North Dallas High School - Viking Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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North Dallas North Dallas early set the pace for school spirit. A score meant as much as a game: a parade through the business section of town followed each athletic event, and at the downtown theaters spotlights were flashed on the star players. It must be remembered that during the first years there were no lettermen, and so the school was challenged to make a name for itself. The first Dads' Club in the city was organized here in l923. With the organization of the North Dallas R.O.T.C. unit, Colonel Alvin Ousley became the military sponsor. In the first parade, since we had no cadet personnel above the rank of sergeant, officers from Bryan Street High School were used. ln l925 the Bulldog football team won five out of seven games and produced three all-city men, one of them gaining an all-state rank. ln the same year under the direction of the late Miss Ruth Curtis the girls' chorus and boys' glee club staged an operetta entitled The Pennant, a comedy of school life. The year l926 opened with the daring production, Teachers Follies, which featured Egyptian snake dances, hoboes, and belles of 1906. Miss Epperson was the producer, and Cleopatra was portrayed by Miss Dice, with Mr. Baker carrying the royal snake which slew her. l927 found the Bulldogs barely beaten by Oak Cliff High for the city football championship. On December 27 the National Honor Society was established, which remains today one of the school's most important organi- zations. The Pennant, a comedy of school life was produced under direction of Miss Ruth Curtis. The current form of entertainment was going to the Old Mill Theater and listening to the voice of Gene Austin singing such songs as All Alone. .-XlV '- jirt iv A -. JI? t l, N Y ff 4 l' QQ ,, -akin iz S QUQBQRNC Y, S FQ5 Jig? 'QQ 'fs WW .5 ' vi' t K ' Q'-47 2 l ,. r N fi' 0 , ' yo X '-: Mm

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North Dallas In 1944 the gymnasium rocked to such tunes as Begin the Beguinef' This was the year that the well-known Sheats-to-Dickerson combination was selected for the all- city football team, and Mr. Comstock at one of the games became so excited that he broke his glasses. ln that year, also, North Dallas was chosen by Look Magazine for a pictorial story on typical school life. ln February North Dallas held her famous Service Recognition Program in honor of North Dallas students in the armed forces. When students returned to enroll in North Dallas for the fall term of l945, after a summer which saw the War's end, they found something North Dallas had never before known, a new principal. Mr. Comstock, Mr, North Dal- las, had been promoted, and to fill his place came Mr. W. O. Pipes. All-city lack Carpenter and Bill Hunter led the Bulldogs through one of the most successful football seasons the school had had in years, the schedule ending in a tie with Sunset for second place. ln April of 1946 the school was visited by an evaluation committee, and received a superior rating. The rifle team won the city match, and the shoulder-to-shoulder contest, Bill Stewart firing the highest score ever fired in the history of a Dallas R.O.T.C. unit. The stellar athletic event of the year was the track meet in which Cleburne Price became the high-point man in the state. Although Price was the only participant from North Dallas, his twenty-three points placed the school fourth in the meet. A successful season in every field, the largest gradu- ating class it has ever had, and an impressive anniver- sary celebration marked the school's silver-jubilee year of 1947. Since that opening day of l922, North Dallas has made a name for itself, and has fulfilled its obligation to the individual student and to the community as a whole. North Dallas may well look back with pride on twenty-five years of activity and service. l f, rr- 7. '- ff t ,- W t'fSRE'7f' ,I ll . ., fl, 1 .ye l l 9 923 Li, 1. ,. 'v 1 F NCP' ' Iva- . mlm o 1, ,JI K 2 ' .1 . 'ill , Mlglll .:,' ,L 34260 fvsifig' d O OCGA 'Af' 5 'fQ52gRllI5 mp. jf. -