McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ACADEMIC To To To To ATHLETIC To To To To ART To To To To To Pzigc Four Honors luliana Caola Emil Leonberger, and l-larry Manion, tor representing McKinley in the annual Latin contest sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, national honorary fraternity tor classical students. Serena Schult lor being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Eunice Roney, for winning a short story contest sponsored by a New York magazine The prize was twenty-live dollars Oscar Dreyer, a McKinley alumnus, for winning a lour-year scholar ship to Annapolis Naval Academy Bill l-lousman, tor being the leading scorer in the St. Louis Public High School Basketball League and lor being selected for the all-city bas ketball team. loe Singler, for being selected for the all-city basketball team Mike O'Sullivan, loe Cook and Charles Colombo, for being chosen for the all-city football team. Ray Wakeland, for running ninety-seven yards against Cleveland for a touchdown Mathew Mugavero, lor receiving honorable mention in the Clean Up poster contest Mildred Eemmers, lor winning a scholarship to the Saint Genevieve Art School. Nellie Allen, a recent McKinley graduate, for her painting, entered in the Exhibit ol St. Louis Artists at the Art Museum this fall. Not only was the painting accepted, but it was one ol eight paintings from this exhibit selected lor a later showing ol the American Exhibit. Newspaper criticisms rated Nellies painting as Houtstandingw. lacques Beers, tor receiving honors several times at the summer art class ol one ct the department stores. This is the same class in which Augustine Perricone, a recent McKinley graduate, won first prize three years in succession A plague on which lacgues helped will be ex hibited in Paris this summer. Norman Langfeld, tor directing a class of young boys in soap sculp ture this summer at the Y. M H A,

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CHARLES SLATER Mr. Charles Slater served as teacher and principal in the St. Louis Schools for more than thirty years. These years were marked by his conscientious and able devotion to duty and by his faith in the possi- bility tor development and achievement in the boys and girls. ln his death, McKinley has lost a beloved laculty member, an excellent instructor, and a true friend. Pays Thru'

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS- To Ioe Egan, for winning third place in Missouri in the Fisher Body Crafts- man's Guild contest. He won twenty-five dollars and, because his coach was the best from St. Louis, the St, Louis high school trophy. MUSIC- To the Girls Glee Club, for being rated excellent at the Washington University festival. Only three of the fourteen groups entered re- ceived this rating, MISCELLANEOUS- To Mary Coates, for outspelling all other McKinley entrants in the KSD contest. To Vernon Kane, for representing McKinley in the NYA spelling contest. MCKINLEY ORATORICAL CONTEST On April 26 McKinley held its first annual Oratorical contest. The pur- pose of this contest is to stimulate a wider interest in public speaking among the students and to select one boy and one girl to represent McKinley in the St. Louis High School Oratorical Contest, sponsored by Washington Univer- sity. The contestants and their subjects were as follows: Lester Abernathy, The Demands of Increased Leisure , Zenobia Cheneviere, Pan-American Relations , Ioseph Dee, The Value of the Recall , Robert Horak, The Fight for Peace g Io Lininger, 'lThe Supreme Court Issue , Charlotte Platt, Safe- guarding American ldeals g Hilda Routburg, l'Heroes of Peace , Ruby Wray, The Need for a Change in the Supreme Court . The speakers had such excellent subject matter and such fine delivery that it was difficult for the committee of five teachers to select the winners. The final ballot gave first place for girls to Hilda Routburg, and for boys to Robert Horak. These two were chosen to represent McKinley at the Wash- ington University contest on May ll, Page Fu c