Junction City High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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4 Zlgnfn - 'lllllniu the candy. Mr. C. K. Ward! It's your turn. Late last fall conference bells start- ed ringingg and so the two senior Girl Reserve sponsors. Miss Elsie Kaden and Miss Margaret Bloome, bundled their cabinet Knot the kitchen onel into the Humphrey and Morton limousines and zipped up to Minnea- polis, the town with a lovely city park and a bandstand. fAsk some of the girls. They know all about it.J When they arrived upon the scene of the convention, tney were told that Something Is, Hiddeng Go and Find It! Immediately the girls began searching frantically for it. 'Nhat did they find? Well-that's a deep dark secret they won't reveal. A week later, the editors of the Blue Jay., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Heady, attended the news- paper conference at the University of Kansas. Wonder what they learned ' Joan of the Nancy Lee, an oper- etta directed by Miss Ma.ry Wilson, was presented on Nov. 14 and 15. Mary Louise Heavey, youngest girl to have a lead in a high school oper- etta, played the title role. Hoover Rupert, senior, took the opposite part. Hoover' is very charming-in a pirate costume. And then the Hi-Y Clubsl with the aid of Bruce Tallman, state Y. M. C, A. secretary, the school board, Principal Vineyard. and the fairer sex of the school, staged the state I-li-Y Convention here. How the girls beamed and how their boy friends steamed when the lads from the 34 different towns kerplunked themselves in our fair city on that certain Fri- day afternoon. What a week-end that turned out to be! For two days 350 young swains swarmed the city. looked things over, Went to meetings, learned all about Adventurous Liv- ing In This Age, filled their address bttoks, returned home-and then again everything was quiet for a While. No sooner had football season come to an end, and members of that noble activity were leading Charlie's renowned horse back to the stable, than did Coach issue the call to the maple court and basketball season began. The first string quintet of hoop hitters, with the support of some mighty good reserves, came through it all with colors flying-a successful season to their credit. To be exact the Blue Jays won the league championship for the second straight year. A new form of stu-dent government in the school 'was introduced this year. The Student Councilr as it is called. was instituted to replace the form-er Stud-ent Enterprise Associa- tion, more commonly called the S. E, A., which had become only an unwieldy group of uninterested mem- bers. The Student Council is thought to have eliminated to a certain extent the inefficiency which was prevalent in th-e former group. The new govern- ing body is composed of the presi- dents of the four upper classes and the Hi-Y and Girl Reserve clubs as well as representatives from The Blue Jay and The Pow Wow. Principal Jerry J. Vineyard and Mr. N. W. Patterson are sponsors of the organi- zation. .An all school cast took the parts of th-e play The Clean Up, which was directed by Miss Ethel Hinds, dramatics coach. Mildred Saulmon and Lester Bowles headed the list as chief floor scrubbers. Then cam-e Christmas vacation with all its exhilarating fun, which lacked only snow to make the season complete. For a week an-d a half students and faculty alike forgot all the trials of the classroom and found how great it felt not to have to rise in time to scurry off to school. But all good things must come to an end and everyone soon went back to school Where semester and 6-weeks quizzes awaited their arrival. The memory of Christmas, and in truth of the whole school year, is touched with sadness at the thought of the untimely death which came to Mr. Robert K. Heald, instructor of Spanish and vocations, Dec. 29. following an appendicltis operation. Mr. Heald also was the person who laid the foundation for second place honors in the N. C. K. L. debate tournament. Since Mr. Heald had been here he had served as debate coach. His work was carried on by Mr, Carrol K. Ward and Mrs. Bertha Miller, who substituted for Mr. Heald following his death. After the second semester began the school settled down to a long and hard grind during the uneventful months which usually precede the coming of spring, when renewed acti- vity ls forthcoming. However, the months that -'iid fol- low held many interesting and excit- ing happenings desplte the prospect of nothing doing until graduation time. The groundhog saw his shadow on Feb. 2 and scampered back into hibernation, hurling at the vicinity a threat of six more weeks of winter weather. The groundhog's promise ran true to form., for Junction City scon received the heaviest and best snow during the whole winter. Snow! Snow! Beautiful Snow! It's snow use denying the opportunities that presented themselves with the snow! Bob-sledding parties soon be- came innumerable, To make things all the better, ai perfecny geongeous moon persented itself most every night, while the blanket of white was yet on th-e ground. Ice-skating was in order along with bob-sledding: and boys and girls soon appropriated every available river, lake, or stream for this sport. More Was widened, stretched, and scraped. Scene of T empestuous Battles

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15061 - 'main 3 The . Q .xii yy, . U XM A Sky Line Junction City, 'Babbitt' representative of mid-west provincialism - has been full of the unusual with little of the usual. Football games and pep rallies followed closely upon the heels of the opening of school. The box social and Thanksgiving, to say nothing of the Hi-Y Conference held in cur city occurred almost as quick- ly. Enrollment figures were compiled at the start of school and 911 educa- tion aspirants were to be found with- in the walls of this structure. Also --more of those persons called seniors were discovered lurking in the halls than had ever been before. The activity ticket sales campaign was carried on for a week and closed with alarger percent of the students owning them than the year preced- ing. Us is possible that the depres- sion is over?7 The price remained the same, however. Purchasers were stuck 82.85 for the little piece of yellow cardboard with the cute pink stamps. The Pep Club announced through the pages of the Blue Jay that it would be a more masculine or- ganization than ever before. The members also claimed that they would sport entire new uniforms. And they did, too-about the begin- ning of the basketball season. Fast people-these pepsters! The football eleven, captained by James Rupe, who we think was in- spired by Swede Olsen singing You've Got To Be A Football Hero, jostled the little pigskln about dur- ing the season and managed in the ubrlngln' home the bacon scrapple' of the North Central .Kansas League to make away with second place honors. A number of those on the squad hfpe to be associated with a sheep- skin soon, so that they might come back next year and play on the Alumni team. Although Coach says they will be missed next year, he assures us that the team will manage to struggle along the way and not plunge into chaos without them. ,And speaking of football! Fix your pair of orbs upon the picture of the entrance to Fegan Field to which the students gaily sprinted from the halls of learning and watched the home battles, Look closely at the box office and don't try to climb the fence! For some reason unknown to us, the 33 from last years white- washing' job of the seniors still re- mains. Let's all give 15 boos tthere are no officials around now? for the departing senior class, because they didn't change it to a 34 . What's the matter-couldn't you swipe any whitewash? However, certain senior boys will long remember the whltewashing epi- sode that took place in our neigh- boring clty of Chapman at their own hands-the night before the annual Jay-Irish Turkey Day skirmish-and also the pleasant little chat they had with Johnnie Law himself, Ah! Life ls seldom dull. The J on Grand View hill, al- though not in the immediate vicinity of the school, has become during the years a distinct part of the spirit of J, C. H. S. There trudge the lowly freshmen every year armed with old brooms, buckets. and quantities of whitewash. Slowly creeping like ants up the hill east of town. these fresh- men, spurred on by the incessant orders of the seniors, make their way to renew this letter, constructed of rocks, with whitwash. This year the frosh dutifully climb- ed the hill and scrubbed the J until it gleamed in the afternoon sunlight. The event was looked upon by the seniors with outward amuse- ment but inward sorrow. They were just beginning to realize that their high school days were waning. The fact was just dawning upon them that four eventful years had passed since they were in the role of the freshies whltewash armed with brooms and journeying up to the J to do their duty. The J is a part of system which remains throughout the school years. The students come and go. The faculty arrives and departs. Buildings be- come obselete a-nd are torn down, New ones are erected. But every year members of the frehsman class go up to the J, laborously clean it, and make it gleam anew for the forthcoming year. The picture which you see of this renowned insignia letter was taken by Frank Durland, one of the photo- graphers for the book. Frank risked his life and spent time and money in obtaining this excellent airplane view of it. Good work, Frank! It's a mighty iine picture. Thanks a lot! The atmosphere of the school would have become quite monotonous had it not been shattered by the clfangor of wedding bells. Mr. Ray Heady, maestro isomenmes genial! of 203, took the fatal step, deserted the already diminishing ranks of the Last Man's club and brought home ai blonde to rule the roost. Congratu- lations, Mr, Heady. we all enjoyed the school the same

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ff' The ajax Gleams new Q ll r QAAA 414:-Iuka There trudge the lowly freshmen - than a few tumbles were received along with frozen fingers and ears- but what were they. when so much fun was had? Then too, the snow broke all records of tardies and absences on that certain day late in February, when the office force was completely swamped with names of those who couldn't quite make it. An average of about eight from every class were either absent or tardy the first day of the .big snow storm. Snowballing was somewhat quelled when Principal Vineyard decreed that such would not be tolerated, an hour in detention being made the penalty for any number of cubic inches of snow thrown. Ah, Mr. Vineyard. It was so much fun to hear those girls yell. Oh! Well. Life is just. full of cruel disappointments. Through the functions of the CWA, new bleachers on the north ride of the gym wene constructed. Everyone liked the idea of additional bleachers except possibly the juniors. who had just that much more space to conceal in decorating for the junior-senior banquet. Also the athletic field was widen- ed stretched and scraped through the Civil Works project. Those young men who so gaily sprint around the field and are called track men now have much more room in which to rtretch their legs. Are they happv! All during this time the nernbers of the editorial staff of the Pow Wow rztruvgled valiantly with the dummy of the book, wrote copy .mtil the week small hours of the 'nonrinQ. peeked awav on typewriters. and all in all. at last, their efforts are ic- flected in this book. As the ice and snow melted and winter suddenly turned into spring with all its attractions. roller skates soon started whirring and seniors and freshmen alike participated in this enjoyable sport. Almost any of those warm spring evenings one could see groups of .boys and girls trying their luck at skating and seemingly enjoying it. At that time also v. as the moon on duty. Spring at last announced its en- trance and the thoughts of the seniors began to turn toward gradu- ation and some of them began to strdy a trifle-just in case. But bev- fcrc we get the seniors off our lands. let us try to recall a few of the events which brought with them the u ual hub-bub of affairs that goes before the last rit-es for the seniors. As commencement suddenly loomed up out of the haze that has sur- rounded it for four years for some tfor others longerl and stood almcst ietealrrd. the days became warm and languorous. Those certain few rtu- dents woh usually have adeslrc to put into their craniums every fact that is contained in their textbooks, fell by the wayside with the others and sub- mitted, for awhile at leastl to the spell of spring fever. The juniors, who for many weeks had shrouded themselves with an air of mvstery about their annual blow- out for their upperclassmen, finally cave way and ushered the seniors into the gym Where complete surprise was for some. while others 'the old meanieslb knew exactly what was awaitng them. However, the juniors and the seniors had lots of fun struttim' their new togs and pulling each ot.her's hair. And say. bv the wav. if any of the silverware is missing. page Barbara Humphrey. She acquired the technique of mak- a Girl Reserve ing away with it at Conference. Margaret Coleman is her chief assistant. Toward the seniors broke the dramatic Ladies. The had a gay old time giving it and the audience seemed to like their ef- forts. Today this long-awaited publication makes it debut into polite and im- polite society. while the editor and the rest of the staff goes into hid- ing. You needn't try to look for them, because you won't be able to fini a trace of them. but they all said to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New 'Year. And thus the '33-'34 school era. ccmrs to a close. The passing of this school year to the low-er class- men means but another link added, to be replaced by the following more premising term. To the seniors it means the completion of the chain they started manv years ago. when they entered school for the first time cs a mere first grader. But whatever its significance. it has surely held at least a few un- forgettable happineases for all of us, And soon after the stream of humanity pours out of the doors for the last time 'till next fall. when a majority will return. the building will be closed. halls will be silent and echo to the slightest sound. Th-ere it will stand until autumn, when it will take on new life. Classes will r-cm-e and go for many more years. rut this brick building will stan-d thirougli them all-wait-ing-waiting -waiting for the School Board to finish payment on it. last down of April the and premnted production To the members of the cast