Sidney Lanier High School - Los Recuerdos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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IJUlXfXIII IIAU a A Miss Mabel Lee Merrem, Senior Sponsor Mr. Kay A. Walker, Printing'Sponsor Mrs. Minnie Cochrane, Senior Sponsor Pieter De Koster, - - Editor-in-Chief Sarah Ramos. - - - Society Editor Ralph Parada, - • Business Manager Ramiro R. Cardenas, Make-up Editor Billy Saldana, - - - Sports Editor Tom Reygad-s, - - - - Art Editor Ernest Herrera. - - Make-up Editor George Rivas, - - Rudy Cortez, - - - - Susie Salazar, - - - Manuel Gonzalez, - - Art Editor Advertising Advertising Advertising Magdalena Cavazos, - - Typist Jesse Ybarra, ----- Robert Tafolla, - - - - Printer Augustina Franks, - - - - Typist

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acuity NORTON. ARTHUR W. B.A. Baylor University. Physical Education Depart- ment. PORTER. LUCY B.S. Texas State College for Women Home Economics Department. SARGENT. C. G. B. S. Colorado State College Science Department. SHANE. JESSIE B.A. Lady of the Lake. M.A. Colorado State College. Eng- lish Department. SKINNER. HELEN B.A. University of Texas. M A. University of Texas. Eng- lish Department. SWINDLER. EDGAR J. i exas A M; University of 1 e.vds. Auto Mechanic Shop. URBANOVSKY. E.J. B.S.Texas A M. Landscape Gardening Department. VICENTINI. B.C. I exas ACfM and Texas Uni- versity. Mill Shop. WALKER. R. A. University of Texas, Print Shop. WATKINS. CATHERINE- B.A. Our Lady of the Lake College Mathumatics Depart- ment. WORTHINGTON. VIRGINIA B. D. Sophie Newcomb Col- lege. Art Department. ZIMMER. WILLIAM Streator Conservatory of Mu. sic University of Louisville. Cincinnati Co nservatory of Music. r

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President MANUEL GONZALEZ 0H' fin iniiiiim imixuii cels m • ■ ■ A , f ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ iillimimilllllimj i Vice-President MAGDALENA CAVAZOS Treasurer FRANK GONZALEZ Reporter PIETER DE KOSTER Secretary SUSIE SALAZAR Historian RUDY CORTEZ Sergeants at arms MARIANO MEDINA SALVADOR ARRIAGA Not in picture The (yenioi 01 ass Gctioities The Senior Class of 1940 held a meeting under the direction of the class sponsors Mrs. Minnie Cochrane and Miss Mabel Lee M errem at which time the officers for the Senior Class of 1940 were nominated. After a vote was taken, it was decided that Manuel Gonzalez should lead the Class of 1940. Every member of the Senior Class was placed on the committee of his choice, and plans for a successful graduation were inaugurated. Senior activities began on May 6, in the school auditorium, when the Senior Class presented its play called “Mountain Mumps. It is a highly entertaining fs»rce in three acts. When the play opens, the formerly wealthy Chilton fam- iUfl BMfl Htheir future holds two possibili- ■ Hvation. g Irs. Chilton's niece, complicates t t finally brings a happy end ng f I. The characters were chosen of competative try-outs, and ion of Miss Ana Goering, pro- re with a most successful and ce. lass Day, May 28. the Seniors ibly which included a drama- tised class prophecy, representing the class reunion of 1950; the members of the class appeared in the rol s they expect to have assumed by that time. Other numbers on ihe program included the class poem written by Lorenzo Mora and the list will and testament of the class. The Class was complimented with many enter- tainments among which werep rties given by the Royal Blue Collegiates, the Blue Jackets, and the Symphonians: a banquet bytheP.T.A. the Senior Class picnic, an.l the Junior-Senior prom. On May 26, the Seniors of Sidney Lanier, Tho- mas Jefferson, Brackenridge. Tech and Burbank attended their Commencement Sermon in the Municipal Auditorium. On May 31. the Seniors of Sidney Lanier High School for the first time held their impressive graduating exercises at the Municipal Auditorium .The boys in their dark suits added to the attractiveness of the girls in their pretty pastel shade dresses. Representatives of the Senior Class attended Spring Festivals at various colleges, including Coliege of Art and Industries at Kingsville, the University of San Antonio, Our Lidy of the Lake College, and Incarnate Word College.