Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1930 — Page 5

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GAGERS' NEW COACH GREETED AT SHORTAGE Kenneth Peterson Is Introduced at Charity Game Pep Meeting. The Shortridge student body held a pep session in Caleb Mills hall Wednesday morning to promote the Shortridge and Cathedral football games and the incoming basketball reason. Features of the program included the introduction of the new basketball coach, Kenneth Peterman, who pok v iefly to the students; introdut. .1 of all the senior football men. and tryouts for yell leader. Jimmy McClure, Gordon Hall Lawrence Moore, Charles Griffin and Jack Appel tried out for yell leaders’ posts. Moore and Appel were chosen. George Buck, principal of Shortridge, spoke to the student body concerning the student support of the Shortrige-Cathedral football game Thankskiving. Members of the football and basketball teams presented a skit representing the passing of the football season and the beginning of the basketball season. The pep session was concluded with several yells by the students for the team and school, and the Jnging of the school pep song. The girls’ division of the Shortridge high, school athletic department is conducting a posture contest among members of the girls’ gym classes. Mrs. Kate Steichman and Miss Ruth Armfleld, instructors in the girls’ athletic department, have examined the spines of a number of contestants in the first hurdle of the contest, and have passed the following: Marv Marsh. Ruth Abraham. Dorothy Alexander. Kathryn Barrett. Adia Meyer, r.aura Mae Moore. Louise Rtch, Virginia Wheeler, Pauline Ameter, Frances Barker. Esther Beblnger, Jean Flndling. Mary Anne Hendrix, Bernice Armstrong, Oonlvetta Boyer. Wanda Carter. Doris Clay. Elsie Counan, Rosemary Blckson. Ruth Klor, Lillian Lorunger, Winifred Parris, Jeanne Skinner, Deborah Ward. Jeannette Whistler. Elaine Born. Frances Cox. Juanita Boyd. Clara Hadley. Mary Hoppert. Florence Keaton. Rosemarie Meyer, Marie Pennington. Marie Fennsinger. Florence Robbins. Harriet Rosenzwleg. Martha Sullivan. Marguerite White. Maryetta Wood, Madeline Coats. Mary Edwards, and Josephine La Rue. Teams and captains have been chosen by the girls’ advanced basketball group of Shortridge. The teams and their captains are as follows: , , Team I—Captain Lois LeSaulnier, Betty Long. Ruby Hill. Vera. Dixon, June Wayland, Margaret Setty and Myrtle Miller. Team ll—Captain Jeanne Spiegel, Margaret Stanley, Dorothy Curtis, Jean Southard, Eda Jane Glossbrenner, Dorothy Dunbar and Mary Louise Merril. Team lll—Captain Charlotte Sputh, Virginia Smith, Margaret Hancock, Caroline Becker, Helen Johnson and Doris Koch. Team TV—Captain Olive Steinle, Mardena Hess. Margaret Buck, Marcella Mark, Betty Lutz ana Doris Van Horn. Team V—Captain Agnes Hinkle, Marlorle Stettler, Betty Macey, Dorothy Stanley, Mary Sargeant and Mildred Nail. Team Vl—Captain Mary Clapp. Mary Ellen Voyles, Sue Voelcker, Bobbie Bowsher, Dorothy Strong, June Byfield and Mary Bon. The Shortridge Fiction club heard Mis Mary B. Orvis, professor of English in the Indiana university extension courses and literary critic, give a discussion of short stories at the weekly meeting of the organization. An invitational course in Shortridge, whi has been doing some interesting work, is the statistics class taught by Mrs. Mary Dye Beach of the English department, and Enoch Burton of the mathematics department. The class is divided into several groups, each working on a special project pertaining to statistics. One group is computing the freshmen ratings for Emmett V. Rice, viceprincipal. Another group is comparing the progress of Shortridge graduates with the progress made by graduates of other high schools in college.

ANNUAL ATHLETIC BANQUET IS PLANNED Tru* Blue Club of Shortridge to Be He t to Teams. The annual athletic banquet of True Blue Club of Shortridge for the football, tennis and track teams will be held Dec. 5, officers of the club have announced. Simon P. Roache, faculty manager of athletics in Shortridge. will act as toastmaster at the event. Kathryn Frost has charge of the decorations at the banquet, assisted by Betty Kalleen. Mary Robb has charge of the donations committee. and Jeanne Helt and Marian Ballinger are chairmen of the reception committee. Betty Messick, assisted by Mary Vance Trent, have charge of seting the banquet table, and Miss Kallen has charge of the serving.

SHORTRIDGE Hl-Y CLUB GAINS MEMBERS Organization Now Numbers More Than Twenty-Five Youths. Shortridge Hi-Y Club, sponsored by William N. Otto, head of the Shortridge English department, recently increased its membership with addition of James Henry Prescott, Robert Strain. Harold Miller, Glen Reynolds, George Kirkwood and Boyd Coppock. At present the Shortridge senior Hi-Y numbers more than twentyfive and the Junior Club thirteen members. Officers of the senior HiY group are: Homer Cornell, president; John Ludlum. vic*-rresldent: Julien Kennedy, treasurer: John Van Horn, secretary, and Don Roberts. chaplain. Robert More. Bovd Copoocfc and Edward Walt form the membership committee. 'NSIGNIA CONTEST HELD Broad Ripple Riparian Staff Gives Grid Ticket for Best Idea. The Broad Ripple Riparian staff rponsored a contest recently, offering a Washington-Broad Ripple iootball games ticket to tha student who submitted the meet original idea to be used in the makeup of an insignia. "Ripple Rockets," submitted by Mary Elizabeth Sawyer, was adjudged the best.

Puppet Show at School

Pupils and puppets at Schotd 38.

The “three puppet-eers” of School 38 and the puppets who played the leading roles in “The Courtship of Miles Standish’’ at the school’s Parent-Teacher Association meeting recently, are pictured above. The grinning pupils, who seem to get a lot of fun out of the performance, ’re, left to right, Maurice Daniels, with the puppet, John Alden; Maxine Massie, with Priscilla, and Ralph Shearer, who manipulated Miles Standish. *The pupils are members of the 7A class, which presented the playlet under the direction of Miss Gertrude Insley, their teacher. Mrs. Hildah Kern is principal of School 33.

MUSEUM WILL PRESENT SNUI Puppets, Pioneer Relics to Be Exhibited Saturday, The children’s museum will entertain school children during Thanksgiving vacation by having the Elizabeth Ray puppets at the museum at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. Miss Ray has presented these puppets in Indianapolis and other cities during the autumn, and the museum is presenting them free to the children. A large colonial kitchen, a replica of those used in pilgrim days, has been arranged in the newly installed pioneer gallery on the third floor, and attention especially is called to this exhibit at this season. The setting has been built under the direction of Arthur B. Carr, curator. One case shows development in lighting devices and includes a replica of Edison’s first incandescent lamp, recently given by the Indianapolis Electric League.

SHORTRIDGE DRAMA LEAGUE GIVES SKIT •The Sisterly Scheme’ Is Presented at Weekly Meeting. Members of the Shortridge Drama League presented the comedy skit, “The Sisterly Scheme,” at its weekly meeting Thursday. The playlet was directed by Nan Elizabeth Reasoner. Helen Whitfield, Don Arnold, Martha Belle Bright, Dick Hoover, Jean Whitlock and Marjorie Newman comprised the cast. Hilda Cunningham, Dorothy Torrence, Frances Shaw and Harriet Rosenzweig contributed several poems and readings "to the program. A play, “The Forfeit,” by T. B. Rogers, is to be given by the league before the Shortridge student body in the near future with Anna DeCroes, Esther Steup, Don Arnold, Carrol Reynolds and Dick Hoover in the supporting cast. HEAR HISTORY TALKS Members of Shortridge Club Give Lectures at Meeting. The Shortridge History Club, sponsored by Paul Sheehausen, member of the Shortridge history department, convened Tuesday afternoon hearing a, program of lectures by club members. Frances Shaw, program chairman, talked on “State Constitutions;” Bernice Hanson spoke of “The Indiana Constitution of 1816,” and Frances Stalker discussed “The Constitution of 1850.” A committee composed of Mignon Wagner, Ann Brown and Edward Humston was appointed by the president, Corliss Maxam, to make plans for a Christmas party. ORATORS TO COMPETE All High School Pupils Outside City Eligible for Contest. All pupils in high schools in Marion county outside Indianapolis are eligible to compete in an oratorical contest to be sponsored by the various principals, and Fred T. Gladden, county superintendent of schools. • Three "judges will be selected by the contest committee to name first, second and third place winners. Contestants may speak on any subject not longer than twelve minutes. Final contest will be held April 3 with elimination contests preceding if a sufficient number enter. GIRLS DEBATE JUDGES Affirmative Team . Argument on Abolishing of Juries. Members of the girls’ debating league of Shortridge were judges of a debate on the question. “Resolved, That the Jury System Be Abolished.” Wednesday, Nov. 19. The affirmative team of Jeanne Helt and Mary Robb won the contest, 4 to 1. The negative was supported by Evelyn Pruitt and Mary Jane Sheerin. Exhibit Held by Weaving Class Articles made by the Tech weaving class recently were exhibited in the main building. Miss Emily McCullough is the teacher of the class. The exhibit included purses, dresser scarfs and pincushions. Work Used for Exhibit Examples of student creative work will comprise the exhibit which Tech will send to the national council of English teachers which meets at Cleveland during Thanksgiving vacation.

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BY JOSEPHINE HALBING The junior class is sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving basket project. The halls are decorated with cornstalks and pumpkins and well-filled baskets to be distributed to those in need. Tie Chicago Tribune saxophone sextet gave a program of musical selections before the student body Nov. 18. Five students have entered the state discussion contest concerning chain stores. They are: Stanley Lawton, Elizabeth Dewar, Virginia Miller, Muriel Melvin and Louise Kaffman. The R. O. T. C. department Is rehearsing its annual minstrel show. The Minute Men Club held its annual banquet Nov. 21 for the football squad. Many friends of the school were “present and the following boys: Frank Luzar. Harry Lewis. Worth Pullen, Richard Carlstead. Kenneth Baldwin. Harry Sanders. Eugene Lewis. Robert Hedge, James Eastwood. Glenn Warren. Frank Bloemer. Norman Long. Emil TJnser. Ishmael Lawlis, CliSord Baumback. Paul Dunbar, Harry Oliver. Herbert Land, Robert McTarsney, Edward Haus, Robert Wade. Norman Parnell. Garland Burris. Robert Jacobs. Basil Georgeff. Edward Findell. Richard Tingle. James Richwine, Virgil Dove. Robert Rodenberg. Allen Bland. Harry Minkner. Harvey Craig. Herman Schmink. Billy Fidger. Robert McDonell. Harry Greeley. Raymond Wells, Louis Luzar. La Verne Burns, Frank Cassell. David Mears. George Totten. Edwin Howard, Paul Jones. Marion Turner, Dick Van Zant. J. Nightlinger. Rehearsals have started on the musical Christmas play, “The French Doll” to be presented Dec. 18. Miss Etta Scherf is director.

Manual

BY CLEMENT CRAIG The second hour senior speech I class gave a Thanksgiving program iin the Manual auditorium today. I Paul Dausch was master of ceremonies and Thelma Roth read a | Thanksgiving proclamation. Other ! members gave short talks and poems on reasons why Manual | students should be thankful. Members of the class ars: >' lie Truitt. Albert Sham. Albert Passo, Mike Nahmias. Vivian Allen. Marie Cucu, Jena Noller. Willis Overton. Kenneth Seitz, Landis Godwin. Fred Brandt. Kenneth Hibner. Lavon Haynes. Thelma Both, Paul Dausch and Esther Thurston. First Lieutenant William Uhl is the high score man on the riffle range, with James Skaggs ranking second. Robert Maschmeyer is proving a consistant leader of the boys new to the practice. Several members of the band have shown an interest in rifle practice and are reporting daily. They are Carrol Matthews, -Francis Van Brunt, Fred Wenzel, and Richard Burkhardt. On Dec. 5, the Friday after the Thanksgiving recess, there will be an auditorium program given by the commercial department. SCHOOL PARTY IS HELD Commercial Ripplets Initiate New Members at Entertainment. A Thanksgiving party was given by the Broad Ripple high school Commercial Ripplets, recently. Josephine Walker, president, had charge of the party. Members who composed the committees are as follows: Refreshments committee, Alma Finkman, chairman; Virginia Crist and Betty Lindcp, and entertainment committee, Janet Chapman, chairman; Mildred Peters and Ruth Hallstein. New members were initiated at the party. CLASS TO RAISE FUND Broad Ripple Seniors to Present Play in January, June. It has been the custom of the Broad Ripple high school senior class to give a play at the end of the school year, but the senior class of '3l is going to break this tradition by giving a play in January and another in June in order to douole the funds of the class. Tryouts will be held Dec. 3. Berets Worn by Cheering Club Two hundred berets which were worn by the special “T” cheering squad at several of Tech’s football games this fall were made by Miss Frances Busfhman's millinery I class, with ts assistance of the Girls’ Glee Club.

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T DIVISION OF TECH SENIORS TOGIVE PLAT ‘Gypsy’ Trail Committees Are Appointed by Director. BY FRANCIS S. NIPP Committees for the play, “The Gypsy Trail,” to be given by the “T” division of the Tech senior class, recently were appointed by Miss Clara M. Ryan, director. Properties committee is Ralph Ross, chairman; Robert Wilson, Harry Root, Portia Pittenger and Jean St. Pierre. Mary Lou McKittrick is chairman of the costumes committee. Other members are Charles MacLaren, Bruce Richards, Harriet Myers, and Verna Schwier. The financial committee consists of the treasurers of the senior class, Rudard Jones, Edgar Baum, Harry Garman, La Mar Smith, Owen Vicars and Norman Newburg. The stage staff for the play is as follows; Miss Clara M. Ryan, director; Chelsea Stewart, stage; Herbert D. Traub, electrician. Faculty members assisting in the production are: Miss Ruth Dunwoodv. costumes: Miss Dorothy Harder, properties: D. C. Parks and his advertising class, advertising: H. H. Anderson, financial: Henry Hebert, music: John F. Simpson, make-up; Judges in selection ot cast. Miss Gertrude Thuemler. Miss Mabel Goddard. Miss Lyle Harter. Miss Margaret Axtell. Bjorn Winger, Chelsea Stewart. Miss Alta Welch and Miss Clara M. Ryan. Class sponsors are: Miss Margaret Axteil. Miss Lyle Harter. Miss Alta Welch. Mr. and Mrs. Milo H. Stuart were entertained with a luncheon in the Tech Home Economics dining room, Nov. 20, by four or the eight teachers of the original Tech faculty: Miss Esther Fay Shover of the English department, Miss Elizabeth M. Jasper of the Art department, Miss Emily M. McCullough of the Home Economics department and H. H. Anderson, head of the Mathematics department. “The Arsenal Tower,” a pencil sketch drawn by Frederick Polley, Tech art instructor, was presented to Stuart. A corsage of roses and lilies of the valley, was presented to Mrs. Stuart. The luncheon was prepared and served by the Home Economics II class. Stuart, newly appointed assistant superintendent of schools, was host at a lunch-on for Dewitt S. Morgan, who succeeds him in the principalship at Tech, and the three viceprincipals, Robert Craig, Edward E. Greene and Miss Geraldine Hadley, Nov. 21, in the home economics dining room at Tech. The luncheon was prepared and i served by the home economics II class.

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COUNTY PARLEY OF TEACHERS TO BE ONJEC. 6 Program Is Arranged for Second Professional Meeting. Program for the second Marion county teachers professional meeting Dec. 6, at the John Strange school on East Sixty-second street, was announced today by Fred T. Gladden, county superintendent of schools, who will preside. Sectional chairman comprising the program committee are: Ray Addington. Southport high school prir.clpial: J. B. Hessong. John Strange school principal: J. N. Jay, principal West Newton school; Gretta Peyton, Ben Davis schools. Agnes Norris. Washington township music supervisor: Paul Hamilton, Warren township music supervisor: Jeannette Hampton. Perry township music supervisor: C. E. Bash. Warren Central high school principal, and Mr. Gladden. Other county-wide teacher professional meetings will be held Jan. 24 at Warren Central high school, and March 21 at Southport high school. Complete program for the Dec. 6 meeting: MORNING SESSION 9:oo—Music. Washington and Decatur township schools. 9:2o—Devotional, the Rev. Joseph G. Moore. SCapitol Avenue M. E. church. 9:3o—Address. “Law Enforcement.” Judson L. Stark. 9:4s —Traveloge. “Land of the Midnight Sun.” county superintendent, Floyd D. McMurray of Lebanon. 10:20— Sectional Meetings: Primary section. Mrs. Iva Griggs. Valley Mills schools, chairman: second and third-grade teachers. Miss Sylvii Robbins. Edgewood schools, chairman: fourth and fifth-grade teachers. Mrs. Gretta Peyton. Ben Davis schools, chairman: sixth, seventh an deighth-grade teachers. Miss Merle Sutherland. Acton schools, chairman; grade building principals. J. B. Hessong. principal John Strange school, chairman: high school principals and coaches. Ray Addington, principal Southport high school, chairman: music and art teachers. Mrs. Agnes Norris, Washington township schools, chairman: English and latin teachers. Mrs. Helen Mercer. Ben Davis high school, chairman: mathematics. science and manual training teachers, Homer Higgins. Lawrence schools, chairman: history and social science teachers. H. M Gale. Warren Central high school, chairman: domestic science teachers. Mrs. Vivienne Carter. Warren Central high school, chairman; bus driver section. gymnasium. 12:00—Luncheon and social hour. AFTERNOON SESSION I:lo—Music. Lawrence township high school band. I:3s—Talk, Mrs. Mary Meyers. I:4s—Address. “The Time of Day,” Dr. W. E. J. Gratz. editor, Epworth Herald. Guest of Spanish Club Sencrita Margarita Cecilia Sampson de Mercado of Costa Rica, who now is a student at the John Herron art institute, was a guest at the meeting of the Tech Spanish Club ! last Thursday. Senorita de Mercado ! told about customs, dress and hosj pitality of Central American coun- ! tries.

Girls Lose in Election

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SIGMA CHI WILL HOLDMEETING Gordon Thompson Is Butler Delegate to Session. Gordon Thompson has been selected as official delegate from the Butler university chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity to the tri-province ocnference scheduled at the Columbia Club Dec. 12 and 13. Three hundred active members of the fraternity from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin universities are expected to attend. Speakers will include: William Henry McLean, Bloomington Xi chapter, De Pauw; Attorney-Gen-eral James M. Ogden, Xi chapter, and Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, Alpha Gamma chapter, Ohio Wesleyan. ENTERTAIN MYTH CLUB Play Given by Shortridge Pupils at Weekly Meeting. The Shortridge Mythology Club was entertained at its weekly meeting by Helen Starost, pianist, and Marilyn Miller, violinist, who played a classical program. The program also included a play, “Psyche and Cupid,” presented by club members. The cast included Virginia Wheeler, Bill Boyle, Beatrice Jenkins, Mary Spangler, Arthur Sachs ahd Jean Van Riper.

The senior class at Washington high school recently went anti-suffrage. In an election of officers for the January class, there was not a girl elected, which, according to school officials, is an unusual happening. Pictured above, left to right, are: Worth Pullen, secretary; Emil Unser, president; Casper Cox, sergeant-at-arms; Harry Sanders, vice-president, and Donald Baldwin, treasurer. Unser, Pullen and Sanders are not only popular in the class room, but on the gridiron as 'veil, having been regulars on the recently crowned public schools championship football team at Washington. BAKE-SHOP CLASS TAKING YULE ORDERS Fruit Cakes Will Be Made Before Thanksgiving to Ripen. Orders for Christmas fruit cakes are being taken by the Tech bake shop class under supervision of Mrs. Thelma Morgan. Sixteen girls in this class will make the cakes before Thanksgiving in order that they may ripen in time for Christmas, They will be WTapped In gilt Christmas paper and will be made in half-pound, one pound and twopound loaves. A display of the ingredients of the cakes is arranged in a case in the Tech lunchroom. P.-T. Groups Meets Today Parent-Teacher Association of school'No. 22 was to meet this afternoon at 2 with department classes presenting a Thanksgiving program. The newly organized mothers’ chorus will sing.

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MILO H, STUART IS HONORED BY TECHFAGULTY Retiring Principal Is Guest at Dinner Attended by 400 Persons. Milo H. Stuart, retiring principal of Technical high school, and Mrs. Stuart were honored Tuesday night at dinner by members of the faculty. Stuart was presented with a life membership in the National Education Association and a handiooled leather book with all names of the Technical faculty Inscribed on its sheepskin pa;es. Stuart is leaving the post of principal to become assistant superintendent of city schools. Four hundred persons attended the party, which ended in the school auditorium with a “circus” in which the faculty members were the performers. Presentation of the gifts was made by E. B. Hargrave, science department instructor, who expressed regret of the faculty at losing its principal. Mre. Stuart was presented with a large basket of flowers. Guests of honor besides the Stuarts included Mr. and Mrs. De Witt S. Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Weir. Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of public schools, and Mrs. Stetson were to have attended the dinner, but were called to Kalamazoo, Mich., by the death of Mr. Stetson’s mother. Frederick W. Polley was chairman on arrangements for the party. ELECT CLASS OFFICERS Shortridge Juniors Choose William Spickelmirr, as President. Chortridge Junior class officers elected Monday include: William Spickelmire, president; Jeanne Helt. vice-president; Agnes Hinkle, secretary, and Donald Helt, treasurer. The class chose Homer Cornell chairman for the "Junior Variations,” class entertainment. Betty Davenport, Charles Feibelman, Warren Shearer and Charles Trees were elected to the student council.

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