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

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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.

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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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Officers MARION GREVE . Senior Consul ELLA MARIE NG . Junior Consul NEY SESSUMS . ..Quaestor HAMILTON RHODES . Censor MISS VERA HARRIS . Censor Tournament Teams Fourth year . MARION GREVE Third year . HELEN FORSMAN MARY ELIZABETH HUBERT Third term . HARRY REED VIRGINIA MENICK Left to right, back row: Robert Benhken, G. A. Lindenberger, Norman Koneman, Charles Matthews, Arthur Myers, 1501 Spencer, Lawrence Domingo, Jack Smith, Lucille Weaver, Marcellus Lowe, Harold Lindsay, Marion Greve, Ernest Brown, Leon Atlas, Eddie Roberts. Center row: Kelly Adamson, Vernon Batterso n, Hamilton Rhodes, Maurice Koneman, A. D. Scotty, James Palmer, Bob O’Leary, Billie Bob Robinson, Dorothy Holland, Ola Dinges, Bernice Turner, Julius Pohl. Front row: Mary Bob Coughran, Ney Sessums, Mary Elizabeth Hubert, Helen Forsman, Norma Lynn Wood, Joyce Rowell, Betty Phillips, Gwendolyn Cribbs, Ella Marie Ng, Dorothy Green, Ella Gray, Faynette Rochester, Mary Louise Jones, Mary Aline Earhart. ACTIVITIES Picnic, Circus, Style Show, Latin Tournament. Winners of district Latin tournament, held on April 3 Third Term: Harry Reed, second. Fourth Year: Marion Greve, second Fourth Year Essay Contest: Marion Greves, first.