Shawnee Mission High School - Indian Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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as Ummm FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE President ............. ........ B etty Berry President ............................ Bill Garrett Vice-President ................ Frank Wood Vice-President .......... Marguerite Bartz Secretary .................. Virginia Turner Secretary ................ Marvin Shepherd Treasurer ...... ......... D arlene Laing Treasurer ......... ........ V irginia Larsen 1UN1oR sENioR President .................... Barbara Wright President .............. ..,..... N eil Helmers Vice-President ............ Henry Sullivan Vice-President .............. Paul Alleman Secretary .......... ....... T om Dawson Secretary .......... ......... W ilma Davis Treasurer ....... ,....... B obert Meyers Treasurer ........ ....... C harles Hann Helmers Alleman Davis Hann Wright Sullivan Dawson Meyers 15

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.gzcolenf Counci FRONT ROW-V, Cochran, P. Boxmeyer, D. Lichte, C. Carlson, B. Wright, B. Weber, L. Rankin. MIDDLE ROW-H. Robb, D. Brent, B. Garrett, V. Larsen, S. Foster, I. Baldwin. BACK ROW-H, Sullivan, F. Wood, T. Dawson, P. Miller, D. Fayman, N. Helmers, B. Summerour. Managing school affairs, complaints and other sundry things which are of interest to the student body are the duties of the Shawnee-Mission high school Student Council. Composed of twenty members and headed by its unanimously-elected senior president, Neil Helmers, this organization did its share toward sup- porting the National Defense program through the work of a Victory com- mittee composed of Paul Miller, Virginia Larsen, Bill Summerour, Virginia Cochran and Sue Foster. The group collected books for the men in service of the United States, sold defense stamps, and urged students to save scrap metal and other waste materials. Most ot the activities of the student council were carried out through the committee method and due to the cooperation and smooth functioning of one of them, namely the mixer committee, the board granted the council permission to plan three mixers each semester instead of one, as originally granted. The program committee planned the school assemblies and ar- ranged for the lyceums of the school year, '42-'43. Assisting Neil l-lelmers, president, were Paul Miller, vice-presidentg Penelope Boxmeyer, secretary, and Barbara Wright, treasurer. The Council also sponsored the annual Fun Day, worked on the Honors and Awards committee, and planned the entertainment for the celebration as a result of winning the league basketball and football championships. Miss Emma Lyman and Miss Anna Marie Edwards were the sponsors of the organization. 14

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FOR A VICTORY V for Victory -this slogan of American freedom means much more than a war phrase. Many of the boys who have been graduated or who have attended Shawnee-Mission are now serving in the defense of our country in the Army, the Navy, Marines, Air Corps, or Coast Guard. Some of the boys who are serving our country have been killed in action. Robert McAr1any was the first Shawnee-Mission graduate killed in action. Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McAnany of Shawnee, Kansas, was graduated from Shawnee-Mission in l936. He was a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force Coastal Command until his death in an airplane crash in Cumberland County, near Carlisle, England, on October l, 1941. While in Shawnee-Mission, Robert Was active in school affairs and was a member of the Shawnee-Mission Chapter of Future Farmers of America. His many friends knew him as a person Who exemplified all the traits of a true American. While he was the first Shawnee-Mission student to lose his life in this war, others are prisoners of War at Guam and in the Philippines. They are all doing this to make this World a safer place in Which to live., We dedicate these pages to all alumni and former students who are in the service of their country. 16