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

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SPEECH ARTS With l l7 fellow members to shout Hear, hear at the appropriate moment, the Speech Arts Club enioys ample opportunities to find and give the best in the realm of public speaking. Organ- ized in l933 to promote speech, debate, and dramatic activities, the Club has this year continued to present for '42 and you its entertaining and instructive pro- gram, including lectures on radio and Little Theater, moving pictures, and the ever fun producing amateur hour. A highlight of the second semester was the unusually successful production of The Hoosier Schoolmaster, di- rected by the club sponsor, Mrs. Mueller. A repeat performance was requested by the Indiana l-listorical Society. The debating season was curtailed by the national emergency since the topic for discussion concerned compulsory mili- tary training, for which Emperor Hirohito gave the decision to the affirmative. Don Cooley was the president of this year's Speech Arts Club. AHEA CLUB Any boy or girl enrolled in the Home Economics Department may become a member of the Ahea Club. Organized since l936, the club is affiliated with the lndiana State Home Eco- nomics Association and the American l-lome Economics Association, The purpose of the club is fourfold: to make the members more acquainted with vocational opportunities in the l-lome Economics field, to promote an interest in high school Home Economics, to aid in personality development, and to give each year a substantial material gift to the department. The club has been instrumental in purchasing a punch bowl, frequently used by all organizations, both lace and linen table-cloths, a beautiful painting Orchid of the Chrysanthemumsf' screen, andirons, and fire-set for the fireplace. The tea for mothers in April, given in the charming living-dining room where club meetings are held, climaxed a year of interesting programs and social events. Mary Kepner and Frances George were this year's successive presidents, and Mrs. Hamlin was the sponsor.

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LEADERSHIP SCARLETTE CLU B Who was it who sat in front of you at football games and screamed so loudly that your ears complained? Who was it who kept hounding you to buy ice cream just as Robbins was getting ready to make the shot that would tie up a game? Who was it who appeared at a tea dance leading by a rope a pledge dressed in a flour sack? Remember now? A Scarlette, of course. The Scarlettes, organized since i929 as a booster club for athletics, has a membership of junior and senior girls who meet certain require- ments scholastically and who enthusiastically prove their willingness to support the school's athletic contests. The Scarlettes had suppers before games to encourage attendance, and at the end of the year honored the basketball boys with a banquet. The club also planned pep sessions including the never-to-be-forgotten one featuring the Coronation of Frank LeBart as athletic queen with his manly attend- ants bedecked with ribbons and lipstick. Madelyn Gabler was this year's president and Miss Sinks, the sponsor. GIRLS' CLUB In order to lessen activities for girls and to dispense with dupli- cation of program, the class of '42 and you voted to merge the Sun- shine Society and the Tri-Y Club under the name of Girls' Club with Marian Donham as presi- dent. Betty Freeland, elected pres- ident of the Tri-Y, became treas- urer of the new club, and Clarabel Bozworth, elected to head the Sunshine Society, acted as social chairman. Miss Sinks and Miss Coulter, sponsors of the respective clubs, became co-sponsors of the new organization. Making a new constitution, deciding upon a pur- pose, and formulating a code of ideals comprised the work of many committees. Endeavoring to give opportunity for active club participation to every girl in school, the club sponsored pro- grams based on the defense theme, took an active part in service and community welfare work, and planned social activ- ities, climaxed by the meeting honoring mothers and senior girls late in April,

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DO-RA-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO GLEE CLUB AND MIXED CHORUS lf you will analyze the sounds that fill the building every fourth hour, you will find that on three days a week there is a different quality to the uproar. lf you trace this new sound to its source, you will find yourself just outside the Science Lecture Room. Peeking in, you will not see Mr. Smith at all, but you will find Miss Roth standing before a group of 30 or 40 students. lf it is Tuesday or Wednesday, you will be observing the Girls' Glee Club, if it is Thursday, it will be Mixed Chorus. Last year the Glee Club and Mixed Chorus became the proud possessors of dark red robes, which they wear on pub- lic occasions. The effect is very impressive, giving everyone a sweetly solemn air. ln the year l94l-l942 the Glee Club and Chorus have done a number of things, Members of the Chorus went to Indianap- olis in the fall to sing with the State Chorus. The Glee Club has sung several times in and around the school, for P, T, A. meetings, for a DA. R. tea, for convocations. On May lst an operetta-cantata- Pan on a Summer Day -was present- ed, the proceeds going toward a fund for a larger musical li- brary, A festival at Lebanon was scheduled for May, and Commencement would not be complete without the final ap- pearance of these singers.