Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-23
CAMP CURTIN JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

A merry social event near the
Christmas holidays was the dinner
given Monday evening at 6 o'clock, by
the Domestic Science Department to
the Camp Curtin football team.
Under the direction of the hostesses,
Miss Frances Hamilton and Miss Ma
rie Finton, the several hundred girls
applied all the skin that, they have
developed during the semester in pre-
pairing the substantial and dainty
dishes that complete a roast pork
, dinner.
Two tables were laid with covers
for is. Centerpieces of Sweetheart
rosebuds and fern made a beautiful
decoration for each table, and the
kewpie football place cards were a
clever reminder to the guests of the
event that they were celebrating.
John J. Brehm. principal, Horace G.
| Geisel, athletic instructor and James
Peifer, athletic coach, were among
| the guests of honor, of course, for as
Miss Bertha Turner, girls athletic in
structor said in clever poem writ
ten recently, there could be no team
without those three.
The student guests were the mem
bers of the Camp Curtin football team
and included: Captain Joseph Bricker.
Charles Crownshield. Frank Wills
bach, James Lytle. James Shocker.
John Hummel. Paul wissler, Russell
Asper. Marlin Burd. Wallace Liggett,
Robert Greenawalt, Wilmot LantZ,
Hyman Williams, Charles Boyer John
DeShong.
The cheerleaders, Helen Graeff.
Margaret Rathfon and Virginia Wertz
served the dinner.
The guests were enthusiastic in
their appreciative expressions to the
hcstesses for the hospitality received
close to the most gracious season of
the year
Maria Mausteller Section OBJ. ac-
cording TO the latest report. heads
Camp Curtin in the individual sales
OF Red Cross Seals. Maria sold over
1000 seals.
The girls varsity basketball team
received congratulations from stu
/ dents for the victory of Saturday eve
ming when the team played the Key
stone basketball team of the Y. NJ. c.
A. ending with a score OF to s..
Miss Bertha Turner refereed the
game.
The faculty team is eager for a
chance to play the student team soon,
and end the game differently than it
ended Saturday evening when the
score, rs TO 20, showed that the stu
dent team had won. MIR. O'Donnell
acted as referee.
At the suggestion. of Helen Ritter,
Section Obi, part of Miss Bateman's
I Latin choir, went with Miss Mildred
Conkling and Samuel Wilson. home
| room teacher, during the home room
activities period, to sing Christmas
| Carols to the women living in the
home at Fifth and Muench streets.
An enterprising entertainment com
/ NIT Of SR-0 innludinp~.
| Potteiger, chairman, with assistants,
Marie Badorf, Melvin Byter and John
! steiner, prepared the following credi-
/ tab BILE program for the pleasure of
their home teacher. Miss Clara Hook
and the students OF their group:
| silent Night" the pearl of Christ
mas Carols" was sung by the school;
play, when Did You Last See Your
Father" having the historic setting
of the period of the restoration, was
given. The cast included Mistress
| sydney, Sadie Biting; Barbara sgd
ncy. aged IL, Mary Jarrett; Little
Nan, aged 3; Evelyn Bennett; Roger
aged 2, Norris Longaller; Micah Hol-
| fast, member of parliament, Melvin
Lyter; Holfast's clerk, John Steiner.
An appropriate Christmas solo was
sung by Phoebe Fortenbaugh; poem
| Two Little Stockings was given
! by Sadie Biting; The Gladiator,
was told by Melvin Lyter. After the
school had sung Under the stars.
and 20 Little Town of Bethlehem
| Norris Longaker gave a description
and the pupils guessed that the
! speaker meant Santa Claus, and they
were right.
Melvin Lyter's description OF Gen
eral Green was guessed readily.
The grab bag, with its usual supply
OF inappropriate and amusing gifts
such as a string of beads for a boy
of the athletic type, marbles for a
| girls who likes to embroider, was fit
ted into the center of the program
| which was accommodating enough to
adjust itself to a number so capacious
and fun giving. since it was an ex-
preston of good will felt by the mem
| bers of the group for one another