Winfield High School - Lagondan Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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Page 19 geant at arms. The officers of the junior high Friend- ship club were president, Marcella Stew- artg vice-president, Beverly Greinerg secretary, Patsy Hoover: treasurer, Jane Garyg program chairman, Eliza- beth Evans, social chairman, Emily liernstorf. Miss Carolyn Burdick was sponsor. ln the senior high Friendship club, Marjorie Plank was pres., Betty Jean Matthews, vice pres., Betty Crawford, secretary, and Evangeline .Iackson,pro- gram chairman. Dolls were received from and sent to Mexico, Czechoslova- kia, and Spain. Winfield High School may well he proud of the record made by the 1939 art department of which Miss Alma Eikerman is the head. At Emporia it won first grand prize forthe best high school exhibit. John l-Ianlen, Richard Sargent, Mar- ian Maurer, and Jim Desbin received high honors. In the Rossetti Art Club contest, Penrose Albright. Jim Desbien, Mar- ian Maurer, D e a n Rauch, Richard Hardesty, Betty Harris, and Norman Seeley won high honors. John Hanlen, who modeled the Vik- ing head found on page one of this mag- azine, placed first with a still life pic- ture at the Tonkowa meet this spring.

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Page IR if F an-sl ,i 'wi M1 .. The senior high pep club finished its fourth successful year with 55 active members. Nancy Jarvis served as pres- ident, Dorothy Dunbar, as sec.-treas.g Rosemary Struebing, vice pres.g Doro- thy Barker, Sally Callison, drill leadersg Miss Barton and Miss Bice, sponsors. The Ssribhlers' club, formed this year by 75 people with writing as their spec- ial hobby, published the 1938-39 Eng- lish Echoes. Officers are: Guy Parsons, president, Dorothy Dunbar, vice pres., Betty Jo Dunlap, sec.: Lucy Headrick and Miss Helen Johnson, sponsors. The jr. hi. pep clulr increased its membership this year. Drill leaders were Peggy Re-iter,Peg,gy D iughty and Ro- berta C1nningham.The presiding offi- cers were Betty Baker,pres.g Patricia Mi'Quire,vive pres.: Barbara Grey, sec. The F. F. A. headed by Ira Plank, made a broadcast over Farm and Home hour Denver, Colorado, put on one of the biggest banquets of the year for parents and sons, attended the state F. F.A. contest in Manhattan. The offi- cers: Harold Snyder, pres.: John Law- rence, vice pres.: Keith Kerr, sec., Mil- lard Kittleson, watchdogg L. Groene, treasurer, Leonard Biddle. reporter. For the second year the Speeders and Accuracy clubs have again helped to create speed and accuracy among the typists. Patsy Martin was pres.: Dorothy Hussel,vice pres.g Marjorie BroWn,sec.g andlietty Mc Allister, ser-

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Page 20 Viking Speakers Wave Hands in Violent But Persuasive Gesturesg Audiences Are Convinced During the 1938-'39 season, Coach Wayne Britton's teams hung up the record of having won 45 out of the 81 debates in which they participated. Besides attending the annual debate institute at Arkansas City and a discussion conference at Hutchinson, the debaters attend- ed six tournaments including the Ark Valley contest at Wichita, in which they tied for sixth place, and the district meet here, at which they ranked fourth. The intra-mural tournament held among the students enrolled in the two debate classes here was won by Audrey Watkins and Tom Myer. Representing W. H. S. in the Ark Valley tournament were Au- drey Watkins, Tom Myer, and Joe Shaw, substitute, on the af- firmative, and Bill Nisbet, Mar- garette Garrison, and John Divil- biss, substitute, on the negative. Others who studied debate this year and who took part in debates with students from other schools are James Conrod, Dorothy Dun- bar, Jim Gray, Melvil Hanna, Ruth Lime,Betty Jean Matthews, Christine Pettit, Ellsworth Sallee, Jessie Wilvers,and Margaret Yea- ger. Patsy Jean Martin won first place in the serious reading con- test and second place in humorous reading, thus taking the sweep- stakes. Second and third places, respectively, in serious reading were taken by Colleen Wiese and Christine Pettit. Gerald Nolan ran off with first place honors in the humorous reading division, while Genevieve Burt received third ranking. Patsy Jean Martin rep- resented W.H.S. in the serious division and Gerald Nolan was our representative in the humor- ous division of the Ark Valley reading contest at Eldorado. Patsy Jean tied for first at this event. Ellsworth Sallee, winner of the local oratory contest, represented us in that field at the Ark Valley meet. Robert Orahood was second place winner both in the local oratorical battle and in a contest held in April at Tonkawa, Okla. Tom Myer, Ellsworth Sallee, Jimmy Marshall, and Betty Col- lins placed first, second, third, and fourth, respectively, in the W.H.S. inter-society extemp con- test. Ellsworth Sallee and Jim- my M ar s h a ll represented the school at the Ark Valley meet: Tom Myer and Betty Collins were the Viking entries at the eighth district contest here.