Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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I III WTROJAN Daughters of Atlanta by UERA PONTON EM I NINE shouts from locker rooms on the lower floor after four o’clock are an indication that the G. A. A. is to be jn session. This organization, the Girls’ . 11 Athletic Association, is perhaps one of the most active at B. II. S. It is under the supervision of the state athletic association, and it is sponsored by Miss Nadine 'Miller, the high school gym teacher. The purpose of the organization is to create and promote interest in girls’ athletics and to offer a variety of sports in which all girls are asked to take part. Last fall the girls played baseball and volley ball. In the winter, basketball was the main sport, and in the spring they played soccer. There has been an average of thirty girls in the G. A. A. each semester. Their activities are divided into two classes. The first group is known as organized activities, and must be done under the supervision of the physical education teacher. Included in this group are, basketball, volley ball, soccer, baseball and folk dancing. The second class is called unorganized activities, and may lx done outside of school hours. These include such activities as roller skating, bicycling, and horseback riding. The results of the riding become rather painful. The group is divided up into five team '. aiH a cbiss representative manages each team. The Freshmen won the baseball tournament, the Juniors, the volley ball tournament; and the Freshmen the basketball tournament. On March 24. the Beloit G. A. A. was a guest of tin Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, for their annual Play Day. The twelve girls who represented Beloit included the six who won the basketball tournament and the six Junior-Senior Tro-janettes who were on the runner-up team. The winning team were: Mary Barthena Broadbent. Ger-Lvncli, and Isabelle Chris-team included: Elizabeth Gould. Maxine Lade, Dorothy McGlanahan, Esther Donaldson, Jane Mehl, and Mary Beryl Miller. girls who were on the Annan, Ruth Mercer, trude Golladay. Bertha toffel. The runner-up Tn working for points for awards, they get 6 points each hour for organized activities and 3 points an hour for unorganized activities. The first award for ( 00 points is a G. A. A. pin. The second award, ( ()() points more, is a school letter. 400 points additional earns the third award, which is a state letter, and the fourth award given for 400 points more is a gold “K” state pin. There are three girls who will receive “K” pins this year. They are Jane Meld, Elizabeth Gould, and Maxine Lagle. The G. A. A. has skillfully arranged social activities as well as class activities. They had a very successful Halloween party in the country, following a hilarious truck ride. Last fall they went on a sleepless overnight hike. The main feature of this hike was the appearance of a group of sere-naders, who turned out to be Coach Isaacson and his football boys with watermelons for a watermelon feed. After the feed, the girls proceeded to go back to their second childhood by playing leap frog at midnight. The officers of the G. A. A. this year were: President Ethel Peden Vice-President Shirley Spaulding Secretary Mary Ellen Stewart Treasurer Barthena Broadbent Members of the G. A. A. during the year 1932-MS were: Kith Mercer, Barthena Broadbent, Margaret Caughey, Isabelle Christoffel, Mary Annan, Ora Lee Seaman, Bertha Lynch, Gertrude Golladay, Thelma Boot, Betty Tweed, Mary Ellen Stewart, Shirley Spaulding, Justine James, Felicia Ann Sherrard, Martha Gansel, Merle Witham, Rosemary Iliginhotham, Udine Ball, Virginia Ballard. Margaret Finch. Opal Williams, Veda Briney, Ethel Beden, Chloe Slate, Elizabeth Gould, Marvel Conn, Violet Ratcliff, Esther Donaldson, Mary Beryl Miller, Doris Sherrard, Maxine Lagle, Elizabeth Smith. Jane Mehl, Ruth Anna Tindle, Helen Haile, Eunice Armour, and Dorothy McClanahan. May 1933 Page Twenty-one c :• ..•,1

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W? TROJAN T rojan Cagers by DEL FORREST ItftNN Beloit 12; Lincoln 21 Beloit 32; Glen Elder 18 Beloit 6; Marysville 19 Beloit 11: Belleville 18 Beloit 32; Lincoln 11 Beloit 14; Jewell 17 Beloit 19; Junction City 24 Beloit 16; Clay Center 18 Beloit 13; Concordia 14 Beloit 14; Marysville 16 Beloit 22; Jewell 20 Beloit 15: Clay Center 18 Beloit 5; Osborne 22 Beloit 25: Concordia 26 HERE were a large number of young and aspiring cagers who reported for practice at the opening of basketball practice this year. Following his last year's plan, Coach Isaacson divided this group into two groups, the “A and “B squads, according to the ability that the boys displayed. The squad made its first public appearance on foreign hunting grounds. On December 20, the Trojans played the Lincoln team at Lincoln. The Trojans lost 21-12. The next battle was fought on the home court. Glen Elder was on the losing end of the score. The Trojans then left the protection of home and journeyed to Marysville. They lost this game 19-6. From Marysville they went to Belleville and again met defeat. The score was 18-11. The next game was played against Lincoln on the home court. The defeat given the Trojans earlier in the season by this team was avenged. Lincoln was defeated 23-11. Jewell, the ancient enemy of the Trojan cagers, defeated our warriors on the Jewell court 17-14 in a close and exciting game. The following night we lost to Junction City 24-111. Clay Center next invaded the walls of Troy and defeated our cagers 18-lb. The Trojans then sallied out to attack Concordia, but they were repulsed by a narrow margin. The score was 14-13 for Concordia. Marysville next tried to scale our walls Page Twenty and succeeded after a hard battle and two long distance attacks. The score was lb-14. The Trojans repulsed the next attack made by the Jewell team. The score was 22-20 for Beloit. Following this successful defense of their own walls, the Trojans invaded Clay Center, but were defeated 18-15. From this defeat, the squad tried a comeback at Osborne but were again defeated 22-5. The last engagement of the season was in defense of the home court. The Concordia Panthers succeeded in scaling our defenses after a hard, close fight. The score was 26-25 for Concordia. The Trojans followed the official season by entering the state regional tournament held at Concordia on March 17 and 18. We lost in the first round to Marysville. The score was 23-10. The North Central Kansas League championship was won by the Junction City team. They played clean, fast basketball and are fit champions. Although the Trojans did not win a majority of their games, the team did well. Almost every game was close and exciting. The team received the support of the town people and the students throughout the season. Prospects for the coming season are bright since the second team made a good showing against larger teams. Those who were awarded first team letters were Gail Reiter, Ronald Walsh, Donald Walsh, Max Broadbent, Harold Mercer, and Wayne Moran. Donald Walsh was chosen captain. Those who were awarded reserve squad letters were Kenneth Wiens, Roscoe Miles, Donald Murray, Hugh Bussell. Roger Weltmer, Bill McMann, Carson Hansen, Boyd Christoffel, Allen Fowler, and Robert Mercer. Reiter, Moran, Miles, and Hansen will not be back next year, but the majority of these boys will be back to defend the Trojan court and to storm the defense of other schools. May 1933

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We TROJAN Playmates of M inerua by RUTH E. HOIPE HE greatest privilege that can come to any boy or girl, is to be permitted to learn of the world they live in. How well they learn the ways of the world is a mark of credit for them. This privilege is provided for them by our schools and we therefore gauge their education by the credit marks which they receive. As a further recognition of their work in taking advantage of this privilege granted them, the high schools of tin United States organized the National Honor Society. This society allows one-third of the senior class to receive such additional credit marks. The National Honor Society was organized in 1921 by the National Association of Secondary Principals. It was the result of various high school honor societies, the first founded in 1900. There are over 1000 active chapters of this organization in the United States, sixty-six of which are in Kansas. Beloit High School made application for membership in the National Honor Society in April, 1931. Membership in the National Honor Society is based upon four qualifications, scholarship, character, leadership and service to the schools of the nation. This organization is to the high schools of the nation as the Phi Beta Kappa and the Phi Kappa Phi are to the colleges except that the National Honor Society takes into consideration four qualifications where the college organizations consider only scholarship. Those eligible for election to the National Honor Society were the upper one-third of the senior class in scholarship. Election of members to the National Honor Society is by the members of the faculty of the high school. Not over fifteen percent of the graduating class may lie elected to membership in the society, and the full fifteen rarely are elected. The emblem of the National Honor Society is the keystone and the flaming torch. At the base of the keystone are the letters, C. S. L. S., which stand for the four cardinal principles of the organization, scholarship, leadership, character, and service. The charter members of the Beloit High School chapter of the National Honor Society were: Maxine Petterson, Josephine Cole, Winifred Leslie, Rachael Donabauer, and Robert McClelland, graduates of the class of 1931 ; Mary Agnes Hicks, Opal Moran, Paul Ilodler, Paul White, and Boyd Finney graduates of the class of 1932. The officers of the National Honor Society are: President ------------------------- Mary Agnes Hicks Vice-President Opal Moran Secretary ---------------------------- Winifred Leslie Treasurer Rachael Donabauer On March 1. 1933, seven new members were initiated into the society. They are: Elma Babbit, Florence Crown, Agnes Peden, Maxine Eagle, Wilma Rees, Martha McMahan, Ralph Jordan. Mary Agnes Hicks, president of the National Honor Society, administered the oath, to which the new members responded with the pledge of the society: I pledge myself to uphold the high purpose of the National Honor Society to which I have been elected: I will be true to the principles for which it stands; I will be loyal at all times to my school and will maintain and encourage high standards of Scholarship, Character, Leadership, and Service. May they always live up to the pledge! Page Twenty-two May 1933