Mulvane High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Mulvane, KS)

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;Snxxm €lnss Bill To Whom It May Concern. Witness this last will and testament of the class of 1923 of Mulvane High School. We, the Senior Class of 1923, graduating and leaving Mulvane High School, here- by do make individually and severally our last will and testament so that in the years to come that peace and concord may reign over cur affairs instead of disputes and vain quarrels. Whatever glory and honor we have gained in these four short years in M .H. S. we hereby bequeath to the school hoping to make it great among schools. To the Juniors we will the right to call themselves by the title of Seniors. Juniors this is yours to use for one year. Use it well and uphold the traditional honor of the title as well as we have done. To the Juniors we will the historic, color- bedecked spade,, which has been handed down from class to class for many years. It is a symbol of work to remind you that you must dig hard and deep to get through your last year of high school. Finally we will to the Juniors the right to occupy the seats in Chapel that we will vacate this year. We sincerely hope that you will be able to create as much pep in this section of the student body as we have done in the past year. To the Sophomores we will the honor of publishing the second volume of The Quivirian. We appreciate the assistance and coop-oration that you have given us on this annual and we feel that with this experience and with this annual as a basis you will be able to publish a book many times better than this one. We ask tha the name, The Quivirian be used for your book, and for .?very annual publ ' shed in M. H. S. in the years to come. To the Sophrmcres we will the honor we have won in football, basketball, and track. We hope tha you will follow in our footsteps and try to get as large a majority of the men on the different athletic events as we were so fortunate to secure. To the Freshmen we leave the prescription for getting rid of bashfulness. We will to you our special privilege of sliding down t ' e banisters, skipping classes, writ- ing notes and making dates in the study hall at noon, but we advise that you consult the faculty before exercising same. To the Faculty, whose assistance, coor- ' ra on. and instruction has been of in- valuable aid to us during our last year in M. H. S. we leave our many thanks and the satisfaction of knowing that they have helnrd make soms of the greatest men and women of tomorrow. We also wish you pleasant dreams free from the troubles and difficulties of the senior class. To the next Editor and Business Manager of The Quivirian, Leroy Johns and Harry Miiller will the right to skip classes anytime thev want to without being count- ed absent, to go to Wichita anytime they want to a the annual ' s exnense, to use the school ' s stationary for their personal letters, to make assessments on the underclass- men whenever they are in need of spare change, and to keep everyone in fear that they will print some scandal that they happen to know about them. To the Janitor, Mr. McMunn we leave the sheets of paner that this annual was written on and the honor of cleaning up the annual room after we have vacated it. We also take great pleasure in presenting him with the s ' lk-embroide ' -ed. self dump- ing, double action wheel barrow that we bought three years ago to initiate Freshmen with. To the entire student body, we wish to leave pleasant thoug ' -its. and kind mem- ories of the largest class that ever passed through Mulvane H ' gh School. In w itness whereof, w.? have set hereunto our hand and seal this eipfhteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-Three. (SEAL.) THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1923. MISS STOLTZ Isn ' t that perfectly marvelous. PAGE TWENTY-FIVE

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QaiuiaidN niinr (Linss rlisturg In September. 1919. we, the seniors of ' 23, were duly enrolled as students in Mulvane High School. After encountering the various and trying difficulties char- acteristic of the early life of freshmen we at once eagerly entered into the spirit of our high school life. We were fortunate in having class members who even as freshmen distinguish- ed themselves by taking part in various athletic activities of the school, thus begin- ning a career of athletic attainment seldom reached by the members of a single class in our high school ' s history. Among our classmates who won many well deserved laurels are Frank Harris and Herbert Butterfield. who have for the last four years won exceptional honors for the school at County, Invitation, and state track meets. The other members who have distinguished themselves along athletic lines are Richard Hamler. Verl Throckmorton, Ralph Barner, Charlie Miiller, Harry Miiller, Harold Douglass, Raymond Poore and Clarence Rru ter. Ali of these students together with Harris and Butterfield won places on the first football or basketball squad. During the senior year the entire basketball team and nine of the regular football squad were members of the class of ' 23. Bessie McGinnls has for four years made an excellent record as a forward on the girls ' basketball team. Active and successful as has been our endeavors along athletic lines, we have always had time for various other phases of student activities. Among those of our members who have taken active part in debate are: Harry Miiller, Bertha An- derson, Myrl Adams, Verl Throckmorton and Leroy Johns. Verl Throckmorton, when a freshman won first place in oratory at the A. V. I. meet at Wichita and has since won many honors for his school. We, as a class, have never let special school activities interfere with the regu- lar class work and as a result our class is honored by possessing two students, Manie Meyer and Harry Miiller, whose records in school work have few equals in our school history. Others of our number whose names were usually to be found on the honor roll are: Gertrude Spring. Esther Wells, Myra Potter, Edna Berger. Bertha Anderson, Myrl Adams and Charlie Miiller. Our class has always been well represented in the musical achievements of the school. Among those deserving special mention are: Bessie McGinnis, who was a member of the girls quartet during her senior year and was honored by represent- ing her school as a contralto soloist at the state contest held at Emporia; Verl Throckmorton and Raymond Poore, who have taken active part in glee clubs, quar- tets, and operettas, and .launita Hazzard, who has won much praise by her excellent ability as a pianist. All organized efforts for the betterment of th? moral and social conditions in our high school have at all times received our heartiest support. A large majority of the Student Council officers are from the senior class this year and they are helping to make it a powerful and worthwhile organization. A number of our boys were interested and have been taking active part in the Hi-Y. Verl Throckmorton and Raymond Poore having held offices in the organization. A number of the girls of our class entered eagerly into the work of the Home Eco- nomics Club which was organized in 1922. During the Junior year we successfully presented Mr. Bob , a pleasing comedy and at the close of our Senior year presented The Touchdown, a comedy illustrat- ing typical college life. As a fitting close of our High School career we publish The Quivirian , which will always serve as a fitting memorial of the industry and loyalty of the largest class that has ever graduated from Mulvane High School. OPAL GRIFFITH — I had five chances for a date last night and took the fifth. PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

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l|t,i:uplti?; 3 :eitnti ' 1ii,i:uuiti?r Twenty-six years after graduation from Mulvane High School found Leroy Johns and I patiently breaking rocks at Sing Sing, happy in the consoling knowledge that we had received only ninety-nine years imprisonment instead of death in the electric chair. This lone fact spurred us on to higher ambitions when we would finally leave those iron bars and solemn gray walls behind and step once again into the changed world, free men. Fugitives from justice from the date of the appearance of this annual, we were finally cornered and captured in the lobby of the Foster Hotel on Fifth Avenue, Ben- der by Detectives Vernon Foltz and Miss Myra Potter. We were captured just one year ago, and, but for the hard consistent efforts of our old classmate Attorney Butterfield. and the kind heart of Judge Potter, we would undoubtedly have receved the death penalty. The State in our trial was rep- resented by Henry Seekamp. a promising young lawyer now serving time in the cell adjoining ours, for the murder of Marion Abercrombie who attempted to run off with his wife, formerly also a classmate, once Gertrude Spring. The star witness for the State was Hazel Howard who resented the statement made elsewhere in this annual that she would journey to Colorado in the spring and live there in a little shack in the open desert, as Mrs. Harold Albright. She had final- ly married Verl Throckmorton but succeeded in convincing the jury that it had happened only after considerable effort in straightening out the trouble caused by that little article in ' THE QUIVIRIAN. Little did we think that our old classmates would turn against us as they did. With half of the jury composed of former Senior companions we were fairly confi- dent that we would be acquitted and great was our astonishment and consternation when Foreman Harold Crum announced the omenous word guilty. Those indi- viduals who represented the class of 19 23 on the jury were. Esther Wells, who we learned had married rich but owing to her husband ' s stinginess was living in a little one-roomed hut in the poverty section of Wichita. Mildred Norden as good-looking as ever but still looking for a man. Juanita Hazzard recently divorced from Richard Hamler and having a very hard time making a living for their football eleven, for eleven boys had blessed that family and Shanks as worthless as usual spent all of his time teaching them end runs and signals. Juanita divorced him in order to have one less to support. The other three acquaintances and one time friends on this jury were men, all anti-women suffragists and we do not understand, to this day, how that trial ever escaped a hung jury. Myrl Adams, stoop-shouldered, rapidly turning gray and still a woman hater displayed his utter disgust at the antics of his woman confederates. Ralph Earner whose head was adorned still further with patches and rising projec- tions, which he claimed were acquired when Bessie, our once demure little red-headed torch, now Mrs. Barner, hurled the dishes at such a rapid rate that dodging was made impossible. Harold Crum. mentioned before, was happily settled in his father ' s smokehouse out on the old home farm where his wife, once Bertha Anderson made the living by taking in washing. It was whispered about the court-room that Har- old ' s gray hairs and aged appearance were brought on by the constant toil and ef- fort of preventing Bertha ' s tears from flooding them out of hearth and home. Even with such a host of angry classmates against us we still held out faint hope till Edna Berger, matron at the Insane Asylum at Osawatomie, brought in Manie Meyer. Manie went insane upon seeing Bertha and Richard together on the snap- shot page, and had been confined to a ward in Osawatomie since the fatal day of the delivery of THE QUIVIRIAX. Upon the presentation of this living evidence a changed mood gripped the jury and our last lone hopes fled to the high winds. It seemed not at all surprising that the trial would be attended by all of our former friends and classmates who could possibly be present. On the very front row sat two middle aged ladies, their features practically hidden by the traditional gowns of the nunnery. One. she of slight build, carried an ear trumpet and but for this defect we probably would have never found out who these interested parties were, but the rather plump lady in speaking to her companion necessarily had to raise her MISS SHOUP— Give your authority— such as— for example. PAGE TWENTY-SIX