Desoto County High School - Cornucopia Yearbook (Arcadia, FL)

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CLASS H ISTORY We embarked upon our career of learmng m September of l934 We were trmtd and shy as our mothers left us at school that well remembered day' Some of us started at Fort Ggden others at Nocatee and st1ll others at Arcadta Our frrst couple of years were spent mostly rn makrng sandtables and readmg Peter and Peggy Then we settled down to real arrthmettc and spell1ng We thought the frfth and srxth grades hard but we longed for them whrle strugglmg through Phys1cs Semor Math and Shorthand' When we were m the seventh grade romance blossomed' The boys began to make eyes at the blushmg lrttle grrls ln the erghth grade we were all exclted and a lrttle scared to thmk we would be m Hrgh School next year And then the great day came' We started to Hrgh School' As lowly Freshmen w were shy and bashful We pulled through core 9 even after a few attempts to wrrte poetry We elected the followmg class offrcers Brll W1ll1ams Presrdent Nell Kelly V1cePres1dent Ortez Zergler Secretary and Treasurer and Marre Iones Reporter Our Bepresentattves to Student Councrl were Betty Lee Mlller and Bob Avant When we were s1lly sophomores we could look down at the l1ttle Freshmen And how we all loved ancrent I-hstory Plato and Hypocrates' We chose B1llW1ll1ams Presr dent Gene Nabell V1cePres1dent and Martha Ann Melvrn Secretary and Treasurer Gur representattves to the Student Councrl were Nell Kelly Marre Iones and Gene Nabell On becommg Know all Iuntors we really felt blg' We all worked and worked on concesston stands and football dances And what a tlme we had Wllh the Iunror Sen1or Banquet' We rushed around for weeks and worrred and wondered lt was a grand affarr We elected Earl Yarbrough Presrdent Vrola Kornegay V1cePres1dent Lyllrs Ann Balls Secretary and Treasurer and Gene Nabell Bus1ness Manager We chose Nell Kelly Wade Fowler Harmon Platt and Carl Sandusky as Student Councll representatrves And then the frnal year' At last we becam d1q1'l1flQd Semors We won the Semor Underclassmen football game And how we worked on the Annual' We wrote and rewrote rushmg to complete our ed1t1on before the deadlrne We elected Harmon Platt Presrdent Carl Sandusky V1cePres1dent Betty Wade Treasurer and Nell Kelly Secretary We chose for Student Councrl Dean Duncan Thurston M Leod Gene Nabell Stanley Crews and Gene Ttdwell And now as we leave our school days behmd we wlsh to thank our teachers who have helped to make them happy ones We carry 1nto the world many wonderful memortes and wrll always remember those who helped to make them so 25 1 1 - . , . . 11 11 . . . 1 , . . 11 11 9 1 . , 11 11 . - 1 1 1' ' ' 1 1 1 1 - 11 . 11 . , I 1 . 1 1 ' 1 1 - , . . 11 11 . . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - . . . . . 1 . 9 - . . , - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - 1 v 1 1 1

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CLASS PROPHECY Gazrng 1nto my crystal ball l see twenty years from now the followrng events Bob Avant IS very busy now operatmg on a dog w1th a fractured skull Henry Karser Browder has Just completed Bonrne Blue Br1dge across the Gulf of Mexrco Down rn Nocatee Dons Brown IS the prmcrpal of school Her worst troublemaker seems to be Fred Markett s youngest son Fred V Up rn Buffalo N Y Pattr Brown 1S leadrng the Worlds largest band before forty m1ll1on spectators Aurrn Colhns 1S workrng on a super deluxe auto He can t seem to frnd the trouble Doesn t lt rs atomlc energy Stan Crews rs guardrng the corn vault 1n Brownsvrlle Hazel Dees IS workrng rn a beauty parlor whrch puts waves rn horses manes In Dearborn M1ch1gan Mary Iune Clann has become head math teacher Dean Duncan has frnally marrred and settled down to ra1s1ng a house hold Way back 1n the Kentucky h1lls Luella Dodds IS puttlng out a blg washrng of feed sacks lean Eller IS st1ll sarlmg the hrgh seas Bert Errckson 1S now broadcastrng over NBBC Natronal Bunker Broadcastrng Company Down rn Australra Wade Fowler TS conduct 1ng a musrcal show of mus1c for the rabblts B V Grrffrn rs burldmg soap boxes and send mg them to Yugoslavra for the guerrrllas ln New Orleans we frnd Beatrrce Hatlestad packrng for her tenth trrp up the Mrssrssrppr Brver Out West Mary lane Hahn rs roprng buffalo She s been tryrng for the last two hundred days to rope one and has yet to do rt Over rn lndra Gen Earl Hrll IS leadmg the Elev nth Trger Drvrsron agarnst the Brrtrsh The people of lndra are st1ll frghtrng for thetr mdependence ln Chrna Mane Iones has Just frnrshed her frfth perfect murder at the Chrnese Mrnnre Mouse Hosprtal Thrs trme the patrent was none other than the great Frank Smatra the Slxth She 1ust couldn t stand hrs croonrng any longer Evelyn Iohnson rs travelmg rn a trarler wrth her husband and seven chrldren rn Mexrco Remember when Grayce Iohnson used tc wrrte on the Bulldogs bark? Well she kep up her wrltmg and 1S now a reporter on the Fuzzy Wuzzy Dally Trmes at Ft Ogden Nell Kelley IS now the Manager of the Worlds largest llvestock market wnrch rs lo cated at Cubrtrs Florrda Bernrce Krnsey has frnally obtalned a place on the DHS faculty By the way she took Mr Burkes place Over rn Afnca Tommy Krttrell rs now em ployed by Sahara Desert Club to hunt therr golf balls ll n - If . I I . know that it's out of gas, oh! I beg your pardon, - . . ' ' x 1 1 ' ' X a , . . A - F A V 26