University High School - Cub Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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Sl Illll MASS HISIIIRY To begin this stirring chronicle of the Senior Class of '53 we must slip back to a September morning in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty five A. D. The time is eighto'clock. The place is University Lab School, and the sun streams through the cracks in the walls of the first grade room, spotlighting eight eager little person- ages who will form the foundation for the future Senior Class. As we look in upon this genial tableau, we spy the flash of green from the corner. Yes, it's Tommy Money- bags Carleton counting his tuition lovingly for the last time before it is torn from his grasp. Further over, we see a gleaming mop of red hair gazing lovingly at a picture of a dairy farm in a first-grade reader. This one is named Julius O'Quin. Now we come upon a strange sight. We see a very handsome little boy surrounded by a mob of very affectionate little girls, whom the teacher is vainly trying to disperse. His beaming smile from within the crowd shows him to be Bobby Lawrence. Across the room a sullen, morose youth named Ridgy Edwards sits sulking and pulling the wings off of dragonflies. Peering over his shoulder and watching with no small amount of glee is the hulking one, Dick Morris, the only member of the first grade to outweigh the teacher. Apparently the only one who is studying this morning is a very serious- looking young lady, one Catherine Oertel, who is engrossed in. . .oh, oh, a joke book! Oh well ..... At this next desk, we see another young lady, Antje Heberle, who has just finished doing her homework for tomorrow in German, completely unaware of the fact that she will have to copy it over. The remaining member of the class is just there. John Werner blossoms out later. In the second grade we were joined by two more members of our group, a quiet little girl called Jane Rheuark, and a tall, gangling, half-dead youth named Teddy Dawson, whose alertness and quick responses earned him excellent grades. Two more students trickled into the third grade, a quiet and reserved young lady named Charlotte Holly, who introduced the can-can to University Lab School, and Anne Carter, who sat and stared at the ceiling most of the time. In the fourth grade we found among the dinosaurs two more members of our as- semblage. These were Beverly Caskey, a girl with ferocious eyes and long hair who thoroughly frightened everyone, and Gretchen Gerlicher, a young lady who experien- ced considerable difficulty in dodging the lights on the ceiling. After the fourth grade we lost two members of our class, Charlotte and Beverly, who apparently couldn't stand the thought of the historic life to come. We beset Miss Gordon in the fifth grade with the aid of a tall, dark girl named Carol Slinky Ratcliff for reasons obvious even to fifth graders. The sixth grade was a memorable year, for we gained a quiet-mannered, un- affected, tow-headed,bespectacled chap, who, in a voice like gravel on a tin roof assured the class and Miss Bailey that his name was Ralph Deeds. Also there was a dynamic young lady named Barbara Pogo Vastine, who seemed to be into every- thing at once. And last and perhaps least, there was a bewildered, helpless-look- ing little person named Douglas Menville, who, when asked by the more belliger- ent members of the class if he wanted to fight, gave the singularly unusual reply, HNO. ll Then we descended en masse upon poor Mr. Eglin in the seventh grade. This was an unforgettable year, what with dropping and shooting things off the porch, growing fungi, and with the immortal Hector the Specter and Sydney Spook stories, presented by Menville and Carleton respectively, In this year we gained Jimmie King-Size Kent, who astonished the teacher by taking a carburetor apart and putting it back together inside of five minutes. Emily Learner seemed rather con- fused and Claude Williams was reprimanded sternly for offering the teacher a cigarette. Charlotte Holly also returned, somewhat sheepishly. Compliments of: CAMP NAMEQUOIT

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DOROTHY RAY TATE, U. H. S. I,2, 3,4 State Literary Rally l,2: Y-Teens I,2, 3,4: Secretary 4: F. B. L. A. 4: F. I-I.A. I, 2, 3, 4: Secretary 3: Vice-President 4: Class Vice-President 2: Girls' State: National Honor Society 3,4: Secretary 4: Dicens I: Cheerleader 4: Cam- pus Cub Staff: Senior Play: CUB Staff: Basketball 2: Volley- ball 3: Prom Court 4: Softball Manager I, 2: Scholastic Honor Roll: Leadership Conference 3 JANE WOMACK TESSIER, U. H. S. 2,3,4 Y-Teens 3, 4: President 4: Key Club Sponsor: Volleyball 3: Boosters 4: F. B. L.A. 3,4: Campus Cub Staff: CUB Business Staff: Senior Play: Class Secretary-Treasurer 4: Prom Court Queen 4: F. H. A. 2: Scholastic Honor Roll MARY BARBARA VASTINE, U. H. S. 1,z,3,4 Y-Teens I, 2, 3, 4: Secretary I: President 3: Vice-President 4: Student Council 2, 3, 4: Chairman 3, 4: Softball I,2,3: Volleyball 4: Basketball 2: Leadership Conference 3: Senior Play: National Honor Society 3,4: All-State Chorus: Dicens 2: Boosters 3: Vice-President 3: Scholastic Honor Roll: F. B. L. A. 4: Secretary 4: CUB Business Staff: Campus Cub staff: Football Sponsor: Hi-Y Sponsor 3: Girls' State: May Court 2 Prom Court 4 JOHN ELDON WERNER, U. H. S. I,2,3,4 Hi-Y 2,3,4: U-Club 2, 3,4:SEl'ge2l'lI-at-3.l'l'1'lS 4: Track 2: Football 4: Senior Play CLAUDE PAINTER WILLIAMS, U. H. S. I,2,3,4 Hi-Y 3, 4: Football 4: Boys' Quartet 4: Senior Play Compliments of: MIDDLETON'S DRUG STORE 2065 Plank Road 16 OVERPASS ESSO SERVICE STATION 2940 Perkins Road

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And then in 1948 we were triumphant! We had made it safely through gram- mar school and University Lab School now became University High! We lost Antje this year to Junior High, but we gained an odd boy with a seemingly un- pronouncable name, Jim Ammon frhymes with salmon l. Also there joined our ranks a small boy known as Oscar Andras, whose curls sent the girls in- to waves of ecstacy and a tall, quiet lad named Charles West Point Coates, who loved to tell of his experiences in Japan. Peggy LeBlanc slipped in too. Passing on to grade nine, we gained Lois Leche and Dottye Tate, a pair of quiet and reserved little ladies, Betty Harris, Ann Scatterty, Virginia Heart- Throb McKean, Betty Denham, and Polly Eden. ' In the tenth grade we picked up a very tall, gangling youth from Mississippi, who spent a great deal of time writing mathematical equations on the ceilings. We also gained the industrious, babbling Hans Sternberg, and Jane Red Tes- sier. Oh yes, Ibelieve there was also a fellow named Moss ...... Antje and Jane Rheuark were back with us now, and in the eleventh grade we collected Billy C. A. P. Harper, Janet Brechtel, and a young lady named Car olyn Brassett. Finally came the climax of our school year-- the twelfth grade. Now we were the Seniors. Dr. Harrison's own private headache. We were joined this year by Jimmy Kuylen, Daulis Pinto, and Beverly Wolf Gal Caskey. And so there you-have it. The history of one of U-High's most fiendish classes. A class which gave to the school the immortal skits of Menville -Carleton-Harrisong the roarings of a big green buick called Kentg and many other things. Many ev- ents stick fondly in our memory--being able to go the the Field House during Study Hall, watching the new building grow into completion, being the first class to have the honor of graduating from itg the Senior Playg Dr. Harrison's fiend- ish chemistry classg the Sociology class's trip to Jackson, from which most of them returnedg and all the other incidents which blend into years that we will never forget. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to all tle teachers and directors for their friendship, their help, and for starting us confidently down the long and rocky road of life. Compliments of: CHANTICLEER ESSO SERVICE STATION 2678 Government Street LEO M. ODOM 1055 Nicholson Drive 18