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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1935
Page
13
Amarillo High School announced a full semester honor roll listing 150 students with 25 straight A and 125 A and B recipients. The third six weeks honor roll includes 33 straight A students and 80 A and B students, with numerous named students across both lists.
Tonight at 7 30 the Philomathian and Forum chapters of Amarillo High School’s Forensic Society debate over public power ownership for the Lions Club trophy. Judges are Lumpkin Phillips Ordway with Arney as chairman.
Students participate in a roller skating party at McKinley School this afternoon. The Hostess Club hosted a covered dish supper at Mrs. Elizabeth Fly’s home last Friday. Joe Davis joins Amarillo High after leaving Masonic Home to play football. Helen and Elmer Immel were absent due to their grandmother’s death. Senior Hi-V plans to attend the Older Boys Conference in Lubbock March 22-24. Second-hand books are bought and sold by oral students for small profits. R O T C held its first battalion drill of the semester under Major Stevens. Jane McDavid substitutes for a biology teacher as White studies for his bar exam in Austin. Choral classes practice directing songs. Room 100 echoes with laughter from pupils. A radiator problem disrupts Study Hall 306 since mid-term exams. Names listed include Whittington, Margaret Willis, Thelma Wilson, Winona Wise, Lorene A. Woods. Burlesques are planned in Mrs
New linens bought for the dining room from the home economics fund. Third year clothing girls will hem the napkins. About 45 to 50 sophomore and junior high boys reported for spring football drills. A Miss Cecil economics class question yields a yearly average income of 4000 dollars. About 50 students excused for making the semester honor roll. A poem about grades ends with reflections on a D versus a B by Charles Lawrence.
The graduating class of 1935 will hold a senior spring informal from evening until midnight in the Amarillo High School gym. Admission 24 cents per couple, 60 cents for a stay. one partner must be a senior. Guests from three junior high schools, Amarillo College, and Senior High undergrads may attend. A trade dance requires partners to change after each dance with music by Carlton Scales and his orchestra.
In the second semester Amarillo High School enrolled fifty-eight new students from out of town local junior high schools and reentering students. The list includes Ava Ray Greaves Rex L Rook Arnold Pfeiffer Melton Pfeiffer Charles Robert Hoyle Rena Allred Thelma Meridith Ralph Dewey White Max Townsend Joe Davis Rodney Carrington. Also added are transfers from local schools including Alan Eller Joe Miller Iris Dean Sanders John Ellis Giel Mary Davidson Helen Howard Guy Alden Glover Lillian Lynn Harold Ricketts Matilda Grethlein and others. Re-entering students include Agnew Adams Marion Williford Green Brown Lois Mahogan Robert Manzer Wesley Anderson Grover Taylor Ed Parcells Cathren Terrell W E Smith Jack Bell R C West Garwood Branch Douglas Graham R L Pendergraft Neal Jones Claude Bailey Billie McCoy B L McMurtry Mary Lee Speros Gioldosts Dolly Seay and George Pearl.
The list includes Potts, Jack Jones, Ross Martin, James Cotten, Clemma J. Rarelson, Alice Fay Gathing, Oneda Cromer, Loraine Dudley, Charline Van Fleet, Charles Sinclaire, Rewer Hudson, Yvonne Saunters, Waymon Bush and Robert Timms as mentioned in the historical notice or article fragment.
Amarillo High School announced eleven students completed graduation requirements at the end of the last semester. Named are J. B. Alexander Milton Bailey Bob Epperson Charles Hart Bill Livingston Dulin McGough Leroy Rickman Loyd Willis Melvin Worley Juanita Hallmark and John Wiley. They will receive diplomas at the regular spring commencement for the class of 1935.
The senior play Pegs My Heart by J Hartley Manners is rehearsed daily in the high school auditorium. Cast selection followed auditions and a judges committee with Mozelle Hall as Peg and Anne Lee Ethel as Mrs Chichester.
The Amarillo Senior High School Band under Oscar Wise prepares for the Amarillo festival March 21 to 23. Contest numbers include Southern Rhapsody by Hosmer, Phedre by Massanet, and His Honor March by Fillmore.
Cast members of The Gypsy Troubadour presented by Central Junior High School were invited to a Gypsy tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace Griggs at 2616 Ong Street after Friday evening’s performance in the Senior High School auditorium. Guests enjoyed games and refreshments.
Mrs. Nettie Smith of Washington says Kruschen Salts helped her shed 12 pounds in a week after starting a daily half teaspoon dose stirred in hot water. The ad touts safe fat loss, a lemon juice flavoring, physician backing, and a money back guarantee with a four week jar at Post Office Drug Co.
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