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

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IIMSTR-ilk! REAGAN DRAMATISTS Left to right, back row: Robert Lee Young, Gene Arnold, Horace Elrod — first period assistant property manager, J. P. Leach — first period electrician, A. B. King, Harry Paine, Gordon Heslep, Jimmy Franks, Luster Allen, Gerald Rushing, Alberta Sundermeyer, Dorothy Johnson, Vesta Rowell, Helen Klein, Grace Tomlin, Louise Davis. Middle row: Elmer Smith — first period assistant property man, Billy Dennard, W. C. Biddle, Lacy White, Philip Rowell — first period business manager, Liley Purvis, Dorothy Mae Smith, Alvin Holland — fifth period assistant stage manager, Rosie Tusa, Margaret Shepherd, Ed Davis, Edith Murphy — fifth period vice-president, Lottie Hattenback — fifth period st-ige manager, Laura Bess King — fifth period wardrobe mistress, Hazel Walker, Frances Wren, Margie Morgan, Mildred Evans, Emalene Gillespie, Aileen Duncan, Velma Popham, Kathryn Green, Irma Sue Clark, Maurice Westerfeld, Nellie Louise Hines, Lura Glen Cain, Delbert Wilson, Thomas Kilgore — fifth period assistant stage manager, Ralph Whatley — fifth period electrician, Billy Smith, Joe Lee Hunt — fifth period president, Lois Lawrence, Chester Ledbetter, Mildred Bearden. Front row: Myrth Perry — fifth period reporter, Thelma Jean Clyburn — first period reporter, Juanita Garvin, Margaret Turner — fifth period secretary, Maurine Cross — first period president, Floyd Stark — first period vice-president, Mrs. V. J. Carnes, Arlene Chase — first period property mistress, Vaudeen Steed, Lucille Jackson — first period secretary, Dupree Snell — first period property man, L. O. Chapman — first period stage manager, Charles Durham — fifth period house manager, Louis Jacobs. Plays Presented Pin a Pin on Me Poor Fish Thursdays at Home They Put on a Play My Cousin from Sweden Thanks Awfully Enter Dora — Exit Dad The Acid Test Too Much Money Be a Little Cookoo Are You Listening ? Thanksgiving Vision A Greene Christmas The Patsy The Luckiest Girl The House of Creig MRS. V. J. CARNES Director Plays Presented Hans Von Smash No Tickee, No Washee Come Out of It Smoke Screen From School Bell to Recess The Assessor The Pot — Boiler Poor Issy Crossed Wires Put-Out Boy Scout Radio Play The Price Tag Romance in a Boarding House Bashful Bobby

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RED COAT SOCIAL OFFICERS Frances Bishop, president; Mary Bob Coughran, vice-president; Virginia Boyd, secretary; Florence Fiorilla, reporter; Gladys Koebel, assistant lieutenant bugler; Dolores Wisnieski, assistant lieutenant drummer; Gloria Belle Jones, yell leader; Mrs. B. B. Gale, sponsor. The social calendar of the year 1936-37 for the John H. Reagan Red Coats included a Christmas dance, an ice skating party, a Valentine dance, a bridge party at Foley’s Town Hall, and a spring dance. A radio program at KTRH, at which the fifes were first presented, and an April First program in the school auditorium where the Red Coats appeared in their spring uniforms were also featured among the activities of the term. RED COAT FLAG PRESENTATION

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REAGAN THESPIANS Left to right, back roiv: Burrows Taylor — third period assistant manager, Maynard Smith, A. B. King, Jack Lindsey, Melvin Price — fourth period house manager, Bobbie Sabins, Fred Huebner — second period vice-president, Otis Crabbe, M. C. Krause — third period assistant stage manager, John Fry, Earl Lorina, Will Mullenweg — fourth period property man, Milton Zwick, Willie Mae Scott, Ola Dinges, Bernice Turner, Madelyn Sturgis, Mary Wright, Evelyn John, La Verne Lambreth, Jane Stovall. Fourth row: Roy Jones — third period prompter, Elsie Barabash — fourth period president, Mrs. Vernon Johns Carnes, Jessica Borel, Dorothy Gani, Ira Warner, Emma Fodell, Helen Bess, Hanna Brush, Doris Fregia, Delores Langford, La Verne Noessel, Elizabeth Bobbitt, Lenore McCall, Rebecca Ander¬ son, Mildred Fargerson, Ona Lee Lierman, Juanita Renfro, Evelyn Katrla, Verla Mae Maness — third period reporter, Fay Jackson, Betty Silva, Dollie Maddux, Ruth King, Lucille Weaver, William Ward, Harry McMahan — fourth period property man, Edward Davis, “Kupie” Barrow, Anna Laura West¬ moreland, Virginia Lee, Mildred Sherman, Vernadell Brandt — fourth period reporter, Julia Wallis — fourth period vice-president, Liley Purvis. Third row: Dapholine Bullard — fourth period secretary, Joe Todd — third period stage manager, Mary Bob Coughran — fourth period wardrobe mistress, Florence Kennerly — second period property mistress, Ed Chapman — third period house manager, B. C. Blair — third period president, Johnnie Coskey — second period president, Lorena James — second period secretary, Margaret McBride, Fleta De Rouen — third period secretary, Audrey Chalon — third period wardrobe mistress, Mary Hines, Mary Louise Jones — third period prompter, Mary Aline Earhart. Second row: Joy Smith, Ann Mize, Juanita Warnell, Fay Jackson, Ellis Winstead — second period assistant stage manager, Mickey Grubbs — second period assistant stage manager, J. R. Hughes — fourth period electrician, Marshall Graves, Selman Houston — third period vice-president, Ed Davis, Kenneth Perron — second period stage manager, Barbara Dibble — second period reporter, Mary Virginia Griggs, Edith Walker, Ophelia Munselle, Margaret Kuhlman. Front row: Edith Epley, La Verne Vaughan, Anne Lee Kuehn, Louise Andrews, Clara Mae Harper, Dorothy Donelson, Janis McLane, Elizabeth Mount, Mary Frances Griffith, Thomas Presswood, Mar- cellus Lowe. Under the capable and faithful guidance of Mrs. Vernon Johns Carnes, the Reagan Dramatic Club has been very successful and prosperous since its organization in 1930. All of their presentations, which have met with great success, are given either directly by the club or presented in behalf of some organization in the school.