Pittsburg High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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f, 4 History of Girl Reserve The student club of the Young Women s Christian Association was organized in Pittsburg High School in the year of 1917 under the direction of Mrs. Lillian Ringle. The club was small but it started an activity which guided the attention of the girl students along right ways and which eventually was to grow into a great influence in the lives of many of the girls of Senior High School. In 1923 the work of the club was correlated with that of the State Girl Reserve Organization. A council of seven high school teachers were chosen as advisors. This council of advisors elected Miss Lula McPherson chairman. Two years later when Miss McPherson left our high school to take a position at the college the council chose Mrs. J. L. Hutchinson as chairman. and last year when the freshmen were a part of the Senior High School the Girl Reserve membership reached four hundred and the Pittsburg organization was the largest in the state. With only sophomores juniors and seniors in high school now the membership is about three hundred' but the work is being carried on so that it means more tqo the girls than ever before and the mem- bers are conscientious in attending meetings and promoting the or- ganization s Work. The average size of the Girl Reserve organizations of Kansas is a trifle more than fifty members since there are now two hundred and thirty senior high scho10l groups with a total membership of twelve thousand. The sponsors at the present time are Mrs. Hutchinson Miss O D McPherson Miss Bailey Miss Gable and Miss Jones. The :officers for the Junior-Senior C-lub are as follows: President ............. Vice-President ....... Secretary ................... Treasurer ..................... .......Katherine Jeffers ..........Esther Myers .........Eleanor Ross ..,.,.....Ruth Jackson Prfogram Chairman .................. Margaret Blackett Social Chairman ................ Elizabeth McCormack Service Chairman .....,. Publicity Chairman ....... Ring Chairman ................. The Sophomore officers ......Maxine Timmerman 3, ................Ruth Emery .................Maym1e Prell re as follows: President .............................................. Mary Miller Vice-President ....... Secretary ................... Treasurer .................... Program Chairman ....... Social Chairman ......... ...........Opal Sipes .......Marjorie Burr .......Jane Dickey ...........Velma Askins ........Mardell Wilson Service Chairman ............. ......... M artha Close Membership Chairman ....... ........ C ozette Floyd - ,R-x Q 5..-:1 , .a G.. ' 2 s - ?U , O 0 . w ' if ' , 9 -T l in 1 Y The organization has enjoyed constant growth since its foundingg 15 , ' , . 11: A ! 'V . 3 1 ' , . I , 3' I Y 7 f-f,78W J'