Morgan City High School - Tiger Yearbook (Morgan City, LA)

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A C T I V I T I E S This term has been one of the busiest that the students have ever experienced, because the addition of our large new building has greatly influenced the school program. The spacious gymnasiumeauditorium has been an ideal place in which to hold Glee Club Pageants, Band Concerts dances, meetings and serve as a community center. It was the scene of a basketball tournament, an operetta, a play, and a May-Day Carnival. The school was also host to- Gover- nor Jones, Rubinoff, and the S. L. I. Singing Band. All these activities are too numerous to elaborate upon here, but we have reprinted the program for the dedication of the building, the most important event of them all. Friday, December 19, at 8:00 P. M. Innovation--e ------e---------------------------- Father Toups Consecration Overture by Keler Bela --------- M. C. H. S. Band W. H. Goodwin, Director The Star Spangled Banner ----- ----------- John Stafford Smith, M. C. H. S. Band and Audience The Lost Chord -------------------------------------- Sullivan Calm As The Night ------------f------------------------ --Bohn M. C. H. S. Mixed Chorusg Mary Pfendt, Director Ave Marie- --------------------------------------- Bach-Gounod M. C. H. S. Girls'Glee Club Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ----------------- --------e- Spiritual M. C. H. S. Boys'Glee Club M. C. H. S. Alma Mater ------- -------------------- Mary Pfendt M. C. H. S. Glee Club KGuosts of Honorh Hon. J. J. Hebert, President of the St. Mary School Boardg Hon. R. L. Robinson, Superintendent of Schools of St. Mary Parishg Members of the School Board of the Parish of St. Maryg Hon. Mayor Maurice D. Shannon, Members of the City Councilg Dr. Guy Aycock, Sheriff, Hon. C. A. Aycock, Presi- dent of the Police Jury of St. Mary Parishg Hon. C. R. Brownell, State Representativeg Hon. Norman Bauer, State Representativeg Dr. Joe Farrar, President ,'of Louisiana State Normalg Rev. B. D. Boddieg Father Jules Toupsg Hon. Fred J. Nehrbassg Hon. W. J. Quickg and Principal Louis T. Holmes. Address by School Board Member--- ------- ---Patrick H. Kenny Address ------------- ---------- ------------ --H-Dr. Joe Farrar Benediction '- R CVO Bo Do Boddie The dedication of this new and fine h ilding was f o 1- lowed by a dance given the next night, the first to be held on the gym floor.

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USER Wil MH M LJ HMZW This event, one of Morgan City High School's most cher- ished traditional holidays, fell thig term upon Friday, Sep- tember 19, l94l, the Friday before the first football game 1 of the season which was played against Warren Easton. Yes, Freshman Day, that fatal time, when the mighty and majestic senior lords over the shaking and insignificant freshmen, had arrived and it was accerted this year by a sun-shinny day. CThe freshman also found it pretty hot.B When the freshman arrived that morning, they found the grinning seniors waiting for them, Armed with lipstick, rouge, and burned cork, the fellows grouped around t h e small freshmen boys. In a few moments they backed away and there merged the small fellows streaked with red and black. The colors added to the appearance of their costumes-- clothes turned inside out and backwards. One of these dizzy looking boys and a freshman girl, bedecked in hill-billy clothes and carrying a raw egg made quite a couple. All during the day, the new members of the high scheol continued their initiation by obeying every whim of the sen- iors. They were made to shine shoes and the boys would pro- pose to the beautifulC?5 freshmen girls. Finally that phrase of Freshman Day which is so enter- taining to the seniors, but not to the freshman boys, ar- rivedg after a few ngulpsn, the initiatiees went solemnly through the belt line. They made a rather heated exit and were whisked to the study hall where the seniors nallowedn he usual singing, imi- the newcomers had a s their abilities at had to be coaxed. them to entertain the assembly with t tations, and clowning. Nearly all of chance to show to high school student such things, even though some of them That night the seniors requested 8 freshmen dance. Since the affair was something 'unusual, there was quite an attendance. the freshmen to attend . When the day was done, the exhausted freshmen proudly told themselves that they were new full-fledged high school students. . - For photographic views of this event, seo opposite page.