Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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©V» Editorials OUR COMMENCEMENT This class of 1933 has launched upon a new course. Far be it from them to follow in the footsteps of their predeces- sors, blindly. They have chosen their own way to the shore of graduation. They have adopted the idea of a demo- cratic commencement — the first to be at- tempted in a Kansas City high school. Everyone realizes what this type of commencement means in the history of our school. Our patrons and even some of our faculty look upon our venture rather skeptically. Even so, the mem- bers of the class have unerring faith in their chosen leaders and their ideas. All they ask is that the public await the success that is sure to be ours Heretofore, our commencement exer- cises have been only for a few. Just that Select group that had sacrificed good fun, loyalty and service to the school for a good grade. Those who upheld Lin- coln on the field, on the stage, and in her commercial department composed only the background in the final develop- ment of the picture. Now it is to be different. The masses will hold the center of the stage, for after all, is not the work done by the class as a whole far more important than that done by the selfish individual? BARBARA C. McDONALD, Assistant Editor. EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Extra-curricular activities are as im- portant in a high schooTs program as the studies of the cirriculum. The former provide the “spice of life” in a whole- some recreational form, when relieved from the monotonus routine of the latter. Half the things learned in a classroom a re soon forgotten, another fourth, we cannot use. From educational clubs con- nected with the school, a student learns things that are not only useful in future life, but in the present. Traits of character and mental and physical qualities are also better devel- oped in extra-cirricular activities. In the classroom the teacher is the compelling force, but in these activities, one does things on his own initiative. In athlet- ics all five senses of a student are de- veloped to the uttermost, for they have to rise to crucial moments at most unex- pected times. Athletics also provides boys . and girls training which includes activities for the betterment of their health and development. With such assets in extra-cirricular ac- tivities, why should not more students take an active part, and encourage oth- ers to do so? ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Lincolnite staff of 1933 takes this opportunity to thank its many admirers who. have been diligent, faithful and untiring in their efforts to make this Lincolnite possible and successful. We wish to express our gratitude for the moral, literary, and financial support given by the student body, teachers, and friends. JAMES MOORE, Editor. Page Twenty-nine

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©v= JAMES MOORE President The Student Council is to some de- gree the governing body of the school. It punishes offenders who do not con- duct themselves properly outside the classroom and during the school hours. The school punishes s ' uch offenders as those who leave the school grounds with- out due authority during school hours, and those who disturb the tranquility of the student body outside the classroom. The Student Council is’ composed of representatives from each advisory, one each from the Freshman, and Sopho- more advisories, two from Junior advis- ories, and three from the Senior advis- ories. This variation is due to the de- creasing number of students in the upper class, thus the representatives must be increased so that each class may have equal representation. The representa- tives of the senior groups, and the ad- visory they represent are as follows: Miss Smothers, Alice Ausbie, Mary Cole and Lucille Herriford; Mrs. Goss, Jose- phine Hurse, Armanda Kirkendoll and Bernice Moore; Miss Barker, Edith Smith, Jennie Vincent and P ' rances Wil- liams; Mr. Mayberry, James Moore, Murrel Lee, Bertrand Neal, and Eugene Higgins. The representatives nominate all the officers and elect all candidates with the exception of the president and the vice- president. The latter candidates are voted upon by the student body; the one receiving the highest vote is president, and the other automatically becomes vice-president. The officers and chair- men of the various departments for the past year are: JAMES MOORE President MARY E. COLE Vice-President BERNICE MOORE Secretary ARMANDA KIRKENDOLL Sergeant-at-Arms JOSEPHINE HURSE Treasurer BERTRAND NEAL Department of Justice EDITH SMITH Department of Awards ALICE AUSBIE Department of Foreign Relations ALBERT MARSHALL Department of Safety LUCILLE HEHHIFORD Department of Recreation Page Twenty-eight

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3Ve w Smiles Alonzo Redmond: Mr. Gaines, I don’t s ' ee how football players ever get clean. Mr. Gaines: Well, what do you sup- pose the scrub teams are for? Mrs. Waters: The right leg of the patient is shorter than the left, which causes him to limp. What would you do in a case of this kind, Arlene ? Arlene Anderson: I’d limp, too. James Ross: My dad gives me a whip- ping nearly every day. Mr. Howell: You should be like George Washington. He didn’t get any lickings. James: Yeah, but he’s getting plenty now. Mr. Howell: How’s that? James: On the back of postage stamps. Tenola Mitchell: What will it cost me to have my car fixed ? Mr. Russell: What’s wrong with it? Tenola: I don’t know. Mr. Russell: Fifty- two dollars and fifty cents. Mr. Bluford: Why are you late, Ros- coe ? Roscoe: The bell rang before I could get here. Miss Morrison: Now the chorus will sing hymn number 18, by special permis- sion of the copyright owners. Miss Mason: Jimmie, what is Roose- velt’s ' first name? James Moore: President. Mr. White: That fellow Jonah was sure nice, wasn’t he? Roscoe Perry: Well, he may have made a good impression with you, but it was a different story in the whale’s ' stomach. Mr. Love: Is it true that when King Solomon had a birthday he had a birth- day cake that has never been surpassed ? Josie Hurse: Yep, one thousand layers. Mr. Thompkins: Of what importance is the yeast plant? James ' Taylor: Good bread and home brew. Mr. Stone: What is the definition of life? Marguerite Pittman: A bowl of cher- ries. Miss Baker: What is the name of your model airplane? James Robinson: “Lucille.” Miss Woods: Whose paper is this? I see no name on it. Ruth Redmond: It’s mine, Miss Woods. See, I have my initials ' on it. Miss Woods: Oh, I see, but I was al- ways taught that R. R. stood for rail- road. Christine: What can I do for a sore heel? Mrs. Waters: Don’t walk. Mr. Howell: Will you vote to abolish capital punishment? Gertrude Whitley: No! Capital pun- ishment was good enough for father and it’s good enough for me. Horace Marshall: My big sister’s boy friend sure knows his stuff when it comes to necking, all right, all right. Merle Herriford: Yeh, my sister’s beau knows all the tricks, too. Last night when I went to peek through the keyhole, he had his hand over it. Victor Norman: Has the depression had any effect on you? Alonzo Redmond: Not at all. I am still getting three hots a day. Mr. Mayberry: James, you are to stay in the room during your lunch hour £or talking. James Taylor: Okey. I can’t eat any- thing but air sandwiches today, anyway. A “Beck” and a call and we leave you all. with a house “To(l)let(t)” for it is too “Small (s).” We had a “Grant” of land, where “Herri- fords” grazed. And our cherished “Green” “Fields,” tilled by “Sampson” were cher- ished. After the “Cole” winter, budding “Young” trees were seen. And wild flowers unkindred by “Potts” endeared each scene. We “Walk-er” “Brown” roads’ on “Foote” day after day. Passing the “Boggs” to which our “Madd-ox” was ' a prey. Nothing there to ward off his danger and so it was, As though water in our “Wells,” for naught! The “Miller,” with his ever busy “Mills,” Are “North” of the “Wood” and over the hill. His friend the “Strong” “Smith”, a labor- ing swain, Strikes “Sparks” with the “Sledge” as if in disdain. But our dear village and country of old, No “Moore” shall we, these sights be- hold. Page Thirty