Wellington High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Wellington, KS)

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3 . ' X71 Our First Championship Team oft? February : Mr. Chandler came from. K.U. to introduce the seniors to college life. It really looks like work for the college-bound. Uncle Sam calls for a number of juniors and seniors to make the usual trip to Ft. Leavenworth for essential business. Band and orchestra give joint concert Sunday afternoon Large crowd turns out to hear Dr. Carnes and his experiences in Yucatan with the Malayan civili- zation. Miss Foster's girls sports club make a good record bowling. Junior high dramatic club gives a play, The Style Show. We learn that W.H.S. football is fifty years oldg the first game was play- Christmas Day in 1894. M3,FCh I Seniors began the work on their play, this work was fun and they did a good job. Welling- ton Won the Ark Valley Championship, good work! Students went to hear Alec Templeton as part of their music appreciation, Wellington bogged down at the semi-finals in Hutchinson-game of the season. A.A.U.W. began series of lectures on vo- cation and preparations. Pepsi Cola is furthering education by giving six students scholarship tests. We learn to be G. Men from 'Sam Garthwell in Lyceum. Staff has 720 Megaphones paid for and all copy into the printer. April : Spring fever set in on W.H.S., although the tea- chers insist we have had it all year. The big event of the month was the Prom when the jun- iors iwere hosts and hostesses to the seniors. All the musicians went to Wichita to the music contest: it seemed it was quite a strain, at least they were glad to come back to school to rest. The annual Basketball Bounce was held and allseemed to enjoy it. The track team won second place in the Anthony Relays, and thaifs news for Wellington. May: May found the seniors busy with more to do than the time permitted. They had an exciting sneak day and their annual senior assembly was presented among proverbial tears and fareWe11S. Then came the annual Baccalaureate and Oom- mencement. And after the f'goodbyes to W. H.S. and along with the helices to'-summer and to vacation. Af W a at - E E- af- Z L- Q A-I -K 'G-le 05- 1 7. p NN ear., . g '-3 W? 4 . I-V153 rf

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V 5 I v v V Y l 4 I 'l I E Lm Great Moments in Crusader Land X w -ai w QL ' U W ix Q jj tr jf' 4? ro ' IEE H 2 :'7f9 W I LVL. , W 'N September: Welcome 63 new students from six states. School gets underway as campaigning for offices starts. A Cappella has an all time high of fifty members. Looks like a good year for football with forty members on the scrub team, and twenty-two regulars. Four boys chosen to help the janitors keep the building clean. Physically unfit are 33 senior boys after the first day of class, judging from their complaints about sore muscles. October : The dispute between the Rambler groups ends with 'The Kitty Speaks losing out to Off the Beam. Whatever, it may be called, it seems to be what the readers fill the Rambler box with every week. Rotary club adds new books to their shelf in the library. Junior high organizes clubs to meet each Tuesday. Most popular are sports for girls and the dramatic group. 'I'he annual ques- tion of Have you a tooth brush? come with dental inspection each fall-and we have our own too. November : North High visitors tear up the town after winning from the Crusaders which gives the tea- chers a good chance to tell us how to act as out of town guests. Junior Red Cross membership is high with ten rooms making a hundred percent. We sent five teams to Enid to the debate tourney where they competed successfully until the semi- finals. Girl Reserves entertain the Hi-Y boys at an overall and apron party. Football boys Put on the Thanksgiving pep assembly in Hollywood fashion. December: The school helped to buy the B-29 with the city, they did it too. Football season ended with a victory over Ark City, and queen Jo Adair. Could be she inspired the team. Juniors had a party. It created a few problems with the steadies but they are all solved now. Basketball season opened with a ready team which met Blackwell as their first opponents. The music department broadcast from the Memorial Auditorilun, it seemed to put every- one in the Christmas spirit. January: Newton was a sad spot in the state when practically the whole town of Wellington was on hand to see the Crusaders crushed in what Droved to be their only defeat in the Valley. North wins the debate- tourney in our school. Over 780 names on W.H.S. honor roll as it is brought up to date. ElDorado as well as Wellington enjoyed the fun at The Ball. Macbeth came with dripping dag- gers when Jack Rank presented it in a lyceum. Juniors started a search in,everyone's attic for c0S- tumes for their play. ui ,O wif VXI!!! fu ' X . Q i I I , s E X - l rg -- M ir My as ' I lufjf? X Q5 DMT-h Ha.x:.v73 5

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, ,.., , .W WW, T., A ,,..., .. .- g ,we W7 .-s ,W .F-Y N r V, ..,,,.m Q., .,v,fe,.2,v,,V. , K x f. Q: i N .i -ty . XL. , X ' xi 4.,:'i Y I - fi Lf , ' 'xx-X ' . JV' i . r You Won't Do Any Business if You Havent Got A Bandg Our marching band, clad in colorful uniforms, spent many hours last fall parading up and down the football field as they prepared their half time entertainment for spectators at the football games. As this seventy piece group under the direction of Fiske Mountain marched on the field under the flood lights we can truly say that the large crowds were thrilled both by their maneuvers and stirring music. Fourth hour practices during the week made possible the formations that the group made: the moving diamond, the shoelace, the serpentine, the weaving countermarch, the revolving concentric circles, as well as block letters of the visiting teams. For the Thanksgiving day game, the band saluted all branches of the armed forces, march- ing on to the field in they played the Army an airplane formation as Air Corps march, chang- tliey played the Caisson Song, regrouping into an N as they played t'An- chors Aweighj' an IM for the Marines Hymn, and last a V as they played the Star Spangled Banner. The marching band also contributed ing to a block A as much to the political as well as the war effort by playing stirring patriotic songs and marches for the B-29 celebration and for Governor Bricker. The concert band made its first appearance on Sunday afternoon, February 25, in a joint con- cert with the orchestra. Two of their well-liked numbers were the New Moon overture by Rom- berg and Semper Fidelisf' During the basketball season, the pep band of twenty-five members selected from the group pro- vided much toward the pep and the color of the games. In preparation for the first band replacements next year, Mr. Mountain has a second band of 20 pieces which includes grade school as Well as jun- ior high students. As their lasit major activity this year the band, ensembles, and soloists attended the district fes- tival in Wichita April 6-7. i i M M. . i