Coach Hammons Ends Career of 26 Years
Foy Hammons retires after a 26 year career coaching football and basketball in Hope and surrounding towns. He taught physical education and civil aeronautics, and now works for the Ford Tractor Co. in Hope. He and Mrs. Hammons have five children, with two in high school and others pursuing varied paths in Dallas and military service.
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Foy Hammons
Hope
Ford Tractor Ca
Hammons
Hope- Fordyce
Hope-Pine Bluff
Hope High School
Civil Aeronautics
Dallas
Air Corps
Hope High Cats Fail To Live Up To Hype In 1946 Season
Hope High School 1946 basketball team endured a rough year with four first-string players ruled ineligible after mid terms and injuries season long. Despite setbacks, many lettermen return for a stronger 1947 run. Season scores show mixed results with Hope defeating Prescott 37 20 and dropping several close games.
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Hope High School
Prescott Curly Wolves
Hope
Prescott
Dorado
Camden
Garden
Texarkana
Malvern
de Queen
Hot Springs
Lot Springs
Arkadelphia
Hope Bobcats End 1945 Season With Five Wins
The Hope High School Bobcats under Captain Clarence Garrett and Co-Captain Buster Rogers finished the 1945 season with five victories and seven defeats in a demanding schedule. They beat De Queen 13-6 and Camden 7-6, before losses to Smackover, El Dorado, Jonesboro, Nashville, Texarkana, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluff, with coach Hammons retiring after twenty seven years.
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Hope High School Bobcats
Bobcats
Clarence Garrett
Buster Rogers
de Queen Leopards
Garget
Hope
Rogers
Hammons
Buckaroos
Arkansas High School Conference
el Dorado
Wildcats
Bobccats
Dennis Chesshir
Oil City Boys
Cats
Jonesboro Buckaroos
Jonesboro
Garrett
Nashville Scrappers
Bobcat
Bonnie Sisson
Border City Eleven
Texarkana
Arkansas
Razorbacks
Ragerbacks
Camden
Pantters
Hot Springs Trojans
Benton High School
Beach County
Nashville
Hope Boys
Fordyce Redbugs
Hammans
Lord Elgin
Jones
Pine Bluff
Zebras
Voy Hammons
Bobeas
Foy H. Hammons
Ole Hope Hi
Charles Hyatt
Billy Ed Bayse
Raymond Hyers
Buddy Porter
Billy Ruggles
Bobcats Sweep Scrappers In Four-Game Softball Series
The Hope Bobcats and Nashville Scrappers completed a four game series with scores 5-3 and 4-2 in Nashville, 11-5 and 11-1 at Hope and Nashville respectively. Batteries included Gough Morton and Ray Feemster Haynes Feemster with multiple pitchers. Rosters list Zimmerly Watson Wells Datson Garrett Claham Albritton Castleberry Morton Feemster Hyatt Huddleston LaGrone Sullivan Miller Graves Gough Bohannan.
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Hope Bobcats
Nashville Scrappers
Nashville
Bobcats
Scrappers
Hope
Hope Charles Gough
Bill Morton
Atcher
Bobannan
Feeinster
Scrangers
Howe
Jack Ray
Haynes
Feemster
Charles Gough
Nashville Boys
Ray and
Morton
Haynas
Hope Nashville Zimmerly
Watson Wells
Datson Garrett
Fraley Rogers
LE Claham
Albritton SF
Castleberry Morton
Feemster Hyatt
Huddleston LaGrone
Sullivan Miller
Graves Gough
Bohannan
Stiff 1946 Schedule Faces Hope Bobcats Football Team
The Hope High School Bobcats open their 1946 football season September 13 against DeQueen with a twelve game schedule. Nine conference games loom as returning lettermen include Robert McCullough Jack Wells Billy Milam and Buster Rogers among others. Veterans from World War II and two captains Bill Morton and Buster Rogers lead the squad with nine seniors graduating in May. The lineup features returning players and reserves aiming for a championship run despite the tough slate.
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Hope High School Bobcats
DeQueen Leopards
Cats
Wilton Garrett
Navy
Jack Bell
Air Corps
Bobcats
Bill Morton
Buster Rogers
Bil
Buster
Doc Zimmerly
Billy Ed Basye
Billy Arnold
Dennis Chesshir
Charles Hyatt
Buddy Porter
Bill Beard
Dwight Sandifer
Raymond Byers
Robert McCullough
Jack Wells
Billy Milam
Douglas Mullins
Charles Reed
Charles Crawford
Reece Miller
Jack Ray
Jimmy Walters
Bobby Franklin
Jack Duffie
Charles Wilson
Clarence Walker
Charles Gough
John Bullock
James Russell
S. A. Westbrook
Lawrence Albritton
Johnny Brannan
Tommy Britt
Don Duffie
Buddy Sutton
Bobby Bearden
Ralph Saunders
Jimmy Hammons
James McCorkle
O. T. Crawford
de Queen
Smiackover
el Dorado
Jonesboro
Nashville
Texarkana
Camden
Hot Springs
Gordon
Fordyce
Pine Bluff
Here
Officials of Home Rooms Elected
A compiled list shows home room teachers and officers for 7th and 6th grades. 7th Grade includes Basil York as teacher with Jerry Bowden president Anita Copeland vice president Annie Sue Bright secretary treasurer. 7th Grade also lists Nolan rot lett as teacher Bill Gunter president Billy Mitchell vice president Caroline Hawthorne secretary Barbara Ann Ross treasurer. 6th Grade names Miss Byrd Crab tree as teacher with Benny Grane president Burgess Garrett president Adolphine An crelary Richard Bru re Miss Sarah Pay ton teacher Mitchell LaGrane president Patsy Russell president Nell 3ry Miss Clara Win ch Sally Jo Che hin president Don Duffie vice president Catherine Cox secretary Darrell Crunk treasurer ih Grde Mrs. R BE. Jacck son teacher Bob Hyatt president
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Basil York
Jerry Bowden
Anita Copeland
Annie Sue Bright
Nolan Rotlett
Bill Gunter
Billy Mitchell
Caroline Hawthorne
Barbara Ann Ross
Ith
David Davis
Wanda Spea
Bobby Seale
Jo Simmons
Miss Byrd Crabtree
Benny Grane
Burgess Garrett
Adolphine Ancrelary
Richard Brure
Sarah Payton
Mitchell LaGrane
Patsy Russell
Nell 3Ry
Clara Winch
Sally Jo Che Hin
Don Duffie
Vic
Catherine Cox
Darrell Crunk
Ih Grede
R, BE. Jacckson
Bob Hyatt
Hope High Forming Honor Club for Lettermen
Hope High School forms the EH Club for boys who earned letters in football or basketball. The first meeting was March 29 with a April 1 session to elect officers and draft by laws. Officers include President Charles Hyatt and Secretary-Treasurer Buddy Porter, with several committee members named.
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Hope High School
Charles Hyatt
Dennis Chesshir
Buddy Porter
Garnett Zim
Second Year of Organization for Homemakers
The Hope Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America completes its second year of activities. A Birthday Calendar project boosted sales of names, advertisements, and calendars, funding new equipment including a button-covering machine. The chapter produced its first yearbook, led by Mildred Foster and Yvonne Sanders. Open house followed the October 12 graduation program, with cakes served by nonfloats riders in the Homecoming parade. The Parent-Teachers Association marked its forty-sixth anniversary with Pounders' Day observance.
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Hope Chapter
The
Future Homemakers of America
Mildred Foster
Yvonne Sanders
Parent-Teachers’ Association
F.H. A. Officers in Education Program
Veterans may join the F H A education program offering on the job training, high school, or college courses. Contact Russell Lewallen at the courthouse or call 1136. Night classes at the high school are led by Forney Holt Jack Beaty and Dolphus Whitten. Courses include Business English, Principles, Mathematics, and Trade Mathematics with business and trade groups.
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Ing
Russell Lewallen
Forney Holt
Jack Beaty
Dolphus Whitten
Vet Training Program opens at School
A Veterans Training Program is held at Hope High School on Monday and Wednesday nights to provide instruction and apprenticeship opportunities for veterans with at least 90 days service since September 16, 1940. Lead coordinators Russell Lewallen Ray Lawrence and EB Atkins oversee fields from carpentry to farming with Miss Minnie Ella Green as secretary. Plans include continued FHA activities, garden parties, and sending delegates to Camp Couchdale in July.
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Hope High School
Russell Lewallen
Veterans’ Training Program
Oklahoma A & M
Navy
Ray Lawrence
East Texas State Teachers’ College
Commerce
Texas
EB. C. Atkins
University of Arkansas, College of Agriculture
Veterans
Atkins
Minnie Ella Green
Camp Couchdale
Mary Louise Brown
Carolyn Sue Sutton
Couchdale
Graduates Plan Paths After Graduation
The year’s graduates plan for next year with many to college or business school. Others enter the business world or serve in the armed forces while some anticipate matrimony. Named are Helen Tray Hammons, Linda Jones, Hazel Spillers, Elizabeth Wilson, Sophia Williams, Betty Ann Benson, Mary Catherine Craine, Pat Ellen, Mary Esther Edminston, Doris Urrey, Kitty Tolleson, Laura Ann Garanflo, Norma Jean Dazeard, Frances Lewis, Margie May, Louise Porter, Carolyn Sue Suison, Mary Adele Wadjle, Martha Ann Atkins, Jessie Clarke Brown, Mary Louise Brown, Mary Carolyn Andrews, Mary Kay Betts, Billy Ed Bayse, Virginia Ann Amos, Margaret Phippin, Maxine Powell, Marion Stewart, Joyce Skinner, Louita Meckintosh, Evalene Ward, Colleen Coffee, Mildred Foster, Ira Porter, Sally McCorkle, Mary Sue Phillips, Lorene Smith, Helen Somers, Nancy Spruell, Mary Dell Tomlin, Arlene Smith, Rachel Yates, Gladys Jones, Wanda Massey, Yvonne Sanders, Myrtle Sue Shope, Bonnie Sisson, Mary Leneta Sutton, Ellsworth Bailey, William Duckett, Charles Hyatt, AR. L. Ponder, Garnett Zimmerly, John Yocum, Joe Keith Cassidy, Martin Anderson, Dennis Chesshir, Jimmy Cox, John Hackler.
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Uncle Sam
Helen Tray Hammons
Linda Jones
Hazel Spillers
Elizabeth Wilson
Sophia Williams
Betty Ann Benson
Mary Cat
Margaret Phippin
Maxine Powell
Marion Stewart
Joyce Skinner
Louita Meckintosh
Evalene Ward
Colleen Coffee
Mildred Foster
Ira Porter
Sallly McCorkle
Mary Sue Phillips
Lorene Smith
Helen Somers
Nancy Spruell
Mary Dell Tomlin
Arlene Smith
Rachel Yates
Gladys Jones
Wanda Massey
Yvonne Sanders
Myrtle Sue Shope
Bonnie
Ex Editor Alice Heard Wins Theta Sigma Phi Award
Alice Lorraine Heard 1944 45 editor of Hope Hi Lights has been chosen by Oklahoma A and M College to receive the Theta Sigma Phi award for the outstanding freshman woman in journalism. The honor, given by the A M Chapter, recognizes work in campus publications scholarship leadership and character. Heard has served as coed sports editor on the Collegian since September and will accept the award at Honors Day on May 17 at the campus.
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Alice Lorraine Heard
Hope Hi-Lights
Oklahoma A & M College
Theta Signa Phi
Theta Sigma Phi
Women In Journalism
Alice Lorraine
The
Q'Collegian
Collection of Minerals Shown School Students
Mr. James T. Gentry of Bisbee Arizona and a member of the class of 1915 presented his mineral collection to the school on October 12, 1945. The ceremony was in the high school auditorium with Mrs. James H. Jones introducing Duval Purkins of Warren, former Hope High School principal in 1915, who introduced each class member present and noted their status thirty years prior. Eugene White, 2 member of
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James T. Gentry
Bisbee
Arizona
James H. Jones
Duval Purkins
Warren
Hope High School
Purkins
Gentry
Eugene White
Easter Sunrise Service Held at Hope High School
About nine hundred people gathered at Hope High School stadium at 6 15 on April 21 for the tenth annual community Easter morning prayer service Reverend Thomas Brewster of First Presbyterian Church spoke and Clifford Franks directed songs The Junior class and son of Mrs Eugene White a 1915 graduate collected for the students coronation of the Homecoming Queen followed the presentation ceremony.
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Hope High School
Thomas Brewster
First Presbyterian Church
Clifford Franks
Eugene White
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W. R. Herndon Photographer
Hope Furniture Co
Garnet Zimmerly
F.H. A. Officers
Pat Ellen
Loree Hare
Kee
Mary Carolyn Andrews
Catherine Craine
Hi-Lights
Ideal Cleaners
Scho
William Bayse
Bruner-Ivory Handle Co
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