West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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SPONSORS MANY AFFAIRS DURING YEAR In November, at the close of the football season, the society sponsored a football banquet honoring the undefeated team and coach. It was held in the Purdue Union Building. The theme of the banquet was The Victory Parade . Mal Elward, the head football coach at Pur- due, was the main speaker. In December the Sunshine and Tri-Y clubs had a joint meeting. The Christmas play, Love Comes Knocking , was presented and Christmas carols were sung. After this program a social hour which was climaxed by a visit from Santa Claus was enjoyed. Committees Carry on Work The work of the society is car- ried on mainly by committees into which the club is divided. The candy sales at school and at football games is the duty of the Candy Committee. The Sun- shine Room Committee keeps the Sunshine Room in order and provides a girl to take charge each period. The Look-out-in- School Committee sends cards and flowers to the sick. The Look-out-in-Community Com- mittee joins with the Hi-Y and Tri-Y to see that baskets of food are given to those less fortunate than ourselves at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Eats Com- mittee, Program Committee, and Finance Committee do just what their titles suggest. The Better Sunshine Committee is in charge of writing invitations and ar- rangements for meetings. This year the Sunshine Socie- ty carried out its usual custom of giving something to the school by buying bike racks . At the last of March was held the chief money-making scheme of the year, an entertainment in the auditorium and a penny carnival in the gymnasium. COUITER AND McMAHON ADVISORS Much credit is due Miss Coul- ter and Miss McMahon, and also those other faculty advisers for their assistance during the year. They have given their time and effort to help make the year a successful one, and have suc- ceeded in doing so. The success of any organiza- tion depends almost entirely upon its officers. The Sunshine Society this year had a group of executives who deserve high praise for the capable manner in which they handled the re- sponsibilities of their offices. Jean Ainsworth climaxed four active years of Sunshine work by serving this year as president. Polly Prentice, the other Senior among the officers, filled the ex- acting position of treasurer. Un- derclassmen Marselda Jacobs, vice-president, Frances Mellon, recording secretary, and Anne Newton, corresponding secre- tary, completed the staff. S. S. S. BENEFITS WEST SIDE GIRLS The Sunshine Society was founded in 1900 at Crawfords- ville, Indiana, as a Sunday School class. The West Lafay- ette society was organized in 1919 and it is a member of this state-wide organization. The purpose of the Sunshine Society is to spread cheer and helpfulness through the school and community. The creed best shows the object of the society: With love in my heart, forget- ting self and with charity for all, I will make the object of my life helpfulness and kindness to oth- ers. I shall try to fit myself to give intelligent service in mak- ing my community a safer and more beautiful place in which to live. Thus will my own life be- come rich and completef' FRESHMAN INIIIATES STRENOTHEN BODY This year the society was greatly strengthened by a large group of freshmen who were init- iated in September and Febru- ary. After both initiation serv- ices, a get-together party was held during which dancing and refreshments were enjoyed. The state theme this year is Vocations and Avocationsf' The local society also tried to carry out this theme in their meetings. Speakers who are well versed in their vocations told the club the advantages and disadvantages of their fields of work. The district convention in the fall was held at Jefferson High School in Lafayette. The West Lafayette organization aided Jefferson by leading the songs in the opening session. It was a very successful convention. PAGE TWENTY-FIVE

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SUNSHINE SOCIETY Le!! to right, Row One: LeGalley, Schweidler, Bollman, Lupton, Walk- er, Epple, Hutzler, McKee, Briggs, Gosma, Ward. Row Two: Adams, English, Pervine, Walz, julin, Burkhart, Humphreys, Fantone, Topping, Miller, Orman, Barnes. Row Three: Brady, Wieringa, Brown, Allen, Burnham, Wilson, George, Amstutz, Yeager, Gabler, Kashner, Wray, Morrison, Verl-loeven. Row Four.' jordan, Guirl, Baker, Lar- sen, Steele, Lloyd, Sense, DeYoung, Sanders, Slopsema, Moore, Baker, Mahns, Jensen. Row Five: Slocum, Duncan, Wood, Britt, Young, Girvin, Remmers, Gain, Hackson, Ross, Acheson, Brownell, , Lewis, Zapp, Ulrey. Row Six: Bennett, Wayne, Boyd, Ves- tal, Canfield, Wood, Wiley, Picker- ing, Gannon, Craig, Doddridge, Lommel, Fox, Creson. Left to right, Row One: Bosworth, Kepner, Wray, Blalock, Mellon, ja- cobs, Ainsworth, Newton, Prentice, Ford, Jamison, Chaffee, Mayer. Row Two: McMahon, Trimble, Doyle, King, Schaupp, Brown, Hass, Mor- rison, Carr, Murphy, Baker, Hughes Darling, Coulter. Row Three: Reynolds, Ludwig, Crom- er, Zumstein, Coling, Winters, Dill Ostrander, Riley, Graves, Boes Pershing, Frier, Holden, Keim, Wal- lace, Fagala. Row Four: Rubenkonig, Britt, Wray Wilson, Kohl, Fites, Elward, Sparks Zeigler, Kepner, Rifenburgh, Click, McKenzie, Capps, Ulrey. Row Five: Thompson, Fauber, Baynes Heckard, Reed, Burkholder, Lloyd Doddridge, Shoemaker, Dray Hughes, Clevenger, Baynes, Sanford PAGE TVYENTY-FOUR 1 1

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I939 HI-Y CLUBS OF JUNIOR HI-Y EINISHES NINTH YEAR Organized for the purpose of creating, maintaining, and ex- tending throughout the school and community high standards of Christian character, the Jun- ior division of the Hi-Y club, composed of members of the sec- end half freshmen and entire sophomore classes, has carried its triangular emblem about the school since the second semester of the 1933-34 school year. Since that time the club has expanded greatly and now has twenty-nine members with the membership to be raised by the second semes- ter's call for new members. EORIY MEMBERS ENTER HI-Y The West Lafayette Senior Hi-Y Club was started in our school in the year 1926 and is made up of the boys from the Junior and Senior classes. The club has a meeting every Wednesday. The purpose of the club is to create, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community, high standards of Christian character. On October 3rd, forty new members were voted into the club and on November lst they were formally initiated. The club had many interest- ing speakers during the year. Among them were: Mr. Wheel- er, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., Professor Frank Hall of Purdue University, Mr. Clarence Dam- mon of Purdue University, Mr. Ellis Hopkins, teacher at Morton School and W. L. H. S. Debate Adviser, Jack Walters, head of the Personnel Department at Purdue University, and Eloise Guirl, student who gave a talk on her Lake Geneva trip. PAGE 'I'Wl'2N'l'Y- SIX WOIFORD, SHRINER lEAD .IUNIOR HI-Y At the end of each school year officers for the coming year are elected. The officers as elected for the first semester of this year are as follows: President .....,....,.......,. Charles Wolford Vice President .......,,...,.,,.., Lester Hiler Treasurer .....,... ...... , ..... H arry Darllng Secretary ..,,...... .. ...,.,.. George Stafford Sergeant at Arms ,,,,......,..... Dale Miller During the last meeting of the initial semester officers for the coming semester were elected. They are as follows: President ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..,, Tom Shriner Vice President ,,,,, ,,........ D orsey Mahin Treasurer ,..,,..,.,,. ...,......... W ible Hiner Secretary ...... ,.r,...... B ruce Comingore Sergeant at Arms Bob Geiger, Charles Kashner HI-Y REPRESENTED AT NATIONAL CONGRESS Some of the activities of the club are: welfare work, sponsor- ing high school plays and ban- quets, conducting paper drives and bean feeds . The club was represented by George Hoffer at the National Hi-Y Congress which was held at Berea, Ken- tucky, in June, 1938. Since the origin of the Hi-Y Club in the West Side High School, the pres- idents of the Club have been: 1926, Ross Clark, 1927, Donald Bartlett, 1928, Oliver Edward, 1929, John Alexander, 1930, Truxton Ryan, 1931, Herman Adams, 1932, Samuel Lehman, 1933, Charles Reiley, 1934, Howard Knaus, 1935, Lynn Robertson, 1936, Ralph Reiley, 1937, George Moore, 1938, Har- old Martin, 1939, George Hoffer. NEW SPONSOR EOR CLUB Due to unfortunate circum- stances Mr. Tucker, who has sponsored the club since its orig- ination, was unable to attend the meetings this year and thus for- feited his sponsor's duties to Mr. Dailey and Mr. Replogle. Last year the meetings of this organi- zation were held every other Wednesday at seven o'clock in the evening, but this year, due to the change of schedule and due to having a special activity pe- riod for such activities, the meet- ing date was changed to that pe- riod on Wednesdays. The various program commit- tees provided the club with many interesting meetings dur- ing the school year. Among the social activities of the club is the annual party which is in charge of a committee appointed by the president. The party was held on April 29. SENIOR HI-Y MAKES AWARD The club has attended several churches on Sunday morning during the semester. Those serv- ing on committees were: Pro- gram chairman, John Sexson, Eats, James Oswalt, Entertain- ment, Warren Gabler, Church, Allan Elward, Publicity, Harold Shively. At the end of the year the Hi- Y awarded a medal to the senior boy who was judged to be the outstanding one in attitude, sportsmanship, and activities. The officers for the year were: Sponsors, Mr. Hammer, Mr. Dean, President, George Hoffer, Vice - President, john Sexton, S e c r e t a r y, Warren Gabler, Treasurer, Donald Heine, Ser- geant-at-Arms, Edgar Ainslie.