John H Reagan High School - Spur Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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CALENDAR OF THE SCHOOL YEAR SEPTEMBER 20 — The last spree of summer. 21 — School opens amid groans and loud wailing. 25 — -Everyone changes schedule 9,999th time. 26 — Football game with Dallas Tech. Not so hot! 28 — People still sleeping in Mr. Johnson’s office trying to get out of Miss Bates’ class. 'OCTOBER 1 — Yell leaders chosen. After looking at the girls, a group of boys decides not to quit school, but a whole bevy of girls walks out as the boy candidates strut on the stage. 5 — Q. Who can resist the circus? A. Miss Rucker. 12 — Red Coats take first lesson in Spanish at Latin- American Columbus day celebration. 15 — Flee for your lives! An attack by the Rebels! Par¬ don me, my mistake. It’s only the R. O. T. C. Drum and Bugle corps. 23 — Long absentee list. What’s the reason? Oh, yes, Robert Taylor’s newest picture is in town. 27 — That shining star must be Frances Beaty, for Mexico City is in town! Ohhh, Boy!! 30 — Reagan night at the Metropolitan. Poor ushers! NOVEMBER 9 — The Public Speaking department presented a radio skit. At least it wasn’t announced as an amateur program. 9-15 — National Education Week. Are you telling us? 11 — The Chesterfield Red Coats, wrapped in cellophane to keep them fresh. 13 — Hail to the editor-in-chief before she gives us hail Columbia! 13 — The Price Tag presented. The Hollywood Scout was well impressed. 24 — Social Relations stag dinner. Future wives will have more time for bridge. 26 — Thanksgiving. 27 — Reagan-San Jacinto game. Still giving thanks! 28 — One decides to do one’s Christmas shopping. DECEMBER 2 — Reagan-Davis assembly. Yea, Davis! Rah! Rah! Rah! (Oh, yeah!!) 3 — Frances and Earl fuss. 4 — Frances and Earl make up. 5 — Mme. Corrine in town. Nobody in school. 10 — Frances and Earl do not fuss. 11 — Ice Hockey in full swing, only San Jacinto had the most swing. 24 — One does one’s Christmas shopping. 25 — What do you think? 26 — “What I gave Louise cost more than this thing.” 31 — Everybody happy? JANUARY 1 — Well, anyway, it’s only once a year. 4 — It couldn’t last. 13 — Red Coat radio program. We demand television. 4-25 — Teachers warn students. 25-28 — Final exams. Some cram. Others write on their cuffs. 29 — Mamma comes to see teacher. 30 — Debaters win tournament at San Antonio. FEBRUARY 1 — New term — new leaf. 2 — Junior high graduates get lost in halls. New seniors scornfully push them underfoot. 3 — New leaf begins to resemble old leaf. 4-5 — Reagan debate Tournament. 14 — Valentine’s day. Cupid fell down on his job. Gloria Belle got only five boxes of candy. 17 — Is that a cyclone? No, just the Annual staff letting out a sigh of relief as the subscription goal is reached. 20 — Romance in a Boarding House presented. Laughter fills the air. Becky’s star has “riz.” 21 — Still laughing. 22 — The Shrine Ball. The Red Coats, of course, took the prize. Ahem! MARCH 1 — A future Red Coat blesses the Scott family. 9 — Hale! Mrs. Hale adds another future Red Coat. Thus the organization grows. 12 — Tennis Tournament. Shine on, Bobby. 13 — A truck was hired to carry back the trophies from the track meet at Cameron “with care.” 13 — Red Coat bridge party. Edith Epley evidently thought that it was Easter, judging by her new outfit. APRIL 1 — April Fool, but you can’t fool the teachers. 2 — Interscholastic Meet. Honors minus cup. 9 — Music Festival. Music fills the air. 17 — Red Coat dance. The Spring Swing, and did they swing! 20 — May Fete. Jealous glances pollute the air. 22-3 — It might have been a Battle of Flowers, but it was only a breeze for Reagan in San Antonio. April-June — Social whirlwind. MAY 15 — Social Relations coffee, only no one drank coffee. 28 — Senior Play, Bashful Bobby. 29 — -Joe still trying to get grease paint off. 30 — Baccalaureate. JUNE 1 — Senior day. More fun. 2 — Commencement — Gracie sticks cap in eye tr ying to get it on at a coquettish angle. 5 — Senior Prom. The last school fling. 6 — Seniors groan over underwear from Aunt Susie.

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SENIORS WHOSE PICTURES DO NOT APPEAR WAYNE ARMSTRONG: “He’s fun loving; yet he’s industrious.” BOYCE BASKETT: “A quiet man with brains can do more than a hundred men with noisy mouths.” GERALDINE BAXTER: “Wise, loyal, and true.” MILDRED BEARDEN: “She needs no ornaments to aid such loveliness.” DOYLE BLACKBURN: “The deed I intend is great, but what, as yet, I know not.” ROBERT BROOKS: “What has Bing Crosby got that he hasn’t? A salary!” HANNAH BRUSH: “I haven’t time to be seri¬ ous.” CHARLES BRINDLEY: “A man of many inches and every inch a man.” JOE COOK: “A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” SOPHIE COOK: “A friendly person is a joy forever.” VINCENT COTTRELL: “The gloomiest outlook is always bright to him.” WALTER DeLEON : “So much to do, so little done.” GLADYS DOZIER : “A merry laugh and light¬ some jest, of all good fellows, she is the best.” JAMES DVORAK: “I know what I know.” STUART ERVIN: “He does well who does his best.” JOE FILIPS: “The ladies call him sweet; the stars, as he treads them, kiss his feet.” WARREN FORD: “His studies are the least of his troubles.” ARTHUR FOWLER: “Resourceful, dependable, and optimistic — he pretends to be studious. We wonder.” TAYLOR FLANIKEN : “The quiet mind is richer than a crown.” JOHN FRYE: “He never worries about yester¬ day or tomorrow.” WARREN GOODSON: “The light of a pleasant eye.” THOMAS GUINN : “Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content.” ROBERT HARDY : “There is always room for a good man.” JOHNSON HILL: “He who wins must work.” JOHN HOOK: “Firmness is great; persistency is greater.” MAURINE HOWELL: “If she has a fault, we have not found it.” ERNEST JAHNKE: “The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.” LAWRENCE KUJAWA: “The work of the world is done by a few.” CHARLES LAUPER : “In yonder book my knowl¬ edge lies.” BRYAN LAWSON: “He adds humor to the class.” BERNICE LAYTON: “Where’er she turns, the graces homage pay.” JACK LINDSAY: “Do not measure my wisdom by my ..stature.” TROY LIVELY : “High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.” BILLIE LODGE: “He bore without abuse the grand old name of gentleman.” JOE MACBETH: “Quiet and studious, he is the kind that will arrive.” J. H. McADAMS: “Let the world slide, let the world go; a fig for care, and a fig for woe.” ROY McBRIDE: “Brains, not size, make the man.” JEAN McDONALD: “When she says I will, on her you can depend; when she says I won’t, she won’t; and that’s the end.” J. C. MILES: “Still water runs deep.” FURMAN NANCE: “Interest is the basis of achievement.” CHARLES O’CONNOR: “To his friends he is good and true.” WILLIAM O’CONNOR: “He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.” J. P. O’REILLY : “There is no index of character so sure as the voice.” J. W. PENICK: “Nothing ahead but the world to conquer, and why let that worry one?” BILLY ROFFNER : “The man who works and laughs must do well.” PAULINE SAMFORD: “I find thee worthy.” BRUCE SEARBY: “God blest the man who in¬ vented sleep.” MARGUERITE SHEPPERD: “A warm smile that never wears off.” ERLENE SMITH: “Just being happy is a fine thing to do, looking on the bright side rather than the blue.” LILLIAN SOMMERMEYER: “Refreshing to see one so modest.” BEN SPARKMAN: “A small person looking up sees more than a tall person looking down.” J. T. SPRINGER: “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” ELIZABETH STALLINGS: “Her very frowns are fairer to see than the smiles of other maidens.” LOUIS STEPANSKI: “It is those that take ad¬ vantage that get advantage in this world.” JESSE STOWE: “Every thing succeeds with peo¬ ple of cheerful dispositions.” LELA MAE STUCKEY: “Smile lest the world dub thee a pessimist.” ELL WOOD THOMAS: “The world knows noth¬ ing of its greatest men.” EARL THOMPSON: “A boy who says little but tries hard.” BILL UHALT : “He has the admirable knack of pleasing people.” STANLEY VALCIK: “He who means no mis¬ chief does it all.” HARMON WILKERSON: “Think not that I am what I appear.” DOUGLAS WOODWARD: “Swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” M. O. WOODWARD: “The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made.” ROBERT ZAGST : “A perfect gentleman and a credit to our class.”

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CLASS OF 1938 Officers Margaret Turner . President Maurine Cross . Vice-President Alice Irene Dixon . Secretary Earline Penick . Treasurer Mr. H. A. Johnson . Sponsor On January 21 the home rooms of the juniors were agog with excitement because they were to elect class officers. Everyone voted for his favorite and waited for the results with suspense. The race was close between all officers. The closest contend- ants for president were Jack Hinds, Austin Wilson, Mildred Fargerson, George Kours, Gwendolyn Cribbs, and Joyce Rowell. The contestants for vice president were Walter Carss, Dorothy Green, and Madelyn Hickman; for secretary, Paul Egner, Lorena James, Mary Jo Hogan, Juanita Warnell, and Charlene Dozier; for treasurer, Loveta Barrow, Barbara Dibble, Clarence Kaiser, Dell Doby, and Esther Kysh. HOME ROOM REPRESENTATIVES Kelley Adamson, Willie Bruckman, Harry Bumgardner, Thelma Gene Clyburn, Julia Cunningham, Alice Irene Dixon, Paul Egner, Marshall Graves, Eula Mae Hauser, Dorothy Herzog, Robert Kastrop, Helen Klein, Ona Lee Lierman, Geraldine Morris, Reta Mae Morse, Troy Mullinix, Eleanor Nawrocki, Cecil Park, Loraine Reynolds, Novie Sauer, Hope Schoelman, Erna Mae Stussey, Marjorie Wiedner, and Cecelia Wilk.