El Dorado High School - El Doradoan Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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1 C9 C7 wail as! 'I -, ,ii v ',L..' ' A 'ffl --.rl '5 .- V .. A X1 ,M ali: a X x ss iv FRONT ROW: Joe Schrengohst, Gary Bracken, Bob Evans, Terry Sellards. SECOND ROW: Dan Thomas, Phil Thomas, Myra Scott, Nancy Rost, Leta Davenport, Muriel Golobay, Paul Hawkins, Clifton Marcum. BACK ROW: Joan Mcwilliam, Ruth Hammer, Lee Lazarus, Norma Orton, Larry McCul1y, Robert Derstein, Mr. G. E. Shaffer, David Nuttle, Arlan Stackley, Joan Lee, Beverly Beurskens, Joann Van Beber, Evelyn Emerich. orenriica The National Forensics League question of 1952-1953 for debate was Resolved: That the Atlantic Pact Nations Should Form a Federal Union. The El Dorado Debate Squad participated in the following invitational debate tournaments: Winfield, Atchison, Topeka, Shawnee Mission, Wyandotte, Hutchinson, Emporia, and Russell. Philip and Danny Thomas tied for third place in the Winfield tournament. A four speaker team composed of Paul Hawkins, Jr., and Clifton Marcum and Danny and Philip Thomas tied for third place at Atchison. The El Dorado debate squad was also host to sixteen Kansas high schools at their invitational debate tournament on December 12 and 13, 1952. Hutchinson captured first place, with Shawnee Mission winning second. Wyandotte and Russell tied for third. Aside from debating several members of the debate squad participated in the state forensic activities this spring. Mr. George Shaffer is the capable and efficient coach of this fine squad.

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.gjfuclenf gounci Lao mfg year I ,n , min. 'f ,- ' 0 Dick Jolliffe, Joyce Graham, Marc McLean. I The El Dorado High School Student Council was extremely busy this year. Among the events sponsored was an open house on November 20 in order to give parents an opportunity to become better acquainted with teachers. Ten representatives were selected to attend the district conference in Augusta, where they gained valuable knowledge concerning students' affairs and projects in school. Constructive action was taken in the establishment of a traffic court and an assembly committee to plan assembly programs. Early in the second semester tentative arrangements were made to sponsor a war orphan, Besides exploring numerous student projects the council continually works for better sportmanship. Student Council was ably led this year by Dick Jolliffe, presidentg Marc lVlcLean, vice-presidentg Joyce Graham, secretary. -5 -,. -f ng AJ., P 1-., f i 1 V Y 1 A . X. , . be . 1 ' x -+' , B . . .., , - ' . 'X r , - x rl H N A J 'N .v x V -44. A B- .... , Misa - , 11 4 gf, --k .x. 4 ,...r C... .. -N I . - -f FRONT ROW: Tom Cour, lack Emerick, Paul Gilmore, John Grant, Jerry Peterson. 2ND ROW: Karyn Kreek, Mary Kay Lange, Paula Kirby, Elfrieda Eisenhour, Kay Smith, Joyce Graham, Ann Cook, Janice Graham, Polly McGinnis, Julie Fisk. Susie Murray. BACK ROW: George Mott, Mark McLean, Paul Hawkins, Marvin Nye, Dick Robbins, H. C. Ruckert, Terry Sellards, Carl Boyer, Bob Evans, Dick Jolliffe.

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, X x ng ' 9. sg, w x W FRONT ROW: Marcia Metcalf, Connie Cloyes, Marilyn Smith, Leta Davenport, Margery Cornwell. BACK ROW: Harold Schlesinger, Larry McCully, Robert Derstein, Dave Daniel, Phil Thomas, Miss Falen. aya- Qui uf all efa Q f H IQAU JMS f fn On March third the Senior Class presented their play, Dear Tattletale was presented by the Junior Class on March 27. Ruth , under the direction of Miss Doris Falen, to an apprec- iative audience. The two-act comedy begins with the letters that Miriam Wilkins, sixteen, had been writing to members of the armed forces. She signed the letters with the name of her older sister Ruth, and unexpected results occur when one of her correspondents returns. Mary Elder and Myra Scott were prompters. In this three-act comedy, Patty, a school girl of sixteen, just has to have a typewriter to type the script of her novel. Tod agrees to borrow one from the school office. Before they can return it, a detective is around investigating the theftl The type writer is accidentally broken and Patty decides to sell her novel to pay for it. However, instead of the novel, Patty's diary is delivered to the newspaper office. This causes a major ex- plosion, for in her diary Patty tells alll BACK ROW: Beverly Wilke, Alan Bullerdiek, Leihl Ogan, Connie Beauregard, Janice Christy, Jim Breese, Robert Patterson. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. L. W. Nixon, Jack Crumrine, John Harrison, FRONT ROW: Barbara Nelson, Billie Jo Harns, Paul Gilmore, Joann VanBeber, Linda Belt, Muriel Golobay, Bill Auer, Sherry West, Terry Gladfelter. tra qv