Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1916 — Chaos Filled With Best School Spirit [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chaos Filled With Best School Spirit

, The above are samples of the wit that sparkles harmlessly through the hundred pages of Chaos. Each member of the graduating and junior classes is given some attention, quotations being applied to illustrate some characteristic that is readily applied by all who know the subject. The history of the class of 1916 was well written by Evelyn Freeland. The history of the junior class was cleverly prepared by Majoria Vanatta. Thelma Martindale wrote the history of the Sophomore class. The pictures of the officers of all the high school classes were printed and.also the mottos, colors and class flowers of the*, under classes. Also the class rolls of the different high chool classes, which will be valuable in later years to see who dropped out in the pursuit of an education. Doris Crooks, who graduated from high school in 1914 and who showed considerable talent as a catroonist and had a number of specimens of his work in the Chaos of that year, contributed several excellent pieces of work for the Chaos this year. He is taking cartoon work in an art school in Chicago and is making splendid progress. Robert Loy also has one or two very clever cartoons in the book. Kodak photography was developed extensively in the school this year and many interesting reproductions abound in the pages of Chaos. Students were caught in all manner of poses and the pictures are placed in panels and arranged to occupy full pages. A half dozen pages are devoted to the football team, the lightest in weight in the history of the school, but a scrappy bunch that got away mighty well except in the Hammond game when they lost 46 to 9. Captain Carl Eigelsbach and Coach Floyd Meyers each discussed the (football team and show that while it was not as successful as some preceding team, it made a good record considering its lack of beef and inexperience. A bad cut made it impossible to publish the full basketball team of which Paul Healy was the captain. Paul wrote about the team, as also did L. Emery Wass, the coach, who is also the manual training teacher. Ross Lakin was the track team captain and French Crooks is the captain-elect for next year. The pictures of the track team, both in groups and in the track events, are rather the (best in the book. The Webster and Linco.n Literary Societies came in for a page, consisting of group pictures and the names published beneath. A clever play on names of high school here reproduced in full and is only a sample of the many excellent things that make the 1916 Chaos one of the best ever published from the Rensselaer high .school.' Under the subject: “What’s Jn a Name?” the unsigned author wrote: The night was dark. All day the town had been drenched in one of those miserably cold Rains. At night there was a heavy ,Snow. The wind blew over the Hills, up over the Marsh, and every Pool and Littlefield was frozen over. People piled their woodboxes high with fuel, and brought in still More Wood. On such a night a bunch of Crooks planned to rob the bank at Lee. The night (Before they had committed the same wicked deed at Reynolds. Many Holmes had been robbed by them; they had stolen a jewel_ without Price. “Come, fellows,” said their leader. “Each of youwill s have to work like a Beaver if you ‘want to make a getaway.” , ■■■ - “Here, you, gimme that lantern, so I can let a Beam fall upon (that safe. More light! Sh! Pst!

First Row—L. WAIVE MALLORY, Mathematics; J. A. SWINDLER, Science; HARRIET E. SHEDD, German. Second Row —RICHARD A. RICE, Commercial; L. EMORY WASS, Manual Training. Third Row—GRACE E. STQVER, Music; C. R. DEAN, Superintendent; GRACE M. NORRIS, Latin. Fourth Row—SELMA E. LEOPOLD, English; I. IRA COE, Agriculture. Fifth Row—ANNA M. HARMON, History; W. F. KRATLI, Principal: MABEL C. ATWOOD, Domestic Science.

Rensselaer High School Building,-erected in 1912.