Muscatine High School - Auroran Yearbook (Muscatine, IA)

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NATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE Our Speakers Earn Special Degrees I N. l . I... is a short alnhreviation for a tall meaninge-National lforensic League. On its roll of members are the outstanding people in the speech department of our school. This organization is an honorary society for high schools that are especially active in interschool forensic contests. Our local chapter, one of the oldest in Iowa, is eleven years old. The memhers of this group have earned special degrees to signify the amount of competition experienced. Allnert Cioss, I,eo Baker, XYalter Berg, Dale floss, and Shirlee Levin attained the degree of distinction in our chapf ter. Alhert has a total of -H7 points, which is more than anyone in Nluse catine has ever earned. At the national contest for N. lf. I.. chapters at Lexington, Kentucky, April 2 to May 2, the chapter of our school received the distinguished ser- vice plaque. This plaque, the hrst ever to he presented to an lowa high school, honored our chapter for distinguished service in furthering the work of the national organization. The officers of this division for the past year were .Xlhert Cioss, presie dent, Leo Baker, vice-president, Anita Schmidt, secretary, and XX'alter Berg, recording secretary. Miss H. Margaret liemlile and Ci. Bradford Barber served as faculty advisors of this group. lIU'l l'UM RUXV: Betty lfppel, Doris Kile, Harriet Glatstein, Shirlee l,eyin, -lean NYilLc-ns. SICCONIJ RUNVZ llelen Kolpaclt, Clifliordean Collins, Dale Goss, 'l'honias Young, lfranlt lfliclyinger, .XI1ll.l Svliliiicll. llllllll ROVV: Fred liinfle, Gordon lVlcl.ean, Richard VV.1lIcr, l,.llll King, .Xllan ,Xntlt-rson, l.eo Baker, .Xlherl Goss, Claire Street. ,221

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STUDENT COUNCIL Honor System Ranks High In Iowa 0 VVe're reztlly proud of the honor system we hzive in our school. Our honor study hull in the lihrzlry is considered one of the most successful in the stzite. Of course, all the students :ire responsilile for the success of this system, hut our Student Council members :ire student directors of the plzui. As they have done other years, the Student Council supervised the lihrnry, mzinnged the hnll-monitor system, nnd dezllt out punishment to the ruthless. Like every other orgzinizaition this governing hody hzts the prolis lem of linnnces. To help themselves along this line the Student Council conducted at school pencil snle. Some of this money was indirectly remitted to the students through free dances they sponsored utter the gzimes. This yezir, with I1 view toward making students of our school more conscientious in studying, the Student Council puhlished study-help forms. Muskies glued these forms on the Hy-leaves of free texthooks. The forms listed the correct wziys to study, the right hzthits to use while preparing les- sons, the Wzzys to 2ll'l'11llgC work :uid to memorize mnterizil, :uid the types of hooks to use for reference work, The oflicers for the year were Tex Kidd, president, Alhert Cioss, vice- president, and Stanley Howe, secretziry-treasurer. llU'l'TUNl RUVV: George lhirlts, Tex Kidd. Kenneth hlclnlyre, George Ciqillnlier, .-Xlliert Goss SECOND RUNV: Holi l rochner, Ngiry Keating, lflgiine llazndley, Donna NVeher, Phyllis Druinm Ruth Vlfeher. THIRD RUVV: Dc-lice Alones, Stgniley Howe, Ricli.ird Vlvuller, -login Mcliee. ..2I+

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IiU'I l'OM: Genevieve Crow, lVlarian Kaulx, Clara Louise Bloom, If thu Sthu SECOND RONV: Patricia qlohnson, Juanita Wlxcltsung, Maxine Roniig e i IHIRD R Bernard Campbell, Muriel Hammer, Shirley Bloom, Stanley Howe. QUILL AND SCROLL Journalists Learn Dependability O These are the honor journalists of lVl. H. S., who learned more than just the definitions of the words dependability, initiative, aggressiveness, accus racy, and hard work. ln order to receive appointment to Quill and Scroll, international honor society for highschool journalists, fourteen of the grad- uating group ranked in the upper scholastic fourth of their class as Well as had two years of outstanding Auroran work to their credit. As a junior .Iuanita VVecksung edited the weekly newspaper and during her fourth year on the staff she was responsible for the '-Ll Annual. Stan Howe served in the capacity of business manager and Annual technician in his junior and senior years. lfor two years Juanita limbree and lfsther Schultz spent long hours editing copy for both publications. lVlanaging the advertising for both the weekly and Annual was the duty of Clara Louise Bloom. Tex Kidd wrote the sports sections of the '40 and '41 Annuals as well as supervised the weekly sports page. Patricia johnson and Marian Kautz were co-managing editors of this year's weekly Auroran. Betty Kern, news editor, Genevieve Crow, editorial editor, and Maxine Romig, feature editor, assisted Pat and Marian in getting out the weekly. Bernard Campbell, make-up man, Shirley Bloom, circula- tion manager, and Muriel Hammer, feature columnist, also earned member- ship to Quill and Scroll. -23-