Driscoll Middle School - Ranger Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Page2 THE PRAIRIE PRESS lVIonday, February 13, 1956 l U A THE PRAIRIE PRESS STAFF Hoop-Crazy e Editor-in-Chief ..,...................,...,..,......................,,,......,,,..,.,,,.....,,.,,,,,., Mary Mosel I-I I Wh. . S d Assistant Editor ...... .... . . Pinina Norrod S H e lsperlng an S Business Managel' --------- B etty Mull yCONCLUSIOND Josephine Fores and Robert Fernan- Society Editor .......v.. .. Ann Donaldson ' Joe Vickers Sports Editor ,......, ....,...,....,...... ....... ...,....., ...,......,.,. . . . .,.. . . ,. Billy Howell Reporters ...Y........ Cecile Blackmon, Beverly Couch, Sylvia Herrera, Betty Sue Chandler, Gwen Porche, Manuel Cano Assistant Sports Editor ......,...........,........,.............................,,. .......,. Reporter .................... .,..v.........v..................................... R ay Jamcs Advertising Staff .,....... ......., J udy Blackmon, Sue Ann Gore Sponsor ...................... ...........,............ M rs. Cappi Adams STAFF STUTTER . . . Off Society Editor's Desk Oh, Oh! My billfoldls' missing! . Someone took my P. E. shorts! Oh, dear! I just can't find my lunch money! Boys and girls this is just some of the many, many, things that happen all the time. Someone just shall we say borrows cer- tain things that don't belong to us. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to trust everyone at school? Or do you like going around and not believing anyone at school? Once I talked to a young lady over at another school. She was in her homeroom and started to leave. Some one said, Don't forget your billfoldf! CWell, kids, do you know what she said?4j Don't worry, no one in here would take anything that wasnlt theirs. It is really and truly wonderful to be able to say that and know for sure that it's true. It really hurts to go to your locker and find your lunch money or something else that is of value to you, gone. It not only hurts but it makes you angry, very angry. I'm sure, quite sure, you wouldnlt like it if someone took a notion to latch on to some- thing of yours. Why not put yourself in the other fellow's shoes. Stop and think, '1Would I like that to happen to me? If only more people all over the world would do that, I believe, weid have a pretty different world today. There most likely would be less teen-agers in trouble with the law. You canlt break an old horse of tricks he did long ago and the same goes for humans. If you do little things while you're young. what will you do, when you're older????? -Ann. 'Y 1 'f r Ugh! Oh! Whew! Made it. Is this what you hear while walking down the halls? Most of the students here at Driscoll don't seem to realize that this year at Driscoll we are providing class rooms built for only about half the 1590 students at Driscoll. Due to the forced crowdiness at Driscoll we have tried to make the best of this and provide each and every individual student with his or her own locker. This has only added to the confusion in the halls because many extra lockers have been added to every hall. The Administration has put a lot of their time in trying to help solve this problebm. A way this problem has been helped is by having different passing periods for the boys and girls before and after school. None of us help the matter any by pushing and shoving so we can be the first to our next class. We all have ample time to go to and from our lockers and on to our next classes without pushing and shoving. So next time we want to push or shove while walking down the halls just stop and think that manners show in the halls, too. Remember! Consideration pays. -Beverly. The competition would be tough and would bear down on every play every second of the game. The first round of the State Tournament would be played Tuesday, starting at ll p.m. The Hillsdale team had drawn a bye. This enabled them to get an extra dayls practice. Coach Simpson was thankful for this, for in the last game with Lineingford the second and third stringers had played most of the game and the regulars had become a little ragged on their shooting. The team spent the whole last practice shoot- ing. They left late Tuesday afternoon and arrived late that night at Cen- tral City where the tournament was being held. The first game played Weclnesday was with the home team, Central City. The game was a closely played contest all 'through the third quar- ters, then as the fourth quarter ap- proached, as in so many games be- fore, Hillsdalels stamina and endur- ance began to tell. The game WOUI15! up with Hillsdale winning by a score of 57-49. .The second game with Banning was an entirely different story. The Ban- ning team was ahead all during the game, although never ahead. more than two or three points, they were always in the lead. Finally in the middle of the fourth quarter Hills- dale got within one point of the leafl- Then Tip sank a hook shot. Stumpy stole the ball and went all the Way in for a lay-up. Moments later Tommy sank a shot from the corner. Then Banning countered with. two free throws. To set this Slick sank a jump shot and a free throw awarded him when he was fouled. by a Ban- ning guard while he was shooting. The final! The game for the State Championship! Hillsdale was rated as an underdog as they were playing Enter-Falls from up state. The game was a repeat performance of last night's game for Hillsdale. That is as far as the first half. 'ldien Tip, Tommy, and Stumpy began to get hot, they sank shots from all over the court and were demons on defense. As the last of the fourth quarter Hillsdale pulled ahead by a socre of 65-58. This won the game. A few moments later it was all over and they were the State Champs. THE END. HOLLIS-NEESE A U T O P A R T S ALL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION Ph. TU 3-8595 - Shell Center dez are still going strong. They've going steady for over a year Say! Did any of you know been HOW. . . . that one of our teachers is a chorus girl. If you want to know who, ask Mrs. Boney. . . . My, speaking of some real cool kittens plus high-heels, you should have been at the Centre Theatre last Sunday afternoon. Flor- ence VVright, Becky Steele, and Pat- sy Hobbs should h.ave a pretty good idea who they were, too ,... VVonder who Jane .Plimper has her eye on now? . . . Charles Steele real- ly thinks a certain seventh grader is cute. And seeing who she is I can't blame him .... Boys, I'1n telling you now, we have the cutest eighth grader over here by the name of Eve Allen. . . . Who does Nancy VVh.atley find so interesting here at school now? . . . Ginger Bedingfield goes to Church every Sunday, and why. Well. I'll tell you why, Ginger loves to listen to Brother I-Iiner preach his sermon, and to sing with certain other mem- bers of the choir .,.. Linda Smith has her eye on a certain somebody by the name of Troy. Troy who? Don't ask me .... Wonder who Jim Tucker likes now? . . . Donna Jo Perry goes to Moore's every afternoon after school. She seems to find a cer- tain boy over there quite interesting. . . . Edwin Williams is sure being nice to the girls here lately, wonder why? , . . Hey girls, Elmo Speckles is running around loose, you'd better put a stop to it. Don't you agree? . .. Why is Kay Ross so happy now a days? Couldn't be because of a cer- tain boy, could it? If any of you kids have any news put it in Mrs. Adams box or give it to your Society Editor, Ann Donald- son. Please sign your names .Thank you. State of Finances Of Paper, Annual At Halfway Mark Sept. 1, 1955 Cash on Hand 5000.00 First Cemester Collections: Sale of Papers 5310.55 Sale of Ads 295.00 Profit on Football Program 5.13 Total 3610.68 Collections on Annual 1620.00 TOTAL 352230.65 First Semester Expenses: Incidentals, Dues, supplies. etc 35104.13 Printing 532.15 Pictures 145.40 Total 3781.68 Port Printing Co. 1000.00 Total 551781.68 Cash on Hand 449.00 .TOTAL 552230.65

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OFFICIAL ROBERT DRISCOLL BI MONTHLY JUNIOR HIGH he Prairie Press VOLUME IV CORPUS CI-IRISTI, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1956 NUMBER 11 Driscoll Orchestra Girds For . usie Festival PR IRIE PRESS NNOUNCES H0 OR ROLL Standards for this Honor Roll were set by a faculty colnmittee. Standards for the First Honor Roll are: no grade lower than A: and no grade of S- or below in conduct. Standards for the Second Honor Roll are: no grade lower than a B and no more than one B: and no grade of S- or below in conduct. First Honor Roll NINTH GRADE- Edith Adams Vernelle Appleby Glenda Bennett Cecile Blackrnon Herby Booher Gareth Cayce Julie Dotson Juanita Harley Patricia Harrington Ada Lou Hartman Gary Hunt Betty Killen Jerry McKee Frances Neu Betty Noblett Pinina Norrod James Peterson Elvira Rios Mary Ann Rivas Glenda Roberts Saundra Smith Zoe Wilson Lynda Woorls EIGHTH GRADE- Jo Askey Sue Buford Bonnie Jo Collins Blanche Duff Patricia Edgeworth Barbara Eggleston Mabel Gunn Buzzy Hart Mildred Hill Sandra Johnston Willy Kuehn Bernadette Mclfeefer Betty Mull Yvonne Nen Gwen Porche Dinah Potts Sandra Riley Nancy VVhatley SEVENTH GRADE- Pedro Alvarez Sharon Belcher Nelda Bennett Olga Carrillo Lynn Cook Ramon Gonzales El Libro Talent Show VVednesday morning of last week a talent show was held as a school assembly by the El Libro Club, turing three of the four Aces. The three Aces Cone of them fea- WHS sickj included: Gary Espey on the washboard, Gerald Dyer playing the the ukelele, and Harvey Broyles with washtub. All of the three Aces sang! Others on the program were: Simon Gonzales and Tyrone Wenger playing the guitar and singing, Pat Harring- ton who did a modern dance, Shirley Walston and Florence Wright, who both did a pantomime, Ginger Beding- field sang, Trudy Sears did a mono- logue, Aurora Williams played the piano, and the Boy's Quartet, Charlie Noack, Douglas Raasch, Jim Weeks, and Alfredo Diaz, sang. The proceeds from this talent show will be used to send delegates to the Waco convention. Winner' Of Catchword Puzzle The winner of Catchword Puzzle No. 3, the staff is proud to announce, is Sandra Johnston. Sandra is in the eighth grade this year. She lives at 3406 Wellingtoii with her parents and one sister. Mary Mosel., the staff editor presented Sandra the 352.50 over the P. A., last Thursday. Sandra's comment: I thought Pinina fvvho made the puzzlej did a good job. We think Sandra did a good job, too. Con- gratulations from the staff, Sandra. Nancy Gootee Stanley Hutka I-Iyla Jean Pricer Jerry Rodgers Ernestine Rodriguez Susie Rodriquez Kathaleen Westbrook Second Honor Roll NINTH GRADE- Myra Jane Alston Johnny Barrera Ginger Bedingfield Judy Blackmon Betty Carter Linda Contreras Ann Davis Bertha Evans Elizabeth Evans Bob Finke Crystal Gandy Rubinoff Visits Driscoll School Rubinoff, a world known violinist, honored Driscoll with a program on Wednesday, February lst, and was well received in a school assembly. Eighth graders and members of the orchestra attended the assembly which started during second period. Other students listened to the program on the P. A. -Rubinoff pl a y e d an Academy Award song, Three Coins in a Foun- tain and phrases from several pieces he was to play at programs that after- noon and evening. The best-liked piece he played was Davy Crockett, fifteen different ways, as a mambo, a march, Jack Webb style, and others. He ended the program with a Latin- American song. Driscoll students enjoyed his pro- gram and were glad he came to Dris- coll as he went to other schools in the city. New Student Council Gfficers Are lnstalled Monday, January 30, your newly elected Student Council officers were installed. Beverly Couch. outgoing President acted as Master of Cere- monies. Everyone joined Lord's Prayer, led The scripture was Bender. The A Cappella numbers led by Miss Seiller. The numbers were As Torrents in Sum- mer and Holy Ghost. Mr, Parish, our principal installed the new President, David Irving who in turn installed the other officers as follows: Elizabeth Webb, Vice- President, Cecile Blackmon, who is serving for a second semester as Sec- retary, also Bobo Beynon who is serving as Treasurer for the second time. After the representatives and stu- dent body were installed, everyone joined in saying the Pledge of Al- legience. Congratulations to all the new offi- cers from the whole student body. in saying the by Buzzy Hart. read by Sidney Choir sang two Tremendous crowd at our church last night. New minister? Mr. Brunoff To Direct Festival This week we're interested in the Driscoll Stringed Orchestra. It's split up into three different periods: first, second, and third, all meeting for class in Room 6. The first and second pe- riods are the MAB Orchestra and third period the beginning orchestra. Mrs. Anita Gaedcke teaches and directs all of them, -Each orchestra period has it's own officers, elected at mid-term and have a disciplinary system set up. The offi- cers for first period are: President, Pinina Norrod, Vice President, San- dra McLeod, Secretary-Treasurer, Sandra Cornet. Walter Gernandt is the President for third period, Robert Wells the Vice President, and Ruben Acuna, Secretary-Treasurer. Next week starts the grind with extra rehearsals to get ready for pro- grams coming up. Approximately 80 persons will be attending these re- hearsals. Twenty-one of these students will be wind instruments from the Driscoll band, the others the stringed orchestra. The programs mentioned previous- ly will start with the coming Music Festival in March. Some students who are studying strings plan to be judged on solos. Later in the festival the complete orchestra will play for a group of judges. A P.T.A. program is planned for April. The last con- cert will be the Spring Concert in May. The orchestra will also be pre- sented at other programs that can be arranged. The orchestra is really looking for- ward to a visit from Mr. Brunoff, the assistant director of the Dallas Sym- phony. Mr. Brunoff is going to be in Corpus Christi for the Music Festival in March and will listen to and direct the various orchestras in the city. I-Ie was here several years ago and was greatly appreciated. Mr. Brunoff will help the orchestra to approach new goals. The orchestra has worked hard this year and we'll expect to hear more from them. Mrs. Snell: Dubbie, would you give the principle parts of the verb swim. 1' Dubbie Morrison: f'Swim, Swam, Swumf' Mrs. Snell: Very good, now give me the principle parts of dim. fcgntinued gn page -ty No, it burned down. Dubbie: Aw, Pd rather not!

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Monday, February 13, 1956 THE PRAIRIE PRESS Page 3 CLUB REPORTS El Libro The El Libro Club has just had a talent show that was presented to the student body last Wednesday. Fea- turing the three Aces, the program also had other talent. The price for the show was I5c. Money 'made from the show is to be used to send six delegates to the State Library Con- vention in VVaco, Texas. The dele- gates and Miss Jackson. their sponsor, will leave February 23 and come back on the 25th. Y-Teens The 9th grade Y-Teens. sponsored by Miss Ann Nixon are planning a hayride for the near future, Student Council 'The Student Council has elected Julie Dotson as Parliamentarian and oJe Weaver as Sergent-at-Arms. These are two other hard working students to add to the fine slate of officers for this next semester. The Student Council is also spon- soring a Twirp Week Dance to end twirp week on February 28. Inci- dently, Twirp Week is February 22- 29. Twirp stands for this: The Wom- an Is Required To Pay. All you boys had better pick out a girl and really play up to her. Acapellcr Choir Acapella choir is planning on hav- ing two dances. The dances will be on Feb, 21, and March 20, for an end of the year project for the choir. The choir is also planning their Formal Spring Concert on April 20. We are going to try to get everyone from Driscoll and their parents to attend the concert. The admission will be 25C for students and 504: for adults. The profits from the concert will also go t.o help finance this end of year proiect. Friday morning, Feb. 3, the choir, along with the boy's quartet presented an assembly at Cunningham. Cun- ningham will be making a return trip in the near future. Student Council Has Honorary Representative Beverly Couch has been made an honorary representative in the Stu- dent Council. Although Beverly was defeated in her try for re-election, the Student. Council, Mr. Parish, our prin- cipal, and Mrs. Adkins and Mr. Boney, Student Council sponsors, thought that she was still a great asset to the strength of the Council. Beverly is Secretary of All-City Stu- dent Council and is going to continue the work she started last semester. Meet The Press B-ashful In-xtra T-olerant T-emper Y-ummy C-autious H-ilarious A-s' N-atural D-elicate L-aughing E-motional Il-adiant Maybe you would like to know more about Betty. She lives at 320 Palm Drive and is 14' years old. Betty has honey colored hair, blue eyes, and is 5'4f . This is her first year on the staff. She's going to Mil- ler next year and I know she'll enjoy it. P.T.A. Mexican Supper Held The P.T.A. had a Mexican Supper on the evening of January 24-. The food was donated and served by the parents. They served about 4-00 peo- ple. The menu consisted of tomales, enchiladas, beans, rice, slavv salad, pralines and coffee or soft drinks, The Song scrambles See You Later, Alligator -Judy Blackmon and Mary Mosel have to Stay in for Mrs. Ramsey. Devil or Angel -That is what all the girls are trying to figure out about all the Driscoll boys. t Only You -VVill have to wash the blackboard for Mrs. Barber after school. CJim Weeksj The Great Pretender -People who don't talk about their teachers. as ta I'll Be Home -at 7:00 and my tele- phone number is TU 2-4-517. ts Speedo -We see lots of them going down the halls. t'Tutti-Frutti -Ugh! It tastes awful. Talking to the Angels in the Sky - To see if they know the answers to my Algebra test. Rock and Roll Waltz -Bet this is a new one on Arthur Murray. Sixteen Tons -Is what your books feel like by sixth period. at an Moments to Remember - When you've just left Mr. McLeocl's of- fice. Blue Suede Shoes -Bet Jane Plim- per really would like a pair of these. Classes Elect New Spring Officers Mrs. Bc:rber's Homeroom President-David Bremer Vice-.President-Mary Mosel Secretary--Juanita Harley Treasurer-J im VVeeks Parliamentarian-Gordon Garwood Sergeant-at-Arms-James Peterson Miss Sone's Homeroom President-Beatrice Perez Vice-President-Riley Rios Secretary-Andrew Cabalbero Treasurer-Louis Chavarria Student Council Representative- Priscilla Bowman Mrs. Preston's Homeroom New Books ln Library The Robin Hood Story-VVebster The Gold Bug-Edgar Allen Poe Old Testament Stories-Webster Juarez, Hero of Mexico-Baker To Have and To Hold-M. Johnston The Count of Monte Cristo-Dumas Greek and Roman Myths-Webster A Tale of Two Cities-C. Dickens Ivanhoe-Scott The Flamingo F eather-Kirk Munrol Ben Hur-Lew Wallace Men of Iran-Howard Pyle Cases of Sherlock Holmes-Doyle El Libro Members To State Meeting Six delegates of the Robert Driscoll chapter of the Teen-Age Librarians Association plan to attend a state con- vention in Waco this month. Accom- panying Miss Jane J ackson, librarian and El Libro sponsor, will be Ricky Beland, Cecile Blackmon, Betty Sue Chandler, Patsy Graham, Janice Pul- liam, and Jeannie Ritchey. They will leave on a chartered Greyhound bus the afternoon of February 23. They will stay at the Roosevelt Hotel in Waco for two days and return the night of Saturday, Febniary 25. Money for this trip was raised at the talent show presented by the Club last Wednesday. The theme of the convention will be Books, Libraries, and Youn. Mag- gie Daly, glamorous Chicago author and model, will be the featured speak- er at a luncheon Saturday. She is one of the famous Daly sisters: Mau- reen, Shiela J ohn, Kathleen, and Mag- gie. She is the author of two popu- lar teenage books: Maggie Daly's Guide to Charm M9535 an-d Kate Brennan, Model 09555. E-................................... .......-E President-David Brinkley - - . -----,-,ln--,.,-.-3,-,-,-,-,-,-,.,I gFor Correct Time . . . 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