Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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SCEWD0O? CQftSS fflOSIKDOW One bright sunny morning on August 27, 1926, someone pull- ed the rope and ding-dong she boomed. When the many little hicks from the country heard this alarming sound they all run in different directions and hid. Among the hoosiers that ran '. ere Elizabeth Akers, Amelia and Ada Belle Bridges, Bige Dun-- can. Vinita Foster, Romola Lunt, Mavis Iloffett, Heber McGrath, Flo d Roberts, Ravnond and Charlie Shores, and Joe Sanders. The rest laughed at these for being scare-crows but informed them that it vTas .just the bell that'neant to go in. These-city gu s and gals were Jodie-Lee Cloudt, Adrian Boyd, Jewi Dye, Robert Davis, F,dwin Dean, Paul Dunagan, Acie Hillman, Billie Johnson, Christeen ICartchner, Dora Lovett, Christine KcFarlen Eerl Philpot, Maxine Roofe, Joe Russel, Lorine Russel, Murray alker, Stanley Rath and Max Murdock. As everyone vas seated in the little green school room, Miss Branyon became likeable among all the children but as they became less self-conscious, the1’- acted disagreeable and found she wasn't so kind all the time. She tried to teach us the A-B-C's and only partly suc- ceeded. And then the big event of the yejt’r. The nev school building was completed. All the studious little students to- od their books and skipped over to the new schoolhouse. In the second year, Miss Clark taught us reading, writing» and arithmetic, not leaving out the cotton wood stick. Miss Clark rote the following remark ebout Richard Hext— Excell- ent reader but l zy in arithmetic. When school was out all the teachers could hear was No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers sassy looks . Our teacher in the third grade was Enily Montgomery. She had a terrible tine calming everyone because we thought it such an honor to be in the other end of the building , nnd so ended our third year of raisin. In the fourth year Earl Philpot fell for Mae Tate and Dora Lovett fell for Closter Pedigrew. So far into the grades we struggled until wo reached the seventh'grade whoro Jimmie Lovett chaperoned many petty love affairs. This v as in the high school building and the stairs somehow managed to stand the strain. That was the year when the love birds started walking do m the stairs looking into each others eyes like dying ducks in a thunder storm. Hannah ebster and Gerald Axton headed the young romancers who con- stantly wove colored glasses to wink at their flames. VJe entered the eighth grade but had to go through it in the grammar school building. Billie Johnson and Joe Francese got licked b- - Mr. Ccsev almost every day for being ornery. The whole class cheated in spelling but when v e all got F’s on our report cards we were broken of it. hen Mr. Brrlov took us in to the gym to music he had to take the girls and boys separate so wc would be more quiet. Me graduated from the eighty grade with the following enrolled: Elizabeth Ake-rs, Ada Belle and Amelia Bridges, Noma Ellis, Vinita Foster,- Maggie Hardin, Romola Lunt, Mavis Moffett, Dorothy Osburn, Millie Mae Russel, Viola Smith, Hannah Webster, Gerald Axton, Adrian Boyd, Dean Chapman, Bobby Cochran, Bige Duncan, Joe Francese,' Jack Gentry, Billie Johnson, Richard-Hext, Slno Lunt, Heber McGrath, Earl-Philpot, L.A. Patten, Manuel Ruedo Joe Sanders, Dubert Smith, Tommy Watson, and Preston Aker.

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V e all entered the Doors of . earning the next fall with the exception of four of our old members, ilorma Ellis, 3ige Duncan, Dubert Smith, and Tommy Vfatcori, It took, us several days to get accustommed to the n .w rules and also the new members who were Ellsworth Kill, Arvon dale, June Lawrence, Lax Gale, Mack Ward, lhll Nations » Shirley Ellsworth, Ruth Burtcher, Yercy Wilkins, Alburtus Massey, Cieor're Moyers and Lay nor d Scribner. We weren't allowed to have recesses so we gave Mr. Townsend the pleasure of standing guard at the foot of the stairs with a paddle in hand to keep us from tearing down the stairs and the rest of the building between classes. During this year we journeyed over the hill several times on a picnic. After our Freshman year was over we took great delight in trying to overrule the Freshmen of the next year who we thought were altogether too small for us to associate with. Mr. Brickey, our home room and history teacher found a new way to wake the class by drawing a picture of a polar bear in a snowstorm. There wasn't a member of the cls.ss who could give the year that the war of L812 occured in. This ..as the first class ever to take history that slumbered instead of made noise and studying. Gerald Axton especially remembers thi: year because he tried out the newly fixed race track in hi., old Buick and the results were felt by him a fa., hours later when Mr. Townsend, Gerald, and the hose went for a round in the office. when this class became juniors they took a fancy or -unpin' to Mr. Freestone for he was our hone room teacher again. We put off what wu thought a quite successful prom and b .nquet. Kath- erine Curry became the lawfully wedded wife of Bill Dean and left u:. Airplane Tr vitt, while entertaining the dram-tics class in Mr. Free.tor:.... absence, took a tail spin that the .audience shall never forget. Sow we are high and mighty seniors but, in a way, not too glad that as. are leaving good old D.U.H.S. Juno and Billie followed in the pathway of La V-rde when they got hitched so all we can do is wi-h them the best of every- thing. Viol.. '.Iso chose the married life. The members of our class who now have prospects of getting married are as. follow;. Waldon Lunt. The graduating seniors are as follows. Elizabeth Akerc£. lre..ton rtker.. , Ruth Burtcher, Bobby Cochran, Doan Chapman, Joe r wo-,: e, Yinita Foster, Max Gale, June Lawrence Johnson, Mollio Lunt, vr ldon Lunt, Elno Lunt. ’'That should be enough Luntc- for one y.. r . .-.I Massey, Elmo her rill, Mavis Moffett, Ihil nations, Margaret i artan.an, Billy Johnson, manual Rue da, Willie Lae hussel, Norma Tipton, Roy Irewitt, Mack Ward, Earl Ihilpot, and Vercy .tilkin.,. Tlie Senior Class of '38 ha. hid a 1 rger percentage of booo- fuT. girls than any cl4ss th..t ever -lit thi- good old school. Froof ln 34 and: 35 didn't Shirley Ellsworth rate the position of C-.rnlv.al lue-n) tin 38 and 36 didn't Vinita r te the lame position) (In 36 and '37 didn't Vinita .tags a comeback and receive the sane honorary po-ition for the second time) And tak. this year (The seniors Cl . - .would .have surely taken this position witr. flying color:.) That is if there had been a carnival. d A '4 We, the Senior Class of 38 hope that the senior- of next yedi ’..ill have a- jinny good times and enjoy theraselve- as much as We Lave.