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

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LAMBA SIGMA ALPHA Officers Edith Epley . Mary Aline Earhart. . . . Florence Fiorilla . Maurice Holdgraf . Edward Johnson . Ida Mae Rundell . William Ward . Mildred Farguson . Mrs. Byrd W. Creekmore . President , . . Vice-President . Secretary . T reasurer Sergeant-at-A rms . Reporter . Parliamentarian Social Chairman . Sponsor Members: Gilbert Bleyl, Edward Cowart, Marion Greve, Jack Hinds, Marjorie Hogge, Daniel Johnson, Mary Joyce Johnson, Cecil Nixon, Billie Bob Robinson, Fernand Rodnigueg, Florence WAeburg; Mary Elizabeth Baxter, Harry Reed, Joyce Robinson, and Johnnie Valcik, not in the picture. The Lamba Sigma Alpha, a branch of the American Legion, has been established to further character development in the schools. The members are the students who won the American Legion school awards in the junior high schools. To qualify for this award, the students must possess the charac¬ ter building qualities of character, honor, courage, companionship, leader¬ ship, service, and scholarship.

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SPRING SALESMANSHIP CLUB Left to right, hack row: Louis Jacobs, Ola Dinges, Charles Layton, John Delmont, Louis Petanski, Ralph Houghton, Milus Wright, Jack Lindsay, N. A. Wilson, Harry McMahon, Richard Love, Ted Bosworth, George Newell, Bob Clark, Elmer Clark, Charles O’Connor. Center row: Mr. Traylor, sponsor, Leon Ballard, Will Hulme, Annie Weeden, William McFarland, Ruth Buchanan, Bernard Gabler, Geraldine Clark, Margaret Kuhlman, Sara Jane Alfred, Rosie Tusa, Dorothy Mae Smith, Jane Stovall, Ivy Christianson, Effie Stanley, Geneva Horton, Lily Newman, Mary Cravens, Pearl Roper, L. O. Chapman, Clifford Schererk, William Ward, Norman Baker, Floyd Stark. Front row: Nettie Warfield, Vaudean Steede, Lucille Johnson, Mary Jane Howard, Elizabeth Searls, Evelyn Pick, Ellis Winstead, Faynette Rochester, B. C. Blair, president, Faye Atkinson, second vice- president, Arlene Chase, Dixie Jane Christoph, Tom Jones, Jack Dow. Inset: Wade Watts, reporter; Adelaide Beard, first vice-president. The social activity of the club for the winter included a weiner roast at Hermann Park and a skating party at the Polar Wave Ice Palace. The club aided various school activities by selling ads for the Statesman and tickets for entertainments, and participated in an athletic contest spon¬ sored by the physical education department.

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OFFICERS REAGAN BATTALION R.O.T.C. Left to right, top row: Lieutenant Richard Etter, Acting Commandant; Colonel Leonard Walton, Cadet Major Glenn Blouin, Cadet Major John Boyer, Cadet Captain J. L. Clark. Lower row: First Lieutenant Elmer Busch. Second Lieutenant George McKirahan, Second Lieutenant C. J. Robinson, Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Nelson, Second Lieutenant Emery Borne. MAJOR JOHN L. LEE Commandant of Cadets