Winfield High School - Lagondan Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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XA. Page 21 The theme of the senior high G. R. this year, was Dem3cracy in Leadership. Perhaps the most important activity of the year was the ban- quet, given Feb. 21, with Lin- coln's birthday as the theme. The new cabinet members were installed by the old cabinet mem- bers, April 20. The officers for the past year were: Jean Dilworth, president: Dorothy Dunbar, vice president: Betty Jean Matthews, secretary: K a t h l e e n Franks, treasurer: Nancy Jarvis, program chairman: Marian McNabb, publicity: Mar- jorie Plank, service: Marjorie Brown, pianist: Audrey Watkins, music chairman :Evangeline Jack- son, devotions chairman: Mar- garette Garrison, social chair- man: Christine Pettit, reporter: Rosemary Struebing, rush cap- tain: Nina Lamoree, memory book: Lucy Blake, sophomore Girl Reserve and H i-Y Organizations Join Hands in Manner Advantageous to Winfield High School representative. The keynote of the junior high G. R. this year was Building Our House of Life. Programs were developed around this topic. The annual father and daughter banquet was held Oct. 28 and a reception was given for the mothers of members on May 10. The officers of the past year are: Patsy Hoover, president: Maret Ann Stuber, vice presi- dent: Emily Bernstorf, secretary: Mary Alice Saxton, treasurer: Ailsa Diescher, program chair- man: Martha Brunton, publicity: Hazel Haver, poster: Margaret McNeil, devotion: Peggy Reiter. music: Helen Parker, memory: and Beverly Jean Greiner, pia- nist. The triangle mothers are: Mrs. Paul G. Guy, Mrs. George Shoe- maker, Mrs. Earl Seymour, Mrs. Robert Britton, Miss Helen Craw- ford, and Mrs. F. W. Robinson. Under the able sponsorship of T. H. Vaughn the Hi-Y completed another successful year holding their annual stag in the fall and giving baskets to the poor on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The officers were: president, Jimmy Marshall: vice president, Donald Groves: secretary-treasurer, Rob- ert Ellinger. Sponsored by Mr. Folck the junior Hi-Y started off with their annual pencil sale and basketball tournament in the fall. During the year they sent representatives to the district conference in Au- gusta and the state conference at Wichita. They received three progress seals for a state certifi- cate.

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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.

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