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Show Mon Sept 27-26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Mrs. Chet. Morse, a patron, and Miss Mary Mattson, a teacher in "Weber High, visited several classes at Ogden High school on Friday. Mrs. LeRoy Thatcher and son Paul and several other patrons and friends enjoyed our assembly with us on Friday. Assemblies are held at 11:15 o'clock every Friday and parents, as also friends, are invited to attend these exercises at any time. STILL THE BAND. The band gives evidence that the pep and spirit and go of last year are still present. Many of the old students have returned and there are a few new students in the band of 1926. NEW STUDENTS. Miss Merrill has three new students in Spanish in which she is particularly interested. These are young women from the blind school, and they give promise of becoming very proficient students. ASSEMBLY. President Fife presided on Friday at the second assembly of the year. Our famous band made its first appearance and played three stirring numbers, which roused a degree of school spirit which had lain dormant since last spring. Miss Lenore Thatcher of the Moroni Olsen players read Booth Tarkington's one-act play, "Ghost Story," in a most delightful manner. Miss Thatcher won the hearts of the Ogden High school student body. The Rev. J. E. Carver had consented to talk to us, but the program had ran over the allotted time, so he graciously promised to come to an assembly in the near future. Announcements by the manager and editor of the quarterly ennumerated the positions open on the staff and on business to aspirants for fame and experience. If we may consider this our example of the assemblies our 1926-27 president is going to get for us, we say, "Long live the president. ELEANOR WEEKS, Secy. FINE AUDIENCE. "That was one of the most appreciative, respectful and responsive audiences I have ever met," Lenore Thatcher said after Friday's assembly. AUTISTIC RENDERING. A school audience could not be otherwise when held by such an artistic reader as Miss Thatcher. The selection was very appropriate for a high school audience, and was most artistically and charmingly rendered. PAST MASTERS. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Corey and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Flygare are past masters in the art of entertaining, says each of the 50 and more high school teachers who were royally entertained by them at the Flygare home in Ogden canyon Friday night last. The hosts were ably assisted by Mr. and Mrs. George Isenberg. The teachers were welcomed to the home and served hot dogs, pickles, chile, hot biscuits, doughnuts, coffee and fudge. The teachers declare the social and entertainment the most enjoyable ever held by the faculty and express their sincere appreciation to the hosts. SONG LEADERS. Superintendent Karl Hopkins, E. S. Smith, George Bergstrom and 'Mrs. Devere Child proved themselves outstanding song leaders at the teachers' social the other evening and sang every known song from "Underneath the Old Apple Pie Crust" to "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Gordon Croft displayed immense skill as a clog dancer, and Hortense Evans evidenced remarkable versatility in all the intricate steps of the Charleston. George Bergstrom excelled also as a story teller, especially of the "ghost story" type. ART WORK. Art classes are now well organized. Students are working in various mediums. First year students are beginning with color study and the handling of water colors. Other students are drawing in pencil and charcoal from still life, casts and life. Misses Ruth Agee and Eugenia Smith are beginning etching. Evelyn McGregor is sketching landscapes in the park near the school. Applied art students are working in balik. Several Weber college students are taking advantage of the opportunity of working with Mr. Stewart. FIGURES REVERSED. In the rising scale of automobile accidents, some interesting reversals of figures takes place. In Connecticut, for example, in 1910 diphtheria killed eight times as many persons as automobiles did. In 192 5, automobiles killed three times as many as diphtheria did. In 1910 the scourge of typhoid fever killed five times as many persons as automobiles did. In 1925 the automobile killed nine times as many as the dread fever. At the present rate of killing and maiming, at least one in every hundred will sooner or later be killed by an automobile and at least one in four will be injured. EACHING SAFETY. Here again the school has its duty. Teachers must contribute somehow to the lessening of accident and the conservation of life. Every student must be made thoroughly acquainted with traffic rules, both for drivers and pedestrians, and must be made to feel that he has a personal responsibility to discharge. Don G. Seity in an article, "Murder by Motor," in The Outlook, reaches the conclusion that our casualties are largely due to the false American viewpoint that "liberty consists of doing as one pleases to some one else," but he is not at all hopeful of the viewpoint being changed; no evidence points toward a reversal of that wicked, perverse attitude. Here, perhaps, is where teachers may help most. Let us inculcate the true idea of personal liberty and moral obligation. IN LETTER AND IN SPIRIT. A recent report on automobile accident fatalities says: "The situation will improve just as soon as sufficient right-minded people in each community apply themselves intently to their local problem of accident prevention." The conclusion of the report is entitled also to most careful consideration: "Motor accidents will be almost a thing of the past when each individual who uses the highway is not content simply to obey the law in letter and in spirit, but habitually regards the rights of others more than his own convenience." Tue. Sept 28 '26 OGDEN HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Miss Baines, instructor in English at the new Weber County High school, visited high school classes yesterday. Any student in high school is eligible to enter the school orchestra which meets daily at 3:15 o'clock. Mr. Lammers meets with the orchestra three times a week and knowing what our band did last year under his expert direction, students should avail themselves of the opportunity of enrolling in this class. More students should enroll also in vocal music classes. Two classes were organized, one in the third period and one in the fourth so that all who can sing might have the opportunity of participating in the chorus and opera work of the school. Just think, George Coolidge and Jake Reynolds have been able to make the West Point choir. Maybe they would have made it last year if they had taken chorus work at high school. ART CLASSES. Mr. Stewart is giving instruction to advanced students in art on Mondays and Thursdays from 3 until 6 o'clock. A number of city teachers are enrolled and the class is open to others who wish to join. MORE THOROUGH ENGLISH. Students entering colleges; and universities are sending back words to students in high school to "hit the English work harder." Many who thought they were pretty good students find the entrance examinations in English difficult and are obliged to review grammar and English composition in college without credit. Those who have passed the examination have good cause to be congratulated. GET ACQUAINTED PARTY. Friday night is the big night for the feminine contingent at high school. This is the gala event when the seniors take the juniors and show them a good time. All the little junior girls who have been trembling at the sight of a mighty senior girl, will realize on Friday night what a wonderful thing it is to be up at high school. The senior girls are going to be the boys and take the junior girls as girls. There'll be all sorts of original stunts—the advisory classes are working on them now— and prizes for the best couples and —wait and see! After Friday night all the girls will be pulling together for the Girls' association and the Ogden High school and it will be some pull. ELEANOR WEEKS. H. C. OPENS SEASON. The first H. C. meeting of the year was carried off with pep and enthusiasm. With Clifford Fret-well as president, and Miss Beck advisor, work for the year was scheduled. As the purpose of the club is to study history and present day events, many interesting talks on these subjects will be given during the year. "Mmm, mumble, mumble," have you heard it, too. Hints of a delightful party to be sponsored by H. C. Eighteen lucky students are being admitted into the club and this promises to be a "night of nights" for them. There is little doubt in the minds of a certain group of students as to which club will take the lead this year. Could it be--? But we'll let you decide that. NATURALIST COMING. Prof. E. Lawrence Palmer of the science department of Cornell university will be in Utah during November to make a study of nature teaching in Utah schools. Professor sor Palmer is a pre-eminent scholar and teacher in his field, and an effort will be made to have him give one or more talks to high school students when he comes. Both Professor and Mrs. Palmer spent some time with the Boy Scouts in Ogden last summer and became much interested in the opportunities for science teaching in Utah. Willis South of the science department has received complimentary copies of valuable bulletins published by Professor Palmer. A NOTED UTAHN. Every city, state and country naturally takes pride in any citizen born, and raised within its confines, who later in life makes good. For that reason Salt Lake and Utah take a great deal of pride in Otto Harbach now of New York, who is characterized in August Pictorial Review as "the world's most successful writer of musical comedies, author of nearly 40 big hits— ranging all the way from Madame Cherry,' produced in 1909, to 'Rose Marie,' 'No, No, Nannette,' 'Song of the Flame,’ and ‘Sunny.’” |