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

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,mvq-quvrvq--,--s.-og.. .-. ,... wx..-w.,,.,.f,,.,. -The SCRAPPER 55 National Honor Society Notes At the first fall meeting of the South Side Chapter of the National Honor Society the following officers were elected: Clyde Dixon, president, James Cogswell, vice-president, and Ruth Jol- ley, secretary. Other members were Frances Babin, Dorothy Brown, and Robert Cogswell. During the winter term a theatre party W.1S enjoyed by the members with Miss Gholson, the sponsor. The chapter continued throughout the year the custom of awarding an honor banner to the home room having the greatest percentage of pupils on the Honor Roll. In December, 1937, new faculty advisors were elected as fol- lows: Miss Bunch, Miss Humphrey, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Ewing. Catherine Schwerin was the only new member elected to the soci- ety in the fall semester. She was received into the society at the time of her election. At the beginning of the spring term the new officers elected Were: James Cogswell, presidentg Robert Cogswell, vice-president, Frances Babin, secretary, and Catherine Schwerin publicity re- porter. On May 4, 1938, 22 new members were initiated into the so- ciety. They are: Oliver Bolton, Harold Fanning, Albert Feeble, Verneil Garner, Katherine Hines, Helen Howe, Venus Kourvelas, Martha Bayne Lickey, Almeda Milam, Effie Lee Stebelton, Erlyne Tidwell, Frances Wooten, Sarah Horne, Catherine Schwerin, Dor- othy Griggs, Eloise Moxley, Mary Evelyn Hastings, Peggy Irwin, Edward Oswalt, William Dixon, Elizabeth Jetter, and Ouida Magee. On May 6 the senior members attended a tea at Southwestern give-n by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for all senior members of the Honor Societies of the city high schools. 201 - The Spanish Club The Spanish Club was organized at the beginning of the school year with the following officers: President, Betty Jean Kaiserg secretary, Helen Howe, reporter, Charlere Reibling: publicity agent, Elsie Bernstein, and social chairman, Malcolm Evans. The meetings were held in room 106. One of thc most enjoyable out- ings was a Weiner roast held at Mrs. Dorland's cabin in Maywood. At the beginning of the new term in January, new officers were elected as follows: President, Helen Howeg secretary, Edwin Demetriog reporter, Marjorie Schoolarg and social chairman, Helen Dougan. The club had plans for a hamburger fry at Maywood, but it was postponed on account of inclement weather.

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55. - The SCRAPPER SDUTH SIDE GLEE CLUBS Last September the '38 Glee Clubs were organized by Miss Gordon. During the first semester there was not much activity. Many students who Wanted to take glee club could not work it in on their programs. The enrolled singers, however, did work hard learning several songs. These included in the first semester were: Girlss-Louise Allen, Norma Barner, Lena Bell, Myrtle Bishop, Virginia Bledsoe, Wanda Bowman, Emily Bradley, Ruth Bryant, Frances Chambers, Florence Clark, Pauline Coffland, Louise Dar- den, Kathleen Davis, Caroline Dittman, Anita Drashman, Dorothy Earle, Nancy Fowler, Violet Griffith, Anita Gunn, Betty Hamilton, Katherine Hines, Carolyn Horton, Rosemary Jenlkins, Ruth Jolley, Audry Kuntz, Dorothy Locke, Lorraine Long, Jean McGonagill Elizabeth Morris, Mary Dawn Norton, Christine Page, Carolyn Stockwell, Corinne Stockwell, Ruby Shefsky, Geraldine Taylor, Hortense Trammel, Mary Elizabeth Weaver, Pauline Massey, Car- oline Chandler, Juanita Wagner, Wylodine Massey, Ruth Knight, Eleanor Sexton, Ernestine Sexton. Boys-James Blackwell, Edwin Boatwright, Eugene Braswell, Lloyd Church, John Clark, Ralph Dalhite, Bert Humphries, Guy King, Richard McDaniels, Finley Russell, George Seibert, Lester Smith, Theodore Smith, Jam-es Stubblefield, John Todd, Carl Webb, Jep Williamson, Robert Carpenter, Gartley Symons. In January the Glee Clubs were reorganized and work was be- gun in earnest for the state cont-est to be held in Nashville the fol- lowing April. Those enrolled this time included besides the names above, Eleanor Bailey, Marjorie Brown, M a t t i e Fowinkle, Melva Green, Ernestine Grissom, Marie Hudson, Doris Meeks, Ora Nell Rush, Virginia Webb, Mary Frances Wilkinson, Frances Wooten, Frances Cubbins, and Marie Yeager in the girls' chorus, and in the boys', besides the above, were Bruce Barner, Kelly Carr, James Cogswell, Robert Cogswell, Herbert Dawson, Jimmie Emmons, Leo Hess, Louis Holloway, Sam Koen, Boyce LeDuke, and Robert Middleton. Under Miss Gordon's direction the girls learned Robin in the Rain and Snowflakes The boys learned Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes andthe Stout Hearted Men chorus. A mixed chorus, formed of selected members from each glee club, learned Winter and Spring and Gloria in Excelsisf' the latter in Latin. On Wednesday, April 13, a chosen number from each glee club left for Nashville in a Greyhound bus. They were accomp- anied by Miss Gordon and by Mrs. McGonagill, president of the South Side P.-T. A. Mary Cain was taken as accompanist. Be- sides the regular members of the two glee cl-ubs, George Seibert, James Blackwell, G T. Lee, Malcolm Evans, and Eleanor Se-xton were taken along to sing also. In Nashville both the Mixed Chorus and the Girls' Glee Club