Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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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

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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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We TROJAN Trojan Treasures by DERA PONTON Mrs. Ranghild Nelson Erica Nelskm, her daughter Sigrid Halverson, housekeeper Ole Halverson, man-servant Dorothy Nichols Virginia Lind ley ------------ Helen Stone ------------------ Jack Dunn Robert Lind ley -------------- Rosemary Prewett Thelma Slate Elma Babbit Junior Giles Eloise Briggs Betty Hampton . Nelda Owen Henry Lins Roscoe Miles »HE Treasure Chest, a three act com edy was presented by the Senior class in tlie iiigh school auditorium on April 26. The play was directed by Miss Gertrude .Kirtland. Jane Melil was business manager, and Mr. 1). E. Ilinkhouse had charge of the ticket sale. Through the cooperation of the class as a whole and the Senior sponsors a large ticket campaign was carried out and the play was presented to a full house. The scene of the play was laid in a college town, Harrison. Erica Nelson, a Norwegian girl, was ashamed of her nationality. She tried to hide it, but her home was very plainly Norwegian, and Ole Halve son, and his “Yeneral Manager,” Sigrid made it much more evident that the home was Norwegian. Erica set out to refurnish the home and teach Ole and Sigrid to speak like Americans. Thelma Slate very capably carried the role of Erica, who changed her name to Christine, because it did not sound so much like a Norwegian name. Rosemary Prewett, who played the part of Mrs. Nelson, Erica’s mother, was an example of patience. She let Erica do as sin pleased about rearranging the house and teaching Sigrid and Ole to talk correctly. The parts of Sigrid and Ole were talken by Elma Babbit and Junior Giles, who played them exceptionally well. Sigrid knew her rights and had them. She concealed few opinions, and it was her policy to share them with the world. Ole was fair- ly dominated by Sigrid, and he was the type that needed directions, and Sigrid did her best to give them to him. Virginia Lindlev and Helen Stone are two college girls who are “Alphas and who consider Erica as a candidate to their society. They went to her home for an evening, and according to previous instructions Sigrid, Ole, and Mrs. Nelson were not to speak, for tear they would reveal their nationality. Everything seemed so queer at the Nelson home, they suspected the family as being a little insane. Robert Lindley was an athletic star, beloved by everyone. He was very much attracted by Erica’s charm, Jack Dunn was the life of every party, and he was a very good friend of Robert Lindley. Dorothy Nichols was a girl who proved to be a very good friend of Erica and admired her very much. She didn't have a square deal socially, but she didn't worry about it. In the Nelson family, generations before Erica, a young Norwegian bride, whose lover was shipwrecked, became the victim of melancholia. Erica was very much alarmed when her mother became rather despondent, and she feared that her mother was also becoming a victim of the disease. Sigrid told her that she was the cause of her mother's grief, so Erica changed her ways. In the living room was a beautiful chest, in which were many old Norwegian treasures and costumes. Dorothy persuaded Erica to put back the Norwegian pictures which had been taken down and fix the room as it had been. Robert Lindley, in search of costumes, stopped to see a picture of an old Viking, and Erica showed him the costumes she has. They proved to be the very ones he had been looking for, and his sister Virginia and Helen came in to see the costumes. They also see Erica s true character, so they ask her to be an Alpha. The amount of money received from the play was one-hundred and fifty dollars. This money wiil be used to pay for the senior year book, the Trojan. May 1933 Page 7wen ty - th ree