Arkansas City High School - River Rat Yearbook (Arkansas City, AR)

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A '-A -f titkfflzaw- i HONOR SOCIETY A. C. ll. S. was fortunate in having a chapter of the National Honor Society installed here in 1924. as only schools ol' high standards are granted this privilege. The Your points that form the basis for membership are: Service, t'haracter, Leadership, and Scholarship. The members are chosen by the faculty. Specifications for membership besides the four fundamental points are: the candidate must rank in the upper 25 percent of his class. Only juniors and seniors are eligible to mem- bership and they must have spent one year in A. t'. H, S. Membership in this society is an honor because it has been conferred by the Board oi' lflmlucatiton that gradua- tion with honors shall go only to members ol' this society. The membership is as follows: Bertha Charter Naomi lleydori' Gail Fesler Kathryne Le Stourgcon Forrest Newman Frances Herbert Harold Bottomley Ethel Hynd Katherine Mans Ethel Bybee Russell Piper Vager Bernard Bobbie Jackson Agnes Cnshenberry The sponsors of this society are: Miss Frances Keith, Miss Mabel Bowers. and Miss Edith Davis.

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FORENSIC GROUP ln digging among debate DEBATE records, in searching out the history of our other departments, it is to be found that A. C. li. S. has nothing to be ashamed ol' and has much to be proud of. The greatest, incentive to societies, the Cavaliers and the do one's best is a spirit of rivalry. ln 1905 two rival Argonauts, were formed. In the following years great. competition existed between these two clubs. These clubs existed for about seven yearsg then they gave way to one debate class. Since that time A. C'. H. Arkansas Pity debate team won torioutsg in 1921-22 we won the year we won second place with solved and several dual debates This year a debate squad S. has held her share of the honors. In 1919-20 the state championship. In 1920-21 our team was all vic- championship of the Ark Valley League and the next 19 out of 24 decisions. Last year the League was dis- were held. of twelve was chosen. This was organized into teams and each team was prepared to enter any debate. In this way keener competition was involved. more material was secured, and a formation of next year's debate stu- dents was begun. Members of the squad were: Opal Agnew, Eddie Castle, Tracy English, Frances O'Dowd Garland Russell, Landon Mathews. May Kittrell, Izola Mann, Wilbur Shoup, Russell Piper, Lydia Pannell and Gordon Newton. The question this year was Resolved: that the Proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution Shall be Adopted. Izola Mann and May Kittrell for the affirma- tive and Eddie Castle and Frances O'Dowd for the negative, represented tl1e school. This team won the southern half of the Ark Valley League but lost to Hutchinson in the final debate for league championship. ORATOIIY A. C. H.S. has always distinguished herself in oratorical contests. This year Russell Piper represented us in the Ark Valley Oratorical Contest at Kingman, win- ning second place. Ile, also, won second place at the Southwestern Invitation Uontest at Winfield. EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAK ING Extemporaneous Speaking this year was handled in a slightly different man- ner than ever before. The Public Speaking class and Junior English classes took up the work. They were given twelve magazines from which they were to be prepared on any of twenty-four topics. Fern Snyder and Eddie Castle were chosen to repre- sent the school in the contest at Newton. They made a good showing against. stiff competition. Eddie Vastle placed third.

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THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE Arkansas Vity has reason to be proud of her former graduates, Many have sueeeedetl in their efforts to Capture that elusive will-o-the-wisp ealled Fame. Many more haye remained iu Arkansas t'ity eontributing in one way or another to its growth and betterment. The professions followed l-y the various graduates are many and diverse. An authentic list would iuelude ministers. physieians. merehants. missionaries. steno- szraphers. bookkeepers. university students. lawyers, dramatic readers. teachers. bank- ers. t'aruiet's. druggists. nurses. journalists. electric-ians. dentists. mail earriers. realtors. jewelers. undertakers. plumbers. elerks. abstraetors, civil engineers, arehiteets, eoal dealers, seamstresses, and Santa Fe employees. One A. V. ll. S. graduate uho has attained international fame is Mrs. Edna Worthley I'nderwood. The world knows her as a literary writer of unusual talent. She has won fame as a translator, a poet, an art eritie. and above all a novelist. She is a member of the Authors' lleaszue of America. the Soeiety of Arts and Sc-ienc-es. the Niodern llauguage Research Asseeiation of lflngland. and the only Arkansas Uity person listed iu Who's Who. The best known ol' her work are: The Whirlwind. The l'enitent and The Passion Flower. Mrs. Edna Wharton Hoeh. who now resides in Topeka. is another former grad- uate wbo has attained sueeess as a writer. Her stories arewidely read and favorab- ly commented upon by erities. Speeial mention must also, be given to two other former graduates who have doue work iu the literary field. namely, Mrs. Ileola Bellamy t'unningham and Miss Pauline B. Sleetli. They are members of the Kansas Authors Fluh at the present time and are regular eontributors to the monthly magazine published by that elub. Mrs. 'Pbeaker Fife. a member of the first graduating elass of Arkansas City, the elass of 1880. has been a missionary in India for twenty-five years. W'itli the help of her husband who is in tl'e ministerial profession, she has aeeomplished a great deal in the way of bettering the eonditious of life there.