Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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We TROJAN Troian Carniuals bg EUNICE ARMOUR ITH the air filled with the smell of spicy pine needles, icicles everywhere, designs Jack Frost had painted on the windows and snowballs on the lights, opened the scene of the first social event of the year. This gala occasion was the Senior-Junior Reception, January 7th. which was held at the Rose Room of the Avenue Hotel. The program consisted of several tap dancing numbers by Thelma Root dressed as a soldier, two piano solos by Merle Witham and a vocal solo by Agnes Peden. The refreshments which were served by some of the freshmen girls who were dressed as snow fairies were cocoanut snowballs and lemon cocktail with a floating l a 11 of pineapple ice. The next event in the senior calendar was the Senior Sneak Day which caused a great whirl of excitement among the students. The journalism class secretly published a Scandal Sheet, which was distributed to the under classmen early Wednesday morning. May 3. All the seniors, except Max Wrench, who had to be pulled out of bed about seven thirty, left for Brown's Memorial Park at Abilene soon after seven o’clock. The weather wasn't ideal in the morning, but shortly after every one had finished his lunch and started to town the sun came out and brightened things up. The afternoon was spent playing tennis, buying souvenirs, and visiting the radio broadcasting station where a song was dedicated to the two seniors who were ill that day and were unable to go. All the Seniors enjoyed the day, and their only regret was that they could have only one Sneak Day. That is every one except one hoy who forget about the traffic rules in Salina. May 5th was the date of the Junior-Senior banquet. The theme on International Economic Conference was interesting and unique. Each place card had the silhouette of a girl or boy of one country, Holland, Italy, Spain. France. England or United States with the flag of that country on it. The program covers were maps with the outstanding features of each country drawn on them. France had the Eiffel tower, United States had the Statue of Liberty, Russia the Kremlin building and Italy was represented by gondolas. The favors were chocolates covered with gold paper which looked like money hoarded in gold net bags. The interesting program is as follows: Invocation .................................. Mr. Chestnut International Economic Conference Toastmaster .................Ramsay MacDonald Claude Baker “ Debts” .................................Edouard Herriott Dale Spaulding “Gold'' .....................................Lady Astor Rosella Bunch “Lorelei” .................................. Song Bill Pfautz “La Marseillaise” .......................... Song Ruth Davis, Ruth McCall. Charlotte Smith “Boundaries” ...............................Adolf Hitler Tommy McCall “Kaca” ...........................Polish Dancer Dorothy McClanahan “Tariff ....................Franklin Roosevelt Henry Lins “ Disarmanent” ..............The World Citizen Thayer Carmichael The menu was food of foreign countries which was served by girls of the Sophomore class who were dressed as little French girls. The menu was as follows: Hors D'oeuver Petits Pois Russian Radishes Westphalian Ham Irish Potatoes English Muffins Salmagundi American Ice Cream Kruchen Demi Tasse The Girl Reserve entertained the Senior girls at a farewell party at the home of Mrs. E. N. Daniels. The program consisted of a song by Ruth McCall, Ruth Davis and Charlotte Smith. A short talk by Mrs. Lutz about the two essentials, a sense of humor and courtesy, needed in life. This was followed by several games. Punch, ice cream and cookies were served. The spacious lawn and lovely music which the orchestra played from the balcony made a lovely setting for this last party to be enjoyed by the Senior girls of Beloit High School. Page Twenty-six May 1933

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We TROJAN Troian Marathons bij LUCILLE DENDl] TRACK N spite of the disastrous and very un-„ . happy football and basketball seasons last year and the first of this year, many students came out for track in i early April, enthusiastically, every night after school. The first track meet this year was with Jewell the twenty-fifth of April. It was held in Beloit, and won by Beloit. Beloit attended the relays at Minneapolis also, but failed to score. In the North Central League held at Concordia, Kansas, April ( , 1933, Beloit won twenty-three points. This was the highest number of points that Beloit has ever scored in the League. Belleville won first place in the League. Those who were entered in the League meet were: Quarter mile: Clyde Bean, Philip Doyle, Ronald Walsh. Dash: Lewis Knarr, Kenneth Simpson, Billy Me-Mann. High jump: Donald Walsh. Pole vault: Donald Walsh, Ronald Walsh. Weights: Carsen Hansen, Roger Weltmer, Marion File, Allen Fowler. Half mile: Duane Miller, Lyle McMann, Max Broadbent. Broad jump: Billy McMann. Mile: Robert Mercer. TENNIS Tennis has proved itself to he one of tin more popular school activities in Beloit High school in the last three years. Three new tennis courts sponsored by the Girls Athletic Association were erected on the north side of the high school building this year. The tennis squad and the gym classes contributed toward the courts, also by working on them during class hours and after school. On the night of May 10, the halls of the high school were transformed into an ice-cream parlor. Local people and high school students were invited to attend. This affair was sponsored by the Girls’ Athletic Association in order to finance the tennis courts. The outstanding members in the squad this year consisted of Gail Reiter, Kenneth Wiens, Donald Murray, Donald Schulz, Claude Baker, Henry Lins, and Santiage Alejo. There are several others who show promise of becoming successful players next year. Tennis is one of the most popular school activities this year, and a large number of students are greatly interested in it. The squad has had two matches so far this spring, but on account of the unfavorable weather, it is not certain whether or not they will play in the tournament to be held at Russell, May 13. The following boys will go if the tournament is held. Reiter, Wiens, Murray, and Baker. On May 8, Mr. Carmichael, Reiter, Murray, Wiens, Lins, Baker, and Alejo went to Lincoln to play in a match. Reiter and Murray; as the doubles team, won: Wiens and Alejo, also won in the doubles team. Lins and Baker lost their doubles match. In the singles team, Reiter won; Murray won, Wiens won, Alejo won, Baker won and Lins lost. Lincoln came to Beloit, May 11, for a match. Reiter did outstanding work by playing nonschool competition and winning. Reiter and Murray lost in the doubles team, to the Lincoln coach, Mr. Lindgren, and a Wesleyan player. Wiens and Baker won in the doubles match and Schulz and Lins, lost. In the singles Murray won, Wiens won, Baker won, and Schulz won. BASEBALL This year for the first time in the Beloit High School, a baseball team was formed. No competitive games were played, but much experience and fun has been enjoyed from the games between the high school boys. The boys started practicing on Tuesdays and Thursdays the first week of May, but so much had to be done when the end of school drew near, that no schedule could be followed. May 1933 Page Twenty-five

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TROJAN Council of Themis UR system of government is founded upon democratic- ideals; so is the stu-Ic dent council of our public schools. Its three-fold purpose is: First, to promote jail student activities; second, with cooperation of the faculty and administration of the school system to. gain and maintain the highest standards of high school life; and third, to create a school spirit by having the students voice their sentiment. There Inis been a student council in Beloit High School since 1924. The first six years of the student council they were chosen from the classes and organizations. For the past two years the members have been chosen from the spelling classes and each organization in the school. When there is any business to be brought before the students, the members of the council bring a report to each spelling class where they tell the business and it is discussed pro and con. At the next council meeting they take up the students attitude of the matter and proceed in their favor. During the past two years the student council has had a regular meeting once every two weeks. The students have learned the importance of having a student council and realize the benefits gained through it. Principal E. M. Chestnut is the student council sponsor. The student council is a non-partisan body and tries to help any organization when it could accomplish its goal with a little aid. Early in the season the Debate Squad and Hi-Y were planning to give the play, “Poodles”. The council joined them and furnished what they didn’t have including tin girls of the cast. Early in the school year it was found that. Beloit had several modern conveniences, but it would profit much by the addition of a radio. The student council considered the ways and means of bq TREDA TUMDDELL. DEL FORREST IFINN earning enough money to purchase one, and soon radios were being brought up on trial. The radio was formally presented to the school by the President, .Miss Opal Wells. Every Friday morning from 10:20 to 10:50 music students enjoyed the Walter Damrosch music appreciation hour. The student council sponsored the preparation and sale of the student activity ticket. The'student council had a lunch counter at the Horse Fair in the fall. After having to race the Plymouth up Mill Street to get to the next class and using all the loose dirt near to keep the gas stove from burning and exploding, the council came out at the better end. The student council assisted by the debate squad and Hi-Y presented the play, “Poodles,” November 9th. The members of the cast chosen from the council were Opal Wells, Frances Cole, Dale Spaulding and Thelma Slate. The play was coached by Mr. Carmichael and Mr. lines. Other of their activities have been a campaign to free the halls and near the building of waste paper, having a candy counter at the games, or leasing it to another organization. The council had a committee to meet athletes and visitors from other communities. The council financed the purchase of the scholastic awards and placing the members’ names of the National Honor Society on the plaque. They also defrayed the expenses of the twenty pupils who entered the scholarship contest at Concordia, April 29. Members this year were: Opal Wells, president; Claude Baker, vice-president; Kathryn Ingram, secretary and treasurer; Frances Cole, Billy Birch, Howard DeShazo, Gerald Bassford, Betty Tweed, Ronald Walsh, Lawnev Giddings, Paul Hannah, Catherine Crawford. Charles Jordan, Rosemary Prewett. Dale Spaulding, Robert Mercer, Thelma Slate, Ruth Anna Tindle, and Leo Nelson. May 1933 Page Twenty-seven