Roy Miller High School - Duffle Bag Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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FOREWORD Summer vacation has ended. The Caller-Times has announced that schools are to open on September first, More than seventeen hundred students enrolled. Although it was the hot test September on record, classes began serious study. Finally, a cool norther blew in and it began to feel like autumn. Leaves were falling and football was in the air. As the Battling Bucs climbed higher and higher in the rating of the As- sociated Press, Roy Miller was jumping with school spirit. We won the city championship, we won district, we won bi-district, and lost a heartbreaker in the semiafinals. Despite the fact that snowflakes fall very seldom in Corpus Christi, they are still the symbol of wintertime for us. The staff chose them instead of poinset- tias to illustrate the winter section of the annual. Johnny Estrada, our staff photographer, began taking pictures of the clubs and organizations which were really buzzing with activities. Favorites were elected by the classes and an- nounced at the Favorites Dance. Basketball became the center of attention for the Miller fans. Spring brought rain to the Gulf area. Raindrops on the window-pane re- minded us that we were on the last lap of the school year. Baseball, track, tennis, and golf occupied the time of the athletic students. lnterscholastic c o n te s t s added excitement to our studies. Seniors produced their class play. Final exami- nations, the senior prom, and commencement crowded the calendar during the last week of school. The Duffle Bags were distributed in time to allow students to autograph them, Scribble parties were held in the cafeteria, in the halls, on the front steps, and in homes until every page in every annual was full of farewell messages. We hope that your 1955 Duffle Bag has told the story of this school year so that you may look into its pages in years to come and capture again the thrills, joys, and experiences of your high school days. .qilze 1 Q5 5 raffle ag Staff

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The two trophies pictured at the right repre- sent the successes of the 1954 Battlin' Buccaneers of Roy Miller High School. The taller trophy came into permanent pos- session of the Bucs by virtue of their third con- secutive victory over W. B. Ray High School for the city championship. The cup was presented by the American Legion Post 637 of Corpus Christi, who first awarded it on a yearly basis in 1950. Only once since that time, in 1951, did the Bucs fail to bring the trophy home to Miller. Capturing the fancy of the people of Corpus Christi, the 1954 Buccaneczs swept to the district and bi-district championships of Districts 6-AAAA and 5-AAAA, reaching the semi- finals of the state playoffs. As a token of appre- ciation for the fine season, the Shell Center Busi- ness and Professional lVlen's Association pre- sented the trophy on the left to Roy Miller High School. ew rophieo oadcled io 'Bac eollection , ,,..cgsc,.-.ws . M-xx The four gentlemen at the left comprised the coaching staff ofthe 1954 Battlin' Bticcaneers. FROM l.1fl5'l' TO 1i1t311'li Alilfi Pete Ragus, lim' coach: Dusty Simmons, line couch: Tom Pruett, head couch: and Vernon Ashton, Inlclcfteld couch. ln only his second year as head coach at Roy Miller, Mr. Pruett, along with his c.ip.ihle staff, compiled an enviahle record. The leadership of these men has endeared them to the boys whom they coached. At the end of the season the entire team endorsed Coach Pruett as their selection for Coach of the Year in the Texas high school circles.

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C NTE T fool: Que . . c-autumn . . 9 elcwo ogctiuitieo . . . Student eouncil Qcanal . . oaalminiotrcction . . gootball fools fum . . quinter . . 63 quinter oactiuitieo . . ekoruo . . elulso Qrckeatra . . greohmen . . Sopkomoreo gunioro . . Qaolzetball Took fhree . . Spring . 151 Spring oactivitieo . . . 'Baoeball . . . fracl: . . fennio . . jntra-mural Sparta . . Seniora . . eommencement