Winfield High School - Lagondan Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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in aces ll I ' 4 ee' r gr r 5 . aL..4e,1. Jog G'v'ifL!l 10 .UAA Q o1'j,,- fl! 'fi if ' T 1 ' 5 4 'L.e,,q, ,V ' r.-iq, , -. iii! f 1, I ...,t, vjtjwi tg., W., ,Q 'fiiii LAGOMB AN - Wi HELD iiifrii SCHOOL - Wi fittii KANSAS X FST i , fi I JQIAA QJQ-4 ,a.Mf-...A A He's a friend of ours that we have known agiimpse of the past in the junior ciass piay Nile- 'S since he was a baby and he's starting to high member the Day, and how Seventeen de- G gl Q' I schooi this year. We teii him his high schooi days iighted everyone? The senior piay, Abie's if 1- ,gf gal' are the happiest days of his iife. This starts us Trish Rose, made a hit with both the oidsters to thinking of our neariy forgotten schooi days, and the kids as they watched the Jews and the ,WM of the year of 1937-38, when we graduated from irish quarrei. Yes, it was thriiiing both to take Winfieid high schooi. Tt seems that we did so part in the piays or to sit hack and watch a many things that year. The ghosts of that mem- friend strut his stuff. ' orabie year start a parade through our minds, The Giri Reserve and Hi-Y organizations 4 siowiy at first for they are a bit rusty, but then were active again that year. The junior high faster untii it seems oniy yesterday we cheered Giri Reserves entertained their Dads at a our teams to victory, performed with the pep Haiioween banquet and the senior high giris feted ciubs, studied some, but piay ed more. 4 their mothers at a banquet carrying out the St. One of the most distinct of our memories is Patrick's Day theme. These seemed festivai oc- X the battie of the societies for supremacy. it was casions which we reserved for entertaining our j aii in fun and whether our society won or iost, it parents. l was stiii to us the very best one. The Die Beste Can we forget how with the coming of spring 1 society made this an unforgettabie year when came aii the music and forensic contests, the they made their phenomenai rise from the bottom track meets and the tennis tournaments and how 1 to second piace, giving the Aiphas, for the first busy we were with aiways something to do! time in years, a run for their money. With May came the junior banquet with the One of the high-iights of our high schooi iife theme a jaiihouse and the senior banquet repre- was the basketbaii season. Our giris pep ciubs, senting a miniature Madis Gras. Our Parade two that year, both junior and senior high, were becomes vivid with the memories of the decora- effective in their rhythmicai ciapping and cheer- tions, music, pretty dresses and tonsts. Now, aii ing. Remember the thriii we aii got when we too soon, comes Baccaiaureate and Commence- sprung to our feet and sang as our band piay- ment. Of course we wouidn't admit it then, hut ed, Prima Mater, and our Viking boys came we distinctiy remember swaiiowing a iump in out on the fioor suited up for the fray! The our throats as we waiked up the aisie and received high-iight for the ArkVaiiey season came when our dipiomas. Then the iast memory of our high Winfieid, at the bottom of the ieague, upset aii schooi iife fiashes across our minds-eye in the precedentby defeating Newton, the top notcher, form of the finai assemhiy where we see our on their court. That was the game in which we ciassmates receive their medais and honors for first fiashed our towering 6 feet 'I inch center, the iast time. 1 A , ,, ,, and our 'Lone defense which from then on seidom Yes, the ghosts of our high schooi days couid K.ff'f - LQ., 'A 5 ' - , I faiied to baffie the opposing teams. We took go on and on, for in our reminiscing every iittie - the Regionai meet that year and captured third happiness comes back to us,and we feei we are 2 piace in the state. once again in dear oid W. H. S. among our ciass- Yflifg 22 A3 Remember when we wouid wait for the fiick- mates and teachers whom we iove. Perhaps our ' -tg ' fi, er of the iights as a sign to the 'Littie Theater schooi days weren't the very happiest days of our , is ':', 'z 5V'f orchestra that the piay was ready to begin? How iife, but they were indeed among the happiest, ' ' I 1 we thriiied at the Phiio mystery Murder in the and now we have them iocked up safe in our N5 Library, iaughed at the Die Beste comedy HEX- memory where we can recaii them in the future It J E press Yourseifj' and aiternateiy biinked tears when we piay hookey from reaiity and go back Nj back and burst into iaughter as the Aiphas pre- in the past where we are once again just Schooi Q, sented The Goose Hangs High? How we got Kids. X U N f , T he Lagondcm Staff for 1938 j p Editor-in-chief .. ..................... .... . .- Leah Highfiil f , Business Manager ..,. ................. Clark Compton ' X Senior editor, Marjorie Baxter, junior editor, Rogena Marts, sophomore editor, Maxine Foster, facnity editor, Aiford Demieviiieg photographers, Carman Eiiingerg sports editor. Tom Backus, assist- ant sports editor, Oiin Tuckerg society editor, Ciio Shiriey, forensic editor, Zoe Sturm, reiigious organi- 5 zation editors, Maxine Foster, Wiifred Miiierg ciub editor, Dorothy Bowibyg junior high editor, Heien 5 Bergevinp Cecii E. Casburn, adviser. i w r J