Winter Haven High School - Wha Hwa Hta See Yearbook (Winter Haven, FL)

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-. Juniors become cooks to raise money for the Prom. ITH RESPONSIBILITIE , . . . Plant City Planters dug into us T9-7 . . . The honorable new Honor Society members were initiated formally at a special assembly . . . We hammered the Haines City Hornets 28-O, and celebrated afterward at the Blue Devil Staff dance . . . International Club initiation time-eyes popped as celebrities with lipsticked IC's on their foreheads at- tended classes . . . Seeing purple spots and brilliant flashes of light? Yup, the annual staff is at it again, trying to blind everyone with those flashbulbs . . . Seniors felt very sophisticated and seniorish as they were honored at the Faculty-Senior Tea . . . We tied Dade City 6-6 . . . Beaus and Sweet- Bunny Hop around bonfire builds spirit for the Homecoming game. Ll Monkey's eye view of a pep rally hearts were announced at the Anchor-Key Club Dance after the game, and Mme. Foo- Foo amazed, amused, mystified and morti- fied her audience with revelations of the present and the future . . . The Glee Club demonstrated its versatility in a varied as- sembly program October 27 . . . Welcome home, Terry! We all turned out to celebrate his return with a big party . . . The annual Staff was crippled by the loss of its type- writer, when the school office was burglar- ized . . . The first of November some students displayed their mental standing by wearing dunce caps to class . . . the Beta Club chose this way of initiating its not-so-dumb new members . . . Suddenly winter shook an icy finger at us, and mufflers and mittens ap- peared, but the newly formed Variety Band warmed us up with its hot rhythm in an assembly . . . we all especially enjoyed Liberace Sloan's piano, and George Wood's direction . . . Burros brayed, and lovely Spanish senoritas and gallant caball- eros sang La Cucaracha to inform the school that the Spanish Club was initiating new members . . . sts

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1 r 2? as I Little Bill makes his social debut at the Senior Tea. Voting made easv- Then you push this little doohicky . . . UR BUSY COMMU ITY. Sound off! Wl'iat's the big occasion? Terry's party, of c 1 I Hands across the table-at the cheerleaders' bake sale. Els Eat, drink and be merry. purge, Anchor Club's favorite Beau gets his bow. if if 1 3 mf - like ,ff . r i

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Ne' . . . The Armed Forces visited us in the form of a special assembly, informing the iuniors and seniors of the opportunities in the dif- ferent branches of the service . . . Education week was observed by an assembly and a play written, directed, and acted by Mr. Sloan's creative writing classes . . . College Day came for the seniors, and they met and talked with representatives of their chosen colleges . . . Finalists in the I Speak for De- mocracy contest were Mary Ann Taylor, Joanne Race, Ramon Delgado, Terry Barkin, Ed Blate, and Suzy Norman . . . the top orator was Joanne, with Ramon and Ed fin- ishing second and third . . . The Blue Devils trounced WauchuIa'l3-6 in our last out-of- town game of the season . . . Wednesday, November 24th began our big Homecoming weekend . . . for the past few days students had been working feverishly on floats for the parade . . . the festivities got under way with a pep rally in the stadium . . . the sen- ior football players looked darling as cheer- leaders, and vice-versa . . . the yelling con- 5 ,C so Joanne reads her prize Winning 5 E 35-I Democracy speech ' W, , to Ed and Ramon. I If i ' f Terry's fan club. test between the classes and the band was a five-way tie . . . then the parade, with over twenty-five floats . . . the hard-working clubs with the winning floats were the Hon- or Society, the Spanish Club, and the Latin Club . . . at six we met at the Junior High for the snake dance. . . led by the band, the line ran twisting through town and down to the field for the bonfire . . . everyone cheered and sang, and the Bartow dummy was burned . . . Thanksgiv ng Day was spent, of course, around the dinner table, but at eight everyone was at the stadium rooting for a Blue Devil victory, but we dropped the game 6-O . . . the game was exciting, the half-time show was great . . . At last, the danceflQing Bobby and Queen Tweedle reigned over the happy crowd . . . GOVERNME T, SPCRTS Bartow burns at Homecoming bonfire, sag,