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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1942
Page
6
During basketball tournaments a room beside the typing room served as a play and rest space. It should stay open at noon on school days so Sorrento and Tangerine students can enjoy ping-pong, checkers, and other games. Senior or junior girls could help supervise while teachers assist with planning.
The conference tournament on February 27 28 featured Tavares Groveland Lyman St Cloud and other teams. Mount Dora Hurricanes edged Lyman Greyhounds for the title after a tense final with back and forth scoring and a go ahead run late. All state selections included Groveland Minkley McCabe Vincent Arnold Cliff Watson.
Mount Dora merchants fund a larger Stray Leaves annual with extra picture pages and a lower subscription. The staff gathers material to cover major school activities with editors Martha Williamson and Sara Roseborough leading a team including Florence Lee Lee Marilyn MacLean Alma Boyd and James Christie among others.
Doran girls and Ocoee battled to an 18 to 18 tie in a tense season finale on February 4. Geiger scored 7 points, Roseborough 6, while Jernigan led Ocoee with 12. The first half saw Ocoee ahead 11-9. the second half kept it close with no scoring in the final minute.
Mount Dora boys defeated Ocoee 50 to 23 in the Earl B. Ferson gym. Vincent led with sixteen points. Minkley and McCabe played strong under the basket. David contributed solidly.
French displayed good defensive play as Mount Dora finished their schedule with seventeen games, two losses, and strong support from a solid B string. Watson led Ocoee with nine points though teammates didn’t fully cooperate. The last game of the season preceded conference tournaments.
The tenth and eleventh grade English classes finished six weeks of debates on topics from federal aid to state medicine to direct presidential election. Other subjects include biology anatomy United States history Civil War and Reconstruction, business English letters and sales slips, Spanish translation of Zaragueta and El Capitan Veneno, typing with carbons, and wages for typing practice. Students were happy the six weeks tests are over despite tournaments and the Orlando fair disruptions.
On August 18, 1924 in Birmingham Alabama Maxine Jeannette Clery arrived with brown hair blue eyes and a height of five feet two inches and 120 pounds. She serves as athletic reporter and treasurer of the senior class and has acted in junior and senior plays showing talent. She began school twelve years ago and will graduate with her class in May. Her favorite study is chemistry and Edith Wharton is her favorite author. She enjoys football and basketball games and her most interesting experience was
The text notes Maxine traveled last summer through the New England states and intends to enroll in nurses' training at Emory University Hospital, outlining her future plans in nursing education.
A Birth notice profiles Calvin Theodore Richardson born in Bridgeport Connecticut. He lived with his family and started school at Mount Dora Public School in first grade. He shows interest in chemistry basketball and writing and plans pre medical study at the University of Pennsylvania after graduation.
Helen Wells of East Liverpool Ohio celebrated on November 8 1924 as a senior at Mount Dora Public School She is active in the senior class with leading roles in plays cheerleading and four years of basketball Her favorite author is Christopher Morley she enjoys swimming and other sports and plans a year at F L C W before transferring to Michigan State to finish college
Betty Lotz hosted a house party on February 20 with Floy Townsend Libby Crawdy June Fenn Marilyn Mac Lelland Joyce Thompson in attendance. Marilyn Mac Lelland entertained Adams Tuesday night. Helen Wells attended the Military Ball in Gainesville on March 7 as the guest of a Umatilla boy. Nancy Fuller visited Orlando with her grandmother on Sunday March 1. M D H S welcomes Charles Martin in the eleventh grade and Betty Martin in the ninth. Anna Laura Futral spent the weekend with friends in Tavare s.
The article records student opinions on a new two and a half hour morning and three hour afternoon schedule. Several students oppose it citing late start, crowded afternoons, and reduced practice time. a few favor parts of the change while awaiting a possible reinstatement of the old timetable.
A gossip column laments Edward's dating indecision for the school banquet. It teases Nan for not choosing a date and mentions several students by name, noting attention to Miss Cassady and other girls after tournaments and the senior play.
The senior class earned a good profit from the play American Passport presented February 20 at the Community Building. John Burkart and James Christie won the senior high Essay Contest sponsored by the First National Bank of Mount Dora. Four senior basketball players were Calvin Richardson Bernard McCabe Ernest Minkley and Milton.
The Teasley firm lists Ernest Minkley and Bernard McCabe as its lawyers. Both are named in the firm’s roster.
The junior class notes welcome Martin to the eleventh year at The First National Bank and list members Bobby Vincent David French Joe Wiley Teasley and Paul Mosteller. They anticipate the junior senior banquet soon in Mount Dora.
A good portion of the sophomore class was represented at both the Conference and tournaments. Also a number of students have missed school due to colds.
The seventh grade assembly has been postponed multiple times due to ongoing Conference and District tournaments while Dale ne relocates to Gaines wi.
Calendar of church and civic group meetings across the town includes Baptist Church Lambert circle sessions, Community Church Ladies Aid and sewing circles, Missionary group, Methodist Woman's Service, American Legion and Auxiliary, Woman's Club, PTA luncheons, Lions Club gatherings, Masons, O E S, Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters, Past Chiefs Club, and Home Demonstration Club meetings with dates and venues at churches, community building and city halls.
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