Ransom High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Ransom, KS)

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CLASS MOTTO: Seize the Opportunity CLASS FLOWER: White Rose CLASS COLORS: Rose and White Senior Class Officers were: Ray VanWinkle, President; Dave Ummel, Vice-President; and Willard Hor- chem, Secretary-Treasurer. Sponsors were Mr. Andree and Miss Scott. A pep band was organized that year with seven instruments comprising the band. Senior class rings arrived in No- vember. Several of the rings were set with a Sardonyz setting with the em- blem mounted on it. Most of the rings had a ruby for the setting. The following are clips taken from the Ransom Record and the Dighton Herald; The Ransom Rural High School, in a Ness County town of less than 500 population, has two bands and an orchestra. There is an advanced band of 24 pieces, a beginners band of 26 pieces and an orchestra with 25 pieces. The advanced band and orchestra competed in the Dodge City and Hays contests, and have won honors in each event. Special Individual work is giv- en in violin, piano, all wind instru- ments and voice. I believe there is nothing can build up a community spirit and keep it alive better than mu- sic organizations, said Paul H. An- dree, Principal of the High School. The Dighton Herald, in surprise remarks: The High School Orchestra won first place at the music festival at Hays last week and the band took sec- ond place in D class. This is going some for a school of the size of Ran- som in State competition. Ah, shaw, Herald, Ransom was just going at half speed when she got that bunch of trinkets..... One of the best home talent shows that has been staged in Dighton in years was presented by the dramatics club of the Ransom High School. The play was clever and was well present- ed. The class showed some remark- able coaching. A good crowd enjoyed the entire play from the begining to the final. (Commrurrmnit Thursday. bil5 P. M. Prelude PpOCexalon.il Violin Solo, Rondino.’’ Kreuler ... Violet Osborn Salutatory. AH'» Well That Beam Well”... .............................Wendell DuM a C.iria Quartette Way«de Rates Bonnie Brewer, Velma Haug. Blanche t'ombcat. Mildred McN'inrh Valedictory. Seize The Opportunity’’------ .... Violet ( »b»m Boya Quartet....................... .“Pefgy” Dean Stover, Dave I’mmel. Kdwin Shellenbenter, Wendell Dubba. Add reax .......... ...Dr. 1 eon H. Sweetland Presentation of Llau ... Principal Paul H. Andree Presentation of Diplomas---...... Mr. Lee Miller President of Board. School Song. 25

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CLASS MOTTO: The elevator to suc- cess is broken; take the stairs. CLASS FLOWER. Blue and white dai- CLASS COLORS: Royal blue and white. CLASS PROPHET Emma Oppliger CLASS POET Peggy Conard CLASS HISTORIAN ............ Edwin Shellenberger CLASS WILL by Maurice Jackson VALEDICTORIAN Peggy Conard SALUTATORIAN Emma Oppliger SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS: Werner Luetters, President; Maurice Jackson, Vice-President; and Edwin Shellen- berger, Secretary-Treasurer. Com- mencement exercises were held May 24, 1932. The school had an enrollment of 100 students our senior year. That to- tal was the highest that it had been for our four years of high school. We had an enrollment of 16 for our Freshman class. Officers were; Emma Oppliger, President; William Jaehde, Vice-President; Mildred McNinch, Secretary-Treasurer; and Mr. Meisel, Sponsor. Our Freshman class play was, And Home Came Ted , preced- ed by The Light That Jailed'. We had an enrollment of 22 stu- dents in our class our sophomore year, with Melvin Elliott serving as our President; Rex Stowe, Vice-Pres.; Edwin Shellenberger, Secretary-Trea- surer; and Miss Joseph, Sponsor. The Patsy was our Junior Play. Mildred McNinch was our class President; Ed Shellenberger was Vice- Pres.; Emma Oppliger was Secretary- Treasurer; and Mr. Nipps and Mrs. Meisel were our sponsors. CLASS ROLL: Harriett (Cofer) Pfaff Harvey Cofer Blanche (Combest) Best Peggy Conard Melvin Elliot Glen Garrelts Maurice Jackson Vera Jennings Bernard Kraus Werner Luetters Freida (Lyon) Stowe Joe Lyon Mildred (McNinch) Shank Ora (Montgomery) Keyser Blanche (Olsen) Newkirk Emma (Oppliger) Hamlin Evelyn (Roth) Hunter Edwin Shellenberger Hazel (Snider) Andrew Rex Stowe David Strieker Carl Weedin Charles Yost Faculty, 1930-1931: Front row Ethel Shearer. English, Blanche Meisel. Business course. Florence Scott. Music; and Mildred Fox. Domestic Science, Domestic Arts, and Latin Back Row: Otis Rogers, Jr. High Principal Frank Meisel. Manual School Principal, and Roland Nipps, Coach and We ordered our senior class rings on Oct. 31,1931, the beginning of our senior year. These rings had the em- blem mounted on black enamel and they arrived in November. Our class officers were; Werner Luetters, Presi- dent; Maurice Jackson, Vice-Presi- dent; and Edwin Shellenberger, Secre- tary-Treasurer. The football boys (22 on the team) had new uniforms that year. The jer- sey's were cardinal with white letters on the back. The average weight of the football boys was 129 % pounds. Marvin Elliott was the football cap- tain. The cheerleaders were Victor Long and Wilma Thomas. A new 2000 watt light had been in- stalled during the summer, which made it possible for outdoor ball- games. The senior hike was to a canyon North of Brownell. Students in typing 1 class took a Training and Agriculture; Paul H Andree, High Math. speed test in November. The highest score was made by Velma Haug and Emma Oppliger. This score was made by typing 29 words a minute for a period of 10 minutes. Edwin Shellen- Derger, Franklin Clark, Fred Amstutz, Irene McKenzie, and Vera Jennings had perfect papers, writing 10 min- utes without an error. The foods class served hot lunches in December. The average attendance was 30, which was one-fourth of the student body. Four of the girls took charge of the meal each aay. They planned the menu, bought the food, and prepared and served it. A typical menu consisted of creamed beef on toast, pickled peaches, and cocoa. The Senior class raised money by selling subscriptions to the Ness County News. With this money they raised, they bought and donated a Philco Radio to the school. Cast of And Home Came Ted , Out Freshman class play, presented Nov. 28, 1928. Front row: Ed Shellenberger. Peggy Conard. Mildred McNinch. Emma Oppliger. Rex Stowe, and Harriet Cofer. Back Row: Wayne Williams, Blanche Combest. Lucille O'Neil. Carl Weeden. Merrill Wheatcroft. and Harvey Cofer The play had a surprise ending as the script called for Ed to kiss Peggy at the end of the play, but Peggy fooled him and ran off the stage before he got a chance to kiss her.