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

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CIGSS of '36 JACK HOLLIS-College Prep. Glee Club VIRGINIA HOLMAN-College Prep. Editor oi' Mirror, Girl Reserves, opera Ark Light staff, Quill and Scroll. JACK HORTON-College Prep. Intramural athletics, Student Council. FORREST HOUSTON-Industrial Course. DICK4 HOWARD-College Prep. Senior play, business manager of Axlx Ln.,hL Messiah, Hi-Y, Honor Society, Pep Club opeia Glee Club. JUNE JACOBS-College Prep. Girl Reserves, Ark Light stuff. EDWARD KELLEHER- --Culle-gc l're1mratory COIIISL. HAROLD KELLER- -- General Opera, Glee Club, quartet. NAOIVII KETCHUM--Coliexe PrerrarnLm'y Gnu:-,e OSCAR KIMMEL-Industrial Course. PAGE 19

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Vocational Ag. Classes l-lave Extensive Activity program Filling the current demand for vocational education, the Ark- anas City High School, furnishes a course in vocational agricul- ture under the direcion of T. C. Farris. The course is, first of all, a laboratory course, planned around three projects, major, minor, and continuation. These projects consist of raising and breeding farm animals and cultivating plots of gound. By the time he graduates a boy may have a plot of ground planted in feed crops, a litter of pigs and a cow or two. In short, he has a complete farm, which with his training may be set to work earning him a living as soon as he desires. In this mechanical age farm shop training is almost a necess- ity. Here the boys learn to use all kinds of wood and metal working tools as well as the forge. Thus after two years they are able to repair almost any kind of farm equipment. Each year the class conducts a potato variety contest. The potatoes are tested for yield and market value. The most out- standing activity of the class deals with cattle judging. During the year boys are sent out, individually or in teams, to fairs and stock shows to judge cattle. Then in the spring a group of the best judges are chosen and called the Judging Team. This year Harold Mueller, Athur Rahn and Delbert Higbee were chosen. Those on the judging squad were NVilliam Post, Lloyd Cochran, Wendel Beeks, John Wei1', Gilford Golf, Walter Baird. and Pat Sommers. The class sponsors a chapter of Future Farmers of America which is a nationwide organization and acts as a guide to all extra-curricular activities of the department. Although the Future Farmers plan their year's program in detail before start- ing to- carry it out, they have meetings each month in which they discuss current developments of argricultural methods. In the fall the club prepares a booth for the county fair. This spring they cooperated with the Farm Bureau in distributing 130 bags of certified, tested potatoes among club members and to farmers in southern Cowley county. The solution in which the aggs dipped the potatoes killed scab and fungus diseases, thereby giving the potato, as a seed, a better chance of growing. An important project of the F. F. A. is the distributing of a carload of western breeding ewes among their members. They raise lambs and ship them cooperatively to the fat lamb market at Kansas City, Missouri. In this project the aggs learn of the new movement toward cooperative farming. The F. F. A. program also provides for recreation such as a basketball team, a turkey dinner at Thanksgiving, a skating party and a three days camp at Wentz's in the summer. In the mill-work class taught by W. A. Sneller, boys may learn to use tools and gather a knowledge of woods, nails and screws. Mr. Sneller stresses habits of working harmoniously together and obeying orders as being equally important as the knowledge of the subject itself. The class offers very few individual projects since the work consists of odd construction jobs about the school. Experience in turning on both wood and metal lathes is offered by this department. PAGE 18 DALE HINES lmlustriale- football. NADINE HOLMES General--Ark Light Staff, senior play. ALFRED HOWARD General -- foutlmll. conference president. DIMPLE JOHNSON College Prep. -Sheeilers. conferenu secretary. LOUISE KEMPICR College l'rep.'f Glee Club, Messizllu.

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1935 Bulldog Gricisters Were Twice Victorious Two victories, seven defeats, and one tie make up the re- cord of the Bulldog gridiron warriors for the 1935 season. Starting out in great form, the Arks posted two victories over non-conference opponents, only to fluke out in their first conference tilt, dropping a 34-O game to Hutchinson. The next four weeks saw the Bulldogs losing to ElDorado, Capitol Hill, Augusta, and Pratt, respectively. It was in the next game that the Bulldogs played the best football of the entire season, pulling out a 13-13 tie with the Newton Railroaders. The Arks traveled to Newkirk and were humbled 12-7 by the Oklahomans' passing attack. In the final game of the season, the Bulldogs surprised dope- sters by holding a heavier Crusader eleven, which was picked to win by at least three touchdowns, to a lone touchdown-made in the first three minutes of play. There were thirteen boys who recieved letters on this year's football squad. Seven of these are graduating, leaving six around which to build next year's team. Those who graduate this year are Paul Quinn, Cole Daily, George Griffith, Aldo Orin, Dale Hines, Louis Abernathy, and Alfred Howard. At right end we had Paul Quinn, a lanky lad who demon- strated his pass-snagging ability in the Capitol Hill game. On the other end position was Joe Stafford who was short, but made up for his lack of height with good, hard playing. Tackle positions were held down by Cole Daily, a stalwart heavy player who started out slow and came out in the final game of the year to play his best game of the season, and George Griffith, a 225 pounder who made the going plenty tough for any enemy ball-lugger who happened to try his side of the line. At the left guard Aldo Orin filled the bill very well, break- ing through the line many times to stop opposing ball-luggers in their tracks. Other guards who lettered this year are Thomas Ashburn and Marvin Shackleford, a sophomore and a junior who played outstanding football, plugging up the center of the line very effectively thus forcing the opposing teams to resort to end runs. Five players earned letters in the backfield. They are Ken- neth Steele, Robert Wilson, Louis Abernathy, George Pitts, ani Alfred Howard. Kenneth Steele played quarterback for the first half the season after which he was shifted to halfback. He was the hardest hitter on the team and played his hardest from the opening whistle until the final gun. Robert Wilson, playing halfback, was shifted up to second team quarterback in place of Abernathy who went to first tcanx when Steele was shifted to half. Abernathy, diminutive quarter- back, was a good, steady player and a capable safety man. The remaining two backfield lettermen are George Pitts, a junior, who developed into an excellent passer and looks like a comer for next year's eleven, and Alfred Howard, a good, steady halfback who showed up well on defense, a fact which he very aptly demonstrated in the Wellington game. PAGE 20 FLOYD KIMSEY General Glen Club, Messiah, lhutball. l'.I.IiER'l' LAMBERT College Prep. -l-Ii-Y president, Pep Club, special urclicstrzl, band, orches- tra, senior pluy. lfAL LlGH'I'S'l'ONlil College Prep. lVlirrur Stall intru- mu1'u.l lmskctbzlll, Pep Club, tennis. l, lVl. LONG C'innincri-ini spun-i:il gym. l,f7lil'lNE LUPER. General Glcc Club, ML-sriiuli.