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

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Left to right: Bette Shallcross, Patricia Antoine, Phillip Rowell, Jack Dow, Cecilia Wilk, Miss Mary Lynn Jones, Anna Gay Holloway, Verla Mae Maness. Left to right, standing: Maurine Flowers, Kenneth Johnson, Katherine Kidd, Ernest Brown, Betty Baldwin, Glenn Martin, Muriel Newman, Patricia Antoine, Wade Watts. Seated: Bette Shallcross, Robert Moore, Lirl Treuter, June Wallace, Mr. M. E. Traylor. THE REAGAN STATESMAN Bringing through its printed columns the news and activities of the school, The Reagan Statesman is issued every two weeks and finds its way into the hands of more than a thousand subscribers. During the five years of its existence, the paper has climbed to a high place in the ranks of the city scholastic newspapers. In 1937 besides taking part in contests sponsored by the National, the Texas, and the Houston High School Press Associa¬ tions, to which it belongs, the Statesman has established a chapter in the Quill and Scroll, an international honorary society for high school journalists. Pat Antoine, managing-editor, was elected as the first president of the Reagan Chapter, and Bette Shallcross, editor-in-chief, as vice-president, Mr. Marshall Traylor, as this year’s business manager, has enlarged the circulation and placed the paper on a firm finan¬ cial basis. Many honors have come to the staff members during the year. Bette Shallcross won third place in a state-wide feature writing contest. Frank Dolejska, associate editor, won honorable mention in a national Quill and Scroll contest for editorial writing, and during the spring term served as presi¬ dent of the Houston High School Press Association and as vice-president of the Texas High School Press Association. Anna Gay Hollaway was the fall term reporter for the Houston Press Association. Climaxing the achievements of the year, the Statesman was selected by Texas University judges as the best high school paper of Houston, and was presented the journalism cup at the H.H.S.P.A. banquet in May. In the city Interscholastic League contest Statesman staff members won first place for Reagan in journalistic writing. Frank Dolejska won first place in feature writing and second place in editorial writing. Robert Moore won first place in copy reading, and Bob White won third place in sports writing. Official delegates at the I.L.P.C. contests in Austin in May were Bette Shallcross, Pat Antoine, Frank Dolejska, Robert Pruesser, Bob White, and Anna Gay Hollaway.

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PARENT-TEACHERS Left to right, back row: Mr. R. H. Williams; Mrs. G. L. Fugate; Mrs. Phillips; Mrs. Paul Bybee, presi¬ dent; Mrs. M. H. Tewes, recording secretary; Mrs. C. J. Matthews; Mrs. F. A. Blouin, first vice- president; Mr. H. A. Johnson, vice-president-at-large. Front row: Mrs. W. W. Lake, auditor; Mrs. R. C. Rowell; Mrs. W. H. Hubbell, corresponding secretary; Mrs. M. D. Dinges; Mrs. J. F. Averyt. Not in picture: Miss Z. Ware, treasurer; Mrs. L. T. Hooker, historian; Mrs. T. C. Jester, parliamentarian. Of all the organizations which aid the students in not only a social way but also a physical and moral way, the Parent-Teacher Association is the most outstanding. Their project for the year 1936-37 has been raising funds to buy instruments and uniforms for the band. Most of the money for this project was realized from the April fete, sponsored by them. STUDENT COUNCIL Left to right back row: Joe Todd, president of Dramatics Club; Arthur Meyer, representative of orchestra; James Heflin, president of Speakers Forum; Glenn Blouin, representative of R. O. T. C. Center row: Bill Turney, captain of track team; Alice Irene Dixon, secretary of junior class; Frances Bishop, president of Red Coats; Opal Howell, president of Modern Dance Club; Maurice Holdgraf, captain of basketball team; Charlotte Stidham, secretary of sophomore class; Barbara Dibble, president of Girls Glee Club; Marion Greve, president of Latin Club; Billy Stroud, president of sophomore class; Viola Gerhart, president of Choral Club; Virginia Vaughan, president of Debate Club. Front row: Ramon Roman, drum major of band; Bette Shallcross, editor of Statesman; Will Mulenweg, captain of football team; Margaret Turner, president of junior class; Paul Bybee, president of senior class; Mr. R. H. Williams, sponsor; Edith Epley, editor of Pennant; Mary Bob Coughran, secretary of senior class; Cecil Nixon, president of Boys Glee Club; Charlene George, president of Salesmanship Club; Charles Matthews, president of National Honor Society. The Student Council was organized in 1937 with the aspiration that it will develop into a form of student government. Previously home room representatives had in part discharged these duties, but a definite need arose for a smaller, more manageable body. The membership is now composed of the presidents of students’ organizations and the presidents and secretaries of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes.

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Left to right, back row: Doris O’Rourke, Dorothy Cook, Ardienne Ballew, Irby Lee Blouin, Joyce Rowell, Dorothy Lauricella, Lorraine Reynolds, Arthur Meyer, George Hunt, Arthur Fowler, Billy Smith, William Ward, Billie Bob Robinson. Center row: Mrs. Lyle T. Hooker, Elizabeth Beeland, Dorothy May Rehman, Winnona Butler, Feme White, Dorothy Fitze, Walter Carss, Nina Lois Bunti ng, Norman Baker, Mary Virginia Griggs, Maurine Cross, Ella Marie Ng, Ida Mae Rundell, Austin Wilson, Eddie Roberts, Bennie Smalley, Mr. D. Hollis Frazer. Front row: Kathryn Sexais, Mary Dee Stulting, Mary Joyce Johnson, Virginia Vaughan, Frances Bishop, Paul Egner, Betty Sue Phillips, James Heflin, Gwendolyn Cribbs, Edith Epley, Betty Phillips, Dorothy Green, Barbara Ryan, Margaret Kelley. SPEAKERS FORUM During the school year of 1936-37 the Speakers Forum has been very active and has accomplished a great deal for the fifty members. A student is eligible for mem¬ bership after having had one term of public .speaking or having been outstanding in the speech department. The Forum is sponsored by Mrs. Lyle T. Hooker, and its purpose is to promote better speech and speakers for Reagan. This two-year-old organization sponsored fifty-seven speeches in churches and outside clubs during National Education Week and participated in presenting many school movements to the entire student body. All of the members who were not engaged in the actual Reagan Debate and Extemporaneous Tournament served as timekeepers and chairman for the various events. The last outstanding activity of the Speakers Forum was the Spring Banquet given in honor of the participants representing Reagan in the speech division of the Interscholastic League, seven of whom were members of this organization. The following students are officers: James Heflin, president; Virginia Vaughan, vice-president; Rebecca Anderson, secretary; Frances Bishop, treasurer; Paul Egner. sergeant-at-arms; William Ward, parliamentarian.