Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-06
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

association at Indianapolis and the
National superintendent association
at Kansas City, Mo The latter meet
ing lasted from Monday until Friday,
inclusive, and the program was very
interesting. Mr.. Tobey reported that
the association declared in favor of
military training, and they also passed
resolution sustaining the president
of the United States-Woodrow Will
son. More than 5000 superintendent
and normal school presidents were in
attendance. Wisconsin was represent
ed by about sixty. They went to Kan
sas City in special cars from Chicago.
Mr.. Tobey praised the school system,
school buildings and equipment of
Kansas City very highly.
On Friday evening OF this week at
the High school auditorium slides will
be shown on the Panama Pacific Ex-
position" and Development of the
West" The films will be on the PAN
anna Pacific Exposition" TYPES of
Nations" and "Keokuk Dam" A lee
ture accompanying the pictures will be
given. These free entertainments have
been given at the High school during
this winter, and are the still pictures
and motion pictures on subjects of in
terest. Careful consideration has been
taken in getting pictures that would
be educational as well as entertain
ing. Up to this time no pupil below
the seventh grade has been admitted
unless accompanied by one or both
parents. The parents of our children
have been especially invited and
urged to attend. The attendance in the
past has been large, but was not al
ways an entire appreciative audience.
This has been due to children attend
ing this free service without their
parents, who have gone merely to
have some place to go to have good
time, such as whispering and laughing
and causing great deal of annoyance,
and not to enjoy the pictures and lee
lures which accompany them. These
unruly children have not always been
the younger element, but older ones
that ought to know better. These
children have. been warned several
times of the disturbance they create
at these meetings and have gone so
far that they were dismissed and sent
home. If the parents would accom-
pany their children to these free pic
lures and lectures all this disturb
ance would be eliminated. If
these free weekly entertainments
are not appreciated it will be
well to discontinue them. OF
course, there are many who attend
that really enjoy and receive bene-
fit from going, and these are the Deo-
pie being annoyed. 1t is hoped that
parents will take more interest in the
future and attend more of these meet
ings and bring their children with
them. The uppermost thought in the
minds of those selecting the pictures
that are being shown was to get some
thing educational and instructive, and
then entertaining. The pictures and
lectures shown and given in the past
nave surely proven this fact. A new
plan has now been worked out and -af-
ter this children accompanied by their
parents will be admitted free, but
children unaccompanied by parents
will be charged an admission fee of
five cents. This plan has not been
decided upon as money scheme but on
account Of some unappreciative peo-
pie that attend merely to have some
place to go to visit, and annoy others
fitting by the pictures and lectures.
1t is hoped that this plan stated above
Will bring better results liz the way
of good department and increase the
attendance of parents.
The play Three Girls From School"
given last Friday afternoon, proved a
big success. 1t was very entertaining
and also brought about good finan-
cial result. An amusing nonsense pro-
gram followed the play. The stu
Gents were charged an admission fee
On i've cents and about $500 was
cleared, which has been turned over to
the Annual fund
The boys oratorical contest will
come off on Friday, March 23rd. Those
who will take part are: Warner Bump.
Charles Manson, Herbert Buss. Fred
Goedtke, Elroy MacFaul. Morton
Schaefer and Calvin Clark.
The girls declamatory contest is
scheduled for Thursday, March 29th.
The contestants are: Elizabeth Moon
ey. Louise Pedigo, Margaret Merklein,
Jeanette Nequette, Esther Oswald,
Leah Meyer and Mildred Huds n.
Two people will be chosen from each
contest to compete with Grand Rapids
contestants in the league contest. II
the RAPIDS does not enter the league
contest then Wausau will go into the
district contest.
The next lyceum will be held on
March 18th, when st. Patrick's pro-
gram will be rendered. There will be
no lyceum program this week
The spring vacation will take I'D
the first week in April.
A Latin play is being arranged by
the Latin department under the di-
rection OF Miss Lorraine Peter. 70 be
given Friday afternoon, March 23rd.
The annual girls basketball tourna-
ment will be held Friday afternoon,
March Both.
Miss Elizabeth Nickles, teacher of
expression at the High school, is try
ing out students of the graduating
class for the purpose of getting the
cast for this years play, "a Rose
OPlymcuth Town" Only eight char
acters are included in the cast The
Rose OPlymouth Town" is Rose de la
Noye, French Hugenot lass of seven
teen, who, with her brother, Philippe,
i've at the home of Captain Miles
Standish. In the captains home. be-
sides himself and his wife, Barbara.
Rose, and her brother, Philippe, lives
Resolute Story, the captains aunt. and
Miriam Chillingsley, the captains con-
SIN. John Margeson, a member of the
Plymouth colony, and Garrett Foster.
one OF Weston's men, are the other
characters in the play. The play is
given In four acts. The first act opens
In the captains kitchen, on a morn
ing In August, 1922; the second scene
Is an afternoon in October of the
same year in the dooryard of the cap
talns cottage. A night in March of the
next year opens the third act; and the
scene OF the last is the same, but the
next morning. This play is by Beu-
lah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf
sutherland, and is a romantic come |
dy. Minnie DePree starred in this |