The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
High School Happenings
Contributed Weekly in The State Journal by the journalism
Students of T. H. S.

7 the two forces was the feature of the
! stunt.
Junior Stunt.
! The junior class presented an anus
| ing sketch, 1.-The Country Marriage.
written by Albert Davis. The main
| characters were taken by Edgar Gard
ner, the preacher: Robert Akers. the
/ sheriff; Wilbur Mason, the bride, and
| Lawrence McCloskey, the groom. The
| other characters were the persons who
| will attend the wedding and charivari.
| Senior Stunt.
! The senior stunt entitled Twenty
| Years Ago" caused much favorable
| comment among the spectators The
| titleSwas suggested by the motion pic
| ture, 1.-THE Three Musketeers."
Father Time introduces each par
! ticipant, and, as the title suggests, the
people were shown as they look in
! 1921, and then as a tableau how they
will look and in what profession they
will be engaged in 1941.
| The characters in the stunt were:
Father Time Wilbur Naylor
| Greatest Flirt. Grassy Bruce
Greatest Scientist. ,........ Orhan Cobientz
Movie Queen NlrgInla ,a n.,iies
professional President. $3.50; Don Welton
Celebrated Actor. ............ Perez Harvey
Faculty Stunt.
. Stunts may come and stunts may go
| but the faculty stunt never fails to
Nmake a hit. Tradition was upheio
! Friday nig'.t when the faculty pre-
| scented an original and humorous
| laugh producer.
Mr.. Hepworth vice principal was
! the inventor of a wonderful machine
which was able to change people into
! the opposite from what they had pre-
! viously been. With the aid of Mr..
! Winters of the woodwork department
h IL
/ ground OUT mystic wonders. Miss
| Calvert, the genial mathematic teach
er, was transformed to one-half nor
NAL size. Mr.. Mosser was made twice
as large, and Miss Grace Elmore
| emerged with bobbed hair. Mr.. Cook,
the esteemed principal, appeared as a
| traffic cop. The most remarkable
| changes, however, came when Miss
| Maude Bishop became a prima donna;
Mr.. Kaho became a successful after
Dime speaker; Miss Boughton be-
| came frivolous and revealed gay ana
! festive spirit and last, Miss Wolcott
was transformed into an exceedingly
graceful dancer.
Park Cain, president of the sub
| Junior class and also of the student
/ council, was chosen by the council to
! act as master of ceremonies for the
all-schooI party. He will preside dur
in the progral-- in the auditorium
!
thruout the evening.
The tick4 sale for the all-school
party was unusually good. Two
thirds of the pupils of the school pur-
! chased tickets. The class selling the
most tickets will receive prize.
The freshmen reserved the first five
| rows in front across the assembly hall
| for their seats at the all-school party
| They waved green banners and gave
yells as part of the freshman stunt.
The high school building is almost
| as busy ut night as it is in the day
time. The Methodists have their
prayer meetings there, the university
! extension classes are held there two
| nights a week; number of the inter-
I church basket ball games are held in
! the gymnasiHms, besides the board of
| education meetings and gatherings of
( special committees.
Miss Ewing, dean of the girls of
! Topeka high school, who has been
+, absent from school the last three days
due to torn ligaments in her foot, is
| back teaching her classes. In her abb
sence, Miss Lillian Martin substituted.
E L. Hendrix has been chosen bust
ness manager of the ''Sunflower." His
work will be done thru his bookkeep-
| ing students. Miss Nellie -Ansel is
again editorial adviser of the ANNUAL.
Inez Gardner should have been
named in the honor roll recently pub
| lished as having an average of 'B."
| The name was accidentally omitted
from the~typewritten list sent to the
| printer.
! Miss Kerr and Miss Mcmillan each
were presented with a pin of the Junior
class of which they are the advisers.
! The pins arrived a few days ago, and
were distributed to the members of the
class The pins were given to Miss
| Kerr and Miss Mcmillan as a token of
the appreciation of the class.
Mrs. Embleton's first and fifth hour
! Latin classes are engaging in novel
/ contest Vocabulary and declension
| test grades are kept and compared by
the class captains of each class.
| A part of the cast of the senior play.
/ The Fortune Hunter" has practiced
every afternoon for two weeks. This
week was devoted to the second act.
AT the recent meeting of the annual
nominating committee the following
nominees were chosen:
| Editor-Herbert Abmyer, Don Wei
ton, Willard Gabriel, Eugene Olander,
and James Weaver.
| The assistant editor from the senior
| class will be the person receiving the
next to the highest number of votes.
| The assistants to be chosen from
| the junior class are Edgar Gardner,
/ Ivah Lewis. Raymond Hoffsommer,
| Norma Cline and Carl Swanson.
/ Those chosen from the senior class
| to run for business manager are:
! Fred Allen, Lauren Plummer, Charles
| Lavitt, Theron French and Joy Bull
/ lis. From the juniors: Leo Carmain.
| Harold Carr, Albert Davis and Joe
Robb-