Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-02-09
Alma High
School Notes

Membership cards in the Alma
High Athletic association are being
sold this week to the students. Mem
bership in the association entities
the member to cut of fifteen cents
in the admission price to the various
athletic activities of the semester.
The heads Of the various classes
are attempting to gain 100 per
cent membership for each class and
the sale progressed rapidly the first
day.
The first basketball game of the
new semester at home comes on
Friday night when the high school
meets the Mt Pleasant Normal Re
serves in a preliminary to the Alma
kazo9 clash The first game is
scheduled for Ills
A series of inter-mural girls bas-
ket ball games has been arranged,
the first to be played on Friday of
next week. The various classes met
and elected their captains and or
ganized teams the first of the week.
The captains elected were: Dorothy
Bradley, for the seniors, Ethelyn
Adams, Junior captain and Gerald
inc Holmes, Frosh leader. The series
is being sponsored by the physical
training department. The rules gov
erning this department have been so
changed as to require every girl to
take one year of physical training
during her high school career.
The music department, under the
direction of Miss Emmel, has already
begun preparation for spring activ
tiles. A spring cantata has been Sc
cured for the high school chorus and
The entire work of the chorus will be
conferred upon this. The Girls Glee
Club is also beginning work on a
cantata. Enrollments are now being
made for the musical concert and
contest held at Mt Pleasant in con-
nection with the May Festival. Lois
Smith will sing the soprano solo;
Marian Grover, alto solo; Miles Chat
fin, tenor and Kenneth Holmes. bari
tone. A Girls double trio and
double mixed quartet will also com
pete. Doris Slinguff will be accom-
PIANIST and will enter the piano con-
test.
Three new typewriters have been
added to the Commercial department
and are already in full-time use. For
merly the capacity Of the. typewriter
ooms was only rs, but with the add
ion of the three new machines 96
pupils can be accommodated each day.
Even with the enlarged department,
everyone can not be accommodated as
he enrolment for the subject is 102
for the semester.
The date for the long heralded
Senior Play is at last decided upon.
After much conference and re-arrang-
ing Of the social and athletic schedule
it was decided that Friday, February
"a, would be the big day The cast is
surprisingly hard at work and the di-
rector is beginning to lose sleep
worrying about it and al in all every
thing seems to indicate one Of the
best home-talent plays of the season.
The play itself, stop Thief" is a
play which has met great success and
can hardly fail to please an Alma
audience.
The Alpha Beta Literary society, a
society for Freshmen and Sophomore
girls, held the first meeting of the
new semester last week. The faculty
advisors Of the society are Miss
Hughes and Miss Hunt Preceding the
regular program the following off
GERS were elected President, Mary
Johnson; Vice Pres, Marion Johnson;
Sec'y. and Treas, Neva Parker The
program consisted of music, poems
and stories by the various members