Stratford High School - Elk Yearbook (Stratford, TX)

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59 -yexoboooolieooc Reading from left to right on the first row: J. E. Brannan, Ira Guthrie, Calvin Blevins, L. J. Davis, Eugene Harrison, Billy Garrison, Richard Dortch, and Charlie McD'anielg second row: Patricia Grimes, Velma Cliisurn, Peggy Whetstone, Mary Grace Foreman, Alma Dell Walsh, Dale Mullins, Jo Bryan, Joyce Ann Billington, Nettie Beth Everett, and Floellen Feildg third row: David Srteel, Travis Blevins, Virgil Garoutte, Leon Guthrie, Johnnie Joe Willey, Jerry Kelp, Bill Garoutte, Pat Haynes, Travis Goodman. JUNIORS After one of the severest initiations ever known to the fish of Stratford High, we became official members of high school. Remember the raw liver given to you as a scab sandwich, that shocking that made you nearly bend doubleg the boys will probably never forget the belt line, and how the girls cheerfully ate onions all day. Remember how many dozen shoes you polished or how horrible you looked? And that stinking gas which no one but the fish could stand to smell- We stood it because we lrad to. How could we ever forget it all? Mr. Tabor was our sponsor that year, and We all had fun. The sophomore year Wasn't too eventful, but there was enough to keep us good and busy. And now we come to this ye-ar. We got a good start and have had a good time and the near future holds many promises for more. Our play, Here Comes Charlie, was presented November 17. Forward, march! And We see a spring activity which will call for Work, but it will be a great deal of fun too- that'S our Junior-Senior banquet and Prom. A prom is something new here, so each and every one is hoping our plans work out. The juniors seldom glance back because we are thinking of the future and what it holds for us, but here are statistics from the beginning. We started in 1930 with fifty-two classmates. Only seven of the original fifty-two remain. Our class now has the membership of twenty-eight. Watch for us next year because We're headed for big things as the seniors of 1941. 1185 Q0 GOP 4 . SHS

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C994 -QQ -!oooo0 ooooss-QQ-TQOO JUNIOR BANQUET Banquets are just naturally a gran-d affair, but this one of 1940 is an extra special. The scheme is The Little Red School House and everything is cleverly arranged. Don't we all look sweet in the dunce caps? It brings back old memories. Goodness, there's so many juniors and seniors this year. However the juniors outnumbered the seniors two to one. Notice we said juniors two to one instead of Lucky Stripes. The attendance is nearly sixty. The girls all look lovely in their evening dresses, and thinking of it, the boys are rather handsome, too. Perhaps we had forgotten to tell you, but our toastmaster is Miss Jo Bryan. This food tastes good, too, but we must not eat too much or there will be a lot of making sashes and belts larger. Things are rolling along just swell. We know this banquet will be rehearsed in our memories many times. Yes, we are certainly building mountains of memories around the Junior-Senior Banquet of 1940. JUNIOR PLAY On November 17, 1939 A. D., the Juniors of 1939-40 presented one super colossal play- Here Comes Charlie. The plot concerned Larry, a young man, whose house was controlled by his aunt, Mrs. Farnham, and who adopted a hill-billy orphan wfho -he thought was a boy, but turned out to be a girl. From this situation there developed many laughs. The characters were as follows: Larry Elliott, the young man- Pat Haynes. Ted Hartly, Larry's college ehum- Virgil Garoutte. Mrs. Farnham, Larry's aunt- Dale Mullins. Charlie Hofpps, Larry's ward- Jo Bryan. Uncle Twiggs, Charlie's guardian- Leon Guthrie. Vivian Smythe-Kersey, Larry's fiancee- Peggy Whetstone. Mrs. Smythe-Kersey, V1vian's mother- Nettle Beth Everett. Mortimer Smythe-Kersey, Vivian's brother- Gene Harrison. Nona Malone, housekeeper- Joyce Ann Blllington. Tim McGrill, Nora's sweetheart- Travis Blevins. C191 00 C6 . SHS ,