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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1951
Page
6
The Reflector editors thank grade school teachers for sending or phoning in activity reports amid a busy schedule. Readers are asked to continue sharing student updates from various grades and to hear from other classes next week.
Mr. Burgher Reed Vestal born August 10 1915 in Whitewright area attended Baylor two years and earned a BA from East Texas State Teachers College in 1937. He served in the Air Force 1941 42 and the Army as a code man overseas, married Marie George in 1944, has two children, taught at Bangs and Trenton before Whitewright, now teaches history math civics economics.
The Future Farmers of America held a district meeting Tuesday night October 16 at 8 oclock in the Whitewright auditorium to organize a district group. About thirty members attended including Tommy Egel Bart Brooks Gene Huff and teachers Gene Foster from Whitesboro Lynn H Ton Wayne Key B R Rodgers Charles Franklin E J Morgan from Tom Bean Austin E Haney Raymond Birdwell Tommy Armstrong J C Atnig and Gannett McGrew from Sherman Jack Pritchard and Dean. The next meeting is set for November 20 at Tom Bean.
On Wednesday morning October 17 the freshman FFA elected officers with John Brown serving as temporary chair until a president is chosen. Elected were Jack Ayres president Jackie Pannell vice president John Brown secretary William Russell reporter Jimmy Hoover treasurer David Reeves historian Ralph Hughes sentinel Billy Hyecock first vice president Connie Andrews third vice president and Larry Hayes song leader.
Alice Marie Ryan, an 18 year old with brown eyes and hair, born July 15, stands five feet four inches and serves as flag bearer for the Pep Squad. She favors bookkeeping among English IV and secretarial training, likes friendly people, dislikes show offs, enjoys football, collecting letters, movies, Hillbilly music, and hamburgers with dill pickles, and follows the motto Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Second year agriculture students at WHS work on mounting 15 insects they capture and bottle. Mr. Barker will handle sawing while the boys assemble their prized mounts in the workshop. They aim for clean varnished mounts for display.
Whitewright under Sam Montgomery beat Wolfe City 38 to 12 with McKnight scoring three times from 20 25 and 35 yards. Burnham Jones and Clark added one each as two point conversions kept score low. Wolfe City’s Joe Payne punched in two 3 yard TDs. Halftime stood 19-6 with Whitewright holding 24 first downs to 7. Next up Honey Grove poses a stiff test.
Allan Davis nicknamed Chubby is a humorous football freshman with a sunny personality. Connie Andrews from Pilot Grove is a shorter, chubby freeman boy aiming for the junior football team this year.
The Zone 3 Baptist Teenagers met Monday night Oct 15 at Pilot Grove. Officers elected for the coming year include Ruth Ann Cummings president Jimmy Christian vice president Donald Morgan secretary Jackie Rogers reporter Billy White song leader Tom Bean pianist Pat Duke from Sherman. Tom Bean presented the program and refreshments followed in the gym. Whitewright won the banner.
Nancy May Wallace Aubrey Burn ham Florena Williams Margaret Williams Carol Hughes Joy Layman Nora Hughes Jimmy Christian and Ruth Ann Cummings are listed as featured individuals in a community notice. R. A. C. initials appear at the end.
Sophomores and juniors completed a short story unit and chose seven activities from ten. Each student did three required tasks including oral and written reports a vocabulary notebook and a test while selecting extra tasks such as vocabulary expansion panel discussions displays dramatizations and a search for the best short story with grades varying by activity.
Idle chatter notes the second year agriculture class acting oddly by day with eyes fixed to the ground. Report suggests they are searching for bugs in a humorous schoolyard moment.
A WHS report describes junior and senior students in the earth science unit and group reading. Activities include measuring shadows at noon and 3 p m, noting day length changes and seasons, plus storytelling and leaf displays. The third grade family lists 32 members after Robert Harvey moved to Dallas.
A portion of the group shows reluctance as they begin geography lessons, while others display curiosity and careful attention. The cautious tone reflects varied confidence levels among boys and girls in the class.
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