Milford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Milford, IA)

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MAROON AND WHITE aim E.. The Hi Y is a Christian organization under the auspices of the State Y. M. C. A. Its purpose is to create, maintain and extend thruout the school and community high standards of Christian character. Thru the co-operation of the Methodist and Congregational churches, a large delegation of boys was sent to the Y. M. C. A. conference at Fort Dodge in the spring of 1919. It was during this conference that the neces- sity of an organization for the betterment of the school life was realized and a Hi Y was organized. Elwen Wallace was elected president, Harold Burk, vice presidentg and George Jacobs, secretary. These boys, thru the Christian influence and efforts of Professor Ar- rington and Mr. Harry G. Smith, put their organization on a firm founda- tion and because of the Work and interest put into the Hi Y it became an affiliated club by the end of the year. Harold Burk was president the following year and the Hi Y advanced steadily until it became a registered club. A large delegation of boys rep- resented Milford at the Older Boys Conference at Cedar Rapids. There they received inspiration that would aid them in carrying on the work they had already begun.

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The year of 1920 started with Milford Torstenson as president, Claude Brown, vice president, Elmer Van der Aarde, secretary and Jakie Lafoy as treasurer. This was the Hi Y's most successful year, due to the work of the officers and the help of Professor Arrington. By sending Elmer Van der Aarde to the Hi Y training camp on Lake Okoboji, the boys were given new ideas and a new and more advanced method of carrying on Hi Y club work. The splendid benefits received from the preceding conferences and Hi Y work convinced more boys of the necessity of attending such conferenc- es, it was with this idea that Milford's largest delegation of boys attended the Older Boys Conference at Des Moines. This conference held at Des Moines was the largest Older Boys Conference ever held in the state. This shows the advancement made by the different schools along the line of Christian living. The boys came back with a new challenge of Christian ideals and with a purpose to better fulfill the pledge to create, maintain and extend Chris- tian character. The first effects shown from the conference was a campaign that the Hi Y put on for Clean Athletics. This campaign had just finished when the boys put on a campaign for raising money for the starving Chinese. The Hi Y canvassed the town, receiving aid from everyone, and by the hearty co-operation of the town they were able to receive over three hundred dol- lars. The success of this campaign gave the boys new encouragement so they put on a Come Clean Campaign. This campaign was a great success, and it made it possible for the Hi Y to become a standardized club, thus being one of the first four standardized organizations in the state of Iowa. After the Easter vacation the new officers took charge: Jakie Lafoy, president, Laverne Moreland, vice president, Stanley Overland, secretary, Gunder Torstenson, treasurer. The Hi Y has done a great deal towards building Christian character for the High School students. In the three years since the beginning of the or- ganization a different spirit has been manifested in school work and activ- ities and with the new set of officers the Hi Y will help to keep up the high standards and ideals of the school.