Portia High School - Pontiacs Yearbook (Portia, AR)

Text from Pages 1 - 60 of the 1948 volume:

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CLASS HISTORY By Berniece Medlock Of the nine members of this senior class only three have roamed the halls of Portia School for all twelve years. They are: Tommy Buercklin, Clay Ellison, and Berniece Medlock. Those entering during the years of grade school were Betty Riley, Mildred Johnson, Sue Sharp, and Dale Frazier. Betty Clinton and George Ballard enrolled in this class after the work in high school had be- un. g Betty Riley is a quiet, intelligent girl who is liked by all. George Ballard is one of the most brilliant of the seniors and due to his personality has many friends. Sue Sharp, a girl of dependability, is president of the class. Tommy Buercklin, an intelligent young man, is vice-president of the class. Betty Clinton, class reporter, is a very active member of the senior class. Clay Ellison, class secretary, is editor of the high school yearbook. Mildred Johnson has been an active 4-H club member as well as being an intellectual student. Dale Frazier is an active member and because of his good disposition is popular among his classmates. Berniece Medlock, author of this class history, has tried to help make this year a success. ' All the class, both boys and girls, have taken active interest in basket- ball and are members of the senior teams. May 12, 1948 the Senior Class of Portia High School will bid farewell to the students and faculty. It will be with sadness that we leave our school, friends, and classmates although we are very happy indeed to know that we are about to accomplish the goal that we have all been working toward for twelve, long, studious years--graduation. . We, the Senior Class extend our appreciation to Mr. Clinton, our sponsor and the other members of the faculty who have helped make this year a success. CLASS OFFICERS: President ---- - - Sue Sharp Vice-President - - - - Tommy Buercklin Secretary ---- - - Clay Ellison Treasurer- - - - - Mildred Johnson Reporters - - - Betty Clinton and Berniece Medlock Sponsor - - - - Mr. Clinton CLASS COLORS: Black and Orange CLASS FLOWER: White Carnation MOTTO: Success is the product of labor. SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY By Betty Riley My My! I can hardly believe that it has been only eight years 119481 since I was handed my diploma from dear old Portia High and that 1956 finds me in California as a reporter for the Daily News now on my way to cover a jewelry theft in Hollywood. Entering the livingroom of the magnificient dwelling I am confronted by a lovely young lady almost in hysterics over the loss of her jewelry. Her mother and father are trying to calxn her. When I saw her face I was greatly surprised to find that she was none other than my schoolrnate, Berniece Medlock. It seems she is doing very well for herself as a writer of mystery stories. Berniece told me that she and Mildred Johnson had kept contact with each other through the years and that Mildred was a stewardess on an airplane which runs between Hollywood and Paris. The jewelry thief was caught in Phoenix, Arizona a week after the robbery by Chief of Detectives, George Ballard. Having cleared up this nasty situation Berniece and I decided to take :ln a boxing match and go to a night club. You can imagine our surprise when we found that the cha.mpion was Dale Frazier. He went with us to the Roseland Night Club. We were entertained by a beautiful girl whose singing was wonderful and we recognized her as Sue Sharp. We sent her a note to join us at our table. Sue invited us to her apartment and we were hardly inside when a knock sounded at the door. A man was admitted who introduced himself as the famous movie producer, John Blakely, but was none other than the school boy we re- membered as Clay Ellison. He was producing a play, Moonlight and Roses , whose star was Tommy Buercklin. I alrnost believe that miracles do happen when I think of Sue's picking up a daily paper to find a charming redhead looking up at her as if to say, I wish I could be with you . The headline under the picturelread, Trained Nurse, Betty Clinton of Good-Will Hospital, volunteers for overseas service. Although we were having a wonderful time, the evening was made perfect by a telephone call to a certain Chief of Detefifives. Ph0e1'l-ix' A1'iZ0I1l. 3 Steward- ess of Oakley Airport, a movie actor of Dreamland Studios, and a trained nurse of Good-Will Hospital, Sacramento. V1's'.i2aQep.L-Q-Z'22J,f: -' :A w, L. , M f ,M,.xr: Tri.,-'QQILTQZ-B 'aku.1. n'?,5.:2.L:L'xux'.S ' 12i.I:...E1? ' 'X .3iA'5rEi3is'Z5Y2'W:1TWE3ffZ8'!i ,ff Q JUNIOR CLASS 1' N 'Ya In 5 'H' A. 11 f' . .JL-+1 .f 3172: 1,f1,,m-- ,msi 1 ' :::5 . 3 N. is 4+ . I as :Vx PATSY AUSTIN - Reporter I MADCIE AUSTIN BARBARA ANDERSON - Secre tary and Trensurer. VELDA BUNN B. C. KINNON LOUISE MILLER VIRGINIA ANDERSON President. BILLY MC KNIGHT WILMA RILEY IES! JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY BY Barbara Anderson and Patsy Austin Our Class Officers and Sponsors: Sponsor ------------------- Charles O. Ross President ------------------ Williarn Hacker Vice-President --------- - -Virginia Anderson Secretary and Treasurer - - - - - - - Barbara Anderson Class Reporter --------------- Patsy Austin Yah Juniors! The Mighty Class of 1947 and 1948 of dear old Portia High School . We Juniors, find it hard to realize that we have at last finished our work here and are now ready for our Senior year. This has been a year of hard-work and happy experiences. In the Sports Circle the Juniors have filled a very prominent place, especially in Basketball. Those who went out for this sport are: Billy McKnight, Maxie Austin, and B. C. Kennon, Barbara Anderson, Patsy Austin, Wilma Riley, and Velda Bunn. Our news in the paper keeps the fire burning for the Juniors and we have good officers of the paper. Louise Miller born and raised in Portia is the Editor With Virginia Anderson acting as assistant editor. Barbara Anderson is Fashion Editor. The Reporter is Patsy Austin. Billy McKnight is the Sports Editor. We wish the Seniors a hearty welcome from Dear Old Portia High School . And wish for all of them a success. And we hope to keep the fire burn- ing as they did May 14, 1948. SEVENTH AND EIGHTH FIRST ROW: Matthew Ellison, Brooks Hacker, Cecil Clements, Paul Louis, Rodger Dale Ivy. SECOND ROW: Louise Hodge, Cora Sue Schlueter, Iverne Gunthorpt, Shirley Ann Anderson, Hilda Mae Milligan. THIRD ROW: Charles Morton, Bobby Coffman, Thomas Gene Land, James Junior Jones, Van Richey, Dizzy Dean Higginbottam, Donald Austin. NINTH AND TENTH FIRST ROW: Joyce Phillips, Katie Lou White, Mary Ellen Ellison, Dorothy French, Annabelle McKnight. ' SECOND ROW: Roll Foy French, Roy Dale Schlueter, Delcine Hutsell, Beverly Bunn, Sponsor Miss Massey. vu 3 .af '.s..Y3wK'15162.ui.'inE' 5 CLASS HISTORY - SOPHOMORE BY Joyce Phillips and Mary Ellison It's no wonder they have changed teachers so often since 1939. That's the year Mary Ellison, Rosa Fay French and their classmates started to school. Poor teachers! Now really, they weren't so bad after all. They have all been very success- ful in their school work. As the years passed more students enrolled as others dropped out. In our second year Eunice Johnson enrolled in our class, since then she has dropped out, but always came back to Good Old Portia. In our fourth year Delcine Hutsell honored our class where, she has remained ever since. Joyce Phillips was next to come into our class. She left us in 1944 but soon returned and has remained with us. In our eighth year Roy Dale Schleuter, our only boy, joined the class. In our Freshrnan year Bessie Obarts came to live with us. It is our sincere wish that we may finish our high school years together. Our class colors are pink and green. Our motto, Now or Never . Class Officers: President ------- Rosa Fay French Vice-President ---- Eunice Johnson Secretary ---- - Mary Ellison Reporters - - - - - Joyce Phillips and Roy Dale Schleuter FRESI-LMAN CLASS HISTORY BY Anna Belle McKnight Three students, Dorthy French, Beverley Bun.n, and Anna Bell McKnight started this rough and rugged journey through school and have continued on un- til now. We have lost two of our classmates this year, Clyde Sharp and Billy Hughes. We still have Katy Lou White who started in the sixth grade and has con- tinued with us this far. Dorthy French, a very studious girl, is our class president. Beverley Bunn is vice-president. Anna Belle McKnight, secretary and treasurer. Katy Lou White, reporter. They are always found at their post of duty. Our class colors are Blue and White and our class flower is a White Rose. We hope the remainder of our school years will be as interesting and successful as they have been in the past. '31-U,,iZ'zw fxilavkeiikidhfmiivhi ' FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD 1-'IRST ROW: Reta Jane Goff, Anita Lawrence, Lindell Jones, he, -I-me Betty Kennon, Jerry Land, Carolyn Mathis, Noralyn Kabler, Larry Morton. SECOND ROW: Sherry Mae Holder, Sue Smith, Iris Marie Phillips, Margaret Jane Osburn, Melba Joyce Clements, Carole Ann Handles, Carolyn Morton, Nancy Anderson, Geox-gann Johnson. THIRD ROW: Sue Hibbard, Lavada Casey, Joyce Madden, Ilene Jones, Kathleen McClintock, Glenda Workxnan, Kay Carneron, Dale Freeman, Leon Guntharp. FOURTH ROW: Hex-shel Moody, W. F. Ellison, Jackie Austin, Jimrny Hntsell, W. H. Jones, Ronald'J'ones, Bob Cameron. TIZACHEI: Pearl Johnson. ' FOURTH, FIFTH AND s1x'r1-1 FIRST ROW: Shirley Mortin, Riley Milligan, Pauline Louis, Mary Mae Phillips, Gary Clements, .Timmy McKnight, Retha Land, Donald Bunn. SECOND ROW: Charlene Phillips, Marjorie Bates, Velxna Guntharp, Laurene Land, Wanda Smith, Mable Hodge, Mildred Moody, Joan Frazier. THIRD ROW: Mary Lou Land, Virgil Floyd, Neil Kissee, Earl Tate, Zanil White, Carnuel Jones, Betty Jones, Merle D. Klssee, Eugene Housdan, Dan Ellison. FOURTH ROW: Jerry Couch, I-Karl Housdan, Richard Phillips, Coy Ivie, Vernon Moody, Billie Phillips and teacher, Mrs. Pauline Clements. 1'MQBX5EtQ'NAf3ML!in,'?ii ' ' HOME ECONOMICS FIRST ROW: Left to Right - Faye French, Barbara Anderson, Virginia Anderson, Katie Lou White, Louise Miller, Berniece Medlock, Mary Ellison. SECOND ROW: Left to Right: Miss Massey, Pat Austin, Betty Clinton, Mildred Johnson, Betty Riley, Joyce Phillips, Dorothy French, Delcine Hutsel, Velda Bunn, Annabelle McKnight. JJ-, -,H f' V- gn, , 1- .qv ,' r K V ff? mx Sha SENIOR BASKETBALL CLUB FIRST ROW: Left to Right - Pat Austin, Veldn Bunn, Barbara Anderson, Betty Clinton. SECOND ROW: Betty Riley, Delcine Hutsel, Joyce Phillips, Mary Ellison, Berniece Medlock, Dorothy French. SENIOR BOYS FIRST ROW: Left to Right - B. C. Kennon, Billy lvlcKn.ighi, Maxie Austin. SECOND ROW: Left to Right - Dale Frazier, Tommy Buercklin, Roy Schelueter and Clay Ellison. ' GIRLS' SPORTS The girls' basketball team was a team with sportsmanship and determ- ination. Although they were defeated several times in the past year they were still smiling at their victory as well as their defeat. The girls were saddened when the teaxn lost in the county tournament to Irnboden, but all felt better when Betty Clinton was named as an all-county forward. The P. T. A. presented the girls with their new suits, which helps to increase their ambition to develop into greater athletes. BOYS' BASKETBALL SQUAD The Pontiac boys have had a fair team their past year. They have tried very hard to win their games. 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Mr. Clinton: All lessons should be written in such a manner that even the most ignorant may understand. McNight: Well sir, what part is it you don't understand. Dale: Don't you believe in the hereafter ? I want a kiss. Mildred: What's the hereafter got to do with it. Dale: That's what I'm hereafter. Betty Clinton: I want some real Kiss-proof lipstick. George: Try this. It's a cross between an onion and bichloride of mercury. Sailor: Going my way, baby? Barbara: Sir in front of the library is no place to accost a girl who lives at 704, Garland Street, phone 373 J. Mr. Ross: Maxie who discovered America? Maxie: Ohio. Mr. Ross: No, Colurnbus did . Maxie: Yes, sir, but I thought Columbus was his first name. Mrs. Ivie: Your hat is on wrong, dear . Roger: Oh, is that so? How do you know which way I'm going. Betty Riley: All Georgia girls are pretty. Haven't you heard of Georgia Peaches ? Roy Dale: Yes, but we certainly got one with a worm in it. 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