Central High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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the pledge master is Eliot Carter. Virginia Paul and Mary Willis Richards are the Senate sponsors from the Gunaike. Members who will graduate this year are as follows: Troy Woodward, Wayne Richie, Bill Boyd, Harold Wright, Elliott Carter, Jack Taylor, Eddie Parker, Theodore Edwards, Paul Jones, Archie Swan- son, and Brock Robinson. The Senate Athletic Society was founded in 1919 for the purpose of advancing and supporting athletics and advancing school progress. It is sponsored each year by one of the faculty selected by the members. Meeting are held each Wednesday. Another of Central's feminine clubs is the Girl Re- serves. This club has a membership of between fifteen and twenty and is constantly increasing. The officers of this club are as follows: Vernice Beverage, presidentg Wilma Jeane Romine, vice-president, Shirley Jackson, secretary, La Homa Sanders, treasurer. The aim of the club this year for the first time is to furnish the ethics requirements which every senior must fulfill. Other aims are to raise the ideals of the girls and help to furnish them with clean, wholesome enjoy- ment. Find and give the best is their motto. Miss Elizabeth Bonnell sponsors this organization. The Make Up Club, sponsored by Miss Corinne Ches- nutt and with a roster of 17 girls, is the cause or reas- on for the successful characterization by members of the dramatic groups in Central. The members are trained in the use of grease paint, powder, and eye-brow pencils. For a small charge, enough to cover the cost of supplies, all the characters of the play casts are paint- ed, combed, and brushed to Ht the part they are to por- tray. The boys' club for service to the dramatic groups is the Stage Craft. Under the direction of G. T. Mc- Kinney, the sponsor, and Paul Jones, student manager, this club sets the stage for all assemblies and programs presented in Central. The members may be readily ,H - -. Ez- ..,-- . ' .. -....,...Yv.... . ,... 2 4- L 1 ' recognized. They are as follows: Victor Lewis, Bill Boyd, Bobby Boyd, Loy Weber, Joe Teaff, and Marion Cohenour. This year a new club, The Model Airplane Club, was founded in Central with Noel Downen as its sponsor. The purpose is to encourage an interest in aviation and in accurate model airplane building. Realizing the fu- ture in a business of this kind, numerous boys in Cen- tral are members. Paul Anderson is president of the Model Airplane Club. Cecil Venable is vice-president, Gene Buster, secretary and treasurer. Central's clubs, since they were organized, have grown in membership and prestige, and are making a place in the high school for ambitious and enthusi- astic boys and girls.

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treasurer. Seniors are Herbert Daily, Nancy .Jane Davies, Helen Hillhouse, Mary Pruett, Udell Engle- brecht, Helen Meacham, Helen Wood, LuVerne Fleak, Shirley Jackson, Benton Dawson, Bert Baker, Barker Killgore. Gunaikes who simply are peppered in Central, meet every Thursday morning' under the able direction of Miss Naomi White, one of the most popular school teachers. It is a club that is well-worth the pride of its members. From the ranks of its outstanding members came the Football Queen, Virginia Paul, and the Basketball Queen, Irene Hoss. Most its members have excellent scholarship standings. Being- the president of Gunaikes is the job Olga Delight Sprinkel thinks is the most fun of anythingg. Marjory Gritiin is vice- president, Mary Willis Richards, secretary, Virginia Paul, treasurer, Betty Boteler, pledge-mistress, and Florence Krepps, is sergeant-at-arms. Miss Lucille Neff, now Mrs. John Dill, was the founder of the Gunaike Literary Society in 1913 for the purpose of studying the lives of great women and to promote school activities. One of the featured social events given by the club is their annual spring' banquet, in order to install the new otficers. This year the new pins that they ordered were received just in time for all the girls to wear them to it. The pins were tiny open gold books, with 19343 across them and a G guard. From this group are chosen the student sponsors of the Senate, as from the Entre Nous are chosen the sponsors of the Forum. This year Virginia Paul, Gun- aikels treasurer and Football Queen, and Mary Willis Richards, the secretary oi' Gunaike, received this honor. Those members who graduate in the class of 1936 are Virginia Paul, Regina Bonnicelli, Marjory Grif- fin, Ann Swan, Olga Delight Sprinkel, Florence Krepps, Helen Gertrude Clark, Florine Guthrie, Carolyn Pegg, Mary Willis Richards, and Betty Boteler. Last but by no means least comes Senate Sex - which is a well-known phrase around Central and more than likely you will see it on every bulletin and in every show case. Outstanding in its enthusiastic support of all athletic activities, the Senate Athletic Society has done much toward our athletic fund. The Senators have held many offices in school politics and its spon- so1', genial J. E. Sullivan, and president has led the Senate on through another successful school year in the school's history. Theodore Edwards was president until the time of his graduation at mid-term. Victor Lewis is vice-president, Archie Swanson, secretary, and

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rensics by florine Guthrie The debate class of 1935-36 is the largest since debat- ing was established in Central High School in 1925, ac- cording to Miss Parthenia Gregory, debate coach. Seven- teen students are enrolled. Five are second year men and the remaining twelve are first year men. Second year men are Terrell Covington, Bill Nicholas, Ed Ed- mondson, Don Dirk, and Nancy Jane Davies who re- ceived letters last year, Ed Edmondson receiving the coveted Golden M. New members are Jack Shackle- Iord, Fred Flusche, Bob Forrester, Herman Powers, Mose Frye, Vera Reay, C. W. Clymans, Jack Dennis Bobby Askew, Dorothy Suhre, and C. A. Overstreet. The debate question for '35-'36 is Resolved: That the several states should enact legislation providing for a complete system of medical care available to all citizens at public expense. The old Cent1'al Conference in exist- ence for 18 years has been discontinued. Muskogee was a member. Ed Edmondson and Terrel Covington, A team, Don Kirk and Jack Shackleford, B team, won the East Central State Teachers College Invitation Tournament held in Edmond, Oklahoma, April 10 and 11. The same teams won the Northeastern State Teachers College Tournament held in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Central High debaters have been hosts to two invitation tournaments held in Central High School, March 14 and April 18. Qualifications for the Norman meet held in May were as follows: winner of a school invitation tourna- ment or winner of a teachers college tournament. The Central debaters completed their qualifications and were therefore eligible for participation, reaching the finals in the state tournament. Central is justly proud of Miss Gregory and her debaters. Central High Oratory Club, sponsored by Miss Glor- ia Gulager, was organized on October 15, 1935. Nancy Jane Davies was elected president, Ed Edmondson, vice- president, Mildred King, secretary. Mildred and Ed rep- resented Muskogee at interscholastic meets. Mildred's selection was The Truly M0ther by Dorothy Canfield. 3 Ed's speech was Back to the Constitution by William Arther. Ed Edmondson, Central representative in the Conference Boys' Oratorical contest finished third in the meet held at Oklahoma City, December 13. Mildred King won the District Contest. The club was discontin- ued January 17. 1935, at the beginning of the second semester. The Alpha Forensic, coached by B. L. Wertz, is the dramatic organization of the Muskogee Junior College. Their activities include participation in junior college debate tournaments, dramatic reading contests, and presentation of college plays. This organization has done more than any other group to make the Muskogee Junior College well-known throughout the state. The debate team composed of David Linebaugh, Andrew Wilcoxen, Walter Martin, and Charles Gotwals won both the state and National debate tournaments this year. They have two gold cups symbolic of their victories. The National Junior College Tournament was held in Hutch- inson, Kansas. The State Junior College tournament was held in Norman, Oklahoma, March 21. Other mem- bers of Alpha Forensic who were entered in the contest at Norman, Oklahoma were as follows: Gaynelle Mor- ton, Calvin Fredrick, Richard Vernor, who with An- drew Wilcoxen presented a one-act play entitled, The Dispatch Goes Home . Lou V. Adams and Olga Knoepke were entered in the humorous and dramatic events respectively. Andrew Wilcoxen received a medal for placing first in extemporaneous speaking. The contest in all events was was broadcast over Oklahoma City broadcasting station.