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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1950
Page
6
The Whitewright High School Reflector lists editors and staff across sections such as Barrie Blanton Sports and Pep Squad. It notes Carol Ryan's sixteenth birthday weekend, driver education classes, discussions on a new building, and plans for future events at WHS.
The speech class has fourteen members with thirteen seniors and one junior. Names include Carol Hughes Molly Rutledge Beverly Judd Herman Musser Dean Neal Jack Badgett Gwen Kent Gladine Harper Conway Craig Jeanne Wilson Barrie Blanton Bill Brown Gene Bush and Carol Kilgree. Mrs Kathryn Roddy leads the class. Tigers host Denison B team Thursday at Bryant Field.
The senior class met to elect the annual staff. Gwen Kent is editor with Billy Earl Brown as assistant. Gladine Harper is business manager with Carol Hughes as assistant. Jimmy Christian is the bookkeeper. Conway Craig is sports editor. Molly Rutledge is photographer with Ray Simpson as assistant. Beverly Judd handles art editing. Advertisers include H. D. Lewis Minnie Monk Ouida Ryan and Eugene Bass. Typists are Barrie Blanton and Laura Wilson. Junior senior and grade photographers are named along with a note of the upcoming Bryant Field game against the Tigers.
The sophomore class finished memorizing The Star Spangled Banner within two weeks set by Mrs. Roddy. Some performed orally while others sang. late performers must recite all four stanzas instead of three.
The second year homemaking class finished its first project of the school year. Garments were mainly skirts and were described as very nice by teacher Mrs Dyer. Next the girls will make blouses skirts and dresses.
Last week all homemaking classes were given free samples of Wild Root cream oil shampoo. All were glad to receive this. Mrs. Dyer says she sends for samples for us whenever she sees an advertisement.
A humorous essay outlines the rules of apple polishing as a classroom discipline. It emphasizes daily attendance on time arrival to please Mr Petrash and complete assignments. The piece notes the importance of six weeks tests for grades.
WHS students showcase suede footwear from brown heelless pumps to loafers with heart motifs two hearts on toe and coin slots. Gray and black suede loafers and wedge heels appear alongside vibrant red and green corduroy outfits highlighting campus fashion notes.
Every morning at 10 20 nine students enter room 15 for economics taught by Mr Pe trash. The class struggled to start as many began driver education instead of economics but now they are doing well. They discussed production and consumption and various foreign government systems with several reports presented.
Whitewright dominates Gunter 46 to 0 after a early fumble on their own three yard line. Musser and Partridge each score twice with Craig Burnham and McKnight adding singles. Billy Brown was out ill.
Miss Mollie Shannon of Kilgore spoke at Mary Harden Baylor College on charm on a date. She urged putting others first, self improvement, and Christlike character, noting charm comes from within and builds from sincerity friendliness and appearance. The article ends with a hedgehog hunting method note.
In Quebec Canada the population is mainly French speaking with cultural and linguistic emphasis on French language and heritage shaping daily life and public affairs.
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