Harper High Dominates Volleyball Meet in Comfort
In a Friday tournament at Comfort, Harper High teams earned two first places and a second. Senior girls won both games to take first, junior girls also claimed first, elementary boys finished second, and Comfort claimed overall first place with two firsts one second and three thirds.
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Harper
Comfort
Center Point
Eugene Strackbein
Dean Hopf
Harper School
Johnnie Bierschwabe
Kenneth Whitewood
Roger Harper
Dugress Carter
Austin
Football boys receive arm patches at regional champs event
Most players earned cloth patches featuring miniature footballs and the words Regional Champs of 51. Hal Bierschwale and Buddy Friederich received All District patches as Kenneth Oehler reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Bierschwale
Buddy Friederich
Kenneth Oehler
Harper Public School Installs New Playground Gear
The P-TA donated a merry go round a giant stride and a jungle gym for the Harper Public School playground. P-TA women influenced husbands to dig foundation holes while Mr Suffel and FFA boys mainly freshmen assembled the equipment.
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P-Ta
Harper School
Suffel
FFA
Alvin Lang
Harper High Annual Pictures Taken
Fredericksburg photographer Gay Kilman visited Harper High on Tuesday March 4 to photograph annual group pictures of the volleyball and basketball teams the pep squad and class officers. He will return to shoot football track and other missing groups. Benno Helmcamp leaves Harper for a new post with San Angelo after serving with Wm. Cameron & Co. lumber firm here.
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Gay Kilman
Fredericksburg
Kilman
Benno Helmcamp
San Angelo
Wm. Cameron & Co
Harper
Harper Chapter Takes Third In Kerrville District FHA Talent Show
On Saturday March 8 Harper High's FHA chapter placed third in a district talent show in Kerrville with their act Hillbilly Wedding. Old officers presented roses, new officers received roses after outlining duties. Reporter Robbie Gibson noted a instructive, enjoyable meet.
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Harper Chapter
FHA
Kerrville
Harper
Marlene Kaiser
Bobbie Gibson
Robbie Gibson
Harper H Igh
Mrs Dean Hopf Joins Faculty at Harper High School
On Tuesday March 4 Mrs Dean Hopf became a new full time member of the Harper High School faculty replacing Mrs E B Eck erle who had served as a part time teacher since Miss Conlees resignation. Hopf is a 1938 UT BBA graduate with prior teaching in Harper public schools and will teach high school history bookkeeping and typing along with eighth grade arithmetic and social studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Hopf
E. B. Eckerle
Miss Conlee
Hal Ray Bierschwabe
Harper High
School News Recaps March Activities And Rodeo Wins
The Harper School community reports March events including assemblies style show and skits. Students exchange photos and dressed models in freshman and senior classes. Rodeo competitors Carter Harper and Whitewood place at Austin events. yearbook and PTA projects noted. Easter date given. subscription urged.
Harper Wins In Austin Rodeo
Calf roping sees Dugless Carter and Roger Harper take second while Johnnie Bier Schwale and Ken Whitewood earn third. Carter also wins first in bull riding with Bier Schwale placing third. Tex Ritter and his horse appear in roping events as Kenneth Whitewood reports.
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Kerrville
Robbie Gibson
PTA
Suffel
FFA
Austin Rodeo
Duglass Carter
Roger Harper
Kenneth Whitewood
Johnnie Bierschwale
Dugless Carter
Gordon Parker
Arkansas
Harper High
Kenneth Whitworth
Austin
Ken Whitewood
Tex Ritter
White Horse
Murder Trial Drama Ends in Gillespie County Court
The Harper High case ends after a sensational Gillespie County trial with Lenar Birk accusing Good of threatening and shooting during a courthouse confrontation over custody. Key witnesses include Good's former wife and Birk. juries previously hung. Court adjourned with no further business after the verdict.
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Good
Birk
Gillespie County
Ferguson
Llano County
Lenar Birk
Main Street
South Adams Street
Dallas
Sam Connally
San Saba
William Veldermann
Austin
M. Schneider
J. B. Wieser
Victor Rogers
Sam McCollum Jr
Sam McCollum Sr
Brady
Fielding Hammond
Burnet
Donnie Bode and George Parker Place at San Angelo Stock Show
Donnie Bode son of Mr and Mrs Reuben Bode won 3rd in Reserve Champion with Two Tooth Ram in Rambouillet division at the San Angelo Stock Show where 23 exhibited. George Parker earned 5th in the same class among 25. George also placed 3rd last week. Both boys are Harper school students and 4H members.
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Donnie Bode
Reuben Bode
Donnie
George Parker
George
San Angelo
Harper School
Sixth Grade PTA musical program honors students
The March 6 PTA meeting featured a sixth grade musical with numbers including Put Your Little Foot Mockin Bird Hill and Bluebird on Your Window Sill Edith Ellebracht accompanied on accordion The English class worked on clear speech correcting common errors across the school and a poetry declamation contest produced winners in girls and boys divisions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Bluebird
Edith Ellebracht
Janice Parker
Evelyn Rischner
Elva Mae Dittmar
Carlton Wendel
Johnnie Oehler
Brown Whitewood
Janice Gammenthaler Birthday Party Noted
Mrs. Charles Gammenthaler hosted a 3 to 5 pm birthday gathering for her daughter Janice with friends Kathryn Stevens Peggy Feller Jay Dean Peril Clarice Angela Maurer Hurdin Rahe Dianne Rahe and Bobby Harper and their mothers. Guests enjoyed sandwiches ice cream cake grape juice and mixed candies.
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Charles Gammenthaler
Janice
Kathryn Stevens
Peggy Feller
Jay Dean Peril
Clarice
Angela Maurer
Hardin
Dianne Rahe
Bobby Harper
Robert Maurer
Gammenthaler
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Menard and London Highway
Junction
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Junction, Texas
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Eber Parker
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San Antonio
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