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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1936
Page
8
A letter argues students face long school days and little time for sports or leisure. It questions requiring homework in every subject every night and suggests more in-class study with home time kept for balanced activities.
On Friday October 9 the junior class ran the second assembly of the year. Natalie Spilky performed a piano solo Would You and Dorothy White played Ah Sweet Mystery of Life with Miss Pemberton on piano. The juniors presented a one act play Stars and Groceries followed by Miss Pemberton’s glee club singing Sociability and Anchors Aweigh. Professor Roseborough praised student spirit in closing remarks.
Tracy Kramer accepts the vacancy after Frederick Sleight resigns as athletic reporter, becoming the new sports writer for the paper.
Freshmen arrive in unusual outfits with hair in pigtails and mis matched clothes. Boys carry books as they face a lighthearted, locally described initiation event during school hours.
Our milk offers health benefits through proper care and feeding of the herd. The cream line signals purity and wholesomeness and rich flavor. Serve our milk at all times to enjoy these qualities.
The program featured staged feats with wheelbarrows and a pole climb, lit by lamps after lights failed. VirginIa Baker drank milk from a bottle, DeVault Roseborough aided, and Frankie Lou Morris performed a grass skirt hula. Doris Cowarthlan and others organized pages from a Sears catalog into acts.
Mount Dora High School expands its music program as a large glee club led by Miss Mary Frances Pemberton rehearses several songs and performed at Friday assembly on October 9. New enrollees include Lillie Beasley Jeanne Thayer Natalie Spilky Ossie Ginther Hazel Edwards Dorothy White Virginia Chapman and many more.
The school orchestra meets on Monday Wednesday and Friday under Miss Pemberton. It is small but promising and credits are awarded this year for music. Current members include Edward Kimball Buster Battle DeVault Roseborough Marjorie Roberts William Turrentine Bob Burkart Lena Harding and John Burkart.
A girls volleyball team is organized under Coach Craig to broaden sports and shape fitness for basketball. Evening practices may shift to Donnelly Court due to heat, with players listed including White Walden Spilky Mortenson Chapman Beasley Dean Thayer Holt Shipes Daniels French Turrentine Wells Drawdy Williamson Moon Boyd Blair Clery and others.
Mount Dora High School installs lighting for its first night football game against Dade City on Friday October 16. Two giant lights and reflectors rise on fourteen poles. bleachers were added by manual training students at a cost of $110. Local civic groups and individuals funded the project.
Mount Dora’s Golden Hurricanes were routed by Winter Park for their third loss of the season. The Orlando Sentinel cites inexperience with only three linemen and backs having prior game time, plus disorganization as factors as Coach Vincent seeks the right lineup after three games.
The report notes Bill McCown called Little Sub is promoted to first string halfback. Harold Lane wears a pet baseball cap in place of a helmet and will receive a regular helmet after the game. Coach Vincent directed the swap, and Bob Burkart inquires about the score during signals.
Read through a jumble of teen gossip and social rumors touching Mount Dora High and nearby Eustis. Names like Shirley Coen, Eudora White, Dorothy White, Mary Louise, Ossie Ginther, Ruth Beerbower, and Judy Davis appear amid talks of dates, games, music lessons, and class activities.
The feature spotlights sophomore students including Bob Jones and his chin touch habit Shirley Coen with her lively character Ruth Harris and her schoolgirl complexion Billy McCown as the Little Tin Soldier on the football team Lloyd Shoemaker famous for his funny expressions Bobby Wells teaching driving Thomas McCabe with bashful charm Tom Comer causing laughter and Eleanor Minkley in a blue Plymouth.
A fragment notes a class meeting called by a figure named Townsend with a mention of an individual with a dimple and a reference to irons, suggesting a school scene or student gathering.
CLASS NOTES describe Friday October 9 as freshmen arriving with pigtails, clothes inside out, and suitcases in odd disarray. D D R Jr is noted with new girls as classmates push each other including Lou Morris and Adelaide Key during the day.
The eighth grade introduces Allen Grant Harold Etty Myrix Crouch and Jack St John at a class meeting held Thursday October 1. The group voted to collect fifteen cents per student as dues for the year.
The seventh grade news club elected Arvil Cooper as president and Helen Wells as secretary. The seventh and ninth grades swapped rooms on Wednesday September 30.
Eustis High proposes a cross school news exchange with Mount Dora and Eustis High. Eustis reports over 100 boys in the Manual Training class this year making a rowboat sailboat tables ironing boards and porch items plus toys for sale at Christmas to fund shop equipment.
The Eustis Panthers narrowly lose to the Sanford Celery Feds in a close battle after a scoreless first half. Sanford breaks the deadlock early in the second half with a touchdown as Eustis pushes for an equalizer before the whistle ends the game. Byron Campbell from the State Road Department addresses students on school safety and notes Florida had no student deaths in schools during the prior year.
Penny P. Miller expresses gratitude to friends of all colors for kindness during her husband’s illness and after his death.
Madison County farmers have shipped 102 feeder steers in recent weeks. The count reflects continued livestock activity amid rising market interest for cattle feeders.
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