George West High School - Longhorn Yearbook (George West, TX)

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CLASS WILL fcont dj Joyce lkmllxams leaves her baton and majorette sklrt to Garl and D ale Harm son We know Garland IS Uomg to l1ke the chmoe 1n style Wally Goebel leaves that perpetual res1stance to anythlnf 1n m 110 c lOtll1Y'1f7 to Claudla Kendall Claudla you ve not a lot of reconxertmw to do Joyce G1lstrap leaves her pos1t1on as p1an1st for my tlung md eve ry thxnw that comes along to Path Welhnfvton We feel for you Pattm Edward G1nn leaves h1s pxper route to Homer Vlfe1mer Vwll1Cl'L means Cl udxa Wlll have to vet hxm home earller at nwht Haven Yarbrouvh regretfully leaves hls heaped Jilopy toLem Umphres although Lem has a pretty good collectlon of h1s own Everest Pavvhk leaves hxs backwoods lmsp to Lamon Bennett Lamon you marchmg on to h1qher educat1on Dan1el Hadamek leaves h1s Druf Store Cowboy wllk to Hershall Caron o tell there s gonna be some chanves made Jean Arnett leaves her freckles to Blllxc Wayne Rouse w1th the hope that Blllle can cover them better than she dxd V1rg1n1a Hedr1ck leaves her loud mouth to poor l1ttle unheard Nancy Har pole We hope Nancy can get a word 1n edgewlse next year Rosa Sue M1ller leaves her baby blue eyes to Melba Jean Harrod and Tmcy Morton Look out boys! Estelle Essary leaves her crowded weekends to Evelyn Jones VK e know that Rena Mae Mlller leaves her typewrlter clock and speed test to Ollvez W1ll1ams and Edward Dav1dson Amta Cantu leaves those trlps to Corpus to Adelflna Chapa who we hope has as good a reason for gmng as An1ta d1d Elda Garza just w1shes to leave perlod She leaves her place m the h1gh school to Hortenc1a Reyna Carohne Ybanez leaves the answers 1n the back of her book to RenatoGarc1a We hope Renato can read her Wfltlflg Jmmmy Hudgeons leaves abllxty to run everyone and everythmg to John Umphres W1ll1am Sn1der and Edwln Burrxs Keep the school goxnv boys G J Rodgers le aves h1s 1b1l1ty to mxss school about 9 10 of the t1me to the Funderbrughs and the1r hunt1ng tr1ps and Joe Flood and h1s dehcate health and to Frank Chamrod for unmentlonable reasons Estel Caron leaves h1s everyday run to the Lunch Room to John Rosfftad Careful Johnny the ground gets a b1t slxppery when lt s muddy Ruth Clements leaves the ab1l1ty to occupy two or three seats 1n the study hall to Enell Peebles and Lenora Work VN e hope nobody wants to s1t by you U11'lS Bobby Jones leaves h1s abllxty to cause bedlarn wherever he Goes to Talmaffe Carter and Doyle Stuart Jo Ann Arnold leaves her pep and school sp1r1t to Sarah Hatch and Nelma Gatt1s Carry on glrls The Semors leave the1r pl ace 1n the h1gh school the1r way w1th the teachers thelr old books thexr .l1gn1ty thelr soph1st1cat1on thelr ab1l1ty and themr path to Mr Rogstad s Off1C6 to thxs year s Junxor Class Sxgned and Sealed th1s 7th day of March 1n the ye ir of our Lord 1949 VN1t nessed by we the Semor Class , . . z ' 3 A z - , Q - t . . . . 1 4,1 ' t O . Y ' ' Y ' lv K xi ' . A ' , I F ' 1 : ' H D . , . . L . , , . I Q 4: ' D . 1 . . Y G I ' ' . Q , re X . g ' 1' f ' . D . , t O - L . . I .A x -Q 1 Q , , , B 4 r ' .A 1 - , . . Evelyn can handle them. . , , , . - D, - . . z 1 J ' f . , Q , . O . V , , , A - , . - , Q . . L D . C O Y C r . , . I I V I I Y 1 1 7 ' ' r 7 -

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CLASS HISTORY Qcont dl were Rose Mary Dolan Otto Goebel David Maguglin and Hazel York After school was out in May Ray Mapes was drowned 1n Corpus Chr1st1 We lost Maurme Dollar and Otto Goebel during the school term We had lots of fun dur1ng our Junior year ordering our rings and giving the Seniors a banquet Our sponsors were Mr Ralph Meador and Mr W W Odom We lost Charles Drake and gained Jo Ann Arnold Floydlne Chenault G J Rodgers and Haven Yarbrough During the year we learned of the death of Maurxne Dollar Near the end of school Hazel York dropped out and Rosa Benitez and David Maguglin hav1ng enough credits to be Seniors graduated Now the day has finally come We are Seniors gettmg to the end of our journey Gladys Duncan and Floydme Chenault didn t come back and Jo Ann Reinhard moved to Kerrville at mid term During the year Edward Clubb found he needed one half credit to graduate We were very glad to have Mr Meador and Mr Odom as our sponsors again This year several of our class mates were chosen to run for Miss Live Oak County and we were very proud of Mary Rogstad as the Football and Ag Sweetheart Also Joyce Williams was our Drum Major and Jo Ann Arnold was one of the pep squad leaders At the beginning of school we got those long waited for rings and at mid term we ordered our invitations Our class flower is the gardema and our cloors are aqua and peach Our motto 1S Not finished just begun We have a graduating class of twenty eight Jean Arnett Jo Ann Arnold Margaret Brown Anxta Cantu Ruth Clements Estelle Essary Elda Garza Miller Rosa Sue Miller Mary Rogstad Margie Beth Stewart Joyce Williams Caroline Ybanez Estel Caron Edward G1nn John Ginn Daniel Hadamek Jimmy Hudgeons Bobby Jones Everest Pawlik G J Rodgers Irvan Shaw Richard Stannard and Haven Yarbrough C LASS WILL. We the Senior Class of George West High School in the year of 1949 being of sllghtly unbalanced mind and almost sane thoughts do hereby bequeath these slightly useless tokens to the following Mary Rogstad leaves her titles of Ag Sweetheart and Football Sweet heart to next year s lucky girl or girls Dlnky G1nn leaves his bookkeeping ability to J C Gerfers w1th the hope that Mr Meador can survive another year with such brilliance intact Betty Jean Jordan leaves those bright remarks to Elaine Probst and since Elaine has enough of her own we pity the people who associate w1th her next year Margie Beth Stewart leaves that well anyway that g1ggle to Shirley McBride and Annie Goynes with the hope that they won t use it Rmchard Stannard leaves his ab1l1ty to mess up the chemmstry lab to Opal Mickan and J W Stevens with the hope that they have the ability to get out of cleaning lt up Irvan Shaw leaves h1s A No 1 wolf tactics to Doyle Marek and Malcom Bradfute He wishes to take some with his spec1al patent on them with him for future reference but says you boys may have the rest Good Luck Boys Margaret Brown leaves the cont1nual state of confuslon in which she exists to Sophie Bednorz and Dorothy Houdman We hope you girls can manage without the results Margaret got We would hate to have all of you in the same institute. Joyce Gilstrap, Waldean Goebel, Virginia Hedrick, Betty Jean Jordan, Rene Mae

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C LASS PROPEHCY It was the year of 1959 A D Mrs Van R1tzenburg of ll' North Palace Ave nue New York N Y recexved a letter from George West Texas It read as follows George West Texas Route 3 Marchl 1959 My dear Joyce Iwr1te wlth the hope that the length of th1s letter w1ll excuse the length be tween letters Please do not resent my seemmg concert but may I say that I am qu1te pleased wxth myself as a psych1atr1st I really hke my work and am makmg a mce l1V1hg for myself I have worked my pat1ents down to a mxmmum so I de cxded to take my vacat1on now and take a tour of the surroundlng country to study the dlfferent types of people In leavmg I took a detour by our Lmdholm I-hgh School to leave a word or two wlth my patxent R A Clements who IS supermtendent there She detamed me a moment to tell me about the P E Teacher at Cade I-hgh School who had been unconscxous for two days Seems that one of Beth Stewart s students had quxckly caught onto the upper cut My plans are to wr1te to you on my tr1p whlch 15 not a planned thmg At each stop I shall dec1de where to go from there I m on my way to San Antonio My traxn IS about to pull 1nto S A but fxrst I must tell you what I read m the Tlme magazme It says that John Gmn IS bu1ld1ng a rocket sh1p to the moon The name of h1s shmp IS to be Colllns And he told us all that he was goxng to be a doctor I Th1s afternoon I was goxng by the bxg Post Offxce on Alamo Plaza when 1 cry1ng chlld captured my attent1on She was lost and was carrylng a letter from a Mrs Gulch I hushed the chlld and took her to the address on the letter A woman came 1nto the hall and xmagxne Estelle Essary oops Gulch fnow run nxng a nursery Whxle havmg tea wlth her she told me about Joyce G1lstrap be1ng ln the home for the mentally slck They thxnk the amateur p1an1sts drove her nuts I was just leavmg when a couple came xn Could you ever guess who had come after thexr seven darlmgs 'P Yes .To Ann and Estel Caron I m on the tra1n agam I ve been lookrng at a plcture IH a magazxne for about an hour and I just can t thxnk who lt looks l1ke It IS of a tall dark haxred glrl wxth long lashes around baby blue eyes She IS entltled Mxss Glance It s drxvmg me mad I I Th1s IS my f1rst t1me 1D the coal m1n1ng town of Rusk I was eat1ng lunch 1n a cafe and a colored man walked by me and 1nto a room H15 walk was most fam1l1ar even ln work clothes but I couldn t thlnk where I had seen xt before You could never guess who walked back out of that room our ole classmate Danlel I-Iadamek who IS a m1ner We had d1nner together that evenmg at some rxtzy n1ghtclub and found our old chum Jo Re1nhard smgmg The Man I Love wlth the orchestra whxch was dlrected by Carmen .Tones Bobby s toothbrush mustache looked very attractlve I got '1 letter from Margaret the other day and she sald Irvan was on Wall Street She dldn t say what he was do1ng and I really thought he must be rollmg m dough unt1l I got your letter and you told me you had seen h1m sweepmg snow off the streets sign, Day Nursery , greeted me and about a dozen children opened the door. A