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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1939
Page
7
Mr Manning announced plans to replace much written work with constructive tasks to boost student initiative and interest. The civics class will be divided into groups and begin project work soon, while continuing lessons on government and its services. Grading will reflect attitude and knowledge.
The new W H S band is formed under teacher Mr Russ with twenty three members led by Don Newman and Betty Nell Yeager. The roster includes Ruth McSpadden Laverne Kilgree Martha Vestal Foucheaux Vestal and others. Members note these placements are temporary.
Second year typing taught by Mrs Kennemer is now part of the curriculum upon student request. The advanced course, unused for several years, will utilize typing ability and is being studied by many seniors and graduate students.
The English IV class met on Thursday September 14 to organize a club. David Taylor was elected president Willie B Smith vice president George Hansard secretary Rudolph Russell treasurer Jack Wallace sergeant at arms. Committees named include name committee chairman Earleen Benson with Jack Wallace Ruby Pierson Merlyn Brown Mildred Fleming motto committee Evelyn Hill George Hansard Brazwell Alexander social committee Joy Wilson Dorothy Booh er Drunette Farley. The club adjourned to meet again Thursday.
Mr. Russ, the new math chemistry and music teacher at W. H. S., hails from Mt. Pleasant via Forest Grove. He plans a large Glee Club with varied ensembles and radio chapel programs, an orchestra for all instrumented students, and chemistry studies including petroleum and starches in a new lab.
In a Monday night gathering the HI Y urged all former members and anyone wishing to join to attend the meeting in the gymnasium. W B S.
A mathematics class with forty students has spent the week exploring whole numbers and fractions and addressing stated problems.
A new high school course for junior and senior boys in home making covers clothing etiquette foods planning a house budgeting income money management and family living Reading the course notes teachers note the class appears to be popular among the boys and hope they become good homemakers.
English IV class with thirty students edits the Reflector this year and has organized a club in progress. The club name and purpose are not yet selected, as pupils study newspaper work and discuss goals.
A former campus building nicknamed the dog house was converted into a chemistry laboratory on the top floor west of the main building. About fifty to seventy five dollars was allocated for chemicals and equipment. Students anticipate many experiments under new teacher Mr Russ.
A Thursday morning assembly urged students to vote on keeping the student council for the year. A meeting of last year’s council prepared a program outlining activities and introducing football players, with elections for yell leaders. Students curious about forming an orchestra were told to meet Mr. Russ after dismissal.
Officers of the Future Home Makers Club and the council met at Lake Fannin to outline goals for the coming year. Plans include upgrading the girls basement, adding first floor drinking water, converting the old chemistry lab into a first aid room, adjusting the assembly and chapel schedule, bi monthly gym meetings with religious services, producing a yearbook, and refurbishing the living room with third year girl supervision. The group swam, concluded business, and rose early the next day.
Tiger coach Mr Montgomery trains about thirty players including nine lettermen for the 1939 season. Injuries slow Paul Simmons and C B Bryant but fans expect strong play despite light squad and late spring pants. The Tigers aim to even last year’s scores with new plays and hard practice.
The senior class elected its officers on Monday with George Hansard as president, David Taylor as vice president, Martha Jo Darwin as secretary, and Howard Wallace as treasurer.
Evelyn Hill as parliamentarian and reporter Robert Benson name the senior groups. committees include Program with Claire Doss Emma Joyce Hinton Rudolph Russell Doyle Alexander. Entertainment with Mildred Fleming Frances Riddle Ruby Pierson. Finance with James Norris Modene Vineyard Drunette Farley Willie B. Smith Leslie Andrew. Ring with Earleen Benson David Taylor Modene Vineyard. Seniors also decide to sponsor an annual event this year.
Mr N L Manning is appointed principal at Whitewright High School succeeding Jernigan the Pilot Point superintendent. Manning has ten years in Whitewright schools with seven years in the grammar school including five years as principal. He will also teach history government American history lead the Hi Y Club and serve as senior sponsor.
The Glee Club plans a reorganized year with half credit for work. It may undertake several trips and present radio programs. The club will enter the state contest and has been invited to perform a 45 minute chapel program at Commerce.
Twenty four boys enrolled in third year agriculture plan to enter an agriculture booth at the Red River Valley Fair. They must gather crops, with plans for an educational background feature. Some will enter livestock and poultry in F F A divisions. Mr. Cunningham will teach parliamentary procedure and a unit on farm marketing after fair preparations.
Twenty two freshmen and sophomores enroll in first year agriculture seeking an easy course. They soon discover farming is hard as Uncle Tom gets tough. The class organizes for the year, plans work, selects projects, and studies parliamentary procedure. All boys aim to become Future Farmers to learn new farming methods.
The note lists students welcomed to W. H. S. including Ernestine Tomlinson Orangeville Stella Brown Sedalia Ella Brown Sedalia Dorthell Cowen Sedalia Louise McSpadden Linton Eula Mae Lambden Beaumont Jimmie Golden Desert Ruth Mears Desert Othel Holcomb Van Alstyne Annie Laura Ashley Sulphur Okla Ann Smith Randolph Malacha Wright Sherman Davis Parish Fort Worth.
Ex students Doris Nicholson and Thelma Autrey return to W. H. S. for advanced senior typing classes. Their presence signals ongoing engagement with the school community and ongoing educational activities.
The student council met on Thursday Sept 14 at 12 30 in the library to decide on forming a new council for the coming year or not elect yell leaders and set assembly plans. It will hold daily assemblies from Friday to Wednesday so clubs can present their plans while old officers preside until new officers are elected.
A summer library update highlights new arrivals including Admiral Byrd's Alone an account of five months isolation at Advance Bay in 1934 and The Tree of Liberty a novel by Elizabeth Page about Jefferson and others.
The Glow Worm staff notes state credit books for the Seventh Grade and promises more specials later. They expect the eighty available titles to make reading certificates more popular this school year.
The piece expresses relief at peaceful American life despite global war, urging students to value schooling and contribute to their school paper. It contrasts dangers abroad with safety at home and asks readers to show gratitude for the privilege of education in the land of the free.
Seventh grade students extend a welcome to Mr. Ricketts our new principal and arithmetic and manual training teacher. They have enjoyed arithmetic periods this week as a chance to get acquainted and express optimism about working under him and his pleasant approach.
A school celebration invites patrons to visit the relocated library described as new with a sunny southwest room and many new books funded by the school board. Thanks are given to Mr. Ford for the shelves and to the librarian for posters and bulletin boards, following figures shared by Mrs Myrick.
A reader survey covers Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights as a tale of passion and conflict, Nora Waln s Reaching for the Stars on Germany under Hitler, L M Montgomery s Anne of Ingleside with humor and tragedy, and Constance Rourke s Audubon a full biography with Birds of America plates.
Twenty two students in Mrs Kennemer’s typing I class study fundamentals of typing. They use touch typing. home typewriters were used with hunt and peck but progress toward touch typing is noted.
The dog house, once dead, comes alive with hammering and sawing as farm shop boys under Mr Cunningham repair hammers and straighten the place. In two days they have done initial work and plan to settle into full tasks once more equipment is provided.
The H. E. I class has twenty nine enrolled. They spent initial days getting acquainted and are studying a unit on learning to get along with other people. The class now meets the first period daily and will split first and second periods for lab work later this year.
The Junior class chose Dorotha Darwin as president and Mary Alice Harrison as secretary and treasurer. J B Smith became vice-president and Wilton McFarland the parliamentarian with Laverne Kilgree as reporter. Sophomores elected C B B Bryant president and Otto Russell vice-president. Secretary was Robert E Sears and Mary Frances Clabhorn treasurer. Freshmen chose Patty Everheart president Dorothy Sue Douglas vice-president. Wallace Reeves secretary and treasurer, Jack Sears reporter, Russell Ray Summers sergeant-at-arms.
Mr. Ricketts leads the first boys team while Miss Fletcher selects champions. Miss Sullivan keeps promising material out of the first boys group and Miss Sanders oversees girls not chosen for the first team. All groups organize for a definite physical education program.
The third grade welcomes John Whisenhunt from Kentucky town, Marvin Hogg from Mahurin, and Ruby Jo Dendy from Trenton as new members.
Seventh grade language arts class writes on My Vacation with many using imagined trips. Students feel day dream themes may win top places, inspired by Flying in Printways which urges using the printed page as a magic carpet to wondrous faraway places.
In our study we use radio and newspaper reports from Junior Review. Students collect European army clippings and prepare reports on Hitlerism. Gaynelle English works on telescope lens project for Mt Palomar. Watson and Ward prepare Hitlerism special reports.
The present roll call for the 1939 1940 term lists current members and updates. Names reflect enrolled officials and committees alongside established roles within the organization. Further details specify inclusion criteria and forthcoming changes to the roster.
A roster of residents and community members includes Jean Anthony Donald Ray Bartlett Nelda Benson Barrie Blanton Billy Brown Murrell Brown Joyce Brown Gene Bush Emma Carraway Peggy Clark Nannie Clark Charlie Clathorn Joe Cox Conway Craig Dorothy Ford Louise Gibson Gladine Harper David Hansard Pee Wee Jones Bobbie Janway Jack Johnson Gwendo lyn Kent Frances Layman James McCarty Dorotha Magers Billy Mullins Don Mullinix Jimmie Queener Mollie Rutledge Ouida Ryan Louise Selman Charles Simmons Lorene Simmons Gene Stubblefield Cordell Taylor Eldon Watson Paul Watson Thelma Watkins and Juanita Whisenhunt.
James Lewis Arledge Joe Earl Call Bobby Haliburton James Ross Hall Carrl Hansard Billy Ray Harrison William Hughes Lonnie Jones listed among local residents in reader-supplied roster.
Local roster includes William King Willie Frank Martin Marion Myrick Rosse Myrick Edwin Owen Joe Glen Pannell Kelley Bruce Pierson Bobbie Sam Musser Billie Joe Scott Bergie Stateville Perry Taylor Jack Vineyard Norman Watkins Thomas Whisenhunt Betty Blackerby Billye Fay Dillon Lonnie Ray England Imateene Hall Annette Harper Prilla Ann Hinton Wanda Nell Jones June Marie Kelley Jane Meador Vera Belle Taylor Mary Frances Thornhill Betty Jane Watkins Laura Jean Wilson Merle Bartlett highlighted in the community notices segment.
Dean Alexander, Tommie Bartlett, Johnnie Mack Coffman, George Henry Hansard, Marvin Hogg, Clifford Kelly, Lonnie Magers, Jessie Mack McCarstin, Dwight Smith, Jack Stephens, James Edgar Taylor, Arvin Vestal, J. W. Watkins, Happy Jack Watson, John Whisenhunt, Betty Bryant, Margaret Coffman, Ruby Jo Dendy, Patsy Jean Drain, Janet English, Cora Lee Head, Freada Hembree, Nola Mae Ingram, Jacylyn Nosaman, Charleen Stateville, Zoe Vestal, Martha Dee Williams are listed among locals connected to a forthcoming community event.
A roster of residents includes Victor Birchfield, Billy Blackerby, Bobby Claborn, David Claborn, Pat Gray, J. A. Harper, Vernon Hogg, James Johnson, Buford Justice, Jack McSpedden, Jimmie McSpedden, Lonnie Myrick, Loren Paul Ryan, Eugene Thornhill, Clarence Tipps, Gene Trotter, Johnnie Mac Vestal, Harold Vineyard, Nelda Brown, Geraldine Bush, Elda Cambron, Betty Ann Darwin, Alice Davis, Helen Gordas, Jo ann Grammer, Betty Ingram, Irene Kent, Betty Lou Key, Julynn Musser, Betty Lou Reeves, Bessie Sanders, Ella Sanders, Gladys Taylor, Billy Jean Wallace.
A long list of fifth grade students is named including Billy Ben Ball Wilber Howell Aris Myrick Billy Earl Henslee Ada Henslee Norma Smith Glendon Magers Terry Max Miller David Lee Johnson M H Mullins J H Lance Jo Willa Owens Reba Mae Cox Mac Dean Roper Jimmie Watkins Roby Lee Wilson George Simmons Ernest Harrison Billy Ward Evans James Reeves Guy Norris Donnie Magers Winnie Sue Queener Ellea Ray Riddle Alice Johnson Marjorie Bridgewater Mary Helen Hill Betty Jo Hamilton Betty Lee Jones Betty Margaret Sears Wandadell Sanderson Joe Vestal Gwendolyn Evans and Betty Jean Brice.
A roster of sixth grade students includes Jimmie Bartlett Edyth Biggerstaff Polly Ann Brown Lucy Ann Burch Margaret Ann Burnham Dor tha Mae Clark Betty Lou England Nancy Sue England Ima Sue Garner Paula Jean Garner Janis Jayne Horton Mary Lee Hughes Katie Kincaid Henrietta Jackson Daisy Johnson Virginia Jones Jimmie Lou McCarstin Willie Ruth Maddux Edith Pauline Owen Betty Jo Pierce Virginia Louise Pierson Bessie Jo Russell Nancy Alice Taylor Peggy Thornhill Oulia Wilson Bettye Nell Yeager Billie Hopper Curtis Alexander Billy Christian Fred Ray Garner Melton Howell Dan Kent Lonnie D. Martin Patrick Murphy Don Newman Billy Jo Norris Earl Owen Eugene Reeves Ernest Sanders Carl Simmons James Sloan Roy Taylor Jr. Sammy Jack Taylor L. A. Watkins C. G. Watson Everett Watson.
A longOCR snippet lists numerous personal names including Lester Simpson Bobby Jim Morgan G C Brown John Rufus Taylor John Charles Jones Doyle Hinton Carl Pierson Weldon Ingram Edward Montgomery Glenn Stapleton Jack Ward C J Watson Melvin Fleming Joe Howard Cook Billy Rhom Pennington Homer Gray Rountree Eudell Bush Kirk May Kinneth Norris Bobby D Montgomery Etha Louise Brown Mary Frances Stephens Joanna Harrison Margaret Lucyle Hanna Mary Frances Call Gladys Cambron Aurelia Penny Gaynelle English Montie Fae Coffman Lorine Taylor Ola Agnes Riddle Ruby Carraway Elizabeth Mullins Lowelda Myrick Mary Jean Simmons.
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