Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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Cotton Blossom Staff Pictures Life of C. H. S. EDITOR JANIE KINDRED and Assistant Editor Jane Ellen Markey confer over the preparation of yearbook copy. The Cotton Blossom staff presents, This Is Our Life, C. H. S. as the theme for the 1956 annual. Shortly after the first of the year, the various staff divisions were selected. The new journalism class served as the literary staff, and the art staff was composed of the advanced art students. Members of the business staff were chosen from applications made to the sponsors. In November, preceding the first work meeting, a dinner was held for the entire staff. Then, in an after-school session, the group selected the theme. The week of December 12-16 was set aside as Cotton Blossom Week. In an assembly on December 15, four lovely girls were presented to the student body and a panel of adult judges. At the Cotton Blossom Ball that night, the attractive young Queen was crowned. As money-making projects, the staff made and sold Christmas corsages during the special week and solicited ads from the local merchants. For their contribution to the Juvenile Decency Campaign, the staff conducted a religious census among the students and sponsored Religious Emphasis Week during the week preceding Easter. COTTON BLOSSOM ADVISERS prootread the tinal year-book copy. Miss Mary Ellen Horner (left) is over-all adviser and photographer for the staff and Mrs. Ernest Hazel is adviser to the art staff. Mrs. Thomas Mock, who is not pictured, is adviser to the literary staff. MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS STAFF plan their advertising campaign. Seated: Mary Sue Hunt. Sue Chris Mehrle, Business Manager Virginia Ann White. Jerry Figgins. Standing: Ted Streete, Linda Hopke, Billy Collins.

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Student Activity Committee Backs Two Big Projects The Student Activity Committee backed two new and important projects this year - the Juvenile Decency Campaign and the Curtain Drive. In both drives the twenty-one S. A. C. members had the full cooperation of every organization in C. H. S. Other S. A. C. projects included Freshman Week, S. A. C. Installation Ceremony, Christmas baskets, Sno-Ball Dance, Christmas Alumni Assembly and Tea, Students-of-the-Quarter, Ten Top Events, Intramural Sports, Noon-hour dancing. Play Night, Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Awards, S. A. C. Election, and Honor Recognition Day. The members of the S. A. C. are democratically elected representatives of the student body. Each junior and senior homeroom chooses two representatives while each sophomore and freshman homeroom is allowed one representative. The president and vice-president are elected the previous April, and then the student body waits impatiently for Honor Recognition Day in May when the results are revealed. AT THE IMPRESSIVE S. A. C. installation ceremony. President Barry Trainor installs members Christian. Kindred. White. Butler. Parrott, lones and Lauck as officers. OFFICERS President ............... Vice-President .......... Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer Reporter Historian ....... Scrapbook Keeper Sponsors ............... Barry Trainor Elizabeth Christian Janie Kindred Virginia Ann White Jerry Butler ..... Connie Parrott Lee Bennett Jones Martha Lauck Mrs. Cunningham Mrs. Hazel FIRST ROW: Trainor. Butler, Kindred. Lauck. L. B. Jones, White. Christian. SECOND ROW: Payne. Sawyer Bader. T King Bartholo-mew. Hollowell. Collins. THIRD ROW: Southern. Mrs. Cunningham. Bruce. Mrs. Hazel. Jackson. Trantham. Mollett. Cheek. Not Pictured Parrott.

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THE LITERARY STAFF ol the yearbook is composed of the members of the journalism class. Seated: Ann Phillips and Connie Parrott, editor. Standing: Mary Ann Walker. Linda Going. Nancy Roebuck. Inis Danley. Janie Kindred. Shelby Pri-vett. Jerry Lyell, Barbara Copeland. Sonny Sanders, Mrs. Mock, adviser. Lola Dean. Jackie French, and Ruth Hughes. THE ART STAFF MEMBERS work on the yearbook division pages. Seated: Maxine Woods. Martha Lauck. editor. Bution Brantley. Carolyn Davis. Standing: Kay Summers and Ann Richardson. GETTING READY to dig into the dessert at the Cotton Blossom dinner are staff members Kindred, Hunt. Houston. Phillips. Butler and White. THE DISH-WASHING CREW. Houston. Streete. Lauck. Figgins, and Woods, seem to be enjoying cleaning up after a sumptuous yearbook dinner.