East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-10-04
TEACHER HAS
BABYLON|AN COINS TO
ACCOMPANY LECTURES
Athletics Attract Boys and Girls
in Good Numbers at High
School; Pep Meeting Will be
Well Organized.

c. s. Cramer. physics teacher at the
high school, has a hobby OF collecting
old coins and relics of Rome and
Babylonia. His pupils consider they
are fortunate In having access TO his
collection as most of his specimens are
very rare.
The class has been. studying Archi-
medes' Law in physics and Mr.: Cra-
mer has been able to exhibit coins
which were used at the time Archi-
medes was at work. These coins are
merely little pellets of silver, stamp
ed with a signet. His Roman coins
which are equally Interesting. were
dug up among ruins in England A
Babyloian clay tablet. about the size
of a small cookie. is also In the coll
lection. The writing on It is cunei-
form and 1t is a receipt for four
pounds of pure butter and two mea-
sures of barley. 1t is at least six
thousand years old.
Mr. Cramer had a wonderful oppor-
tunity for gathering these objects OF
interest while in the service overseas.
He was a second lieutenant in the
Coast Artillery and spent many
both in England and France.
Committee for Pep Meetings
The pep meetings or student body
which are held each Thurs
day at the high school are to be con-
Quoted by a committee OF teachers and
students selected by II. f. Inflow prin-
cipal. The committee will issue in
short time a complete program of as
programs of the first semes-
ter. Songs which will be printed and
each student will have a copy.
Those who are acting on the com
mittee are as follows: Miss d. Flegel
and c. s. Cramer. faculty members,
and Charles Mowry Esther Jenkens
and Mary Clarke. student members.
The dramatic club Is working on
three short plays which AN be given
at assemblies. Earl ~. Flelshmann mn
will have charge of The cdlumbus day
program.
Football Turnouts Encouraged
"Prospects for a successful season
of football are improving Coach
Fleishmann. said today Interst IN
football is being aroused by leaps and
bounds in the school.
The following men are now getting
out for practice: Jens Torgeson. Ed
win Kirtley, Dwight French Theodore
Jack Beck. Shirley Havel,
Flovd Snyder Charles Enider, Lloyd
McRae, walter Ross. Ralph Shuli,
Lawrence Warner. John Saunders
Harold Goedecke, Fred Bynon. Char
les Cahill Buss Byers, Allen Folsom
Donald Woodwork. Lee Temple
clyde whitmore, Arthur Bell Lowell
Ruge. Jack Rugg, Ben Simonton'
Frank Monese Blaine Kennedy. Ho-
mer Elliot Carmen Saunders. Ben
smith, Edward Kuhn. Roy Fanshier'
Ford Ritner, Byron Warner and Lee
johnson.
GIRLS Basketball On,
Hard work and lots of pep are de-
veloninr a splendid girls basketball
team in Pendleton High School, ac-
cording TO Miss Catherine Morgan
coach.
Thirty-five girls is the average turn
out at the practice periods which are
held each Monday, Wednesday. and
Friday. Miss Geraldine Morrison Is
tho manager of the first team. Tho
captains of the various class teams
are. seniors NdSlfli t1uSNiiS' SNi'i''N'
Alberta McMonies; Sophmores. NIL
dred Rogers, and Freshmen Ida NC
Donald.
Within the next few weeks an ex-
hibition by the girls is planned. This
will consist of military drill in uni
form singing under the direction of
Esther jenkins, a basketball game and
other stunts
literary Program Announced
The Tamnawah Girls Literary So
ciety of the Pendleton High School
will meet on October and the fol-
loving program will he rendered;
peadipg Esther Johnston
Gene Stratton Porter Ruth Compton
Defamation ,......... Nerna Neehs
Work of G. S. Porter on Wild Life
Current Events ......... Elsie Park
On october IA the program to ne
given Is as follows;
NaXfield Parrish ...... GLADYS COOK
Defamation ....>,..--.' Meme brut'
isoadinu . Dorothy Lewis