Daviess County High School - Echoes Yearbook (Owensboro, KY)

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CA Y v Ax a z L ALFIVI I IES W J m lf' Sl e el-1 4

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FRESHMEN S N at-f 4 et First Row left to right-Oswald Leathem Regina Leonard June Lively Thomas Lyons Donald Matthews Virginia Mattingly Wayne McKne1ly Hazel Melhiser Johnny Moore, Bobby Moseley. Second Row-Barbara Mount John Miller, Charles Newton Mattie Payton Barbara Pendleton Teddy Peveler Carl Poole Jane Powell Tommy Pru- den Betty Lou Prindle. Third Row-Donald Purcell Lluanita Quarles Jamelene Quesnell Geneva Reynolds Robert Rice Evenly Richardson Jo Ann Robertson Ralph Ras- coe Leo Rowland Ruth Royal. lfourth Row--Ruth Saalwaechter Matthew Settles, Mary Lois Shadwick Katie Shad- wick Kathryn Sheriff Betty Sims Opal Smeathers Roger Smeathers Kenneth Smith 0. T. Smith. Fifth Row-Mary Smith, William Smith Albert Sweeney Juanita Swift Norbert Tay- lor Wanda Timbrook Douglas Tyler Gene Tyler Dessie Vaught Norma Vowells. . Sixth Row-William Wedding William Wiggington, Raymond Wilbur Joan Whittaker Virginia Whitt. --I' ifty- two

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FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA Learnmg To Do Domg To Learn Thxs was the twenty fnst year of Vocatlonal Aguculture 1n the Davless County Hugh School The agr1cultu1e department was w1thout the servxces of M1 Joe C TOW6ly who taught Aguculture hele for 20 yea1s M1 TOWEIY has gone to A1kansa1s State Tc.ache1s College to manage the College Farm and teach Falm Management ln the College of Ag11cultu1e M1 Ben Allen BUIHS who has been a teacher of agrmcultulc SINCE 1946 and M1 Paul B Sta1ks, who began as a legulal te2Ch9l m Septemhel 1947 .ne now teachmg agllcultule at Davless County Hlgh School There a1e 94 boys en1olled 1n Vocatlonal Aguculture thxs yea1 Ten of them 'ue expected to make the State Fa1 1ne1 deglee, and one, to make Ameucan Falmel The 20th An11ual Fat Cattle Show was held November 10, 1947 Wlth Kuegel B1othe1s better known as Bobby and Jlmnlle owmng the Grand Champlons Bettye Ca1te1 was selected as Queen and had the h0no1 of crownlng the G1and Champlon G1eat lnterest was sl own m the da11y p10JeCtS th1s year The Future Farme1s pu1 chased 39 head of reglsteled Gue1nsey and Holstem he1fe1s flOl1l WlSCOnSlH Mr Ben nett and James Case made the trlp to help select the cattle F01 the fourth consecutwe yea1 the F FA Chapter had a dauy exh1b1t at the Kentucky State Falr The Magan Blother, Wallace and Bxady, won flrst place 111 the F F A d1v1s1on of the Jun1o1 Yearhng class The Futu1e Farmels prepared 6Xhlb1tS fO1 the B E A exposltlon the Nolth and South Exposltlon, and a shop exh1b1t for the Kentucky State Fall, wlnnmg second place ln the last named exh1b1t Each year three boys rep1esent the Chapte1 1n a state Wlde hvestock Judgmg con Magan Wllllam Callton and Bobby BIVIHS In the past 20 years the Chapte1 has had 96 State Farmezs Thxs year the follow mg boys achxeved the honored Kentucky State Farme1 deg1ee Wallace Magan W1l 11am Callton, Harold Gordon J W Brumley Bobby BIVIHS Wllllalll Harrls, James Case Gllbert Hester, and Emmett Young Royce McCo1m1ck was awarded the Amerxcan Fallllel' Deg1ee and won a f1ee t11p to the Natlonal F F A conventlon 1n Kansas C1ty Kansas 1n the fall of 1947 George Thompson III won a S25 00 wa1 bond by havlng the best Supexvlsed Fa1 m mg p1ogram m the Green RIVCI DlSt11Ct The contest was sponsoud by the Lou1sv1lle COUIICI Joulnal and TlI'l'l6S and Rad1O Statlon W H A S The fxrst Annual D1str1ct FFA Tobacco Show was sponso1ed by the Davxess County Chapter The show was held 1n the new Vocatlonal ag11cultu1e bmldmg and prlzes amountlng to S250 00 WSIB awa1ded Flve members along wlth M1 Bu1ns and M1 Stal ks, attended the Centenmal Cel eblatlon of Internat1ona1 Harvestels ln Chlcago, Ill1no1s seelng the path of p10g16SS farm machlnery has made The f1V0 boys maklng the t11p we1e Don Rlddle Bobby Kuegel Beve1ly Hall Geolge Thompson III, and Floyd Hall The F F A cooperatlve has been dolng busmess thls 5ea1 selllng 326,916 00 w01th of beef calves and buylng 21322 00000 feedel calves and h6lfLlS The Cl1apte1 bought S6 50000 WO1th of weste1n sheep S52 000 00 of dauv he1fe1s and 4 cal loads of feltl IIZCI, hy brld seed co1n and Celtlfled seed rv' v v a u . 1 ' -4 r .' . D .. - , ' 4 . , l , .. . . r . . . ' -, I , . V Q , -- , . , , U . ' i . . ' . I u . . y v test held during the State Fair. The following boys were on the judging team: Wallace ' ' v u Z , ' - . i 7 ' ' 7 I , . . . u t . . . y W , . . . . r ' ' t ' ' . . . . 3- ,. ' . , Y ' 7 . 1 ' D I I . . . . V .yu . l ' . ' , U . . , ' , . s , . , . - 1 5 , , . -I nk, a , u '- --F'iffy-foul