Girard Rural High School - Trojan Yearbook (Girard, KS)

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OBSERVATION POST-A 'tip of CAREER WEEK Career Week opened with a special assembly at which Mr. Taylor explained the plan for a series of conferences instead of the one day of discussion previously used. Mr. J. S. Todd, president of the board of Education, spoke on the impor- tance of the right choice of a career. The first conference was devoted to secretarial work with Mr. Roy neller and Mr. Robert Williamson as speakers. Local talent was used for the assembly set a- side for the consideration of agriculture as an occupation. Mr. VanNorsdall and Mr. Fred Bowles, the agriculture teachers, presented both the favorable and unfa- vorable sides of the profession. Girls interested in being beauty operators met with Mrs. Helen baker. She, likewise, brought out both sides of this occupation. A group of allied professions were introduced at the next conference, with Miss Mohler as chairman of a panel. one represented the nursing profession. Mem- bers of the panel were Dr. n. J. Schulte, Dr. O. B. Gentry, Dr. H. V. Haderlein, and Mr. P. A. O'Reilly. Career Week closed with conferences centering about engineering, teaching, physical education, music, and home economics. The consultants, all members of the faculty of Kansas State Teachers College, were Dr. L. G. Heckert, Professors Prentice Gudgeon, William H. Matthews, Claude Newcomb, W. 5. Davison, and Mrs. George Dalton. AT LEAST IT SHOULD BE Basketball is a game--not a bat- tle or a fight. Basketball is played for the fun and enjoyment it produces not to pro- voke bitterness and sorrow. An athletic contest is only a game and not a matter of life or death An athletic contest is only a game from which there must emerge a victor and a loser. Only a few points, in general, separate the victor from the loser. The victors deserve congratula- tionsg the losers respect. Victory should develop a spirit tempered of elation mixed with toler- BUGS. --H. R. Peterson in Minnesota Bulletin GOOD aPOnTSMAN5HlP ye old scribes lid goes to the Girard Trojans. . . For the finest sports- manship displaym at the Gee Cee League second team tournament at Cnerokee the pas- week, this de- partment votes for the Trojans. . . Girard lost a close overtime game to McCune on Thursday night .... It was a well-played game through- out, and Girard had held the lead until two seconds before the game ended .... Then McCune tied the count. forcing the game into an overtime oeriod. . . McCune won it in the overtime period .... After the game, Coarn Frank fPudgyb Jameson, Superintendent Ted Tay- lor, Assistant Coach Guido CD00 Saccane and all the Girard players shook hands with the officials and complimented them for calling a good game .... That was the Iinest display of sportsmanship seen by this scribe this year. . . It was a tough game for the Trojans to lose. but they took it hkc men .... Con- gratulations Trujans .... ' From The Dope Bucket by Bill Morey, The Pittsburg Sun, Feb. 27

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TRANSPORTATION , ., - W ' T , ,,,,-f , . -...-A t. .-no ,L p vp-Q-7 M, .f,,,M-7 , x., , -' A f' f' 1 ' W-'- I Yami, i rf' h', gi? ' . fa f 1 . 5 1 fz3s ?faaf-fW W 1 V as aaa 0 , 1525 We appreciate our rides. The safety record of our transportation system is the very best. Our busses cover over 50,000 miles annually and transport l60 students each day. We thank our drivers, Mr. Brower, Mr. Trout and Mr. Peak, for their excellent work. CUSTODIANS The students are very appreciative of the fine work done by Mr. Lloyd Neil and Mr. Don Pyle, our very good custodians.

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COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER 'Z p n QQ tl , n Q.. ' ,V , V , ,3 K I Q I , l E ...5 .s VVVVAM A g L n lss V A - 15 fL: 4.x HEducation is the fo for only an informed undation of democracy, people can be free.H Milton b Eisenhower President Kansas State College Manhattan, Kansas