Kingman High School - Oracle Yearbook (Kingman, KS)

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iPMmwnt the C ass 1931 And What a Loss There 'W ill Be By Margaret Warnberg Readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic have not been the only things that have in- terested the class of 1931 during their four years of high school, for we final that many of them have found a place in the activities of the school such athletics, dramatics, debate, music and other such organizations of K. H. S. Going through the senior class roll we find that some of these seniors have taken an active part in as many activi- ties as they could, while others have taken part in only a few. Space does not allow us to mention everything some of the outstanding seniors have done, but we do wish to give honorable mention to all the graduating class of 1931. The first name we find on our senior roll is Reva Baker. Reva has spent some of her time in girls' athletics. She was also a member of the senior play cast and played her part exceptionally well. She was a member of the Girl Reserve all four years of high school. Lola Beshore is one of our seniors who has spent most of her time working for good grades. She lives in the country and it has not been as easy for her to take part in as many activities as it has been for others. Another senior is Merle Bruch. Merle is one of our musicians for he was a member of the boys' glee club all four years and was also a member of the high school orchestra. And now Delight Cheatum-Delight was a member of the dramatics class for three years, a member of the Girl Re- serve for four years, and served as sec- retary for the club during her fourth year. Eugene Clark was a member of the rrixed chorus and the boys' glee club one year. He was also a member of the Oracle staff' this year. Maxine Clark was chosen by the faculty for outstanding leadershipg ani elected to membership in the National Honor Society. She was prominent in the musical activities, as she was a mem- ber of the girls' glee club and mixed chorus all four years, and represented K.H.S. in girls' high voice in three con- tests this year. She had leading roles in the junior, and senior plays, and in the operetta her senior year. She also served on the Girl Reserve cabinet for two years, and was a member of thc Booster Club for two years. Play Cast- Not So Fast Ralph Converse is a retiring senior whom some of the students may not know very well. Ralph was a member of the high school orchestra for three years. Next we have one of our senior ath- letes. Estil Cottle spent his first three years at Castleton high school. He was a member of the football and the track squads during his last year at K.H.S. 'AT-bone as he is better known, played some mighty fine football here this year. Next we find Wanda Cook. Wanda was a member of the girls' glee club when she was a sophomore. She has also spent a good deal of her time mak- ing good grades, because we find she has a good average during her four years at K.H.S. Lcis David is another member of the senior class. Lois was a member of the girls' glee club for one year, and a mem- ber of the orchestra for three years. She was a member of the Girl Reserve dur- ing her first, third and fourth years. Hester Davis spent her first and last year of high school at K.H.S. She spent her sophomore year at Avilla, Missouri, and her junior year at Conway Springs high school. She is known for her ability in sewing. Hilda Doze was a member of the Girl Reserve three years and served as public- ity chairman during her fourth year. She was a member of the junior play cast. Everyone knows Ruby Dutton! Ruby has tried her hand at almost every ac- tivity. She was a member of the girls' glee club two years, a member of the mixed chorus three years, editor of the Oracle during her senior year, and a member of the Booster Club for three years. She served as president of this organization her senior year, She was also elected to membership in the Na- tional Honor Society. Then there is Lucille Erhard. She has taken part in girls' basketball and volley ball all four years. She has been a member of the Girl Reserve four years, and has had charge of the ex- changes for the Oracle this year. Robert Eson is another senior who has been here but one year. Bob spent his freshman and sophomore years at An- thony high school and his third year at Winfield. During his one year at K.H. S., he was a member of the football and basketball teams. He played one of the leading roles in the senior class play. Another senior who perhaps is not so 7 well known is Lois Fairchild. Lois has spent most of her spare time studying or working outside of school. She was a member of the Girl Reserve during her junior year. Next we have Maudie Flesher, Maudie was a member of the girls' volley ball and basketball teams when she was a fresh- nian and a sophomore. She was a' mem- ber of the Girl Reserve during her senior year. Bernice Forney is another member of this senior class. She was a member of the girls' glee club for two years. She was a member of the Girl Reserve four years, serving as treasurer for the club this year. She was also copy editor for the Oracle this year. Lawrence Fornwalt has been a member of the boys' glee club, chorus, and the orchestra for two years, and was the K. H.S. music contest entrant for medium voice at the Fine Arts Contest this year. Vera Fox has been a member of the Girl Reserve for three years and has also done most of the typing for the Oracle this year. Another senior who is probably not so well known is Ethel Goff. Ethel has not entered many activities, but has spent most of her time studying, and working outside of school. The president of the senior class is Durward Green. Durward was also president of the class when he was 2: junior. He had leads in both junior and senior class plays and played his part exceptionally well. A senior girl who has spent only one year at K.H.S. is Viola Harris. She spent her first three years at Cheney high school. She has been a member of the girls' glee club, mixed chorus, Girl Re- serve and the Booster Club during her year at K.H.S. Another member of the senior class is Earl Hoffman. Earl has spent most of his time making good grades, He has been responsible for most of the sport stories that have appeared in the Oracle this year. Our next senior is Rachael Hoover. Rachael has taken quite an active part in girls' athletics. She has played bas- ketball all four years and volley ball two years. She was a member of the Girl Reserve all four years, and a member of the Booster Club two years, And now for another athlete. Nor-

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, 2 -7 Much Ado bout othin A Young Man is Fancy Lightly Turnsg' By Viola Hodge I'll bet I didn't sleep two winks last night, Jimmie Doolittle grumbled over his breakfast grapefruit at half past ten. Betty Jane, his little sis of high .school age, giggled with incredulous dis- respect as she listlessly dusted the buf- fet. Jimmie's insomnia had been a subject of daily family discussion since his sophomore year in college, when a Texas blonde had so noticeably bruised that troublesome cardiac muscle known as his heart. Not t.hat it was difficult to dent. No indeed! Either of his sisters would testify to that, and cite the cases of Dorothy Ann, Laura Lee, Pearl of his heart, and other samples of feminine pulchritude in assorted colors, shapes and sizes. Nevertheless, Jimmie's in- somnia was of much greater importance than the drouth or the business depres- sion-to him and his mother. Jimmie dear, I just wish mother could bear your suffering for you. But I've done everything I can think of. His anxious parent sighed wearily, then re- sumed the mending of a striped sock of masculine gender. 'tPerhaps you had better go down to see Doctor Dosem again this morning. You must go as soon as you get done eating, dear. You know he always plays golf on Saturday after- noon. Say, infant, I described your symp- toms to Bill yesterday, and he said you probably suffered from a chronic and severe attack of 'puellaeinmentef It certainly sounds bad enough to cause immediate death, his older sister, Marylynn, remarked with obvious sister- ly solicitude. Bill ought to know what he's talking about, too. He's almost finished his three years as interne at the hospital. For cat's sake! What's puell-what- ever you call it? demanded Betty Jane. Bill says it's almost incurable, al- though it has been done. He says it's one of the greatest afflictions of man- kind and has been for ages past. He says you ought to come down to the hos-- pital and let him and Doc Soakum give you a thorough examination. Theytd probably discover you were minus a brain and a heart. The ghost of suspicion peeped from Jimmie's eyes. He remembered that time, not so long ago, when Marylynn and Betty Jane had tricked him into eating a crisply roasted rat cut in small pieces in a bowl of gravy. They had afterward confessed reading in a biography of Madame Nellie Melba, the prima donna of the nineties, that she had been report- ed to eat roasted rats for her insomnia. Mrs. Doolittle glanced up from her darning and seconded the suggestion. Yes, dear, you must go. This is really getting serious. No telling what it may lead to. I have done everything I can think of-fed you on onions and hot lemonade until we have a bigger bill for onions and lemons this month than for milk. Doctor Dosem didn't seem much interested in your case, anyway. Well, I reckon I might as well get it over with. But I'll bet it'd do just as much good to consult old Worthless as Marylynn's iittle two-cent doctor, wouldn't it, old purp? With the toe of his sport oxford Jimmie tickled the sprawling dog, who thumped his tail -on the floor in assent. Marylynnfs blue eyes sparkled with anger. 'tWell, my 'little two-cent doc- tor,' as you call him, got through college by more than the skin of his teeth. That's more than my dear little two-cent broth- er is doing. Children! Children! I'm ashamed of you! Can't you even speak without fight- ing like two old tomcats on a back fence ? Their mother's tired eyes regard- ed them with mild dismay. Betty Jane suppressed a stream of giggles. Jimmie stumbled out of the breakfast nook and stretched his six feet of brawn and bone-mostly bone. Where's my hat? Betty, you put it away last night. Now get that hat, and make it snappy! VVhen a man has two sisters he's never sure where his head is. I wonder if two sisters would make a man lose his head as often as ten- times-two girl friends, Betty Jane ob- served, and tossed the article of head- gear at her brother's scowling face. Oh dry up and blow away, hunk o' nothin', Jimmie growled, and sauntered down the walk at a snail's pace. Hello, Jimmie my boy! What can an old doc do for a fine young fellow like you this bright and sunny day ? Doctor Soakum's moonlike face beamed with professional geniality, as Jimmie was ushered in by a white-clad nurse. The doctor made Jimmie tired, speak- ing to him as if he were a babe in arms whose mother had come for colic cure. What difference if Doc had known him then! He was a man now, with two years of college behind him-a man who had almost made the varsity, too. Well, Doc, Marylynn says that Bill said I had 'puellae-,' oh, something or other with a long Latin name. I don't just remember all of it now. Anyway, my mother thought I'd better consult you about it, he concluded indifferently. That's right! Take a thing in time and it can be cured. Now just how long have you been bothered this way, my lad? the elderly man inquired with sympathetic interest, Nearly 21 year, I'd say. Last fall in college I first noticed that I couldn't sleep, even after I'd sat up until nearly midnight studying. Bill and I will give you a real going- over, and see if we can't find the trou- ble. The corpulent physician waddled to a door and summoned Marylynn's Doctor Bill. The examination proceeded during .the next half hour with great professional gravity, and occasional com- ments in mysterious medical phraseolo- 6 gy. Completing their apparent search for the most ticklish parts of Jimmie's anatomy, the two doctors disappeared into an inner office. In a few minutes the older man re- appeared, sealing a large pill envelope. In solemn tones he announced, Jimmie, we find that you have a bad case of 'puellaeinmentef That's probably the reason you don't sleep better. But we can fix you up just fine. Yes, sir-e-el Just before- going to bed, dissolve a level teaspoonful of the white powder in this envelope in half a glass of lukewarm water. At meal times take one of the pills in this pink box with a glass of Warm milk. And try to keep regular hours, my boy, as you did when trying out for the team at college. By the way, this formula has been used with great success by many famous coaches and athletes. Doctor Soakum stroked his bristly mustache thoughtfully, and gaz- ed at his youthful patient with a faint hint of amusement. Jimmie arose with hope in his heart and grasped the door-knob in a manly grip. I'll follow directions to the letter, Doc. If varsity athletes use this stud, it ought to do me some good. Dadlll send a check whenever he gets your bill. He walked out with the brisk stride of a man whose shoulders bear no more bur- dens. Why hadn't he ever noticed what a cute little thing that blonde office girl was? That ancient prince of speed demons, Father Time, raced on and the days be-- came weeks and the weeks became months. Jimmie still took the powder and pills with amazing regularity, and praised Doctor Soakum for every hour of his late slumber. He still made fre- quent trips to the hospital, whether to see Doctor Soakum or that blonde of- fice girl, Marylynn sometimes wondered. Pm afraid Jimmie may be taking some habit-forming drug. But I reckon Doc Soakum wouldn't give him anything dan- gerous, his mother remarked to her older daughter one evening over the dish- washing. Marylynnis lips curved with secret mirth. Say, Mamma, you remember Bill said Jimmie had a bad case of 'puel- laeinmentef That's Latin for 'girls-on-the -brainf You know very well that was the only reason Jimmie couldn't sleen-if he couldnt which I doubt. Most of it waS simply his imagination working over- time, Anyway, Bill and Doc jl1S'C 11565 a little psychology on him. That powder and those pills are nothing on earth but condensed milk-baby food used in thc maternity ward, Bill says. Doc told him what wonderful things it had done for college coaches and athletes, S0 he be' lieved it would cure him-and it did. But all he ever needed curing of was coming in at three or four o'clock in the morning. Strange to say, Doc seems to have cured him even of that. temporarily at least. The saving in gasoline will help pay the doctor bill. So donit you worry, Mom. They'll soon wean him away from his baby food. Sometime I'll tell him all about it. Won't he have a cat-fit? She giggled in anticipation of the day. Well, I declare! Mrs. Dool1ttle's face crinkled with laughter. As usual in anything pertaining to Jimmie, it was merely another case of 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 1931 modelf'

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man Hamilton was a member of the foot- ball squad during his senior year and has been out for football all four years. He was president of the sophomore class. Another senior girl who is already known to most of the other students is Charline Harner. She was a member of the volley ball team for four years and a member of the basketball team for two years. She has been a member of the Girl Reserve for four years and has served on the cabinet two years. She played in the band for four years, and the orchestra two years. She had charge of the circulation of the Oracle this year. She is another senior elected as a member of the National Honor Society. A member of the senior class who has made exceptionally good grades in high school is Beulah Hinderliter. She was a member of the dramatics class one year. Then there is Mildred McBee. Mildred was a member of the Girl Reserve for four years, and a member of the girls' basketball squad two years. One of the best contenders in the senior class is Pauline McCartney. Pauline was a' member of the debate squad for two years. She carried leads in both the junior and senior class plays. She was a member of the girls' glee club for three years, and a member of the Boos- ter Club when she was a senior. She was also elected to membership in the Na- tional Honor Society. Next is another athlete. He is Lester McCutchen. He was a member of the football and basketball teams for three years. He was a member of the operetta cast and was also a member of the Hi-Y cabinet during his senior year. Hester McKenna was a member of the Booster Club for three years, and also a member of the dramatics class two years. She also was a member of the Oracle staff this year. Cora MePhetridge has worked a great deal outside of school. She was a mem- ber of the Girl Reserve one year. Mark Millard is a senior who came to K. H. S. the second semester of this year. He attended two years at Belmont high school, and a year and a half at Wichita high school. He was a member of the boys' glee club, mixed chorus. and the track team since coming to K. H. S. Mark's sister Naomi spent her first three years at Belmont high school. She was a member of the girls' glee club and the mixed chorus this year at K.H.S. Blanche Miller is another member of the senior class this year. Blanche has spent most of her time doing things out- side of school, but has always been will- ing to help when called upon. Another senior who is probably not so well known is Louella Mitchell. Louella was a member of the girls, volley ball team when she was a freshman, Phebe Pritner is another senior who is probably not so well known. Phebe has done a large amount of outside work during her four years in high school and has not entered into activities. A well known girl is Letha Ravens- croft. Letha has been outstanding in musical and dramatic organizations. She was a member of the girls' glee club for three years, a member of the quartet for two years, a member of the operetta cast, the junior play cast, and the senior C L!-XSS of Revs AKER Duawmzo GREEN MARGARETWARNMQQ Munn: Cuma Pnzsu Var.: Pazsmzur Sec.-TREA5 Esrn. CQTTLE WANDA Coon Lucnu.: Enumzn Rosen-r Eson Loss FAIRCHILD Mauna: Ftesnek Bzamt:M. EARL Hors:-um RACHAEL Heaven Nonmu Hmtwou CHARLlNE.l'lARNER Baum ,Mme Madman Nfxomi MMARD BLANcHEMnL1.ER Lovett.-.Mmnstr Purse Pmm EDNA SCH RAG Doaorny S-ronmom Eocene Suvron Com VORAN ESTHER 8