Wellington High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Wellington, KS)

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. ear any . , . Sept. 5-Ho Hum! Have to get up, school starts today. I wonder who that good looking boy is, look at that blond! Hello, Keith, havenlt seen you since East spring. Sept. 26-I'm not 21 yet but I am voting today. Every sophomore, junior, and senior is asking, Who you voting for? Oct. 3-I see boys, boys, and more boys here for the district Hi-Y meeting. Hi, boys! Oct. 9-Now Mother and Dad know what it means to sit and listen for they visited the teachers at open house tonight. Oct. 31-It's quiet with the band gone to Arkalah. Nov. 6-7-Didn't notice that Fanny Jane had such a large mouth, until the dentist jumped back when she opened to to say Ah at inspection. Nov. 29-The orchestra made its debut tonight and I almost imagined I was in New York listening to a symphony. Nov. 10-Crusaders went on the warpath tonight against the Redskins and brought up North's malp. Nov. 30-Stuffed as usual after a Thanksgiving dinner. Splash, slush-even in all this mud we be- came Ark Valley champs for the third time when we defeated Ark City today. Dec. 3-Got beat but learned a lot from Wyan- dotte at our first basketball game. Dec. 4--Um-m-- what a feed we had at the Chamber of Commerce football banquet. Dec. 6-Bud Waite says it gets 73 below zero ln the Antarctic. Never want to go there. Dec. 8-Bet Hollywood stars would have been jealous if they could have seen The Youngest. Wish I had taken dramatics. Those love scenes simply sizzled. Dec. 13-Think I'll give Santa Claus Owens u. pair of suspenders for Christmas so he won't lose his trousers again. V Dec. 22-After the inspiring Hi-Y assembly we started our Christmas holidays. Did I take any books home? Decidedly not!!! Dec. 25-Is there a Santa? The band thinks so, for they get new uniforms. Jan 1-Leap Year and also a new year, too. After three years of waiting Norma can pop the question. No school this week as Evelyn B. has meningitis. Week of Jan 22--Dear Diary: I am grey-headed and feeble-minded after taking the semester exams. Jan. 26-27-Better than the Louis-Galento fight were the debates at the debate tournament held here this week-end. Jan. 31-Tonight I heard a donkey give his ser- enade at the benefit band concert. Feb. 13-Welcome -home! Dr. Joseph Maddy directed the combined bands of W. H. S. and neigh- boring towns in a concert. Feb. 14-Quack! Quack! These strange noises is- sued forth from the faculty duck dinner given in honor of Mr. Stamm and St. Valentine. Feb. 16-Learned in the federation assembly that Rah Chaw chewing gum ranks 2-1 among W. H. S. students. Feb. 28-It's going to be fun for which I strive when I attend the Junior J'ive this very night. March 1-Saw the knees of those husky football boys shake with pride C?J when they received their awards in assembly this morning. March 6-Old maids turned into beautiful college girls! Did I laugh at the N. F. L. stunt night. March 8-The pep club gave the Scotchmen of W. H. S. a reel break when they sponsored a double feature movie for five cents. March 13-Butcher knives, screams, and dyed hair were mixed tonight-the result-a topnotch senior play. March 19-Every note from high C to low UG went over with a bang tonight at the music review. Mar. 20-Pep club gives a basketball banquet for the team. How Johnny H. blushed when he was elected honorary captain. March 22-At the G. R. Easter assembly three white crosses, music, and a story brought us closer to the real meaning of Easter. March 22-25-Easter vacation and my new hat! Boy, will it really cause excitement-that is if you can see it. April 1-April Fool's Day and certain citizens of W. H. S. seemed to have returned to the hills of Arkansas. All the Lil Abnersj' Mammy Yokums, and little boys and girls were merely impersonations. April 12-Band and orchestra win highly super- ior ratings in the district contest at Wichita today. April 15- A stitch in time-We are enrolling for next year-that is everyone but us seniors. April 26-He asked me! Got a new formal! What I'm trying to say is tonight is the Junior-Senior banquet. April 30-Dear Diary: 'Tm going to see Who's Your Schoolmaster -Correction: Who's yer - sounds like Indiany now. May 1-i'Which dress do you like best. Naturally every one discussed the fashion show. May 17--Today was truly Senior Class Day! They shone from morning 'til night. May 19-Solemnity reigned- at Baccalaureate. May 23-Oh! Commencement. May 29-This is the end-of this little tale-of school. Everyone is jubilant except us seniors who have to leave for good. After wanting to for so many years, the time has come. And so . . . Goodbye. .23-

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g,,,f--f Something More Than Noise HSE WAS A sophomore, young and shy, with one ambition-to become a Crusaderette. She was initiated as a squire in the honored society' and in her junior year was dubbed a knight in shining red. Finally a .senior-What a year! In one of the best of pep assemblies, with tears in her ey-es, she buried E'lDorado and helped the Wildcats moan as W. H. S. read the obituary over their grave. When basketball games were over and nobody else remembered the boys, she baked a pie for the pep banquet and sat by the hero of her choice for one evening. Then the end of the year-she dined at the annual banquet and again saw the young squires being dubbed knights in the flickering light of candles. Graduation came and changing her red dress and white collar she donned a grey gown and a square hatg hanging' her shield in Valhalla, she bid farewell to the Crusaderettes. O, IT isn't the tobacco auctioneer or the man who comes around, it's those five jumpin', jiven', yellin' cheerleaders of W. H. S., and they aren't chanting Sold American -they're leading Crusaders, Fight. Swinging out at the iirst of the year with Eloise Tout, Gene Friedman, Horace Yates, Helen Miller, and Gerald Geiger, the rhythm went unbroken until the end of the football season. Then Eloise, the sparkplug of many a Crusader rally for the past three years, moved to Texas and Marceil Peterson joined the troupe. Late in the basketball season, the boys donned red sweaters and white trousers to make the red and white circle complete-band, team, Cru- saderettes, and cheerleaders. All in all, it's easy to yell when you're' winning, but every loyal Crusader should remember t'It ainlt' whatchayell, it's the way whatcha yell it. A -22- mania.

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Team Top row-Tomlins, R. Sny- der, Romig, Agee, D. Snider, Titus, D. Vandaveer, Wirth. Second row-Coach Buzzard, G. Zimmerman, McGaughey., Q. Zimmerman, Cooper, Grim, Thomas, Glamann, Coach Neve. First row - Howell, Denny, Casper, E. Vandaveer, Ed- mondson, Carter, Davis, Hynd- man. Insert-Captain Ed Van. u ll N We Done Did Ii Again ILOTED by' All-State, All-Valley Captain Ed Vandaveer these white- jerseyed cogs of the Crusader machine posing above are the Ark Valley champions for the third consecutive year. Displaying the best brand of football in the history of the Valletn according to both fans and sports writers, they ran roughshod over all league opposition to the astonishment of every school, rooter, team, and downtown quarterback involved except this determined and united Crusader squad. With but four lettermen back and an opening 26 to 6 defeat at the hands of the powerful Oklahoma City Central team, these boys were not optomistic until two coaches said. Boys, you've got what it takes if you work hard. With doubtful backers and gloomy predictions as to the outcome, these determined Crusaders opened the league with E1Dorado, surprising everyone by their bril- liant performance against the highly rated Wildcats, outplayfing them for three quarters, and scoring in the last twenty seconds a mythical touchdown giving them a 14 to 7 victory, first of the.Valley fatalities, slaughtered one by' one. More convinced as to their ability, the followers watched the team come back in a last half rally to overpower the Salt Hawks with a 32 to 6 score, after being held back the first half by a powerful Hutchinson team. Next they overwhelmed the East Aces and their sports prognosticators by a staggering score of 39 to 6, seemingly with ease, as Coach Neve used many substitutes. With the battle cry Let's get the Railroadersh the boys began pre- paring for the Newton game, which ended in tragedy for them, but more glory' for the Crusaders. The crowd, mainly Wellington rooters because of an ex- tremely cold night and a special train, watched their team score a 27 to '7 win over the Railroaders. 12 4.-