Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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45 44 S E I 1943-1944-S-S-Sen. I-I-lor, Sen-Ior, Seniors! and we had the right to proclaim it for 180 schools days . . . We started things off with a picnic at Lake Shawnee and everyone is turned over . . . Harold Stover tears away . . . Miss Vesta Walker and Mr. Byron Crowell were chosen class sponsors . . . Cops mistake Mary Ellen for teacher and' focus spot on tree as it's dragged to bonfire . . . Scots bury Seaman in assembly . . . Annual watermelon feeds-one sponsored by G.R.-Hi-Y, the other by a friend t?l . . . band plays at Washburn U's Homecoming . . . Dean Horton enters Navy. sur- prised friends, when he hitches up . . . Teen-Canteen opened as night-club for teen-agers . . . Students go formal December 17. and dance to Del Weidners' band . . . girl's anxiously await midnight, and Leap Year shuffles in . . . Scotties wipe up Emporia 48-26 . . . Leg-art latest competition between Cuddle Cuties in the Bond Street Follies . . . basketball team hits high, sinking Vikings 43-37 . . . McCarter finds Mohler oiled up . . . boys receive Greetings from the President of the U.S. . . . classmates swoon to Sinatra . . . You'll Never Know and Paper Doll are favorites . . . ioumal- ists feud, and adopt Stupid as Mascot of 1944 Highlander . . . Senior class lives up to its play, Going P1aces and as the curtain falls we sigh, as we close four eventful years . . . another epic in our life is complete.-THE CLASS OF 1944. '

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IR FRESHMEN 1940-1941-We were freshman then, and life began . . . held our trosh picnic at Lake Shawee, where we turned greener when trying forbidden stuntf El Ropoes . . . Cowboy Carnival made lively when girls chanted, to the tribal Indian war dance . . . at the all-school party, kids were arrayed as their childhood fancies fashioned them in years to come . . . St. C. turned upside down over bandana fight . . . Rainbow Palace popular coking and jiving hangout . . . Saddle shoes were lugged about by every guy ad gob . . . Coach Christensin left, 'member? . . . lassies eyes were moist, when Dick Lampman traded Highland for K. C .... Hi-Y'ers choked down pie for G.R, . . . Iune Mad gives curtain call to Stapleton, Barnette and Smith . . . Home EC students travel in bus to Manhattan for peek into future . . , and school closed for the summer. SOPHOMORES 1941-1942-we were lull fledged high school students that year . . . bowed legs were an asset at the Cowboy Party . . . contetti shook from clothes tor days a-tteg Navy Carnival, with its bull tights, Senoritas and Gay Rancheros . . . Pearl Harbor . . . and the sophs presented a patriotic assembly . . . students thrilled to Ruhinoif and his violin . . . and Seamon football game ended 12-0, our favor . . . Sloppy Ioes and long beads were the craze . . . juke boxes swallowed nickles to the tune ot Chatanooga Choo Choo, Elmer's Tune. Tangerine, Leanin' On the Old Top Rail, We Three, and Tonight We Love . . . Hunt and Siemen missed a curve . . . Wanda Roach ate mothballs for candy at Manhattan . . . Wiederman's popular rendezvous tor music contestants . . . orchestra and vocal groups rated 1 . . . Watch Party huge success . . . study hall students tricked into digging dandelions . . . tirst safety pin handed to Shorty for good luck in Alma game . . . Shorty and Gloria, King and Queen candidates tor Sports Dance . . . Then Barbara Mason passed away causing a note ot sadness. IUNIORS 1942-1943-Now a part ot it all, we as iuniors, sacrificed the novelty of the beginning ot a school year . . . Dellinger lett the picnic-party well perfumed . . . Miss Glatt and Mr. Dellinger were co-sponsors ot our class . . . Miss Black exercised sleepy English students . . . Girls won slack feud and boys even the score in paint- covered overalls . . . Hobo Day and no one recognized anyone else . . . De Rubertis and V'eld are guest conductors at Music Festival . . . Class presented Every Family Has One . . . and back stage hamburgers, cokes and ice cream were plentious . . . G. R.-Hi-Y compared tunnotes at party . . . Watch night party . . . H-Club initiated new members but we don't talk about that . . . Iohn Friend tells sister oH in the Spot-light Play One Wild Night . . . Autographed trench coats, beanies. plaid skirts, hair bows, combs and ilowers were the fad . . . and the Ends of the Rainbow dipped into pots oi gold, and the Iunior-Senior Prom ascended into a gala occasion.

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Class Presidents: G. Locke, I. Hall, M. Barnette, D. Hunt, D. McCarter. SENIORS Barnette, Mary Anne - Student Council, Iunior and Senior' Highlander Statis, Glee Club, Advanced, Ensembles, Or- chestra, Band, Girl Reserves, President, Cabinet, Spot- light Club, President, Production Statts, Iunior and Senior Class Plays, Sophomore President, Freshman Class Secretary-treasurer, Vice-President, Scotch Lassies,. Bicknell, Clyde H. - Glee Club, Hi-Y, F.F.A., Football, Iunior Play. Boner, Mary Ellen - Student Council, Iunior Highlander Staff, Glee Club, Advanced, Ensembles, Girl Reserves, Cabinet, Scotch Lassies, Spot-light Club, Production Starts, Iunior cmd Senior Play Production Staffs, Freshman Class Secretary-treasurer, Senior Class. Secretary-treasurer, Iunior Class Secretary. Brunton, Charles R.-Glee Club, Advanced, Mixed Chorus, Senior Highlander Statt, Hi-Y, Aviation Club, Spotflight Club, Play, Football, Track. Burgess, Ella S.-Glee Club, Girl Reserves. Bullock, Lois-Glee Club, Advanced, Mixed Chorus, Girl Rerserve, Music Club. Burrell, Bette lane-Student Council, Secretary-treasurer, Glee Club, Advanced, Mixed Chorus, Ensembles, Or- chestra, Girl Reserves, Scotch Lassies, Secretary-treasurer, President, Spot-liqht Club, Secretary-treasurer, Production Starts, Iunior Play, Senior Play Production Start, Sopho- more Class Secretary-treasurer. Campbell, Marian Ioyce- Student Council, Glee Club, Orchestra, Band, Librarian, Girl Reserves, Music Club, junior Play Production Start, Senior Play, lunior Class Treasurer. Carter, Maxine Burnadette - Holy Epiphany, Capitol Catholic, Highland Park, Girl Reserves, Homemakers, Vice-President. Coyne, Lolafaye - Glee Club, Advanced, Orchestra, Band, Clarinet Trio, Clarinet Quartet, Wind Ensemble, Contest Solo, Contest Ensemble, Girl Reserves, Music Club. Duvall, Claudie Marie - Glee Club, Advanced, Senior Highlander Staff, Orchestra, Band, Secretary, Girl Reserves, Cabinet, Contest Solo, Band Council, Music Club, Scotch Lassies, Ferqel, Helen Ruth-Glee Club, Girl Reserves, Cabinet, Junior Girls Glee Club, Scotch Lassies. 1 eri-ick, Burdette-Hi-Y, Aviation Club, Spoteliqht Club, Play, Senior Highlander Staff, Football, Track. Friend, Iohn H., Ir.-Student Council, Vice-President, Glee Club, Advanced, Mixed Chorus, Scotties, Hi-Y, H-Club, Aviation Club, Spot-light Club, Play, lunior and Senior Class Plays, Football, Basketball, Track, Freshman Class Vice- President, Senior Class Vice-President, Senior Highlander Start. Grxlbreath, Elaine-Glee Club, Advanced, Girl Re- serves, Homemakers. 14