Summer School Diary, part 3D - 1914

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The Story Hour

July 7

one of the most profitable and enjoyable times of the U of N Summer School of 1914, was the Story Hour. Other things will shortly be forgotten but this will be rememberd and looked back to with the keenest enjoyment. The first meeting was held in the recreation room of Manzanita Hall, Tuesday evening, July 7. A large number attended. The first business was the election of officers.

Miss Gloster was elected president: Mrs Lee, vice president and Miss Oakes, secretary. Miss Howe was selected as leader of the meetings.

Our attention was then turned to the jokes of the evening. Mr. Kaye proved very entertaining and told two stories. His description of the mine in southern Nevada, which produced oyster soup was especially good.

Our president proved to be an excellent story teller and her Irish brogue provoked much laughter.

Miss Howe and her "just a little boy" was very good.

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Miss Hetchel, Miss Day and a number of others gave fine stories which are too numerous to mention here. The riddles also caused much fun and, as usual, some one "bit." It was decided to dress as ghosts for the next meeting and to tell ghost stories.

Fulton Lecture

July 9.

On Thursday July Ninth Mr. R. S Fulton delivered an interesting talk on American Characteristics. "All of us being true Americans, I am sure felt a glow of 'honest pride to know we belong to a people so enterprising and possessed of so many potential qualities for good. May all our virtuous characteristics ever prosper and multiply: and may our faulty ones be ever diminished and kept in the background.

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July 11.

A Trip to Steamboat Springs.

"Get the tickets while I watch for the lunch," "Has the watermelon come yet?" "I want a seat on the shady side of the car." These and like exclamations were heard as a merry party of summer school teachers and students gathered about the V. and J. motor car bound for steamboat Springs at 1 P.M. Beside the huge clothes basket of lunch containing food for all, each jolly picnicker carried a lunch basket a carton of olives, a roll of sandwiches, or a bag of fruit. [Even?] Miss Day, although she left her package of sixteen ham sandwiches on the depot platform, a tempting dinner for the first hungry dog, smilingly entered the car carrying aloft a small box of candy. Miss Howe struggled on with a huge water melon that measured 2 1/2 ft by 4 ft for actual weight apply to Mr. Morton.

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After much good natured strife for a seat on the shady side, all were comfortably seated and the car was soon in motion unfolding to the delighted sight seers the natural beauties of landscapes in the unsurpassed Truckee Meadows. Here the cool green fields with the golden sheen upon them encompass comfortable looking homes and stretch away to the purple shaded mountains overtopped by the chaste Mt Rose her virgin robes mistly outlined against Nevada's blue sky. Arriving at Steamboat Springs the party spent the afternoon in examining the springs which, bubbling and hissing, issue from figures in the rock and pour their boiling mineral water into the levels below. The creek with its shady bed offered attractions for those who would bare feet and ankles to its cooling influence and soon it was so full of kicking screeching humanity that the

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[photograph of students sitting on a bank]

frogs, watersnakes and like denizens of the brook found safety elsewhere. Two ultra modest ladies forebore the pleasure of bare feet and cooling waters and showed their depreciation of the sport by carrying away and hiding the shoes and stockings of their wading companions. But they soon came to grief for the waders quickly surrounded them, dragged them to the water's edge, divested them of shoes, stockings and modesty and pushed them in where they remained until duly punished. The lengthening shadows