H B Plant High School - Panther Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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DAVID Fosriak Prf'xi:1z'nl Fiuan BITTMAN Vice-President ELIZABETH EKWIN Secretary SGPHISTICATED SENIORS SURVIVE Remember that first day? There wasn't one among us who did not have a funny feel- ing in the pit of his stomach. We were scared, but we would have died rather than show it. So we laughed and giggled and kicked up our heels, while our superiors rapidly changed our appearance with gobs of ten-cent lipstick. By the time they were through with us, we looked more like Indians on the warpath than high school students. After the first day everything was all right. We soon learned the rules and regula- tions and became full-fledged Plant students. Between basketball games and cramming, we took time out to elect Hall Winn, David Foster, and Elizabeth Erwin to represent our class as president, vice-president, and secre- tary. To our first Court of Pantherilla we sent Virginia Long and Charles Parkhill as fifth maid and courtier. Our first semester rolled by quickly, and it was with a rush and roar that we greeted the summer vacation. The next year, brown as berries from the summer sun, we had the grandest experience in our high school career up to that time. We were the ones who were flourishing lipsticks then! Boy, some of those paint jobs were works of art! Soon the football games started -the first we had seen since we entered Plant. Some of those football players were awfully handsome. Hall Winn, Dick Steed, and Elizabeth Erwin took top honors as officers of our class. Did you notice the presi- dent and secretary were repeaters? Virginia Langford and David Foster made a handsome couple as the third maid and courtier of the Court of Pantherilla. Mid-term exams were waded through, and at last we were Juniors. Basketball season came around again. We yelled ourselves hoarse during football season, and then, just as we had begun to recuperate a bit, we lost our voices over basketball scores. XVe managed to pass our exams somehow. Now we were in our third year at Plant. Football and Pep Squad scrambled in with the same old routine. Mid-term, and we decorated the halls as supposedly dignified Seniors! We chose David Foster as president, Fred Bittman as vice-president, and Eliza- beth Erwin as secretary of our class. We certainly liked Elizabeth! For our last Court of Panrherilla we selected two Clydes to be second maid and courtier -- Clyde Taylor fbeautiful, wasn't she?j and Clyde Evans. We started to think about colleges now. just think! We only had a half a term to go be- fore graduation. Summer rolled around one more. Funny how quickly the years pass! Our last year at Plant. We were Senio A's, and we looked down our noses at every thing in general. Why, we even got to go te lunch at first bell now! Let the Juniors d4 the ratting! We had more importan things to worry about, fittings for caps am gowns, posing for our yearbook photographs The class will had to be written. We didn' want to neglect our last Plant football game either! Did you like the Baccalaureate Seri mon? We'll never forget Commencement A new road stretches before us-a road to bf explored. We'll find detours, short-cuts, ant dead-ends, but we're ready! And in the future, when we look back tc our high school days, we can be proud of oul class. We were small in number but great ir accomplishment. During our last year ai Plant, one classmate, John Smit, played or the Panther Eleven as captain of the team and served as president of the Student Coun- cil. Brunette Purita Trelles made a highly decorative vice-president of the Council Vera Burgess, Lula Ogles, Dennis Weissing and David Foster were included in the Presi- dent,s Cabinet. Lila Ruth Sheally copped the editorship of the Pep O'Plant. Other classmates on the staff were Joe Fonte, Bob Jones, Charles Sul- livan, and Jack Robb. Two of our number were elected member: of Tampa civic clubs-Elizabeth Erwin be- came Junior Pilot, and David Foster became Junior Rotarian. Herbert Goldberg, Rene Gacliff, Elmore Hinson, and Gilbert Davis were officers in the R.O.T.C. Seven members of our class were tapped into the Honor Society during impressive, candlelit ceremonies - Lila Ruth Sheally, Ann Yarborough, Margie Bachman, Elizabeth Erwin, Louise Sipes, Vera Burgess, and David Foster. Yes, we have a lot to remember about Plant. We may scatter to the four corners of the earth, but I do not think we will forget our old high school. We've known good times here, and, more important, we have be- come a part of the Plant spirit and tradition that has made us so proud of our Alma Mater. May the Victory Flag long wave high over- head!

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