This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1943
Page
7
The text notes Edith Harper and Charles Skaggs among staff and lists many reporters. It states the high school requires more students take second year algebra and plane geometry. Algebra II will branch into trigonometry and solid geometry to aid future armed services personnel.
The Reflector editor and fellow students regret the departure of Jack Sears to Dallas for a Civil Service appointment. He served as Student Council president, senior class president, Reflector editor, and Hi Y Club member. He entered Whitewright High as a freshman and earned the honor boy most likely to succeed.
The Tigerettes beat the Tom Bean girls 22 to 10 after leading 12 to 3 at halftime. Maddux was top scorer with 133 points and the lineup included Robbins Brown Reeves. The Tigers defeated the Tomcats 22 to 13 with Connor scoring 16 points.
The algebra II and plane geometry classes under Mr Butler have focused on books this term. They plan to devote more time to mathematics to aid those entering the armed services as both the Army and Navy urge high schools to offer more math. They note many recruits lack sufficient training for technical work requiring math.
The V. A. II sixth period class promotes intensified farming to help alleviate a national food shortage. Two talks on production were given by chapter members as field trips yielded dehorned cows and culling of a chicken flock.
The civics class debates the chapter Aiding the Underprivileged with the entire class reading prepared arguments before each daily session. After finishing the chapter, Mrs. Beazley will test them on its contents.
The High School reports six weeks of grades listing seniors Kathryn Beard Ana Faye Blackerby Alice Cato Anna Johnson Cecil Magers Carlis Neal Jack Sears Charles Skaggs Dale Robbins Madgene Phillips Lloyd Mitchell Edith Harper Robert Owens Ben Robert Jones Wallace Reeves Ira Mae Young. juniors Edward Montgomery Margaret Hanna Willa Jean Hunter Etha Brown Betty Marie Allen Bob by Jim Morgan Mary Frances Stephens Clarence Wootten Melba Jean Neathery Lindy Ashinhurst. sophomores Henrietta Jackson Polly Brown Edith Biggerstaff Nancy England Marie Hood Nina Bell Hood Billie Holcomb Betty Nell Yeager Katie Kincaid Ruth Maddux Jean Neal Odear Neal Don Newman Ida Pearl Thrasher Janis Horton Bessie Jo Russell Ima Sue Garner Daisy Johnson Pauline Owens Billie Jo Hopper Pat murphy Mary Dale Fields. freshmen Bobbie Neal Witt James Reeves David Johnson Dan Kent Glendon Magers Fred Murphy Billy Ward Evans Willanell Badgett Joyce Jones Betty Lee Jones Alice Johnson Madene Roper Frances
The list includes Bennett Geraldine Raley Mildred Hicks Thelma Monk and Marcia Blanks. An editor's note corrects an omission naming Howard Good from the past six weeks.
Mrs. Katherine Roddy returns to W H S to teach English I English II and speech and serves as dean of girls. Students and faculty welcome her back to the school community.
The piece introduces Harold Murphy and Eva Williams as students and suggests Harold is a football coach while Eva sponsors the Pep Squad and plans football participation. It also names Ernest C. Butler as Whitewright Public Schools superintendent. The Choral Club announces Victory program plans for February 18 and new songs including Katy with invitations to Bells Tom Bean Trenton and Blue Ridge.
The third year homemaking class has spent two weeks studying child care and presenting in class. Because they lacked a cook, students prepared meals and served faculty and the school board.
Edith Harper, a senior with red hair, earns multiple honors including editor of the school paper and senior play role. She is program chair of the Stene Club and most studious girl, with algebra II as favorite subject and an honor roll star. Ben Robert Jones, a senior, is class vice president, yearbook staff, senior play participant, with brown hair blue eyes and Civics as top subject. favorite teacher Mr Murphy.
The shorthand class has worked hard last week taking dictation and transcribing it. Daily, about an hour is spent on dictation and a similar time on transcription, with students finding letter transcription engaging despite the labor.
A. L. C. notes that students completed studying business letters and feel they learned much about letter construction. They hope future letters will be better formed as they move on to the study of paragraphs and how to build them.
The English IV class completed a unit on The Parts of the Sentence with emphasis on all parts of speech usage and sentence types. Students studied the parts of the sentence, the three kinds of verbals, and practiced diagraming. A test covering the unit was given Thursday.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.