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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
7
The W H S Reflector notes holiday joy with staff listings and festive scenes as students and families plan reunions and celebrations. The piece highlights decorations, baked fruit cakes, turkeys, and a shared Christmas spirit honoring the birth of Christ.
December brings the most joyous day of the whole year Christmas. People forget troubles and focus on gift buying. Christmas trees, colored lights, and decorations create festive spirit as late shoppers hurry. Newspapers warn of many shopping days left. Letters to Santa flow from children awaiting the great day.
On Friday night December 18 the pep squad honored the football boys with a banquet planned and served by the basketball girls to raise funds for basketball uniforms. The room featured a T shaped table, cedar decorations, yellow chrysanthemums, yellow balloons, and black goal post place cards. A yellow program and menu listed tomato juice cocktail, turkey, dressing, congealed salad, sweet potato puffs, green beans, beet pickles, cranberry sauce, pecan pie, whipped cream and coffee. The program included invocation, welcome, Merriwell Vineyard, reading, Norma Frances Donigan, solo by Mr Jernigan, introductions by Mr Gaddis, cup presentation, and an address by John McMurry Jr of Gainesville.
Students in English under Miss Tapscott must have ten points outside reading, usable as oral or written work. They may earn five points in two fields or three points in three fields plus one extra point. Those in Miss Draper’s class must accumulate ten points across three fields.
The senior class held a party Thursday night, Dec. 17, in the High School auditorium. Sponsor Mr. Gaddis could not attend due to his baby’s illness. Mr. Burma chaperoned. Various games were played and tuna fish sandwiches with soda pop were served.
Miss Tapscott teaches Home Ec III this week focusing on fashion trends. Students discuss styles during the first two days of class.
On Wednesday the students gained valuable experience helping Mrs Kennemer dress turkeys while only a few knew how. By Friday Miss Tapscott with her mother taught the girls to make cranberry sauce and checked progress by telephone until the sauce was done.
In Thursday’s English IV discussion the class picked four melodious names Anita Vestal Lorna Lee Thornton Mary Lee Chaney and Betty Jo Morrow. The vote chose Betty Jo Morrow as the most musical of all.
Vocational agriculture students dug trenches on Mr. Grammer's farm to place spreaders. Several boys worked Tuesday and Thursday morning Mr. Bean led those behind to dig aprons of the spreaders. One boy noted feeling much ahead now.
Ely senior girls profile two close friends with shared routines. One has brown hair and brown eyes, is five feet five inches, weighs 116 pounds, and lists typing as her favorite subject while naming Preston Henderson as her weakness. The other, with black hair and brown eyes, weighs 119 pounds, and prefers commercial law with Douglas Humphrey named as her Romeo.
Miss Lurline Travis remains a patient at Nan Travis Hospital in Jacksonville after a tonsil removal last week. Her two uncles, both physicians at the hospital, attend her as Miss Tapscott and Mrs. Kennemer shield the home front by keeping work confidential and concealing details of her condition. They fear she would relapse if informed how she is being taught.
Anita Vestal and others spent weekends visiting in Dallas Sherman Bonham Blue Ridge Sherman Savoy Dor othy Smith Greesville and Friday. The basketball boys begin the season with new golden satin suits trimmed in black and a new gym as the team works to make this year a successful one.
Mr Jernigan supervised a junior class picnic to Parrish's bottom last Thursday night. Refreshments served to Grapes Vine yard Margaret Arnwine Fred Starr Frances Golden Butch Kaiser Aileen Pennington Boyd Newman Sarah Belle Gillett T J Russell Norma Frances Donigan Billie Burl Hopper and Neil Holmes. Weather threat caused the event to end early.
Several boys trained in the pleasant weather last week in Whitewright. The team appears poised for a strong county championship showing with a solid chance to win.
The Whitewright track team has begun practice under Coach Key who provided new equipment and promised more if more boys join. The squad aims to be in shape for the March 27 Sherman meet, an event historically won by rival Van Alstyne.
The A V Hi Y club met at the High School on Wednesday night. A committee of Jack Meador Floyd Everheart and Grady Stepp organized the upcoming picnic for next Tuesday. Mr Bean led the program stressing why high school students should go to college and warned that choosing easy subjects leads to poor job prospects after graduation.
Miss Dorothy Tapscott and Mrs Jewel Kennemer teach home economics during Miss Travis absence. Both claim long experience yet reveal only minimal formal training. The W H S quintet beat Tom Bean Tomcats 53 to 26, with second team outscoring the first. Nearby games include a 44 40 win over Van Alstyne and a 20 10 girls loss. Local notes mention former students visiting and social events at Pilot Grove and a promotional line urging spending in Whitewright.
Coach Homer Norton of Texas A and M said Joe Routt, the Aggies All American guard, will return for his final year of gridiron eligibility. Routt could have graduated but has one more year due to scholastic ineligibility in 1934, making him a fifth year senior.
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