Independence High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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:0 '5, 3 . RICHARD ALLH History.

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y l M ooztgomm'y County High School 9 For the past seven years organizations of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. have been maintained. Their membership is rapidly increasing. Delegates are sent annually to the state and national conventions. Last year Prof. W. V. Miller was sent as a representative to the great Interna- tional Studentsi Volunteer Convention, held at Rochester, N. Y. The Y. M. C. A. Glee Club, under Prof. Milleris direction, assisted in the music for the State Convention at Topeka. These associations are valuable aids in school discipline and efficient helps in the development of moral and Christian character. ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION. The county high schools of Kansas have formed an ora- torical association for the purpose of developing the talent of the schools along this line. The state is divided into three sections and each county high school is entitled to one repre- sentative in the contest in the section to which the school belongs. The winners of first and second places in the dis- trict contests compete in the state contest. The representa- tive from this school is chosen by means of a preliminary contest which any student who has taken a sufiicient amount of work in English may enter. Mr. Elmer Harding, repre- sentative of the Montgomery County High School, won second place in the district contest last April. In the state contest, held in this city a few weeks later, he was not given a place among the winners. LECTURE COURSE. The school maintains an excellent lecture course every year. The numbers are selected from the best material that can be secured from the leading bureaus. Lectures and en- tertainments given by able specialists who have devoted years to preparation for their work on the platform are of inestimable value to the students and to the community. The price of season tickets is $1.50 each. A rate of $1 is made to high school students. The lecturers, the reader, and