any op- ponent. He will be with F. C. H. S. an- other year and will likely prove a valu- able asset.
ROY MILLER
Here's to our backguard, one of the best in the section. Roy began the year as an inexperienced man and has be- come a very capable backguard. He is noted for his good fellowship and has one more year to serve his high school. Roy can well be remembered for his close guarding in the Spartanburg game.
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KENNETH KNIGHT
"Kennie" is also a product of the Sophomore class that came into the limelight this season. He is an accurate basket shot and always brings F. C. H. S. out with the fat end of the score. He especially starred in the Orange game at the sectional tournament.
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LEVERTON SMITH
Here's "Bobbie." He hasn't much to say but his record of working himself up from the second team to honorable mention in the tournament is due to his untiring efforts. He is death on long shots and has a world of endurance. He has one more year with us. Here's luck to you "Bobbie."
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BASKET BALL
Without doubt the past basketball season was one of the most successful in many years. There was nothing spectacular in the team's play. They re- lied upon their fighting, never give-up spirit, which was so noteworthy in the team's play, to place them in the win column rather than upon polished team work or phenomenal basket shooting.
INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
An invitational tournament was held at the K. of P. hall, Thanksgiving day, November 24, sponsored by the F. C. H. S. A. A.
Coach Patterson's lads were off color and were eliminated in the first game of the tourney by Centerville. Only five days before, November 19, Centerville had been forced to take the short end of a 36-20 score and the F. C. H. S. boys were overconfident. Cambridge City copped the honors by defeating Center- ville in the final game, 24-17.
Tournament Scores
Centerville
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16 Fountain City
Webster
14
13 Greensfork
Hagerstown
42
6
Boston
Cambridge City
52
12 Milton
Centerville
21
17 Webster
Cambridge City 23
17 Hagerstown
Cambridge City 24
17 Centerville
Referee : Wilson.
HAGERSTOWN TOURNAMENT
At the invitation of Principal Stahr of Hagerstown High, F. C. H. S. en- tered the invitational tourney held at that place January 21. The locals ac- quitted themselves very well, dropping the final game of the tourney to Hag- erstown, 21-15.
Tournament scores are as follows :
Fountain City 18
13 Huntsville
Economy
20
8 New Lisbon
Hagerstown 32
2 Modoc
Centerville 26
12 Cambridge City
Fountain City 24
12 Economy
Hagerstown 40
14 Centerville
Hagerstown 21
15 Fountain City
Referee : Chew and Goldsberry.
DISTRICT TOURNAMENT
Coach Patterson's cohorts were slightly off form in the district tourna- ment held at Richmond, March 3 and 4, but nevertheless entered the semi-
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finals, being eliminated by the fast Hagerstown crew. However the team went down fighting bravely. The maroon and white earned the right to enter the semi-finals by defeating Economy and Orange. Connersville copped the dis- trict honors by defeating Hagerstown in the final game.
Scores are as follows :
Hagerstown
26
10 Alquina
Whitewater
21
7
Boston
Webster
16
3
Milton
Richmond
28
12
Liberty
Brownsville 27
24
Fairview
Connersville
43
12 Centerville
Cambridge City
40
10 Bentonville
Orange . 15
22
1 Williamsburg
Webster
31
13 . Whitewater
Richmond
.29
11 Brownsville
Fountain City 25
15 Cambridge City
Connersville 36
16 Orange
Hagerstown
50
4 Webster
Connersville
28
14
Richmond
Hagerstown
.34
15
Fountain City
Connersville
36
10
Hagerstown
Season's Scores
F. C. H. S.
38
New Madison .28
there
F. C. H. S.
33
Boston 18
there
F. C. H. S.
42
New Madison 16
here
F. C. H. S.
36
Centerville 20 here
F. C. H. S.
.23
Eaton 25
there
F. C. H. S.
44
Boston 25
here
F. C. H. S.
23
Spartanburg 43
there
F. C. H. S.
38
Cambridge City 33
Richmond
F. C. H. S.
27
Cambridge City 31
here
F. C. H. S.
35
Brownsville 32
here
F. C. H. S.
31
Ansonia 36
there
F. C. H. S.
30
Webster 20
here
F. C. H. S.
.96
Spartanburg
8
here
F. C. H. S. .25
Centerville 33
there
F. C. H. S. 24
Eaton 21
here
F. C. H. S.
29
Ansonia .22
here
F. C. H. S.
29
Brownsville 28
there
F. C. H. S.
12
Cambridge City 55
there
Total
615
491
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Everton
Fountain City
19 Economy
Hagerstown .82
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BASKETBALL SECOND TEAM
Bobby Smith Carl Showalter Earl Dillon Forest Hatfield
Verlan Bockhofer Dow Rupe Kenneth Knight Claude Lacey
Myrle Wright
Second Team
F. H. S. had a capable representative in the second team as well as the first. Some excellent material was uncovered which may prove of much value next year. The second team served as an experiencing school for the coming high school team. Besides they made an enviable record, winning ten out of eleven games.
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ALUMNI
1894
Edgar Williams, 17 Hazelwood St., Boston 19, Mass., minister.
Anna White (Williams), 17 Hazelwood St., Boston 19, Mass., Minister's wife. Stella Woody (Gardner), Box No. 1355, Miami, Fla. Married David Gardner. Ida Thorne (Parker), Carthage, Ind. Married.
Emma Knight (Robinson), 426 Linden, Long Beach, Calif. Married Marion Robinson.
1895
J. C. Mills, 1449 Fargo Ave., Chicago, Ill.
George Nierman, 161 Denison St., Schenectady, N. Y. Banker.
Lettie Coppick (Knoll), Fountain City, Ind. Married August Knoll.
Aidee Mills (Smith), 56 Oakwood Ave., Bogota, N. J.
1896
Clara Dalby (Coggeshall), deceased.
Laura Kinert (Benton).
Claudia Clements (Catey), Williamsburg, Ind. Married.
Alice Clements (Pitts), Williamsburg, Ind. Married Ora Pitts.
1897
Rufus Coats, Pleasant Hill, Ohio.
Earl Chamness.
Fred Davis, 4181 Gifford Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
Clarence Nierman, 142 Oller St., Oshkosh, Wis. Barber.
Jennie Thornton (Reynolds), deceased.
Frank Gardner.
Clyde Keever, 66 Heidt Ave., Oakwood, Mich.
Grace Richerson (Hoover), Williamsburg, Ind. Married Henry Hoover.
Anna Bailey, deceased.
Mable Johnson (Avery).
Lafe Mercer, 3305 Harrett Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Traveling lawyer.
1898
Lula Clements, care of Ora Pitts, Williamsburg, Ind.
Earl Williams, 326 E. Willshire Ave., Fulleston, Calif. Works in a garage. Harry R. Keever.
George Fulghum, 1229 Home Ave., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Train despatcher.
1899
Otsie Jorden (Wright), R. R. C, Richmond, Ind. Married Harry Wright. Ethel Gifford (Bond), Russiaville, Ind. Married Rev. Leslie Bond.
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1900-1901
Howard Purviance, 1043 Stanley Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Works in a garage. Everett Recee, 1001 S. Gallatine St., Marion, Ind.
Lulu Chamness (Hunt).
Gustina Parker (Horn), 898 Regent St., Niles, Mich. Evangelist.
Florence Nixon (Vinton), W. Charles St., Muncie, Ind.
Emma Coggeshall (Martin), Williamsburg, Ind. Married Dr. Clare Martin.
Rena Thomas (Macy), Williamsburg, Ind. Married Ruben Macy.
Auretta Thomas, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. Teaches Spanish in Earl- ham College.
Corinne A. Potter, deceased.
India Woody (Taylor), 574 10th. Ave., Dayton, Ky. Married Fred Taylor.
Frank Pegg, Guilford Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
Walter Griffis.
Anna Bailey, deceased.
1902
Homer Fulghum, deceased.
Minnie Reynolds (Hodgin), Fountain City, Ind. Married Elmer Hodgin.
Alice Pegg (Arnett), Fountain City, Ind. Married Burley Arnett.
Hazel Phelps (Keever), Charelton Apt. 129, Washington, D. C. In government building. Ethel White (Fickle).
Mart Woody (Shipley), 420 Matherson St., Dayton, Ohio.
1903
Belle Johnson (Pierson), Fountain City, Ind. Married Charles Pierson. Vierl Griffis, 23 South 8th St., Richmond, Ind. Doctor.
1904
Ethel Thomas, Talbot St., Indianapolis, Ind.
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