Borger High School - Borgan Yearbook (Borger, TX)

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SYNOPSIS Ten years have passed since the last Borgan was published. Those ten years have seen Borger change from a rowdy, blustering oil field camp to a city of progress and dignity, they have witnessed the change in our high school from a small system of little importance to a smoothly-running mechanism that produces citizens of which it may well be proud. Borger was three years old in 19293 a notorious, sprawling town made only for tem- porary use. Then, it was a city of shacks: it has grown into a city of homes and settled busi- ness and social institutions. The realization by the residents that Borger was an accepted and permanent fact came slowly and imperceptiblyg but it has been the main factor in the beautiful homes and handsome business buildings of which Borger now boasts. The ruling influence has fittingly passed to the churches, civic clubs, and schools, which now exert their power to make the best Borger possible. And Borger schools have kept pace with the improvementg indeed, they have in many cases led it. Improvements began on the building in 19293 since then, in a wing on each side of the original building, fourteen rooms have been added, and a building housing the band department, the machine shops, and the bus garages has been built. Borger High School has done remarkably well in competition with other s c h o ol s, acquitting herself honorably in every contest entered. The first year that she sent contestants to Interscholastic League matches was 1933: in that year the typing team won first in regional competition, and Neil Biggerstaff, the winner of individual first, went to the State meet at Austin. In 1934, the shorthand team won second and the bookkeeping team placed first in the district meet. Dolores Little and Pearl Hibbler, and joe Salamy and Argie Belle Stimpson formed shorthand teams that placed in the first ten at State, two years in successiong the next year, Bonnie Broyles was in the first ten at State in individual competition. In 1937, the Bull- dog's Growl was judged the best all-round school paper in the Panhandle district, it main- tains its good record by placing every year among the highest in a number of contests. The high school band ranks yearly among the highest in the national contests at Abi- lene, and soloists regularly win Firsts in their respective fields. Our present drum major, Margaret McGee, was judged last year the best drum major among the contesting bands. But we of the present generation are not willing to rest on the laurels won by those who have goneg on the contrary, we are determined to better their achievements and to pass on to those following, a goal far above that at which we aimed. It is upon such ideals that Borger has been built, and it is by those same ideals that Borger is steadily climbing to the status of a larger and better city.

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Lrmmrfwmmm e The staff of The BORGAN have reached our goal if This issue brings hacla complele and happy memories offheincidents, scenes,and spirii' of Berger High school. We have endeavored in These pages ro veiled- +he ideals 04 progress upon which This school and communiiy are founded.

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EUEEUJUMUHCUEN o Miss B.Angie Boyle, who in iengiia of +eacl'iing service Heads ourfaculiygwixo 'Hmrougiw ner love and sympaiiiy 'For modern youiim has been iheir counsel and aclvison whois loved and respeC+ed by all who Know lweri and who has encouraged us when our spiriis were low in The preparaiion of 'Hiis book...we,'l'iie Siaff, dedicarie 'Huis iSSUe of 'Hre Borgan.