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The Rooseveltian
1929
Published by
The Class in Journalism
Roosevelt Junior High School
Altoona, Pa.
[2] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
Foreword
Five shining mirrors stand side by side - five mirrors reflecting in their
radiant faces joys and sorrows, fun and laughter, work and play. Before them
have come five different groups of thoughtful, jolly children. Forth from them
have gone five groups of thoughtful, jolly young men and young women.
For five years boys and girls have entered the gates of Roosevelt. For five
years young men and young women have gone forth from those gates.
May they all enter again, and again stand before the Mirror of Roosevelt in
this our First Year Book.
[3] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL PLEDGE
I pledge allegiance to the Roosevelt Junior High School and to the ideals
and principles for which it stands - our school, the best school we can make it
every day.
THE ROOSEVELT MOTTO
When you play, play hard; when you work, play not at all.
[4] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
Dedication
With the arrival of spring, the whole country welcomes the coming of the
birds.
We, the students of Roosevelt Junior High School, have been unusually
fortunate. In our school for five years, the whole of its existence, it has
been spring and we trust that it ever will be.
A "Burd" has been leading and guiding us, helping, encouraging, and urging
us ever onward toward our goal - Success.
We most gratefully dedicate this - our first School Annual, the Rooseveltian
- to our principal - our friend, helper, and advisor, Mr. Burd.
[5] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
W. H. Burd
[6] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
They Made Junior High Possible
Superintendent of Schools
ROBERT E. LARAMY
3501 Wendover Way, Mansion Park
Phones - 3384; Office, 8101
BOARD OF EDUCATION
6214 James S. Fleck, 813 Seventh Ave.
9046 H. King MacFarlane, 2425 W. Chestnut Ave.
2-7418 Lynn M. Moses, 1516 Tenth St.
2-2686 J. Foster Meck, 2417 Second Ave.
2-6237 William F. Sellers, 1703 Third Ave.
7528 Dr. Guy S. Tippery, 1016 Twenty-third Ave.
3080 Samuel C. Bowen,1011 Seventh Ave.
5423 William F. Eberle, 314 Second Ave.
6816 Joseph C. McKerihan, 1719 Second Ave.
[7] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
Contents
FOREWORD
DEDICATION
BOARD OF EDUCATION
STAFF
FACULTY
NINTH GRADE
STUDENT COUNCIL
CORRIDOR PATROLS
EIGHTH GRADE
MUSIC
DRAMATICS
DEPARTMENTS
CLUBS
ATHLETICS
JOKES
[8] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
Our Superintendent's Page
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALTOONA
On June 1, 1922, when the present superintendent came to Altoona a number of
houses were on the streets under way to other lots from their former location
where the Roosevelt Building now stands. In September, 1924, when this school
was opened Altoona began the plan of a 6-3-3 school system. Students of grade
seven to eight are happier when not under the associations of the three upper
classes. All know that a much more complete and interesting program can be
arranged where many groups work together in a large building.
However, our Junior High plan has become incomplete because the ninth and
eighth grades leave no room for the seventh. So on the west side of the town
the new David S. Keith building - named after a former long time superintendent
- is going up, and in September, 1930, will enroll 1500 pupils from grades
seven, eight and nine. Many of these would otherwise have gone to Roosevelt
School.
Juniata presents a problem. There grades seven, eight and nine meet in one
building but have no auditorium, no gymnasium, no shops, and no rooms for home
economics, art or music. Likely, the next Junior High School will be built
there. Then there will still be many students of these grades in outlying
section of the city who will be unable to find a place in any of the three
buildings mentioned. A fourth and even a fifth school may be necessary before
all those coming from the grade buildings within the new city limits can be
accommodated.
When that day comes Roosevelt Junior High will not need to look far to find
ready rivals in band, orchestra, dramatics, debates, and athletics. It is
pleasant to realize that the students and faculty of Roosevelt Junior High in
these five years have proven to the citizens of Altoona that all boys and girls
should have similar opportunity.
R. E. LARAMY
[9] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE STAFF
General Manager: Harold Lauver
Managing Editor: Kenneth Heaps
Assistant Editor: Alma Gluntz
Editor-in-Chief: Helena Samuels
Business Manager: Samuel Sealfon
Assistant Business Manager: Mary Elizabeth Schlayer
Department Editors
Associate Editors: Gladys Bathgate, Anne Grimshaw
Editorial Writers: Rose Grovan, Betty Hall
Literary Editor: Paul Stewart
Sport Editor: John Lozo
Poet's Corner: Dorothy Williams
Joke Editor: Robert Epple
Treasurer: Raymond Boatman
Copy Editor: Jennie Patronik
Assistants: Josephine Keith, Sarah Louise LeVan
Art Editor: Robert Shoenfelt
Reporters
Louise Lee, William Davis, Donald Shock, Rosamond States, Aaron Gendel, Malcolm
Neuwahl, Betty Hofmann, Walter Blake, Louise Felton, Jane Findley
Faculty Advisers
Ruby Krouse, Ruth Kantner, Edna Bottorf - Art
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FACULTY
[11] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
FACULTY
PRINCIPAL: W. H. BURD
President: Reiman Shaffer
Vice President: Rollin Van Horn
Secretary: Ruth Smith
Treasurer: Margaret Crissman
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Mary Downs, Annie Crumbaker, Louse Hoover, Marguerite Bathgate, Bertha Grazier,
Ruth Kantner,
Carolyn Cox, Mae Harter, Ruby Krouse, Margaret Crissman, Mary Healy, Ruth Lucas
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Ella B. Edgar, Mary Horning, Grace Masterson, Bess Gephart, Ruth Irwin , Sara
Riddell, Daisy Gruver Carrie Ketler, Ruth Smith, Clara Hazard, Belle Landis
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
H. E. Harbaugh, Mattie Miller, Vera Sullivan, W. W. Lauver, Dorothy Morrow, E.
W. Jaggard, Mai Marsh Grace Mosser, Bertha Obermyer
SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Rollin Van Horne, Nellie Grimminger, Ethel White, Minnie Carver, Olive Harlin,
Reiman Shaffer, Sadie Cohn, Emma Kantner, Blanche Clark, Frances Dern, Mildred
Shirk, Jane Phillips, Jean Everhart
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Berger C. Baker, Alma Eberle
ART DEPARTMENT
Edna Bottorf, Lily Lutman
LATIN
Laura Walters, Beatrice Morrison
DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Edna Davis, Louise Schomberg, Dorothy Irwin, Mary Walters, Myrtle Gould
SPECIAL
Zoe McGough, Margaret Moore
ATHLETICS
Elizabeth Bowles, Leroy Lewis, Frances Hicks, Benjamin Weinstein
VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
C. G Hauser, H. H. Plummer, Robert L. Luse, R. W. Shoenfelt
DRAMATICS
Lora Wallace
NURSE
Blanche Bender
[12] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
ONE expects to find Cupid any place but in a school room and aiming any one
but a school marm. When popular young ladies decide to enter the teaching
profession young cupid goes right along. He has taken thirteen of our teachers
during the last five years. When they know how to play the game he Mrs. them.
Thirteen is not a lucky number and Cupid knows it. So do some other teachers
who are faithfully playing the game with him. I hope he Mrs. them, don't you?
LUCKY THIRTEEN
Miss Mayme Laird: Mrs. E. K. Barnard
Miss Bernadette McNelis: Mrs. Cletus Wyrock
Miss Helen Hoover: Mrs. George Grassmyer
Miss Gwendolyn Wilt: Mrs. Mitchell McCartney
Miss Helen Evans: Mrs. Charles Hack
Miss Dorothy Fluke: Mrs. Lester Mong
Miss Mildred Cole: Mrs. R. W. Shafhirt
Miss Clara Kirkpatrick: Mrs. Charles Elder
Miss Gertrude Hileman: Mrs. Harry Postem
Miss Edith Kerns: Mrs. Joseph Larsons
Miss Helen Beech: Mrs. Chester Simonton
Miss Jessie Mallory: Mrs. John Skelly
Miss Charlotte Kintzer: Mrs. Lehman Kirk
And they lived happily ever after.
Twenty-five other teachers have left Roosevelt during the past five years.
They have gone to other schools in our city or have taken position in other
cities. A few of them have retired from the profession and are traveling. They
are:
Miss Faith McKerihan, Miss Jessie Kipp, Miss Emma Davis, Miss Sara Somerville,
Miss Anna Krick, Miss Eleanor Shomberg, Miss Marjorie Downes, Miss Harriet
DeHuff, Miss Esther Eberle, Miss Elizabeth Eyre,
Miss Susan Yuhas, Mr. Herbert Sheetz, Miss Rena Lauver, Mr. Paul Brandt, Miss
Sarah Miller, Mr. M. G. Nevin Dively, Miss Miriam Salter, Mr. Carl Lundegren,
Miss Norma Swayne, Mr. John Tice, Miss Ruth Brumbaugh, Mr. Robert Wolfe, Mr.
Harold Morgart, Mr. Howard Lindaman, Mr. Harold Frantz
[13] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
NINTH GRADE
NINTH GRADE CHALLENGES EIGHTH GRADE
THEODORE ROOSEVELT once said, "Of course, what we have a right to expect of
every American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. Now, the
chances are great that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a
boy. He must not be a coward, or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He
must work hard. He must be clean minded and clean lived." Of course this applies
to girls as well as boys.
These are the ideals upon which Roosevelt Junior High School is founded. Our
school motto is Roosevelt's motto: "When you play, play hard; when you work,
play not at all." Education is provided for every boy and girl not only for the
sake of their own development and prosperity, but primarily that they may become
good citizens, capable and desirous of rendering helpful service to others in
both private and public life.
The inauguration of student participation in government in our school is one
of our outstanding achievements.
Sometimes we have made mistakes but we have learned from these mistakes. As
a whole the leaders we have chosen to lead us have held these standards and
ideals high.
This mantle symbolizes all that Roosevelt Junior High School stands for. We
ask you, as members of the eighth grade, that as we hand it over to your keeping
you shall not betray your trust. As you take our places, remember that if you
are to continue to be proud of your school, your school must also be proud of
you.
LILLIAN ELLSTROM
[14] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
JACK SPEAKS
THE year that I have just spent in this school has been one which I shall
never forget. It has been a pleasure to be president of a body of students that
cooperate in everything. This school's reputation is not made by stone, but by
its pupils. Many schools have the same name as ours. The reason for this is that
the life of Roosevelt emphasized the characteristics of the all around American
citizen. His life should make us feel proud that our school is named in his
honor. Our school is a democracy. We make our own laws and regulations and we
have student officers and teachers to help us keep them. If we have been
studious and attentive in our classes, fair in our dealings with others we have
been desired citizens of our school community. After we are grown up and have
taken over civic duties we should be good citizens if we obeyed our rules in our
own school. Years ago, law breakers were numerous but now we have only a few. We
shall not have a prosperous, peaceful city unless we make it so. The future
citizens of Altoona are in our schools. If we fail to become good citizens we
will bring disgrace upon the school of which we are so proud. Roosevelt once
said, "No one is a good American unless he is a good citizen, and every boy
ought to train himself so that as a man he will be able to do his full duty to
his community."
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[Council Officers]
[16] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
[Student Council]
[17] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The Student Council of the Roosevelt Junior High School composed of one
representative from each of the fifty-seven Home Room Clubs meet with the
Faculty Adviser every Tuesday morning at 8:40 in the Social Room to discuss ways
and means to co-operate with the faculty in any form of social service that will
advance true Rooseveltian ideals and principles in our school.
The Council suggests to the Home Room clubs methods by which individual
members as well as the whole group can render service in the school community,
and receives from the Home Room clubs recommendations for Council deliberation
and action. All Council action is subject to the veto of the principal of the
school. The Council hears and advises Corridor Patrols as to their duties, makes
announcements to Home Room clubs, and carries on a variety of activities some of
which are: Good Traffic Week, Clean-Up Campaigns, No Tardiness Drives, Ticket-
Selling Campaigns, Christmas Seal Sales, Red Cross Membership Drives, Charity
work, etc. Two other important branches of the Council participation in
government plan are the Corridor Patrols and, the Ushers'. League.
MINNIE E. CARVER, Faculty Advisor
JACK JACKSON, President
ORGANIZATION
Student Council Second Semester February, 1929
Home Room Club Presidents
Dorothy Burd 9-28, Francis Joy 9-24, Dorothy Thompson 9-32, Lois Huebres 9-19,
Mary Helen Miller 9-30, Elizabeth Moyall 9-15, Betty Ammerman 9-27, Beatrice
Lamboui 9-20, John Myers 9-31, Anna Rollason 9-14, Gertrude Williams 9-16, Elden
Aumen 9-10, William Hamilton 9-3, John Boyer, Fred Datres 9-2, Sarah Jane Aaron
8-13, Mike O. Delesck 9-9, Lila Webber 9-29, Paul Fomkes 9-12, Grace Chevalier
8-20, Wesley Clemens 9-4, John Strayer 8-21, Evylene Cogley 9-18, Philip Geary
8-4, Bernard Bookhammer 9-6, Kenneth Yeager 8-24, Jack Jackson 9-8, Charles
Rupert 8-5, Aleck Joseph 8-15, Irene Bugle 8-22, John Glacken 8-3, Leroy
Aughenbaugh 8-23, John Baker 8-16, Lillian Vallone 8-6, Robert Smith 8-12, Ruth
Replogle 8-18, James Dodson 8-17, Antonio Rizzio 8, Tony Fusco 8-8, Grace
Robison 7, Edwin Green 8-14, Ralph Anske 8-1, Clyde Barnes 8-9, Grace Wilbomer
8-19, Robert McNaughton 9-26, Harry Noll 8-2, Earl Abrahimes 8-11, Edgar Weedel
9-1, Jane Byer 9-17, Raymond Rauchel 9-7, Howard Calderwood 9-13, Clarence
Bingham 9-5, Irvina Rittenhouse 9-23, Hurford Hale 9-11, Louise Nelson 9-20,
Effie Kelly 9-25
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[Corridor Patrols]
[19] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE CORRIDOR PATROLS
A selected group of fifty boys and girls recommended by their teachers for
satisfactory standing in scholarship, conduct, attendance, and punctuality, give
their services to the school by assisting the teachers in maintaining order in
the halls in the morning before school, between classes, at lunch periods, and
at dismissal. These patrols depend for their effectiveness upon the loyal
support of the entire student body. They are on duty from 8:10 a. m. to 2:50 p.
m. and are subject to call for extra service at any time. They also serve as
ushers at school entertainments. Once a month the patrols submit their report
cards to the faculty adviser for inspection. Any patrol found slowing up in his
school work is warned at once to improve his grades. If grades continue
unsatisfactory the patrol is asked to resign. This happens rarely.
In March a group of eighth grade boys and girls recommended by their
teachers are appointed for a probation term of service under the direction of
the faculty adviser and the ninth grade patrols. If the new patrols prove
satisfactory they are placed in permanent service for the next school year.
The corridor patrol is a very popular branch of the Student Council service
and carries credit for the Roosevelt "R's."
ORGANIZATION
Edgar Weidel (Captain), Jean Seads, Jack. Coho, Robert Marshing, James Bowman,
William Harrison,
Ralph Robb, William Yeats, Samuel Michael, Carl Gruber, Bernard Bookhamer,
Melvin White, Dale Kline, Roy Goss, Kenneth Winters, Charles Morrow, Harry
Jones, Henry Hoffman, Robert Stahl, Harry Burke, Gladys Bathgate, Harold Lauver,
William Housely, Daniel Wilson, Donald Walker, Thomas Parkes, Alvin Dysinger,
Alvin Hicks, Joseph Lefler, John Allison, Fred Leidy, Gladys Cummings, Frank
Radkonski, Lynn Hildebrand, James Burgoon, Andrew Muir, Elizabeth Schlagel, John
Kekalos, Walter Lockard, Mary McKinney, Howard Calderwood, Herman Seidel,
Hurford Hale, Charles Sterling, John Miller, James Morris, Morgan Shute, William
Keckler, Paul Van Diew, Don Lightner, Harry Neugabauer, Herbert Smeigh, Charles
Nicodemus, John Davis, Gertrude Resig, Charles Mannion, James Contakos
[20] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
WE
We ain't so dumb when yuh jist consider,
That next year we'll be ninth grade, too;
We ain't so bright and shinin now,
An' we look awkward, I know we do.
We're just taggin' along behind,
Preparin' for when we take the lead,
I'll let you in on a little secret,
I'll tell you we got pep and speed.
We may be awkward, we may be dumb,
We may be a little firefly now;
But next year in ninth grade we'll be
An incandescent light, and how!
DOROTHY WILLIAMS
[21] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
EIGHTH GRADE
EIGHTH GRADE ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE
We, as eighth grade pupils, realize that you have challenged us to accept a
sacred trust. We have watched you as the year passed by. As you set an example
for us to follow, we in turn must be the leaders of the class that follows. As
yet they are not members of this school. We do not know them; they do not know
us. Neither do they know the ideals and standards of this school. If we fail-but
we will not fail. We promise never to bring disgrace upon our school; we will
obey and reverence authority, we will pass on this mantle next year as stainless
as we receive it from you.
Therefore, in accepting this mantle and all it symbolizes, I call upon the
members of the eighth grade to rise and pledge themselves to this great task.
ROBERT EPPLE
[22] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
IN MEMORY
THE class of 9-18 greatly regrets the loss of a good and faithful school
chum, Mary Calabrese. Mary went to her earthly home after school on Tuesday,
April 15, 1929. That same evening she was called to her heavenly home. She had
already prepared her work for the next day. Mary had attended school in Altoona
for five years without missing a day. Sorry as we are to have her go we are glad
that we can remember her as spending her last day with us in her own cheery,
happy way. How fine it is to have our friends remember our smile.
[23] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
MUSIC
Listen to the rippling music as it pours from silver throats,
Listen to the humming waters as we paddle in our boats,
Listen to the angel mother as she sings her babe to sleep,
Listen, brother, can't you hear it when the evening shadows creep?
Soon a hundred other voices will be blended all in song,
Soon the church-bell will be ringing out it's sweet "ding-dong, ding-dong,"
Listen, brother, can't you hear it, does it not stir your inmost soul?
Does it not give you hope and courage, and help you onward to your goal?
That is music, brother, music; Friend, I see tears in your eyes,
But I know it is the music, for wherever music lies,
There is joy and there is sorrow-sorrow that may ruin your life;
But the joy wipes out the sorrow and there is an end of strife.
That is music, brother, music, let your heart join in the song,
Then your whole soul will be happy and will sing the whole day long.
Join the other happy voices which are beckoning to you,
Sing a praise to God in Heaven, who has made your soul so true.
LOTTIE BAVARSKY
[24]
[Orchestra 1], [Orchestra 2]
[25] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE ROOSEVELT BAND
WHAT seasoning is to food, music is to a school. One can hardly realize how
dull and lifeless a school would be without music. One of the greatest factors
of music in Junior High School is the band which is composed of about thirty-
five members. The band, when in parade, makes a fine appearance with its
uniforms of blue and white. It peps up the players at various games and helps
the enthusiastic crowd to put all they have into the school songs and cheers.
SPECIAL ORCHESTRA AND ORCHESTRA
INSTRUMENTAL music, as we know it is of comparatively modern date - about
200 years old. We can not imagine Roosevelt Junior High School without
instrumental music. How would we get in and out of assembly without our
orchestra?
The orchestra plays every Monday and Thursday for assembly. The special
orchestra is true to its name and plays only for special occasions or special
meetings. It consists of members with special ability.
Much of the enjoyment that has been furnished us by our orchestra is due to
Mr. Baker's faithful directing.
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[Boys' Glee Club]
[27] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE BOYS' GLEE CLUB
THE aim of the Boys' Glee Club is to develop part singing and tone quality
in boys' voices. The club appeared in assembly and helped in the Christmas
chorus From the club has developed a double quartette. This quartette is
composed of the following boys:
Dixon Crum: First Tenor
Robert Moyer: First Tenor
Gerald Appleby: Second Tenor
Andrew Muir: Second Tenor
Elwood Rudisill: First Bass
William Keckler: First Bass
Don Wolf: Second Bass
Hurford Hale: Second Bass
(The following was composed by a Ninth Grade Girl.)
JUNIATA
Nita consented
His own fair bride to be,
Soft fell her answer
By the murmuring sea.
'Neath a jasmine bower
On a summer's balmy eve,
Airy castles building
Fairy dreams they weave.
Nita Jua-ni-ta!
Never more the lovers part,
Nita Jua-ni-ta I have won thy heart.
ERMA NYCUM - 9-30
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[Girls' Chorus]
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GIRLS' CHORUS
Margaret Weimer, Marcella Trostle, Mildred Savine, Blanche Colbert, Emily
Miller, Irene Mateer, Pauline Buckets, Bertha Boldt, Kathryn Cooper, Kathrine
Gallagher, Sara Croft, Virginia McQuade, Martha Friedly, Thelma Sutter, Pauline
Goss, Dorothy Meader, Ruth Ella Hauser, Dorothy Evans, Anna Basiani, Mary
Marelli, Mary Morrone, Genevieve Peterson, Lois Isenberg, Edith Priestly,
Margaret Hogg, Gladys Gibson, Elizabeth Rigg, Betty Hull, Elda Prough, Louise
Lee, Beatrice Halter, Harriet Lynch, Mildred Moore, Violet Mnsch, Minnie Vasile,
Edith Santella, May Castrochine, Jean Scads, Mary Keith, Dorothy Snyder, Keturah
Cubertson, Maxine Wagner, Francis Fornwalt, Margaret Anderson, Louise Gottshall,
Erma Detwiler, Ruth Hauser, Anna Hengstler, Harriet Hiner, Sylvia Kline, Mary
Hoffman, Bessie Lingenfelter, Helen Saracena, Dorothy Jones, Thelma Temple, Lucy
Cumming, Viola Gladfelter, Emma Kolleger, Madeline Harvey, Rose Lasser, Dorothy
Henshaw, Anna Verbonitz, Lois Biddle, Isabelle Maitland, Mary Fiore, Geraldine
Adams, Doris Bollinger, Mary McKinney, Margaret Carbaugh, Ethel Fickes, Pauline
Clapper, Verna Fessler, Gladys Brubaker, Matilda Stein, Ruth Bretz, Mary
Pfeffer, Maxine Collins, Rose Dey, Margaret Little, Doris Beattie, Madeline
McClain, Renetta Heiss, Doris Meek, Carol McClure, Carrie Noland, Helen Prough,
Marie Tobias, Marie Tilson, Margaret Treese, Ethel Howell
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[Boys' Glee Club]
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BOYS' GLEE CLUB
Douglas Allison, William Lichtenstein, Gerald Appleby, Charles Llewellyn,
Franklin Beard, Donald Lightner, Richard Breen, Robert Moyer, Jack Brown, Andrew
Muir, Owen Brubaker, Samuel Nessel, James Bryant, Robert Glasgow, Eddie Caum,
Charles Lockard, William Crawford, Douglas Mellot, Dixon Crum, Ralph Robb, Jack
Dagenhardt, Elwood Rudacille, Americo DeVincens, William Riley, Jack Douglas,
Robert Replogle, Roger Gilmore, Donald Ickes, Wilford Helsel, Charles
Schandelmier, David Henderson, Robert Stahl, Arthur Hite, Edward Steward, Glenn
Hoss, Wilfred Shingler, Hurford Hale, Paul Vandrew, Richard Green, Elwood
Wagner, George Kalb, Robert Walters, Harry Johnston, Paul Waltz, Carl Kline,
Clarence Wolfe, Donald Wolf
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MISS BENDER
When you go down to Miss Bender,
And you're feeling mighty blue,
She looks so well and happy,
That you feel better too.
And when she knows just why you're there,
She brings out castor oil and pills,
Aromatic Spirits of Ammonia too,
It's good for all your ills.
She's always ready to sympathize,
Always willing to aid,
And when you're feeling fine, you say,
"A better nurse was never made."
DOROTHY WILLIAMS
[33] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
DRAMATICS
"When God conceived the world, that was poetry; He formed it, and
that was sculpture; He colored it, and that was painting He peopled it
with living beings and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama."
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN
ROOSEVELT Junior High School, realizing that drama is life itself, soon
found a place for the expression of this natural activity. At the very beginning
of its history, in September, 1924, several dramatic clubs were organized, which
met for one period each week. The first piece of work done by the clubs was a
Columbus Day pageant presented in Assembly, in which more than a hundred
students took part. Even though the time for work on the production was very
sort, it showed the school the possibilities of Roosevelt boys and girls. The
fact that the public asked for a repetition of the pageant meant encouragement
to the new activity in the new school. From time to time various demonstrations
in the form of plays, readings, stories, pantomines, health, art, and holiday
programs were presented before the student body. Two outstanding events of the
year were dramatizations of Dicken's "Christmas Carol" and "The Man Without a
Country."
The fall of 1925 meant the undertaking of bigger and finer things. Many
times from patrons and teachers the Spirit of Roosevelt Dramatics heard the
comment: "It can't be done by junior High School boys and girls." But always the
Spirit of Dramatics said, "We'll try." And it was done. Why? Because boys and
girls love dramatics. They love it so much they play at it; they find a real and
profound pleasure in it. Even those who thought the new undertakings impossible
changed their minds. That year the Dramatic clubs were asked to present a
special feature for the Annual Demonstration of School Activities. "Six Who Pass
While the Lentils Boil," by Stuart Walker, was produced. The sequels to this
play, "Sir David Wears a Crown" and "The King's Great Aunt Sits on the Floor"
were later presented in Assembly. Another outstanding event of the year was the
dramatization of "Why the Chimes Rang."
To go on with the work, Dramatics needed encouragement, recognition, which
is a great thing. Encouragement, we all long for. At the beginning of the third
year Dramatics was given a department for regular class work. Needless to say
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how much encouragement that tribute meant to the work. Twice a week during
periods otherwise assigned for study, pupils who wished to do so were permitted
to take special work. About one hundred fifty students availed themselves of
this opportunity. There they began a study of pantomime, public speaking, and
storytelling; appreciation of drama, stage business, settings, makeup, lighting
and costuming; also original sketches, plays, and pageants. "Hiawatha" and "The
Birds' Christmas Carol" were dramatized. The Dramatic Department took an active
part in "Yanki San," a Japanese operetta, which was presented for our annual
demonstration of activities. It was now the custom to present each year
Christmas and Easter Cantatas. Here the Dramatic Department assisted the Music
Department. At the close of the school year a city enterprise was the production
of a spectacular health pageant, "The Masque of Beauty Through the Ages,"
presented by more than four hundred students of the Junior and Senior High
Schools. Dramatic students played important parts.
More than three hundred students were enrolled in the Dramatic Department
during the fourth year of Roosevelt's history. Outstanding productions were "The
Christmas Spirit" by Franz and Lillian Rickaby, "The Dear Departed," and "Three
Pills in a Bottle" which was presented as a part of junior High's annual
demonstration. Special farm programs planned by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture were broadcast over radio station WFBG by Dramatic students, as well
as plays and special Assembly programs. Original pageants for Arbor and
Pennsylvania Days were written and presented by students of the department.
Dramatic students presented the original art pageant "The Melting Pot." A most
impressive Christmas pageant, "The Birth of Christ" was presented as one of
Junior High's holiday programs.
Outstanding features for the fifth year of junior High's history were, "The
Toy Shop" by Percival Wilde, a more elaborate presentation of "The Birth of
Christ," "A Costume Show of Now and Then," "Health Tableaux," "The Boy Who
Discovered Easter," and the school's annual production, a light opera, "The Love
Pirates of Hawaii." The Dramatic Department has now grown to more than five
hundred students.
Many times during its history has the Department presented plays and
assisted in programs for other schools, clubs and outside organizations. Its
students have given valuable assistance in arranging and taking care of stage
settings given in the Roosevelt auditorium. To Roosevelt's students, teachers,
and friends, many an enjoyable program has been given; and many a beautiful and
uplifting thought has been left, that may enrich someone's life. '
For three years it has been the custom to hold a big Department party at the
close of the season, each one getting bigger and finer - a delightful ending for
a year of hard work.
As a climax for the fifth year the Department is planning a big Dramatic.
contest in which every student in the Department competes. The contest is to be
in the form of character impersonations taken from books, arranged by students.
and presented in costume. Prizes will be given for the best work by girls of the
Department and also for the best work by boys of the Department.
Love for the work tells the whole history of the Roosevelt Dramatic
Department. Love built the department; love put on the plays; love guided its
characters; love inspired its students. Love for the work will always give to
the Department its challenge:
Give unto the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you."
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[Love Pirates Cast, leads]
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[Love Pirates Cast]
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LOVE PIRATES OF HAWAII
CAST
Dorothy Dear - Daughter of Plantation Manager: Viola Gladfelter
Miss Primer - Teacher of Private School of Girls: Isabelle Maitland
Daughters of Rich Plantation Owners:
Lehua: Mary McKinney
Karnlani: Doris Beattie
Lilinoe: Geraldine Adams
Maile: Dorothy Jones
Billy Wood - Lieutenant, U. S. Cruiser, Tennessee: Richard Antes
Pirate Chief - Heartless pirate, maybe: Bernard Bookhammer
Scary - a pirate: Andy Muir
CHORUS OF HAWAIIAN GIRLS
Margaret Weimer Martha Shaw Betty Rhoades Helen Parsons, Emilie Miller, Dolores
Mattas, Edith Priestly, Rose Lasser, Marjorie Sipes, Alwilda Keller, Edith
Santella, Re Hilda Ryan, Thelma McGregor, Jane Brubaker, Margery Stephenson,
Mathilda Stein, Mildred Beahm, Irma Rittenhouse, Erma Detwiler, Philene Gates,
Minnie Vasile, Dorothy Meader, Anna Hengstler, Dorothy Dalton, Louise Gottshall,
Dorothy Evans, Sylvia Klein, Alicebelle Musser, Mary Hoffman, Mary Morelli,
Betty Ammerman, Helen Prough, Helen Saracena, Effie Kelly, Eva McKendree, Ethel
Howell, Kathryn Shay, Margery Reynolds, Sarah Louise Levan, Gertrude Fields,
Ruth Steel, Genevieve Peterson, Hazel Bohn, Lovina Grace Lois Burket, Dolly
Snowberger, Rose Groban, Betty Straney, Marjorie Womer, Jane Hauser, Quilla
Stout, Maxine Wagner, Lois Biddle, Dorothy Crawford, Muriel Walter, Margaret
Anderson, Mary Fiore
CHORUS OF PIRATES
Hurford Hale, Dennis Shively, Gerald Appleby, Elden Auman, William Keckler, Lynn
Hildebrand, Paul Vandrew, Charles Morrow, Charles Llewellyn, Lamar Berry, Leo
Samson, Donald Wolf, Donald Lightner, Edward Rudisill Albert Colello, Raymond
Boatman, William Harrison, George Martin, Lester March, Don Shock, Robert Stahl,
Arthur Hite, James Contakos, Jack Bair, Ray Goss, Ralph Robb, Bernard Breslin,
Peter Coivelli, Harry Estep, Jack Degenhart, John Davis, Lee Ziegler, Oliver
Kensinger, Harry Johnston, MacClay Murray, Jack Bender, Charles Nicodemus, Bert
Myers, Howard Calderwood, Gerald Hesser, Clarence Bingham, John Miller, Richard
McCamant, Clarence Watson, William Burns, Douglas Mellott, Ralph Nothnagle,
George O'Brien, Gerald Forsythe, Elwood Wagner, Harry Langham, Robert Lee,
DANCE OF GREETING
Mary Hoffman, Philene Gates, Thelma McGregor, Dorothy Dalton, Dolores Mattas,
Doris Beattie, Margery Stephenson, Effie Kelly, Sylvia Klein, Lovina Grace,
Margery Reynolds, Betty Straney
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Love Pirates: 1, 2, 3, 4
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HAWAIIAN DANCERS
Anna Bell Gilmore, Dorothy Henshaw, Beatrice Gallagher, Helen Renninger, Rose
Mary Stewart, Sarah Sassaman, Mary Louise Egan, Annie Grimshaw, Louise Nelson,
Janet Hughes, Gladys Bathgate, Margaret Scholl, Kathryn Terwilliger, Eleanor
Whiteman, Sara Jane Moses, Alma Gluntz, Betty Hinman, Fern Shroyer, Dorothy
Burd, Lillian Ellstrom, Alice Fickes, Mary Moore, Frieda Kline, Louise
Blackburn, Jessie Ginnicke
PIRATE DANCERS
Dan Dandrea, Melvin White, Edgar Weidel, Donald Minster, Morgan Shute, William
Lichtenstein, William Ferguson, Vincent Woomer, Thomas Parks, James Nevel, Fred
Degroos, Walter Glunt
HORSEMANSHIP ACT
Louis De Stephano, Melvin Piper, Vincent Smith, Robert Hoar, Curtis Edgar,
Robert McBurney, William Dunmire, Harvey Rupert, James Berkheimer, William
Hamilton
UNITED STATES SAILORS
James Dodson, Norman Jones, Garrett Kinney, Robert Hayes, Ralph Plunkett, James
Gibson John Baker, Paul Young, William Lyons, William Former, Durwood Fleck,
Myrtle C. Hartsock, Paul Feathers, Melvin Austin Clyde Henderson, Charles
Trostle, Sidney Penner, Thomas Stephens, Sheldon Mallory, Robert Barclay, Robert
Moyer, Robert Frederick, David Lukens, Charles Mannion, Charles Greely, James
Porter, Herbert Freeman
ACCOMPANISTS
Violin: Mario Del Bianco, Philip Stadler
Trumpet: Richard Smith, George Schwaderer
Clarinet: William Housley, Edwin Caum
Flute: James Lloyd
Saxophone: Charles Lockard
Piano: Mary Lamonte
Drums: Elwood Rudacille
ROOSEVELT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
First Violins: Philip Stadler, Mario Del Bianco, Lewis Santopietro, Alvin Weber
Michael Poet, Alicebelle Musser, Maxine Wagner, George Kalb, Virginia Davis,
Antbonene Valone, Homer Patton, Dorothy Richards, Guy Rossman, Eugene
Donnelly, Thomas Andrews, John Valade
Second Violins: Helen Saracena, Helen Dively, Jane Hauser, Wilfred Shingler,
Max Steinberg, Marion Hirst, Frank Acker, Robert McNaughton, Harold Lockard,
Melvin Books, Charles Botwright, Edward Lehrer, Betty Davis, Violet Mensch,
Marguerite Mock, Beatrice Gallagher, Ulysses Wharton, Alvin Conrad
Banjo: Dorothy Yeater
Mandolin: Lee Ziegler
Trumpets: Richard Smith, George Schwaderer, Clyde Miller, Drexel McTavish, Harry
Walter, Donald Garver, Meredith Bryant, John Poligone, Thaddeus Loziuski, Leo
Samson, William Wirt, John Pross
Piano: Mary Lamonte
Flute: James Lloyd
Clarinets: William Housely, Edwin Caum, Michael Nordella, Archie Clapper, Alison
Douglas, Jack Douglas
Saxophones: Charles Lockard, Richard Fluke, Richard Rogers, Given Lotz, Richard
Snyder, Max Loose, Robert Replogle, Jack Rouzer, Harry Clapper
Drums: Elwood Rudacille, Charles Jones, Harold Bowman, John Miller, William
Weber, Robert Boyer
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YANKI SAN
Caste
Yanki San: Helen Reith
San Fan: Romaine Wagner
Prince Toto: James Cole
Princess Toto: Hulda Griffith
High Chancellor: John Cochran
Prince Oto:Eugene Botteicher
Prince Ton Ton: Robert Lathero
Peach Stone: Jean Schandelmier
Peach Blossom: Joan Bates
Ambassadors: Jack Caum, Andy Moore, Philip Slep, Arthur Clark
Chief Priest Rata: Andy Moore
Maids of Peach Blossom: Dorothy Myers, Eva Fuoss
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[Yanki San Cast]
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Ballet Dancers
Alma Gluntz, Mary Pearce, Grace Snow, Anne Mateer, Elaine Richards, Ruth
Thwaits, Della Nowlen,
Six Maids
Eva Christian, Katherine Figard, Mary Robinson, Kathryn Esterline, Mary
McCarthy, Jane Shoemaker
Dancers
Louise Brumbaugh, Thelma Diehl, Louise Glenn, Anna Cox, Virginia Reiley
Poppy Dancers
Virginia Bowles, Dorthea Graham, Mary MacArthur, Grace Doak, Martha Jane
Haggarty, Josephine McKerihan, Virginia Elder, Patty Laramy, Dorothy Powell,
Hazel Freet, Margaret Lang, Genevieve Varley, Helen Griffiths, Ruth Williams
Seven Roses
Hildegrade Baer, Marie Hoover, Marjorie Merritts, Mary Brumbaugh, Elanor
McClure,Gertrude Weber, Frances Good
Tumblers
Howard Bonebreak, Cloyd Kerlin, Francis Schroff, Robert Best, John Lich,, Wilber
Stitt, William Davis, Richard Loudon, Harold Thompson, Herber Ernest, Clair
Moore, Jack Wilson, Byron Hoover, Jack Moreland, Paul Watson
Chorus of Girls
Dorothe Brede, Margaret Laramy, Terese Newhal, Catherine Tromm, Velma Civils,
Minnie Laratonda, Emma Ritchey, Mary Twardon, Kathryn Clark, Inez Lockard,
Vivian Ryan, Gertrude Van Allman, Roselma Dutrow, Eleanore Lower, Marjorie
Sipes, Genevieve Varley, Helen Hartswick, Thelma Miller, Jessie Sick, Thelma
Walls, Hester Hufnagle, Minnie Nader, Alma Stifler, Ruperta Weakland, Alice
Kelley, Margaret Pope, Janice Tippery, Mary Weiner, Margaret Lang
Fisher Lads
Sammy Albright, Gerald Forsythe, John Keklos, Jimmy Owens, Kenneth Berry, James
Grove, John Lozo, Herman Schmidt, Billy Davis, Raymond Hager, Thomas Mock, John
Sturtsman, Clare Charolus, Eugene Havolin, Boy Moyer, George Walton, Ambrose
Fiore, Richard Woodward
THREE PILLS IN A BOTTLE
1
A Scissors Grinder: Ty Rush
Tony Sims: Albert Friedman
2
A Scrub Woman: Mary Geib
Tony Sims: Albert Friedman
3
The Widow Sims, his mother: Betty Rhodes
A Middle Aged Gentleman: Donald Dublin
Tony Sims: Albert Friedman
4
Tony Sims: Albert Friedman
His Soul: Edgar Salkeld
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Three Pills in a Bottle: 1, 2, 3, 4
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5
[49] - [62] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929 - LITERARY DEPARTMENT
REVIVAL OF FAMOUS SHAKESPEAREAN THEATRE
SHOULD the famous playwright of the sixteenth century appear at the
Roosevelt School, no doubt a deep satisfaction would thrill his heart. For here
he would find a new playhouse named in honor of the old-time Shakespearean Globe
Theatre. The new theatre is the production of an enterprising and ambitious
class reporting for English in Room 109.
The structure measures twenty-four inches by fifteen inches by eighteen
inches. An interesting feature is a unique stage which occupies the entire
interior of the edifice. As a consequence the audience must needs remain on the
outside to view the performance-a circumstance which renders the theatre
strikingly Shakespearean in character.
A curtain of black velvet, decorated with bright colors, hides the stage
from view. When this is drawn aside one is transported to the forum of Ancient
Rome where white (marble) steps lead to an imposing platform flanked by slender
Corinthian columns.
Tiny actors patiently retain their appointed positions suggestive of
"portentous" events and great tragedies. There on his "pulpit," Mark Anthony
stands ready to deliver his superb attack on the "honorable me," while below him
lies the dead Caesar-a silent protest against the violence of Roman
conspirators.
The curtain falls to rise again on that tragic political failure, Brutus. He
is in his tent on the eve of the battle on the plains of Philippi.
Around him hang the somber folds of his tent. At his feet lounges the weary
little attendant, Lucius. Brutus, scroll in hand, vainly seeks diversion for his
overwrought mind, while nearby stands that symbol of his tortured conscience,
the ghost of Caesar.
This tiny, but realistic staging of the famous masterpiece was the work of
ninth, grade English pupils with the help of the art department and manual
training department.
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Jerome Nagel 8-21, Lois Gehrdes 8-4, Donald Kraft 9-26, Walter Blake 8-2, Jessie
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CLUBS
One of the most interesting features of this school is the club period on
Tuesday morning from 8:35 to 9:20. At this time about forty different clubs are
in session. Each club has a teacher sponsor except the Home Nursing and First
Aid Clubs, which are directed by the school doctor and three of the school
nurses.
Students of the eighth and ninth grades may select a club according to their
interests from a list of clubs, or may start a new one if a sufficient number
desire it and it meets the approval of the principal.
The purposes of the clubs are:
1. To encourage pupils to do worthy things they are interested in and to do them
better.
2. To help them spend their leisure time with something worth while.
3. To afford an opportunity to try out and explore desirable activities not
otherwise provided for on the school program.
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[Ushers' Club ?]
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THE CAFETERIA USHERS' CLUB
THE Cafeteria Ushers' Club is the largest club of the Roosevelt Junior High
School. It is made up of two representatives from each home room division and
ten student supervisors. The ushers come to the cafeteria a few minutes be, fore
the other pupils and remain about five minutes after lunch. It is not "all work
and no play" with the ushers. New friendships are formed, as here the various
grades are brought together in social groups each day. A party of all the ushers
is held once a year. Business meetings are held once a month.
There are two student supervisors for each lunch period. They mark the
Record Sheets for satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions in which the
divisions have left the cafeteria. Contests for a perfect score of "A's" are
held twice a year. The prize is a party for all the winning divisions. The
Cafeteria Ushers' Club is one of great service to the school.
GIRLS' GLEE CLUB
THE aim of the club is to learn worth-while songs and sing them for
enjoyment and appreciation, and sometimes to entertain others.
At the beginning of the term the Club presented numbers for the Thanksgiving
program. A Christmas Cantata was presented by the Boys' and the Girls' Clubs
combined. The morning of the Christmas Pageant the girls had a Processional. The
biggest project was the Operetta. Ninth Grade Girls are now getting ready for
their Class Day Exercises.
NATURE CLUB
THE Nature Club meets every Tuesday morning. The work of this club is to
study the peculiarities found in nature, and to develop an interest in the
wonders of the world about us. The wide range of subjects we have studied
includes the following: American nuts, fossils, skulls, wasps, tadpoles, stars,
birds, flowers, plants, and the armadillo.
CAMP COOKING CLUB
THE purpose of the Camp Cooking Club is to give boys a knowledge of cooking
which will be useful in camp life. In the school cookery laboratory the boys put
into practice the actual process of cooking and serving of foods which can be
adapted to camp life.
BOYS' SERIES CLUB
ALL boys and girls, all men and women, love to read books. Reading is a help
in vocabulary building which makes good conversationalists. In reading club the
members bring books and exchange them among themselves. This is a place where
you very easily forget that you are in school and go to the land of adventure.
In reading club you read different kinds of books. Some are about adventure,
mystery, war on land, air and sea, athletics or outdoor sports.
LATIN CLUB
THE Latin Club of the Roosevelt Junior High School meets each Tuesday
morning in Room 103.
The first part of the period is devoted to a program; the second part, to a
drill on vocabulary, verbs, and translation. The programs of these meetings
consist of the translation of Latin compositions and stories, and reports on
Roman life and customs.
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STAGE CRAFT CLUB
IN the Stage Craft Club of Roosevelt Junior High School we make drawings and
linoleum block prints for the school paper; stage settings and accessories for
school plays; cover designs for the Blue and White; and any drawings needed for
the year book.
THE "STARS" OF THE SCHOOL
THE R. A. C., or Star Club, has interested quite a number of girls this
year.
During the club period the members study about the stars, planets, and
constellations; but the evening trips are most enjoyable, for it is then that
the sponsor points out the beauty of the heavens. This club not only endeavors
to give knowledge about the heavens, but also teaches the importance of living
in harmony with God and our surroundings.
The club song is as follows:
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the glorious dawning day;
God is speaking to His people
Through the night and through the day;
'Through is opening up the Heavens
As a wondrous new highway;
Our God is marching on.
Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
We have seen Him in Delphinus,
And the Milky Way of the sky;
We may find Him with the test tube,
Or the useful telescope;
As God's blessed sunshine scatters,
Then may folks begin to hope,
Yes, God is marching on.
THE ERNEST THOMPSON SETON CLUB
ONE of the interesting things our club did in the fall was to adopt this
pledge for our club: "I will try to be kind to all harmless creatures and to
protect them from cruel usage."
We also read the life of Ernest Thompson Seton, for whom our club is named,
and have read a number of his stories from books purchased by former clubs.
The stories in these' books are especially interesting because they are
true; all the animals are real characters.
The author has tried to emphasize our friendship with the animals by showing
that in them we can find the virtues most admired in man. For example, Lobo
stands for dignity; Redruff, for obedience; Bingo, for fidelity; Molly
Cottontail, for mother love; Pacing Mustang, for the love of liberty.
Sometimes we read clippings from newspapers or magazines, or tell stories of
animals we have in our homes. We feel that belonging to this club has helped us
to believe that every living creature, brute as well as human, has a right to
food, drink, and shelter; to work, rest, and play; to comfort and happiness; to
freedom from fear and unnecessary pain; and to have us do all we can to help him
get these things.
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WILD FLOWER CLUB
SINCE we live in a flowery part of the United States, we should be
interested in flowers and should protect them. In our club we study many
flowers, and learn to love and protect them. Our aim is to learn to love and to
protect flowers, and to recognize at least twenty-five.
CONSERVATORY SCIENCE CLUB
THE Conservatory Science Club meets in Room 220 every Tuesday morning.
This organization has a membership of forty-four boys. During the year many
applicants were turned away. The club deals largely with activities in which all
boys are interested, such as collecting and identifying fossils, bird's nests,
and Indian relics; learning how and when to study bird migrations; the study of
plant and animal life, insects, stars, native fishes, wild flowers, and ferns;
as well as how to build bird houses; make skiis, and skate sails, bows and
arrows, plaster casts of animals, and leaf printing. The club is not only of
help to the boys but it helps the school in many ways. During the year we
delivered to home rooms one hundred thirty pots of tulips, sixty ferns, thirty-
six cyclomen, and twenty-five hyacinths.
NOVELTY CLUB
THE members of the Novelty Club have made many beautiful novelties. At the
beginning of the term dolls were dressed in a variety of costumes, ranging from
colonial to modern costumes. The materials used included crepe paper in all
shades, and silks in the pastel shades.
A few weeks preceding the presentation of "Love Pirates of Hawaii," the club
members made several hundred flowers for members of the cast.
Some of the novelties made by this club are as follows: pocket books worked
in chenille; lamp shades; beaded ornaments; red pepper trees, made of wax;
artificial flowers; and doll costumes.
The purpose of this club is to teach the members how to make useful and
attractive articles for the home.
SCRAP BOOK CLUB
THIS club is open to any interested student. Its purpose is achieved through
the outlet for creative desire. The members at first follow their own initiative
as to the type of book they will make. New ideas are thus brought before the
group, among which have been books for the children's ward of our hospitals,
familiar trees and flowers, famous motion picture stars, and vacation snap
shots. Harmony in color scheme, care, neatness, and balanced arrangement of
pictures are incidentally taught.
RADIO CLUB
HERE have been eight successful radio clubs since the beginning of Junior
High School. At the beginning of this year there was an enrollment of over forty
boys, about twenty of whom are still active members. Our program was usually
taken up by discussing topics that were not understood by members of the radio
club. After that we worked on a three-tube set which the club may sell. Some of
the boys built sets ranging from crystal to three tube. One short wave set was
also built.
The aim of the Radio Club has been to make its work benefit the school, as
well as the individual boy.
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MODERN POETRY CLUB
THE Modern Poetry Club meets every Tuesday morning in Room 310 under the
guidance of Miss Healy. The aim of this club is simply to have the pupils enjoy
Poetry, and develop the desire to read more for themselves in their leisure
hours.
During the year the best poems of the modern British and American poets are
read by the teacher. Many pupils also bring in selections which they especially
like and read them to the others. No outside work is required. Some instruction
concerning the judging of good poetry is also given. This adds to the interest.
Every pupil, as a project, makes an anthology of his own.
KNOW YOUR CITY CLUB
THE purpose of the Know Your City Club is to help its members learn some
thing of Altoona's history, government, industries, and the location of its
important buildings. Every other week we visit the various places of interest,
some of which are: City Hall, Altoona Mirror, Haller's Bakery, Caum's Ice Cream
Company, Hoffman's, Harshbarger's Milk Plant, Keith's Milk Plant, Test Plant,
Bell Telephone Offices, Logan Laundry, and the Silk Mill. On the Tuesday
following our visit we discuss what we have seen.
ADVANCED READING CLUB
THE Advanced Reading Club, that meets in Room 109, took up the study of the
short story. Through the stories a special study was made of types of characters
peculiar to certain localities such as the prim New England life, the rough life
on the Mississippi River boats, or in Western mining camps; and quaint life on
the Southern plantations. The instruction was done entirely through reading by
the sponsor. Many delightful hours were spent with such authors as Mrs. Freeman,
Mark Twain, Bret Harte, George W. Cable, and Thomas Nelson Page. The club
presented a play, a dramatization of "Seventeen"; and also purchased two books
for next year's reading club.
THE CAMERA CLUB
THE Camera Club contains thirty members. The first part of the year the club
studied about the making of the camera, the taking of pictures and how to
develop them. During the year the club visited printing companies for
experience. During the latter half of the year the club took pictures of the
many clubs of the school, and pictures of the presidents of Junior High for "The
Rooseveltian", our school annual. The Camera Club is interesting and
educational.
SECRETARIES' CLUB
THE Secretaries' Club is one of the largest clubs in the school, the
membership being made up of the secretary from each Home Room division.
Questions on parliamentary procedure, arising in the Home Room meetings, are
referred to this club for discussion. Each secretary is also responsible during
the period for writing the minutes of the previous Home Room meeting so that all
Home Room groups have the advantage of well written minutes at their sessions on
Wednesday morning.
BASKETRY CLUB
THE Basketry Club, Room 309, makes articles which are useful as well as
ornamental. Some of the articles made by the club members are sandwich and
serving trays; fruit, sandwich, flower, and waste paper baskets; and bud vases.
Each member is supposed to make three articles during the term. The cost of the
baskets ranges from ten to ninety cents.
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THE SHORT STORY CLUB
THE Short Story Club, sponsored by Miss Mary Downs, meets every Tuesday in
Room 114. It has a membership of twenty-seven. Short stories are read every
week. The following are some of the authors: Van Dyke, Twain, Poe, Andrews,
Hawthorne, Irving, O. Henry, Cobb, Stockton, Aldrich, Grenfell, Tappan, Seton,
Mills, Brown, and the Bible.
THE COSTUME DESIGN CLUB
THIS club has fifteen members-all ninth grade girls who are especially
interested in their personal appearance. We think it is the duty of every girl
to look her best on all occasions. The club was organized to help solve
individual problems of dress.
The club helps make the costumes for the annual school entertainment. They study
styles, design dresses for different types, as the tall or short, and the stout
or slender types. The girls study individual self analysis charts on which they
designate their complexion, color of hair and eyes, stature, posture and
expression. They also indicate the colors that through actual tests they find
are becoming.
The club sponsor, Miss Lutman, spends one period talking on the proper use
of cosmetics.
BOYS' SOCIAL HOUR CLUB
THE purpose of the Boys' Social Hour and Etiquette Club is to train the boys
in the etiquette essential in the school room, in the home, in the business and
social world, and at the table. During this hour the different phases of
etiquette are explained, then dramatized by members of the club. At the close of
the year the boys plan and give a banquet. Each boy invites a girl guest; he
sees that she is properly introduced to the other guests, and is attentive to
her during this social function.
THE GIRLS' ETIQUETTE CLUB
THE Girls' Etiquette Club is one of the most interesting clubs of Roosevelt
Junior High School. Etiquette teaches one the following: introductions; table
manners; courtesy; behavior at social gatherings; cleanliness; correct usage of
English; and good taste in the selection of one's clothing.
TRAVEL CLUB
THE desire of everybody is to travel and see interesting or historical
places. During the school term the Travel Club satisfies this longing by taking
its members on many trips. They have been privileged to visit the western part
of our country, stopping at Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon of Colorado.
Many interesting points in the eastern part of our country were also seen. With
every slide comes a small card giving an accurate description of the picture.
The slides give a better or fuller description than a story could give.
EMBROIDERY CLUB
TWENTY-ONE members of the Embroidery Club meet regularly in Room 216.
The greater part of the period is spent doing the work designated by the title.
Much interest is shown. Many beautiful pieces are completed for Christmas gifts,
and later new work is beautifully finished. The results show the effort to be
quite worth while.
STAMP CLUB
THE members of this club have been very much interested in trading, buying,
and selling stamps of different countries. At present the members are making a
poster to display the different kinds of stamps.
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Division 8-2
TRUE ROOSEVELTIANS
THIS division has certainly been a group of energetic, wide awake citizens.
They have supported every cause 100%. It was the first division in the school
to have 100% for our first year book. They have shown the true Roosevelt
Spirit. They do things. Roosevelt is a better school because they are members
of it.
ATHLETICS
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THE GAME
Our football team's a lively set,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The boys are full of fun and pep;
Hurrah! Hurrah!
They tackle, yes, both slim and stout,
Their pals and chums stand by and shout;
And we all feel so proud and gay
When Roosevelt wins the fray.
All the girls just yell for joy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The boys keep shouting, "Atta boy."
Hurrah! Hurrah!
And when they win the girls all say,
"With roses we will strew your way."
And all the boys "Whoopee! Hurrah!"
When Roosevelt wins the game.
IRMA RITTENHOUSE - 9-23
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Girls' Athletics
[73] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
GIRLS ATHLETICS
THE girls gym classes of this school have been a success in their very
active work. We all feel fortunate in having provided for us the beautiful
gymnasium and adequate apparatus.
One of the most interesting parts of our work is the dodge ball tournament.
During this time classes of the eighth and ninth grades play for the
championship of the school. Great enthusiasm is shown during this time.
Another feature of the year is when the girls who have done the best work
are chosen to be in the annual demonstration.
Last year was the first year that the girls ever entered the track meet.
They won first place and received a loving cup.
Squad Leaders
Lois Powell
Gwendolyn Nash
Margaret Mackey
Margaret Galloway
Jean Melcher
Marion Gates
Delores Mattas
Dorothy Funk
Ruth McCollum
Josephine Robertazzi
Edith Valpe
Anna Long
Leona Ricedorf
Marjorie Reynolds
Nellie Slick
Alma Gluntz
Mary Sanine
Freda Kline
Sara Jane Moses
Martha Meader
Dorothy Cassell
Martha Line
Myrtle Ralston
Margaret Scholl
Mildred Savine
Margaruite Lozo
Sara Sassaman
Lois Slutzker
Dorothy Jenkins
Dorothy Phafler
Vryle Meyers
Marcella Bolkavich
Dorothy Echels
Janet Irons
Marjorie O'Keife
Vivienne Keirn
Gwendolyn Wright
Verna Mangus
Mary Moore
Grace Weltmer
Ruth Bohn
Dorothy Stange
Pauline Goetz
Serveria Pronenzeno
Lois Foor
Winifred Weaver
Rebecca Lyons
Hazel Cochrane
Dorothy Janes
Bernice Holdeman
Mary Garber
Anna Verbanitz
Louise Blackburn
Agnes Horner
Anna Baciano
Margery Woomer
Ora Gurn
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Cheerleaders
THE VICTORY SONG
Junior High, now let us sing,
Loyally support the team;
We're here today with colors gay
Ready to win the fray.
Chorus
Fight, Fight, Fight, for the Blue and White,
Victory will our slogan be;
Dear Junior High, fairest of all
Thy loyal sons obey thy call,
To Fight, Fight, Fight, with all their might
Ever the goal to gain,
Into the game for junior High's fame,
Fight on to victory.
"Fight, Fight, Fight, etc."
ROOSEVELT YELLS
1. Locomotive
R O O S E V E L T
R O O S E V E L T
Roosevelt
S S S - S S S S S S S S S
Boom
Team! Team! Team!
2. Sky Rocket
J U N I O R H I G H
JUNIOR HIGH
Junior High
S S S - S S S S S S S S S
Boom
Ah! -----
Team! Team! Team!
3. Brackety Ax
Brackety Ax - waxed - waxed
Brackety Ax - waxed - waxed
Hulaboloo! Hulaboloo!
Junior High
Team! Team! Team!
4. Yea Team!
Yea Team!
Yea Team!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Yea Team!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Yea Team!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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THIS YEAR'S LETTER MEN
PRESENTATION was made by W. W. Lauver, faculty manager of athletics, and
Benny Weinstein, athletic coach.
Eight inch letters were awarded to students who participated in the required
number of games while the students who were not members of a varsity team
received five inch letters.
Varsity letter men are:
Samuel Merin
Henry Wilson
Dennis Shively
Charles Troxell
Ernest Fusco
Danny Dandrea
Louis De Stephano
Eugene Sipes
William Hamilton
Edward Milton
Morgan Shute
William Ferguson
William Lichtenstein
Howard Calderwood
Donald Shock
Edward Marshall
James Berkheimer
Robert Moyer
Samuel Sealfon (Mgr.)
James Contakos (Mgr.)
Five inch letters were awarded to
Albert Colello
Jerry Watson
Melvin White
Alfred Yavasille
Sheldon Ehringer
Walter Glunt
Edgar Weidle
Carmel Perretta
John Lozo
Herbert Hartman
Don Ritts
Harold Miller
Morris Patt
Eugene Sipes
Ralph Plunkett
Paul Fowles
Samuel Merin'
Louise De Stephano
William Dillon
Edwin Marshall
James Dodson
Melvin White
Paul VanDrew
Numerals Awarded
Numerals designating the year of promotion from the junior High school were
awarded to
Vincent Woomer
William Lyons
Morgan Shute
Harvey Rupert
Kenneth Watson
Paul Somerville
William Dunmire
Fred Ironsides
The numerals were presented as rewards for the display of school spirit made
by the students.
Certificates testifying to the student's activity in sports accompanied each
award.
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ROOSEVELT REWARDS ATHLETICS
THE year of 1927-28 was the first time in the history of Roosevelt that the
participants in the field of sports were rewarded in a social way. In the terms
preceding 1927-28 the boys were rewarded only by letters. The last two years,
the boys whose records in athletics were commendable were rewarded by a banquet
and letters.
The entertainment was not only a time for feasting, but it was also a time
when distinguished speakers gave helpful and interesting speeches to the boys.
The speaker for the first social gathering was the Rev. Edward Faye,
formerly of the Grace Reformed Church of Altoona. Rev. Faye gave the boys a very
interesting talk on good sportsmanship.
The speaker for this year was Professor C. E. Billheimer of the York
Collegiate Institute. Professor Billheimer was the man who taught Coach
Weinstein his sport tactics.
The banquets were well earned by the boys, as strenuous training is started
long before the season opens. Smoking or any other body-breaking habit is
prohibited during the period of training.
Junior High has a very capable coach, who is Mr. Benjamin Weinstein, a
graduate of Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. During the time that
Coach Weinstein has been in Junior High he has turned out many successful teams.
Through the efforts of Mr. Lauver, a teacher of the Science Department and also
a "Sports Promoter," Junior High has had many worthy opportunities.
There is an assembly period set aside each year, after the seasons of major
sports close, for the awarding of letters.
Football "R" Men - 1926-27
Joseph Clifford (Captain)
Robert Brubaker
Byron Hoover
William Vonderheyden
Donald Wilson
John Lich
Melvin Showalter
Brinton McClellan
Andrew Kubica
Beverley Gardener
Woodrow Wauntauck
Harold Thompson
Cloyd Kerlin
Leo Kutoski
Honorable Mention
Henry Hafner
Russell Bratton
Paul Love
Romeo Capodagleon
Ray Hammond
Joseph Recigno
Oliver Grassi
John Green
Basketball "R" Men - 1926-27
Raymond Weld (Captain)
John Lieb
John Russell
Edward Rush
Tyrus Rush
Honorable Mention
Garland Hoenstine
Thomas Campbell
Donald Wilson
Robert Coffman
Guy Fiorie
Meyer Klevan
Football "R" Men - 1927-28
John Hartman
Duayne Thomas
Tyrus Rush
Paul Rouzer
Donald Benton
Henry Winski
Romeo Capidoli
Edward Rush
Vance Kennedy
Vincent Valence (Mgr.)
Lawrence Semple (Mgr.)
Harold Thompson
Paul Cipriano
Cloyd Kerlin (Captain)
Numerals
Grover Cunningham 28
Robert Peters 28
Joe Damiano 28
Clayton Hippo 28
Curtis Edgar 29
Ray Hamond 28
John Green 28
Howard Colderwood 30
Samuel Merin 30
Numerals
William Lidwenstein 29
Don Minster 29
Harold Frank 29
Brubaker 29
William Crawford 29
Jack Brown 29
Fern Jones 29
Guy McLaughlin 29
Herbert Bathurst 29
Albert Bedoli 29
Nathan Parish 29
Fred Wunderlich 28
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Basketball "R" Men-1927-28
Tyrus Rush
John Russell
Edward Rush (Captain)
Harold Thompson
James Dodson
Samuel Merin
Numerals
Leo Kutoski 28
Cloyd Kerlin 28
Wallace St. John 28
Kenneth Thomas 28
Track Letter "R" Men - 1927-28
Lawrence Semple
Myer Klevan
Donald Benton
Paul Sherwin
James Shoenfelt
Edgar Rush
Carmel Peireta
Herman Kutz
Hartley Olson
Paul Rouzer
Emery Philips
Gabriel Carrol
Howard Bonebreak
Ralph Bonebreak
Frank Syznusiak
Harold Thompson
Albert Colello
Jerry Watson
Eugene Sipes
Paul Watson
FOOTBALL
ROOSEVELT has always been successful in athletics. In five years of football
it lost one game, to Johnstown. The teams practice faithfully, rain or shine,
hot or cold. By constant practice the team worked up a defense like a stone wall
and an offence like a nest of angry hornets. The discipline maintained by our
coach was the main factor in making our teams successful. No boy could be on the
team if he broke the training rules. Mr. Weinstein, assisted by Mr. Luse and
Bill Morgan coached the team, giving it about a dozen plays with which to dazzle
their opponents.
In the 1928 season Roosevelt played five games. The first game with Tyrone,
was one-sided, Roosevelt taking the game with ease. The following games were
harder. Roosevelt won from Bellwood, Westmont and the Sophomores, but lost to
Johnstown, the first football game lost in the school's history. This season
Roosevelt made 96 points and 15 touchdowns. Six of the chances for a point after
a touchdown were made. Their opponents made one touchdown and one point after a
touchdown, altogether 7 points.
The games:
Roosevelt - 30 - Tyrone - 0
Roosevelt - 20 - Bellwood- 0
Roosevelt - 19 - Sophomores - 0
Roosevelt - 0 - Johnstown - 7
Roosevelt - 27 - Westmont - 0
The team:
L. E. Green (captain)
L. T. Fusco
L. G. Wilson
C. Merin
R. G. Shively
R. T. Troxell
R. E. Dandrea
Q. B. De Stefano
L. H. B. Sipes
R. H. B . Hamilton
F. B. Milton
Some other excellent ball-toters were Marshal, Peretta and Berkheimer.
[78] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
Basketball
Basketball ranks second in junior High's sports. Roosevelt's basketball teams
have always been good and they have closed some very successful seasons. They
have had some stiff competition but have lost few games. This season they played
seven games. They were:
Roosevelt - 8 - Reserves - 26
Roosevelt - 24 - Alumni - 9
Roosevelt - 18 - School of Commerce - 10
Roosevelt - 23 - Tyrone - 14
Roosevelt - 14 - Cumberland - 15
Roosevelt - 20 - Sophomores - 13
Roosevelt - 15 - Cumberland - 25
The team:
F. Dodson
F. De Stefano
C. Dillon
G. Merin
G. Patt
Each year the home rooms have a basketball tournament for the Eighth, Ninth,
and school championship. The eighth grade had a hard time to find the winner, as
the games were close. Division 8-21 finally won and was rewarded with the eighth
grade banner. 9-13 won the ninth grade and school championship banners.
Track
Junior High has a track team which gives an annual demonstration in which
any one may compete. They have few meets but it is excellent training for the
students when they go to high school.
Baseball
Each year there is a baseball tournament run on the same principles as the
basketball. The games are very interesting and exciting. Only ninth grade
divisions may compete. Junior High's sports have always been successful. Let's
hope they will be more so in the future.
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[84] THE ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
The Roosevelt "R"
As an encouragement to the pupils in accomplishing the aims of the school,
the Roosevelt "R" is awarded to those whose records are outstanding not only in
scholarship but in all other phases of junior High activity, in physical
fitness, school citizenship, and extracurricular activities.
One hundred and sixty-five points are necessary to secure the "R."
Roosevelt "R" Requirements
I - Scholarship
Points
100 1. Academic record (taken from reports.) A majority of 90's in final
grades for the year and no grade below 80 in final grades for the year.
II - Personal Cleanliness
5 1. Physical director's report on shower baths.
5 2. Home room teacher's report on child's general daily appearance-
nails,
hair, hands, clothing, shoes, etc.
III-Athletics
1. Public appearances:
5 a. Marching in public.
10 b. Auditorium work-dancing, drills, May Day.
2. Teams:
5 a. Class team.
5 b. School team.
IV. - Citizenship
10 1. Satisfactory attendance.
10 2. No tardiness (transportation difficulties not to interfere with this
point.)
3. Character (all points)
5 a. Self-control. Controls temper; executes orders promptly.
5 b. Reliability. Truthful; does his own work; prompt with required
excuses and library books.
5 c. Co-operation. General conduct helps good name of school.
5 d. Courtesy. Ordinary good manners.
10 4. Official service. Each pupil is allowed two from this list with five
points each.
a. Student Council officer (or class officer.)
b. Hall patrol.
c. Orchestra leader.
d. Cafeteria usher.
e. Squad leader in gym.
f. Captain of a team.
V. - Extra Curricular Activities
20 Extra curricular activities. (Each pupil is allowed two from this list
with a credit of ten points each.)
a. Speaking alone in Assembly.
b. Any role in dramatics.
c. Solo work.
d. Member of a quartette.
e. Member of a trio.
f. Member of a duet.
g. Original plays.
h. Original posters.
i. Shop pieces for Roosevelt School.
j. Orchestra.
k. Chorus.
l. Stage manager.
m. Band member.
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The following have been the outstanding pupils in Roosevelt Junior High
school during its five years' existence.
Letter "R" Rewards - 1925
Katherine Weil
Agnes Skiles
Helen Ritchey
Mable Jeffries
Lois Bowers
Emma Berman
Jane Balt
Kenneth Morse
Glenn Hartzell
George Greaser
Harry Getz
Jesse Delozier
Clarence Baker
John Stark
Violet Dosh
Frances Marshall
Ethel McClain
Irene Lamea
Helen Farren
Eleanor Stones
Edna Stoner
Anna Santella
Devona Miller
Mabel Pachter
Georgetta Scheffer
Ruth Amos
Dorothy Wolpert
Lois Sites
Catherine Smulling
Helen Zeek
Frances Smith
Raymond Moore
Melvin Wolfkeil
Thomas Martin
Alvin Smith
Geraldine McGuire
Josephine Rollins
Robert Hoover
Vertie Crawford
James Bricker
Ruth McCormick
Marjorie Smith
Helen Wurgler
John Carolus
Willis Fries
Balbina Kollegger
Louise Brassington
Dee Burm
Sylvester Matlock
Charles Ford
Chalmers Smith
Jerome Kimmel
Joseph Poeschle
Warren Gathers
Earnest Snowberger
Richard Boring
David Goodman
Allison Imler
John Meek
David Simpson
James Yon
Margaret Dymond
Eleanor Graham
Corrine Hamer
Elizabeth Hepner
Elizabeth Kell
Gladys Knisely
Dorothy Semple
Ruth Pheasant
Grace Whetstone
Marguerite Hardeman
Frank Marsh
Victoria Tripician
Gussie Waxler
Pauline Rhodes
Donald Vaughn
Roy Bingman
Loretta Warner
Margaret Miller
Winona Murray
Dorothy Dent
Howard Hoke
Fred Reigh
Josephine Donahue
Marguerite Cupples
Margaret Fisher
Faye Ruth Funk
Regina Bender
Leah McFarland
Mernice Andrews
Gretchen Balt
Betty Bell
Eleanor Burd
Alsumena Berkstresser
Mary Laramy
Louise McKerihan
Emily Oburn
Janet Olmes
Marian Puckey
Anna Stoltz
Elizabeth Shoenfelt
Geraldine Tregoning
Jack Hartmen
Arthur Kelly
Leopold Ringer
Ida Buck
Margaret Smouse
Marian Johnson
Cecelia Healy
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Letter "R" Rewards - 1926
Caroline Behm
Dorothy Housum
Ruth Pitcairn
Alice McGarvey
Violet Cochrane
James Shoenfelt
Floy Wright
Grace Savage
Virginia Bowler
Alice Kelly
Margaret Lang
Margaret Laramy
Vivian Eichelberger
Harry Katzen
Thomas McFarland
Clinton Craig
Anna Findley
Gretta Gill
Mildred Lyon
Terese Neuwahl
Dorothy Powell
Dorothy Summers
Raymond Bowser
Mary F. Brumbaugh
Myra Evans
Ruth Harr
James Murphy
John Hurst
Adeline Whitesel
Hildegarde Baer
Mary Kaup
Mary Robinson
Eleanor Schmitt
Mary Weld
Fred Smith
Grace Doak
Helen Savitz
Jane Gruver
Ethel Knisely
Evelyn Wise
Donald Burket
Lena Stoop
Ethel McClain
Anna Santella
Helen Zeek
Hazel Gunsalus
Vera Amick
Verdie Crawford
Ethylin Norris
Elizabeth Heirs
Eleanor Dunn
Sara Anthony
Mary Elizabeth Bowler
Dorothy Field
Elizabeth Henry
Ruth McCormick
Devona Miller
Mabel Pachter
Georgetta Scheffer
Catherine Smulling
Hilda Stouffer
Hazel Yarnell
Dorothy Albright
Irma Werner
Ruth Zimmerer
Bernice Dunn
Katharine Engler
Mary Hepner
Grace Rollason
Lois Sites
Katharine Weil
Esther Watts
Bertha Wohlbruck
Hope Fleck
Gertrude Hauser
Clarence Baker
Emma Berman
John Stark
Dorothy Plempel
Caroline Behm
Martha Hogue
Dorothy Roncoroni
Mary Twardon
Eva Hill
Genevieve Varley
Raymond Bowman
Melvin Wolfkeil
Helen Fleck
Elizabeth Heirs
Letter "R" Rewards - 1927
John Lozo
John Kekolos
Lewis Lehrer
Dorothy Burd
Alma Gluntz
Hester Huffnagle
Edith Santella
Jane Boone
Lillian Ellstrom
Marguerite Sana Mar
Gertrude Williams
Ralph Frasco
Charles Cochran
Frieda Kline
Mary Rosenberger
Renetta Heirs
Rose Cornel
John Brylinsky
Raymond Hager
Thomas Mock
John Miller
Beatrice Corbin
Virginia Davenport
Mary Geib
Mary Gruber
Martha Knisely
Dorothy Lingenfelter
Jennie Waxler
Euretta Shaw
Floy Wright
Christian Selwitz
Florence Berman
Mary McCreary
Iva Jordan
Meryl Gardner
Joseph White
Dorothy Housum
Melvin Bennett
Emmert Dickson
Marit Beckman
Edith Hollingsworth
Dorothy Lantz
Martha Hogue
Josephine McKerihan
Eleanor Gainer
Robert Johnson
Susan Young
Grace Savage
Guido Prosperi
Faith Moore
Ethel Knisely
Jeanette Meyer
Martha Morris
Roberta Barclay
Helen Truax
Esther Nearhoof
Catherine Richards
Eleanor Schmitt
Emma Crawford
Mary Kaup
Jolanda Murry
Fred Smith
Fremont Croner
John Judene
Dick Fay
Clarence Baker
George Joseph
Jane Gruver
Mary Robinson
Hilda Miller
Dorothy Sweitzer
Norma McQuown
Marjorie Merritts
Anna Lindsey
Virginia Bowler
Margaret Laramy
Harry Katzen
Dorothy Powell
Dorothy Summers
Margaret Lang
Dorthea Graham
Anna Findley
Gretta Gill
Vivian Eichelberger
Jack Caum
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Letter "R" Rewards - 1928
Marguerite Lozo
Lillian Valone
Dorothy Phaphler
Marguerite Jones
Mary Millig
Robert Moser
Albert Robertazzi
William Housely
John Allison
Dorothy Burd
Alma Gluntz
Kenneth Heaps
Margaret Hogg
Betty Hull
Donald Kraft
John Lozo
Jean Seads
Gladys Bathgate
Rose Groban
Rose Cornell
Lillian Ellstrom
Louise Lee
Sara Louise Levan
Madaline Logue
Harold Lauver
Sara Jane Moses
Edith Santella
Muriel Walter
Frieda Kline
John Kekolos
Lewis Lehrer
Gertrude Miller
Mae Meese
Helen Parson
Elizabeth Rhodes
Helen Renninger
John Blackburn
Donald Fritz
John Johnson
Hurford Hale
Malcolm Neuwahl
Margery Reynolds
Marguerite Santa Maria
Mary Savine
Kathryn Terwillinger
Gertrude Williams
Dorris Beattie
Mary Schlayer
Paul Stewart
Margaret Galloway
Ralph Frasco
Carol McClure
Amelia Monti
Jennie Patronik
Mary Rosenberger
Helen Saracena
Margaret Scholl
Mary Helen Miller
Sandy Disabato
John Stahl
John Miller
Ann Grimshaw
Donald Minster
Irene Johnston
Dorothy Thompson
George Kalb
Helen Loyer
Janet Graham
Anna Steffanini
Carl Gruber
Nick Caparusio
Madeline Harvey
Raymond Hager
John Maruschak
Richard Woodward
Henry Isaacson
Lloyd Greenleaf
Henry Kenner
Emery Philips
Edgar Rush
Edith Hollingsworth
Dorothy Housum
Euretta Shaw
Floy Wright
Mabel Walker
Alma Stiffler
Ortenza Smith
Elsie Zimmerer
Gladys Stoner
Jennie Waxler
Christian Selwitz
Chester Duck
Susan Young
Carolyn Behm
Florence Berman
Louise Blackburn
Eva Fuoss
Mary Gruber
Margaret Hibbs
Eva Jodon
Dorothy Lingenfelter
Josephine McKerihan
Grace Savage
Ethel Shoop
Ruth Hall
Maxine Gorsuch
George Seward
Robert Haight
Eunice McCracken
Christy Whitbred
Martha Hogue
Christian Springer
Marit Beckman
Evelyn Stiffler
Minnie Nader
Mary Keith
Marjorie Craine
Edith Brunner
Dora Palmer
Artemis Yerondidakis
Lois Robinson
Dorothy McGraw
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ART
THE art department has helped make the Rooseveltian a success. The
cover design and all other art work was done in the art department under the
supervision of Miss Edna Bottof. Robert Schoenfelt, the Art Editor, is
responsible for all the printing as well as the cover design.
[89] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929
THE VOCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
THE Vocational Department has many shops which prepare those who take the
Pre-Vocational Course for a vocation in after life. There are nine shops:
Plumbing, Machine, Auto Repairs, Printing, Sheet Metal, Pattern and Lathe,
Electric, Woodwork, and Mechanical Drawing.
The boys have seventeen days in each shop, except mechanical drawing in
which they stay thirty-four days. The other studies are: Vocational English
taken five periods a week; Science, five periods a week; Community Civics, four
periods a week for one semester; Vocational Civics, four periods for one
semester; and Gym, two periods a week. They do not take Art, Music, Algebra, or
Ancient History.
The seventh grade Vocational work begins with the use of tools in woodwork.
After the exercises the boys make many useful and ornamental pieces of furniture
for their homes. In the Eigth grade an advanced course in woodwork is given. In
the Ninth grade all boys take Mechanical Drawing two periods a week for the
term. The Pre-Vocational boys receive seventeen days of shop practise in each
shop. The shops of the junior and Senior High schools are used by the pupils of
both schools and are splendidly equipped for Vocational training.
SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENT ACTIVITIES
TO supplement the text, arouse interest and to encourage student self-
expression in Social Science, Roosevelt pupils are busy during the school year
illustrating their history and civics lessons with varied forms of extra
activities. These include: cartoons, graphs, dramatizations, informal debates,
impersonations, biographies, floor talks, field trips, notebooks, games,
booklets, current events, anecdotes, jokes, crossword puzzles, mock trials,
original stories and poems, maps made on proper paper in pencil, ink, paint,
flour and salt, and other materials, clay models of primitive pottery, writing
tablets, books, oral and written special reports, book reports of required
readings, and other devices.
PRACTICAL WORK IN CIVICS
THE need of courts in all towns, cities, and states was brought out in a
mock court trial, given for a Tuesday morning assembly program. The trial was a
civics project carried out by the girls in division 9-14, with the help of Miss
Cohn, a Civics teacher, and Mr. Perry, a prominent lawyer.
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THE LATIN LANGUAGE
THERE are many reasons for studying the Latin language. As we have seen, it
teaches the life of the modern world and adds greatly to our intelligence and
efficiency. Few studies are more practical than Latin.
Latin was the language of the Romans, on whose civilization our own is
based. In their writings we find the origin and the reason for many of our
institutions. In Roman literature we find the models which modern writers have
imitated. Our literature is full of allusions and quotations, which only a Latin
student can fully understand. Knowledge of French, Spanish, Portugese, or
Italian is best obtained by studying Latin first.
It is quite an interesting story as to how the Latin words got into English.
Britain was also conquered by the Romans and the inhabitants learned from their
conquerors many words which have been passed down to us.
But English was especially influenced by Latin when the Normans came over
from France to Anglo-Saxon England under William the Conqueror and brought with
them a language derived from Latin. The two languages intermingled with the
result that many words of Latin origin became a part of the speech of the
English people.
During the centuries since the Norman Conquest a constant stream of Latin
words has entered English-many words in almost the same form as those used by
the Ancient Romans.
Thousands of words have been directly imported into our language by
scholars; others have been brought in through French and other languages as a
result of constant intercourse between the nations.
Over half our commonly used words are derived from Latin and we owe a very
great debt to the ancient Romans for this language.
Anne Grimshaw, 9-32.
AN INTERESTING SCIENCE CLASS
WOULDN'T you like to know why the moon shines, why the grass is green, why
and how we can hear over the telephone, and just why mother insists on spanking
you when you put your fingers in her freshly baked cake or the fudge?
You could answer all these questions and many more if you only knew a little
bit of Science. The best place to gain this knowledge is right here in your own
school.
It's wonderful to watch "Lindy" swim after "Ann," but! look at that. How do
you know if its wonderful or not when you haven't the slightest idea who the two
persons just mentioned are? If you promise not to tell another soul I will let
you in on a big secret. "Ann" and "Lindy" are the pet gold fish of Miss Mosser's
Science classes. We all love and admire "Ann" and "Lindy." The goldfish are not
the only interesting things for a Science class to enjoy; there are many other
things such as, the turtles, the butterflies and the guinea pigs, whose eyes
would surely fall out if anyone would be so cruel as to hold them by the tail.
We also have many beautiful flowers, trees and plants in which we take an
interest.
The science students like to take walks in the open, where there is plenty
of fresh air and sunshine, and study all about the little animals, plants, and
trees. Many interesting events occur on these trips.
No doubt some of the Latin students, although it may prove to them an
interesting topic, regret the fact that they cannot accompany the scientists on
their journeys, because we do go on journeys. Sometimes we go by foot and other
times by imagination or pictures.
When we take a trip by picture our guide always shows us the most beautiful
spots in the country or takes us through the largest factories.
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COOKING DEPARTMENT
"We can live without poetry, music, and art, We can live without conscience,
we can live without heart, We can live without friends, we can live without
books But a civilized man can't live without cooks."
The little eighth graders,
Take cooking you know.
They wear aprons and bands,
As white as the snow.
They learn all about starch and sugar,
And things such as that;
And why we cook foods,
And what makes us fat.
They cook apples, make puddings,
And fry some good steaks.
Then they make white sauce;
Then they bake cakes.
These are the duties of cooks such as these,
Who later in life their husbands must please.
JANE FINDLEY
THE SEWING DEPARTMENT
POSSIBLY the most important training from a practical point of view given to
the girls of the Ninth Grade is that of sewing. It has been the earnest endeavor
of the teacher from the beginning to make the work agreeable to the pupils and
to make the hours spent in sewing class as enjoyable as possible. With the
preliminary training as much personal initiative as possible is allowed every
pupil so as to permit freedom and ease of mental activity.
The pupils are taken into the complexities of seams, hems and stitching. In
order that zest may be added to the interest in the work, a choice of night
garments is permitted as the first useful piece of work.
Developments in construction of the garment are supervised closely and
suggestions are tendered in order that a high grade of perfection may be
reached.
The teachers have taken great care that each pupil takes pride in her work,
in order that competitive interest may be fostered among the pupils.
These garments are then stored for the style show at the end of the second
semester. Each girl tries hard to have a piece of her work in the selected ones.
With the beginning of the second semester the choice of a dress or a smock is
allowed each pupil, to be made from a wide variety of color and texture of
cotton materials.
The economy of home sewing is brought to each class and wonders of needle
work soon cease to be the impossible.
The style show of the combined classes at the end of the second semester
lends the glamour and excitement to the class which other classes cannot give.
Each pupil adorned in her best piece of work passes in review before the entire
school assembled in the Auditorium.
Betty Hofmann, 9-16.
[n.p.] ROOSEVELTIAN, 1929 - AUTOGRAPHS: 1, 2