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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1938
Page
7
The W. H. S. Reflector lists Floyd Everheart as editor and Sara K. Atterberry as assistant editor along with a large roster of reporters. Officers elected include Chairman Earleen Benson and secretary Mary Alice Harrison. The club plans meetings every other Friday.
A message urges more interest in sports and recreation for girls at Whitewright High School. It warns against standing aside while others participate and calls for cooperation, forgetting jealousies, and following the leader to achieve much.
Home economics students found the sewing laboratory tabletops and both laboratories floors varnished on Monday morning, a pleasant surprise that brightened the work spaces.
On a Monday morning the Pilot Grove and Bethel districts welcomed a new red white and blue school bus seating about fifty. Driver Edgar Ayres says it is hard to keep the speed to thirty five miles an hour as students head to the first day of school.
Civics class studied daily news focusing on Germany and Czechoslovakia and the Beaumont convention. A test over these subjects was given Thursday.
A first day scene shows a freshman roaming halls asking for his English period. He asks Mrs. Roddy and Mrs. Lackey about schedules, getting four questions right for English and two for another class. Teacher notes his persistent curiosity and expects him to learn the answers within nine months.
This year 169 students attend W. H. S with 57 freshmen 54 sophomores 30 juniors and 28 seniors. The senior class has 14 boys and 14 girls and 103 live out of town from Bethel Pilot Grove Ely Enterprise Canaan Rose Hill Mahurin and Kentuckytown.
The Home Ec III section I girls held a Friday meeting to elect officers for their division of the Home Ec Club. The following names were selected for leadership roles and duties within the group.
The Home Ec II class held Friday period to elect officers. Evelyn Hill was named chairman Ruby Pierson secretary Madene Vineyard treasurer and Mary Phillips reporter.
A high school student saw an ox and a mule pulling a wagon with two African American men on board on Monday morning near Whitewright. The pair reportedly harvested a crop together last summer and were photographed after reaching Van Alstyne.
The eleventh grade welcomes four new students Billy Glen Earnheart from Trenton Cloddie Brown from Sedalia Murry White from Farmersville and Clifton Birchfield from Randolph Also joining ninth grade are Marjorie Birchfield from Randolph Ralph Hall from Trenton W J Bilmner from Savoy Lorene Kilgree from Sherman and Dorotha Austen No new students in the tenth grade.
The Whitewright high school welcomed students on Monday with chapel in the auditorium led by Principal Jernigan. Superintendent Mr. Key introduced the faculty and announced no hazing by upperclassmen. Students collected books and began classes after a late noon dismissal.
The English IV class of W. H. S. held its first meeting on Thursday September 15 to elect an editor and assistant editor for the Reflector. Floyd Everheart won the editor post and Sara Kathryn Atterberry the assistant editor role.
Seniors learned Thursday that their rings are due this week and six dollars ninety cents remains to be paid. Most are known by bracelets and belt buckles from this past summer as they prepare to flash their new rings in days ahead.
The W. H. S. Tigers of 1937 finished 8 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie in an eleven game schedule. They were runners-up to Rockwall in district play, 13 to 0, and captured the Class B C trophy presented by the Sherman Democrat and Morris Jewelry Company. The star of the season was J.
Thornhill completed eligibility last year and is finishing high school this year. Backfield stars include Boyd Newman who enrolled at Baylor as a freshman, Fred Starr who chose North Texas State Teacher's College in Denton, and Joe Preston Lee taking a course at Pomona College in Pomona, California. Wilson Kaiser remains undecided about college. Jack Jernigan plans to attend NTSTC. Ernest Lewis and Merriwell Vineyard picked North Texas Agricultural School as their farming cradle.
Clean-up week sees home economics classes sweeping the cooking lab and refreshing materials. New foods and clothing textbooks arrive, aiding the year's study. First term focuses on foods, with clothing to follow at mid term.
Miss Frances Williams is introduced as the new Whitewright high school home economics teacher. She is from Dallas, attended Dallas public schools, earned a degree from T S C W at Denton in spring 1938, and enjoys tennis swimming sailing and music. She and her mother live at the Whedbee apartment and she attends the Christian Church.
Thirty students learn typewriter parts names, locations, and uses. They practice key positions, using manuals to guide typing.
A journalism-style note reports a large chemistry enrollment, with Mr Key trying to deter students by labeling chemistry hard. He took the class to the lab on Tuesday to pair off, and students must buy a work-book and an apron. Despite this, the class looks forward to lab work.
Fragmentary lines question relationships and traits among students and staff. References to Mary Alice Birch, Marjorie Birch field, S K A blonde, M K P short and plump, N P brunette, Mr Key chemistry, M T and B G E mischievious, a fish learning stairs, P A without a cat, Bertha Ford and a bus, W W as a fish not a soph.
The bell rang loudly and repeatedly echoing through the building as observers waited. After several tense seconds no one moved and the moment drifted into a puzzling pause for those present.
The seniors laugh at freshmen as they rush to classes at 8 45 before the 9 o clock bell. The fish class alone stays calm while the others stumble over the joke. The note adds a wry farewell to Mr Freshman with the line about the early bird getting the worm.
Whitewright high school vocational agriculture boys plan a booth at Sherman's Red River Valley Fair. The display features one variety cotton and 16 crops including grains corn and small hay bales. Mr Cunningham hopes to win prizes.
A senior girl, popular and five feet two, 118 pounds, with light brown hair and blue eyes, known for her personality, loves basketball, and connected to J. B. Henderson for name. Another senior, five feet seven and a half, 190 pounds, brown hair and eyes, was football center, basketball manager, and class president in sophomore and junior years. Three guesses.
On Wednesday afternoon a rat ran over the girls on a bus causing screams and a stop by the driver Mr. Watson near the railroad track. After the fright subsided the riders laughed and continued home, leaving the frightened rodent in a corner.
Whitewright High School welcomes S. T. Montgomery as the new coach and math teacher. A hometown graduate from E. T. S. T. C. Commerce class of 1938, Montgomery was a standout football player for the college. Aiming to lead the WHS football team to victory.
A library reports a new acquisition featuring a large print Bible with tinted illustrations and a Reference Dictionary Index. The collection includes 55 Winston Simplified Dictionaries 34 fiction titles by London Alcott Kipling Hilton and others plus nine copies of Merchant of Venice and several new biographies.
A Wednesday morning incident features Whitewright High principal Mr Jernigan tumbling down stairs in a playful scene. The report insists he is agile, clear of intoxication, and not conceited, noting this as an odd but harmless record in the school’s history.
W H S students vacationed widely over the summer with Betty Atkinson leading a California tour. The itinerary included New Mexico salt flats, Lagoon mission, Tia Juana in old Mexico, Venice California, a 70 mile swim by Chotteau, Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and a San Diego Balboa Park visit. Betty also met Robert Taylor and Groucho Marx during the trip.
Betty and S K A toured Canyon of Palms and an outdoor pipe organ recital in the city. They also visited Bing Crosby’s Del Mar race track, with Betty eager to return to California to see the sights again.
The first year home econ girls at W H S join the second and third year members in the Home Ec Club. First year students are split into two groups with morning and afternoon sessions. Friday morning officers were elected for the first group: Lucille Starr chair, Mary Frances Clabhorn secretary, Virginia Hill treasurer, and Louise Wilson reporter.
Students greet the new term with refreshed energy as peers chat about classwork and friendships. R G E enjoys the buzz around M G F E while N M P talks of G N. others tease R B about R A V J R.
A critique notes that a poster showing a salute at 50 yards with a boastful nose-thumbing at many viewers risks misinterpretation. It warns advertising teams to avoid two-way meanings and mentions a Kansas student reporter who described an operetta with flamboyant phrases ending in a pun about expectant mothers.
A news item notes that Uncle Tom's Cabin has been translated into twenty foreign languages. The milestone highlights broad international reach and enduring relevance of the anti slavery novel across cultures and regions.
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