Little Rock Central High School - Pix Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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r- PaAAinxf Pa iade Comes graduation at this most unforgettable insti.ution of learn, ing, an | approximately six hundred faithful students will hear the r'nging of the school-house bell for the last time. Yes, without a murmur these pupils have served the long years with no glances in the direction of the diug store. As a whole our book learning is practically at its highest ebb- rock bottom—but it's a bare fact that we have advanced in many fields. .Maybe it's love, hate or possibly just happy medium, but we. the graduating class, feel that we know a heck of a lot more things than we did thtee years ago. Occasionally, .Miss Opie has caught au industrious senior studying in the halls, or rather that is. walking around the halls with a book in his hand. On such a journey wo wrote this class his- tory. Gifted in the use of the past tense, we tumble the pages of history. It is tile fall of 1040. Doors bang, shrieks echo down the long corridors as green fr.sliman JIM COATS proudly displays to hope- lessly puzzled STERLING COCK- RILL the elevator ticket lie has .iust bought. As the day grows older, the. halls become more and more crowded with lost freshmen wii‘ '• ’gil '' here they wee • go- Ing. Finally after a complete year of tills, these more or lo?s unfort- unate people become Juniors. Some of them pass end r the watchful eye of the Glee Club teachers and become members of th A Cappcllu Choir. Leav- ing 0:1 one of tin famous song trips we find than joyfully trudg- ing down the hall with the black and gold robes tucked under their arms. Prcs'dent NICK HOLLO- WAY tags along behind. As they pars tli TIGER Room JACKIE FOREMAN and GEGE DICKIN- SON. cub reporters, stick their heads out to watch them. Souk how or other this hope- less group has finally come into its senior year. Drooping around • he hall with that lordly slump we find DAVID SPY RES and BILLY STAFFORD discussing the problem of being a senior. Standing close by are ANN AN- DERSON and DOROTHY WAL- BERT looking slightly forlorn. A good many of their friends have gone to Jaycec to finish tlielr education. Among the students who may receive honorable men lion arc some thirty-five, who are either more brilliant than we or may- be just more ambitious. Whatever th • case may he they seem to be in a hurry to get an education: MARION BRANCH. ROBERT BRANCH. JACK CARTER. CAI VIN DILLAHA. BILL ELDER. MARY LOP LAMBERT. MARY KATHERINE LEHMAN, LEE Me- LEAN. EARL OLIVER. LILA RllTH PAI L. SUSAN PERKINS. CONNIE PROCTOR. JACQUE- LINE TRACY. MARY LINDA WALKER. SARAH WILLIAMS. BARBARA WOODS. ROBERT OTEY. MARY LOU COSGROVE. HUBERT KEITH. DICK LORD. HELEN RUTH MARION, MARY VIRGINIA RUTLEDGE, and DA- NA STOKES. Sonic of the more anxious stud- ents wen», away to college: — ALAN ANDERSON. Yale: JEAN- ETTE JOHNSON. Ouachita: HO- WARD BURKLE. Columbus. Ohio STERLING COCKR1LL. Univer- sity of Arkansas: BETTY LYONS. Gulf Park College, Miss: MAX- WELL LYONS. Exeter Academy. Exeter. New Hampshire: BOBBY McFARLAND. University of Ark- ansas: OSCAR OLSEN, Missouri School of Mines. Holla. Mo.. AN- NA RAGSDALE and NANCY RAGSDALE. Arkansas Tech. Rus- sel'vile. Ark: JIMMY RICKS, Harding Col’cge, Searcy. Arkan- sas: and GUY WILLIAMS. Uni- versity of Arkansas. From the band tower comes a familar rendition of Porgy and Be:'» , pounded out by the grad- uating musicians. Int: rrupting this music is the voice of Coach Quigley calling to COWLE HAMILTON. FRANK BIRCH. BILL WILKINS, PAUL HORTON. SAM STATIIAKIS. ERNIE MED LIN and SAM COOTES who have been elected to LR Club. Wandering into the auditorium we bump into CHARLES KIRBY. BILL CASEY. JACK GINOCCH- IO. STANLEY BAUMAN rehears- ing for the s nlor play. Heaven Can Wait. Miss Harris, the play- worn director, has to close the doors loading into the auditorium «0 stop the cries of .MARGIE ADKINS. MARY ELLEN RED- MAN. VIRGINIA M AIRSH ALL. DILLON MORAN, IRMA LEE SPOTTS. MARY ANNE GOD- FREY. MARY SHELTON. MAR- ILYN LONG. JUANITA HAGLER. DOROTHY DECKSHOT. BILL WILKINS. MEYER MARKS. GEORGINE BRANNER who are bemoaning th fact that there will be no state press meet this year. Then too. we come across the National Honor Society which l as as its pr.sldcnt ANN ANDER- SON. Serving in the position of president of the student council is MARGIE ADKINS who has been working in the council ever since she first trod LR1IS soil. Walking down tile hall we pass Miss Murphy’s French class where we find ANNE PATTILLO busily reciting verbs. Standing In front of the door we watch BEV- ERLY BOYD who was Home Coming Queen last fall. EUNICE PRANGE choir piaii- ist passes by on her way to 127 where she is practicing for a Choir Concert. With her is PAT SCOTT carrying a box of money from the sale of war stamps. ADRIENNE STOREY. RANSOM JACKSON JIM WILLSON hurry by wearing the harassed look of class executives. Very suddenly the l ell rings, we' forget, the past, and shoulder the future again. In a little while wo will leave LRHS and journey into the unknown. Some of our dreams will he ful- filled ami perhaps some of them will not. but whatever happens, the names of those who are faith- fir ly inscribed herein will be duly remembered. With due respect we submit the above tripe LEWIS BLOCK NANCY SPARLING L

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Who- Went 7a PbeAA . • ly Masuf ZUen Redman Would our readers like to make a tour of the TIGER room to see what goes on backstage: see just how valuable the Seniors havo been to the paper? All light, the TIGER invites you to be its guest for the week, beginning Friday and Introduces you to the Seniors who have made this year’s TIGERS possible. Entering room 103 Friday morning you hear the busy hum of typewriters, the scratching of pens today is the deadline for the editorial page and NANCY SPARLING, editor of the page is busy drawing her final dummy. GEGE DICKINSON, co-editor and columnist, writes thirty to her famous “Tiger Tales and “This Week’s Banality. With amaz- ing punctuality MARY SHEL- TON submits her column. • Down Amusement Road.’’ IRMA LEE SPOTTS writes her final V------- for —Victory Activities and JACKIE FOREMAN. TIGER co- editor, finishes off a little edi- torial for The Editorial Press- box.” A poetic contribution from JUANITA GAMBLE and the page is complete. Tuesday you watch MARILYN LONG make up the Girls' page. Marilyn has just interviewed some heavenly LRUS girl and is assembling the facts for her Introducing column. DORO- THY DECKSHOT rushes in and begins a frantic, gcslon of typ- ing. She has just finished a tour of the halls and is writing A Late With Buckle.” MARILYN adds several news stories about LRUS girls and her page is complete. Wednesday MARGIE ADKINS and LEWIS BLOCK, editors of Pago are busy collecting all news stories, features, etc., from their reporters MARY ANN GOD- FREY. Jf ANITA HAGLER MARY ELLEN REDMAN. CHARLES REED, and DILLON MORAN. DILLON also writes With the Armed Forces.” Fea- tured on this page is In and Out the Corridors by M A R Y SHELTON. On Friday. VIRGINIA MAR- SHALL secures all the latest news, puts R on the front page dum- my and sends it to the print shop. Now that you have learned something about the construc- tion of the TIGER let's go he'ow to the printshop and sec it print- ed. M'R. A. L. SCKl’GGS is su|»ei- vising tlie Job while JOHN BRADSHAW. JAMES DYE. BILL FERGUSON. JUNIOR QUILLIN. HUGH CROOK. DILLON GANN and ABNER KENDRICK run off copies of page 1. But we can't forget the busi- ness department of the paper. The eighth period we visit Mrs. Elizabeth Huckaby and the ad- vertising staff in room 103. We find BILLY WILKINS, MEYER MARKS, business and advertising manager. and MARGIE AD- KINS. ad solicitor, discussing re- cent ads with GEORGINNK BRANNER. circulation manager. THOMAS CREECH, bookkeeper, is making out bills to advertis- ing firms. §. mTQH V ICOCfcC siKmvf :• i .. ■littleMUSchocl TIGERS mI r. 1943 U i a 4 j n r»

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 'IVliateiJ-vA' 9t 9b? k.V' flackie tyawwau When Stanley Bauman appear- ed on the stage at noon today and presented the opening of What- ever It Is? The constant toil of actors, singers, script concotors. scene shufflers, spot-light shif- ters. artists of the brush and need- le. prop collectors and corn mak- ers was completed and another theatrical production was passed off as a senior assembly. The semi-annual assembly for and by the would-be graduates was di- rected this year by Miss Celia Murphy, head of the faculty com- mittee. and Charles Kirby, head of a collection of student com- mittees. Miss Murphy was aided by Miss Josephine Stewart. Miss Jennie Perkins, and Miss Edith Leidy. Charles' assistants consist- ed of every amateur broadway star that scurried across the blue curtain.scores of back-stage dri- vers and jiix hundred diploma aspirants. What Ever It is unfolded the confused LRUS version of the three wars: Civil. World I and World II. The sophmore and jun- ior spectators donned Navy. Army and Marine uniforms for the as- sembly hour as they became the service man audience for a senior camp show. Producer Bauman of wartime Hollywood presented his scenes of the three great strugg- les in strict Bob Hope fashion. A patriotic strain ran through the entire selection climaxed with the final Old Glory scene. Jack Ginnochio starred with the flag cf red. white and blue as he sang Old Glory . Sixty girls dressed in red and white formed a V be- fore the singer. They were back- ed by a blue drop curtain. President Jim Willson presided over the program reading the pro- lor n let »- and introducing the actual camp show. iHeturning the aniiu..is of 1.. view to the Civil War. Tenting tonight was the work of Pat Dod- ge. Jack Owen. Nick Holloway, James Ward, Frank Chance, Jack Venable. George Purvis. Gene Lauback. Duchene Courtney and Jack Ginnocchio. i'ncle Tom's Cabin was des- tructed by a group of black-faced mimics whose names were un- announced when wo went to press. In World War I six dancing lj. Two outstanding participants in the production and presentation of the senior assembly arc Charles Kirby and Stanly Bauman. Charles was elected student director, and Stanley was appointed master of ceremonies for the assembly. The actors for the program were Voaciicd by Miss Celia Murphy. Miss Josephine Stewart, and Miss Mary Murphy. couples. Charles Kirby. Beverly Boyd, Carolyn Davis, Buck Shof- nor, Joy Shoemaker, Gcge Dickin- son, Bill Casey, Billie Wilson. Mary Jane Shcrrcll, Jim Willson and Ad- rienne Story, starred among the soft lights and weeping willow trees of Moonlight Bay. Second tabloid in the first World War painted the common tragedy scene where a mother's son re- mains in Flanders Field. Irene Flscr protrayed the desolate mo- ther and the voice from the radio was Joyce Wilcox's. A style show of rationed fash- ions was the first section in the World War II group. Chet Black- wood as conscu'a de Noir Bois arranged the act. Feminine models were displayed on Jim Chaney. Charles Kirby, Jim Coats. Dick Boaz. Frank Gazley. Edwin Stitt. Bob Mackln. Jackie Stewart and Ransom Jackson. Propoganda of the day was read by Jackie Foreman. Joe Farris played an American sailor with a girl in every port. His feminine conquests were Joy Shoemaker of China. Beverly Boyd, of France. Freddie Shafer of Holland. Joan Smith from the British Isle of Ireland. Kathryn Gaines of Brazil. Ethelee Hale of Russia and the sailor's own. Carolyn Davis. Imitations of screen and radio stars given in the producer's of- fice were the results of Junior College labor. Studious students who have attended Jayccc this fall and spring and will return to highschool in May for their di- plomas. marched home to LRHS for Class Day and were asked to provide a bit for the show. The script for Whatever It Is? was produced by Gegc Dickinson. Mary Adalyn Young, and Jackie Foreman. Artistic lighting effects were directed by Charles Mellabarger. '43 Ccrndidetss For Graduation At Highschool Invade Colleges of Nation A Year Before Time Harry Hi-School and BeLy Co- Ed deserted their classmates at the beginning of their senior year at highschool to become ficshmon at Junior College. Yes, they gave u» their ’ong—lo: t id—forward to acnlor year but with no re- grets. They are now part of the college life at Jayccc. having cut the rug to tlie strains of Harris Owen's orchestra, learned to love the Gri l becoming bridge ex- perts taking part in Jaycec plays, and many other college activities. Twenty members of the May 21. 19-13. graduating class at LRIIS will have a year's college work behind them. The?e hoys have realized a year of college life before shouldering a gun and the girls are now better qualifi- ed to take the place of some man who is needed on the front line. Two qualifications wore met by those students, but no examina» tions were giv n. They had to be in the highest quarter of their class at the end of their Junior year, and have at least twenty-four credits and not more than twen- ty-nine. Many other students have at- tended colleges during their senior year and will receive their sheepskin May 21. The Uni- versity of Arkansas. Missouri School of Mines. Hendrix. Oua- chita. Arkansas Tech, and Yale were selected for their fresh- man and senior year work.