Lexington High School - Minute Man Yearbook (Lexington, NE)

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-W T 'o 9 the LEXINGTON CLARION Megaphone :MW Lexington starts the year Witgh VOL. 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933 NO. 1 more than a thousand pupils in the entire school system and with three hundred and fifty-four in high school. bk 211 914 EF With the new ruling that pud- dle-jumpers do not operate dur- ing the noon recess, the pressure on papa's gas bill may be relieved just a little. P12 P14 bk EF The ropes in the halls are doing a nice job of keeping the calves out till the bell rings, but why not use a charged wire and make it really hog tight? PF P14 S4 ICT Mr. Ashton's new radio used for demonstration Tuesday has a mystery box all right, but it still has the weakness of ours at home- once he gets K.M.M.J. he can't get rid of it. 11 is in :TF On Freshman Day during the first week, one hundred frosh came out cock robin fashion with trouser legs trimming knee bones, giris capped in green or carrying weed bouquets, one and all bowing to upper classmen. Pk 14 214 iff So that the north side of dear ol' L.H.S. will not look tawdry made by debris left from noon lun- chers, students will eat in the li- brary. Another advantage in the plan is that in winter a sandwich will not iinish freezing to one's tongue be- fore he reaches the middle of it. All this signifies thanks to Principal Ashton and Superintendent Miller. xi? How you used to hate 'swish- ing' and 'swashing' through the snow and mud every winter in cross- ing the road north of the school. This will be avoided as the country cars are to be parked on the south side of the road. Now last, but not immaterial, is the thing we all have in common-we enter at 8:30 and disperse at 5:00. Coming no sooner, and leaving no later, who can say you are teacher's pet? Sli Pl: PF KT' Oh, you treacherous villain! No, you won't actually hear those words, but if you should see some young charge's mouth framing a decided Oh! don't think of Martha Raye. It's none other than Miss Mitcheil's public speaking-minded proteges learning the art of panto- mime. This week they are introduc- ing pantomime into story telling. According to reports from the mem- bers of the class, this study is very interesting. 1 New Office Rooms Evolve From Cutting Cement Wall is : :za:s.:s:z:s:1-' '-za:s:ag:a:sg .:s:sssz1zi M SE E5551525555EiE5E2EiiE25e2a5eEe5a2 s 3 lf? 1 :-:Y::-,- . .... ': ff .M . .ft '1 ,,..,.,.,., .-,1- i .. ,, ,,:,.?' 1' 5 : 43E'5ff2fE2 :f 5 2,313 .... 1 -V .f.QQQ.Q.1.L1Q.QQ.fQ,Q.1,f,QQ,lfllffgIfIQ.Q.IQQ.QIQ.QQQgEff ..., T , ..Q,f.Q'.,QQ . ..... ,..... V...'3255552525555553255EiEE2E525E5E5EsE2iEE5,. . 5:55 552.1:igigIf,.,53:3?135-iz25552252552525g?5g5g555Egs5si55f5Eg5:i5255gag555gigsggiaizissiiisiiE1:2:2:5:5:5: PRIN. LEON W. ASHTON Mr. Leon VV. Ashton, Lexington high's new principal, comes from Snyder, where he left the superin- tendent's chair. He is a graduate of Lincoln high school and of the University of Nebraska, where he took his master's degree in second- ary education last summer. At the university, Mr. Ashton was captain of Company K and a member of the military fraternity, Scabbard and Blade. He belonged also to the Delta Chi, Sigma Gam- ma Epsilon, Phi Delta Kappagsoc- ial, professional and educational fra- ternities. One year he was chair- man of Engineers' Week, an annual event comparable to Open Night in this school. While in high school, he was in- terested in basketball, track, and scout work. Later he became an Eagle Scout and organized a troop at Howells and at Snyder. When he left Snyder, he was Scout District Commissioner with jurisdiction over eight troops. A native of Lincoln, he compares Lexington with his picturesque city for its great number of trees. On seeing the 1938 Mfnute Man, he complimented the school very high- ly on its achievement. Principal Ashton, we welcome you to our school. M. C. Waste Space Becomes Useful for Various Activities Surprised Ah's were legion Monday, September 6, when students reached the top of the north stairs on the second floor to discover that part of the east wall had been re- placed by a silver coated iron fence guarding a covered, narrow pass- ageway which leads to the new of- flees. These rooms, once the annual copy-writing nook and storeroom, are re-decorated and furnished with the customary equipment, and made more attractive with monks cloth curtains on short movable rods. Ad- jo'ning the front office on the north- east, is a small supply room built three or four steps above the main floor. From a door placed in the middle of the south side of the front office, one may go down to another series of rooms that lead one to believe that Supt. Miller not only studled how to get passageways into new offices, but that he connived with the gods to make it impossiblefor anyone to get out. This second series, which was once the superintendents quarters when the building was new, affords a conference room for teachers and pupils, a convenient place to show slides, a small room for the ditto machine and workers, and an ade- quate storeroom for supplies not needed so frequently as those up- stairs. Altogether, t h e s e improvements seem to utilize hitherto unaccessible space, and apparently save time of officials in having equipment where it can be used with the least waste of energy. Supt. Miller said with a smile, Tell them this is the last time the office will be moved. I'm much pleased with present arrangements. Talent Club Elects Oificers At the first meeting of the Talent c'ub, Thursday at four o'clock, the following officers were elected: Don- ald Moss, presidentg Willis Raser, Vice-president: Evangeline Lindblade, secretaryg Marilyn Lindblade, treas- urer, and Mary Ellen Davidson, news ieporter.

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The Lexington Clarion Published bi-weekly by the news writing class of Lexington High School Printed by The Lexington Clipper STAFF Editor-in-Chief ........... Marjorie Carroll Associate Editors .............. . .... . ...Emogene Diefenbach, Ethel Pedersen Business Managers .................. gvlugli Stuart, James Burnett, Arthur t ee or Advertising Managers ................ Charlotte Newman, Marianne Zimmerman Athletic Etlitors,..Harold Riley, Bill Banks Sports Commentators ................ Kenneth George, Clyde Taylor, Ray Brown. News Commentators ................. Mary Ellen Davidson, Alice Sorensen, Charlotte Reiter Feature WVriters . .... .......... . ..... Marjorie McFarren, Dean Lantz, Doro- thy Duryea Proof Readers ...................... . Ruth Haworth, Alyce Hofrciter, Agnes Delahuntv Illustrator .............i John Edwin May Columnists ....... Don Moss, Irvin Xvflllilil' Activity Reporters .................. XVilma Chadwick, Addison XValbridge, Mnurene Banks, Lois Buck, Olive Frencli, Yllillis Raser. Evangeline Lind- blacle, Laurence Tyler. I EDITORIALS SCHOOL DAZE School days, once termed golden rule days, are taking the present tense again. And by tense, we mean more than the class definition. Not that you are expected to mould yourself into a strained rigid rou- tine, but please, students, realize at tiiis beginning, that school is more than an abode in which to wear rolled pant legs and green hair rib- bons. Still, don't get the idea that on the morning school starts, The Fight Is On. You will find that L.H.S. is an all- around good place. To appreciate this, you must develop a certain firm, or tense attitude iantonym, jelly-fishl toward all school activi- ties, and then when the hazy au- tumn balminess and the gilded land- scape fades, school won't lose its glamour and inspiration. Then, just to make sure that freshmen will not mistake the Gold- en Rule alluded to for a local chain store, let us explain that there is a golden rule around L.H.S., such as golden silence in certain hallways and classrooms. And then with all respects to the English bard, let us inform you that all that glitters around L.H.S. IS gold. Don't let it become brass. THEY'RE EVER HERE School is on! If only some mystic charm could preserve the enthus- iasm, purpose and good fellowship that always accompanies the open- ing weeks! But-as always-there'll come a time when the weak-willed souls will lose their vim. That will be in about six weeks. There are others who will manage to keep up the fire 'til after Christ- l l 1 l l mas. A few staunch pacemakers, who are undaunted by hardships will be going strong by May 26. It's a sort of parable like the sower-some seeds falling by the waysideg some springing up from stony ground and then dying be- cause they had no depth of earthy some falling on good soil. From the fertile grounds came the harvest. OUR DECEIVING FEET Of all the illusions in this institu- tion, the greatest seems to have been, Go up to the annual room. True! We went up the main stairs to the north on the second floor, opened a door that led to a narrow passageway, descended two short flights of steps and never knew we '4hadn't been nowhere a tall. A slice out of the wall to make an entrance into the new adminis- tration office reveals that all the time we were on a level with the corridor despite our uppish hallu- cinations. I S 15gS' GfZ0Zlfl'ld . It must be the janitor's brushes! Nobody else sweeps, but goodness me-the DUST-the Dirt I mean. It's fogglng. One of the tires on Kelly's jalopy leaked all the air out Sunday night . . . it was only flat on one side so he had hopes of jerking back into town but all in vain . . . its occu- pants disappointedly thumbed their way back to the village . . . it is wonderful that it was no farther south than it was because Janice C., Marge Bellew, and Marianne Z might have gotten rather tired 1 should we say hitching?-ah, no hiking of course it Wouldn't affcct OUR big huskies Bill K., Bill Staton and Jim R. And now we take a turn for a little free advice to Bill and Dorothy we lend our strong right arm and suggest your first install- ment be paid on a bicycle built for two . . . may you prosper!! Second ly, come Lola and Howard . . . the Dr.'s porch may have awnings on top but they donlt cover the sides . . . beware . . . if you get my point of view. Now Wilma and Jack support our lovelorn column the last rain settled their rift but there is more than a dust storm between Jack and Keith. GIRLS : Get that must have Twin Sweater Set at I I uokg no Miss Carter, who tries to put a bright look on the faces of pupils of the Lexington high school Latin class as she explains the meanings of different Latin words, says that since her childhood she has always wanted to be a teacher. Having taught several subjects in Lexington high for several years, and having been with the students, Miss Carter should know what she is talking about when she says the value of the school would be much improved if pupils would not take the Oh, I'il get by attitude toward school. Miss Helen Starr, new junior high teacher in L.H.S,, comes from Grand Island where her father is the prin- cfpal of the junior high school. Miss Starr is a graduate of the Grand Island high school and of Grand Island college. In college she speclalized in biology and speech, and also took part in dramatics and tennis. In the latter activity she l 'won a conference championship at a l summer conference. She has also taken work at the University of Ne- braska in music and English. Her hobbies are sports, reading, music and she has toured most of the United States and Honolulu. Before coming to Lex'ngton she taught music and junior high sub- jects in Leigh in 1933-36, and sci- ence and speech in Wood River high school in 1936-38. This year she is teaching geography, science and gymnasium. Berenice Velte, '34, has been elect- ed principal of a three-teacher school at Virginia, Nebr. v Fall is upo.n 'us, I Our appetite's great: Come in and see us And discover we rate! MOSS' CAFE 5 A Said Romeo to Juliet, Have you had yo u r dress cleaned yet ? Said Juliet to Romeo, No, I cannot find a place to go. : All Romeo said was- REUTLINGER'S SAGE'S x l