Beaumont High School - Pine Burr Yearbook (Beaumont, TX)

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'rl-IE. PINE: Bunn-loia E N RAYMOND ALFORD Manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education. B Association '25, '26, '27, '2X: Football '26, '27, Captain '273 Basketball '25, '26, '27, Capt. '27, Man- ager '28: Overall Club '28: Baseball '26, '27, '2Sg Hi-Y '25, '26, '27: Y. M. C. A, '25, '26, '27, '2s: Class Vice- President '26, Treasurer '27, President '28. Being thrust into the limelight at the very beginning of the school year when he was elected president of the Senior Class, captain of the Football Team, manager of Basketball, and president of the B Association, Little Raymond blossomed into The Great Alford and as- sumed the duties and responsibilities of these offices in a way befitting one who truly deserved to wear this title of affection. He has two hobbies-making speeches around the banquet table and taking part in athletic contests. Probably the college he attends next year will help him decide which line of interest he should fol- low for his career. Even though some fairer members of the fair sex sometimes cast interested glances at this blond prodigy, he never returned more than a few gen- tle words and a disarming smile. It has been rumored that the reason for this indifference is a sustained Mantnjly interest in Baylor College. This became so strong at times that he was impelled to make pilgrimages to the little city of Belton until he was able to make a permanent transfer to the home town. -rf 1-: I S

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L i-Ejiirgriiz Crisis JgURRtel928 C ff The Class of 'ZS President - - - - - - RAYMOND ALFORD Vice-president - ' ALBERT HENRY Secretary - - ' ' IDA BROCK Treasurer , - - - HUBERT OXFORD Hello, folks. Take a look at us. We're the high and mighty Seniors of '28, and we think we're just about the best bunch of Seniors Old Beaumont High has ever turned out. We've written our names in red letters in the history of B. H. S., and if you can find any group of students that are more red-blooded or harder fighters than we are, just show them to us and we'll resign. Back in '25, the Junior Highs didn't know that they had graduated a class that would capture the honors that we have taken. Latin? That's nothing for us. Didn't Ruth Stine win highest honors on her essay at the State Latin Tournament at Lufkin this year? We just eat Latin up. It's the same way with Trig., Chemistry, Spanish, or anything else you can name that's hard. We're the answer to a teacher's prayer. Ask any teacher in Beaumont High. Of course the Senior Class is proud to claim as its president that grand personage, Raymond Alford, captain of the Football Team, and all-around athlete, who always letters in three sports and has stacked up more B's than anyone in B. H. S. We also take the responsibility of claiming Mutt Evans, champion gum-popper and flapper de luxe. Then there's Ida Brock, who, besides being a most efficient member of the Pine Burr Staff and a member of the cast of Peggy, can lead yells like - -- well, you have to see her do it to appreciate itg and don't forget her colleague yell leader, Jerry Berly, romantic sheik with the Bolsheviki inclinations. Besides Walter Richardson who took the slow torture death as Editor of this yearbook, there's that really very curious person, Curtis Kellam. He's been proven insane and sane so many times by the jury in 303 that he hasn't made up his mind which verdict he'll accept. J. C. McLure is the only human skyscraper, and Albert Henry is a famous newspaper editor and orator, while Bernard Vener could actually wart the Statue of Liberty. Fish that lady athlete was our general utility girl, and there's Larkin, who is really a wonderful artist. And too we postively mustn't forget to mention those cooing young lovers, George and Estelle. Their names are enough. We surely showed our stuff in the Junior-Senior Basketball game, and maybe you think we didn't down those Juniors! They thought they had put it all over us, but some great man once said, Everything comes to him who is patient, and all we had to do was just wait and accept the big end of the score. Didn't we win the cup in the Better English Campaign last year, and then show our brotherly love by letting the Juniors win it this year? You couldn't find a harder working bunch of folks than our Senior Dramatic Team. Believe me they fought, even if it was on the stage in- stead of a gridiron or a basketball court. We do feel a bit sad when we think of leaving Beaumont High School - - some have even decided to remain a while longer. We've spent many a happy day inside her Stately doors, and those good times we've had in the 'gym we'll never forget What boy will ever forget those promenades with the only girl down the long halls bletween periods? A few of the girls may get weepish during Commencement, but t e majority of us will just hold up our heads and say, Goodbye, Old Beaumont High. You V9 been good to US, and we'll try to show our gratitude for all you've done for us by dfiilig the best that we can in college, business, or wherever we may go. 't-H 1 ,ug vi,

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L ..,,, JN... rm: Pm: Bunn-ioza J Wig Q fi ,Lg '4 3' I I if a 3 ..., X . Q - ALBERT WILLIAM HENRY R20 Vista Counsellor '27 3 Class secretary-treasurer '2G: Clyas-s eidenl '27 V'e 1 'd t '28 D Ml '27 Y M C A 2f pr s , ic -p 'esi on 3 c Oily' 4- C - I- - - , '27, '2Xp Mayor of Beaumont Boys' Week '27: Dramatic Club 28: C. M. 'l'. C. '26, . H He promises to he a man of affairs. The friendly disposition and dignified mien of this vice-president of ours have won for him many executive positions in B. H. S. as well as in the city of Beaumont. The two events that afforded him the most publicity werelhls election to the high office of Mayor of Beaumont, and his writing that notorlous editorial, which resulted in the libel suit styled, Vicksburg vs. Alycevillef' Red loves all kinds of athletics, and even though he hasn't had time 'to take an active part in them, he has given our athletes moral support by his ever- ready words of encouragement. Albert's flame-colored hair bespeaks his fl-ery temper which he manages to have under good control. This all-around boy 1S a friend and pal to everyone,--that's why we hate to give him up, even to some lucky college. IDA BROCK Knclzlers '28g Boosters '26. '27, '28g Apron Club '28: Yell-lender '2X: Secretary Senior Class '2X: Vice-president Dramatic Club '28: Pine Burr Stuff '28: Home Economics Club '26, '27: Student Council '27, Here, there and everywhere! It takes a brave woman to stand her ground in the face of such B. H. S. personages as the commanding Senior president and the exacting Pine Burr editor, but Ida stayed in the middle of that brick-bat throwing, quarrelling mob 'til she had gained her point-and then calmly stepped aside to attend to other duties. Football season left us wondering if she could ever do anything more perfectly than she led our yells-then she came along to thrill us as leading lady in a winning drama. Ida's most admirable traits are friendliness and depend- abilityg on this even the president and editor agree. Ida's beauty is her least attraction-maybe that gives you an idea of what we think of her. HUBERT OXFORD, Jr. Tennis '27, '28g President Science Club '27: Editor Purple Pen- ' nant '27: Boy Scouts '25, '26: Student Council '27: P. P. B. C. '26. A prince of good fellows. Hubert has been one of our most popular boys ever since he entered High School. Because of his aggressiveness and level-headedness he has won the admiration and friendship of all his classmates, as well as his acquaintances Th S . h . . . . . . e eniors s owed their -confidence in him when they elected him their treas- urer, and the Pine Burr'd1d the same in allowing him to help solve their finan- cial problems. His tennis playing is par excellence and the whole school a re- - . . . pp ciatels' the manner in which he upheld thelr standards ln his matches. We often see 1 -Q m racing around the streets of Beaumont in that vari-colored Ford of his, however he is never alone. People often wonder how such a frail lizzie can carry such heavy loads, but she rattles on just the same. Co-eds also seem to PUJOY making the drag in this car. 3 -1' . 011: fad J