Neosho High School - Wild Cat Yearbook (Neosho, MO)

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fs: Q, f 1 fi F. F. A. GLEN EHWIN President f' it x f The Neosho FFA Chapter is composed of boys enrolled in Vocational Agriculture. This organization has forty-three active members, with Glen Erwin, president: Dale Smith, vice- presidentg Dale Cramer, treasurer, Gene Day, secretaryp Bill McFall, reporter, and Paul Steel, sentinel. The Neosho boys entered the State and National Chapter Contest tor the first time this past year and won a certificate of honorable mention. Fifteen boys went to FFA camp and eight Future Farmers to the State Fair at Sedalia. ln competition with eight other counties the chapter placed second with their agricultural resources exhibit. Preceding the State Fair, the chapter sponsored a miniature harvest show in Neosho. Winning entries in the local show were used in the State Fair exhibit. The FFA otticers attended the National convention of Future Farmers ot America and visited the American Royal in Kansas City in October. The annual parent and son banquet was held on February 21. On November l8th, the boys received their three quarter ton pickup, which had been ordered for two years. Entries have again been made in State and National contests. Page 25

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'K I -I 4 I IAMES GIBSON X N President' l I if x fa The N Club is an organization formed in i938 by Molly Matthews and Ralph Brown, since then taken over by Co-ach Martin Rohde. The purpose of this club of athletic lettermen is for the betterment and promotion of competitive sports. The club is one of the active organizations on the campus, sponsoring parties, dances, and other social activities. This year's officers are all members of the Unholy Six, forming the nucleus for the new members coming into the club this year. lames Gibson, football co-captain, is president, in whose absence the club is dependent on Hard-hearted Weber. The pecuniary interests are in the care of Bob Mac Mclntyre, right end on the football team. The club scribe is Charles Wilson, basketball captain. Serving on the board of directors are Raymond Green, grid quarterback, and Max Prunty, football co-captain and high scoring cage star. Until February of this year, the dirty half-a-dozen were the only members. Now the club has a large carry-over membership into next year. It is considered quite an honor to be in this club, as one must have an A letter and the initiation is traditionally rather rough, Page 24

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a , N. - 9 HOME EC I ' .X BETTY 1oY HAAS J, ,ta President N1 T- fl 1, S. -sb The Future Homemakers of America is the national organization of girls studying Home Economics in high schools all over the United States, Hawaii and Alaska. The purposes of this organization are to promote a better appreciation of family life, to further interest in Home Economics, and to help train girls to be better leaders. The Neosho chapter of the Future l-lomernakers of America was organized in October, l946, with 94 members. Forty-five members of the Neosho chapter attended the southwest district meeting at Springfield in November. Three girls attended the state meeting in Iefferson City in April. Skating parties, box suppers, a Christmas tea for their mothers, serving banquets, sending friendship boxes to girls in foreign countries, an assembly, and an open house for the parents of the Future Homemakers, are all functions of the organization. The officers of the Neosho Chapter are: president, Betty loy Haasp vice-president, Marie Griffith, secretary, Ieannie Daniels, treasurer, Margaret Newcomb, reporter, Patty Barnes, parliamentarian, lean Bicliardsg historian, Helen Bolliotg and song leader, Beverly Cantrell. I Page 26