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candy mints.
Suddenly there!
emerged from the kitchen a band of fifty Juniors, who, for the time, were converted into pleasing young waitresses. The dishes they brought were rarely chosen and heartily en- joyed. Music from the balcony by our own orchestra, and a few songs between courses added festivity to the occasion.
After the delicious strawberry ice. cream had been removed from ordi- nary vision, the toasts were given. The toast theme was "The Hunt," and carried out the idea of students as hunters. Normal School was the
hostess of all hunting parties, as she gives encouragement all along the way. The faculty was compared to the faithful pointers of the chase, and last. but not least,, the large game for which the hunters were seeking was commencement. After this, two gnests, who had viewed the chase from afar, were intro- duced. Mr. May, the architect, who designed the new dining room, said a few words to the Seniors, and then Dr. Weglein gave a short address.
went: "Oh, I did have a good time: I'm so glad I came. Wasn't it a huge success ?"
the helpfnl Juniors, the music de- partment which furnished delightful music, and the other willing workers our Senior banquet and prom could
R. J .- E. Q.
THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT.
The Glee Club concert which took place in M. S. N. S. auditorium on May 19th was pronounced by all to be a most successful affair. With a well-filled house to inspire them, the members of both the Glee Club and the orchestra displayed their talent at its best.
The program contained a delight- ful selection of songs, varying from - "green wood". in which the hunters exquisite melodies such as the Lon- lead their chase. Miss Frum, the honorary member of the class, was the guide for the hunters of nineteen- twenty-six. Miss Tall was donderry air, "Would God I were the Tender Apple Blossom." to the the old negro spirituals. including
"Ole Uncle Moon," "Mah Lin- dy Lou" by Strickland, and Dicht- mon't "Mah Little Banj." A selec- tion worthy of special mention is that weird, fantastic composition by Molloy, "Clang of the Wooden Shoon." The Girls' Glee Club ren- dered it extremely well, showing to advantage the results of the tireless efforts of its director. Miss Mc-
Eachern.
Then the hunt was over and the We verily imagined ourselves "way down South" when the Men's Glee Club rendered their two selec- tions. "Dat Whistlin' Lullaby" by Webb, and "Southern Twilight" by Churchill-Grindell. The applause awarded them for their efforts was sufficient proof of their success. dance was on. The girls flocked in- to the corridors to meet their es- corts. Some were forced to con- tinue "the hunt" and search for their partners. Finally, all were found, and as Bob Iula's orchestra i played its first strains the couples swung into step and soon the foyer and corridors were filled with danc- ing, merry folks-young and old. There would have been an inde- finable something lacking that even- ing without the aid of the M. S. N. S. Orchestra to lend atmosphere to the occasion. The concert was At last. after all the punch was gone, and some slippers were begin- ning to pinch, just before the clock in the tower struck 12 "Good Night Ladies" was played. Then "good night" was said and the merrymak- well ers departed exclaiming as they started off a rendition of
Strauss' "My
Hero"
from
'The
Chocolate Soldier." Two lovely
The entire affair was a huge suc- waltzes followed at intervals in the cess. and we wish to thank all those program with a grand climax at the who helped make it so. social committee worked hard.
Our own end in the form of Romberg's "The To Student Prince." It was a rare them we are indebted. but had it treat to observe here the conducting not been for the earnest efforts of of Miss Weyforth. the capable leader Miss Sperry, Miss Rudd, Miss Gunn, of the orchestra.
Taking everything together, the annual musical affair of the Mary- land State Normal School was in- deed a treat and we look forward to next year's presentation with inter- est.
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June, 1926
YOUNG CANDLE MAKERS.
MAKING CANDLES AT BROOK. LYN, MD.
In school this year we studied about how people lived in colonial times. We learned how they lighted their homes. Most of them used candles for light. We decided that we would like to make some candles the way they did.
Children in our class brought the materials we used. Gordon brought some honey-combs for beeswax. Some of the children brought the paraffin. A friend of ours gave us a bucket of tallow. We got some cord and cut it in pieces and made wicks. Somebody brought matches to make a fire. The children
¿ tìn cans and milk bottles to dip the candles in. We borrowed a colonial candle mold to mold candles.
Before we made the candles some, newly elected to membership in the of the boys built a
fire-place. We Honor Society. Chi Alpha Sigma of dug a hole a foot and a half wide. Maryland State Normal School, will Then we took bricks and piled them on the sides. After that we took big pieces of tin and put them on the outside.
At last the day came when we were to make our candles. We clipped some and molded some. When we dipped the candles we put the wicks in the wax and pulled them out. After repeating this many times they grew bigger. Be- fore we made the molded candles we had to fix the old candle mold. We had a hairpin and put a string on it. We stuck the hairpin in the hole of the mold and pulled it out the other end. Then we put two sticks on the bottom and the top and tled the strings on to them. The tallow was melted in a kettle and poured into the mold. It took a long time for the candles to harden. They were very smooth and pretty when we took them out.
After the candles were made wel
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had a fine pienic. The children roasted some hot dogs. The boys and girls that brought eggs seram- bled them. We brought sandwiches from home. Henry, a boy in our class, brought a nice cake and some other things. The girls made lemon- ade in a big coffee pot. We had such a good time having a picnic and also making our candles.
By
FRANCES PARKER, GEORGE MARTIN. FRANK KOSTEK, BERNARD ABBEY. EVELYN FRANCE. IAN CALDWELL.
NEW HONOR SOCIETY MEM. BERS.
Thirteen Seniors and ten Juniors
be initiated at the last meeting of the year to be held June fifth.
Miss Lida Lee Tall. a member. and I Miss Ruth Sperry, of the Senate, will entertain the fraternity at a lunch- eon at Miss Tall's home at the close of the meeting.
The new Senior members arc: Anne Shaefer. Grace Mortimer. Gertrude Dowell. Elsie Quarles. Parley Huff. Edith MeCourt, Rosa- lind Repp. Margaret Straughn, Mar- garet Babka. Muriel Bell, Elizabeth Armstrong, Nan Brimer, Everett Mc- Gowan.
The new Junior members are: Rayetta France, Margaret Rohrer, Harriet Prissman, Marjorie Kohler, Lena Reilly, Mildted Clishiam, Helen Scott, Ruth Carico, Lorena Alst, Mildred Herrman.
The Greek letters. X. A. E. stand friends are rare indeed. And yet for Character, Achievement Scholarship.
AND NOW-VACATIONS.
It is my conviction that a summer vacation should above all be long enough to allow one a perspective. It must be but a poor sort of vaca- tion, 1 imagine, to lay aside one's regular business after almost a year of confinement to it, and to realize. "Now I have ten days into which to crowd change, recreation and rest." This is the sort of vacation that wearies, that annoys rather than pleases. The school teacher, I he- lieve, is in this respect an enviable mortal. She works hard during her pine or ten months of business, and no one will deny that she needs and deserves the vacation she gets. But what a wonderful experience it is. when, in the latter part of June, she can look forward to at least two and a-half months of "nothing to do!" Why, a new world opens out to her during those months, and though she knows that the path to the school house waits at the end of the new world, yet it is far enough away to be indistinct and hazy, and to have about it the charm of dis- tance.
The school teacher should, how- ever, in her holiday time, have some plan, provided, of course, she can make the plan herself. I should propose something for her that might seem anything but a change from school life-namely. summer school. But remember, 1 say, first of all, she must go on her own initiative. not because she is required to do so by the regulations of some board, or even with the purpose of getting ready for some definite course of the coming year unless she wishes. This might be applying field glasses to that happily distant school house path. 1 think she would go, ideally, to enlarge her own ideas in a gen- eral way. to get a taste of study and thought that is out of her reach in her own limited school sphere, to take a step farther toward some goal that just appears on the horizon as the "possible some day." She will have the opportunity to be again a stu- dent. to see new persons and sur- roundings. to view briefly her college days.
And then, after the life, the new scenes and people, the work of the summer school by all means, School Mistress, go to the scashore. Do not seek, however, the fashionable re- sort, with hotels and thousands of strange people, intent on style. Rather go to some isolated spot that is as "wild and wooly" as civiliza- tion will permit. And, if possible, go camping with your best friends. I pause here, and wonder whether I am advising the impossible. Per- haps camping days with one's best
and they have occurred to me. Can 1 ever forget our glee at planning the
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June, 1926
enterprise, our thrill at being pio- NORMAL, SCHOOL COMMENCE- LET'S FIX THE OLD HOUSE
neers. For pioneers we all thought ourselves, about to plant a colony in a wilderness. Can I not still see us as we departed with bag and bag- gage, tents, cots. kitchen utensils, food, buckets, crab nets-some con- cealed and some plainly observable to the curious? Can I ever forget our joy at the sight of that beauti- ful river, or our glee as our tents rose on the brow of the hill that overlooked it? Even that first night when none of us slept a wink and the mosquitoes almost destroyed us, was fun. For in the morning we felt the joy of primitive life, the lust of fighting for our existence against the hostile forces of nature, and a de- termination to conquer. And con- quer we did, with quarts of citron- ella, coal oil and yards and yards of Club. mosquito netting carefully arranged according to a dozen different in- genious schemes the next day. Be- sides, what mattered any amount of hardship when we immortalized it in such verse as the following ?: Chaperons and chillens, come ye campers, come, come,
Come to Mosquito Camp an' make yourselves at home, at home,
Jes' bring your armour plate and hang it at te doer,
An' hear sech mosquito buzzin' as ye never heard before ..
I could go on forever and narrate the incidents and details that made that camping life such a joyous ex- perience to me, and caused it to enter from that time on into my ideal of a vacation. Could it happen again to me or anyone, I wonder. Yes, to be sure, if the vacation is a rare one indeed, that is, if it is ideal.
Emerging from the tangle of the camps, the school teacher finds be- fore her the school path, now broad- ened and distinct in the near future. But it seems new again, and inter- esting because it has not been trod for a while. and because the teacher's steps have had the guidance of the summer school, and have felt the buoyancy of the forest glade.
(The above article was written by a member of the faculty in her young and foolish days, before she was a teacher. As she does not now al- ways follow her own advice, she will not allow her name to be ap- pended ).
REST A WHILE.
Mrs. E. J. Jones (Mary Shafer Jones), whose sister was a former graduate of our M. S. N. S. will fur- nish excellent rooms and board in her comfortable home, Rest A While, for people who want an ideal rest. Address Mary Shafer Jones, P. O. Box 121, Middletown, Md.
MENT ACTIVITIES.
Thursday, June 10, to Saturday, June 12-Visiting High School Teams (our guests in Newell Hall. Friday, June 11-9:00 A. M., State Volley Ball Meet { Homewood Athletic Field). 8:00 P. M .- Vis- iting teams entertained by Senior Class.
Saturday, June 12-Alumni Day: 3:30 to 4:30 P. M .- Reception at Sarah E. Richmond Hall.
4:30 to 5:00 P. M .- Class Re-
unions. 5:00 to 6:00 P. M .- Business meeting. 6:30 to 8:00 P. M .- Dinner. music by school orchestra and Glee
S:00 to 9:00 P. M .- Reception to Senior Class.
9:00 to 12:00 P. M .- Dancing.
Sunday, June 13-4:00 P. M., Baccalaureate Service. Sermon by Rev. Peter Ainslie, D. D., Christian Temple, Baltimore.
Monday, June 14 -- Class Day and Night-
5:30 to 7:30 P. M .- Supper on the Campus.
8:00 P. M .- Class Night Fun.
Tuesday, June 15-10:30 A. M., The Procession of guests, faculty and students will form.
11:A. M .- Commencement on the Campus. Speaker-Governor Ritchie.
AN ALUMNA LETTER.
Dear Miss Cook :-
I am enclosing a program of the Apple Blossom Festival in Winches- ter. The first day was the Chil- dren's day and our schools were in- vited to participate in the parade. We worked out the project of the apple tree itself, having the tree in bleom, then with bees. birds, butter- fiies and rabbits, then the tree bear- ing fruit and following this came the apple pickers, cooks, hakers, spray- ers and everything concerned with the apple industry. Anyway, we won two first prizes of $50 each, so we consider all our work worth while.
The second day is on this program, and I could never begin to tell you just how wonderful the pageant in the afternoon was. I was wishing you were there every minute, for you would have enjoyed it so much. We certainly are indebted to our Superintendent for giving us two days to visit another State and see the type of work done in those schools, and of course, this part of the work interests me more than any other.
With best of wishes, Bertha Catlett.
OVER.
Let's fix the old house over,
It needs it here and there- Perhaps some shingles on the roof, Some varnish on the stair;
A doorway changed, a wall removed, And, my, how matters are improved! For years the wife has wanted it; Lets fix the old house up a bit.
Let's fix the old house over, It needs it more or less: Perhaps a parlor or a hall Would mean more happiness.
We're rather crowded now and then; Perhaps we ought to build again, And yet, no doubt, the old will do With just another room or two.
Let's fix the old house over; It's here we live our lives, So let's make room for happiness When happiness arrives.
No doubt a porch across the front Would be a rather easy stunt,
A table here, and there a nook- And how much better . it would look.
Let's fix the old house over. We buy new hats and gloves :
Why shouldn't someone spend a bit On something that he loves?
It's served us well for many a year, And day by day it grows more dear.
A place to meet, to sleep, to sup- Say, folks, let's fix the old house up!
MUSIC BOX OF SENIOR XI.
Evelyn Minnick-The Spring Had Come; Jack Stone -- I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight; Mary Morsell- O What A Pal Was Mary; Gertrude Eskridge-That Red Headed Gal; Franklin Gilds -- Thanks For :The Buggy Ride; Merle Francis-Show Me The Way To Go Home; Audrey Harris-What'll I Do; Rachel Mon- dell- -Inky, Dinky Parley Vous; Clara Jewell-Look At Those Eyes, Alma Parsons-Sweetheart of Sigma ('hi; Gertrude Dowell-Sidewalks of New York; Hilda Singman- Only A Rose; Joseph Prout -- Why Did I
Kiss That Girl ?; Emma Stabler- Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue ?; Naomi Butts-When Irish Eyes Are Smiling ; Elizabeth Auten-Some- time; Ellen Price-Sleepy Time Gal; Beulah Martin -- Remember; Ethlyn Laird-Then I'll Be Happy; Ruth Vickers-Always; Edith Moore-Just Around The Corner; Jerry Cahill- Paddlin' Madelyn Home.
Jerry Cahill,
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY
BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY- LAND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, TOWSON, MD.
Business Manager: LEE MARTIN
Advertising Manager: EVELYN MINNICH.
Cirenlation Manager: PARLEY HUFF
Student Editors: HELEN FEASTER HENRY B. WASKOW · Towson, Maryland.
MARGARET HAINES
Managing Editor:
ALICE L. MUNN
PRICE: One Dollar For Ten Copies.
JUNE. 1926.
THE GENEROSITY OF THE BUSY MAN IN INDUSTRY.
Teaching is not confined to the school room, nor is a teacher depend- ent on her fund of stored-up infor- mafion. A world of rich, authen- tis; first-hand information can be secured for the asking from men engaged in all kinds of industry. We have had this magnificently demon- strated this year in the Industrial Arts course. Industrial concerns have permitted visits, given inter- views to students seeking particular information. contributed exhibits. and written personal letters sharing their knowledge with those who wish to know.
clear. Each trip took about two hours. Was
this not a great gift to the students? Again, we wanted to know how steel is produced. The manager of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Sparrows Point provided a specialist as guide, for five all-day excursions, thus giving us information and an understanding of the industry that could not have been secured by any amount of reading.
The Baltimore Sun is untiring in hospitality, and year in and year out Mr. Warner guides the groups study- ing RECORDS through the plant. with pep and breeze and fun.
Moore & Co. Book Bindery heìd back production for a period of ten days or more in order to have all Types of work going on while the students were visiting them. They also contributed exhibit material to the Industrial Arts Department.
as possible.
VERA GREENLAW, Industrial Arts Dept.
CHIARLES M. SCHWAB
If you have personality cherish it;
"Brains are needed to carry out
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary Washington, May 12, 1926.
Miss Gertrude Hilgenberg, Maryland State Normal School.
My dear Miss Hilgenberg:
I have before me your letter of the 10th. It always gives me pleas- ure to hear from the boys and girls who are earnestly seeking educa- tion, thus preparing themselves to become useful and worth-while and incidentally paving the way for their future happiness and fortunes. I know you will be interested in knowing something of our Home and School at Mooseheart, Illinois, where there are some 1400 boys and girls being educated and trained, acad- emically and vocationally. These are all children whose fathers have died and left them without means for the necessary education to pre- pare them for an equal chance in life. This school is supported en- tirely through the contributions of the 600.000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose. I am sending you a little. booklet concerning this school under separate cover.
You might also be interested in reading the "Iron Puddler," my au- tobiography, copy of which I am having my secretary send you. I sincerely hope that you will achieve much success in life and at- tain high honors in your scholastic activities.
Sincerely yours, JAMES J. DAVIS.
Sayings of A. Carnegie, E. Gary; C. Schwab, A. Bell, C. Du Pont, J. metz.
ANDREW CARNEGIE -- Say to yourself, "My place is at the top! Be king in your own thoughts."
Judge ELBERT H. GARY, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation : Efficiency is based on a philosophy which considers first the claims, needs and deserts of the other fellow.
"The men of the greatest deeds are the men of the greatest faith, and the men of the greatest faith are the men who are fair."
ALEXANDER G. BELL, Inventor of the Telephone:
Enthusiasm encourages a man lo have permanent value, and allowing concentrate all his energies on his them to be used by as large a group |object. And the more he can con-
centrate the more his . enthusiasm grows-and it is a combination that is hard to beat."
Mr. Bell's idea for every young man: Let him decide what profession or calling he wishes to follow; let him take up specially a certain line of that calling and let him train his mind to concentrate with intense thought on what he is doing.
In the visit to the Baltimore , if you have not, cultivate it."
Brick Yards, Mr. Griffiss, the man- ager, came ont, explained the process the plans of those who furnish the in order that the class might get a capital."
thorough understanding of it.
Dickey Mills at Oella, made our trip to their plant most interesting and valuable.
We needed advice on making our kiln, and the sales manager of The Pen-Mar Brick Co. made several trips to the Normal to help us out, bring- ing at one time an expert fire-brick layer with him to give us a practical lesson on the laying of fire-brick.
Many firms have films which they will lend to schools. Ginn & Co. has a very good picture on the mak- ing of books which they loaned us. Macmillan has one on illustrators and theri illustrations. Scott's Paper Co. has a reel on the making of paper.
We wished to find out how dishes Pamphlets, pictures and advertis- are made. The Bennett Pottery Co., ing exhibits are generously supplied of Baltimore, generously allowed six to theatres by industrial concerns. large groups of students to visit their establishment, giving us a guide who made every process
Grossett & Dunlop, publishers, have a loan exhibit called "From a Poplar Log to a Popular Book" illustrating modern paper making and book making.
One is constantly amazed at the personal attention a letter. asking for information, receives. The two letters published with this article ; of life illustrate the great care with which they are answered.
Because industrial firms are so willing to give us information that will go towards a better understand- ling of the world in which we live. we, as teachers. owe it to them to use discretion in our requests, car- ing for letters and exhibits that
June, 1926
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THE BENNETT POTTERY WORKS.
'Forty-five years he
has been here," our guide told us. We looked at him in awe. He was a tall, spare man, a little stooped, but his eyes had a kindly, humorous twinkle in them. We wonder that he can laugh after forty-five years of that.
He made large mixing bowls, the kind in which mother mixes up the dough for pies and cakes. Did we
Yes. want to see him make one? sir! We crowded close. A boy brought him a lump of clay. With
a single blow of the heavy mallet he smashed it flat as a pancake. He
put it in the form, stepped on a lever to start the motor, and the whole thing swiftly revolved while he molded it with his hands. He reached above his head and pulled down the "jigger." The scraps of clay flew in every direction as it
trimmed off the rough places and edges. He stopped the motor. Only two minutes and it was finished. Forty-five years of that-you look at him as he starts another bowl, and move on.
Over in the corner was an old man putting handles on cups, the kind of cup we use at Normal. We didn't ask him how long he had been here, but he was a very old man. By his side a boy of twelve was do- ing the same thing. He should have been in school. Well, he will put on a good many handles before his forty-fifth year rolls around.
They don't use the coil method here. Only wild Indians, primitive people, and Normal School students use that method. In the corner of the next room two men and a boy were working. Here is where you see real system and organization. The boy is called "batter out and mold runner." As one man finishes the plate he has molded. the boy carries it and another to the shelf to dry, grabs a plaster mold in each hand and brings it to the other man to be covered with clay, smashes a lump of clay with the mallet in pass- ing, and takes away two more plates to the shelf. Back and forth he travels, day in and day out. Spec- ialization is the secret of large mass productlon. Here men are turned into machines to make cups, plates and saucers from which we, at school, eat. I'd much rather eat from them than make them.
The guide took us down to the ground floor to see the kilns. Up
interior was red hot. 2250 degrees Fahrenheit, the foreman told us. Near us a kiln was being filled with pottery. The cases were piled up rank upon rank, three times higher than our heads. A man passed in- side with a heavy case balanced on his head. Another man passed it up to the man on the ladder.
After pottery has been fired and glazed several times dishes are ready for the design. We were taken to the top floor to see this process. Two girls and a boy were seated on .low stools with piles of saucers and soup- plates all around them. Each one
had a chisel with which he pounded the pottery. It seemed that they were looking for flaws by trying to break the unsound ones. We after- ward found out that they were only knocking the chips off, the dents made in the clay by the "crowfeet" which separate the plates when they are put in the kiln.
In the next room girls were put- ting on designs from Kalkomanias. In painting lines on dishes they did not move the brush, but set the dish on a movable disc, put the brush at the right place and revolved the disc. For painting the whole plate a uni- form color such as blue or yellow, a spraying outfit was used.
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