Ball High School - Purple Quill Yearbook (Galveston, TX)

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Any curiosity as to the large number of specimens in Miss Spence's biology lab may be answered by the fact that her favorite pastime is hunting for these articles. Some miscellaneous facts welve picked up about Miss Spence are that her hobby is raising flowers and her main dislike in students is dishonesty. Yes, our librarian does want you to use the library when neces- sary. Miss Mary Jane McGuire's ideal library pupil is one who can use the card catalogue and other refences without help, and who re- spects the rights of others while in the library. Miss McGuire was born in Milford, Texas, and she received her B.S. and B.A. degrees at Texas Presbyterian College for Women. She received her B.S. in Library Science at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. She was assistant librarian at Texas Presby- terian College for several years before coming to Ball High School. She likes to collect antiques and enjoys reading poetry and biogra- phies. Her favorite food is devills food cake. Another traveler, Miss Alicia Tate, has been to Europe five times, to Canada and Mexico and through the United States. She enjoyed meeting the people and seeing the things she had heard about, and she has many stories to tell about them now. As Ball High's assistant librarian, Miss Tate is living right in her own home town. She, like many of our faculty members, is a grad- uate of the University of Texas. Miss Tate gives a sigh of delight when apple cobbler is served at dinner, and falthough there is no connectionj, she likes to collect old thingsf, Her favorite movie is Mrs, Miniver and she enjoyed the book '4Forever England. X Her ideal library student, Miss Tate revealed, is one who comes in the library quietly, gets his material quietly, and does his work quietlyf, X W1 . I Congratulations . The winner of the annual Colonial Dames Essay Contest for 1947 was Betty Schocke, who wrote under the pen name of Benita Standish. Her subject was f'Colonial Wars. In her essay, she gave a thorough description of the wars that took place during the colonial period. Her essay was forwarded to the State contest for further competition. 58

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Galveston is her home town, so naturally she graduated from our good old Alma Materfl after which event she journeyed on to Texas University, graduated, and attended Columbia University. She is the possessor of a B.A. degree and is working on her M.A. Besides Ball High, Miss Bettencourt has taught at Wichita Falls, Texas, and Huntington College at Montgomery, Alabama, where she was head of the Commercial Department. This man has an unusual hobby-the study of tropical fish. The gentleman in question is Mr. H. Steele Campbell, Ball High biology teacher. Mr. Campbell says that these fish have always interested him, and what could be more natural than to adopt them as his hobby? Mr. Campbell is a native of Palestine, Texas, and graduated from Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, where he received his B.S. and M.A. degrees. Since he has taught in Anderson and Shelby counties as well as in Galveston, he is not new at teaching. His opinion of an ideal student is one who is courteous enough to listen and intelligent enough to apply some of the things he learns to his own situation. Nine countries and forty states of the United States is the travel record of Mrs. Shelby Mowat, Ball High biology teacher. She has visited-besides the forty states--Mexico, Canada, the British Isles, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Cuba. Mrs. Mowat's hobbies are sewing and gardening. She likes danc- ing, bicycling, and going on picnics in her spare time. She enjoys reading The Reader's Digest and Coronet.'i Her favorite food is chocolate, she likes blue best of the colors, and her favorite flower is the rose. Herbert Marshall and Bette Davis get her nod in the actor and actress favoritesf' Q She dislikes t'crabby peopleg her ideal student is one with a good, all-round personality-not a bookworm, but one who has other inter- ests besides books in school. This student would have an unselfish personality and be willing to help others. As for background, Mrs. Mowat is a native of Galveston and a graduate of Ball High School. She received her B.A. degree from the University of Texas. Before coming to teach at Ball High, she taught at Stephen F. Austin and Crockett schools. iii Biology is the subject and Miss Agnes Spence is the teacher. She hails from Austin, Texas, and is a graduate of the University of Texas. Miss Spence majored in Zoology and chemistry at Incarnate Word College in San Antonio for two years. 57

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