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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1975
Page
9
A Grayson County College group named The Voyagers performed for Whitewright High School last Thursday. Director Boyd Whitworth leads the fifteen student musicians selected from the large choir class. The Voyagers travel to area schools as goodwill ambassadors for the college and have visited WHS annually for eight years, lifting student spirits.
At WHS students complain 35 minute lunch limits push driving and vending meals. A proposed on campus snack bar would provide tables, music, and a variety of foods to ease noon rush and keep students on campus. Beta group funds from a 7th grade basketball tournament support grade school renovations.
A county brief notes a P T O meeting at W H S on March 3 and Lions Club basketball games scheduled March 4 to 6 at the high school.
The record lists weekly school meals from Thursday February 27 to Friday March 7 including Frito Pie and hamburgers with sides, and notes a Tom Bean Tomcat pep rally last Thursday saluting graduating seniors. It also reports Penny Madison, eight, named district champion in twirling at Garland AAU events and her Denison twirling team’s prior national title.
End of a long drought at Whitewright High School capped a season where the Tigers claimed the district championship for boys basketball. The 1952 starting five included Jimmy Christian and Dearle McKnight, with coach Glen Howard guiding a team that played a four-town double round robin against Leonard, Wolfe City, Honey Grove, and Cooper.
Dianna Hendrix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hendrix, born January 28, 1957 in Sherman Texas, has been active at Whitewright School since first grade. She served as FHA reporter, Junior class secretary, assistant editor on Tiger Talk, Drill Team lieutenant, and is senior editor of the annual staff. She was Football Sweetheart and Tigerette of the Year. She enjoys Italian food, a Mustang II, The Eagles The Way We Were, Robert Redford, camping and swimming. She plans to work and later attend business school.
Randy Hicks, son of Harold and Mrs. Hicks of Bonham Texas, won the FHA Beau title after a runoff with Barry Bonds. Seventh graders participated in a Beta Club tournament February 20 21 and 22 to raise funds for school improvements.
A season culminates with a best two out of three playoff against Quitman where the team falls short one result not disclosed.
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