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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1946
Page
20
Hope High School seniors urge underclassmen to train in harder strokes beyond the puddle of school life. They reflect on co curricular effort, grades, and the duty to work for a meaningful future under teachers’ guidance. The piece notes graduation from Hope High and looks toward a wartime to postwar world of jet propulsion and new technologies.
A quirky 1936 style class prophecy lists students and future roles across nations and industries. It paints a surreal panorama with names like William Duck er, Martha Ann Atkins, Virginia Ann Amos, and many others in roles from entrepreneurs to performers, ending with a call for the 1946 seniors to engage with radar, electronics, and atomic energy to shape humanity.
A nostalgic blast through quirky vignettes of alumni and friends. The letter catalogs colorful personas from Alma Mater connected lives from Alaska to Kenya, Hawaii to Broadway, noting playful tales and a final note about Kilroy.
Six eleventh grade American History students debated the resolution that young men should undergo military training. Pollyann Williams Martha Sue Moore and Lee Meriwether spoke for the affirmative while Jane Dodds Jack Wells and Glen May argued the negative. Judges awarded the negative.
A list of senior names with etymologies shows Helen Somers meaning light, Katherine pure, Margaret pearl, Mary Esther Edminston and others from Hebrew Greek Latin and German roots, including Charles strong, Edward rich guard, George earth worker, James supplanter, John God is gracious, Sophia wisdom, Elizabeth consecrated, Ambrose immortal, Conrad giving wise counsel, Neal courageous, Gerald spear wielder, Ira watchful, Martha peace, Daphne laurel, Laura laurel.
Magnolia A and M College Fine Arts students staged a program at Hope High School on April 8 featuring vocal solos, readings, piano numbers, and a Girls Glee Club performance. Performers included Vivene Lemley, Albert Cooper, Virginia Cleaver, Permelia Martin, and Marius Nygard. The program closed with selections from the Glee Club.
A lively scene in the North End hall of the Alma Mater features seniors auctioning off personal belongings from favors to keepsakes in a humorous bid. Items include pins, hair accessories, books, desks, clothes, and even hair, dating, and bulletin board rights, with a wrap up noting the long memory of twelve years and a nod to tobacco's historic use by Indians in midAmerica.
Betty Ann Benson and Charles Hyatt renew friendship after separation. Several seniors are linked with boys from various towns with romances blossoming in senior year. Candid notes name many couples, from Doris Urrey with Chink to Mary Catherine Betts pairing with Bill Morton, ending with the class declares the romance era over.
A playful fragment presents a letter based alliterative list with descriptors like s-weet, egotistical, L-oveable, langud, and A-mbitious. The lines hint at an acrostic or coded theme, inviting interpretation of charming, contradictory traits across persona labels.
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