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he Woodrow Wilson Literary Society, this year, has been quite successful in realizing its ideals and in bringing before the students the possibilities and opportunities afforded by a literary society. There have been many debates,
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all of which were most profitable to the members.
Some of the subjects that have been debated during the past year are; Government Ownership of Public Utilities, United States and the League of Nations, and Direct Primary and Convention Nominations, besides others of a more local or personal interest. The Woodrow Wilson aided the Booster’s Club in presenting a program, by which they sought to bring more clearly to the students the advantages and opportunities afforded by the literary societies of the school. The subject for the state debate was; “Resolved, That the methods of direct primary nominations in local and state elections is preferable to that of conventions.’’ This debate was entered into wholeheartedly by the society.
While the activities of the club are not spread widely over the school, the club feels that all its members have received innumerable benefits, and the debates participated in by all members have aided them immeasurably
LANIER LITERNARY SOCIETY
OFFICERS
Helen Williams
Louise Whit
Esther Blachman
Ida Morgan
Augusta Fran
Esther Crockin
Mary Virginia Pendergraph
Miss Anna S. Johnston
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Report
Sergeant-at-Arms
Chmn. Program Com.
Faculty Advisor
HONORARY MEMBER
Miss Hilda Devilbiss
MEMBERS
Allen, Virginia
Askew, Thelma
Bailey, Elizabeth
Ball, Elizabeth
Ballard, Frances
Barnes, Lillie Mae
Barrick, Laurie
Barkley, Nathalyne
Beale, Nellie
Berson, Annie
Berson, Gitt Lee
Blachman, Esther
Booth, Lina
Buxton, Virginia
Caplan, Ella
Conner, Nellie
Cox, Elizabeth
Cox, Lorene
Clements, Elsie
Crockin, Esther
Crowl, Eleanor
Cassell, Lillian
Corbell, Nancy
Colein, Hazel
Deans, Mildred
Dillon, Josephine
Duling, Jeanette
Duvall, Helene
Eggleston, Nancy
Ellis, Catherine
Floyd, Evelyn
Foote, Christine
Forrest, Kathryn
Frank, Augusta
Freidman, Sarah
Gay, Audrey
Goldstein, Bernice
Green, Gertrude
Haines, Helen
Hall, Olivia
Hatchell, F'loise
Hudgins, Lois
Jones, Margaret
Johnston, Emma
Jacobson, Rose
Jacobson, Celia
Jarrett, Doris
Kaplan, Fannie
Lindauer, Gertrude
Lipscomb, Ella
Levitin, Mildred
Long, Nellie
Marshall, Etta
Morgan, Ida
Parker, Alberta
Parker, Iris
Pendergraph, Mary Va.
Perkins, Mildred
Powers, Frances
Richardson, Ovilla
Robertson, Mary
Solomon, Mollie
Savage, Willie
Shaw, Eleanor
Small, Thelma
Taylor, Thelma
Thomas, Virginia
Turner, Eunice
Williams, Helen
White, Louise
Robertson, Virginia
the activities of the society for this school year only. We started out in September, 1925 with an enrollment of seventy-five and we have had an average attendance of about sixty at every meeting.
This year we decided to study modern plays. We have had talks on plays and given a few playlets at our meetings. At Thanksgiving a delightful little play, “Finding the Thanks in Thanksgiving,” was presented in the auditorium and the Christmas play we gave was a beautiful program also. Etta Marshall, our former President, who was honored by being elected Student Council President, was forced to resign the presidency of the Lanier Literary Society. Helen Williams, our Vice-President, was elected President and Louise White was elected Vice-President.
Our activities closed this year with a jolly picnic at which each one enjoyed herself immensely.
Esther Blachman, Secretary
he Lanier Literary Society, our oldest literary society, has had a long and honorable career. Its history has been given in former issues of “The President,” so in this number of our Annual we are confining ourselves to
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SHAKESPEAREAN LITERNARY SOCIETY
OFFICERS
Grace Virginia Woodhouse
Lucy Bourne
Mary Paulding Murdock
Julia Pendergraph
Harriet Branch
Nancy DeBerry
Miss Griffith
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Reporter
Sergeant-at-Arms
Faculty Advisor
Colors: Green and White. Motto: “To thine own self be true.”
MEMBERS
Baker, Margaret
Bloom, Lillian
Bourke, Lucy
Brady, Margarette
Branch, Harriett
Busby, Emily
Cheatham, Emma M.
Chesson, Minnie P.
Clayton, Louise
Codd, Elsie
Codd, Sarah
DeBerry, Nancy
Dunn, Elizabeth
Ford, Dorothy
Forbes, Mollie
Goldblatt, Lydia
Hart, Ruth
Herbert, Ethel
Hodges, Amelia
Hutcheson, Anna
Hutchins, Charlotta
Irving, Rosa Lee
Kneeburg, Evelyn
Liebrecht, Ina
Lynch, Bessie
Markham, Katherine
Marks, Minnie
Marshall, Susan
Miller, Jane
Mountcastle, Sadie
Murdock, Mary P.
Overton, Grace
Pendergraph, Julia
Pugh, Mary Wilson
Scofield, F'rances
Sutton, Mabel
Warren, Cynthia
Weiss, Miriam
Woodhouse, Grace Va.
Yarbrough, Virginia
It I could write a verse or two
About our Wilson Hi,
I’d try a rhyme to tell about
The best Society.
It dates ’way back to Shakespeare,
Though it’s only eight years old!
It may yet produce a genius
From our modest little fold.
There is something in a name, you know,
(We differ from our Will)
And we gather inspiration
From his plays and poems still.
This is the motto we would keep,
“To thine own self be true,’’
We hope to live up to it
And be straight in all we do.
On certain Thursdays of the month
We meet, and you’d then see
These literary Sophomores
Have “some” society!
We all then get together.
And friends are made from foes
With fine debates, first pro, then con.
And oratory flows!
We put across a gay tableau,
we even go ahead
And try a play of Shakespeare,
Where actors “fear to tread.”
But we come to earth with rapture
When “eats” are handed ’round.
With a feast less literary.
You can hardly hear a sound!
Here’s to you, jolly Sophomores,
There is truth in this small rhyme.
“If you want to have a good time,”
Join the “Shaky’s” every time!
—Mary Paulding Murdock, '28
Motto: “Facta, non verba.’’
OFFICERS
Edwin Owens
James Sadler
Clara MacKenzie
Virginia Myers
Davida Crockin
Dorothy Mathews
Bettie Taylor
Annie Gray
Harold Cohen
Miss Hildegarde Barton
Imperator
Consul
Scriba
Quaestor
Nuntius
Senatores
Senatores
Senatores
Senatores
Faculty Advisor
MEMBERS
Boys
Forbes, Bruce
Hart, Ralph
Hanbury, Paul
Hock, Robert
Howard, Edwin
Howard, William
Girls
Eriedman, Bessye
Gray, Annie
Harding, Barbara
Hayden, Dorothy
Herndon, Bettie
Johnston, Virginia
Lippin, Elsie
Mathews, Dorothy
Mathews, Mary
Allsbrook, Alton
Batts, Jerry
Beaser, Bobby
Cohen, Harold
Coin, Isadore
Cuthriell, Robert
Doleman, Emmett
Altschul, Dora
Ballard, Louise
Brown, Margaret
Bryan, Virginia
Cottrell, Beulah
Crockin, Davida
Culpepper, Ocie
Etheridge, Dorothy
Friedman, Annie
Kasakoff, Harry
Marcus, Irvin
Owens, Edwin
Rueben, Moses
Sadler, James
Shikevitz, Earl
Zentz, Jerome
Mackenzie, Clara
Mero, Gertrude
Myers, Virginia
Newton, Mildred
Powell, Alice
Taylor, Betty
Ware, Sara
White, Beatrice
Wright, Annie
HONORARY MEMBERS
Miss Mary B. Brittingham Miss E. Virginia Griffith
SOCIETAS ROMANA
HE Societas Romana was organized last September under the supervisionof Miss Hildegarde Barton. This is the first Latin Club that has ever existed among the Freshmen in the history of Woodrow Wilson High School.
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It was started to create more interest among the students in their subject, and it has grown from twenty to about fifty members in one year. Next year, with an increased membership, we hope to carry on our activities and become one of the largest societies in Woodrow Wilson High School. What we stand for, and some of the things we do, you will find in the following rhymes:
S stands for socii, comrades are we;
O is oratores, speakers we’ll be;
C stands for carmina, songs we’ve been taught;
I is imagines, thoughts we have brought;
E is edacitas, proneness to eat;
T is Tirones, the Freshmen we meet;
A is antiqui, the classics we read;
S stands for studium, zeal, there is need;
R is Romani, the Romans of old;
O is for optimi, best we are told;
M stands for mores, their customs of life;
A is audacia, boldness in strife;
N stands for natio, race of renown;
A is for amor, our love we’ll hand down
LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA
Hawthorne Griddle
Frances Browne
Katherine Markham
William Rountree
Charles Bilisoly
Emily Busby
Elizabeth Taylor
Srta. Katherine B. Woodward
Presidente
Vice-Prestdenta
Secretaria
Tesoreros
Tesoreros
Reportera
Presidenta de la comision de programa
Facultad-Consiiltora
SOCIOS
Muchachos
Ames, Oscar
Bilisoly, Charles
Bond, Robert
Bowen, Joseph
Buckwalter, Rupert
Berlind, Herman
Criddle, Hawthorne
Goldblatt, Bennie
Gordon, Maurice
Glickman, Saul
Grant, David
Gray, Corbelle
Green, Herbert
Guld, Irving
Gallagher, Philip
Mason, Rudolph
McPherson, Russell
Markman, Max
Martignetti, Mike
Mirvis, Anna
Nelms, Clifton
Owens, George
Pope, Arthur
Rice, John
Ricks, Robert (Hon)
Rountree, William
Ricks, Howard
Sheren, Ben
Spicer, Herbert
Stewart, Herbert
Wiley, John
Williams, Rawlings
Williams, Raymond
Alexander, Bessie
Andrews, Alice
Ashbury, Margaret
Ashbury, Courtney
Batts, Ruth
Browne, Frances
Brittain, Sterling
Busby, Emily
Blackman, Esther
Bowen, Hazel
Caplan, Ella
Creecy, Emma
Colein, Hazel
Cuthrell, Inez
Dunkum, Carrie
Ellis, Catherine
Foster, Virginia
Muchachas
Fentress, Edith
Frye, Dorothy
Ginsburg, Sylvia
Goodman, Ella
Goldsman, Virginia
Haas, Elizabeth
Hodges, Amelia
Hudgins, Lois
Haskett, Delloise
Jacobson, Bernice
Jacobson, Celia
Jarrett, Doris
Johnson, Isabelle
Johnson, Bessie
Jones, Howard
Kaplan, Fannie
Landers, Pansy
Marshall, Etta
Markham, Catherine
Maupin, Elizabeth
Moeller, Margaret
Parker, Edith
Parkerson, Frances
Pope, Claudia
Robertson, Mary
Shaw, Eleanor
Shaughnessy, Mildred
Solomon, Mollie
Taylor, Elizabeth
Turner, Iday
Warren, Annie
Wilkins, Florence
SOCIOS HONORARIOS
Sr. J. Leon Codd Srta Augusta Harper Sr. R. L. Sweeney
