[Source: “The Optimist of M.H.S. 1904,” published by students, pp 73-75. Spelling and punctuation are as published. Transcriber's notes contained in brackets.] - Transcription by Carolyn Yetter MADISON HIGH SCHOOL COURSES OF STUDY The Madison High School begins with the eighth year of the school work and offers to the students four years of work in either of two regular courses of study, each leading to the diploma of the school. Students entering the school are required to follow the work as prescribed in one of the regular courses of study, even though they be unable to complete the course. Experience shows that pupils who enter school and do irregular work are more apt to drop out before it becomes necessary to do so, than are those who are regular in their classes. Students, however, whose health does not permit them to do the full work of each term, are allowed to do what they can do each term, taking for the completion of the course whatever time may be necessary, the diploma being given upon the completion of all required studies of the course. It is much better to be regular in the course than irregular, but better to be irregular as students than not students at all. The two courses of study are made to represent, as nearly as possible, the same required amount of work to entitle a student to receive a diploma from the school, and every pupil must have received the full number of term credits required to complete a course of study prior to his receiving the honors of graduation. [The two courses are the “English and Latin Course” and the “English and Commercial Course.” The annual lists the “English and Latin Course” then notes differences in the commercial course.] ENGLISH AND LATIN COURSE FIRST YEAR FIRST TERM SECOND TERM Subjects Periods per week Subjects Periods per week U.S. History 5 Webster's Bunker 3 Arithmetic 5         Hill Oration   English Grammar 3 Algebra 5 Composition and Rhetoric 2 English Grammar 3 Physiology 4 Composition and Rhetoric 2 Music 5 Physiology 4     Elocution 2     Music 5 SECOND YEAR FIRST TERM SECOND TERM Subjects Periods per week Subjects Periods per week Beginning Latin and 5 Beginning Latin and 5       Reading Selected Stories         Reading Selected Stories         from Latin Authors         from Latin Authors   Algebra 5 Algebra 5 Rhetoric 3 Rhetoric 3 Composition and Literature 2 Composition and Literature 2 Civil Government 5 Physical Geography 5 Music 5 Music 5 THIRD YEAR FIRST TERM SECOND TERM Subjects Periods per week Subjects Periods per week Geography 5 Geography 5 Caesar, and Exercises in 5 Caesar, and Exercises in 5       Latin Prose Composition         Latin Prose Composition   Botony 4 Botony 4 American Literature 3 American Literature 3 Composition and Rhetoric 2 Composition and Rhetoric 2 Elocution 1 Elocution 1 Music 5 Music 5 FOURTH YEAR FIRST TERM SECOND TERM Subjects Periods per week Subjects Periods per week Virgil, and Exercises 5 Virgil, and Exercises 5       in Sight Reading         in Sight Reading   General History 5 General History 5 Physics 5 Physics 5 English Literature 3 English Literature 3 Composition and Rhetoric 1 Composition and Rhetoric 1 Elocution 1 Elocution 1 Music 5 Music 5 The English and Commercial Course is the same as the English and Latin, except that in the third and fourth years commercial arithmetic, commercial law, banking and exchange and bookkeeping are taken instead of the Caesar and Virgil. 1904 Officers:            President -- Howard Richardson            Vice-president - Neill Hinton            Secretary - Dot Barnes            Treasurer - Oscar Rahe Colors: Orange and Black Flower: White Rose Motto: “Onward to Victory” Yell:          More! More! More!          Rickity! Rackity! Rockity! Roar!          Sis - ca - boom!          Open the door -          We're the class of 1904 Class roll Arthur Ach Mary Anger Dot Barnes Oscar Demaree Thomas Finnegan Clara Heuse Neill Hinton Howard Turpin Ray Hoffstadt Leota Lochard Emma Millar Oscar Rahe John Rankin Howard Richardson Anna Sauer Stella Straub Maude Wolfe 1905 Officers:            President - Walter Greiner            [No vice president listed]            Secretary - Virginia Wymond            Treasurer - Marie Sappington Colors: Green and White Flower: White Carnation Motto: “Hitch Your Auto to a Star” Yell:          Rizer! Razer! Rax!          Give 'em all the axe          When we fight          For green and white          Watch them turn their B-A-C-K-S Class roll Ford Bowman Ella Crawford Lina Davis Rose Dickerson George Anna Francisco Carl Friedersdorf Walter Greiner Rachael Haigh Alice Henry Bayard Hughes Edith Johnson Julia Klein Lula Laidley Dora Lotz Fred Lotz Fay Merritt Florence Miller Halstead Murat Mary Rankin Ruby Schmidlap Kathleen Shaughnessy Bertha Straub Marie Sappington Ella Wood Virginia Wymond Grace Montz 1906 Officers:            President - Lee Childs            Vice-President - Everett Weeks            Treasurer - Wm. Millar            Secretary - Verlia Magers Colors: Blue and white Flowers: Red Carnation Motto: “Rest at the Summit” Yell:          Whiz! Whiz! Lickity Siz!          Flipity! Flopity! Flipity fisz!          Rickity ra! Rickity rix!          Wat's the matter wid 1906          Blue and White, dey're alright.          Raw! Raw! Boomerah! 1906. Class roll Elva Bowman Nathan Chadwick Lee Childs Jean Graham Theodore Harding Elsie Hitz Ella Kahn Verlia Magers Nellie McCane William Millar John Radcliff Marion Schnaitter Mollie Slattery Everett Weeks Vella V. Wilson 1907 Officers:            President - William Cochran            Vice-President - Florence Friedersdorff            Secretary - Virginia Snyder            Treasurer - William Klein Colors: Red and Blue Flower: Red Rose Motto: “Ever to the Heights” Yell:          Clickity! Clackity          Sis! Boom! Bah!          1907          Rah! Rah! Rah! Class roll Mary Bowman Ethel Calloway Lena G. Camerer Bernice Childs Nell Clements Sara Clements Wm. Cochran Katherine Crawford Ora Cull Linnie Custer Fred Denny Fred Diederich Florence Friedersdorff Dora Geisler Gertie Gordon Virginia Hitz Fritz Hoffstadt Mary Hughes Amy Kistler William Klein Ernest Matthews Maude McNutt Nadine Millican Augustus Mitchell George Osner Florence Pogue Don Price Willie Rahe Clara Sauer Mattie Rutledge Frank Selleck Virginia Snyder Anna Spoo Pearl Rice Marguerite Stapp Susie Tower Willa Walker Pauline Ward Lila Whilhoite Lottie Wolf Willie Wood 1908 Officers:            President - Burr R. Callis            Vice President - Ivy Bear            Secretary - Victoria Genter            Treasurer - Bernice Bingham Colors: Purple and Gold Motto: “Lead, not Follow.” Flower: Yellow Chrysanthemum Yell: Hip! Hip! Hurrah!          Hurrah, Rate!          Madison High School          Nineteen Eight. Class Roll Mary Anderson Edward Arbuckle Ivy Bear Charles Bersch Margaruite Bersch Louis Bierck Bernice Bingham Fred Brossart Burr Callis Mary Chapman Moses Cochran Yandel Copeland William Davis Hazel Davis Geroge Diedrich Frank Dittgen Howard Eckert Rea Eckert Bessie Friedersdorff Victoria Genter Nellie Hammel Gilbert Harr James Hill Grace Huntly Annie Johnson Vinnie Gray Harry Kellam Claude Kemper Harry Lemen Lea Sinkhorn Bab Laidly Emma Lemen George Lewis Charles Lustig Blanche Matthews Robert Millar Dean Miller Clinton Moffett Maude Nichols Estella Noble Ralph Pratt Archie Priest Lillian Rea Laura Selig Graham Ross Wesley Server Mable Stottlebower William Straub Vera Tandy Bessie Todd Bessie Toole Stella Trigg Nora Vanhorn Martha Vawter Emma Walker Foree Walker Stella Weeks Florence Winnefield Transcription by Carolyn Yetter Jefferson County Schools Jefferson County INGenWeb. Copyright 1996 - 2002. All Rights Reserved. Web site by Ruth Hoggatt Web site hosted by MyIndianaHome.net