Parker Chosen as Sikeston Commencement Speaker 1938
State College president W W Parker will deliver Sikeston high school commencement address May 23 in the auditorium. Seventy diplomas will be conferred by Lee Bowman, with Supt. R A Harper presiding. Baccalaureate services Sunday at 11 am features Rev E W Milner with union church services districtwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Parker
State College
Cape Girardeau
Sikeston High School
Lee Bowman
Board of Education
R. A. Harper
Sikeston Public Schools
R. D. Sorrells
E. W. Milner
Sikeston Baptist Church
Sorrells
Sikeston Senior Class Play It Never Rains Next Thursday Night
The Sikeston High School senior class will stage the three act comedy It Never Rains on May 12 with Miss Frances Burch directing. Cast includes Peggy Donnell Paul Bowman Kinnard Dillon Charles Tanner Mary Dover Lavelle Bird J L Cox Martha Jane Myers Ray Carl Marsh Marjorie Hocker Louise Tinde and Aileen McCoy. Bob Matthews and Roger Fisher serve as assistant cheerleaders.
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Sikeston High School
Frances Burch
Antonia Rouberol
Peggy Donnell
Paul Bowman
Kinnard Dillon
Charles Tanner
Mary Dover
Lavelle Bird
J. L. Cox
Martha Jane Myers
Ray Carl Marsh
Marjorie Hocker
Louise Tinde
Aileen McCoy
Bob Matthews
Roger Fisher
Lecturer Addresses Sikeston Students at Assembly
Sidney Montague, a well known traveler and lecturer, spoke to Sikeston high school pupils at an assembly on Wednesday May 5. His address capped a series of entertaining and educational programs presented during the school year.
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Sidney Montague
Sikeston High School
Montague
Calendar of Activities for 1988 Graduates
Calendar lists events for Sikes ton public schools closing and 1958 graduation plans. May 6 junior senior prom. May 11 board of education dinner. May 13 Red Pepper banquet and dance. May 18 senior class day. May 20 official closing. May 22 baccalaureate services. May 25 graduation exercises and senior dance.
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Sikeston Public Schools
Board of Education
English Club Formed by Manual Arts Class
Rex Wyatt was chosen chairman of the English Club recently organized by the freshman manual training boys under Mrs. Geraldine Young. Other officers are Billy Biester vice chairman Joseph Meiderhoff secretary Carl Diehl treasurer and James Fowler sergeant at arms. The club aims to remedy bad English habits among the boys. A small fine will be charged anyone who breaks the law.
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Rex Wyatt
Manual Training Boys
Geraldine Young
Billy Biester
Joseph Meiderhoff
Carl Diehl
James Fowler
Art Exhibit at Grade School Highlights Student Projects
An art exhibit is held this afternoon at the south grade school building under Miss Lucile Finley, first six grades art teacher. Displays include holidays, transportation and communication projects along with basketry, paper construction, weaving, tempera painting and crayon work. Patrons and friends are invited.
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Lucile Finley
May Fete Presented by Schools Monday Night
Locals attended the annual May Fete at the high school athletic field with 600 children performing dances songs and drills. Miss Louise Loebe and Miss Ruth Hollingsworth were crowned queen of spring and summer and of fall and winter respectively as the program featured a parade of the holidays holiday-themed numbers a Santa Claus display and a grand recessional under red flare lights.
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Likestonians
Louise Loebe
Ruth Hollingsworth
Miss Hollingsworth
Harold Swanagan
Betty Jo Gross
Buddy Aldridge
Mary Jane Sikes
Howard Wilson
Mary Louise Montgomery
Carrol Davis
Helen
Miss Loebe
Tommy Marshall
Mary Dover
Bob Matthews
Martha Jane Myers
Clyde Long
Louise Tinder
Bobby Dover
Eleanor Hahn
Ray Carl Marsh
Peggy Donnell
Brack Roberts
Janice Simmons
G. C. Baker
Santa Claus
Pet Show Draws Large Crowd At Grade School Event
A school grade pet show on the high school field drew about 500 spectators as 129 pets entered diverse entries including pigs kittens puppies bantam roosters pigeons dogs cats canaries parrots ponies and a lizard. Prizes paid were awarded to cutest smallest largest prettiest most unusual with a Be Kind to Animals week tie in. Judges and court pages were named along with festival music and staff coordinators. In a separate report Glen Smith 62 shot himself on his Belleview farm five hours before a circuit court trial on a charge of receiving stolen property.
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Pucky
Ed Dan Renner
Tia Me Fowler
Pluto
Owen Deal
Lizzard
R A Harper
Lee Bowman
Ironton
Glen Smith
Belleview
Smith
Local Students Place High in State Contests
Sikeston high school sent two contestants to the State music contests at Columbia last Friday and secured a first and a second. John Dover, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Dover, won first with trumpet solo Sounds from the Hudson. James Lewis, son of Mr and Mrs I G Lewis, took second with tenor solo The Penitent. They were accompanied by R D Sorrells and Marilyn Johnson, with a post contest stop in St Louis before returning to Sikeston.
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Sikeston High School
Columbia
John Dover
Harry Dover
Hudson
Herder
L. Clarke
James Lewis
I. G. Lewis
Salo
Beardsley Varn DeWater
Cape Girardeau
R. D. Sorrells
Marilyn Johnson
Malden
St. Louis
Committees Named for Bulldog Bark Special Edition
The Bulldog Bark senior edition teams are named by editors Tommy Marshall and Bob Matthews. Sports committee includes Paul Bowman Clyde Long and Byron Smith. Who's Who committee lists Roger Fisher Fannie Swarm Ruby Carrothers and Aileen McCoy. Sherman Grant C Baker Martha Jane Myers and Louise Tinder handle drawings. Jokes and dirt staffs include Ray Carl Marsh Jewell Bishop Charles Tanner and Billy Whalen. Stencil work by Paul Allen Louise Loebe Roy Wagner and Erma Cunningham.
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Oredia Boardman
Ruby Carruthers
Ida Lou Cravens
Erma Cunningham
Peggy Donnell
Mary Dover
Fleanor Hahn
Johnne Hutchison
Monica Kaiser
Mary Layton
Louise Loebe
Aileen McCoy
Margaret McGill
Wallette Morgan
Martha Jane Myers
Janice Simmons
Frances Ann Sitzes
Wilma Taylor
Louise Tinder
Velma Woods
Cleo Wright
Marjorie Hocker
Tommy Marshall
Bob Matthews
Bulldog Barker
Sikeston High School
Paul Bowman
Clyde Long
Byron Smith
Roger Fisher
Fannie Swarm
Ruby Carrothers
Sherman Grant
C. Baker
Bobby Dover
Mack
Brack Roberts
Will
Ray Carl Marsh
Jewell Bishop
Charles Tanner
Billy Whalen
Paul Allen
Roy Wagner
Stencil
Valette Morgan
Eleanor Hahn
Janice Simmonz
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Dr. Parker
Sikeston
Wm. E. Mahew
Paul David Allen
G C. Baker
Charles Beal
Charles Beard
Charles Branum
Robert Collier
Joe Cox
Frank Ferrell
Dempsey Gardner
Gene Grant
Woodrow Gwaltney
J. N. Hitchcock
Melvin Kornegger
Roscoe
Hickok
Palm Beach
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Slack Sox
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Coopers
Mark Twain
Haspel Seersucker
ENRO
Bradley
Catalina
ROB Roy
van Raalte
Phoenix
Rosanna
The
Buckner-Ragsdale Company
Herald
Crawford
Bully Sikes
Bill Wagegener
Billy Swacker
Kinzie Ponder
Page
Dickie Young
Flowers Girls
Eugenia Potashnick
Joan Schroff
Joan Cross
Ardith Lee Kirby
Eugene Hirschberg
Betty Gaston
Betty Northington
Dorothy Matthews
Willa Arthur
Mary Kirkendall
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