N R Crozier Technical High School - Wolf Pack Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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SPECIAL CLASSES The Special Classes of Technical High School are made up of boys and girls who have dropped out of school on account of work or illness, or who have gone to school in small towns. We have grown from three classes to six this year and almost doubled in number since the first term. There are no grades, but the work is so divided that no pupil need be held back if he can do the advanced work. A number of our students from the first term are taking part high school work while doing special class work. The boys enter Military, pottery classes, and shop work. The girls enter classes in Foods and Clothing, pottery, gym, and music. T We are especially proud of this work because Mr. Cauthorn found on his trip East this year that no other city in the U. S. is doing this 'kind of work. AN ACROSTIC What has made my term's work worth while? S-tudy C-arefulness T-ruthfulness P-atience L-abor E-arnestness E-nthusiasm A-ttention C-oncentration C-onquering myself S-chool spirit H-igh ideals I-nitiative S-tickability A-pplication H-onesty L-ove T J I-ndustry The January graduates from the Special Classiwere: Jack Abramson, Joe Evans, Vernon Grant, Al Dobbs, Billie Mays, Alvin Fisher, O. B. Suggs, Boyd Goodman, Monroe Hinton, L. C. Hogue, Carl Abel, Thomas Wideman, John Pearson, George Rosser, William Bishop, Wilson Bond, Neil Flemister, Cecil Harris, David Hart, Edwin Kinser, J. C. Liansford, Leonard Lindsay, John McKinney, Frank Richardson, Sidney Moore, Rob- ert Morgan, Vernon Tipton, Marie Moore, Exa Andrews, Katherine Bris- tow, Eura Mae Dillard, Josephine Goodman, Edna Lee Ruse, Margaret Wright. ' BLOWING OUR HORN A careful check on the marks given by the high school department to these special pupils who were partially promoted shows that out of 52 marks only six were below passing the first semester. Josephine Goodman, a January graduate, made an average of 89.5 per cent. on her work in IB the first semester. A little over five per cent. of our boys and 20 per cent. of our girls are partially supporting themselves by part-time work. Earl Canada received 335.00 from the P.-T. A. for turning in the largest sum of money from the sale of picture show tickets. E271

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SOPHOMORE CLASS What could be sweeter than the Sophomore class? Honest and truly, they seem more important than the Seniors. Don't they chew their gum harder and just a little longer than anyone else? When one gets to be a Sophomore, he or she has reached the point 'where he is supposed to fall in love g or at least, he seems to think so. The Sophs are always doing something, too. They help to win tro- phies that make dear old Tech. proud of them. They iiock in the detention rooms, and buy the football tickets, too. It takes the Sophomores to keep the head of the school in the air and keep up the arguments among their classmates. They are all so proud when they have started their second year on that long and rugged road to High School Education. And one other word, Don't forget they are also happy because they are no longer the minnows or the bait for the upper-classmen to pick on eternally? FRESHMAN CLASS Recipe for a Freshman class: Select only prime, innocent youngsters from each of a dozen or so schools, scrub well behind the ears, sprinkle liberally with bewilderment, turn loose in the high pressure melting pot of Dallas Tech. and await results. This recipe was used with the greatest success a few short months ago and produced that marvel of the school, the current Freshman class. Just how dull the life of the Sophomore would be without his unso- phisticated little playmates is a matter for the school psychologists to thresh out among themselves. Certain it is that the noble Junior would expire of pure ennui, and the mind of the Senior become even more atro- phied were it not for these interesting beings nearby. For weeks they supply entertainment for all the military officers, as any mortal near the windows at drill periods can testify. But for all the laughter and slight feeling of superiority that each class feels, there is a warm place in their hearts for this, the youngest class. They earnestly long to guide and help, smooth out the rough places, iix things so that the Freshmen can travel on a higher and better plane than they. Whatever the victories they have annexed to themselves, they are but the stepping stones for the Fish, the rungs in the ladder that leads to the top. And so, wolf cub, realizing this. they take off their hats to you -you, the leaders of the pack tomorrow. Prove yourselves! i26l

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SPECIAL CLASSES-Continued Jack Bryan was awarded the efficiency medal for Tech. High at the last government inspection. Company C has won parade line three times in succession. Many Special Class boys are in this group. Mose Thyfault is captain of the company. Edward Martin realizes quite a nice income from the sale of his com- mercial drawings. Walter Herrin has established a flourishing business in the way of a florist shop. Edward Vencil is the youngest aviator in Texas. George De Marcus studies four hours each afternoon in a Greek school. , Willard Weaver is ex-president of a harmonica club at Travis School. Charles Greeves is starting a pigeon business at Lisbon. He is spe- cializing on Homers. He won third prize on his pigeons at the last Fair. Joe Sanders was asked to play the harmoncia at the Adolphus on one of their dinner programs. Two ex-special boys have just completed a course in Commercial Art in New York and are now designing for two wholesale houses in Dallas. Another ex-special boy has been given a good position in the auditing department of the Western Union. Two girls in Mrs. Bryan's History class have organized a History Club which meets once a week. At each meeting we study the lives of two girls who became famous in American History, then have an interesting program. Louise Smithermon was elected president, Mattie Louise Green, vice-president, May Jeanette Woodward, secretary, Gladys Lobb, treas- urer, and,Fae Bell and Gladys Mabry are the program committee. Some of the pupils whose report cards carried home too many red grades at the end of the first six weeks have adopted this resolution: Early to bed and early to rise. Work like smoke and watch our grades. Rise, rise, rise. One of our mottoes: The elevator to Success is not runningg take the stairway. E281