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

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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.

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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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Y. 1, C52-i?,'is1 I . .O 0 0 8 ' 0 0 f 1 5 f 4 X 0 0 l I . V N l C. l-, Sl fl sto fl 0 O Another graduate in foreign fields at the present time is Charles Riley, who is doing excellent work as a Y. M. C. A. secretary in Czechoslovakia. Mrs. Eula Sleeth Thomas, '98, who now resides in Perry, Oklahoma, spent several years in India as principal of a girls' school in Dehra Dun, Punjab. Miss Roxana Oldroyd, now a member of the Board of Education, was formerly at science teacher in the Isaltella Thoburn College at Lucknow. India. Her entire life has been in one way or another devoted to- the missionary cause. Five former graduates made the supreme sacrifice for their country in the late World War. They were: Earl Marshal who was killed in action at Verdun, Franceg Angus Ralston who was killed in action at St. Etienne-a-Arnes, Franceg Calptain John Bossl who was killed in action at Chateau Thierry, Franceg Lieutenant William Nichols of the Medical Reserve Corps who was accidentally killed at Fort McrPherson, Georgia and Ephraim Gilmore Love who lost his life at the Wilbur Wright Aviation Field. Angus Ralston was cited by Marshal Petain for the Croix de Guerre. Two former graduates did their bit in winning the war as nurses. Mrs. Mary McIntyre Gardner was decorated by the Queen of Roumania. Mrs. Laura Wilson of Emporia, did special work as a Red Cross Nurse in France. Roland Hamilton, son of Mrs. Virginia Hamilton of this city, has distinguished himself as an attorney in New York City. He is the business advisor for many large corporations. Ula Gribble, a young attorney, is making rapid progress in his profession and is now practicing in Montana. A local attorney, Harry V. Howard has made a record as deputy county attorney and is now a candidate for county attorney of Cowley county. A leading physician in California at the present time and a former graduate is Dr. Ralph Swarts, '10, He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkin's Medical School. During the World War he served in the medical corps. A former graduate who has met with success as a lo-cal physician is Dr. Louis Morgan. He is a graduate of the Jefferson Medical School of Philadelphia, Penn. One of the younger graduates, Miss Ernestlne Day, has become nationally known as a dancer. She is now touring the Orient with the Dennishawn dancers and bids fair to become o-ne of the nation's favorites. R Mrs. Nila MacBriant. who was always a star in local talent plays, is still con- tinuing her chosen career in New York City. She had the leading role in the play War Brldes, playing opposite Tom Wise. Uly Woodside is now with the Metropolitan Opera Company. One of the foremost bankers of the state and nationally known in financial circles is Albert Denton, a former graduate. He lately retired as president of the Home National Bank, and is now chairman of the board of directors of that bank. Many leading business men of Arkansas City are former graduates. They are now promoting the interests of Arkansas City in every possible way. Included among these are: Harry Earlougher, Fred Gould, Albert Newman, Harry and Ralph Oldroyd, lilyde Roseberry, Forrest Howard. and Paul Parman. Among the teachers of Arkansas City who are former graduates are: Pauline B. Sleeth, Olive Ramage, Edna Johnson, Edith Davis, Pearl Locke, Ethel Ireton, Mary Hume, Lawrence Chaplin, Emily Hyatt, Erna Fesler, Valeria Johnson, Anna Hight. Fern Reynolds Myra Hardy and Ernestine Leasure. Miss Emily Hyatt of Willard School has given thirty-six years of service to the youth of Arkansas City. For years, she was principal of Washington School. and many boys and girls owe their start in school life to her. Hearty congratulations must, also, be extended to the colored graduates, of Ar- kansas City High School. Fred West, 1891, was for several years a teacher in the colored schools at Lawrence and Leavenworth. At present, he is principal of a school in Wichita. Hearty congratulations must, also, be extended to the colored graduates. of Arkansas City High School. Monroe Work, 1892. attended a theological school in Chicago, after which he attended Chicago University for five years. In 1902 he received the degree of Bach- elor of Philoso-phy, and the degree of Master of Art in 1903. In 1908, he established in Tuskekie Institute, the Department of Records and Research of which he is now the head. In 1912, he published the first edition of The Negro Year Book which has brought him international tame. Mr. Work is a member of several learned societies and his articles in many magazines together with The Year Book have won him recognition as an authority on negro questions. Daniel Roberts, 1892, completed the medical course at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois in 1896 He located in Augustine Florida where he built up a large practice He died in 1919 In future Mirrors we hope that the pages will be filled with records of the class of 1926 A H , v l 4 1 l J v S 3 S 3 2 2 Q Q - C 3 Q 0 3 2 3 Q Y U 0 0 O , ' ' y on 4 A - li- V Q 9 I ' ' I B V 17, 133. :flu ,LA l