Robstown High School - Cotton Picker Yearbook (Robstown, TX)

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OUR TEACHING STAFF Mr Garland Allard who has attended Baylor Unrversrty North Texas State College and Texas Unrversrty holds hrs BA degree He teaches Englrsh I and Spanrsh l and ll but he seems happy when he takes the classes to Monterrey each year A sf that werent enough he also sponsors the fresh man class Mrs Susre Alsmeyer holds a BS degree from TSCW Her general scrence and brology classes learn slowly but surely to enyoy the smell of sulphur and formaldehyde as they drsect crayfrsh and earthworms Mrs A s meyer who has learned by long experrence just how to make freshmen feel at home rn hugh school somehow funds trme to sponsor the 4 H club Thus us especrally surtable work for her srrrce she has been an extensron teacher for A and M for three years Mr Wrllram Bagwell holds a BS degree rn Physucal Educatron from Ruce lnstutute Coach Bag well has been at work rn almost every fueld he has been head coach rn basketball assrstant baseball coach and assrstant football coach Hrs Pucker basketball team tred for frrst most of the season but as luck would have rt came rn thrrd rn drstrrct Stull hrs hard work and good coachung helped to make the other teams real Cottonprcker Teams Mrs Douglas Carter Brandes holds her BS degree from SWTSC As a lrbrarran she does qurte a job frndrng every student a surtable rnterest rng book Srnce her work has begun the lubtary has progressed toward more and better books wrth sumpler storage and access Mr Ray Champron holds hrs BA degree from Trrnrty Unrversrty As head lrne coach he seemed to do all nght wrth the Cottonprcker team turn mg out one of the frghtrngest hard hrttrngest strongest lrnes rn the state Hrs B basketball team made qurte a record too Mr Douglas Cooke holds hrs BA degree from Trrnrty Unrversrty The power behrnd the Prckers drd a mammoth Job gettrng a really good foot ball team unto shape Coachs speeches pep ralluts nave been enough t make every man on or off the team want to frght for the red and whrte People luke Coach make up School Sprrrt Mr B R Hoover holds a BS and MS degree from East Texas State College ln school he teaches algebra geometry and general math but hrs seal trgurrng rs done on the tennrs courts where he explarns that rf a ball ua hut at a certaun degree angle wrth a ceruarn degree of speed wrll doubtedly cross the net QExhaustuve practrce has proved hrm or us wrong nrsre trmes out of tenj For the lortunate tennrs team the carry all and Coach Hoovers hunts to the wrse have been the herght of every tennrs trup The trrps from the tournaments were even better alter dustrrct wmre the team won frrst rn boys and gurls doubles and teamed up wrth the track boys to wrn a very pretty trophy Mr Tracy Huffstutler holds hrs BS and MS degrees from East Texas State Teachers College He has brought to RHS a love for hrs work and for those he teaches He has taken one srde or the old gym and transuormed st rnto a modern and effrcrent wood work shop Cwrth real arr condrtronungl Scourrng rs hrs pastrme and he hs b n selected one o the rn Scoutmasters to represent the Gulf Coast Councrl at the Natronal Jamboree at Valley rouge Pennsylvanra Mrs Maurune Huffstutlee really made R HS srt up and take notrce when she came here to teach HE Wrrh a BS degree from East Texas State College Mrs Huff sponsors the Future Homemakers of Amerrca and the Junuor Class but her student appeal rs based on her abrluty to play our three B QBach Blues and Boogrej on the prano Mrss Effue Hutto holds hee BA degree from Texas A and I College She stands as a symbol ol the teachrng professron brungrng to rt lbrlrty sun serrty and rntegrrry She has loved and has been loved by Robstown stu dents for a perrod of l3 years Prror to that trme she was county superun tendeuut for 4 years superrntendent of Banquetta Schools for 5 years and prrncrpal of Roostown Hugh School Mr Paul Isaac teaches hrstory and crvrcs durrng school trme leavrng hrs lersure hours for phulosophrc musrng and deep books Thus student councrl sponsor holds hrs BA degree from George Pepperdune College of Calrlornra where he was presrdent of student body Smart teacherl He u now even doung graduate work at TU Mrs Kathryn Kant: sesruor and soph Englrsh teacher holds a BA de gree from East Texas State College Her trme rs neatly used by sponsorrng the annual teachrng Englrsh 4 Cand makrng rt fun toolj crrtrcrz ng guadua suon speeches grvrng sophs a lrttle advance Englrsh and terrdrug Crnda and Tommy on the sude She does rsgbt well for her srze--5 Z Mr Harold Luhman holds has BM. degree from Vandercook school of musrc For the past two years he has drrected the Musuc department and thus year he has brought home lst Drvrsron Class A honors from the musrc con test un Kungsvrlle Besrdes thus the band under Mr Luhmans drrectron has partrcrpated rn concerts and parades rn thus part of Texas These have earned qurte a name for the band and the maestro M Bush Lotsperch holds hrs BS degree from A and l College Hrs work wrth the baseball team has been competently shown by a record ol' ll wuns to only 3 losses Hrs coachung abrlrty may be demonstrated by hra 1949 Drstrrct Champrons Mr Lotsperch besrdes holdung the posrtron f Prrncrpal of Bullard School rs a dandy Master of Ceremonres Hrs football play by play descrrptron can be known only as Lots peachue Mrs Arnette Powell holds het BBA degree rn Busrness Educatron fum Southwest State Teachers College After teachrng typrng and horrhand thus semester Mrss Powell feels very capable of sponsorrng the rambunctrous senror class She has rntroduced the brrght rdea of typrng to musrc thus worked frne unrrl the phonograph broke down Mr Owen McKrnney fondly called Mr Mac by many reaches chern rstry and physrcs rn Hugh School He holds hrs BS degree from Texas A and I and hrs true screrrtrlrc aruulrry us attested ro by the horrrble smells that rssue from the chemrstry lab He rr was more than anyone else who made the Senror Day trup to New Braunfels a success and hrs wrllrng sprrut and work rng hands are tradrtronal rn Robstown Hugh School Mrss Lecrle Nesbutt holds a B A degree from Sam Houston State Teachers College Junrors and senrors know her best as the long sufferrng play durector who made Here Comes Charlre and Mamas Baoy Boy successful Her teachrng abrlrty rs amply demonstrated by her Junror lrterature as well as her speech and drama classes Mr Jack Olrver holds hrs BS degree from Sam Houston State Teachers College A real outdoor man Mr Olrver teaches Frrst Second and Thrrd year Vocatronal Agrrculture as well as sponsors the Future l-armers of Amerrca Organrzatron Most of hrs afternoons are well frlled wrth trrps to farms to look over projects Mr J B Outlaw holds hrs B S degree from North Texas State Teachers College Srnce he rs a fast man hrmself on the crnders Coach Outlaw has really had a lrne track team thus year sendrng four boys to State Meet levery one of them placedj Coach lrkes to rrde too no matter how hazardously so he has been teachrng drrvers educatron wrth excellent results Mr Jack Staggs recerved hrs BA degree after attendrng Arkansas Tech Arkansas Unrversrty Harvard Unrversrty George Peabody College and Van derbult Unrversrty Thats an educated marr for you Now Mr Staggs enlughtcns Robstown s students mrnds wrth Amerrcan and World Hlstory QHes dorng a good Job of rt tool, Also Mr Sraggs rs our own Dorothy Dux Student Advrsor Mr Bull Tarpley holds hrs B A degree from Howard Payne College Thus Sophomore Englrsh teacher has accomplrshed a lrfelong task by moldrng a journalrsm class unto news hounds who collect news for the Cotton Press Thus hrstorrc Journal has been publrsbed for two year un Robstowrr Hugh thanks to Mr Tarpley Mr F L Teague holds hrs BA degree from A and l College He hal made an acapella chorr from some football boys and school gurls capable of walkrng off wrth a unanumous frrst drvrsuon class A at the Kungsvulle musrc contest He has also gauned the good wrll of people wherever the chorr ap peared Mr Teagues B band has placed Second rn the sarne Ksngsvulla contest Mrs Kathryn Teague holds her BA degree from A and I College She teaches classes rn Junror busrness bookkeeprng commercral arrthmetrc salesmanshrp and goodness knows what else She also takes care of the srmple Job of keeprng the books strarght for the Cottonprcker annual Mr O B Warner holds hrs Masters degree un Educatron from San Marcos State Teachers College QSWSTCD Hrs ready sympathy and con suderatron have made hrs posrtron as Hugh School supervrsor a respected one Hrs student appeal rs based on hrs readrness to shoot the brrll wrth any student on any subject at any trme Muss Marre Whrtehead holds a BS degree from the Unrversrty of Hours ton For two years she has taught Physrcal Educatron and Health and s n sored the cheerleaders rn therr work Unluke her predecessors however mu Whrtehead rs fancy wrth modem dance and square dancrng Uust call bar lsadora Duncan for shortl Also thus wrllung worker sponsors the student eoruncrl senror 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