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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1953
Page
6
A citizen warns Bell Tower at Comanche old monument site is unsafe as cement fractures expose rotted beams. The bell recalls early school days started by Masons, with Ida Hart as first teacher and W F Rogers and B W Speed as former superintendents who died in service.
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Williams and children Van and Susan of San Angelo visited his mother Mrs. Cc. F. Williams here over the weekend.
Miss Dunn hosted a theater party for the senior library club on Wednesday night at the local theater. The group watched Small Town Girl featuring Jane Powell and Farley Granger, with senior members listed as Alice Steele, Diane Mcglothlin, Cynthia Keeler, Joan Carpenter, Bessie Johnson, Pat Baxter, Sue Barret, Janis Gresham, Joyce Helmsley, Betty Boatner, Kaylene Pettit, Peggy Levisay, and Sue Keating.
Stanley Robertson an airman stationed at Lowery Field Colorado is home on furlough visiting his parents.
Hit plays directed by Miss Nokia Dunn librarian and senior class sponsor at Co Manche High School praised as among the best. Dunn serves as a faculty representative on the Student Council and dedicates time to campus activities.
Robert Willis and Glen Ellis of the Comanche Junior Class have been chosen to attend Boys State in Austin. Robert, president of the Student Council, is automatically a representative. the program runs six days in the third week of June at the Texas School for the Deaf, aiming to teach citizenship and governance through a simulated city, county, and state government.
Sixteen Comanche High School seniors, boys and girls, were named honor graduates with averages above ninety. The list includes Sue Barret, Pat Baxter, John Beaty, Ross Clayton, Juanell Couch, Janis Gresham, Joyce Helmsley, Bessie Johnson, Sue Keating, Cynthia Keeler, Peggy Levisay, Diane McGlothlin, Ronald Matthews, Victor Meyers, Bobby Radford, and Alice Steele, with per cent grades ranging from 91 to 97.
Robert Willis was elected president of next year's Student Council and thus head of the Student Body. The Junior class nominated Robert Glen Ellis and John Hall who formed campaigns and supported Willis after votes were counted. Glen Ellis won the next senior class presidency with Bill Carpenter junior president Jack Pettit sophomore president and Dixon McGuire freshman president also elected.
A high school senior play features the performer "Butterfly" who, despite strep throat relapse and nervous indigestion, delivers a strong act. Diane McGlothlin faced illness, hospitalization, and absence from dress rehearsal but still shone in the performance.
A sequence of quotes traces a man’s view from childhood to old age. From stork jokes at five to reform talks at thirty and reflections on marriage at sixty, ending with a note on modern youth at seventy.
The Hasse Parent Teachers Association met on Monday night May 11 at 8 o'clock. Special music was rendered by Ronnie Reid Durwood Elliott and Dale Reid. Guest speaker was Judge O E Rippetoe who spoke on Americanism. Readings and songs were by Letha Dunn Linda McDonald Cleta Elliott Claudine Timmons and Judy McDonald. Refreshments were served by the hospitality committee to about 75 people.
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