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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1952
Page
2
Freshman Lonnie Mayhugh stands out with blue eyes blond hair and a love of football. The profile lists his height five feet four inches weight one hundred ten pounds and asks about favorites and ambitions.
The Longhorn-Harper Annual advances with a completed layout and photographer Stormy Maner busy snapping bulbs. Missing Harper Rocksprings game shots due to a camera left in a locked room. Lonnie Bernhard mourned. Thomas Harlan reports. Harper School News notes poems recited, freshman initiation, and a Dallas Fair return. The Longhorns beat Rocksprings Angoras 50 to 6 with Lonnie Mayhugh praised as a good football player.
Be In Style Wear a Beat St. Marys but ton. The juniors raise funds by selling gold and white School Spirit Buttons to show support for the Longhorns. Reporters Cherrie and M Liss note the effort aims to back the Junior-Senior Banquet.
A student project undertaken at Harper School under the supervision and sponsorship of Mrs. Ruth Carpenter, detailing collaborative work and educational aims.
Alvin Lange reports Harper High School plans a Greenhand initiation for freshmen on Wednesday evening the twenty second. Agriculture students expect a large turnout with the FFA dinner as the main attraction, a well known event among experienced Ag students.
The Longhorns led by Coach Garrett dine at Harper City Cafe on Saturday October 18 before the Harper Rocksprings game. They enjoyed steak cream potatoes lima beans hot rolls tea and jello as a group.
A fragmented, humorous list recalls Miss Rowell’s orders in Homemaking II, students drawing eyes on the board, a Rocksprings football game night, pep squad antics, near misses with equipment, and scattered classroom moments. Names include Helen Lange, A C Ernst, Joe Parker, James Tarr, Bernice Duderstadt, Doris Ochier, Mrs Carpenter, Ken Whitewood, Dugless Carter, Bonnie Bernhard, and Douglas Tatsch.
A sophomore class report describes education as more than reading writing and arithmetic and stresses teamwork homemaking shop and business training. It argues a high school education is essential for any chosen profession and for overall preparation.
On Monday Joselyn Esquell gave Mrs Carpenter two large dahlias. Students discuss fall fashion changes and Mrs Carpenter wears pearl ear screws. The senior class laments Bonnie Bernhard’s upcoming wedding to Stanley Phelps on Oct 26. The 4 H Club runs workshops and welcomes fall harvest season. The Harper Longhorns prep to face Center Point on Halloween.
Harper PTA hosts a Saturday Oct 25 event at the school gym with a 5 30 start and an 8 PM program. Readers note Clarence Ruskey, home Oct 9 from a year and a half in Japan, visiting aunt Mrs S S Stewart.
A Friday pep rally followed a district win over Center Point Pirates as Harper hosts the game. Cheerleaders Cotton Frances D. and Jennicien led yells with Marlene and reporters noting lively new chants. Coach Lang andplayer Dug Carter spoke briefly.
During the Harper Rocksprings game the pep squad formed a megaphone with gold and white pom poms and delivered fifteen rahs for Rocksprings before shouting We Got ta Fight for Harper. Drum majorette Marlene Kaiser and majorettes Jo Ann and M Lah Spaeth led the squad off the field with the cheerleaders in action.
A long list of school praise and penalties follows. Orchids celebrate the Longhorns for a dominant victory over Rockspring Angoras and commend the pep squad, with several named students praised for leadership and effort. Onions chastise interruptions and misbehavior, with numerous references to report cards and classroom conduct.
Report notes strong turnout in Gillespie County Farm Bureau membership push. Also mentions visits by Little Cindy Cook of San Antonio to grandmother Mrs J F Cook in Harper and updates on Mrs H L Stevens recovering well after surgery in Fredericksburg.
Local social column notes a prenuptial shower honor for Waldean McDougall. Guests from nearby families and community organizations gathered to celebrate the upcoming marriage with gifts and well wishes.
Waldean McDougall bride elect to Jack Groff disclosed wedding plans for November 1 at Harper Presbyterian Church. A prenuptial shower for the honoree was held October 19 at the Raymond Oestreich home with 65 guests and purple and white decor reflecting the couple’s chosen colors.
A humorous column riffs on Labor Day politics and pop culture. It notes politicians’ long work summers, Miss America gossip, King Farouk's title shortened to Hey Fatso, and quips about weather and opera. The joke ends with a TV tease for Talent Scouts.
Important changes were made in Federal Old-Age and Retirement Insurance by the 1952 amendments to the Social Security Act. A representative of the Austin Office will be in Fredericksburg on Oct. 28, 1952. You can contact him at the Chamber of Commerce at 8 a.m. He will be glad to help you with your social security.
Harper High School students stage The Family Album this Saturday at 8 o clock. The program will recall years past as alumni and guests attend. Robert Dabney of Albuquerque New Mexico, son of Raymond Dabney, attends Schreiner Institute and visited the Hopf family over the weekend.
A speaker concedes errors and acknowledges that experts often insist on perfect guidance about diets clothing and beverages. The tone argues against absolute certainty in topics like what to eat what to wear and whether to drink beer or dairy products.
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