Emporia High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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Uur King and Queen On the night of March 1, Em Hi's King and Queen were crowned. This was a brilliant finish to an exciting contest to determine Emporia High's most popular girl and boy. At the conclusion of the B game between Emporia-Eureka the band ' d b th ir at- struck up the school song and the royal couple, accompanie y e tendants, ascended the throne. Loren Miller, Business Manager, stepped to the microphone and intro- duced Virginia Gray, Editor of the Re-Echo. She, in turn, introduced the attendants who were runners-up in the contest and crowned Fred Griffith and Laura Mae Lunsford amid cheers from the crowd. The attendants were: Jane Lee Swope, Lenore Fletcher, Sarah Mar- garet Morris, Mary Louise Louis, Dorothy Atherton, Jack Baird, Bill Zim- merman, Newton Wilson, Orland Deputy, and George King. Entertainment was furnished by the Otis Smith School of Dancing.- The program included an acrobatic dance by Norma Jean Jones, mascot of the Em Hi band. The popularity contest was sponsored by the Re-Echo. The candidates were nominated by the entire school but only persons wishing a book were entitled to vote for king and queen in the final election. E271

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National Honor Society uA'rl0NAl. HONOR SOCIETY sl is One of the big events of the Senior year is the choosing of candidates to National Honor Society. This year's class has the distinction of having more members elected to the Honor Society than any other class. Standards for membership are scholarship, leadership, service and character. To be eligible for the Honor Society one must rank in the upper third of the class. Emporia High School was granted a charter in the National Honor Society March 12, 1924, by the National Council. The members of the Honor Society committee who assembled information which was used in the voting were: Miss Hancock, Miss Jackson, Miss Sirpless, Miss Shirley, Miss Coverdill, Miss Douglass, Miss Rodewald, and Mr. Stout. The students who are elected to the Honor Society must receive a majority of faculty votes. A recognition service for the thirty-one new members was held March 12 in the general assembly. Members of the 1936 Honor Society conducted the services. Cn April S, a dinner, given by the faculty, was held at the Broadview Hotel. Each member took part in the program that followed. The personnel of the 1937 National Honor Society are: Jack Baird, Margaret Bishop, Millard Buck, Harold Coleman, Elizabeth DeLong, Quentin Donnellan, Martha Drummond, Edna Louise Fleming, Lenore Fletcher, Florence Foster, David French, Virginia Gray, Juanita Hollar, Wynona Jeanneret, Mary Lumley, Mildred Maulc, Betty ,Io Miller, Loren Miller, Glenn Milligan, Sarah Margaret Morris, Bud Piper, Luz Ramirez, 1 aVera Reidel, Mabel Sehwint, Worth Seagondollar, Avis Stevenson, Mary Beth Steward, jim Wagner, Esther Mae Wfalker, Barbara jean Wilson and Kermit XVorley. 1291 Sb S6