South Side High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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The SCRAPPER 47 Frances Babin Meets President Roosevelt And Gorgas Memorial Officials The winner of the Ninth Memorial Gorgas Essay Contest was Frances Babin, eighteen year-old senior of South Side High School, Memphis, Tennessee. The subject of this year's essay contest was The Achievements of William Crawford Gorgas and Their Rela- tion to Our Health. Contest judges were Dr. Bowman C. Crowell, Director of the American College of Surgeonsg Dr. Thomas Parron, Surgeon General of U. S. Public Health, and Dr. J. W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education. For the first time since the contest began ten year ago, the decision of the first prize winner was unani- mous. President Roosevelt presented five new one hundred dollar bills to Frances at the Executive Offices of the White House in Washington, D. C., on the morning of May 16, 1938, at 11 o'clock. Those present at the presentation were: Mrs. Henry S. Doherty, donor of the prize, Dr. George Crile, President of The Gorgas Me- morial Institute, and Mrs. Crile, Dr. Bowman C. Crowell, Surgeon General Reynolds of the U. S. Army, Admiral Bossiter of the U. S. Navy, Dr. Thomas Parrong Dr. McIntyre, of the White House Staig Mrs. Aillen Gorgas Wrightson, and her two daughters, Dr. Herbert C. Clark, Director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama, Miss Helen King, Secretary of the Gorgas Institute, Sur- geon General Ireland, Treasurer of the Gorgas Institute, Mrs. Franklin Martin, wife of the founder of the Gorgas Memorial In- stituteg Miss Annekay Tharp, teacher-sponsor of the essay prize winner, and Congressman Walter Chandler. Following the White House ceremony at twelve-thirty o'clock, Mrs. Doherty, Dr. Crile, General Ireland, and the prize winner. Frances Babin, went on the air over the Red network of NBC in a nation-wide broadcast. At this time Dr. Crile announced the other four national winners in the broadcast. Frances talked for five minutes on the Howard-Kraus Society. At one o'clock, at the Mayflower Hotel, Mrs. Henry Dohertfy gave a luncheon for the members of the presentation party and the wives of the officials. Miss Babin was guest of honor.

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E48 g gg ,fig TIQSCPAPPER CHAMPIONS IN SCHOLARSHIP Pupils ow Honor Roll for Fira Sim Week Periods SENIORS---Frances Babin, Herbert Dawson, Harold Fan- ning, Helen Howe, Geraldine Presley, Margaret Ragsdale, Juanita Wagner. JUNIORS+-Frances Craddock, Elizabeth Jetter, Annie Katz, Eloise Moxley, Dorothy South. SOPHOMORES-Louise Allen, Paul Boyer, Judy Cour, Betty Kaiser, Iola Norvell, Jack Taylor, Edith Wright. FRESHMEN-Roberline Allen, Beverly Levin, Helen Over- ton, Migon Presley, Richard Riddick, Dorothy Irby, Peggy Mari- nus, Vivian Jeter. Pupils on Honor Roll for Four Six Week Periods SENIORS-Clyde Dixon, Myrtle Moon, Effie Lee Stebelton, Frances Wooten, Robert Cogswell. JUNIORS-Pearl Davis, Peggy Irwin Charles Mueller.. FRESHMEN-Margaret Bridges, Edith Johnson, Mildred Beeman, Ruth Bryant. Pupils on Honor Roll for Three Sir Week Periods SENIORS-Helen Hora, James Cogswell. JUNLORS--Edwin Oswalt. Pupils on Honor Roll for Two Six-Week Periods SENIORS-Anita Gunn, Martha Bayne Lick-ey, Edith McMil- lan, Pauline Morton, Catherine Schwerin, Erlyne Tidwell. JUNIOR-Edwin Demetrio, Dorothy Hall. SOPHOMORES-Charles Blackwell, Virginia Keating, Louise Lemay, Dorothy Locke, Bily McGehee, Virginia Rast, Beatrice Shefsky, Helen Virginia Spencer. FRESHMEN-Sam Berzansky, Blake Boyer, Marie Brown, Ruth Cark, Carolyn Craddock, Ralph Dubrovner, Mildred Elmore, Frances Fogerty, Clifford Ferrell, Betty Jane Hamilton, Ethel Lightbody, Bonnie Nell Riley, Sarah Sellers, Virginia Sherwood, Frank Waller, Elizabeth Waller. Pupls ow Honor Roll for One Six-Week Period SENIORS-Richard Fox, Ruth Jolley, Eleanor Sexton, Kath- erine Hines, James Woodall. JUNIORS-Sadie Baskin, Ralph Hazel, Billy Robinson, Hazel Thum, Mary Evelyn Hastings, Roslyn Wagner. SOPHOMORES-Merle Basden, Joe Nowlin, Lois Sheffield, FRESHMENv-Mildred' Beeman, Ruth Bryant, Fred Creasy, Eloise Donaldson, Nancy Fowler, Ottice Tidwell, Clifford Terrell.