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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
2
A Friday assembly on March 15 featured safety talks on bicycle use and upcoming tennis matches. Athletic awards were presented to basketball players, including DeVault Roseborough and Tom Kimball, with a list of honorees across Star, Double Star, Stripe, and Chevron categories.
On Friday night March 15 the Lake County Music Festival at the school auditorium featured the Federation of pes Clubs curated event with glee clubs and bands from Eustis Umatilla Tavares Groveland Leesburg Clermont and Mount Dora. Performances included the Umatilla Boys Choir singing Ave Maria and a Mount Dora soloist performing Water Boy among other numbers.
Doris Estelle Cowart born December 21 1923 in Sorrento is a Mount Dora High School senior with a record of participation in the junior and senior plays and the 1939 contest play Jazz and Minuet. She plans to attend Florida State College for Women after graduation and lists English composition as her favorite subject. She enjoyed traveling and a trip to Washington DC with Camp Fire Girls as a notable experience.
Jerald William Drawdy born January 22 1921 in Eustis Florida is a tall slim boy at 6 feet 3 and a half inches 143 pounds with green eyes and brown wavy hair. He attended Mount Dora schools and plans to graduate locally. He favors typing and Dickens and Scott, enjoys dancing and correspondence, and is active in church work and Lake County scouting. He hopes to attend medical school. Community notes mention Adelaide Key Miriam Blackman Ella Reeves Sheila Spilky Jean Shipes Jim Jones Florence Lee and others visiting regional sites. Senior Class notes report library fund purchase of an unabridged dictionary and preparation for graduation.
The junior class thanks the P T A for the high school dance and notes grateful learners before the junior senior banquet. Miss Sawyer, their adviser, has been absent due to illness. The show Rebecca starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier at the Princess Theatre on April 23 and 24 will raise funds. tickets go on sale soon.
The seventh grade notes cheerfully share songs favorites from members and a look at daily class life. They express sympathy for Selmer Clemmons and celebrate Mel Jones's return, while noting a tea dance planned for mothers with eighth graders.
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