Moss Point High School - Growler Yearbook (Moss Point, MS)

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TIGERS HAVE GOOD FOOTBALL SEASON I936 . To Moss Point H1 befall the honer of inaugurating the 1956 season of football on the Gulf Coast. The tigers played host to Long Beach for the first game. The final score stood 6-0 in our favor for the first game and this made our fighting Tigers fight all the harder. The climax of the season came when we played Biloxi. Not only was this an interesting game but it marked the first public appearance of our new band. Cheering had never before been so loud as when the Biloxi Indians arrived amidst a motorcade; cheer- ing squad, and their own band. The score ended against us but it is a game that will be long remembered. . The last game of the season was played in Bay St. Logis. Several students and the band made the trip with our boys. The M. P. H. S. Tigers conquered the Bay Hi Tigers. The Football Banquet December 18, sponsored by the Girl Reserves, brough to an end the 1936 season. . The hall was beautifully decorated in maroen and gold. The boys marched in led by Calude Steuter, Honerary Captain; to the tune of Hail Hail played by the Tiger Band.h . Slx girls dressed in blue and white to represent the G. R's served. Mr. Folder gave the blessing and cocktails were served. Everyone present made a short speech. The band played seveggl snappy numbers while the boys were eating. . . The climax of the enening came when Mr. Khayet made the awhrdbf The boys then marched out to Our Alma Mhter. Dancing was then enjoyed for the remainder of tho evening. OUR TIGERS OF,1956

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SENIOR CLASS OF 19$? MOTTQ Out of School Life into LifOYS School Colors: Rainbow Flower: Roses CLASS RSII Thelma Allen Nina Avera Billie Belin Mae Bell Ethel Brown Mary Ruby Carter Junior Clay Mary Ellen Compton Jesse Cunningham Eunice Dykes Henry Fagan Elizabeth Fairley Donovan Gautier Alton Boff Randolph Graham Wallace Grierson Raymond Howard Thelma Hults Robert Fagan Emmie Jackson Eunice Lander Frances Lander John C. Lassitor Edqqr Lyons Lester Mack Cain Marthalor Li Lian Nelson Vivian IIolson Margourito Hyman Vivian Oliver Ruby Rasmussen Norvillo Suthoff Vomba Turner Tress homson Harry Wilcox swell Williams Fannie Mae wyatt Kathleen Winters CLASS OFFI CERS President: Jewell Williams Vice President: M. P. K. Superintendent Band Director A. L. Mbnroc: H. N. Rayburn: Miss Jordon: math Miss Miller: History Miss Myers: Commercial Miss Rouse: Miss Bchnko: Elizabeth Fairloy Sec.-Treas.: Reporter: Emmie Jackson Mao Boll S. FACULTY E. A. Khayat: Principal R. V. Shields: Sciences Miss Crawford: English Miss Colmor: Library Miss Moss: Junior High Junior High Musical Director

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SENIOBS: Although some of you have never thought about what would happen to you in the future,'you should have been con- sidering your life to code. Now that you: high school days are ending, it should make you think more seriously. Do not think for one minute that your education is completeuofcr this is just the begin- ning. The post, now, is merely a walk of life that you have been traveling and you should look back over your journey and profit by the mistakes you have made. You can see your own faultSHHnow strive to correct then and make them into better habits which will he usoful'oo you and your fellowmen in the future. Seniors, do not let up now. There is nothing more pleasing to the eyes or to the heart and mind than to see a young man or woman who has graduated from high ochool make plans for the future. If you do not make plans, you will be like a boat which is adrift at sea with no one aboard to steer it. Where will it go? No one knowa--it may land; it may not. If it lands, it may not be a pleasant landing. So think--Lot your bodies be boats; let your minds and seuld be the crows; plan your journey and don't allow yourselves to drift. Have a definite purpose and you will have a happy voyage. Perhaps some of you have the idea that you will have an easy time in life. Banish all ideas of this kind and con- Vince yourself that you cannot got something for nothing. It takes hard, honest, faithful, purposeful effort. strive to make your life worth living and you can appriciote your post. Your education ceases when you have be- come a success, and success is determined when life 15 over. Then you can enter wholeheartedly into the life which has been Promised by your Maker. PYW