Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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ffm S' LQQIH we LUB life at VV'yandotte started shortly after the building of the new school at Ninth street and Minnesota avenue in the late '90's. From then on until the burning of that building early last spring the clubs grew with great rapidity until nearly all students enrolled in the high school belonged to some organ' ization. This year, due to insufficient time, a number of clubs were dropped. The students' leisure time was spent in these congenial groups and here they found rest and enjoyment from their classroom routines. Rest is not quitting the busy career, Rest is the fitting of self to one's sphere. --Dwight, Students of the second year shorthand classes, known as the office appliance classes, form one of the largest clubs in the school with a membership of 90, united under the name of Tyronian, derived from the name of ,lulius Caesar's secretary, Tyron. To further interest in commercial subjects and to form closer relationships with the business world is the desire of the club. The Tyronians were too many for one picture. The HWY Club added dollars to the Scholarship Fund. The jamior Cubs were orgcmizecl into 41 class this year. Local business men and women spoke at meet- ings held by the club during the year. This year Imogene Sell served as president of the group. Ruby Sprague and Anahel Sutherland held the offices of vice presif dent, and secretaryftreasurer respectively. Members are required to serve as assistants in the school office, and to instructors. The club was first organized by Mr. james E. Boyd, former instructor of shorthand. Later it was reorganized by Miss Inez MacKinnon, and now is under the sponsorship of Miss Alta Haynes. Membership of the HifY was limited to six members this year, due to short periods and division of the student body. The club is under the sponsorship of Marion Divelbiss. Candy was sold by the members at all football and basketball games. Proceeds from the Junior college games and threeffourths of the prof ceeds from all other games were given to the Junior college scholarship fund. The following filled the off fices of the organization: Leslie Marvin, prcsidentg Dewey Malcolm, vice presidentg Bernard Aderholdt, secretaryg Alfred Hueben, treasurer, Robert Hamilton, 18 TYRONIAN CLUB TT TYRONIAN CLUB I-H-V , - CFNTRALJOIIIVAUSMCUB sergeantfatfarmsg and Williaiii Parsell, program chair- man. Need for news from the freshmen and sophomores of Wyaiidcitte resulted in the organization of the Pantof graph junior Cubs by L. D. Kruger. Due to the re' moval of Mr. Kruger to Northwest junior high the club was reorganized under the leadership of Miss Louise Timmer, with a membership of 15. The members of the club did much the same work as the reporters of the Pantograph. Their assignment consisted of the gathering of news and writing the necessary facts to be sent to the school paper. This The .QUIVERIAN

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the evening.. He was so angry he almost forgot to take his pills, but just before he retired and when he had just donned his night shirt, he thought of it and started out to do it. His nightshirt was very short and not a bit becoming, and so he was very careful to leave the rooms in darkness. After stubbing both toes and skin- ning a shin while looking for them the was determined not to ask Mrs. Giggins where they were-he found his pills on the mantle. Mumbling all the while about their l'-cing in such a place, he stumbled into the kitchen and swallowed the little spheres. Mr. and Mrs. Giggins, their anger abated somewhat during the night, were talking during breakfast the next morning. Those pills don't seem to do me good any more. I'll have to take more, ejaculated Mr. Giggins. Mrs. Giggins merely yawned and proceeded into their boudoir to take the curlers out of her hair. Jasper kissed Mrs. Giggins and left for work. Mrs. Giggins, like a dutiful wife, cleaned up the house, washed thc dishes, and dressed herself up also. In the afternoon after lunch, she collected materials necessary to string her broken beads and reached on the mantle for the box containing them. The box was gone, frantically she poked here and there until she found a box labeled Pape's Pink Pills. jasper had forgotten them or had taken her beads. What a thought! In a frenzy she waited for Mr. Giggins to return from work, pacing the floor and wringing her hands the while. Finally, she heard his step on the porch. She rushed to the door, threw it open and cried hysterically, Jasper Giggins! Do you know what you have done? Here she thrust the box of pills into his hands and finished. You have taken-swallowed my very best beads inf stead of your Pape's Pills and I'll never be able to get any more, here she stopped and smiled brightly, unless we go to Hawaii this year for our vacation. -Helen Wilson, '35 wvoamvovwvonmvm ginging 7-frfzouglm The Rain IT WAS a lovely spring morning in Hillsboro. Over the little city hovered a silent peace. It was the kind of morning the poets tell about when the heart responds gaily and gladly to the patron saint of youth -Love. That Barney Eilmann did not fit this mood was very evident. The flash of his brilliant green roadster didn't fit the quiet of the friendly little sreets, either. And the square set of Barney's jaw as he guided the 19341037 car recklessly through the town didn't seem to show any of the emotion that seemed logical for the season. Moreover, Barney was not the kind of young man who might escape the ravages of that emotion, and he wasn't the type who failed any opportunity to cause the female heart to palpitate wildly and with joyous abandon. That was the way it was when the crash came, the collision that sent Barney to the hospital and the other man to the undertaker. Barney was lucky, friends said, that it wasn't he who lay still in that black coffin. He had such a future ahead of him and was such a promising young man. Barney only set his teeth tighter and rebelled against the fate that had placed the other man in the peace of that tomb. But, as the time passed, Barney's wish threatened to be ful' filled. During the next few hours, he hovered be' tween life and death. Ironically enough, Barney remained fully conscious through it all. As he lay there, he reviewed the events that had caused that sullen and determined look in his soul that cried for freedom and went unansf wered. Through his pain he saw his life and saw that it had been lived in vain. There was nothing left in life and he cringed from death. So he lay, thinking, little caring where the tide might carry him. Yes, he had known what love was. He had thought she did, but he was wrong. Life was that way, and nothing could be done about it, he thought cynically. The birds sang outside his narrow window that over' looked the happy street with gay homes where happi- ness and life lived on. Life, a dilemma, with love its goal-but there he stopped. There was a feeling, somewhere, deep, deep, down in himself, that he was wrong, that there was more than love, that life might prove something else, might be a song in the rain. The curtains were slowly being drawn. Against the blackness of his thoughts loomed the glaring white of the doctor's coat. A murmur of voices, and then, came a soft, golden crown above a symphony of blue. She had worn blue that last morning-a heavenly blue. That had been the trouble. He sighed as his consciousness became distorted. Heaven and a God. She believed that it made life a song. And he be- lieved in love. In the whispered deathflike silence that followed, he heard a voice, like the beating of angels' wings. And he answered unto them, 'Through love, ye shall serve and have eternal life. As the words pierced the mist before him, the dark- ness passed and the eternal light shone there, never again to leave. Through Her belief, She had saved Barney. Death had come, but it held no sting. Earthly love had passed away, but the voice in the soul sang clearly through the rain. -Anonymous. I7

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gdwafzd mullens Qigatprozjp to 215.2 year and will be even more so next year as it will provide the Pantof graph with cubs that have been trained in the art of news writing. Those members presiding as officers were: Irvin Morgan, president, Arthur Grimes, vice presidentg and Irene Yarmek, secretary. The Wyandotte junior Pep club is new this year, giving to the school a second pep organizations organ' ized under the direction of Principal E. Wellemeyer, Vice Principal C. W. Harvey, and sponsor, Miss E. JUNIOR. PEP CLUB ' or.csA'rr. TRAns T 19344935 Maude Moles. Requirements for entrance into the club are somewhat the same as those for the Kay Cees. To be one of the first signed up, to be qualified with pass' ing grades, to cooperate, to attend all games and club meetings, and not be reprimanded for misbehavior, are the standards of the group. Even with these qualities limiting its membership it forms the largest single group in the school with about 169 members. At the games, members of the junior Pep club sat in the balcony directly behind the Kay Cees and added their hearty yells to the voices of that group. Each member was issued a button which he wore proudly. The purpose of the organization is, To hold the spirit of Wyandotte in its traditional union, although the student body is doing its scholastic work in two separate groups. Officers elected were: Betty Jo McConley, president: Frances Hammond, vice presidentg Lucille Jennings, secretaryg Betty Lou Waite, treasurerg and Lyle Wait, sergeantfatfarms. Resolved: L'That the federal government should adopt the policy of equalizing educational opportunity throughout the nation by means of annual grants to the several states for public, elementary, and secondary edu' cation, is the question debated by the high school def baters of the United States. Under the coaching of Miss Mirzanell Evans, and Mr. L. D. Kruger, who took Miss Evans' place after Christmas, a few members of W'yandotte's student body were able to join the var' ious tournaments and single debates to try to win new honors for their school. The debaters this year were: Eldon Smith, Jack Wzitkins, John Oakson, Gerald Bigger, Harriet Kruger, A peppy and large bunch is that junior Pep Club. The debaters went places this year. The HifGR. is the characterfbuilding group among the girls. Brewster Powers, William Pickell, Milton Worlow, Milton Deutch, Sylvia Walinow, and Samuel Qualls. Five of these were lettermen from last year. Some of the high schools whose teams Wyandcutte debated were: William Chrisman of Independence, Mo., Ward, Westport, Manual Training, Greeley w Chanute, Csawatomie, DeSoto, and Ft. Scott. Tourziaf ments attended were those held at Topeka, Osawatof mie, and the regional tournament held at Lawrence All members who had taken part in enough debates were awarded large W's on which the wor.l debate appears. L'Case s, small Yarn dolls of Crimson and Wl1fte, Y I Wyandotte's school colors, were made and sold to the student body by the HifGR, a charactcrfbuilding organ' ization for girls. The girls also made and sold cookies to the student body this year. At the first of the school year they conducted a book exchange for stud' ents who desired to buy or sell books. The Glrl Reserves are under the sponsorship of sevf eral instructors--Inez MacKinnon, Reva Lint, and 19