North High School - Tower Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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The End oi the Road Days of rush and flurry for Seniors are over. We've Hnished our three years, we have earned our right of graduation. First there was the thrill of all the Senior activities-Senior party, Senior play, Field Day, and the Senior banquet. Then came the excitement of the last few weeks-Senior meeting, debates on graduation clothes, buying rings, pins, cards, and announcements. Now the wild scramble has lessened and we look thoughtfully to the culmination- commencement. The commencement sermon was delivered by the Rev. Paul Womeldorf, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church. One song, The Lord Bless You and Keep You,', a farewell anthem with sevenfold amens, was given by the chorus directed by Miss Ina Hyde. To the chorus, too, composed of the combined Girls' and Boys' Glee Clubs and directed by Miss Isla Davis, we owe our appreciation for music commencement night, May 28. They sang the following numbers: Galway Piper,', an Irish folk song, I-Ie's Gone Away, a Southern mountain song, and Summer Night, by Otto Miessner. Simple as their musical program may seem to us, it was preceded by hours and weeks of loyal practice. And as we began the painful procession across the stage, probably more than just word gratitude arose in our hearts for the strengthening i'Priest's March from the orchestra. After the preliminary speeches by Prin. I.. W. Brooks, Supt. L. W. Mayberry. and H. B. McKibbin, president of the Board of Education, our commencement speaker, Pres. A. Linscheid of East Central Teachers' College, Ada, Okla., addressed us. For our successful journey, we express our thanks to our principal, L. W. Brooks. With his firm, kind leadership he has won the affectionate loyalty of the Redskins. He seems almost in- dispensable to us who look to him as leader in enthusiasm, school spirit, and every-day perseverance. FIRST Row Inlirllz' Maye Swarlzr Proctor 1, 2, Art Club 2, 3. Minnie Sweail: Proctor 1, 2, 3, Clubs: Pep 1, 3, Intramural 1, 2, 3. Marjorie Isabel Tale: Home Room Secretary-treasurer 1, Clubs: Pep 1, 2, 3. Mary Elizabeib Irene Tailocles Student Council 1, 2, Proctor 1, 2, 3, Lieutenant 3, Clubs: Girl Reserve 1, 2, 3, Secretary 2, Vice-president 3, French 1, Pep 1, 2, 3, Sophomore Chorus, All-State Chorus 3, Glee Club 3. Anne Elizabeth Taylor: Semester Honor Roll 2, Proctor 2, 3: Clubs: Book 3, Girl Reserve 2, 3, Pep 2, 3, Stamp 1, Sophomore ChoI'us, Glee Club 3, All-State Chorus 3, Spanish 2, 3, Intramural 1. Virginia Lee Trrlmsb: QMid-yearj. I SECOND Row Arilis Beverly Thomas: Garden Club 1. Kerznif Karl Thompson: Proctor 1, North Star 2, Clubs: Hi-Y 1, 2, Pep 1, 2, 3, Sophomore Chorus, Glee Club 1, All-State Chorus 1, Intramural 1, 2. Elizalfelh CdYII1fI1 Tillman: Pep 1, 2, 3. Floyzl Merle Tillofson: fMid-yearj. Amos Calvin Toalafy: CMid-year-No Picturej, Clubs: Hi-Y 1, Football 3. Danny Tonfz: Proctor 3, Clubs: German 1, 2, Secretary 2, Hi-Y 2, 3, Pep 1, 2. Chrisline Travis. o THIRD Row Raymoml Tennyson Travis: Proctor 3, Band 1, 3. Kenfzefh lay Trislrr. Paulina Emma Turnbull. Maxim' Marie Tyson: Student Council 1, Proctor 2, 3, Clubs: Commercial 2, President 3. Anna Bull Vance: Proctor 2, 3, Clubs: Pep 1, 2, 3, Commercial 2, 3, Girl Reserve 1, 2. Ray Bloss Vamlrzenler: Proctor 2, Lieutenant 3, Clubs: Band 1, 2, 3, Hi-Y 1, 2, 3, Pep 2, Science 3. I FOURTH Row Helen Anne Wagy: Quill and Scroll 2, 3, Secretary 3, History of Schools 3, North Star Associate Editor 3, Semester Honor Roll 2, Proctor 2, Clubs: Girl Reserve 1, 2, Cabinet 3, International 3, Pep 1, 2, 3, Intramural 1, 2, 3. james Ifaris Wakvlaml: Proctor 1, 3, Clubs: Hi-Y 1, 2, 3, Science 1, 2, 3, Cheerleader 3, Intramural 1, 2, Golf 2, 3. wllllldlll Howard Wall: CMid- yearj. Mililrml Lonise Wallace: CMid-yearj. Velma Fram'c's Wfallaee: Clubs: Spanish 2, Intramural 2, 3. Wfilliarn Ijlilreil Wallace: National Honor Society 3. History Secondary education is celebrating its tercentenary this year. Looking back over its history one can see many important changes that have come :about-in students, subjects, and classes. If a student of the Boston Latin School, founded in 1635, could visit our high school, he would certainly feel that he had been born 300 years too soon. Our high school of today was not a sudden development, it has been a slow evolution, resulting in our modern co-educational institutions. The girls have much to be thankful for, for the Hrst school was for boys only.', Latin,Greek, mathematics, English, and other academic subjects were the only courses allowed in those first schools. Home mechanics, economics, or commercial designing would have been of little meaning to early Bostonians. O 1311 FIFTH Row Calbryn Lee Wallc1'. Dorollay Elizabrlb Walkins. Lois Alena Wallzins. Mary I0 Wear: Sophomore Chorus 2, 3, Glee Club 3, All-State Chorus 3. Calberine Weaver: National Honor Society 3, Proctor 3, Clubs: Pep 1, 2, 3, Girl Reserve 3. Gerald Erlwarfl Wc'lls: Class Vice-president 3, North Star 2, 3, Proctor 2, 3, Captain 3, Clubs: Hi-Y 1, 2, 3, Senior Division President 3, Leaders Corps 1, Football 2, 3, Track 3, Swimming 1, Intramural 1, 2, 3, Basketball 3, Baseball 2. o SIXTH Row jarle Wlaife Werlz: National Honor Society 3, Proctor 3, Clubs: Hi-Y 3, Pep 1, 2, 3, Spanish 2, Debate Team 2, 3, President 3, Golf 2, 3. Phyllis Mary West: Clubs: Pep 1, Commercial 2, 3, Girl Reserve 1, Intra- mural 1, 2, 3. Charley While. Lnrillz' Elsie whiff: Proctor 3, Clubs: Com- mercial 3, Girl Reserve 1. R. D. IVillJ1'r: Student Council 1, Semester Honor Roll 1, 2, 3, Clubs: Band 3, Orchestra 2, All-State Orchestra 1, 3, Intramural 2. May Ieanelle Willialwls. I SEVENTH Row David Ellsworth W'illis: National Honor Society 2, 3, Semester Honor Roll 1, 2, 3, Proctor 3, Clubs: Hi-Y 3, Math 3, Pep 2, 3, Glee Club 3. Chester Ellis Wfinegarncr: Pep Club 2, 3. Wanola Birdell Winlers. Mary Icanefle Wolf: National Honor Society 3, Clubs: Pep 1, 2, 3, Intramural 2, 3. Belfy Slanbope Wooils: Clubs: Pep 1, 2, 3, Girl Reserve 1. 3. Doris Clrnflaml Woods: fMid-yearl. Roy Iimmie Yarnell: CMid-year-No Picturej, Clubs: Band 3, Orchestra 2, 3, Pep 2, 3, President 3, Cheerleader 1, 2, 3, Drum Major 3, Science 1, 2, Intramural 1, Swimming 2, 3, Gym Team 2. O EIGHTH Row Clara Louise Young: Proctor 2, 3, Girl Reserve 1, 2. 3. Wilson A. Young: Home Room Vice-president 1, Clubs: Hi-Y 1, 2, 3, Science 2, 3, Vice-president 3, Band 1, 2, 3! Football 1, Intramural 2. Lillian Lucille Zar11z'r'lz1': Clubs: Pep 2, 3, Intramural 1. Paul Wesley Zickefoose: Clubs: Glee Club 3, A Cappella 3, All-State Chorus 3, Commercial 3. Erlwin Zillllllfflllclllf Proctor 3, Clubs: German 1, 2, President 2, Math 2, Pep 3, Garden President 2. Schools Wichita High School provides an interesting story in its sixty-year struggle, depicting the very foundation of our high school system today. To compile the history of the Wichita High School for the national contest, :I team, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Hodgson and Miss Jessica Smith, :md composed of Fay Allen, Helen Wagy, Olive Sayles, Philda Scott, Margaret Doniphant, and Ralph West, was organized. Contrast the commencement exercises for 1935 in which more than 800 students will take part, with the first class of 1879, with its four graduates. Yet the affair was of much greater importance to them. Courage and effort have been the cornerstones of our high school system. W'e are but one portion of the building, which is destined to rise higher. Our small part will be manifested in a greater effect in days to come.

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'TI1 Curiain arl: Even fragedy helps in their Search for The Questf, by Gail Frank ,35 Pinching yourself lest you come awake to find yourself not at home after all, you saw the last curtain of The Quest, Senior play presented May 25. One seemed to be seeing his own father and mother in Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, played by Mary Elsie Reser and Raelph Harding, as they discussed their financial troubles. One felt for the family when Lewis Morton, as ten-year-old Billy, was hit by a big bobsledf, in the words of his sister, Wenda, who was Katherine Israel. Kathryn Lansdowne, as Connie, shocking her parents by modern viewpoints, might have been you. She even decided to marry a rich man to help her family, but was dissuaded from this by her boy friend, Herbert Ross, portrayed by Clark Ahlberg. Julian, typical big brother in the person of Clifford Osborn, treated college as play until he was forced to show his stuff. AlfSmith, playing Doctor Wood, administered to the soul as well as the body, he helped Mr. Armstrong find his real interest -after a life-long quest. Another family friend was the good- natured Irishwoman, Mrs. Mulligan. Throughout this comedy of life, tense moments built up to the climax-a happy ending to the Armstrongs' trials. You were sorry to leave this family, for their experiences are often your own. BAB -the curtain rose, December 19, Katherine Israel was seen playing the leading role as the misunderstood daughter. Big sister Lelia, portrayed by Kathryn Lansdowne, treated Bab as though she were a childf' Mary Elsie Reser as Mrs. Archi- bald helped Lelia in her social climbing, but Raelph Harding, fatherly Mr. Archibald, liked best his younger daughter's scrapes, Lelia worried about her catch, Clin- ton Beresford, James Wakeland to you. Bab showed her power over men by re- ceiving a self-written love letter from one Guy Grosvenor. Imagine her dismay when Gerald Jones, portraying Carter Brooks, dug up a Guy Grosvenor, Clark Ancl Families, Small Towns, Sophisticates Are Revealed 'co Us Ahlberg. The situation became complicated when both young men fell in love with Babg she settled everything by choosing Carter. Mr. Archibald disliked Clinton Beresford, that blooming Englishmanf, and would not allow Lelia to marry him. Through cooperation of Bab, Mrs. Archibald, Jane Raleigh and Eddie Per- kins, Babis friends, played by Harriet Guthrie and Richard MacCann, the lovers eloped. They were brought back by father when he discovered Mr. Beresford was in a respectable business. Through all scenes Harriet Clark, the maid, and Donald Potts, the butler, added the domestic touch. UONCE THERE WAS A PRINCESS,D and she came March 29 in the person of Dorothy Perry. In the prologue one was trans- ported into Italy where Richard MacCann and Eleanor Doty, as Signor Moroni and the old princess, concluded legal transactions with Princess Dellatorre, who was returning to Millertown in America. Preparations began in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, por- trayed by Gail Frank and Belmont McCormick. They were helped CPD by an enthusiastic small daughter, Hazel, who was Margaret Ralstin, by Mrs. Purrington, Pauline Clark, and by Mrs. Seaver, Evalyn McCool. Even Hazel's friends, Ruth Hin- ton and Virginia Myers, assisted. Two persons threw cold water on the plans. Ruby, elder daughter, played by Anna Mae Jobe, feared the princess would show her up. Crabbed old Aunt Meta Trimble disapproved of everything, looking behind numerous wrinkles, one discovered Shirley Gardiner. The Princess arrived and was taken for a sewing woman, but to please her friends she left, returning as the splendid creature they wanted, even to the French maid, Ruthelma Malone. Clark Ahlberg, as Ruby's boy friend, Milton D'Arcy, ITICC her at the train. Phil Lennox, Raelph Harding, was the princess's former sweetheart. They had never forgotten, and, ending the story happily, old orders reversed-Phil became a prince. if32l-