Rock Island High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rock Island, TX)

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LOROS AND LAOlES, LITTLE FLOWER GIRL, THE QUEENS, AND CROWN BEARERS. THE KING AND E8C0RT CROWNED THE QUEEN8 WITH BRILLIANT SILVER OROWNS. MR. Gene Kotrla ano Mr. Henry Briscoe, who acteo as COURT MUSICIANS, ENTERTAINEO THE QUEENS WITH SEVERAL TUNES IN HONOR OF HER MAJESTIES. ElDORIS ano Auorey Jean Kotrla sano a Halloween song also OEOICATEO TO THE ROYALTY. THE OPENING STRAINS OF THE RECESSIONAL MARCH BEGAN THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE ASSEMBLED COURT. Miss Gillespie, a photographer from Columbus, ano Mr. Garret Jenkins, of Rock Islano, took both GROUP AND INOIVIOUAL PIOTURES OF THE OOURT. SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT RAISES LIBRARY FUNDS On Friday night, December 5» 1947 the Rook Islano High School stuoents presented three one- AOT PLAYS ANO “THE FAMILY ALBUM , A HUGE MOOK PHOTOGRAPH A L8UM OF PIOTURES REPRESENTING THE GOOO OLE DAYS1 , FOR THE purpose OF BUYING MAGA-ZINES AND NEWSPAPERS FOR THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. THE PHOTOORAPHS OF SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF THE O'HAN-NAGAN FAMILY THAT ORIGINATED IN BELFAST, IRELANO, REPRESENTED THE PERIOO BETWEEN 1840-1947. THE FIRST WAS IN THE TIME OF GREAT GREAT GRANOPAPA WHO CAME TO AMERICA ANO SETTLED IN KENTUCKY, WHERE HE MET AND MARRIED GREAT GREAT GRANDMAMMA--THE LAST PICTURE WAS OF LlNOA, THE MOOERN O'HAN- NACAN MISS. The high school pupils, dressed in APPROPRIATE COSTUMES, PORTRAYS 0 THE DIFFERENT PHOTOS. JUOCING FROM THE HILARIOUS LAUGHTER FROM THE AUOIENCE AS EACH PAGE WAS TURNEO, EVERYONE ENJOYED THE ALBUM IMMENSELY. The plays also proveo entertaining. “MR. Haroy Takes A Hand , which proveo that a woman JUST NATURALLY KNOWS MORE ABOUT HIRING MAIDS THAN A MAN 0OES STARRED LILLIAN LaGRANCE ANO GEORGE Eoos as Mr. ano Mrs. Haroy, ano Earlene Kotrla, Eunice Trapp, Jean Waooell, and Dorothy Henry as APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITION OF MAID. PAT ENTER-

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Waooell as Pat, ano AS HIS GUESTS WHILE A MANLY LITTLE GET-THERE WAS ALSO THE v h i ch Mr. Bosser, A FAULT WITH HIS WIFE THE MINISTER'S WIFE TAINS WAS A COM E OY WITH Tom Sam Kennedy ano Harry Waooell Pat's wife is assent......just TOGETHER, THAT'S ALL. ThEN play Managing A Hussano , in GROUCHY MAN WHO ALWAYS FOUNO ANO THE THINGS SHE OIO UNTIL put Mrs, Bosser wise, ano things became quite DIFFERENT.' MR. BOSSER WAS P LAY E0 BY EaRL WAITS, HIS MEEK (?) LITTLE WIFE, 8Y RUTH MlLLER, THE minister's wife by Esther Curry, ano the minister by Billy Williams. A HILARIOUS STYLE SHOW IN WHICH LOCAL MISTERS WERE GARBED AS FEM WAS SPONSORED BY MR. SCHULTZ. T«E JOINTLY BESTOWED UPON MR. GENE Clay Dickerson, the co-winners, was a ARTISTICALLY WRAPPED 30X OF DELICIOUS WHITE-SKINNEO ONIONS. SEVERAL OF THE NINE BEAUTIES GENEROUS PRIZE Kotrla ANO Mr. BEAUTIFUL, PINK ANO JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET The annual Junior-Senior Banquet of the Rock Islano High School was helo in Hawaiian style THIS YEAR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING ON THE night of March twenty-thiro. As THE GUESTS ARRIVE0, THEY WERE USHERED INTO the Candlelight Cafe , where tables for two were PL A CEO BETWEEN HUGE PALM TREES ALONO TWO SIDES OF THE ROOM. A OOLOEN TROPICAL MOON ROSE ABOVE THE PALMS AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM. At SEVEN-THIRTY, THE BANQUET BEGAN WITH THE INVOCATION, WHICH WAS given by Mr. Miller, the Superintendent. Next came the Hawaiian Welcome by Ruth Miller, the president of the Junior class. The toasts followed. Most important, of course, was dinner. Soft Hawaiian melodies drifted through the cafe OURING THE MEAL ANO THE CEREMONY OF THE LEI. Aloha , the Hawaiian farewell song, closed the FORMAL ACTIVITIES AFTER SOME REMARKS BY MR. Miller ano Mr. Schultz.