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

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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

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The l937 Class Will We, the members of the Senior Class of 1937 of the Emporia Senior High School, in the County of Lyon, having given satisfactory evidence of sufficient intelligence, and being in full command of our common senses and faculties, do make and ordain this, our last will and testament. Be it known further, that all and any other wills are hereby and forevermore re- voked, dissolved, and abolished. And that this shall be our one and only bequeathment. We hereby will and bequeath the following, to-wit: Item 1: To our classrooms: Our memories fnot to be revealed, but forgottenj . Our classroom diaries. QP. S.: XVe suggest that these classrooms be redecoratedj That trays be provided for gum parking. That wall cots be provided for sleeping enthusiasts. Item 2: To all study hall teachers: All of our napping privileges, and our gazing privileges. Suggestion: That front seat privileges be abolished. That front seats be removed. Item 3: To set aside for future classes in trust: Our good looks, our hair oils, lipstick, and our deep-toned ties. Item 4: To all Juniors, to have and to hold through their Senior year: All who fail to graduate in May, 1937. All school parties, chapel seats, etc. All of our good behavior. P. S.: Goose eggs on grade books, et cetera. Item S: To all underclassmen: Our lockers and halls. Space to be reserved by Sally W'ood's locker as a memorial to Bill Zimmerman. Item 6: To the book exchange: Our worn-out books plus all free drawings, pictures, and notes. Item 7: We do hereby make the following individual bequests: Norman Bumgarner wills his continuous bone breaking expeditions to Newton Wilson in exchange for his teeth. P. S.: Crutches thrown in. B. J. Brickey and Scott Gasche will will their modest retiring method of carrying books for Miss Jackson to Dorothy Edds and Marjorie Stevens. Clydean Blount wills her charms and winning ways to Dorothy Conklin with the special stipulation that they are not to be taken from the school nor used on college boys. Laura May Lunsford wills her habit of getting in and out of difficulties without censure, to Charlotte Lewis. Sarah Margaret Morris wills her modest retiring manners to Mercedes Kindred to have and to hold now and forevermore. Jane Lee Swope wills her most precious possessions to the library: they are: No. 1--An old issue of the Stage Magazine. No. 2-An old, old issue of the Stage Magazine. No. 3--An old, old, old issue of the Stage Magazine. Mary Louise Louis wills her ear muffs to Vivian Morley. David French generously wills his Spanish to all needy oncoming Spanish students. Edgar Hunter wills his presidential election winnings to charity. P. S.: 25c. The football boys of the Senior Class of '37 bequeath their football talent to charity -charity spelled with a Buzz and a Wilson. Paul Conway, perennial Senior, staying qualities are hereby willed to Bob Lair. P. S.: He suggests a 5 -year course. Loren Miller leaves his President's chair to any new Junior who can sing Organ Grinder's Swingi' as well as he. Keith Brewer leaves his ability to blow up a chemistry laboratory to Bill Bixler be- cause, Bill being a good water boy, will know what to do after the explosion. Cecil Mcllvain leaves his ability to imitate Stepin Fetchitn to any promising sophomore. fContinued on Page 32j l30I