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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
7
W H S Reflector editor Floyd Everheart and staff reporters including Wilma Alexander and others covered a meeting focused on sports. Speakers Jernigan Willie B Smith and Hack Harrison gave solid talks on sports. Afterward the group closed with the creed and everyone played volleyball.
Forty eight Whitewright home economics girls and instructor Miss Williams rode the new W H S bus to Sanger for a regional home ec club meeting. Nine hundred forty students attended with one voting delegate per school. New officers were elected. Mary Dale King named parliamentarian. Lunch served. program drawn by lot to fit time. return trip completed with song stops. Next gathering planned for Waxahachie in February.
The Hi Y Club of Whitewright high school met in the high school gym on Monday night November 28 under the direction of Mr. Jernigan. Thirty seven members attended with four visitors, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Manning, Mr. Montgomery, and Mr. Key. Absences from the last meeting were not listed.
The W. H. S. faculty, led by Key Jernigan Manning Ricketts Montgomery and Cunningham, fell to Trenton in a three out of five set match at Trenton last Wednesday. Trenton won the first three games, with W. H. S. forcing two extra games that also ended in defeat.
The Book Worm Club met Friday during the English III period with Earleen Benson presiding. Marilyn Smith read the minutes and led the program, including reviews of A Daughter of the Samurai, By the Light of the Lone Star, Life of Hawthorne, and Stella Dallas. Drunette Farley provided a report before adjournment. next chairman will be Fredna Owens.
The Pep Squad met Tuesday to decide formal or informal dresses for the football banquet. The majority chose informal dresses. A Wednesday vote followed after much debate, reaffirming the preference for informal dresses.
The W. H. S. girls basketball team coached by Mr. Jernigan traveled to Trenton last Wednesday night and lost 29 to 33. The Tigerettes led by half, but fouling in the second half and weaker forward play allowed Trenton to win while promising new suits to the Trenton squad. Starting lineup included Harrison Henderson Penny Arney Childress Alexander with substitutes Auten and Robbins.
Commercial law classes finished six weeks of study by submitting notebooks with 35 cases briefed. By mid term they must prepare 100 written and have 65 new tasks to complete, leaving 35 to be written in the next six weeks.
Five students are noted as Christmas gifts in a December birthday list. Mary Phillips turns 17 on December 5, Earleen Benson on December 19, J. B. Thornhill on December 23 turning 20, David Taylor on December 26 becoming 19, and Charlie Sue Childress age 16 on December 13. David Taylor is highlighted as the closest to a Christmas gift.
Faculty women ran the Friday assembly with two songs led by Miss Williams and a Scripture read by Mrs. Lackey. Mr. Jernigan announced a magician show Friday night at 7 o'clock under the Glee Club. Mrs. Roddy led the Lord's Prayer followed by two more hymns before closure.
The basketball girls met on Wednesday to elect their manager Laverne Kilgree. She will travel with the team to games and handle their clothing duties.
Whitewright High hosts a Thursday night show by magician Mr Graves and his company for one hour at 7 30 PM. The sleight of hand artist features the Chinese Chopper act and plans to reveal the identity of a local person on December 9 under the Glee Club’s auspices.
Home ec II classes under Miss Williams focus on cooking and sewing this week. One section finishes sewing dining room curtains while both sections prepare school lunches. Students celebrate two new dish sets added to the department.
The Junto Club met Friday December 2 during class period with Laverne Kilgree as president and Marie Ward as secretary. Members answered with hobbies and a program including hairdressing sewing movie stars poetry and English composition was outlined for an assembly next week.
The Spectators club met Friday Dec 2 with motto Being open mouthed doesn't make one open minded A committee of Marie Badgett Mary Lee Wilson and Ardell Penny was appointed to draft a constitution The program focused on hobbies featuring talks on What Hobbies Do for Us Collecting Stamps and other hobby topics by listed members.
A curious line builds a riddle about initials and traits. The note questions pairs like R F being short and fat, H C quiet, M G not pretty, R A staying at home at night, E N unable to walk, M W not a rambling romeo of W H S V J R.
The V A II class finished the second six weeks with a balancing test on Wednesday morning. Mr Cunningham announced the six weeks exam covering two rations and questions from the farm journal. The class later visited Mr Witti oe’s to inspect a trench silo they helped fill earlier in the term and found the silage in good shape.
A popular senior girl on South Bend Street stands about 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has dark brown hair and eyes, favors typing, and enjoys reading and collecting movie stars pictures. Her nickname is Gerrythree guesses. A studious and jolly senior boy lives south of Pilot Grove, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 165 pounds with brown hair and gray eyes. His
The note describes a person whose favorite subject is typing and hobby is baseball. The individual goes by the nickname Phorm. It ends with a prompt to identify the person who matches these clues.
The home economics III girls, a 13 member class, split into two groups to prepare and grade two menus for an informal dinner held last Thursday. After serving, the food was rated and the class began planning a dinner for Tuesday.
Mr Jernigan announced to his civics class Friday December 2 that they would visit the courts in Sherman the following Monday. The group would depart at 9 30 Monday morning and remain all day if court sessions continued. If they stayed, each student would bring or buy lunch for a noon picnic.
Geneva Earl Hicks visited in Porters on Saturday night. May Ashinhurst visited in Sanger on Saturday. Ruby Anderson was in Farmersville on Sunday. Velma Jo Reeves spent Sunday in Tom Bean. Dorothy Smith visited in Bonham and Sherman on Saturday. The Home Economics Club spent the day Saturday in Sanger. Naomi Penny was in Sherman on Saturday afternoon. -V. J. R.
The column notes ex students and popular pairs among W. H. S. girls. Names like R. E. M. J. R. B. H. R. H. M. F. C. A. J. S. L. W. E. K. L. F. B. V. L. N. D. D. C. H. B. M. S. D. S. H. H. W. J. A. N. trade whispers about who is dating whom and which pairs share time with Buck and others from nearby towns.
A fragment notes weighings of 82.4 grams and that all the girls and Miss Williams mourn over Jim. It describes him as cross and having coffee nerves, attributed to M., K. P.
A campus gossip fragment notes various social items among faculty and students. Mentions include volleyball team, new student outfits, relationships, quarrels, bus rides, and dress codes for events, with several named initials and local references.
A humorous anecdote notes that while Mr. Cunningham hunted last Saturday a covey of quail rose but his gun failed to fire because it was unloaded. The brief vignette ends with the author’s playful punch line.
Two weeks before Christmas at Bells High, V. L. N. recalls amusing high school quirks. Freshmen notes from T. S. prompt gossip about M. M. and others. Pairings and small scandals surface as students ride blue cars, discuss Tom Bean boys, and share glee club angels in a lighthearted column.
Junior Earleen Benson took a Sunday sailing flight in an airplane, calling the land “simply beautiful.” She was unafraid, though the cows below seemed startled, apparently performing the “big apple” as she described.
The civics class appeared happy Monday morning while M A and R F studied early. Sherman LA and B M S showed Sunday night happiness, possibly linked to Commerce romances mentioned by V J R.
The Sun offers typewriter paper adding machine paper and typewriter ribbons for sale. Items include typewriter paper and ribbon spools suitable for office use. Contact The Sun for pricing and availability at local storefronts or via mail order.
The W. H. S. mourns the death of three white rats named Tom Lon and Jim reportedly frozen on Saturday November 26. Miss Williams presided as coroner and the verdict was death by freezing. Burial occurred in the furnace room with Mr Short as funeral director and Lucky Sam survived after being fed sugar which fueled the body.
In a New York City civil service test a question asks if buying an article for 12.25 and selling for 9.75 yields gain or loss. A modern student allegedly answered that he gains on the cents but loses on the dollars, criticized for lacking brains but good looks.
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