Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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The TROJAN Top Row—Lyle McMann, Roger Weltmer, Wendell Dean, Gerald Bassford, Mr. Chestnut. 'lhird Rcw—Harrison Honderick, Harlan Rees, Tommy McCall, Addison Pfautz, Bernadine Schellinger. Second Row Dorothy McClanahan, Joyce Salisbury, Eva Owen, Marjorie Hutton, Rex Quakenbush, Bertha Lynch, Dick Carper. First Row—Dorothy Walsh, Roberta Wooster, Thelma Root, Maxine Miller, Marjorie Noah, Mary Ellen Stewart, Imogene Gray. THE TROJAN COUNCIL —Vernon Crumrine After five years of experimentation the mechanics of our stratosphere balloon, the student council, have reached a high degree of efficiency. This group of mechanics, continuing in spite of many hardships and set backs has assembled most of the instruments necessary for the success of our stratosphere flight. There are three purposes of these mechanics. They are: first, to promote all school activities; second, through co-operation with the faculty and the administration of the school system to maintain the highest standards of school life; and third, to create and maintain a school spirit by giving the students an opportunity to express their ideas for the good of the school. In 1929 the movement for a representative student council was started. After much consideration and careful investigation the faculty offered a plan whereby closer co-operation between the student body and the faculty on all student affairs could be brought about. This plan provided that each of the four classes should elect two representatives. The president of the student council was to be elected by the student body as a whole from the senior class. The several organizations were also to be represented. In 1929 the council installed a lost and found table in the study hall which proved to be very successful in the recovery of lost articles. This table was in charge of council members during the seven periods of the day. In 1930 the council sponsored some pep assemblies and as a result pep clubs were started. Again as in 1929 the council had charge of the iost and found department, the decorations for the football games, the all school play, and Hobo day. In 1932 the council sponsored a spring carnival, held in the gymnasium and halls of the building, took an active part in the enforcement of traffic regulations in the building, and sponsored the regulation of library hours at the Port Library for the convenience of the students. The spelling classes were represented by regular and alternate members. In 1933 the student council sponsored the sale of the activity tickets, presented the all school play “Poodles,” sponsored an attempt to clean up the campus and halls of the building, presented a console radio to the school, financed the purchase of scholastic awards, and paid the expenses of those students who entered the scholarship contest at Concordia. In 1934 the same method of representation was used. The student council leased the candy counter to the several school organizations, aided the administration in installing the hall monitor system, helped to sponsor the all school box supper, sponsored an exchange program with Concordia, and bought the scholarship awards. The council has been recognized as one of the vital organizations in the school program.

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The TROJAN Top Row—Claude Baker, Harold Mercer, Howard De Shazo. Second Row—Mary Beryl Miller, Tommy McCall, Dorothy McClanahan, Miss Gertrude Kirtland, Elizabeth Gould, Irene Morgan, Rosella Bunch. First Row—Frances Cole, Bill Pfautz, Maxine Lagle, Vernon Crumrine, Gladys Briney. RECORDERS OF STRATOSPHERE FLIGHTS —Gladys Briney Editor-in-Chief ...................Frances Cole Assistant Editor ..........Dorothy McClanahan Business Manager .......................Rosella Bunch Art Editor ................................Bill Pfautz Snap-shot Editors—Claude Baker, Mary Beryl Miller. While the many balloonists of Beloit High School were making their various trips up into the unexplored regions of the stratosphere to gain much valuable information for the science of B. H. S., there was a group of students busily working in room 109. This was the journalism class who, under the efficient leadership of Miss Gertrude Kirtland issued the bi-monthly bulletin, The B. H. S. Life, which gave reports of every stratosphere flight that was made. The journalism class revived the school paper which had been absent from Beloit High for one year. Because of the lack of sufficient funds, the paper was reduced to four columns instead of the five column paper which had been printed previously. The B. H. S. Life is a member of The National Scholastic Press Association and is privileged to use their crest on the editorial page. The students who served as editors of the B. H. S. Life were: Maxine Lagle, Bill Pfautz, Dorothy McClanahan, Frances Cole, Claude Baker, and Mary Beryl Miller. As the last semester was drawing to a close, the journalism room was always the scene of uproar. Two girls sat at a long table in the corner amid paste pots and pictures. Another student pounded the poor model T typewriter with such fervor and fierceness that there was danger of the roof coming down on a great many unsuspecting heads. A harrassed looking lady whose hair was prematurely turning gray, was sitting at the teacher’s desk trying to answer fourteen different questions which were being asked by fourteen students. Two other people were sitting at desks trying very hard to come in contact with an idea. They scribbled, chewed their pencils, and all but tore their hair; and still that particular idea which would have fitted the situation wonderfully evaded them. No, this was not an institution for the mentally unbalanced. It was only the journalism class preparing the senior year book, The Trojan, for the publishers. The Trojan carried all the important data gained in the whole year’s flight. Besides studying the different styles and ethics of good newswriting, the class took up creative writing the last semester. Each step of story creating was studied and practiced. Each member of the class wrote different types of stories and stories for readers of all ages. The journalism class has earnestly tried to uphold the ideas of good newspaper and literary writing.

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Ohe TROJAN RUTH DAVIS TROJAN QUEEN who is a popular B. H. S. Senior, was chosen to be Queen of the Trojans through a popularity contest sponsored by the B. H. S. Life. The contestants were representatives from the four classes. Ruth, one of “The Three Ruths,” is a talented girl with a pleasing, vivacious personality, and the Trojan Staff is pleased to announce her as the winner.