Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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—ffifie Mountaineer QUILL AND SCROLL SOCIETY The Josephus Daniels chapter of the Quill and Scroll was organized in 1028. with ten charter members, of which number, Martha Glenn Flesher is the only one in school at the present time, the others having been graduated with the class of 1928. On April 13, 1929, sixteen students of the News Writing Class were made happy by the fact that their specimen newspaper stories were accepted at the National Headquarters at Des Moines, Iowa, and that they were eligible to wear the attractive insignia of the National Honor Society for High School Journalists. The sixteen new members of the organization are:: Hazel Cole, Oletta DeMoss, June King, Carolyn Brown, Brownlie Ramsay, Helen Shaw, Helen Brown, Mamie Spinks, Ralph Kunst, Jr.. Charles Englehardt, Virginia Madera. Wilda Koch. Nina Zinn. Leslie Crawford, John Jaco, and Kathryn Nve. Officers for 1929 are: President, Hazel Cole; Vice President, Oletta DeMoss; Secretary-Treasurer, June King This semester the Grafton Press offered Ihc club the privilege of writing a column in their paper, under the head of “High School News.” Each week a different member of the society writes this column. Feeling the need of a more significant chapter title, the Grafton Quill and Scroll chapter decided to choose one from the roll of prominent American journalists. Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison, William Randolph Hearst, Josephus Daniels and Joseph Pulitzer were the names who received votes, while the name of Josephus Daniels, well-known editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, received the highest number. 1929

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—z )t iHountatneer— HOME ECONOMICS CLUB One of the fine national organizations in Grafton High School is the Home Economics Club which is affiliated with the National Economics Association and West Virginia Home Economics Association. The main objective in home economies training is to link together the home and the school. Properly directed the club can do much to develop a sense of responsibility; to give practice in parliamentary procedure; to train for the wise use of leisure and for service to the home and community; and to provide the pleasure and experience of social meeting. The club was reorganized December 7, 1028, with the following officers: President........................................ Hazel Cole Vice President .............................. Miriam Isner Secretary ..................................... Nina Zinn Treasurer.............................Marguerite McMullen Sponsor .............................. Miss Ida B. Dorsey The members of the club are: Martha Glenn Fleshor, Marguerite McMullen, Mi-rian Isner. Hazel Cole, Nina Zinn, Georgia Newcome, Mary Emily Summervile, Lucy Kightmirc, Carrie Sincel Catherine Marks. Elizabeth Harr. Hazel Dusted. Paul ine Dunham. Louise Moore, Gay Murphy, Gladys Wagner. Ivadal Withers, Dorothy Sincel, Alma Sayre, Margaret Marshall, Maxim Moore, and Evelyn Murphy. The club's outstanding project for 1928-1029 was Mto ,.... the successful hot lunch that was served to students MISb IDA DUKohY . . , . Sponsor of the Home and teachers during the winter months, rhe project Economics Club was a success financially and otherwise. 1929

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dje Jflountatneer NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Grafton High School’s chapter of the National Honor Society was reorganized for the second time on April 2. 1929. The purpose of the club is to sponsor enthusiasm for scholarship, stimulate a desire for rendering service, to promote leadership, and to develop character in the students of American secondary schools. The members are selected on the basis of scholarship, leadership, character, and service, by a faculty committee, from the “upper third” of the Classes The Senior members are: Evelyn .latcas. Gladys Devers, Gladys Mettler. Martha Glenn Plesher, Hazel Cole, Robert Selvey, Leslie Crawford, Charles Flanagan, Brownlie Ramsay, Everett Allender, Oletta DeMoss and June King. Four members of the class of 1930 were elected to the National Honor Society at a recent meeting. These members are Elinor Bolliger, Helen Blackman, Virginia Madera and Paul McFadden. The sponsors of the cluh are: Miss G. Minette Watkins, Mr. Torlock Rasmussen, Mrs. A. R. Warden, and Mr. A. F. Mish. The pins bearing the official key of the society have been received. The officers of the club are: President ............................... Leslie Crawford Vice President ........................... Charles Flanagan Secretary ........................... Martha Glenn Flesher Treasurer ................................ Evelyn Lucas Newspaper Reporter ............................. Ilaz.el Cole 1929