Vivian High School - Warrior Yearbook (Vivian, LA)

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tif' ,,. Dczfclapmcnf of Our Selma! among the important names. Public entertainment has drawn Jack Payne and Liston Johnson, who are outstanding musicians with well-known orchestras. Adelene Bruce is a U.S.O. recreational director in Shreveport. The present faculty is represented by several V.H.S. alumni, namely: Mrs. Roy Jones, Mrs. Nellie Lee, Miss Geraldine Beazley, Miss Virginia Ray, Mrs. Janet Shockley, Mrs. Lllliam Horton, Mrs. Claudene Clawson, and Mrs. Florence Hartlinef ATHLETICS Coach O. C. Sanders is completing his twenty-second year in Vivian. Coach, as he is fondly called, has produced some of the finest teams of North Louisiana. He was sole mentor, until John Higgins came as assistant in 1935, and since then, six other coaches have been on and off the staff. Presently V. R. Dalrymple is head backfield coach and Coach is directing the destinies of the line. Hunter Huckabay was signal caller on the first V.H.S. grid team. ln the mid-twenties Joe Bailey Clements and Cotton Few starred for the Warriors. The last year of the twenties Stanley Griffith and Jess Barnes upheld the honors of the locals. The years S, '36 and 'f7 were the championship years and boasted of such gridsters as Cotton Barnes,' Wilson Almokary, Claude Teel, Woodrow Bowman and others. The forties produced such Warriors as Harold Rhodes, Bill Holbrook, Allen Arden, Herbet May, Charles Robinson, Furniss Hood, Jerry Griffith, Jack Pharis, Thomas Allen Bourne, Jamie Williamson, Billy Donovan and others. ln the early forties Jimmy Powell and Earl Williamson, Jr., won the Northwest championship tennis doubles. Mrs. Tennie Castle coached a girl championship basketball team back in 1931. Mildred May, Olene McLendon, Cynthia Gryder, Jimmie Rawls and others were among the stars of this team. Mr. T. A. Reed played basketball in 1914 when Mrs. Melinda Dell coached. ,.7.- f 4 h Q. 1

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1 Z7 rfclapmmf af Our Schoal ALUMNI Vivian boasts many worthy alumni, some of whom have become active in the field of education in this state and in others. To mention a few representative ones we would name: Katherine CPetD Walker, supervisor of schools, of Calcasieu Parish, Dolph Morse, Baton Rouge teacher, Harold Rhodes, Superintendent of schools of Kellerville, Texas, Billy Duncan, Librarian at University of Georgia, Sammy Griffin, music director of Belcher, Ted Butler, Willamette College, Oregon, and Charles Edwards of the faculty at Tech. Many of the alumni have gone into other professions where the names of Vivian graduates may be read in the annals of law, medicine, business, military science, religion and in the world of entertainment. Legal channels claim Judge James U. Galloway, Edwin Bailey and Charlie Barnett, all of Shreveport. Jimmie Means belongs to the legal staff of an oil company. The field af medicine and dentistry show the names of Dr. Cleve Pardue, Jr. and Dr. Charles Caldwell, respectively. A medical technician, Mary Lou Smith, holds a responsible position in a Texas hospital. Many V.H.S. grads have entered the business world. Milam McDonald and Blondie Bennett are prominent tax consultants. Homer J. Lee is an auditor for an oil company. Horace Kendrick is a successful drilling contractor. The oil business has also attracted Joe Williams, geophysicist, Milburn Moncrief and Sam Moritroy, are petroleum consultants, Claude Teel, land and lease manager for a Texas firm, and James Mackey, with the Union Sulphur Oil Corporation, is petroleum engineer in charge of the Texas district. Among the U.S. Board of Engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, is John Caldwell. The field of pharmacy includes Carl Cox. Frank Buckley and James Files have entered iournalism. ln government and military science circles appear several V.H.S. alumni. Lorimer Mackey is an electronic scientist with the U.S. government. Joe Turner, a captain in the Air Corp, is a iet plane instructor. Captain Dick Flowers is with the Air Corps in Germany, and Lt. l. W. Porterfield is stationed in Washington, army headquarters. The ministerial roster includes Ray Branton, Don Brown, James Brasher and, H. E. Darnell, my-.,,,-Q

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Msfary af Scizaal PUBLICATIONS THE WARRIOR and THE PAPOOSE have long been a source of pride and joy to the students and the alumni who helped in their infancy. Of the two, THE WARRIOR is the older, having been begun in 1927. At that time it was more a program given out at the presentation of the Senior play each spring. With the growth of the student body and the addition of more curricula activities, the annual has grown. Don Mike Stothart planned the first resemblance to a real yearbook in 1941. A year later Joe Turner became Editor, and the Feature section was added for the first time. Until 1948 the school continued to have the book printed and given out at the Senior play, but plans were made to have the book Iithographed and sell the copies. Mary Alice Bourne, the 1948 Editor, put into effect this idea. THE PAPOOSE was first started in 1936, under the editorship of Dot Tyson. The first two editions were mimeographed, but the staff soon graduated to the printed edition. Winnie Hartsell served as Editor for one year, and James Files edited the 1939-AO paper. THE PAPOOSE in its present form, is a tribute to the work and the inspiration of the many editors from the beginning to the present time. BAND Prior to 1937 the band was directed by a private tutor. In 1937 Mr. Richard McCluggage came to Vivian as a full-time music instructor for the Vivian schools. Many honors have been be- stowed on this organization in the last fifteen years. They have been invited to the Cotton Carnival in Memphis, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the Christmas Pageant in Natchitoches. In 1941 this organization participated in the National Band Festival in Jackson. In September, 1950, they were invited to represent Louisiana at the Mid-Century Music Festival sponsored by the Texas Music Association in Dallas. O I