GHS Journalism Students Shine
"Late Flashes
Annual Queen Coronation
Pauline Stratton, a senior, was crowned queen of the l95O Blue and White Annual May lOth in the high school auditorium. Her attendants were Kathryn Owens, junior, Delores Bynum, sophomore, and Joy Lewman, freshman. These were the other classes' candidates for queen. Pauline and her attendants were escorted by members of their own classes. Their escorts were as follows: Harold Cure, senior, Marion Murray, junior, Mervin Crook, sophomore, and Larry Patterson, freshman. The senior class presented the queen with an arm bouquet of beautiful white mums with a silver ribbon. The attendants had identical corsages of red and white roses presented by their respective classes. They were also presented with gifts from the annual staff, who were in charge of the Coronation ceremonies. Donald Carriger, editor of the annual staff, crowned the queen and presented the gifts. The crown bearer was Claudie Evans and the flower girls were Dorothy Hopkins and Joyce Mallatt. The ushers were as follows: Lola Bullard, Norma Jenkins, Beverly Ledbetter and Lajunta Jackson.
Student Council
The Student Council held a primary election under the new constitution this spring for the first time in the history of the school to elect officers for the following year. As there were several candidates for each office, a final election was to take place later. Ronald Rice was elected to the office of vice-president as there were only two nominees for the position. Election returns left the following candidates for various offices: president--Cary Patterson, Vic Tackett, secretary-Patricia Hilton, Norma Jenkins, and treasurer-Larry Patterson, Joe Dugan.
Band
The climaxing activity for the high school band for this year took place when members made the trip to Kansas City, Missouri Friday, May 5, accompanied by instructor Vernon L. Wade. Upon arriving at Kansas City the group had lunch at Swope Park. Other points of interest throughout the day were the Nelson Art Gallery and the Municipal airport. Teachers Mr. Dee Holmes and Mrs. Jane Williamson, sci- ence and physical education instructors respectively, have announced that they will not teach here next year. Mr. Holmes has accepted a position in the Columbus school system and Mrs. Williamson plans to return to her home in Texas.
Journalism Class
The Galena High School "Scribbler" tied for first place with the Joplin High School "Spyglass" in the sweepstake honors in the first annual Tri-State High School Press association clinic sponsored by the Northeastern Oklahoma A&M college journalism department April 2l. The Scribbler was rated meri- torious at the Tulsa University clinic and Mary Campbell received an honorable mention for her fea- ture article, being one of six chosen from 105 entries. At the Kansas University press clinic, Lewis Rice's editorial was one of six chosen out of 80 entries and was given an honorable mention. This year, the Scribbler received its highest awards. Gold Seal certificates were awarded to each winning school and also to the individual winners. The Galena individual winners were judged from l24 entries. They follow: Lewis Rice, superior in sports story, superior in news story, superior in editorial and good in headline writing, Mary Campbell, superior in news article, excellent in human interest story and good in suspended interest story: Kathryn Owens, superior in column, and Vic Tackett, excellent in biographic sketches. Thirteen members of the journalism class wrote all the school news for the Scribbler. ln addition, the reporters had stories published in the Joplin Globe, Joplin News Herald, Parsons Sun and Coffeyville Journal. Donald Carriger was editor the first semester, Lewis Rice was editor the second semester and Mary Campbell was assistant editor. Four newspapers, the Parsons Sun, Coffeyville Journal, Pittsburg Headlight and The New York Times, were subscribed to by the class. A three deck tray was purchased for the reporters to put stories in to be copyread. A Neosho Valley League journalism workshop was held at Galena December 15. Sixty-two journalists and annual workers attended from four of the seven schools in the league. To make money the class sold subscriptions to The Galena Sentinel-Times, and covered the NVL basketball tournament at Baxter Springs for the Joplin Globe."
The 1950 Blue and White Yearbook (Galena, Kan.)