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4 1, Sfglgfgrigf-gf YBU SAW HIS AD IN THE 'QUlfLL We Are All I Graduates! Today is a momentous day for you. . . . graduated to a new field for accomplishments. Challenging the future with assurance of success., We are graduates, too. Graduated into a new field of extensive plans' for the future. Plans that will 'bring- you more and more SERVICE and SATISFACTION f r o m Galves- ton's greatest store. Where You Never Pay More
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THE PURPLE QUILL Published once each term by the students of Ball High School. Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Galveston, Texas, February 18, 1924, under Act of March 3, 1879. VOL. XXIV. GALIVESTON, TEXAS, JUNE, 1947. NO. 2. THE STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Elinor Olson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Joyce Smith ASSISTANT EDITORS Graduation Editor ,,,,...,. , ,.......,,,............,....,.,,,.,..,............. ......... S hirley Robinson Feature Editor ............ ....... ................... R u th Bodansky Class Editor .,,,.,,,..,,,,, ,.....................,... K atherine Helmond Faculty Editor ............., ,....... .............,,......................... I I ois Scott Literary Co-Editors ,,,, ,,,, , ....... R ose Mary Strain, Lois Scott Organizations Editor ..... ......,....... ........................ E d dy Lobenstein R.O,T.C. Editor ,,,,..,,,,, .,...,..,,.. .,,..,..........,....,.. , .......... lk I arvin Shwiff Sports Co-Editors ..,,,,, ..,...... B 'rank Simmen, Jr., Clarence Dick Humor Editor ......,. .. ..,.......,.......................,....... ,....,.......,,. .,......... S i gmund Forman EDITORIAL BOARD Virginia Frank, Nan Hische, Johnny Johnston, Katherine Laros, Corinne Lauzon, Martha McGlathery, Donald Mellina, Barbara Mussey, Licha Saucedo, Sue Seelhorst, Ruth Sims, Jane Switzer CONTRIBUTORS Kathleen Duncan, Georgia Lynn Eaves, Pat Gray, Billy McNeel, Irving Pozmantier, Melvyn Schreiber, Patricia Thomas, Joe VVillhelm TYPISTS Lola Mae Hacklernan, Chief Typistg James Elder, George Hoff, Elaine Kopecky, Pauline Robison ART STAFF Reagan Brown, Art Editorg Jimmy Brady, Selma Forman, Dick Hunt PHOTOGRAPHY Arlene Kay, Photography Editor: Douglas Connolly, Joe Curtino, Hallock Mohler BUSINESS MANAGER Herbert Sharp BUSINESS BOARD Joyce Bludworth, Eleanor Bryce, Homer Durham, Genny Ethridge, Aaron Fradkin, Maurice Kolodetsky, Patricia Mercer, Erlyn Olmstead, Celia Ozon, Hennie Sue Rich, Bonnie Schwartz, Sue Seelhorst, Mary Lee Taylor, Estvin Whipple CIRCULATION MANAGER Helen Hendricks CIRCULATION BOARD Shirley Biffle, Pat Cayin, Katherine Economou, Mary Elizabeth Grace, Arlene Kay, Elaine Kopecky, Barbara Lawes, Diane McClintock, Marjorie Reed FACULTY ADVISERS VVoolt'ord McFarland, Acting Principal: Riley LeFevers, Businessg Mrs. Aileen Stenibridge, Editorial 1
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