Ponce de Leon High School - Cavaleon Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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dets. The CAPC group Qi .1 ADVENTURE IN FRIENDSHIP From page twenty-five new war time was enforced, and school hours were changed, giving us a chance to sleep a little longer. This wasn't the only way in which the war affected us. lti brought about sugar-rationing. Remember those glorious days when we got out so that the teachers could allot shares of this valuable sweet to the public? As this year drew to a close, we began to realize that half' of our scholastic career in high school had speedily fled by. Then came the resolution which one always makes fo' The Coming Year. We were going to do better than ever before. THE OPEN ROAD i942 - i943 Now we were juniors with only one more year to go before we would be omnipotent seniors. We had passed through two stages of this eventful game, and could almost feel ourselves getting older. That year found our class officers much the same, with Bill Greene, president, jackie Cordes, vice presidentg Mary Frank, secretary, and Bill Stephens, treasurer. This was truly a year of sports. Our football team showed great ' courage and perseverance even though it won only three out of I ten games. Our basketball team 5 was five per cent better than the , year before. Our baseball team C lg was to go down in Ponce history x as a champion team. We won the state tournament and set a pre- K :edent for Ponce baseball teams. y' On award day Ronald Mann was presented with the geometry medal. Two of our girls, Roberta ' ' Hickman and Phyllis Eberle,, re- I received glee club medals. - . We wrote essays and poems for a great many contests that year. Mary Frank won the Civitan contest, Martha Upshaw won the poetry contest sponsored by the Coral Gables Woman's Club, and Carolyn Butler won the Kiwanis Club essay prize. Under the dynamic inspiration of Mrs. Murray, we sponsored many rummage sales that had a great deal of response among the students, and helped us make the required amount of money for the junior-Senior prom. We were very much honored when it was disclosed that more juniors had honor roll scholastic averages than any other class in school. Bill Prahl, Charles White, Stewart Garey, jackie Cordes, jean Rasco, and Hank Beebe were tapped for National Honor Society. Hank was elected president of the National Honor Society, and we had the laugh on the seniors after that. Charlie White won the presidency of the Student Council, an honor seldom bestowed on a junior. The war began to affect our lives more directly at this time. We ate peanuts instead of candy at lunch. We collected paper for the paper drive, bottles for the Medical Corps, and scrap for the scrap drive. A few of the boys were inducted into the armed services. 'Ceebe' Brasington broke up his band and went into the Air Corps. veg? We worked very hard on the paper drive, the Red Cross contributions, - and selling war bonds. We felt that our great- est work was that of 40 Q -to dl bf SQQQT won the trophy for be- ing one of the best group in the Miami area. Walter Baker de- served a great deal of Os' ' FREE the Civil Air Patrol Ca- Gs D I Q U I XR' if v 6' 'f iv qv eq' credit. We were enter- tained by the Victory Rhythm Review, which was an all around success. Miss Ions caused a great deal of worry among the seniors. We were all very happy when she returned with more vocabulary words and quotations from Shakespeare. Our senior year was a little different from any ex- perienced at Ponce before. The draft board, V-IZ, V-5, and A-I2 examinations had many girls very much worried. Familiar faces from the services appeared once again at their Alma Mater. We laughed as much as ever, but we knew that until the war was over we couldn't laugh wholeheartedly. Our last days at Ponce came all too quickly. Class day, commencement, senior banquet, and the final fling for the junior-Senior prom rushed by. Everything was over but our regrets at leaving Ponce, our hopes for a future in which to repay our school, in part, for the wonderful HISTORIANS ALICE BLISS MARY IANE SHERMAN IEAN RASCO NANCY MCMULLEN IACKIE CORDES STAFF Editor in Chief ,.., ...,.,...... ......,. I a ck Gale Associate Editor ....,......,.. ...... j ulia Szady Feature Editor .,..,..,..,...,...,,....,.,. ..,. V an Chilton Associate Feature Editor ........,... Carolyn Butler Art Editor ......,........,....,...,... David Hargreaves Picture Editor ,..,........,........,.,,....... Diana Epting Sports Editor ..............,...,............. Linton Tyler BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ..,...,....,........,... Marilyn Ward Advertising Manager ,,.......,...... Franklin Smith Associate Advertising Manager ..., Mary Frank Circulation Manager ..,...,............. janice Booher Faculty Advisor ........ ..... E leanor M. Wilson Seventy-seven

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Van-julian Reddick, Air Corps pilot, and Phyllis Eberle, nurse, are still seeing quite a lot of each other,u and decided today that they would visit their old Alma Mater. Dick-Seen together are Lynn Watson, famous en- gineer, not of the railroad type, and lean Rasco, organist. lust now he is engineering a personal appearance for the two of them. Van-Hollywood Actress Betty lune Cook's latest is Wylly Keck, noted New York mechanical engineer. This is another talented combination. Dick-Dave Morrow, successful mining engineer, is being interviewed by Mary Frank, reporter from the Eau Gallia Trombone. on his new process for extracting gold from hen's teeth. Van-Everybody likes a successful man. Willoughby Cox is successful as a corporation lawyerg this we know, because he told us so. Today he is here with Doris Snow, America's foremost aviatrix. Doris holds more broken records than any other flyer. Dick-Bob Cahill, who flies for the Army, iust flew in to escort Evelyn Miller, photographer's model and cover girl for a recent issue of Strife Magazine, to our little' ceremony. Van-Who could forget Dennis Kelleher, and his ambi- tion to be an author-He is now a celebrated one. We see him talking to Mary Lou Raulerson on the subiect of the correct diet for a famous novelist. Dick-Here's Bob Houser, the well-known aeronautical engineer who designed the popular Aero Coupe Autogiro, with an old school chum, Nancy Knight, who is now a flight nurse. Well-this is Dick Baker and Van Chilton saying good- bye and thanks for the memories. T..-NN.-N...NNNNNN.,.NN.NNN.S.-..,..,NN,,.N.-..,......,..,.,..,NN.,.N.., 1 5 3 l 3 l 5 5 5 I-I o S A D L E R 5 l 1 l l Z 5 Z l P fi o t o g r a I9 I1 y l l l sl 5 808 Douglos Entrance Z 2 Z l l S TELEPHONE 4-1484 l l l l l L.....,..,..a. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN .,..,.... NNNNNNNNN N NNNN ....,.., 'Seventy-six

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Eighty You've Got a New Job?! You've done one job and done it well! Now you step into a new job-the job of Life-- which will embrace you with practicality, surround you with opportunity and pave for you a road leading to fame or oblivion. We of the Riviera staff have met and worked with many of you. We know where your road will take youl Good luckl As you go into new fields don't forget the folks at home. Keep in touch with them' Read the CORAL RIVIERA An llHll'lH'llll1'llf llnmmunlty Ne-wspnps-r 'l'n tht- Trilium' stuff go ilu- ln-F wislu-5 of Al Hzirum, Ht-rm li1ll'I'lf.'IllF Ilan liixwiwl :ind Morris Fold. wh lmvv 1-njoyt-cl worlcinf: with vnu