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

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.fbafw af fair Sept. 8 East High greets 1400 students and the neighbor- hood seems unusually quiet. Sept.22 Ed Mais is elected head of student council. East Bears schedule games at Ru ert Stadium, for first PP time in history. Sept. 24 Bears defeat Cyclones 6 to 0 on Ward field. Miss Tarbet leaves East for service in the WAC. Oct. 1 Screech-East cheerleaders perform skyrocket in first pep assembly. Bears scalp Braves by 'I2 to 6 score. Oct. 76 Hip, 2, 3, 4-ROTC marches in war chest campaign. Oct. 21 Ah-Freedom, when East closes for a two-day holi- day for war rationing. Nov. 5 Comedy reigns when Drama students thrill os- sembly with three one-oct plays. Nov. 8 East makes top place in city paper drive. Wagons, cars, and bicycles come from all directions loaded with paper. Nov. 17 Open House-Fond parents admire. Nov. 24 Students look forward to turkey, cranberries, and pumpkin pie as Thanksgiving vacation approaches. Dec. 3 Mystery, suspense, and sudden death as BIack Hawk thrills all in East auditorium. Dec. 17 Christmas carols echo through the halls GS vOCGl students entertain in assembly. Dec. 22 Halls seem unusually quiet with everyone leaving for part-time iobs. Jan. 6 Coach Brown presents letters to team. Charles Moore named ROTC major. Jan. 3 Basketball season begins. East wins first Inter- scholastic league battle by defeating PUSBO 26 to 25 in season's only overtime. Jan. 20 No school-teachers at work. Jan. 21 Oh dear! Report cards. Jan. 28 East victor over Manual as audience goes wild. Bill Thuston makes the winning basket, score, 37 to 36. Jan. 37 Bill Gilbert elected student council head for second semester. Feb. 3 Elevator tickets go on sale again as 40 Freshies enter East. Feb. 5 Societies hold pot-luck suppers and teas for rushees. Feb. ll Merwin Peake is chosen new Battalion Major. March 2 East track squad begins training. March 15 East boys take Army-Navy test. Bears take fifth place in Inter-Scholastic league. March l7, 18 East Goes West -Outburst returns with a sell-out for both nights. March 25 Soft music, orchids, and romance as East cadets step out with their best girls for the ROTC ball. April 7 Bears defeat the Pirates, on Paseo track. April i4 East defeated Southwest fin rainj in the first Inter- scholastic track meet ever held on the Bears own cinders. April 2l Webster Club wins eighteenth annual Literary Con- test, May 5 Lace and gardenias, tuxedos and good music when senior dance is held in the gym. May ll Scholarship, Leadership, Character, Service and a solemn procession of National Honor Society mem- bers in impressive assembly program. June 7 Graduation! Freedom! And we're looking for- ward to a new world. 15

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Wafionaf XZ .JL1lonor Sociefy gg. When, on April 20, the invitations for the National Honor Society were given out, thirty-five members of the senior class learned they had reached the cherished goal of every student. Officers of the junior class presented the bids on this day, and on May ll, the seniors received their most prized possession, the small pin with four symbols inscribed on it. These four symbols represent the four ideals upon which the Society was founded: Schol- arship, Leadership, Character, and Service. To become a member of this organization, a senior must have a scholarship index that will place him in the upper one-fourth of the senior class, and he must also have activity cards signed by the sponsor who has charge of the activity. These activity cards repre- sent service and leadership in activities that have been satisfactorily completed as judged by the faculty sponsor of that organization. The final index is obtained by adding the scholarship points and the activity points. The names of all candidates are submitted to all members of the faculty and must be found acceptable by them. The members of the faculty committee who aided the teachers to choose the thirty-five students are: Miss May Farr Hiatt, chairman, Mr. Ralph Tiefel, Miss Evelyn Gilchrist, Mr. James Curtis, Mr. John N. Broadlick, and Mr. W. W. Clement as an ex-officio member. we Jfuclenld who were CAOJBII. Air lke Wafionafjanor Sociefy fAiJ year are: Bill Mack Adkins R. C. Amos Robert Lee Baker Don W. Braidwood Mary Catherine Brandt Philip A. Brown Mabel Aleene Butler Martha Amy Coleman Gloria B. Collins Shirley Coughlin Phyllis Nadine Estes Cathleen Avice Garvey Wayne Maxwell Heady Phyllis Ann Hicks Catherine May Hill John Fred Knapp Mary Jeanette Leeth Elsie Aleene Lewis lnez Lord Edward Arnold Mais Opal Maye Mashburn Ermal Ernest Miller Robert Laverne Nelson Virginia Lee Noland Wilma Jeanne Parker Merwin Peake Shirley Dean Rose Martha Nelle Schaefer Shirley Simpkins Shirley Sims Mildred Marilyn Smith Gerald Darwin Stanton John Robert Summerskill Eira Thomas June West T7