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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1959
Page
6
High School Reflector reports Future Homemakers of America study housing ownership shifts from 1940 to today. Students divide into groups to plan kitchen inventories, budgeting and consumer choices while mastering pruning and essay contest entries sponsored by Co ed Magazine with prizes from diamond rings to silverware and toiletries.
A list of short pairs shows students addressing various recipients with intimate song titles and nicknames. The exchanges read like cheeky yearbook blurbs with names including Charles Copeland Jean Noble Sarah Billy Joe Leonard Brenda Joe Chat Jimmy Bennet Dee Anna Ray Don Repine Donna Kay Martha Hershey Carole Swamp Carol Billy Wayne Ann Charles Linda Pickle Paula Narvin Linda Bill Carol Sue Alvin Chris Tony James Shirley.
The agronomy group visited a home making lab on Monday and Tuesday to study etiquette such as restaurant ordering hotel behavior and tipping. Later in the week Wednesday through Friday they explored farm electricity focusing on how electricity is used and how bills are calculated.
The ag class studies selecting dairy cattle to boost milk production and butterfat. Some cows live shorter lives but yield eight to ten calves. A dairyman should know cattle background to obtain a quality pedigree. The cattle type affects disease resistance and overall health.
The Whitewright FFA monthly meeting on March 9 set up joint committees with the FHA for Western Week. Members named include Publicity Mickey Gentry and Joe Kaiser. Awards Jimmy Clark and Bobby Durham. Program David Sanderson and James Sparks. Finance Curless Aldridge and Thurman Pool. Concessions James Williams and Thomas DeBerry. Coronation Jimmy Wilkinson and Billy Tillett. Stage and Decoration Jimmy Clark and Leonard Jarvis. Barbecue Herbert Taylor and Scotty Phillips. Cleanup John Wetzel and all freshmen. Parade David Blackerby and Barry Taylor.
The American literature III class at WHS studies a unit titled The Flowering of the East. Irving and Cooper are early prose writers, Bryant and Whittier the first poets, with Poe Hawthorne and Melville still viewed as artists for poems and stories.
The Whitewright high school track team traveled to Fort Worth on Friday March 13 to compete in the Southwestern Recreational Track and Field Meet. Abilene won the team title with Carter Riverside Fort Worth taking second as Whitewright showed steady improvement from the Dallas meet a week earlier. Notable performances included Jimmy Clark 10.2 in the 100 yards and 23.3 in the 220, Wilbert Bennett 55.0 in the 440 heat, and Bobby Phillips fourth in the 880. The sprint relay finished sixth while the mile relay placed last. The team heads next to Commerce for the East Texas Relays.
The senior class and home economics girls enter a national contest titled My Choice of a Career. Miss Neathery requires both boys and girls in the senior class to participate. Themes will be handed in, typed, and sent to the contest sponsors.
Tulips Rochelle Alexander Roses Helen McKinney Lilacs Judy Ayres Violets Sue Range Orchids Doris Burchfield Bachelor buttons Barbara Wilson Pansies Billie Lewis Daisies Jean Brown Lilies Louisa Lackey Sunflower Ruth Williams and C S The homemaking girls start a chapter on nutrition They will discuss the importance of good nutrition They will study basic food needs and compare caloric contents of different foods
The State Department of Education requires one half PE credit per year for graduation totaling 18 credits with two in physical education. Consequently junior and senior girls play baseball daily from 3 to 4 pm after classes under Miss Neathery’s guidance.
The Future Homemakers of America is a national high school organization for students in homemaking courses. It promotes democracy in home and community life, leadership, and stronger family values, with the eight sided emblem symbolizing home and community influence.
A school crowd chatter column notes weekends and nights out among students. Contains names such as Ruth Williams Doris Lewis Carole Judy Pat C Barbara B and Leonard boys while hinting at romantic pairings and social mischief with references to cars drags and notes in Spanish class.
Booker Wright, 96, and Elsie Pickle, 68, wed at the courthouse in Clintwood Virginia and planned a month long honeymoon in Miami. Wright hails from Virgie Kentucky and Pickle from Pikeville Kentucky.
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