Leavenworth Senior High School - Junebug Yearbook (Leavenworth, KS)

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1 1 1 I 6 l Mary Louise Cowling The burning heat that parched so much of the land around us. brought to Leavenworth High School a much more personal loss. Mary Louise Cowling, a teacher in the Leavenworth public schools for a quarter of a century, died suddenly of a heat stroke August 3. I934. in Pittsburg, Kansas, where she was attending summer school. She is sadly missed, but the warmth of her friendship lives in the hearts of all those with whom she came in contact. Hers was a quiet unassuming personality, but she had the ability to inspire her students to an interest in art and the artistic: she had that divine gift of urging their dreams toward the best that might be cultivated in each of them by faithfully setting the example: she taught them an inner love of the aesthetic: she inspired the highest ideals by leading the way for her associates to follow as best they could. Teacher. guide, friend to all. her knowledge of their problems guided her in advising them. XVithout ostentation. she implanted the seeds of love. honor, loyalty, truthfulness, ambition, unselfishness. cleanli- ness, and righteousness. It is sincerely to be hoped that these seeds will grow as she intended them. The absence of her generously given aid and her unselfishness in every way was regretfully felt in many school activities this year. For, although she herself remained in the background, she willingly as- sisted in the making of the posters. programmes. and stage settings which were a necessary part of so many successful entertaimnents. Her friends. and they were legion. remember her with the deepest respect and her absence is deeply mourned. lyhat student who knew her does not say ...... l lo-Wd you, not only for rulzaf you rvvrv. but for :allot you :nada nu' relzvn I was 'ZC'lifll you. l lowrl you, not only for ruluu' you nuidv 0f'l'0iIl'St'lf, but for what you straw to make of nw. I lowd you for flu' part of nu' you brought out. I lowd you for puffing your lzand into my l1'vafn'zl-up lzrarf and flLTSI'lIg OTCI' all tlze fI'I.i'Ol0llS, zwmzk flung.: that you could not lwljr st-mtg tlzvrc. and draining out into the light all the beautiful, radiant flzings that no one else looked qni1'v far enough to find. I lor't'd you for ignoring flu' fmssl'lvil:'t1'z's of ilu' fool in nm and for laying firm lzold of the j1ossil11'l1'fies in uzv. I loved you for closing your eyes to flu' discards in INF, and for adding fo the beauty fn- me by it'0I'Sl1I.f7fl1l gazing. I lowd you bccallsc you rt'r1'v lzrlfing nu' fo llldkf, of the folors of my life. not o daub, but a lzlristm-piece, and, of flu' lfuvs of n1y ctwyzlay, not a rvortlzlegs pattern, but on ctclzing. I lot'vd you bvrclzlsc you did more than any freed could have dom' lo make 'HIC' lzafvpy. You did if ruitlzouf o f0l!t'11, tvffliouf a word, tvlllzonf a sign, You did if by just ln'1'ng yourself. .-lffvr ull, fvvrluzfvs flu!! is fvlzut living n friend IIIUUIIS. ---- fldolfffd. 15

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Q- '-Tide i 1 2 -u tu 4 3 G 4 Members of the journalisin Class publish the Patriot bi-weekly. A glimpse of another world. But on closer inspec' tion it may he seen that it is really the L-Ht.S. roof. Winners of the Pioneer Day costume contest-EL mer Johnson, Dale Luehring, and Paul Osthoff. Over hills and valleys. across deserts and deep rivers came our Pioneer forefathers. L- H. S. Pioneers try to achieve much. The girls who won the Pioneer Day contest. Mary Ellen Hunt, Arlouine Goodjohn, and Mildred Meyer, who is not shown. L. H. S. representatives of the Junior Red Cross Council. smimtiif X T S 9 10 11 12 13 Post-graduates who are studying at L. H. S. this year. Members of the orchestra. Class presidents: Bob Collard represents the seniorsg Dave Conley, the juniorsg Gertrude Asha ford, the freshmeng and Don Jensen, the soph- omores. A view of the study hall. The trophy case. Between classes merry groups are found about lockers, loitering in the halls, and then scurrying to class. L-. H. S. students, S9611 from above after school, appear rather top-heavy-perhaps from the great weight of their knowledge.

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i The Freshmen, Who Have Learned a Little . . . NE warm September morning in 1935. we entered Leavenworth Senior High School for the first time. The upperclassmen looked upon us as eighty-five un- interesting infants. From their point of view we were merely Freshies . lfVe were always tormented, but little did we care. For were not we to be the future sophomores, juniors. and seniors? XVe elected as officers for the year Gertrude Ash- ford, president: the cabinet, Donald Price, vice-pres- dent: Thelma Pearson, secretary: Marion Benson, trea- surer: a11d Hiram Mnssett, assembly representative. The class sponsors were Miss Elizabeth Reardon, Miss NVatson. a11d Mr. VVillia1n H- Elliott. XVe also named green and gold as our class colors. Because of the scarlet fever quarantine, our class day was postponed from March 14 to March 22. The musical part of the assembly program consisted of a piano solo, Chopin's Nocturne , played by Thelma Pearson, and two vocal duets, Nearest and Dearest and A Flight of the Cloudsv, sung by Leah Edmonds and Dorothy Faulkner. A one-act play, The Man in the Bowler Hat , was presented. The characters were: The Man in the Bowler Hat, Donald Price: John. Hiram Mussett: Mary, Gertrude Ashford: Hero, John Cory: Heroine. Mary Ellen Roach: Chief Villian, George Skinner: Bad Man, Donald Turner who took the place of VVilliam Kern who was illg and promptor, Charlotte Elberson. David Cleavenger was stage technician. The program was announced by Marion Benson: Miss Elizabeth Reardon, class sponsor, directed the play. We, although new to the idea of the Goodfellows. took active part in their program by bringing food and giving pennies. Two of our members, Marvin Marsh 16 and Gertrude Ashford, served on the Council. Our president, Gertrude Ashford, is the only freshman in the French Club. Five freshmen have had the honor of being on the honor roll at least once during the year. These stu- dents are Marvin Marsh, Evelyn Kamprath, Mary Ellen Roach, Gertrude Ashford. and Marion Benson: and two. Mary Ellen Roach and Evelyn Kamprath. have been on the roll each quarter. Velma Pearson and Dorothy Faulkner were mem- bers of the Girls Chorus and were chosen to go to Atchison to attend the Northeast Kansas League Fine Arts Festival as representatives of the chorus. The following members of our class took active part i11 the Junior Girl Reserves: Leah Edmonds, Mary Ellen Roach. Ida Belle New, Marie Massman, Alice Pohl. Phyllis Gable. and Ruth Walker. In an assembly on Tuesday, April 23, the Girl Reserves presented a program for the girls of the school. and Thelma Pear- son played two piano solos, Consolations by Mendel- ssohn, and Turkish Rondo by Mozart. Donald Price. David Cleavenger, and Bill Moxcey went out for football: David Cleavenger, Donald Price, and Hiram Mussett were included in the track squad. The fascinating mysteryi' in the C. S. A. C. play, Top o' the lVorld , was none -other than our fellow freshman, Helen Jackson. Looking back over this list of achievements, we feel that as freshmen we have left a record of which we can be proud in the next three years and one which other classes may feel proud to equal. Even as humble freshmen. we feel that we have done well. R lE H M is