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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
8
Ass't Editor No. 9 bids farewell as seniors hand editing duties to the juniors for the next edition. The paper's cycle continues with the junior staff next year and then returns to the current sophomores. The seniors thank students and faculty for cooperation and wish luck to the juniors.
Mount Dora High School thanks the anonymous donor for a generous gift of books to the school library. The note expresses gratitude for the educational materials and support.
On Friday night January 18 the junior class staged Digging Up the Dirt at the Community Building. The cast and coach Miss Cassiday drew praise for a humorous performance centered on Professor Halleck and a stolen antiquities plot with lively turns from Don Kimball Buster Sadler Mortimer McCown Arthur Haskins Osvil Grantham Mary Norton Flora Morley William Stewart Phyllis Blanchard Katherine Killian Mary Agnes Harding.
The event netted about three hundred and fifty dollars. Proceeds will support the banquet, class athletic association and library.
The report shows seven through twelfth grades rated by tickets sold per pupil. Seniors led with 283 percent, followed by tenth grade 255 percent, eighth grade 100 percent, ninth 21 percent, seventh 205 percent, and eleventh 61 tickets sold with 0? percent accuracy noted. Juniors did not participate as sponsors.
On Monday January 14 the high school held its first guidance talk. Mr Jo Simpson described insurance values and opportunities as a business. He urged that insurance is open to girls as well as boys and noted colleges offer courses. He advised choosing a sound well known company and ended with policy types.
On Monday January 21, George J. White president of the First National Bank of Mount Dora addressed students about banking. He announced the field is open for girls as well as boys and urged equal opportunities in the financial profession.
Mr White spoke on bank history and the qualities a cashier must possess. He emphasized integrity, confidence, and community interest, noting that money is owed to others. Students applauded his closing thoughts on banking responsibilities.
Exemption list for Junior-Senior High School first semester 1934 35 shows students by grade with subjects and exam exemptions. Seventh graders Betty Anderson Marjorie Niles DeVault Roseborough Adelaide Keys Almeda Dooley attend health and music Marian Edwards math Doris Chamberlain geography and music Frankie Lou Morris mathematics Frances Thompson mathematics and health. Eighth graders Stuart Sadler Martha Treadwell Zera Dean history and health Elouise Glass mathematics health and music Viola Perry mathematics health and music Billy McCown manual arts and health. Ninth to twelfth grades list students taking exams only or exemptions with names noted. Post Graduate Marjorie Loveless.
On Saturday January 19 the Mount Dora High boys and girls lost to Eustis at the Eustis school gym. The girls trailed early and could not recover as two Eustis forwards locked down the local guards. Final score Eustis 37 Mount Dora 19 with Kruse scoring 19 for Eustis and Simpson leading Mount Dora with 11. The boys opened hopeful but a poor second half doomed them after Roy Christopher missed due to a cold. both sides fouled heavily and three players from each side fouled out.
Som Gy 1 in favor of Eustis and Parker led locals with 10 points apiece in a high school basketball update.
Mount Dora beat Ocoee 17 to 0 as the boys’ teams struggled with injuries and a slow pace. Parker led scoring with 10 points while Beete showed small gains. The Mount Dora girls won by default as Ocoee players were sidelined.
Next Friday night the local team travels to Montverde for a return game after Mount Dora won the opener. Fans hope for a decisive rematch as the squad aims to even the series.
Willie Ferris is a small freckled girl born April 16 1916 in Crossville Tennessee. She moved to Sorrento Florida at age four and studied seven years there. She later entered Mount Dora High School in the eighth grade and has remained there. She favors green and brown colors and enjoys apples crackers and peppermint candy. She is interested in a boy and hopes to become a nurse.
A young man of about six feet tall and 140 pounds with hazel eyes and a pleasant appearance provides personal details. He moved to Mount Dora early, began schooling in first grade, shows sports interest in football tennis swimming and sailing, plans Navy radio operator work after high school, and favors French fried potatoes.
Mayo Goss was born June 12 1917 in Elberton Georgia. She grew up in Elberton staying there until senior year. She stands five feet four inches tall with brown eyes and black curly hair. Her favorite color is red and she likes cherry pie. Moonlight and Roses is her current favorite. She is not focused on boys but hints a possible young admirer at home. She plans to return to Georgia after graduation.
The senior class welcomes Virginia Beerbower born October 26 1918 in Chatham New Jersey. She lived in Florida at Tangerine DeLand Eustis and Point Pleasant New Jersey before settling in Mount Dora where she attends high school and acts in the senior play. Virginia plans to pursue business after graduation.
Harriet Wise born November 10 1917 in Wayzata Minnesota. She spent early years in Minnesota then Florida attending kindergarten with Miss West and later Minnesota summers. From third grade to ninth she studied in Florida before returning to Minnesota summers and finishing at Mount Dora High School.
Harriet, a student with a passion for piano and violin, plans to study music in Iowa and may pursue science fields ending in ology or ism. She hints radio could be a career, and she enjoys running things from vehicles to people while noting a preference for ambitious boys.
The senior class runs a ticket selling contest to promote the upcoming play. The seventh grade led by a large margin until seniors, aiming to set a good example and outpace juniors, increased tickets sold from 177 to 283. Frank Pooser and Ruth Harvey were exempt from midterms. Many seniors attended a Rock Spring picnic Tuesday afternoon.
Cooperation from students in selling tickets for the junior play is noted along with gratitude to class advisor and director Miss Cassady for patience and work with the cast. The junior class laments the loss of president Jean Anderson who moved to Miami last week after faithful service in class activities.
Sophomores express unhappiness over the loss of class reporter La Mar Conant and the sponsor F. A. McNair along with Wayne Moon. They fault the party loss for selling junior play tickets and cite midterm exams as a third grievance.
The ninth grade notes the death of Luella Anderson and lists exemptions from midterms for Luella Anderson Hazel Edwards Lois Jerue and Natalie Spilky as part of the tribute to the classmate.
The eighth graders start a new semester aiming high. Exemptions from midterms are awarded to Stuart Sadler and Marthe Treadwell who takes math and tics, and Billy McCown who takes manual arts and health.
The seventh grade notes Frances Davis has gone to the mountains for her health and Bettye Anderson moved to Miami. They also welcome new member Billy Strickland as Billy Lawrence remains away from school to care for his mother.
Ranger died Tuesday night after a few days of illness described as black tongue. He had lived with the Stephens family since four weeks old, was beloved by Mount Dora residents and visiting winter guests, and was noted for greeting friends with a wagging tail and a handshake. The Stepehns formerly owned the Golden Triangle Cleaners.
Georgia's only woman legislator introduced a bill in the legislature requiring all vehicles to have a tail light at night. She argues the provision is wise but incomplete and suggests including horses, mules, cows, and hogs on highways.
Robert Quillen says originality is not new creation but your own take on ideas you have heard or read. He argues originality is a personal expression built from existing thoughts.
The Leesburg Fresh Water Bass tournament invites county lake anglers to register at local hotels or sporting goods stores and bring big bass to R L Stevens at Leesburg City Hall for weighing. Eight divisions offer prizes for largest bass from Harris Griffin Silver Lake, other county lakes, or Leesburg waters.
A conference in West Palm Beach reviewed three proposed plans to place the potato industry under the Ag Adjustment Act. Florida's D E Timmons and South Atlantic growers discussed making potatoes a basic rural commodity with marketing tax relief and other plans including a marketing agreement and grower licenses. The group urged Congress to declare potatoes a basic commodity with tax-free marketing allotments and a per pound tax on others.
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