Arkansas City High School - Mirror Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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I Class ol 36 LOUIS ABERNATHY'ffII1fillSCl'ia1 Football, F. F. A., track, intramural basketball. HOWARD ALESHIR19---Inelustrial Presicl-:nt ol' conference. EUGENE ALFORD'4Colle,qe Preparatory Course CHARLES ALLARD--College Prep. Glee Club, l'ep Club. Stuilent Council, Messiah, Opera. CARL ALSIP-Inmlustrlal Intramural basketball. RAYMOND AUSMUSACollege Prep. Ark Light staff, Mirror stalf, Glee Club, Honor Society, president of Student Council, opera, senior play. Messiah. Quill and Scroll. KENNETH BARKERA- -General Track, intramural basketball, president of confer- CRCG. PAUL BARINGER-Industrial Junior Patrol. OLGA BAYS-College Prep. Health chairman, Ark Light reporter. HELEN BELDEN-General Messiah, Orchestra, Triple G Club PAGE U

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Seniors l.ool4 Back Qver Busy and Eventiul Veer The senior class members are all excited over their last spring in high school with graduation close at hand. With the school days soon to come to an end, they like to look back over their last year in high school. At the first of the year they elected their officers, Mack Gilsrap, president for the third consecutive yearg Voncile Mit- chell, vice-president, Helen Heard, secretary-treasurerg Jams Gibson, student council representative. The senior council members were Sara Stanley, Helen Heard, Mack Gilstrap, Grace Newman, Madeline Miller, Voncile Mitchell, Victor Bryant, James Gibson, and Gail Harden. They selected the senior jewelry and the announcements.. At a senior meeting in February there was some discussion about having a senior banquet this year. However, a ballot vote was taken on the question, and the majority were in :favor of having the usual picnic instead. On March 26, the Girl Reserve, Hi-Y Carnival was held in the junior college club rooms and small gymnasium In an im- pressive ceremony, Vivian Logan and Victor Bryant were chosen queen and king of the festival. Eight attendants accompanied the rulers in the ceremony. The attendants were Mack Gilstrap, Von- cile Mitchell, Dale Hines, Kathryn Curfman, Bruce Reid, Helen Heard, Paul Quinn, and Grace Newman. There were various booths and concessions including fortune telling, telegrams, faculty throw, milk bottle throw, picture show dart throw, Wheel of chance, and others. Kathryn Curfman won the popularity contest conducted after the coronation. Other candidates in the popularity contest were Voneile Mitchell, Claire Edwards, Jeanne Day, Mable, the Mugwump. These features combined with the many refreshments made an enjoyable and entertaining evening of fun for all who attended. The senior class play, Double Door was presented April 3, under the direction of J. D. Davis. The seniors voted enthusiastic- ally to have a senior play, and conduct the ticket sale. The class was divided into two sides with Mack Gilstrap and Bill Burns as captians. They then selected ten sub-captians who checked out tickets to the people under them. The losing side had charge oi' the senior day program. At a meeting in March, the senior girls decided to wear white sport dresses for graduation as has been done in the past, and party dresses for the Tigerama and Baccauaureate. The boys decided to wear dark suits. On May 1, the seniors attended the Tigcraina, which is given for them each year by the junior college. Friday before the last week of school was Senior Day. All the seniors dressed up in the most out-landish 'and original cost- umes they could possibly think of, and wore them to school. That afternoon the chapel program was presented by the seniors, in charge of the students who were on Bill Burns side in the senior play ticket sale contest, the side that lost. After the program, school was dismissed and all three classes adjourned to different places for their picnics to make the day complete. PAGE S MACK GILSTRAI' Collexre Prep. conference president intrnnniral athletics, seniorrriass pres- ident, opera, Messiah, Glec Club, senior council. VONCILE lVlI'l'CI!ELL General--Messiah, opera, Glee Club. Pep Club, Mirror Stull, vice-president of senior class. senior 1-ounvil. HELEN HICA RD Colleyre Prep. -Messiah, opera, Glc: Club, Pep Club, secretary of senior i-lass. football queen czlmlixlntv. JAMES GIBSON College Prep. Student Council, Mfrro! stuff.

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Dancing and G. A. fix. Keep Girls Hopping and Skipping This year has been a full one for the girls gym classes. In ea1'ly spring and fall, tennis balls were kept bouncing as the girls turned out for the annual tournaments while basketball and volley balls furnished most of the mid-winter sports. Some of the more ambitious girls try out for G. A. A. or the Girls Athletic Association. However, the eight weeks of fol- lowing strict health rules that a G. A. A. prospect must endure seriously cuts down the number ot applicants. Those who follow the rules have no easy time. If you see a girl walk slowly past her favorite soda fountain with a longing look in her eyes, you may safely bet that she is a G. A. A. If you notice a girl glance at her wrist watch nervously about a quarter of ten, you should remember that G. A. A. rules demand that she be in bed by ten. Don't ever think, however, that these girls aren't proud of their letters when they earn them. The state Girls Athletic As- sociation has set standards that girls are proud to be able to meet. Although Arkansas City high school girls do not participate in inter-scholastic sports, the intra-mural volley ball teams fight for victory with much the same enthusiarxm one might expect at a Winfield-Arkansas City basketball game. The tournament this years was made possible largely through the efforts of Mar- garet Lowery, student manager. Dorothy White refereed at most of the games. Marjorie Stotfel captained the winning team on which were Marion Stoffel, Mary Alice Ryan, Laverne Frank- lin, Ruby Beebe, Wanda Christy, Francis Fields, and Zellene Blair. Color, motion and gaity come from dancing! The graceful abandon of the nymphs, the colorful exuberance of the Spanish dancers and the ethereal lovllness of the dancing lVlorning Glories were not just a background for the opera. Through their art the dancers swayed the moods of the audience attend- ing the operetta Oh, Doetorn just as did the singing. The dancers, nearly fifty in all, having been coached only four or five weeks, did not dance perfectly. Yet in the few mom- ents that they were on the stage they created lovlinss, which is, after all, the aim of every artist Jacqueline Burnett, as Hebe, the goddess of the nymphs of dew was the only solo dancer. Besides the ballet number which she danced with the nymphs of dew, there were raindrops, con- spirators, morning glories, and Spainish dancers, all coached by Miss Edith J. Davis. Before the opera much amusement was caused by announce- ments of dance practices. Such statements as Raindrops meet fifth hour today. and Conspirators meet in the auditorium, were a source of continual wonder to the uninitiated. During the second semester Miss Davis formed a new and popular class for those interested in dancing, called the rythmn class. In this group, girls are learning the fundamentals of danc- ing technique as well as building the muscles necessary for dancing. PAGE 10 ,Iiif- 'i1 i7EI'.'l' Colleixc Prep. Student Council rep- resentative of G. R., Vice president il' 1'cn!'C1'4.'IlL.'. Ark Light repori.e.' cf' umferedce. liIf1'I l'Y BRADY fl12'ii11:f-:'.i'fil Glee Club, Messiah, Tri. ple G slub. Spot-dere. Il. -lzOl,lJINi'i 'llilS'lUlI General Course. VIVIAN IIRUWN Vollcirc- I'rep. Vice-iwosiclciii. of' cun- Forcrn-Q-, color snrireant nl' band. VIGIJA IiUliK2:i fjollogre Prep. Glee Club. Nleassian.