Benton High School - Wahwahlanawah Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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I PHIQP MISS VIRGINIA McDOWELL Nllss Benton. 1936 NIILDRED NIEARS BERNIECE KLINGSTON Maids of Honor

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Benton's Heritage For a quarter of a century Benton graduates have been leavi11g the hill top school to add the force of their intellect, personality, and physical equipment to thc great army of man- kind that makes society. Benton is proud of her alumni, those alert, smiling, vigorous young people who have carried the 11ame and stamp of Benton far beyond the borders of this city and state. Proud too, of the stay-at-homes, who having established themselves in thc local commercial world, are building homes, rearing and training their children, a11d put- ting their influcnce on the side of the better forces of civic life. Always they show the impress of I Benton spirit, an inexplicable but none the less powerful entlmsiasm that be- comes part of the bone and sinew of every loyal Bentonitc. Elusive, it can- not be captured by words and reduced ,ii ' xg I to the imprisonment of phrases. ., pf ,K . 5. 1 . yr. N Impossible then to tell what it is. But one may perhaps set down the causes contributing to its birth and continued existence. Most important factor is the democratic, friendly na- ture of the pupils making up Benton's student body. Mentally they may be superior or just average, but in- variably they exhibit that kindliness of heart, the brotherly love which is the essence of friendliness. Everyone knows everyone elseg each sets himself without conscious effort to admire tl1e good points of his classmates. Xvill'llI0d by such genuine appreciation, who would not attain the best in him? af: ' 5 . a,g,,.5f- FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL TEAM THE ORIGINAL BUILDING FUN FOR EVERYBODY-'08 Bt-uton's teaching staff has done its bit toward fostering Benton spirit, too. Everyone connected with the administration, in however humble capacity, has worked to make Benton mean something vital to all witl1 whom he came in contact. Mr. J. A. Bell, the first principal. was idealistic and visionary. but in a very practical way. Ile gave unsparingly of his time. his mental gifts. his physical strength to make dreams come true for his student body here and IIOXV. Ile handed down a tradition of cheerful service to others which our present prin- eipal, Mr. F. E. Vandersloot. carries on unostentatiously but no less eapably. The first faculty was chosen from the sort of people whose ideals and visions matched Mr. Bell's. All were teachers-extraordinary. Of them all, the influ- ence of Miss Laura Jessie Lomax has been most far-reaching because she has remained at her post, advising. counseling. encouraging each group of students in turn until now, hundreds will rise up and eall her blessed! I Page 75

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