Wellington High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Wellington, KS)

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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.

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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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Eighth Grade One year older and a year wiser, We the e.ghth graders, invaded the halls of W.H.S. one hundred fifty-five strong. We have already learned that it was its ..e,e,,saly to carry social science, English and math books to every clasg but that there was time to run to lock- ers, bumping and pushing into anyone in our path to get our books, slamming our l0cke:s, and getting back to our classes just as the buzzer rings. Being contest minded, we entered the D.A.R. flag contest with Donelda Nof- singer whining first place with her es- say on Our Flag , and Beverly Frv winning a bronze medal for her essay on The Constitution in the history contest. Honorable mention went to .7 'rf ita Rector and Jackie Adair. It seems that the facu1ty's popular coz. plaint of What's wrong with our school? was that there were too many I W'-rj m Y '4 1 ..- 1, ,J wi, ,. :,- sr' FS Peppy, But No Wiser study halls and to solve this problem three new subjects were introduced, but who wants to go to school six hours a day when the senior high kids only go five. The subjects did have some effect though because now our Spanish students go around saying, Como esta usted'?l' Muy bienn. Two junior high speech classes can now address the chairman as A'Madame chairman, La- dies and Gentlemen . W'ho knows, there may be a new vitamin discovered in general science by a budding eighth grader. But we know that school is fnot all work as there are Junior Hi-Y, Blue Triangle, Pep Club, Student Council, assemblies, and Junior High basketball to have a part in. Thus ends our hap- py year of life, making us better pre- pared to meet the worry and trials of Algebra, Latin, Spanish, Modern His- tory next year as freshmen.