Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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■ junior eej OJ1 C ouncii Joon and Mary Jo at camp in Montana The Junior Red Cross council, composed of one representative from each homeroom, was an active group this year in Ames High. The annual membership drive netted $96 for ill- National Junior Red Cross. Over 100 Christmas boxes were packed for Iowa orphans and children overseas. Junior Red Cross knit- ters worked on afghans for soldiers in con- valescent hospitals. The council also worked on a scrap book about our communi;v and nation which was sent to another country to promote international friend- ship. During the summer of 1946 .Jean Jones and Mary Jo G ie.se were sent to the Junior Red Cross district camp in Montana. Sponsor of the c unoil was Mrs. Elizabeth I lickinson. Officers for the council were Mary Jo Giese. chairman; Wayne Brown, production; George Clark, publicity; Joan Jones, album chairman. Sponsor was Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson. Front Row: McCann. Hthington. Mrs. Dickinson. Chivers, J. Schulz Middi.k Row: Parish. Morford. Marvin. Giese, Jones. Wilson. Morgan Back Row: Yoder. W. Brown. Alquist. G. Clark. McCarty. Spangler Kiyhtcen

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enior Senate Front How: Forsyth. Fitch. Mr. Ivistrr, Dietz. Wilson Mirdi.k Row: «;r«-.-n. B. McFarlnml, Kgeino. Molleston. N. Brown Back Row: Bill Martin. Don McNeil. T. Schulz. Klwell, Howard Jenson. J. Taylor The typical Ames High senior of '47 looks hack to when he was a shy sophomore and then a gay .junior and thinks how glad he was when he became an almighty senior.” Sponsor for the Senior Senate was Mr. Ronald Easter assisted by Mr. Kenneth Page and Miss Florence Adolph. An all school election chose seniors Ned Vit' qua in and Mary lee Rushing as king and queen of the mid-year dance ‘Half-Time Holiday.” Elected Spirit sweetheart was Phyllis Eschbaeh with Marilyn Townsend and Bobby Honsinger as her attendants. Eleanor Johns and Bob McFarland were honored by being chosen among the twelve finalists in Iowa in the Pepgi-Cola scholarship tests. Eleanor was elected as winner of a certi- ficate of merit and $50. The conference basketball championship won by Ames High this year was due largely to the ability and effort of the senior members of the squad. Chosen as the senior class play was Little Women, adapted from the novel by Louisa Alcott. This costumed play of the L860’s was directed by Omar Lett. The all-senior east was as follows: Mr. March Bob Wai.kf.r Mrs. March. Alice Ferguson Meg...................... Margaret Fowler Jo Patt Forsyth » Phyllis Eschbach Amy Bobbi Gross Aunt March Gloria Gould Mr. Laurence Tf.i Schulz Laurie................................ Frank Hai.dkn Professor Frederick Bhacr Norman Jackson John Brooke............................ Bill Allbaugh Hannah Millicit . Esther Breckenridge Twenty