Wellington High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Wellington, KS)

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4 J xii 1? QV, K Friendly Freshmen These friendly freshmen have climbed another step on the lad- der to graduation and will soon be sophomores. Here is a review of their passing parade. All at once the Freshmen dive into the fundamentals of higher learning. They study the elusive figures of algebrag they memor- ize the conjugatiors of Latin amo, amas, amat, of Spanish vivo, vives, v1e g and they were introduced to Ivanhoe as well as Lady of the Lake. The girls formed a junior high pep club, and elected Vada Crosby presidentg Mary Margaret Wentz, vice presidentg Virginia Arm- strong, secretaryg Vivian Arm- strong, treasurer: but the organi- zation did ,not function because of Miss Crawford, their sponsor's, illness. In sports there was a 1943 freshman five that went into some action with a yearling quin- tet from Wichita East in two games. Then, showing originality, a few of the freshmen boys started a Wolves International which has grown in membership by leaps and bounds. Their main function has been to select the most pop- ular girl of the Week and to send her roses. Warren Arnspiger was junior high federation presi- dent. One of the most important events in the freshman year came when the Lions awards were pre- sented May 12. Each year six girls and six boys are chosen from the freshman class for their citizenship, scholarship, and their living up to the Lions code of ethics. All in all it has been a busy year for freshmen for they count their credits as diligently as ary junior or senior. tml

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f. W Lf. Q.g..,' I 1 .- . . I ,.f,,ff,,,, V ,gl A ,L I Jolly Juniors , l s tg., o . Here we are 120 strong, the class of '45. It will not be long now until we are marching to the strains of Pomp and Circum- stance , and because of this we have made the most of our junior year. We started off being a dif- ferent class by electing a girl president, Barbara Felt. Our other officers were vice president, R i c h a r d Arnspiger: secretary, Elaine Miller, and treasurer, Arch Wallace. A rush was made early in the year to order our class rings, but after waiting so long we thought we would be gradu- ated before they arrived. Keeping up with our custom of being different, we danced the Virginia Reel and the Farmer in the Dellt' at our Tacky Party . Peredita Pennock and Bill Lan- caster won the prizes for being the tackiest. 'fMany hours were?- spent learning lines, selling tick- ets, and in getting the stage ready f for our timely play, American Passport , which was presented on February 16. We had a crowd- ed house and it Will long be re- membered. The greatest event of our junior year came on the night of April 28. After long discussion, think- ing, planning, work and decorat- ing we all turned out in our lovely formals and best suits to royally entertain the seniors with a ban- quet, prom, playing games, or go- ing to the picture show. The American Legion hall was trans- formed into a beautiful dream following our theme Star Dust . Our faithful sponsors were Clar- ence Oppy, Artie Hall, Misses Jane Swartz, Wanda May Vinson, and Irene Riggs.

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' .L bn ai, Seventh faders . . So Big, Yet so Small One hundred and twenty-seven strong, the seventh grade warily approached the doors of W.H.S. last fall, but after being here for only a short time they cast off the disguise of the quiet little flea for that of bold Crusaders bent on improving the school. After long, hard hours of dis- cussion in Miss Anne Holma,n's room a campaign for better con- duct in the halls was promoted. Slogans such as ShoVin' isn't lovin ', Don't run down stairs like a bunch of hares , appeared in all the bulletin boards and were paraded through the corri- dors. One We remember in partic- ular-'tDo not run -carried by a youthful campaigner who stayed on duty too long when the bell rang for class. With sign stream- ing behind, he dashed down the hall to class in ten seconds flat. Of such good intentions are all of us until running is necessary. What fun these babes can be! According to themes they wrote early in the year, they liked the hustle and bustle in the halls, having different teachers, going from class to class, belonging to school organizations such as Blue Triangle and Junior Hi-Y, gym, and games. In pep assemblies they tried diligently to drown out the upperclassmen and in some instances they succeeded! This year this class, along with the eighth graders, have stayed in school for six hours, which was one thing they disliked very much. t'Gyped', was the name that they had for it, but to compensate for this they had offered to them new subjects such as Spanish and pub- lic speaking. They are the only junior high students in the state who could take public speaking during their junior high careers. Under the direction of Misses Lynn, Foster, Holman, Vinson, and Mr. Keller and Mr. Mountain they have flourished and grown until next fall not a trace of this green year will be seen.