Wellington High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Wellington, KS)

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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.

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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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Oph0fI1Ol'3S . . The Busiest Crusaders of Them All For four years now all one hund- red forty-six of us have waded through various trials and troubles in W.H.S. to emerge as triumphant sophomofes. Because it is now 1944, leap year, we decided to throw a big sophomore leap year party. A thrill came to every feminine heart when she realized that at last she would have a chance to snag her favorite boy friend for a date. Never before had these boys had their expenses paid so lavishly, nor have they been escorted home with such gentlemanly politeness, as they were by the gallant sophomore maidens. Already we have gained a reputa- tion of being an up and coming class able to made decisions for ourselves. We have as officers, D. L. Carter for president, Joan Mercer, vice presidentg John J. Frazier, secretary and treas- urer. For sophomore sponsors We had Miss Dorothy Dey, R. E. Buchanang Mrs. Marjorie Newberry and Mrs. Vir- ginia Renicker to hurdle us over the rough spots. Teachers come and teachers go from our classes with regularity. Miss Ruby Mider was replaced by Mrs. Vir- ginia Reinicker, and Miss Crawford's place was filled by Miss Bertha Bitness until Christmas, then Mrs. Marjorie Newberry came to stay. It isn't that we produce ill effects on our teachers, it just seems as if the positions are jinxed. Sorrow cast a gloom over us when in October one of our classmates, Jim- mv Graham. died. He was missed by all his classmates because he had al- ready won a place in manv hearts by his calm, yet cheerful manner. The final salute to our class: Oh, those foxy sophomores, they used to be so green, and now they are the wisest bunch that ever was seen.