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

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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

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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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-Clje fttountauifer- COMMERC1AL CLUB The club’s main objectives are: To promote interest in the business world, to encourage a social spirit among commercial students by offering opportunities for social contact, to become familiar with progressive business methods ami systems, endeavoring by such means to raise and maintain a higher standard of efficiency, and to discover and serve the needs of the community. On December 18. Mr. T. 15. Cain, president of West Virginia Business College, addressed the students in the auditorium. Another important event of the year was the banquet which took place at the Cafeteria Court on Washington's birthday. The principal speaker of the occasion was Arthur G. Yates. Past Commander of the American Legion. After the program, the members and their visitors enjoyed a theatre party at the Strand Theatre. On March 19, Mr. Litzinger, chief clerk at the Hazel-Atlas, gave a talk on “What is Expected of a Stenographer , lie told the members how to act when applying for a position. On April 10, Mr. Thomas, cashier of the Hanking and Trust Company, talked to the club about the different commercial papers that go in and out of business ferent commercial papers that go in and out ot business. Mr. A. G. Yates of the First National Hank talked to the group on April 30, in regard to negotiable instruments. On May 7, Hon. J. C. Holt, Prosecuting Attorney of Taylor County, discussed “contracts. The officers of the club are: President, Blanche Morrow; V ice President. Lilliun Reese; Treasurer. Charles Custer; Secretary, Maxine Boyd; Reporter, Mildred Westeott; Sergeant-at-arms, Chauneey Miller; Program Committee, Eileen UJKE B. ross Robinson, Florence McMullen, Hazel Teets. Norma Sponsor of Commercial Wescott and Lillian Reese. Club 1929