The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-20
High School Assembly Room
for Graduation Ceremony.
Glass of ~January rs" Plans
Announced Today.
CAFETERIA OPEN TO PARENTS
They Will Dine in the High
School Lunch Room.
Boys Will Have ~Gym" Work
in Second Semester.

The high school class of January
'15." the members of which will not
be graduated for several weeks a1ter
the usual time. will have the honor OF
officially opening the new Assembly
room in the academic building at the
time the dipl omas are given out. Al
though the class rooms in the addltloh
to the building will be ready for use
the first of February, it probably Will
be, three weeks before the assembly
room, which will have seating ca
pacity Of between 400 and 1900 per-
sons, will be completed.
There will be an innovation in the
commencement ceremonies. The usu-
al address given by some promlnent
educator will be lacking. 1t its place
the regula- class day exercises will be
held.
Glcc Club Will Sing.
The high school orchestra under
Carlton Wood will furnish music, and
the glee club under Sheriff. Smith. an
Instructor, will make its first public
appearance. A. J. Stout, principal,
made this comment today: "A class
that has had so little opportunity to
do things should have the honor OF
opening the assembly ROOM The
class has been handicapped because
of lack of facilities at the high school
building. Cor ditiOns will be as they
should be when the new addition is in
use.
The mail order sale Of tickets for
the senior play. 1.-THE Professor
Awake- ing" which. will be presented
at the Grand Opera house Friday
evening, January 90. will start Thurs
day morning. High school students
will be all owed to drop their orders
for reservations in box at the high
school building. Orders will he sent
in by the people Of Topeka.
Parents mt Cafeteria.
The parents of high school students
will be given an opportunity to take
lunch in the cafeteria lunch room be-
ginning Thursday and continuing fol
week. The school management will
he pleased to have them take advan.
tage Of the invitation. If it is con-
venient. those persons whose names
begin with letters ranging from A tt
NJ are asked to have lunch in thu
school lunch room this week, and al
others next week. This will facilitate
matters considerably.
In the second semester those per
sons in the manual training building
will he dismissed for lunch at the enc
of the third hour or 11:4O O'Clock
They will be allowed forty minutes TO
1uheh and will be- expected to repOr
ut their classes. Those in the nOrtl
building will be dismissed for lunch a
12:45 o'clock. This will give few
minutes after the first contingent ha
eaten in which to prepare for tn
I north building students.
Glass Annual Announcement.
The senior class an. l which vii
contain some clever Sri rises of
unique nature, will be on sale Wed
nesday. Jan. 26. Seniors will be turn
ed loose" to go to the respective elias
rooms to sell the ANIMALS. The edito
is Sierra Boggs, and the business man
ager Clay Baker.
feature at the high school the sec
ond semester will be a regular gym
nasium class among the boys betwee
1880 and $3.50 o'clock. This will b
under the personal direction of w. ]
Mclean. the efficient director of ply
steal education for the city schools.
is an innovation for the high schoc
The girls have had gymnasium worl
but facilities have been lacking an
it has been impossible to give til
boys this advantage.