North High School - Tower Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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So IVe Say asta aego We ,ll Meet Again Someday Three years have we spent together at High School North. Three years of happiness, fun, a little sorrow, maybe-and plenty of work, any- way that's what it seemed like then, although we realize now that it was really fun. But after all, they are three years we shall recall again and again in later life. Three years we shall esteem higher as we grow older. Three years we can never forget. To the class of '36 we feel we could offer many 'words of wisdom on how to profit by our mistakes, of which there were plenty. Yet our suggestions would be useless. They will live their Senior life as they think best, regardless of anything we might say, any warnings we might give, And they will be doing right. One learns by experience, you know. And it's a cinch that their experiments can't be any more guileless than some of ours have been. To the Sophomores who will be Juniors, there is little we can say. Being juniors was to us a veritable Seventh Heaven. Besides trying to let the new Sophs know about their superiors, we did little else but study and dream of the great things to do by and byf' Incidentally, some of our aspirations were real nightmares. And to those up and coming Redskins who will be known as the Sophs or Papooses, we offer this counsel. You have come a significant dis- tance along the road to education. Yet you have learned comparatively little. The next three years will awaken you to many unforeseen in- terests. Then, too, these years will be just chuck full of happiness, pleasant surprises, and promis- ing opportunities. As a parting request, we ask you to make use of them. So we'll be leaving now. But before going, we wish that we might vindicate our record in the words of the Apostle Paul, We have fought a good fight, we have finished the course, we have kept the faithf' - That there have been backslidings, we must confess. Yet we have given much of. our best- if DOI always victory-at least a good fight. And the courses-we have completed plenty of them. As for keeping the faith, it has become a part of our philosophy. The foundation has been laid. In the years to come may we do justice to the ideals charac- teristic of North-chief among them being- Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - Willarzf johnson '35. 43? .1',,,1'M . V W ay After 0 RRUW by Roy A. Burkhart There is something romantic about the thought that you are a link between all that you have been and all that you can become. Into your life to this moment, many streams have flowed, streams of culture, ambition, dreams, idleness, and injurious deeds-as a thousand tiny rivulets join their waters into a mighty river that flows on to the mighty sea. Indeed, the yes and no of yesterday make you what you-are today, what you will be tomorrow is the sum total of all these choices. What you will be tomorrow! That is it. Al- though your past life may be prophetic of what you will be tomorrow, yet, if you pay the price, the future still lies pretty much in the heart of your hand. You can open your life to little ex- periences and to twaddle or to the larger life as a bay opens itself to the vastness of the sea. You can take life with .its varied circum- stances-life in its gladness and grieving-and make of it what you will-a hut in the swampy lowlands or a cathedral among the verdant hills. You can express life in the savage war cry of collective murder or in a Hallelujah Chorus storming at the gates of God. Life for you in the tomorrows may be either a biological fact or an eternal value. Nero, living in sensual luxury-that is life, .jane Addams, shunning luxury to serve humanity on Halstead Street, in Chicago-that is life. But between the two there is an infinite difference. If you pass a current of electricity through a coarse wire, you get only heat, but if you put the same current through a filament of suflicient refinement, you will have light banishing darkness. So the vitality within you may be the low, sluggish instincts of animalism, or it may be raised up and up to such intensity that it expresses itself in a Christ climb- ing His Calvary. As you face the future, believe in the possi- bilities of life. You may not find it easy to get a job but you can at least have a fine life. Your life need not surrender. Your life need not re- treat. Your life can go onward, if you will, be- cause it is wooed by some divine destiny even as the moon calls the whispering waves of the sea. ..,'.

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Sfuijvfiril af ll zrimly l7lO77Zl'7ll, for T0u'i'r .TfLlg1'XVllllIl'li lohnson, mliirzi'-irz-1'lJivf5 the a.i.vm'lu1'rf.v, Olin' Sayles, Elm' Aivrzsirozixig, null Arflmr Cil'l,YlL'Oflfj luiiizirxv rr1am1,ci'r, Hulivz lfzzllrrg url vilifrir, Iiiuiilv Whikvliiriilq l'zIl'f0UIll.Yll, Kwzfzcflf Mizrlxg lltlLt'l'flAll1AQ ,inli'.v111i'11, Mizryluzz lluug, Marv lilxiw Rc.u'r, will Boll Nor1'i.vg I?Z7flf!l,Ql'cIl7Z7l'7', Rev Yizrrzvllg will xlmrlxor, Miix Cilillizryfzi' Molilwr'-frmrzil if in ilijlirnli lo rorzlrol flying larlu ui' In t'Ul'Ill'l' lllflla in mon' ,wriozrs iimiiimifs. TO THE ELEVEN hundred Redskin subscribers, and to the advertisers and patrons who have helped in countless ways in the making of this Tower--wc, the staff, dedicate the Hnished product. Being only a few of the eleven hundred, the staff makes no claim that the yearbook of ,BS is perfect. W'e offer it to you in all humility, the result of our most earnest efforts. To keep alive the experiences of the happy days when we were isolated from the cares of the worldu is the Towerls sole excuse for being. Like a pleasant mirage, memories of North High may become dim or even fade away before our eyes, but the Tower is destined to record our achievements forever and a dayf' And since I have no gold to give, And love alone must make amends, My only prayer is, while I live, God make me worthy of my friendsf, But how to be worthy? XVhen the too popular atti- tude is Get what you wantf' being unselfish might seem rather a lonesome job. -.D If one can puncture his own ego to the point where he considers the joys and sorrows of others before his own, he has made the first step toward being a worthy friend, for a worthy friend unconsciously rests and inspires his com- panions, the basis for mutual understanding. A friendship is not worthy of the name unless it im- proves character. Every time one yields the spotlight to another, even for a moment, the benefit is twofold-the otherls profit which amounts to naught compared with the expansion of soul realized by the giverg c'For the glory of life is to love, not to be lovedg to give, not to getg to serve, not to be servedf' THE TOWIER ix jiuliliybeil ifuulnzlly llpj' flu' Xllll!l'llf.V of W'iL'liilu lligb School Norlb, W'ii'liifi1, Kimi. Pflllffll lly lb? W'1'.i'lw'i1 Lllllllglllflb CUIIIIHIIIVX. liHgz'izz'i1i,Q by Ill!!-fl0!lllllll'llf lff1gz'az'i11g clllllllltllly. Phoiogrullrlzs by Renal Sflzrlio. . RESOUNDING locks and chattering voices in the quiet corridors swell to a cheerful babble as a half hour of clamorous locker life begins -love seances, wanderers, gay semicircles. Eight-ten is scooting time, eight-fifteen the din subsides abruptly, and eight-nineteen is the final dash. After a brief flurry of home room activities, the routine of recita- tion and study begins. Eyes droop with boredom or sparkle with in- terest according to one's attitude-- Get by or Get all you eanfl Lethargy disappears at 11:55 as between bites of steak and jell-o Redskins renew the morning gossip and discuss that terrible trig test or what Joe said last nightf, Then routine again. Sixth hour is the beginning of the end with the departure of the pass card students and the lucky sports men. But for the rest of US, the final minutes, marked by anxious clock-watching, drag slowly by. Wfith rejoicing, life begins again at 3:35 amid the hubbub of departure. Slowly the tumult dies-another day at North has passed, a day typical of the 785 which mark the transition from Sophomore to Senior. YIINTENTS EDITORIALS Day After Tomorrow-Dr. Roy A. Burkhart, , 3 Hasta Luego-Willard johnson , . ..,.. , 3 Staff Editorials .. . .. 2 SPECIAL FEATURES Time Out-Olive Sayles , . . 4 As the Road Widens-Susan Marcellus 6 Calendar-Willard johnson . H 8 We Got Rhythm-Helen Fuller , , ,, 10 Coming Up-jean Pettijohn .. . 12 Inside Story fPure Fictionj- Richard MacCann,, . ..... . 14 SENIOR SECTION Class 01' '35-Elsie Armstrong, Willa Samuel,,18, 26 Lovely To Look At-Mary Elsie Reser 24 The Curtains Do Part-Gail Frank. W .... 32 Banner Bearers--Helen Wagy .. .... 33 ON WITH THE SHOW Sports Parade-john Naramore. Bob Brooks, Hubert Stephens, Merrell Kirkpatrick, Dwight Miller, Bill McDowell, Sam Smith, Irene Nelson, Arthur Griswold ,, ,, ,,,, , 35 Party Held fFieId Dayj-Mary Elsie Reser 40 POW-WOW1M3Il-E Shank H ,, 44 Always Good-Kenneth Marts . 46 Cover Design-james Wakeland ,i L, L?-1

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TIME by Olive Sayles '55 ,lust one jump ahead of the New Dealers, Irligh School North has long prescribed to a 30-hour week. Engaged in playing the game to a glorious finish, from tip-off to the final whistle, each student neverthe- less Buds many interruptions in the form of outside activities. Truly it should be an easy life for the Redskins if there were not so many uextra-curricular duties to fill in all spare moments. Iiach of the following seventeen organizations goes into a huddle at various times and turns out many top-notch achievements. Officers are 7lIL'IIfi0IH'LI in fbi' fUH0lL'.:IIg orifw: 1m'iiilt'r1!, uct'- prrsifl1'11f, M'l'l'!'ft1l j', lreuszfrer. At the first bark of the gun-Student Council Clj. In striving to promote a representative government, this group passes the laws which direct our school. The tennis courts, locker clean-up, and representative assembly all stand on their list. Agnes McKibbin, Bob Brooks, Ilva .Ieanne jacques, and Dorothy Camp are captains, with Miss Lotta Green and Iirnest Neweombe coaching. Stamp Club QZJ-theyyre just what their name impliesfstamp collectors. Iixchanging stamps and arranging collections occupy their- time. Miss Gertrude Martin, with Howard Snyder and Donald Moore at the helm, holds the center of the spotlight. How does one attract birds to the garden? XVhat is the value of cold i.l'.'lI11CS?'ciiII'LICl'l Club OJ supplies a real need. These earnest naturalists hear many experts and are under the able direction of Roy Metcalf, with Ildna May Arnold, Reva jo Schlup, and Ruth Hinton helping to arrange the programs. Redskins! Fight! and YeaI W'ichita! shouts an army of girls in red and white. They're the Red Arrows C-lj, and are sponsored by Misses Alberta Bainbridge and Iiva Lyman, who are just as peppy', as the youngsters. Chief-tess for this year was Katherine Israel, with Judy Pyle, Ifllen Schultz, and Irene Nelson assisting. Learning how to do the 'lright thing at the right time in both social and business fields, Social English UQ is a good example of a course which is both practical and enjoyable. A student is taught IfmiIy Post by practical demonstration. Miss Katie Lansdowne has charge of all four classes, who elected the following presidents: Doris Kluseman, Pauline Clark, Merle Gates, and Margaret Iialstin. Book-lovers Q65 find enjoyment in reading good stories and re- viewing them for the benefit of other club members. They foster a deeper appreciation of good books and furnish a basis for further reading. Miss Bertha Tucker is director of this group, who chose as officers Alberta Zimmerman, Eugene Iilgin, and Susan Marcellus. Gaining prohciency in argument is the objective of the Debaters 171. The school team, composed of Annabelle Stroupe, Alberta Zimmerman, Faye Allen, and Jack Xvertz, attended three tournaments sponsored by colleges in Xvinficld, Emporia, and Iinid, Okla. Miss Bertha Tucker acts as instructor for this class, whose ol'Iicial question is prescribed by the state. Radio-ites and Iilectricity-ites CSD tinker around with the afore- mentioned subjects and prove themselves a veritable helping hand when needed. They know the use of gadgets whose name would be a mystery to you. A committee composed of Max Miller, Leo Herndon, Lawrence Lowe, Garland Ballard, and Robert Cowan, and supervised by Charles Yoe, plans the meetings. GHZ? ZW I 1 .14