West Memphis High School - Cotton Boll Yearbook (West Memphis, AR)

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Our Principal HERMAN J. WEST 8 To the students and faculty of West Memphis High School: With the completion of the 1957 Cotton Boll, there comes to mind fond recollections of the yearls experiences of working, learning, and playing together. I congratulate the Cotton Boll Staff and the sponsor on the exceptional manner in which the classes and activities of West Memphis High School are pictorially and editorially presented. I commend each faculty member for striving to make West Memphis High School the training ground for citizenship, discipline and incentive of the highest order, and the student body for their co-operativeness, and their good sportsmanship. The class of 1957 has worked hard to achieve the goals and accomplish- ments they have attained. We sincerely appreciate their initiative to lead our Student Council and other activities. We bid them farewell and wish for each, success and happiness throughout their business, social, and religious lives. ,game-

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Our Superintendent O. M. SCHULTZ. JR. To the students of West Memphis High School: Being Superintendent of Schools in the fast growing community of West Memphis is a challenging honor. We have grown not only in numhers'during the school year of 1956-57 hut in academic achievement, sportsmanship, and a keen understanding of one another. To you, the students of West Memphis High School, l wish to convey my sincere faith in your development as good citizens of our fine community. Sincerely yours, f

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'COUR STORY,' The long summer vacation was over and the students of West Memphis High School climbed out of the swimming pools, put aside our baseball uniforms, exchanged shorts for dresses and came back to school. We wouldn't admit it, of course, but most of us were glad to come back to the quietly thrilling routine broken by the fairly frequent 'glied Letter Days. We were once again surrounded by our friends, caught up in a whirl of activities, enrolled in new and interesting courses, resolved to make this year the best ever. The Seniors enrolled first, each with the realization that his big- gest year was opening in promise of added responsibility, greater challenges to leadership, rounding out of our educational experiences. Martha Anne Bagwell, Bill Weaver, Syhle Foley and Albert Sharp become Seniors. The .luniors found new opportunities, new privileges, apprenticeship in serv- ice. The Sophomores came back to school with new assurance, they had walked the trail before. The Freshmen looked forward to the Glorious Adven- ture-at last they were in high school. Mrs. Smart and Coach Paschal enroll Sophomores Missy Shipman and Donnie Dunston.