Denison High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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CONFERRING CLASS MANTLE One of the events of Commencement Week is the conferring of the class mantle upon the Junior Class at the closing day of school. This traditional ceremony is made impressive by the appearance upon the stage of the President of the outgoing class, clad in the robe bearing the numerals of by-gone classes-the last numeral being that of the present class. After an admonitory speech, the Senior President transfers the mantle to the shoulders of the Junior President. ' 'STEPPED-ON SEN IORS It's not the things that we have done, But it's what we've got to dog We always seem to have just begun For there's ever something new. We have to work and study hard And stay up late at nightg They give us Seniors so much to do That it isn't exactly right. But we'll be through some of these days, We'll march around so proud, If they ask us what's the reason, We'll tell them right out loud: We've worked and studied and won, And we're just letting you know We've fought a terrible battle, We think it's time to go. -Inez Moorman. CLASS PROPHECY I was very pleasantly surprised the other day when my former classmate, Emma Gene Seale, visited me. She has long been internationally famous as a novel- ist. I suggested that we visit the High School and see some of our old friends. We called a taxi, and whom do you suppose greeted us with a smiling face but our good friend, Leroy Walker. Leroy, because of his ability to drive a taxi with more ease and safety than anyone else, is always so rushed that we were fortunate, indeed, to have him drive us. When we arrived at the High School we saw the very excelllent janitors, George Brunson and Ray Covington, who promised to show us the Fish pond, one of their latest beautifications of the campus. The mailman was just leaving the High School and from behind the huge mail bag, we saw Harry Verdun Kelsey's bright and shining face. We found that the High School had changed very much since that year of the sensational graduating class- 1936. It seems that everything is done for the entertainment of the pupils. We were directed to the ballroom where Dorothy Sowder is the dancing instructor with Mary Kennemer as her assistant. Dorothy's male students learn very fast, but she seems to have quite a bit of trouble with the girls. When we went to the gymnasium, we expected to see a volleyball court but to our amazement they had a swimming pool and a swell diving board. Sibyl Adams, Doris Brackett, J. C. Willoughby, and Clarence Trice are swimming instructors. We hear that their diving teams won state championship last year. After watching the stunts we decided to go upstairs, and George Gregg, traffic director, showed up the elevator operated by none other than Bivings Thomas. Ah, here is the first sign of real work: Jack Badgett is the teacher of Trigonometry, and his pupils think the matter might be hard if it were looked into. !l 11N it VIEWS ikwlf-

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TI-IE CLASS OF 1936 Murray Marshall, Valedictorian Ruth Baggett, Salutatorian OFFICERS Herbert Gentry, President Nelda Bryant, Secretary Tommy Linn, Vice-President Leroy Walker, Treasurer MAMA' S AFFAIR The Senior Class Play, Mama's Affair, was presented April 16. The cast was made up of seven of the Senior Class. They were: Dorothy Julien, Jamesene Wigzell, Florence Graham, Virginia Houghton, Bivings Thomas, Cecil Spindle, and Tommy Jay. The story centers around a self-centered mother fDorothy Julienl who de- voted her life to being ill and planning her daughter's future. Her daughter fVir- ginia Houghtonj is to marry the son fCecil Spindlej of her most intimate friend 1Jamesene Wigzellj. A doctor fTommy Jayl is called in and he sees that it is the daughter who is ill and not her mother. He prescribes a rest for the daughter and in the last act breaks up the marriage plans and marries the daughter himself. A bellhop in the hotel where the party is staying, played by Bivings Thomas furnishes the comedy effect together with Florence Graham, the doctor's housekeeper, whose Irish wit and keen insight motivates the plot to a happy ending. CLASS DAY The Denison High School Seniors held their annual Class Day, Tuesday, May 19, at Woodlake, the Rialto Theater, and in the school gymnasium with the faculty of the school as guests. The Seniors enjoyed games and a picnic lunch from 10 a. m. at Woodlake, re- turning t'o Denison in the afternoon to attend the Rialto. A dance in the gymnasium that night, to which the Juniors were invited, climaxed a perfec day. Faculty members and parents chaperoned the picnic and dance. BACCALAUREATE The Baccalaureate sermon for the Senior Class of 1936 was delivered in the auditorium of the High School, Sunday night, May 31, by Rev. S. M. Black of the Waples Memorial Methodist Church. The Seniors entered to the strains of The March of the Priests. After the invocation there followed special music by the Waples Memorial Choir, under the direction of Miss Estelle McElvaney. Reverend Black spoke earnestly to the Seniors and to the audience of their responsibility to the future as Christian citizens. His address was closed with a short prayer. The Seniors retired from the auditorium in solemn procession while the audience remained seated. JUNIOR RECEPTION The Annual Junior Reception, honoring the Seniors, took place June, 1936. This event climaxes the Juniors' farewell to the Seniors and is looked forward to with pleasure from year to year by both classes. The High School Gymnasium and Library were very attractively decorated for the occasion with crepe paper streamers and colored lights in the class colors. Music for dancing in the gym was furnished by the Carl Casteel Orchestra. Bridge, checkers, dominoes, monopoly, and ping pong were enjoyed in the Library. At inermis- sion, Freshmen and Sophomore Girl Reserves served ice cream in class colors. Iced punch was served throughout the evening. Chaperons were Miss Inez Cartwright, Junior Class sponsorg Miss Carrie John- son, Senior Class sponsorg Mr. McDaniel, and other members of the High School fac- ulty, and parents of the Juniors and Seniors. TWP NTY I' IVE X 1 IETWNS QKWIH Ql- - ' '

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CLASS PROPHECY-Continued We went on to the lounging room which used to be the Senior Study Hall. There was a moving picture show instead of the traditional blackboard, but no one seemed to be interested in the picture. Stuart Cooper, now a successful business man, thought that all school children should see movies to improve their minds, so he installed one at High School operated by Everett Kirby. Furniture here is very luxurious, and comfortable. On becoming weary, one pushes a button and the chairs open out into beds. Kelly Bruce Reed and Tommy Linn explained that it had taken many years of hard work to perfect this. They work for Pat Liles and Leon Waters, who operate Ksuccessfully, of coursel the Northk Texas Home Furnishers' Store. Another improvement we noted was that when a student pushed a button, a pencil- sharpener would come to his desk, and when he had finished sharpening his pencil, it would return to its place. We thought this was very clever until four pushed the button at the same time. Monty Morgan, responsible for this invention, said, So far to good but it isn't perfect yet. On a table in the hall we picked up the school paper. It was called the Blah Blah, and we saw that Borden Wilson was the editor, Marshall Nix was the manager of the Advertising Department, while Charles Hunter was the editor of the Sob column. Mgargaret Jeane Wiley estabilshed a beauty parlor on the second floor of the building and has Mildred Brigham as her assistant. They specialize in face up-lifting and special waves for boys, and are quite efficient in their work. Mae Buckholtz and Faye Ferguson have secured positions as manicuirsts and eyebrow archers in Miss Wiley's beauty shop. Jamesene Wigszell and Endall Cotton have established a hospital on the fifth and sixth floors of the High School building and have hired Cleo Brooks and Elsie Campbell as special nurses. Dr. Eugene Ballou, a heart specialist, and Dr. J. D. Pas- chell as assistant, have offices in this institution. Posted on the Bulletin Board we saw a list of faculty members. Maurice Bush and Mary Elizabeth Casey, who have at last become the successors of Mr. Hilliard. Josephine Brooks and Genevieve Scofield are Physical Edu-cation Teachers. Melvin Hargrove teaches History and Ruth Henley teaches Typing. Ruby Tipton has charge of a Deaf and Dumb Class. Imogene McKee is a very capable teacher of Sewing. All this was explained to us by Mary Rose Morse, the secretary to the principal. Winnie V. Short has become teacher of English Literature, but instead of stress- ing the works of Chaucer and the importance of Shakespeare, she reveals their bad qualities and tells how to care for yellow curls. Gertrude Patterson and Nelda Bryant teach a certain branch of Chemistry-the properties of vanishing cream. Charlie Pace is the football coach, assisted by Enoch 0'Dell. Henry Parker is the director of the High School Band and Pauline Hodges is his assistant. We couldn't see exactly how she could help him any, but when he declared that' he just couldn't get along without her, we concluded that she must be director of the Pep Squad. We went to the mechanical drawing and shop work department where Leo Mel- ton is instructor. Haskell Manley, principal, and L. D. Thayer, superintendent, introduced us to a patron of the school, none other than George Hawkins. George gives away scholar- ships so as to enable students to graduate in four years. We were invited to stay for Assembly, and we gratefully consented. Much to our surprise we saw that Her- bert Gentry has taken Major Bowes' place in the radio world. He conducts his pro- grams each Tuesday morning from 9 until 10 in the High School Auditorium which is also Broadcasting Station F-L-O-P. The program included imitations of the navy, by Herbert Crowe, a political talk by Rayma Mae London, who believes that Lloyd Smith should be placed on the Democratic ticket for President in the next election, and that Dorothy Julien would make an excellent mayor provided her heart didn't break before. As you know, television has long been made possible by the fertile brain of Loyd Gattis, which makes it easy for Norma Spradling and Warnetta Dean to take the place of Mae West. The next number was a solo by James Crawford, accompanied by Geralena Bible, playing a banjo. Then came a most unusual fea- ture-a torch singer was announced and to our surprise she turned out to be Mil- dred Schiflett. We were startled out of our amazement by loud clanging noise which proved to be Tommy Jay and his red hot Jay Birds . This was the closing feature and as we were passing out we saw Marjorie Ruddell sitting at the switchboard with Elsie Thomas and Sylvia Thomas tabulating votes for the amateurs. TWENTY-SEVEN ' si:: K7.'5FAWN 100111