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

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DEBATERS James Heflin William Ward Paul Egner Austin Wilson EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKERS Ernest Brown Walter Carss DECLAIMERS Billie Rob Robinson Robert Kreuger DEBATE CLUB The Debate Club of John H. Reagan Senior High School, sponsored by D. Hollis Frazer, has had a most successful season, participating in eight tournaments. These tournaments were held in San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Yoakum, Trinity, and Dallas. The girls team won first place in the San Antonio Tournament and also in the Yoakum Tournament and second place in several others. The boys team won first place in San Antonio and second place in several of the other ones. The question for discussion was, Resolved, That the manu¬ facture of munitions of war should be a government monopoly. The participants in the Interscholastic League Meet were Gwendolyn Cribbs and Frances Bishop, girl debaters, and William Ward and James Heflin, boy debaters. Throughout the season the girls partici¬ pated in approximately seventy-five debates, losing but four. The boys participated in approximately sixty debates winning a large majority of them. The extemporaneous speakers chosen to represent Reagan were Virginia Vaughan and Ernest Brown. These two speakers, as well as the alternates, Cathrine Sexias and Walter Carss, participated in the tourna¬ ments in Reagan, Waco, and Yoakum. The two declaimers chosen as rep¬ resentatives of Reagan were Billie Bob Robinson and Alice Seddon. In the city meet the girls debate team and extemporaneous speaker placed first, while the boys extemporaneous speaker and declaimer placed second. The boys de¬ bate team placed third. Virginia Vaughan placed first in dis¬ trict and regional meets. DEBATERS Frances Bishop Gwendolyn Cribbs Ruby Verhines Rebecca Anderson EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKERS Virginia Vaughan Kathryn Sexias DECLAIMERS Alice Seddon Fern White Ella Marie Ng Marion Greve Mrs. L. T. Hooker

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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.

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SENIOR COUNCIL Top row : Paul Bybee, president; Frances Bishop, vice-president; Mary Bob Coughran, secretary; Mary Aline Earhart, treasurer; Marvin DeWoody, sergeant-at-arms; Gloria Belle Jones, reporter; Edith Epley, parliamentarian. Center row: Minnie Mae Byrne, Sybil Cain, Viola Gerhart, June Hardin, James Lane, Vera Luce, Helen Muller. Bottom row : Cecil Nixon, Billie Bob Robinson, Gi'ace Tomlin, Rosie Tusa, Virginia Vaughan, Juanita Warned, Louise Wimberly, Mr, Williams, sponsor. The Senior Council is composed of the senior homeroom representatives, and is under the able supervision of Mr. Williams. This organization has been a form of student government for a number of years, and it has helped the school in many ways. This year at the meetings of the council nominees were made for the Annual staff, and the council also helped the staff with its finances. Every member of the council helped to sell annuals and sold more than any previous class had. Such acts as these have characterized the council for the years it has been an organization.