Pine Bluff High School - Zebra Yearbook (Pine Bluff, AR)

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Zebra Standing — Kraeszig. Cook. Martin, liowden, McBryde, Sellars. Ritchie. Liowe, Allison and Railnhack. Seated Merritt. Wilson. Wenzel. Kddins. Alexander. Norton. Knox. Jarvis. Brummett. Segars. With a sense of pride and a feeling of elation, we, the 1936 Zebra staff, turn over to you, dear reader, our finished product. In it you will find our best ideas and our hardest work combined to make a yearbook which will perpetuate for posterity the memory of our graduating class. Our staff was hand picked from the representative seniors by Miss Mary Toney, sponsor. It is composed of twenty industrious students, seventeen of whom made Quill and Scroll. The biggest improvement in our Zebra, we feel, is its being modernized both in theme and page arrangement. Ralph Wenzel, Associate Editor, was our diarist and chief yes-man. Ann Eddins and Buddy Norton, Business Managers, were kept busy collecting first and last installments on the book and sending to the engraver senior and group pictures. The good ideas and trusty ruler of Mary Chew Brummett, Make-up Editor, were always with us. Due to the efforts of Claralie Knox, Advertising Manager, the finance of the staff found a new high and this year’s Zebra turned out to be a prosperous publication. She was augmented by Charles Bowden, Aline Lowe, and Farrar Martin, our tireless ad chasers. Take a look at our snap-shot pages filled by Pitts Jarvis and Allen Sellers, Snap-shot Editors. Those long breath-taking football and basketball articles are the work of Jack Segars, Sports Editor. Our Activity Editors, Norman Merritt, Marguerite Wilson, and lima Allison, were as busy as their names lead you to believe. Genevieve Cook and Billy Ritchie, Class Editors, interviewed every senior for data on his past record. Responsible for such things as the take-off on the Pine Cone and the Senior Calendar are Patsy McBryde and Albert Railsback, the Feature Editors. Aline Kraeszig, our industrious little typist, was one of our biggest assets. Judy Alexander is the Editor-in-Chief.

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Pine Cone Top row—Donoghue, Baldwin, Bni Maule. Tovey. Robinson, Cowser, Set berg. Rountree. Middle—Ragar, Man Collier, Owen, Dunn, Sanders. Till. Ci McCain. Bottom—Stich, Redmond, X gomery, Raines, Shepherd, Little. Donald, Nethery, Hill. The Pine Cone, Pine Bluff high school’s semi-monthly publication, is headed this year by Catherine Ann Shepherd, Editor-in-Chief. Its sponsor is Miss Josephine Martin, who teaches English as well as journalism. The twenty-eight members of the staff make up two divisions —editorial and business. Those of the editorial staff are: Associate Editor, Elva Lee Little; Editorial Writers, Silas Dunn and Thurman Ragar; News Editor, Myra Till; Make-up Editors, Hallie Raines and Jimmy McCain; Feature Editors, Anne Collier, Jane Hill, and Louise Stich; Sports Editors, Carlton Currie and Fred Marshall; Exchange Editor, Ola McDonald; Alumni Editor, Clair Tovey; Reporters, La Verne Redmond, Frances Sanders, and Valda Montgomery; Typists, Lorraine Nethery and Lurline Owen. The business staff consists of: Collector, Clair Tovey; Bookkeeper, Johnnie Maule; Advertising Manager, Margaret Robinson; Advertising Solicitors, Fannalee Schlosberg, Beverly Bridges, and Juanita Baldwin; Circulation Manager, Michael Donoghue; Assistant Circulation Manager, Wiley Rountree. On March 20, twenty-five members of the Pine Cone staff attended Journalism Day in Little Rock. This is the third annual journalism meet sponsored by the Little Rock Tiger”. At the meet Clair Tovey, Louise Stich, Jane Hill, and Anne Collier made talks on the various departments they represent. The greatest improvement in the paper itself this year is the addition of a column of serious comments called Smatterings”, located on the editorial page. This brisk, up-to-date column has proved very interesting and successful. This is also the first year that two girls, Johnnie Maule and Clair Tovey, have ever occupied the positions of bookkeeper and collector, respectively, on the business staff of the paper. At the Fayetteville journalism meet the Pine Cone was given all-state honors along with the Grizzly” of Fort Smith and the Little Rock Tiger”. Myra Till placed first in the news story contest, while Fred Marshall won in the sports story contest. Carlton Currie won second with a sports column, and Louise Stich placed second in the book review contest. The column, Smatterings”, also won second place for its co-writers, Silas Dunn, Thurman Ragar, and Louise Stich. The Pine Cone belongs to the Arkansas High School Press Association and the Mississippi Valley Press Association. Twenty-two of the members of its staff made Quill and Scroll this year.

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Debating Team Eighteenth Century English lawyers used to meet regularly at an inn to dine and to discuss their various cases. After the meal, students would debate a moot point before their superiors; thus the modern debating societies were developed. Pine Bluff high school’s debating squad this year consists of Jack Segars, Joe Clement, Norman Merritt, Carlton Currie, Rose Custer Hollis, Edward Dunlap, Thurman Ragar, and Allen Sellars. From this squad Jerry L. Patterson, instructor of public speaking, selected Rose Custer Hollis and Edward Dunlap, Norman Merritt and Carlton Currie to make up the first and second teams respectively. These two teams argued both the affirmative and the negative on the debate question: Resolved, that Congress should be permitted to override, by a two-thirds majority vote, decisions of the Supreme Court declaring acts of Congress unconstitutional. Practice debates were held with Fordyce, one here and one there, before the season officially opened at the State Teachers College in Conway. Both of our teams won the affirmative in these debates. At Conway, March 20 and 21, the teams upheld the reputation of Pine Bluff by giving stiff competition to all other teams they encountered in the invitation tournament held there. They were eliminated in the sixth round by the winners of the tournament by two-to-one decisions. Pine Bluff high school will also enter debate teams in the tournament to be held on April 24 at the College of the Ozarks. 19 3 6 t Twi-nty-eight]