Red Oak High School - Hawk Yearbook (Red Oak, TX)

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 «rv w Senior History .4 Those of the seniors of '41 ’-ho started together in the eighth grrde are: Murrell Goodloe, J. D. Hamm, Doris Jean Oven, Edna Faye V est, Mary Ruth Rockett, Elizabeth Jane Trees, Minnie Weaver, and Frances Fields. Our class officers rere: Margaret Bond, President; J. D. Hamm, Vice-President; Freida Belle Pratt, Secretary-Treasurer. Our class sponsor van Mrs. John F. Myer6. At the annual Hallovreen Festival our class raised more noney than any other class in the contest ’•'hich made our representative, Doris Jean Oven, Foot' ball Queen. nic at ’. bite, Rock Lake., , , 5q -v r r Y»a r»l a Phton o a nnnt.PflQ fl £) T r.nft 'O'lhooore s acted as hostesses at the during our Junior year the following punils Join ed us: Wesley Beaty, J. F. Brovn, Bill Hann, and Maurice Oldham. Our class officers 'fcre: Letha. Nay Curtis, President; Bill Hamm, Vice-President; Mary Ruth Rockett, Secretary-Treasurer. Our sponsor as Mr. Tom Gaither. April 12-13 the Juniors entertained the Seniors at Trinidad. The roup ”»as sho n through ti e cover plant at Trinidad; they, also, visited the coal mine at Malakoff. The annual Junior-Senior Banquet vps held on May 24, 1940. Bill Hamm acted as toastmaster, 3ob McCrady vas the nrincioal speaker of the evening. Davis Sutherland joined our class during this, our senior year. The class officers are: J. D. Hamm President; Murrell Goodloe, Vice-President: Minnie Weaver, Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Levis Sullivan is our class sponsor. At present, there are eighteen mopbers in our class ho expect to graduate on May 23, 1941. ' 4 4 N 14 ' 4 £

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY 4 A In the spring of 1951 I went on a tour of the United States. I traveled by bus going first to Carls bad Caverns and then to California. When I boarded the bus in Dallas, I wac very much surprised to see Murrell Goodloe in the driver's seat. I sat down in a front seat and talked to him, finding that he had married five years ago and now hac three children. He had many financial difficulLxes and wag barelv making a living. Feeling sorry for him I ave him a check for 5100 which I hope he appreciated. Poor boy, his dream of a marble top desk never came true. On arriving at White City near the Caverns I started to hunt for a place to stay. I decided to rent a tourist cabin so I entered the manager's office only to find Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown, Jr. managing the tourist camp. J. F. had married Elizabeth Jane Trees the d’v after they graduated. From further conversation I found that all of Doris Je- n Owen's girlish wile had failed to win her a husband and she had turned to teaching school. She was now teaching J. F. the Third and Elizabeth Esmeralda in a little one teacher country school. Although there seemed to be no Prince Charming in sight, she still had not given up hopes. .Sifter visiting the caverns I traveled on to Hollywood, California. One night when I was dining at the Trocadero who ahould I find as the cigarette girl but Mary Lee Hamm, an old schoolmate. She had gone to Hollywood to act but had failed and turned to this occupation for a living. I stayed in California several days and then went to Seattle, Washington. It was Just the time of the year when the apple trees were in bloom. One day while walking through one of the many beautiful apple orchards, who should I find but two old maids, Minnie Weaver and Edna Faye West? They didn't know that anyone v»s near so their conversation was not Interrupted. I heard them discussing the p-’St. It seemed that they had planned a double wedding in June after their graduation but to their dismay and disappointment Janes and J. D had left them waiting at the church. They were ’ cth 8t111 living with their parents and were travelling