Bernie High School - Cotton Boll Yearbook (Bernie, MO)

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The Blue and White, Bernie High's school paper, is greatly progressing under the supervision of Miss Anna Dierrsen, who is a qualified Journalism Instructor, and is being typed by Mrs. Johnny Johnson’s second year Secretarial Practice Class. The paper this year is be- ing given to the students, free of charge, and is pub- lished monthly. In the fall of each year, a new staff is selected on the basis of writing ability and depend- ability. Preparing stencils for the running off of the school paper on the mimeograph are Melba Coats, Rosemary King, JanisCooper, and Frances Russell. Standing are Miss Anna Dierrsen and Mrs. Johnny Johnson, co-ad- visers of the school paper. Editor...............................Rosemary King Assoc. Editor..................................Melba Coats Feature Editor.......................Jeanette Stone Editorial Ass'ts.....................Joyce Whitener Rebecca Buchanan Sports Editor........................Gene Clayton Art Editor................................Sue Poston Typists...................Secretarial Practice Class Faculty Advisers.................Miss Anna Dierrsen, Journalism Instructor Mrs. Johnny Johnson, Commercial Department Front row Eujunia Livingston, Robert Graham. 2nd row Thelma Thurston, Jeanette Stone, Wanda Fears. THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY TELKER'S BAKERY and HUDSON IMPLEMENT CO., MALDEN, MO. 2S

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 oU st u Editing copy are Rosemary King, Mrs. Johnson, Jean- nette Stone, Janis Cooper, Lois Crow, and Melba Coats. Editor.................................Melba Coats Ass't Editor...............................Jeanette Stone Business Manager....................Rosemary King Ass’t Business Manager........................Janis Cooper Promotion Manager........................Lois Crow Photographer..........................Gene Clayton Jimmie Patterson, Dexter Advertising...........................Shelby Cooper Leonard Norman Jay Shipman Wanda Fears Frances Russell Sponsor.........................Mrs. Johnny Johnson Another successful year has resulted for the staff of the Bernie High School's Cotton Boll.” 136 copies were purchased by the students which was an increase of 36 books over 1952. There is also an increase of eight additional pages of which the staff is very proud, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank the business establishments of Bernie and others for their financial help in making the publication of the 1953 Cotton Boll possible. THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY THE MODERN DRESS SHOP Future business employees earnestly at work in the Commercial Department. Aspirants to again be County champions in shorthand and typing and to top their record of 4th place shorthand at the S. E. Missouri Commercial Contest. 24

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£ zy i “Scavex Directed by Howard Garner, Junior sponsor, the Jun- ior class presented High Pressure Homer . The cast included (left to right) Wanda Fears, Jay The Eager Miss Beaver” was very success- fully presented by the Senior class of 1952 to a record-breaking crowd under the di- rection of Howard Teeters, Principal; and Mrs. Johnny Johnson, Advisers. THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY BERNIE MERCANTILE The entire cast of The Eager Miss Beaver includes left to right: Gen eva Slusher, Pat Clayton, Jolly Warren, Nadine Slusher, Billie Heigle, Glen Blaylock, Jim Young, 26