CSSA participants enjoyed some April Fool Day fun when President March pretended to end an "unauthorized" picnic as it was getting underway at a local park. After ordering students back on the bus and placing them under school suspension, he shouted "April fool" and returned them to the picnic. Community members found certain delight in the associated newspaper article. [2]

1. "Junior-Senior Banquet at Cameron Last Night," Lawton Constitution, May 21, 1914. In 1923, Demetrian Club girls opposed some of the school’s boy students in a spelling bee contest, or "fun provoker." To show good sportsmanship after their defeat, the girls hosted a party for the boys. "The Demetrians," The Wichita (1923): 71; Wichita writers subtitled the 1916 yearbook "Some of the serious thoughts and actions of the school year with a little of the ludicrous thrown in;" Students joked about professors’ poor dispositions and eating beans for dinner on a regular basis. "Calendar," The Wichita: School Life in Poetry, Prose and Verse, (1915) : 77.

2. "Cameron Notes," Lawton Constitution, April 4, 1924.