Coach Hammons Ends Career of 26 Years
Coach Foy Hammons concludes a 26 year coaching career spanning football and basketball in Hope and nearby towns. A 1915 Arkansas State alum, he later coached at Pine Bluff, Ouachita, Monticello A&M, and Arkadelphia before moving to Hope in 1934. He taught civil aeronautics and boys physical education, and works with Ford Tractor Company. He and Mrs. Hammons have five children.
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Foy Hammons
Hope
Ford Tractor Ca
Hammons
Hope- Fordyce
Hope-Pine Bluff
Hope High School
Civil Aeronautics
Dallas
Air Corps
Cats Have Bad Cage Season But Spirit Was High
Hope High School’s 1946 basketball season was rough with four first-string players ruled ineligible after midterms and several injuries. Despite setbacks, most lettermen return, and the team aims for a stronger next year, after losses to Prescott, Dorado, Camden, Garden, Texarkana, Malvern, De Queen, Hot Springs, Arkadelphia, and others.
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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 After Tough Schedule
The Hope High School Bobcats, led by Captain Clarence Garrett and Co Captain Buster Rogers, finished the 1945 football season with five wins and seven losses. They faced a demanding schedule with losses to Smackover, Texarkana, Nashville, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluff, while beating De Queen, Benton, Camden, Fordyce, and others. End of season honors paid to Coach Hammons and several seniors including Garrett, Chesshir, Hyatt, and Bayse.
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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 Defeat Scrappers in Softball Series
Hope Bobcats and Nashville Scrappers split a four game softball series at Nashville and Hope. Nashville won two games 5-3 and 4-2, while Hope claimed 11-5 and 11-1 victories at Hope and Nashville, with Batters and Batteries listed for each contest among players Gough Morton Ray Feemster Hyatt etc. The lineup features 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 Schedule Faces 1946 Bobcat Football Team
The Hope High School Bobcats open 1946 football with DeQueen on September 13 and face a twelve game schedule with nine conference games. Ten lettermen return alongside returning servicemen, including Navy and Air Force personnel. Captain Bill Morton and co captain Buster Rogers lead the Juniors. Several seniors are graduating in May, while many returning players and reserves are listed, with a schedule spanning September to November including games at De Queen Smackover El Dorado Jonesboro Nashville Texarkana Camden Hot Springs Gordon Fordyce Pine Bluff and others.
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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
Schoolroom Officials Named For Each Grade Coats
Officials and teachers for 7th and 6th grades are listed with officers. Names include Mrs Basil York and Miss Byrd Crabtree as teachers, with student officers such as Jerry Bowden and Benny Grane. Several names are garbled but indicate president and secretary positions across grades.
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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 School EH Club Formed by Lettermen
All boys who lettered in football or basketball at Hope High School formed the EH Club. The first meeting was March 29, with a second on April 1 to elect officers and approve by laws. Officers included Charles Hyatt president and Dennis Chesshir vice president.
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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 marks its second year with strong projects including a Birthday Calendar. The group sold names advertisements and calendars to fund new equipment such as a button-covering machine and a yearbook. Mildred Foster and Yvonne Sanders earned praise for yearbook work and cover design. An open house followed the 1915 graduation program on October 12, with cakes served by non‑float participants during Homecoming. The Parent Teachers Association observed its forty sixth anniversary with Pounders Day.
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Hope Chapter
The
Future Homemakers of America
Mildred Foster
Yvonne Sanders
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Veterans education program offered under bill
F H A officers announce an education program for veterans covering on the job training high school or college. Interested individuals should contact Russell Lewallen at the courthouse or call 1136. Night classes meet at the high school directed by Forney Holt Jack Beaty and Dolphus Whitten. Courses include Business English Principles Business Mathematics and Trade Mathematics. Commercial work and other real estate topics will be added soon.
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Ing
Russell Lewallen
Forney Holt
Jack Beaty
Dolphus Whitten
Vet Training Program opens at School
A Veterans' Training Program at Hope High School offers instruction and apprenticeship in carpentry electrical plumbing mechanics and farming for veterans with at least 90 days service since September 16 1940. The program lists Russell Lewallen Ray Lawrence EB C Atkins and Miss Minnie Ella Green in leadership roles with activities including garden parties and FHA camp inspiration.
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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
Graduates Plan Further Education and Service
The graduating class outlines next steps including college and business school plans, immediate entry into the business world, and several enlistments. Names of students choosing higher education, business programs, and military service are listed alongside twelve in the armed forces.
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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 Lites has been chosen by Oklahoma A M College to receive the Theta Sigma Phi award for outstanding freshman woman in journalism. The honor, annual at Honors Day May 17, recognizes campus contribution, scholarship and leadership. She has served as coed sports editor of the Collegian since September.
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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 Bis bee Arizona and a member of the lass of 1915 presented his valuable mineral collection to the school on October 12 1945. The presentation ceremony was held in the high school auditorium. Mrs. James H. Jones introduced the Honorable Duval Purkins of Warren who was principal of Hope High School in 1915. Mr. Purkins then introduced each member of the class of 15 who was present and told briefly of each one's status thirty years ago. After being introduced Mr. Gentry presented his mineral collection. 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 High School
Approximately nine hundred people gathered at Hope High School stadium at 6 15 April 21 for the tenth annual Easter morning prayer service Reverend Thomas Brewster pastor First Presbyterian Church spoke and Clifford Franks directed songs The Junior class and son of Mrs Eugene White 1915 class collected funds for the students The coronation of the Home coming Queen followed the presentation ceremony
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Hope High School
Thomas Brewster
First Presbyterian Church
Clifford Franks
Eugene White
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. R. Herndon Photographer
Hope Furniture Co
Garnet Zimmerly
F.H. A. Officers
Mary Louise Brown
Carolyn Sue Sutton
Pat Ellen
Loree Hare
Kee
Mary Carolyn Andrews
Camp Couchdale
Couchdale
Catherine Craine
Hi-Lights
Ideal Cleaners
Scho
William Bayse
Bruner-Ivory Handle Co
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