Time Rich Reflections and Bank Study in High School
The High School Reflector opens with editor Mary Frances Stephens and assistant Clarence Wootten. An editorial urges budgeting time to avoid rushing during exams. The page notes a student Billy who attended WHS briefly, described as an excellent student missed by his class. Junior business students study banks, their purposes and services, with each student responsible for review questions and notebook entries.
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Billy
Annual set to be patriotic theme for Tayloe staff
A Tayloe Engraving Company representative met the annual staff and teachers to decide a patriotic theme for the upcoming year. The staff voted for an annual similar to 1942 with all four grades and activities represented. A $1 deposit is requested from readers through Miss Neathery or Merle Scoggins.
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Tayloe Engraving Company
Neathery
Merle Scoggins
Shakespeare study links Caesar to modern dictators
English II students finished Julius Caesar and compared ancient rulers to today’s dictators. The revival of interest occurred in 1938 with a Mercury Theatre production in New York City. English III students wrote source themes with individual subjects, requiring an outline and a bibliography.
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Julius Caesar
New York City
Billy Pennington Visits Local Sher man High Senior
Billy Pennington a former W. H. S. student visited Thursday afternoon. He is currently a senior at Sherman High School this year and was observed speaking with teachers and students.
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Billy Pennington
Sherman High School
Droll Rhythms of Schoolroom Riffs Rule Day
In a brisk verse collage seven students and teachers each claim a quirky trait or task. Hunter circles in a whirl while Hanna tends a curl and May struggles with lateness. Cook sighs in sass. Stephens sports red ribbons. G. C. speeds a bed search. Caraway shuns the coat. Miller bears the nickname Goat. Montgomery stirs up fusses until Mrs. B. settles the scene without a muss.
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Hunter
Hanna
May
Cook
Stephens
G. C
Caraway
Miller
Montgomery
Mrs. B
Civics to be discontinued after mid term
The civics class, busy with mid term review, will end after the test. Students study questions from a long list and read a new booklet The Constitution of the State of Texas to prepare. No decision yet on replacement course.
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Beazley
State of Texas
History class reviews social changes before Civil War
The class studies social changes prior to the Civil War and plans a complete Civil War study after mid terms. Each Friday they conduct map study and review current event articles. Mr. Gentry reports the class is performing excellently.
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Gentry
W. R
Schoolroom Sparks and Quiet Crushes Hint at Secrets
Notes between L. S. J. and R. J. R. spark rumors of romances with Christine Nicely seen with a junior. D. J. mourns without W. J. H. Jean Caraway courts B. R. S. as T. K. May's note slipped during fourth period. B. M. S. crushes E. M. Romeo Scoggins is linked to the chatter.
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Christine Nicely
J. R
Christine
D. J
Jean Caraway
T. K. May
B. M.S
E. M
Romeo” Scoggins
No major event discernible in fragment
Fragmentary notes reference several personal names and light gossip. The text mentions freshmen girls, a nickname bait and chicken Reeves, plus relationships among individuals R. M., Y. E. K., T. M. M., and B. A. D. with casual asides about Navy and Marines.
Notable Local Figures Draw Curious Portraits of 1952
The column playfully questions local identities such as Margaret Hanna as an old maid Merle Scoggins dubbed Bing Sinatra and Janis Horton dating choice. It ponders Willa Jean Hunter as a career woman Kirk May styled Clark Gable of 1952 and others including a dance instructor nicknamed Spooky Jones Madame Stephens Swiss cheese invention and Y B K preferences.
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Mary Frances Stephens
Clarence Wootten
Miss Neathery
Lindy Ashinhurst
G. C. Brown
Joe Cook
Weldon Ingram
John C. Jones
Kirk May
Bob Montgomery
Edward Montgomery
Bobby Morgan
Clifton Ross
Muriel Scoggins
Lester Simpson
London Slaughter
Betty M. Allen
Etha Brown
Jean Caraway
Mary J. Cobb
Opal Goodnight
Margaret Hanna
Willa J. Hunter
Theda Lewis
Corthia Mitchell
Alma R. Reeves
Willadean Rice
Thelma Jo Wilson
Merle Scoggins
Bing Sinatra
Janis Horton
Clarence
Willa Jean Hunter
Clark Gable
General science class studies sunlight effects on Earth heat
Under Mr. Felker the class explores how sunlight heats the earth with several experiments. Students alternate between classroom and laboratory to observe and discuss the experiments before performing them.
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Felker
K. M
Chemistry Class Explores Elements And Halogens
In class students studied element composition and relationships with a focus on halogens. Iodine fluorine and chlorine experiments illustrated properties while a classmate duo Reeves and Brown correctly performed an experiment surprising the group.
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Reeves
G. C. Brown
E. M
Expensive Letters and the Cost of Angry Mail
A business correspondent plus stenographer and overhead cost about 50c to $1 per letter, with 35c as a baseline for 25 letters a day. Angry letters risk customer loss and costly cancellations. the advised cure is to fire or placate the irritable writer and vent temper on paper then tear it up.
War era notes and cultural snippets from a 1940s page
A collage of wartime curiosities from famine to feathers, red blackout lights, and a tale of lifeboat survival recapped. Mentions the Isaac Walton feather depot in Chicago for soldiers gear, Yankee Doodle origin debates, and a Norris novel arriving this year as Runbeck’s Readers Digest feature is noted.
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Europe
Asia
Oimekon
Arctic Circle
Vladivostok
Siberia
Isaac Walton League
Chicago
United States
England
U. S. Army
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Miss
Double-Day Dorando and California Waterfront Tales
The piece notes a California setting about a shipowning family on the San Francisco waterfront and mentions Lillian Hellman as The North Star sold out in a week, with a motion picture script adapted into a book and a second printing underway. It also defines remorse as a form of failure.
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California
San Francisco
Lillian Hellman
The
North Star
Miss Hellman
Millions of new houses at 1600 dollars predicted after war
Dr. James Shelby Thomas, technologist, foresees mass construction of homes costing 1600 dollars with unbreakable glass plumbing and noise converting filters. He says wartime research will yield vast home, farm, medical, chemical, and dietary advances and may lead to a “perfect man” in 100 years.
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James Shelby Thomas
Thomas
Texans cite Lovelady heirs in petition case
Citation 52493 commands B. E. Lovelady and unknown heirs of Ada Lovelady Tolbert to appear and answer the plaintiff’s petition by 10 AM on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance.
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B. E. Lovelady
Ada Lovelady Tolbert
Court Notice Seeks Partition by Receivership in Grayson County
Citation issued Monday February 28 1944 before the District Court of Grayson County Texas at Sherman. Plaintiffs Katherine Propect and Frances Propect seek partition and appointment of a receiver to sell 69 acres in John H Annear survey and 15 acres in John Vaughn survey claiming indivisible property and asking for court adjudication of heirs interests with relief in law and equity.
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A. D
District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Katherine Propect
Claude Lindley Propect
Frances Propect
Ruby Mae Martin
Paul William Martin
B. E. Lovelady
Ada Lovelady Tolbert
Followig
John H. Annear
John Vaughn
S. V. Earnest
Inez Steed
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Joe Smith Dyer
Charles G. Norris
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Tim Holt
Th Cliff Ukulele
Ike Edwards
Joan Barclay
Bert Gilroy
Lesley Selander
Bennett R. Cohen
Morton Grant
Africa
Sat. Prevue
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Costello
Ginny Simms
Patric Knowles
Elyse Knox
Johnny Long and His Orchestra
America
Ryak
Donald O'Connor
Susanna Foster
Lillian Gish
Richard DIX
Peggy Ryan
Anne Gwynne
Noah Beery, Jr
Borrah
Minevitch
Rascals
Bobby Brooks
Quartette
Count Basie
His Orchestra
Pathe News
Dennis O’keefe
Margo
Mobileil
Q. C. Stateville
Washington
Sahara
Mr. Lucky
Bombardier
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