El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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Academic H TOMMY ASHINHURST The ladies’ man (?) ALBERT BAKER Academic A member of the intelligentsia DEWEY BELL Academic One hundred twenty-five pounds of manliness and muscle BETTY ELLEN BLAKE Academic Pep, personality, and pulchritude BILL BLANCHARD General The “toughest hombre west of Banner FORREST BLANTON Academic The big noise” of the fourth year Spanish class C. C. BLOODWORTH Manual Arts Christopher Columbus to his friends WILMOT BOLINGER Commercial He knows what he wants to say and can say it. KENNETH BOWLING Academic Our senior towhead BERNICE BOWMAN Commercial She’s indued with intellectual ability. CARA BELL BRADY Academic Those beguiling eyes IRENE BRANSTOOL Academic Sweetness and kindness are her specialties. GRETA CARTER Academic A combination of energy, ability, and willingness ELIZABETH CHAPMAN Home Economics You love her smile. BERD1NE CLARKE Commercial Her hair is her crowning glory. (10)

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worthy one, being ably assisted by the ever ready” Raymond Williams, our ed- itor. Many and varied have been the honors won and the accomplishments of the sen- iors. Frances Lea Hodges was elected out- standing senior girl by the senior class and faculty. Joe Wallace turned politician on us and took over a job as one of the pages for the Oklahoma Legislature. Operetta leads were held by Greta Carter, Lorraine Filkins, W. B. Jennings. Jr., Bruce Davis, and William Osborne. Then came the carnival, sponsored by the Band Mothers’ Club on the first of April. This proved to be profitable, so the affair will probably become an annual one. Senior candidates for carnival king and queen were Joe Slattery and Fairry Ham- ilton. Bill Kelly and Juanita Perdue, and Ralph Clovis and Virginia Devitt. And for the first time in ages and ages we had a senior king and queen—Fairry and Joe! Joe Wallace presided as master of ceremo- nies and efficiently served as student car- nival manager. Ralph Clovis received the E club trophy and also shared honors with Francis Thompson as the outstanding boy from El Reno High School for the University of Oklahoma award. Delmer Haun made the mythical all-state second football team, while Clay Al- bright won first place for wrestling in the district and third in the state tournaments. Mary Montgomery wrote a splendid essay for which she received highest honors in a contest sponsored by the local Women's Christian Temperance Union. Rosemary Fox established a highly commendable rec- ord as the state’s best actress and also won several firsts for her fine dramatic reading. She and Wilmot Bolinger participated in the winning state contest one-act play. Smoke Screen”. Looking over the band records, we found Bob Grove, “the wizard of the trum- pet , to be the only player holding mem- bership for seven years. Senior members of the high school quartets were Adah Van Wagoner. Greta Carter. Robert Cory, W. B. Jennings. Jr., and Lester Stoehr. The Forum debate club awarded a loving cup to the outstanding senior boy, Raymond Williams. Rosemary Fox and W. B. Jennings. Jr., had leads in the senior p’ay, “Rosemary— for Remembrance, a dramatic war story. This production, one of the best ever pre- sented to a high school audience here, was so touching that there was not a dry eye in the house. Its presentation marked a memorable milestone in cur senior history. Charles Hubbard had the honor of be- ing the youngest senior. Holding high honors were Fairry Hamilton and Virginia Miller as valedic- torian and salutatorian of the Senior Class of 1937. On the completion of commencement arrangements, the school officials announc- ed that Reverend J. W. Hodges would deliver the commence- ment sermon Sunday night. May 16. Class night was held Tuesday. May 18, when honors were bestowed upon many deserving seniors. The guest speaker for commencement exercises Thursday, May 20, was Mr. C. K. Reiff, superinten- dent of the Oklahoma City Schools. Then came May 21, and the Seniors of 1937, now grad- uates of El Reno High School, lifted their chins, and looking forward, marched straight ahead! —Greta Carter. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Thomas Axhinhurxt. I'rrxldent Itulph CIovIh, Vi... Fairry Hamilton. Secretary Juanita Perdue. Treaxuror CLASS POEM F rom our Alma Mater we sadly depart With pangs of deep regret and tranquil sorrow; Though still haunted by lingering memories. We seniors now face the luminous morrow. Our various arts of genius we have often displayed: The kindness of our helpmates we wish doubly repaid, lake gusts of emotional wintry flurries. Both merriment and sorrow now have come and gone; Earned we our merits, with a store of knowledge learned. Now a measure of success, ’tis said, we’ve won. So a tribute we wish to pay To our dear El Reno High To cxpicss our gratitude Fot the standaids it doth specify. Four very pleasant years we coped with wisdom. Hoping that in some of its arts we’d surpass. And that friendships true and lasting we would form. And we’d rejoice with comrades in our class. Life invisible lies ahead, till at its own command We shall peer within its depths and try to understand. When clouds were roaring and the paths were stony. We seniors have oft times paid our humble toll; And now that our high school career is completed. Elated, we appear on the graduates roll. This departing Class of ’37 Is voicing this one plea— That our remaining imprints Will have left a pleasant memory.—Mary Montgomery. (9)

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ED CLARK General An A-No. 1 journalist, who sees all, knows all. and tells nothing RALPH CLOVIS Commercial In all his classes he watches the lasses. JAMES COFFEY General An expert at horseshoe pitching CHARLES COKER General Ambition overcomes handicaps BILL COLLINS Academic “Love is a tyrant that spares no one. not even me. JACK COOKSEY Manual Arts Mah mammy calls me T-Bone! ROBERT CORY General Silver voiced tenor of the quartet LELAND CRABBE General That handsome “leading man MARVIN CRUMP Manual Arts Romeo and Casanova, all in one! BRUCE DAVIS General My pipe is my best friend.” MARGARET DAVIS Academic She has dimples that show when her laughter doth flow. WILSON DAVIS Academic Reserved—not Windy Davis VIRGINIA DEVITT General Rhythm and romance, Ginger's combination ERNEST DOKE Academic A host everyone will remember. THOMAS DOUGLAS Academic He has such a lordly air.