East High School - Eastonian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Senior Ballot (iirl Who Has Done Most for East .. ---------------------Betty Joyce Toler Boy Who Has Done Most for Hast ........................... Bill Whaley Best Girl Student Jeannette Livasy Best Boy Student William Phillips Most Popular Girl................Jean Jones Most Popular Boy Russell Beebe Best Girl Athlete Margie House Best Boy Athlete lack England Best Actress Marilyn Schwenneker Best Actor................. Richard Painter Best Girl Artist Inez Wilt Sturgill Each graduating class of East brings twenty-four new members to the Senior Ballot. About the last part of the first semester, ballots are given to each graduating senior and votes are cast for various honorary titles. Twelve of these positions go to boys and twelve to girls. n Best Boy Artist David Willson Best Girl Musician Dorothy Patrick Best Boy Musician Vincent Hughes Society Belle .Virginia Denser Social Lion I)on Welch Most Bashful Girl Rosemary Heater Most Bashful Boy Ed Nelson Jolly Good Girl..........Alta Mae Morris Jolly Good Boy Norman Gibbs Best Girl Bluffer Artie Brink Best Boy Bluffer Roswell Combs Worst Girl Flatterer---------Maurine Parks Worst Boy Flatterer ..Lloyd Bell Twenty-two of these positions are tilled by popular vote, and the other two, best boy and girl student, are named by the office according to scholarship records. Each position represents different talents and different personalities of the various people. Members of the Senior Ballot are “persons of prominence” in school.

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SEPT. 9 School opened. Parents breathed a sigh of relief. SEPT. 9 We were unhappy to lose our own Mr. Laughlin, but gladly welcomed our new principal, Mr. Clement. SEPT. 10—Bookstores did a “whopping” business. SEPT. 23—The Student Council elected capable officers to pick up the threads dropped by last year’s olllcers. OCT. 5 Yippi! Our team beat Pasco 12-0 in the first Interscholastic football game. OCT. 12 Instead of having bats in the belfry, we had a bat in the library, which startled the librarians and several people in the library at the time. No one knew how the bat made its entrance. OCT. 22—Technical Sgt. Franklin, East’s R. O. T. C. instructor, left for duty in Uncle Sam’s Army as First Lieutenant Franklin. OCT. 23 We had our first air raid drill. There was room for improvement. NOV. 5—The Wyandotte Bulldogs, who had hitherto held an undefeated record, met their Waterloo when playing the East Bears. Even a bulldog has to let go sometime. NOV. f» The Seniors spent two hectic hours in the auditorium taking the Ohio Aptitude test, and were of no further use to their teachers the rest of the day. NOV. 9—Sgt. Mansour took over Sgt. Franklin’s place as B. (). T. C. instructor at East, and the girls gaz d in silent admiration. NOV. 12 Open House! NOV. 20—The “Carden of the Moon” was presented, and was to be the last evening entertainment 'til warm weather. Oh, woe! DEC. 2 The girls were given permission to wear slacks during school hours. The boys were dazed and the girls gleeful. DEC. 3, I— Oh, joy! A two-day vacation—Missouri State Teachers Association. DEC. 17 New courses were announced to fit wartime needs. DEC. 23 -The A Cappella Choir presented an impressive Christmas assembly with the ethereal loveliness of a Church presentation. JAN. 9—Literary Clubs held their annual inter-society dance, which was a hig success. One hundred seventeen people were present. JAN. 15—The girls’ gym classes presented a series of demonstrations of what was in store for the Senior girls. Croons could be heard on every side. JAN. 22—Term ends. We didn’t fail in history after all. Twenty-six seniors completed classes. FEB. 10, 11 -The art work of David Willson and Frances Hendrix was displayed at the Women’s Club Rooms. Mr. Clement received a letter from the director of Art, Miss Rosemary Beymer, congratulating these East students for the fine art they had created. FEB. IX Bill Phillips was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Kansas City regiment of the R. O. T. C. Boy ! Were we proud ! FEB. 22-27 Rationing! Teachers a n d students worked side by side after school to get a necessary task done. FEB. 20—Drama students presented “Wildcat Willie’s Lucky Number” which left us with lighter hearts and in a happier mood. MARCH 5—“Has Bren’s” were defeated by “Will Be’s” which was a bitter drop in the cup of the seniors. MARCH 8—Student Council Mixer. All had a lot of fun. MARCH 26 -Music students presented a concert, complete with “Negro Minstrels.” APRIL 3—R. O. T. C. Ball—The damsels blossomed forth in their prettiest formals, escorted by their favorite “beaux.” APRIL 6- Report Cards. Momma, that day is here again! APRIL 6—Track meet. East with William Chrisman on East’s track. We won by 8 10 of a point. What a victory! APRIL 16—Lit. Contest. Clubs sang “slam songs” to each other in friendly rivalry. The excitement was high. Under the sponsorship of Miss Van Natta, Websters walked away with top honors. APRIL 22 -Christopher Morley’s daughter, Louise Morley, spoke to us in assembly on British youth in war. APRIL 23-27—Easter holiday. A long vacation. APRIL 30—Senior dance soft music — handsome escorts—pretty maids aaaaaaanh. MAY 1 I—Honor assembly—the new members of the National Honor Society were duly rewarded for all their painstaking efforts of the past four years. MAY 21 Hip! Hip! Hooray! Junior-Senior day with all its knocks and bruises. MAY 28 Award Day. JUNE 2—The end—and yet the beginning . . .

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Senior Alphabet Angelic.................. Betty Sue Payne Bold Edward Joseph Nelson Carefree Elizabeth Lloyd Delightful............ Virginia Deuser Exotic - Jean Parker pun Betty Joyce Toler Grand Freeman Oglesby Humorous-....................... -Dick Painter Intelligent ...Wilbur 1 odd j0j]v.................... Maurine Parks Keen Harriet Rosenfeld Likeable ..---------------------- Dolores Bose Mighty ................................Erwin Constable Naive .............. -......-Jeanette Livasy Original- --------- Petite Quixotic... ---- Reliable ..... Shy Twitterpatcd Unique----- Valiant. Well-liked .. Xtraordinary Youthful. - - Zealous Patricia Smith ..Pauline Banes Bill Phillips .Phyllis Windrum Barbara Brewer Betty Hubler . .Norman Gibbs Russell Beebe Dan Stark William Joseph Whaley ..........Peggy Todd Margaret Edged Energetic — Ambitious . Stunning . Terrific. T. J. Lankford Rosa Lee Duett loan Putthoff Argie Baker Handsome-..........................Don Welch Interesting- Wendell Hathhorn Gay..............................-Jean Jones Happy .... Charles Coppedge 29