West Goshen Elementary School - West Go Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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I . . O . C O O , - . O N I Ai I . O - 1 vi -v-1 . ' ' ll O C 1 . O . I Leader is Mrs. Marice van Trump. . . W -- O ' n -, O . , I . . ' o o I O O 0 O . , 1,'J W if ,,x' fa, BOY SCOUTb Our Boy Scout Troop 310 was sponsored by the Parent Teachers Association in October 1942 We organlzed in November of the same year with eleven boys and John Flagg as Scout Master Th origlnal Scout Committee consisted of mlmer McCarde1l, Hansel Neff, C Eugene Walton, John Cann, Edgar Haldeman, and John T Bennett This original committee functioned until John Flagg's resignation was accepted in September 1945 Willard Yeakel assum ed the duties of Scout Master replaclng John Flagg in October 1945 His leadership, no doubt, has lncreased our troop to a total of twenty four boys at the present tlme In the course of the last two years our meeting quarters have been rather confining and con sequently it was necessary for the Troop Committee now conslsting of C Eugene Walton, John Cann, Charles Jones, Stanley Landis, William Grifflth, William McDonald, and John T Bennett, to make other arrangements In March of 1945 Mr Harry Taylor was approach ed for a small piece of ground on which to build a Boy Scout cabln He generously donated twelve acres on the Concord Road which was greatly appreciated by the boys and the Troop Committee Our in tentions at the present time are to secure funds and build this cabin whlch we hope to have completed by July 4th, 1945 GIRL SCOUTS Troop f56 is a new troop of glrls recently organized under a new and able leader Mrs James hllis A Girl Scout is truthful, loyal, helpful, fr1endly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrlfty, and clean Troop il3's objective for this year has been to be of ser vice to the Communlty and especially aid ln the Jar mffort Their goal is nBetter Citlzens 1D Our Community They have made contributions to our hospitals, the war chest, and similar agencies Proficlency badges were earned for Home Nursing, First Aid, Bird Flnder, and Conscientious Attendance The Troop Leader 1S Mrs Eleanor Jones, and her Assistant Our nBrown1esW are a cheerful group of glrls, age seven ten, who hope to some day become good and useful Girl Scouts Thelr motto is nHelp Other People They have been contrib uting to the Communlty Jar and Charity Funds and have earned enough credits to recelve flve Campership payments of 35 OO each The Leader is Mrs Gerd M Koch, and her Assistant is Mrs George T Martin Y 'txgrgpggfvp-f4qff V- L M., ,rf .3. .JA ,,1f ',L' , r Q' 3 nn. q, Fgqqaw X I 1, ,!- Q , -, . A .I E:-ig-?l,,.,,::14'1?,,x i X 1 ig Y Q 1 ,yr f,i 4 54V ip '1 O 0 F Q S ' T1 o o o , ... o . YV n X 1

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,. V,-.y..... N : Q X, HI-Y-CLUB This international organization, having a triangle as its emblem of service develops boys mentally, spiritually and physically. The Hi-Y successfully terminated another year with George Crossley serving as president, Conrad Letter, vice president, Eugene Harvey, secretary, and Richard Gentile, treas- urer. The Hi-Y was composed of members of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The Club meets on the second Friday of each month. At the meetings numerous talks on conduct, manners and other topics were presented by Mr. Hengst, the Y.M.C.A. Field Director and outside speakers. The platform of the club is built on WClean Living, Clean Speech, Clean Athletics and Clean Scholarshipn. The club was very active having collected victrola records, books and old toothbrushes for the boys in the service. Basket ball and baseball games were played with other Hi-Y clubs of surrounding schools. As a final activity the boys were hosts to the Tri-Hi-Y and the faculty at a party. TRI-HI-Y The Tri-Hi-Y under their Faculty Advisor, Mrs. Edith B Ferrer had a very active year. Their officers for the term were president, Ethel Cox, vice-president, Lenore Jones: sec retary, Jane Myers, and treasurer, Patty Winters. Meetings were held twice a month during which time we tations. During the social part of our meetings we played bingo and other games and on one occasion enjoyed movies with the Hi-Y in a joint meeting. We donated 62.00 to the American Red Cross, made scrap books for convalescent soldiers and knit squares for blankets for the Red Cross. In February we had a dance acting as hostesses to the Hi Y-Club. Everyone had a most enjoyable time. We are hoping for more affairs similar to this in the future. Mrs. Ferrer has organized three baseball teams and at pre sent we are running an elimination series. conducted interesting discussions of youth problems and temp-