West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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The Natronal l-lonor Socrety was organlzed m Wes' Lafayette l-hgh School m l935 Membershlp rn th1s or ganrzatlon IS award d to outstandtng semor students ln order to be elected to the l-lonor Socrety a sen1or must be hlgh 1n scholarsh1p leadersh1p character and servrce and IS requ1red to have an mdex of 5 O These requlrements are those the teachers consrder when they choose members ot the 1-lonor Socrety The total number does not exceed lb percent ot the class m one or rrore ot the act1v1t1es and clubs ot the school Dorothy Ay res Bob Krlebel lane Pound Charles Moore Meredlth Hunt lerry Burr Mary Ann Kettel N11 Dv rght Scarse-th Pat ICIG Bartle Mason Yearlan Georalanne Ma Rob Blass All ot the following students have been very active r' ' :tt K l .

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and speech arts Climax ot the year tor the Speech Arts Club was the presentation ot lil Remember Mama at Morton School, March 23 and 24. The club gives one threefact play every year, Nl Remem- ber Mama was an outstanding member ot this series. Set in a Norwegian immigrant home in San Francisco, Alice Taylor and Ioan Bradley played their roles ot mother and daughter to perfection. Iii! ill! ' rll' 'II' ,.,, Y U , -.. W 1 1 1 1 - 1 Q v ll' l 11 H Several shorter plays were given throughout the year. Dorothy Ayres' Dramatics Crew pro- duced Let's Make Up tor the parents' meeting in the tall, Maid ot France was featured on the Christmas convo program. Qther facts ot speech and dramatics were def veloped by the several crews in Speech Arts. The Radio Crew, headed by Fred Willis, pro- duced Dickens' Christmas Carol as a radio play and supplied speakers tor WBAA's 'Citi- zens ot Tomorrow Speak. Don Trenkle's Phof tography Crew arranged a photography eX- hibit and took as their project the completion ot the school dark room. The Science Demon' stration Crew provided programs tor Speech Arts meeting and members ot the Oratorical Crew placed tirst in local and state contests. Not only a dramatics club, Speech Arts is also a social and service club. Under the able leader' ship ot loyce Bedell, president, and Mrs. Harriett Mueller, sponsor, the club held several social gatherings, among them the Parents' Night, and the Spring Picnic. Foremost among Speech Arts protects was their help in the purchase of ne '.'.' drapes tor the cafeteria. Much credit tor a successful year should bf given to the vice president, Dwight Scarsetii secretary, Barbara Gibbens treasurer, loar Bradley, the crew heads Miss Mary Ruslicni, and Mr l-lcvxard Evans ot the faculty,

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the Scarlette vo1ce of the body Like the voice of the human body, the Scarlette has been the spokes- man of our school. Clearly and strongly it has voiced opinions on policy, a gymeauditorium, the cafeteria improvement program, the Honor Society, the Christmas seals, polio, and Red Cross drives, the Clothes for Bremen drive, and other important topics. The Scarlette has recorded outstanding events of the school year-e the tourneys, the basketball and football games, the HifY, Girls' Club, and Ahea dances, dinners and meetings, the Iunior Class, Senior Class and Speech Arts plays, and scholarship and contest winners. The Scarlette has recognized unusual ability or high achievement in the column, The Scarlette Congratulatesf' Outstanding seniors have been featured in Big Shots. Modern music has been discussed in Ulazz Mood, and sports have been thoroughly covered in Sports- lights. lournalism, a new subject this last year, helped prepare students for the difficult task of writing, editing, and making up the Scarlette. Under the guidance of Mr. Ellis Hopkins, sponsor, and Dorothy Ayres, editor, the two staffs published twelve issues during the year. There are many highlights that the staffs will remember. They will recall the tirst issue which was put together during the sultry days of August so that it could be distributed along with schedules on the first day of school in September. They will remember the big Christmas issue that contained the prize-winning stories, poems, and essays of the annual Scarlette Christmas composition contest, They will remember with a smile the carnival foolishness in the big April Fools issue, Perhaps the seniors will recall with a slight note of sadness the last issue that they worked on, the May l9 issue. The juniors may remember the enthusiasm that they displayed on their first issue, the Iune 9 issue, which was put out by the l95O-Sl staff, We, the Scarlette staff of l949-50, are deeply indebted to the Lafayette Printing Company, who printed the paper, for their service, co-opera- tion, and advice, to Prof. Gretchen A. Kemp of lndiana University for her ideas and advice which greatly aided and improved our publica- tion, and to Ellis Hopkins, who, as sponsor, was instrumental in the publishing of the paper