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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1940
Page
7
The High School Reflector credits Doretha Darwin as editor in chief with a student led feature on sound science. Loretta Alexander and Mary Alice Harrison oversee reports as assistants while a long list of reporters cover the project. The article notes experiments showing a vacuum does not transmit sound and sound travels in all directions. It states the speed of sound as 1,087 feet per second and explains how air enables sound and ear function.
The piece profiles two senior students, Marie Badgett aka Fatty and Albert Thornton, highlighting attributes, activities, and interests. Marie is a pep leader and pep squad vice president with long dark hair and blue eyes who enjoys hot dogs and figures in skating and campus recognition. Albert, six feet tall with black hair and gray eyes, is a popular athlete known for basketball and football, drives a tan Chevrolet, and favors typing as a subject. he accompanied the football queen at a past event and goes by Sugar Boy and Al.
The Whitewright High School library adds classified and fiction titles including Your Civil Service by Brien and West Point Today by Banning. Aviation books in the shipment feature This Flying Game by Baker and I Wanted Wings by Lay with others. weekly lists will publish some titles and authors.
Junior business students under Mrs Kennemer study communication principles and history. Four new library books include Worlds Messengers Heels Wheels and Wire How They Carried the Mail and Pony Express Goes Through. The class will next cover telephone telegraph and radio.
The general scientists overseen by Mr. Russ will study the player piano and the phonograph, focusing on their principles and key points as part of the science class.
In Mrs Lackey’s English III, students discuss short stories and take a daily wee small quiz on the current story. Vocabulary study is also stressed to reinforce comprehension.
The second period algebra class translates problems into equations to find unknown numbers. Students present problems on the board and explain their solution steps under teacher guidance.
Plano Wildcats defeated Whitewright Tigers 48 to 7 in district play. Batchelor scored Plano’s first TD on a line plunge. Whitewright’s lone score came on a nine yard run by Smith, after a pass for the extra point.
Coach Montgomery asked for school and Pep Squad support for the Friday afternoon ball game. The Pep Squad yelled throughout the game and repeated all yells at least twice. At halftime Miss Williams arranged the squad into three lines and scheduled Monday and Tuesday morning practice for drills for the last game.
In Mrs Kennemer's Typing I class students split into sides for a race testing typing principles. Billy Kincaid and Nina Pierce led one side while Mary Alice Harrison and Jack Sears led the other. Mary Alice's team won after a tie.
In a first year English class students earn five points for sending a social letter and receiving a reply. They are also choosing from thirteen story titles including Queen's Race Assembly Bell Campus Cut-up First Day of School and The Pure Food Show.
World history students led by Mr. Morris gathered in the auditorium on Wednesday to hear a draft number drawing. The event framed as an instructional activity for understanding the draft process.
Students hear President Roosevelt briefly address the nation before the first draft number. It is their regular class period with a lesson on inferences and a weekly current events report from a map and current-event paper. They compare primitive man to modern people and reflect on inference meaning.
The English II Club met November 1 to select the club name D. T. Y. A. and the motto A Good Try Makes a Good Grade. Ruth Mc Spedden presided as president and the program featured a game, riddles, a talk on parliamentary procedure, a song, and a book report, ending early due to lack of time.
The Whitewright chapter of the Future Farmers initiated twenty five new members on Wednesday night October 30 at the High School. After the formal ceremony, side degrees included hot seat raw eggs and oysters and dipping hands in green dye to mark new members.
Genette and Genelle Hicks spent Sunday in Bells. C B Burchfield seen in Leonard on Saturday. Marie Badgett went to McKinney Sunday. The football boys attended the Farmersville Rockwall game Friday night. Albert Thornton in Sherman Saturday. Jonnie B and Dale Marie Robbins visited relatives in Sherman Sunday. Billy Jack Harper to Hove on Sunday. Dorothy Jeanne Crowell spent the week end in Bonham. Ardell Penny seen in Leonard on Sunday. Lewis Vestal seen in Leonard Others seen in Sherman over the week end were Ernestine Tomlinson Ardell Penny Dorotha Darwin and Marie Badgett.
Mr. Russ outlines seven key benefits of school bands. They build educational focus through disciplined thinking and self expression, promote self reliance and team harmony, provide physical training, offer social prestige, fire youthful ambitions, assist college funding, and refine the soul through music to elevate personality.
The Hi Y Club gathered Monday night October 28 with no sponsor present. Acting in place of the sponsor, Mr Daniel Russ led the meeting as the president and Otto Russell filled in as acting president. With no program the group discussed the constitution and adjourned after a brief creed followed by some basketball.
The Home Ec I class works on formal special occasion dresses. Students have fit patterns and material, will baste and fit next week. Most are making formal dresses while a few are making other formal gowns.
The Glee Club, led by Mr Russ, resumes after summer rest and works on songs including De Gospel Train The Lord's Prayer Hymn to Music and Prayer Perfect. He teaches basic music theory though he will not push too far.
At Friday school assembly Mr Mor ris announced policies on excuses and absences then J Frank Wilson introduced a multi act program with students Mary Alice and Joanna Harrison and guitarist Charles Harrison performing Ragtime Cowboy Joe If I Had My Way and In the Mood Other numbers featured Brazwell Alexander Bussy Thornhill Leroy and Lonnie D Martin with Laverne Kilgree pep leaders led the crowd Coach Montgomery stirred energy with a Plano game preview and Mr Key noted those going to the ball game could go while others would have school The bosses would run at 4 o clock J B R
The class covers congressional and gubernatorial elections, primaries, and general votes. Current events include Japan's oil shortage, a Chinese artist's death, fears of air raids, unbeaten 53 foot ball teams, national defense, the Pope's peace appeal, and F D R's call for a wise peace.
Mrs Roddy’s speech students plan four skits for the next Friday morning assembly. The first uses a single spoken word titled Ah. The second uses facial expressions for Crooked Mouth. The third is called Blue Beard. The fourth, The Educated Farmer, is an original by Carlton Alexander.
A Pep Squad meeting on Oct 31 in the Whitewright gym featured yell leaders Marie Badgett Russell Ray Summers and Mary Alice Harrison presenting new chants. The squad rehearsed Blood and Thunder Brick and Far Whitewright Eleven Here They Are Rain and Freezing Snow and Sleet Whitewright Tigers Can’t Be Beat and then refined old yells for rhythm and motions.
Chemistry students under Mr. Russ generated oxygen by heating manganese dioxide with potassium chlorate and captured several bottles. They ignited bright flames by introducing burning sulfur and red phosphorus into the oxygen. Hydrogen was produced from zinc and diluted sulfuric acid and tested in multiple experiments with the prepared gas.
Whitewright Tigers were set to scrimmage the Tom Bean Tom Cats last Monday but rain postponed it to Tuesday. The scrimmage Tuesday afternoon benefited both teams, per B G.
The Home Economics class examines lines colors and styles of general wear dresses. On Monday patterns were altered then placed on fabric. Miss Williams checks patterns before the girls cut. Students work in pairs.
An October 28 assembly featured Mr Key presenting Uncle Tom Cunningham who thanked staff and students for their cooperation during the Pure Food Show. Mr Morris announced that no student may eat pecans or peanuts in school buildings and that absences or tardiness require written excuses. He also said football players must attend school and practice to play.
A reflective maxim urging generosity in effort with the promise that good returns follow. Attributed to J M, it frames giving your best as a moral guide.
For two weeks the Glee Club studied part singing and the number of staffs in a score. Sharps flats and clefs were discussed. In a few days they plan to begin practicing Christmas carols for a program.
The shorthand class supervised by Mrs. Kennemer began writing on Monday. She dictated lessons to the students, who will begin typing their dictation as soon as they improve further.
The bookkeeping class has been studying partnership in part time business. Each couple prepared an article of co partnership an initial balance sheet an estimated budget and cash book statement of profit and loss and a final balance sheet.
Eight Future Farmers members ordered linine shirts with a gold insignia to publicize the national organization. The F F A chapter urges all members to purchase one shirt for visibility.
English IV classes have studied The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The novel captivates the class as it portrays events of the French Revolution.
Fashion notes corduroy as the most popular fabric for versatile wear. The piece urges buyers to choose corduroy for a smart, serviceable look suitable for all occasions, branding it as ideal for an ultra stylish image.
Direct sweeping toward the center after opening all windows to prevent dust from settling on woodwork and walls. This method reduces residue on surfaces and improves cleanliness during cleanup.
Sherman notices the death of Mrs. Eulalia Everheart 82 a longtime resident who died Saturday at Wilson N Jones Hospital after illness since August 5 She was born in 1858 in Trinity NC moved to Sherman in 1893 from Kentuckytown and married T E Everheart in 1879 Surviving Ernest K Everheart W T Everheart O E Harvey and one grandchild Funeral Sunday at Daniel-Scott Chapel with Dr J A Ellis officiating Burial in Everheart Cemetery south of Bells.
An old roadside dweller tells the new pastor he learned much by listening here and there, then admits he was too lazy to forget it. The anecdote highlights his sharp hearing and his habit of passive memory.
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