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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1946
Page
3
Mount Dora High asks the community to back the senior class play to fund useful school items and cover costs. The cast includes most junior talent plus new faces, promising a high standard of dramatics and a memorable evening at a modest price.
The Good Friday service conducted by Dr. James A. Richards and Reverend George Gibson featured litany prayers the Good Friday story and choral responses by the Chapel and Vesper choirs. A quartet performed There Is a Green Hill Far Away with Adrianne Norton Laura Roseborough Billy Lafroos and Jimmy Vincent. The program was inspiring and enjoyed by all.
The April 12 junior senior banquet celebrated seniors faculty and grade mothers with a blue and silver theme. Highlights included toasts by R Shipes and Jimmy Vincent, a singing number by Jackie Ober, and speeches and poems about the year and the class.
Students honor Hyde Park as a permanent Roosevelt memorial with speeches by Mrs Roosevelt President Truman and Interior King. Messto Anderson sings the Star Spangled Banner. The following Monday students view World Series moving pictures in the assembly room amid strong baseball interest.
Intramurals at M. D. H. S. concluded with seniors beating freshmen 63 to 19 in the April 5 opener while sophomores fell to juniors 24 to 15 on April 8. The seniors clinched the championship by defeating the sophomores 57 to 17 on April 9. Also noted is the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kelly in New York City on June 29, with Tommy, now 6'1" and 165 pounds, later attending Mount Dora schools and showing interest in math, Kipling, and sports.
A collage of student bios and local rumors from Mount Dora, highlighting Juanita “Nita” with Navy dreams and hometown pride, Faye’s senior year activities, and multiple high school anecdotes about classmates, dances, trips, dates, and upcoming plans. Names include Nita, Faye, Laura, Nora, Bobby T, Steve, Nell Marie, Phyllis T, L. G., and others from Apopka and West Point Mississippi. The piece reads as a yearbook style snapshot of social life and expected futures.
Faye Louise Shipes, born February 13, 1927 in Dora, plans to graduate Mount Dora Public Schools this senior year. She dislikes being called by her middle name, enjoys lunch hour, and favors Chick Young’s comic strip. She is short and heavyset with blue eyes and dark hair.
Local residents discuss hyacinth control on Lakes Dora Beauclair and Apopka. A speaker volunteers to donate labor to build a fence at Lake Apopka to stop the weed from drifting through the canal and asks for helpers.
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