Dance Floor Whispers and Local Gossip Clusters
Social notes mix dances and pairings as students flirt and tease at Friday night events. Gossip centers on couples, corridors and a few names including Land Wahl Westbrook Jarvis Stapp and Chenault. War news and odd warnings lightly punctuate the scattered snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairchild
Bobbie Jean Land
Helen Wahl
Johnnie Westbrook
Loyd Taylor
Harper
Billy Coleman
Norman and
Joanna
Roy
Katherine Ragsdill
Bonnie
Jack Jarvis
Velmer
Katherine Stapp Rilla
Cam Wright
Thelma Fay
Kennan
Billie
George S. Beth
Joyce Chenault
Glen Murr
Helen Hardin
Leonard Taylor
Margie Hunsucker
Delmor Wyatt
Martin
Sylvia
Mr. Bowden
Bright Freshmen and Seniors Highlight Sports Talent
A group of new students from San Marcos Brady London Texarkana and Mason join the senior and sophomore classes. Bette Gilbert Patty Gilbert Billye Kirkpatrick Ethel Chandler Mary Westbrook Mary Alice Warner Lorene Mueller and Leta Leifeste are noted for tennis volleyball basketball swimming and other sports plus reading chemistry stamps piano shorthand and home economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patty Gilbert
San Marcos
Billye Kirkpatrick
Brady
Lorene Mueller
London
Lorene
Homemaking Classes Lead Enrollments in Declining School
Homemaking classes report the largest enrollment in years despite overall school declines. Students anticipate a progressive year and have redecorated the foods laboratory and made minor departmental changes begun during the summer project.
Class Meetings Plan Senior Activities and Hay Ride
Class meetings during activity period elected senior social and program committees. Dorothy Jackson Norman Holland Katherine Stapp lead the social group while Myrtle House Viola Mae Cummins and James Meredith coordinate the program. A hay ride is planned for Friday night with Mr B L Smith supplying wagon hay and horses. The social committee will meet sponsors and room mothers to finalize details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Jackson
Norman Holland
Katherine Stapp
Myrtle House
Viola Mae Cummins
James Meredith
B. L. Smith
Stegall Defeats Bradford In Three Round Box Match
A three round boxing bout between Freshman Stegall and Junior Bradford concluded with Stegall winning. The noon event preceded by croquet and badminton saw rapid exchanges in the final round as Stegall claimed the title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stegall
Junior Bradford
Velmer Foley Wins 1942 Swim Meet
The Senior class captured the 1942 swim meet with 39 points. Velmer Foley was high point winner in the boys division and Benny McWright led the girls. Boys points: Seniors 39, Juniors 10, Sophomores 29, Freshmen 8. Girls: Seniors 0, Juniors 47, Sophomores 11, Freshmen 0. Ribbons to be awarded in assembly Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Velmer Foley
Benny McWright
Hubbell
Grammar School Assembly and Clubs Highlight School Year
The first regular assembly at 11 20 Friday featured Elder W M Speck and student pledges to America and America the Beautiful. Principal Bowden spoke on school citizenship while The Star Spangled Banner and The Cavalcade of Texas were shown. English Clubs at 7-B VY for Victory and 8-A Lone Star elected officers and set dues. salvaged fat yields glycerine for 85 anti tank shells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Grammar School Gossip and Schoolroom Intrigues
Gossip columns report on G. W. Walker and his wife Ida lia with playful insinuations about a wedding band and classroom happenings. Comments note Clarence and Mary Rose in class seats while a boy nicknamed Pineapple visits the Wahls frequently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Walker
Jesus
Idalia
Clarence
Mary Rose
Wahls
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Junction High School
Bette Gilbert
Ethel Chandler
Ethel
Mary Westbrook
Texarkana
Girl's Reserve
Mary Alice Warner
Borger
Leta ‘Leifeste
Mason
Braford
Grammar School News
Fern
Bill
Jane
Gene
Nancy Spiller
Billy
Billy Joe
Albert, Jr
Betty Lou
Nathan
Dallas
Katherine
Martha Anne Stegall
Harold
Leona
Mary Louis
Jimmy Hugh
Victory Club
Billy Tatum
Albertina Nancy Spiller
Bill Phillips
Fern Hunger
Jesus Menchaca
Estella Garza
Idalia Padilla
Johnny Mae Swartz
Clarence Foster
Jakie Taylor
Virginia Lee Peel
Candace Marr
Sevonth
8-A
Lone Star Club
T. J. Black
Norman Butler
Billy Ed Allen
Ed Virgil Daharsh
Donald Bishop
Kerrville, Texas
Service
Adolf
MAN
Cre Forces
Et Tomes Ooder
Hesce
West Tene
America
Hicerian
Hitler
United Nations
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