Anahuac High School - Anahuaconian Yearbook (Anahuac, TX)

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BACCALAUREATE AND COMMENCEMENT

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WAR WHOOPS OF THE TRIBE. In 1939 tw elv e papooses came 1nto the Bxg Wxg Wam of Knowledge at Anahuac Texas xn order to learn the ways of thls world that the Great Fathl r had glven them There s a cute l1ttle brown eyed papoose who looks lxke he s head1ng places 1n th1s world lt s George of I..1ghtn1ng Feet Benson There s a very qumet 11ttle g1rl across the row fr om h1m It s Dor1s of the Raxn Blume She seems to be very annoyed by some no1 s e behmd her It s Wmllye Mae Dark Ha1r Brecheen practmcmg he r daxly s1ng1ng lesson And there s1ts Ann Doe Eyes Charnbhss makmg fac e s and 1m1tat1ng her What 15 that racket back there '7 Not a cowboy ' It must be Tooter Brand Em Fast Haynes just playmng cowboy What s that gun do1ng 1n th1s W1gW3II17 lt s only J1mm1e of the Sky Matthews he s been huntxng ducks agaln There s a heap b1g papoose none other than Mont1e of the L1ghtn1ng M1les What 15 he bother 1ng that sweet l1ttle gxrl Joanne of the Moon Nelson for 'P He s J ust start1ng out early for h1s caxrmpalgn to w oo the pretty m a1dens Speak1ng of pretty ma1dens there s Elma Jolly Face Mo s laughlng unt1l her s1des fa1r ly shake Katherlne Fleetxng Fawn Otter come back mto thls room! Haven t you been told not to go mn the p ath wfthout a path pass 'P Donme Grxn On Face Sm1th loud mouth even then holle r s across the room at Joe Blg Bear Sandlxn to g1ve h1m back h1s funny book before Squaw teacher t ake s xt away from h1m Teddy of the Wlnds Sturrock put that huntxng knxfe away and qu1t try1ng to scalp Theresa of the Sun Turner She really dxdn t mean to tr1p you when you p a s s ed by She was only try1ng to k1ck the lxttle boy across the alsle Joe Thunderbolt Wh1tehead He had just 1nfur1ated her by w1nk1ng at the wow of the boys Sara Nmmble Feet Wxllcox She 1sn t pay1ng any att ent1on to hrm because she IS tryxng to add N1cky of the Falls Wolff to her p ac k because he IS so tall dark and handsome Raxnbow Wxlcox rolhng 1n at full speed tryxng to get there before the bell r1ngs He s been out pa1nt1ng pretty p1ctures on the W1gW3.!Tl ag a1n At the beg1nn1ng of the second grade cute and blonde Juanxta Falr Halr O Br1en added to the color of thls group but because of her father s Job she dmdn t return the next fall No one jolned the class unt1lMelv1n of the Flowers Kruger came 1n the fourth grade to add h1s ab1l1 t1es We suffered the loss of one papoose Nlcky durlng the mxddle of the year but luckxly he returned at the beglnnlng of the flfth grade to stay Luck was aga1n Wlth us the next year when J'uan1ta Faxr Hur O Brlen returned Farley Granger s pxcture IS posted on the wlgwam sbulletln board and who should be stand 1ng there adm 1 r 1ng lt but the cute l1ttle girl from Oklahoma Thelma of the Spr1ng Tucker who enrolled 1n the seventh grade Several were added to our class roll xn the exghth grade One of them was I..ou1se L.augh1ng Eyes Dunman wlth mar rlage on her mlnd from Conroe Texas Another student was Luna Ray Turn Em Fhp Ford who fl1pped wlth a bounce The next student really made the young mald ens hearts flutter He was tall c ute Ladell Hxgh 1n the Sky Stateham better known as Slew HIS pal who moved 1n at the same txme was Dave Speak um no Enghsh Wallace from Orange As our group made the1r grand entry xnto the Hxgh S c hool Tee Pee they were Jomed by a sweet l1ttle g1rl from H ankam e r Yvonne of the Stars Chne Follow1ng her was Jack Fxre Ha1r Colley who became the laughmg boy of the bunch Lmdsey Jo of the Clouds Hall better known as L I , came xnto the freshman c las s keepxng a close eye on Yvonne Addmg the fmal touches to the F re s hm an class was Barbara Dark Eyes Shaver who r e ally h1t w1th a bang Everyone seemed to thlnk that she would somedaybe rewarded for her beauty and sure enough Belng thoroughly used to h1gh school now the group welcomed a sweet lxkeable maxden who has captured the hearts of several of our braves Iuarnta Whmte Fawn Butler A bxg husky future football hero was the s ec ond of that trxo to znv ad e the w1gwam Th1s cute blond was B1lly Strong One Hammond Then came Dorothy R1pp11ng Laugh Webb who wmth her personalxty and brlght looks has won the frxendshxp of all the maxdens and b r av e s Durmg the Iumor year came Eddxe Thmkum Hard Kell the Emstem of the future whose presence completed the grand total of thxrty three wh1ch IS the graduatmg class of 1951 ' I I . - Y I ' I I , A - Q . . . . . 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HEAP BIG GOSSIP One evenxng not long ago Ma1den S Queen Lancon and lwere wanderlng around the carnp when we were summoned xnto the tent of the Father of the Trxbe R1ley Thxs was unusual so we were both very exc1ted Presently he Jomned us Mardens Sky Queen and F lam e Ha1r you two have been c ho s en to share and to help guard the secret of the future I shall now throw the sands of t1me upon the f1re then w atc h closely were the fxrst words he spoke A strange change occurred rn the f1re F1rst1tblazed hmgh and then v1s1ons began to appear The fxrst v1s1on was that of none other than Ladell Stateham better known to everybody as Slew Foot It seemed as though he had made qulte a name for hxm S elf as the owner of the most famous museum xn the world Seated m the room of unusual creatures and obj ects of the earth was George Benson No he wasn t on dxsplay He was pa1nt1ng on h1s latest masterpxece wh1ch was one of Slew s baby shoes George Boyd now owns the t1tle World s Greatest Art1st The scene suddenly changes and who should we see but Dorothy Walker b ett er known to us as Dott1e Webb She had accomphshed her amb1t1on to f1n1sh college and wxth success as she 15 the wxfe of B111 Walker thc famous head coach of San Marcos Next ap peared Dave Wallace He had just met success wxth h1s fanaous Notre Darne football team who had just won the World Champlonshxp What should hav e been a home of p e ac e and qulet then arose although xt was 1n constant uproar Barbara and Dalton had set up thelr t ent mn Wall1sv1lle eleven years ago and thelr famxly has xncreased to the happy number of e1ght Four g1rls and four boys Someth1ng then caused a d1sturbance ln the f1re We saw that lt was Montme Mxles world famous car manufacturer He had xnvented a supersomc mercury wlth a tw1n B 79 muffler vshxch sellsfor only S10 OOO The glamour and ga1ety of Hollywood dazzled our eyes next It seemed as though there was a pamc of some sort The famous act r e s s Thelma Tucker was pursuxng Farley Granger Thelma had everythlng she wanted except Farley Wc heard the straxns of a march and before us appeared the Navy Band under the d1rect1on of none other than Sara W1lcox She really has a lot of men followmng her now Ioe Sandhn had qu1te an unusual future He had dxscovered o1l ln the Alps Mountalns and 1S now a multx m1ll1ona1re Edd1e Kell had long sxnce taken Albert E1nste1n s place after provlng all h1s theorxes wrong He IS now work1ng on a new teachmng method so the students won t have to ever study Luna Ray had f1nally met h1s success as the greatest ac r ob at 1n the B1ngl1ng Brothers c1rcus whrch 15 now ln New York C1ty Seems Luna Ray wasn t the only one who h ad met Fame and Fortune smce Wlllye Mae Breecheen made her debut as a smger at the Stork Club She s on her way to the b1g t1me Whxle Joe and Jackxe turn toward us from a roulette table They ve made a n am e for themselves 1n the gambhng world What we saw next appeared to be vast plalns untxl we saw the brand of Tooter Haynes and reahzed that he had a ranch whxch surpassed the world famous Klng s ranch Walkmg across the pasture was L, I Hall whom Tooter had hxred as h1s head foreman The scene was completely changed now and we saw Cadet I1mm1e Matthews watchlng Ioby Nelson play1ng a c onc e rt at the lvletropohtan Opera House Next we saw Elma Moss 1n her famous nurslng school whlch she now owns Well on her w ay to success as a surgeon s nurse was Dorxs Dumphy who IS now happ1ly marr1ed to Ralph .Toe Wh1tehead seemed to be leadxng qu1te a domestxc lxfe as he was keeplng house and tend1ng to the k1dd1es whxle Theresa kept her ultra modern and l do mean modern beauty shoppe It IS the most w1dely recogmzed shoppe of 1ts kxnd xn the Unlted States Her haxr styles are to be seen 1n Pans Well t1mes had changed somewhat Donn1e Srrnth was the new rage of Hollywood as he now stars 1n Love s Wxldest Dreams One of hxs most ardent admlrers was Juanita Butler who watched hxm envlously as he co starred wlth lov ely I..1z Taylor But N1ta s not bad off at all slnce her grandfather had left h e r a two mxlhon dollar estate wmth all the t r 1m m 1 ng s We were shocked somewhat as we dxscovered that none other than Dlckxe W1lcox w as Presxdent of the United States He was the youngest presxdent ln the hxstory of thxs great natlon The fxre now burned brlghter as we saw that Babe Chamblxss had enlarged her collect1on of dxamonds 1n valueto S30 OOO OOO She had had several engagements but st1ll can t make up her mxnd who the luc ky boy w1ll be Keep lt up Babe and you won t be an old lady or an old mald before you re r1ch Iuamta O Brxen IS now mar r1ed to the famous Admxral Thompson of th e Umted States Navy While Rusty was on duty Ilamta stayed home and tended to thelr small fleet They only had two boys and four glrls The fmre then faded and VISIODS began to pass more r apldly We saw Melvm Kruger happmly occupxed tendmg to many flowers He xs famous for h1s rare collectxon We were pleased too that Loulse Brearx former Dunman and her husband Wxlburt were l1v1ng happlly xn Wlnme Stowell Kathryn Otter had completed a course 1n bus1ness College and bec am e the secretary of Glenn McCarthy We saw that Bxllv Hammond was now owner of the Bay Cafe and a cham of other cafes about the States Hxs wlfe Joan Austln is kept busy waxtxng on tables whxle she 1sn t workxng as a nurse Yvonne Clxne IS well on her way to the teachxng world as she ms home economlcs teacher at Robert E Lee She shouldn t have trouble on her man hunt After servlng a term for usxng atomlc fxzz 1n soft drxnks Nxcky Wolff IS back ln c1rcula txon as top soda Jerk and I do mean Jerk ln h1s own chaln of drug stores The f1re went completely out and we saw that Father of the Trlbe R1ley was no longer present Guard well these secrets for they are sacred and we have entrusted you to share them wlth us . - - F . , . . . , . 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