Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Manet WitL CL tJ Sp iri t S weetli eart Sweetheart Jan ;tn l is a member of the G.A.A. bowling group. Holding numerous offices throughout her high school career. Anne was first semester president of Girl Reserve and is now vice-president of this organization. She is a member of Red Cross, G.A.A.. Pep club and Spirit staff. Catching the limelight in Anne’s list of favorites is music. She. herself, has played piano tor several years. “Liz likes to watch most any sport, hut for her own pleasure she chooses swimming. A regular senior class “wheel. Rosie is home- room president, a member of student council and senior senate. She is also vice-president of Pep club. G.A.A.. A cappella choir, and Spirit staff complete her current activities. Rosie is practically a master craftsman and spent many hours making various pieces of handiwork. Rosie also likes music, and besides sharing her vocal talents in choir, she plays a mean chord on the piano. Another sports minded gal, she especially likes swimming and basketball. The 1048 Spirit Sweetheart. Janny Miller, and her two attendents, Anne and Rosie, were presented with carnation corsages at the dance. Janet Miller, dark haired, brown eyed senior, is the students' selection for the 1948 Spirit Sweetheart. Her attendents are Anne Barnard and Rosie Iverson, both seniors. These girls were chosen from a list of finalists, which include Salle Cole. Ann Cooper, Mary Jo Gicse. Nancy Neff, Mary Ross. Mary Taylor and Susan Tildcn. Now very busy as Girl Reserve president, Janet plans someday to be a nurse. Belonging to Pep club 3 years, she has also been active in Dramatics. She appeared in the Junior class play, Mi st(i'u in Huc and was cast in The Torchbcarcrs, drama club production this year. She also was girls' sports editor of the Spirit. Janny is a fond lover of animals and has had several species as pets. Winter being her choice as a season. Jan prefers ice skating above all other sports. She is also interested in bowling ★ Attendants Rose ami Liz Twenty-eight

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Tor Row: W.ikeflolti. J. Winfrey. Ersland, Swank. Peters, Yoder. Mezvinsky. Wright. X. Johnson Middle Row: P. Miller. Parsons. E. Pederson. Thomas. Lantz. C. Judge, B. Miller. M. Judge. Gilman Front Row: E. L.. Martin. Mendon, Ott. Schulz. Meldrum. Miss Nelson. II. Knudson. Day. Van Alstine. Butler Cubs' club, Ames High school’s journalism organization, is offered as an extra-curricular activity to sophomores, juniors and seniors who are not taking the regular journalism course offered in the senior year. Through this organi- zation underclassmen become accustomed to journalistic style and have some knowledge of newspaper publishing before actually enrolling in the journalism course offered in the senior year. During the first semester of this year the club worked on projects to help them learn the fundamentals of writing good straight news and feature stories. One of these projects was the collection of newspaper stories and attempting to analyze why these stories were good or bad by using good stories as a comparison. n find- ing a good example of news or feature writing, the student chose another subject and tried to adjust the general plan of the model to his topic. The club held monthly meetings to acquaint members of tin organization with journalistic techniques. In the fall a luncheon was held in the faculty lunch room in place of a regular meeting. After completing this work, the club’s main project was to write and edit the Weekly Web during the first weeks of the second semester before tin new journalism class began publish- ing the weekly newspaper. The crowning achievement for a Cub is win- ning recognition as a reporter for the W b. After ten inches of his material has been printed he is added to the staff as reporter. Several (bibs’ Club members became Web reporters during the second semester by this means. Another project of the journalism class dur- ing the second semester was a high school pres- idential election. Information concerning candi- dates was posted in the library for several weeks preceding the polling. The main purpose of the club is to give stu- dents a glance at journalism before they decide whether or not to take it as an elective course. Miss Charlotte Nelson, journalism instructor, serves as Cubs' club sponsor. Twenty-seven

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n dents 'Visit “Spiri Ames High students found themselves guest of the Spirit staff at Spirit Ranch on the night of January 2‘J to celebrate the end of the first D niester of the school year. The annual mid-year hop. sponsored by tin yearbook staff for the first time, was hiirhlisrhtcd by the announcement that Janet Miller had been chosen Spirit Sweetheart and that Anne Barnard and Rosie Iverson were her two at- tendants. The study hall, decorated to represent a dude ranch, contained a real corral and a western mural at one end while appropriate western ‘‘characters decorated the blackboards and cowboy hats and saddles completed the theme. Records played from the library furnished music for the dancers. The intermission skit, written by Bob Roze- boom ami Jane Gilman and narrated by John Garfield, was a genuine western melodrama en- ★ Spirit Ranch ‘18 titled Sin Was Only the (rambler’s Daughter, but Sin Sure Oot a Dirty Deal. Participating iti the skit were Wayne Finholt, Hill Daine. Dan Clark, George Peterson and Loren Wymore. Sweetheart candidates— .Mary Jo. Mary, Susan. “Coop.” ”Tuy.” Sal and Nancy Twenty-nine