White Oak High School - Roughneck Yearbook (White Oak, TX)

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LOUISE McWHIRTER and MARY STEWART, Juniors, were twirlere in the band. GLORIA HOLLEYMAN was the one Pep Leader from the Junior Class. Again this class put their candidate for Football Sweetheart on to victory. MARY STEWART was presented as the victorious candidate. DOROTHY MARIE SMITH served as Editor of the WGAUGERW. Other class activities included the Junior Play, NMiss Snartyn, with the cast ae: MARY LOUISE MASON, COY McGEE, MARGARET GIBBONS, BOB OVERLY, AMY DAVIS, BILLY PHILLIPS, NORMA SHOUPE, GENE KERN, LOUISE McWHIRTER, DONALD OSBURN, and LaDOT WHITE. GLORIA HOLLEYMAN and BILLY PHILLIPS were elected Clase Favorites. The Junior Class nonored the Seniors with the annual Junior-Senior Banquet. The these of this banquet was Southern Garden. BILLY PHILLIPS, Junior Class President, was the tosstsaster. Plans and decorations were carefully and efficiently guided by MRS. MAURINE TAYLOR and MR. WINLON KNOWLES, class sponsors of the Junior Class. ' The Senior Class of '44 has 37 members, which is only about half of the number which entered High School as Freshmen in '4O. Eleven boys from this Senior Clase earned the school letter in football as Regional Champs. Eight of these were elected G3 Honorary Captains. Several of the boys also lettered in basketball. Five of the six Pep Leaders were elected from the Senior Class. GLORIA HOLLEYMAN was elected for her second year. Others from the Senior Class were: EARLINE YOUNG, LaDOT WHITE, MARY LOUISE MASON, and LOUISE McWHIRTER. LOUISE McWHIRTER was also sajorette in the band for her second year. MAVANEE CUMEIE was elected as the other majorette for the band. LaDOT was selected to be the Editor of the GAUGER.

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-1-, .J Another victory for the class was the One-Act Play, WThe Pot Boilern. Two Freshmen, MARGARET GIBBONS and GLORIA HOLLEYMAN, were cast. The White Oak play placed first at District and second at Regional meet. MARGARET GIBBONS was voted as the outstanding actress of this district. When the Beauty and Beast Oontest was started, BOB OVERLY was nominated for Beast, he won the first Beast Contest of White Oak. EARLINE YOUNG went to State Contest for the Homemaking Club when she won the White'0ak Dressmaking Contest. NORMA SHOUPE, Parlimentarian for the White Oak Homemaking Club, was elected Parlimentarian for this Region of the Club. GENE KERN gained recognition for being dn the honor roll all year with an outstanding average. Sponsors for the Freshmen Class of '40-'41 were MRS. MAURINE TAYLOR and HR. R. H. DOBBS. In 1941-42-the Sophomore Class was still a large and loyal class. The English classes compiled a book. UWho's Who at White Oahu, and presented it to the school library. JURL HICKEY, COY McGEE, and CHARLES VANMETER lettered in football and reserve sweaters were given to some of the other boys. The girls of the Sophomore Class, as is the custom, served at the Junior-Senior Banquet. Sponsors for this Sophomore Class were MRS. MAURINE TAYLOR and HR. C. C. SIMMONS. When the Fall of 1942 came, the former Sophs had risen to take their place as the Junior Class. There were eight lettering ROUGHNECKS in this class.

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'5 1' 1 V fJF Vi ',.'i'Wf'4f 'I :3'7T,,?'.: Seniors, BETTY J. STURGIS and ROY MILLER, won the Beauty and Beast Contest of 1944. A The Senior Class Favorites of '44 were BOB OVERLY and LOUISE McWHIRTER. ' When the Hall of Fame was chosen, the Best All-Around were COY McGEE and GLORIA HOLLEYMAN3 Most Popular were MARGARET GIBBONS and BOB OVERLY3 Most Attractive were PATTY BOYLE and EARLINE YOUNG, Scholastic were GENE KERN and BETTY JO MORRISON, Most Athletic were JURL HICKEY and NORMA JEAN PURSLEY5 Most Dependable were ROY MILLER and MARY LOUISE MASON3 Courteous were WILLARD SPRINGER and BETTY JO STURGIS. One of the main events on the Senior Class calendar is the tradit- ional WKid Dayn which is usually celebrated on April 1. The Class of '44 celebrated their day on March 31 and came to school dressed as slall children and acted the same. The ggggmbly program in the morning was devoted to the HKid Dayn antics and after the noon bell rang, the class went on a pcinic and spent the rest of the day enjoying their freedom with a show party and a class party that night to end up the fun. MISS EDITH ADKINS and MR. R. H. DOBBS were the Class Sponsors for the Senior Class until MR. DOBBS went to the Navy, then MISS GWENDOLYN HEMBREE became a class sponsor. Officers of the Freshmen Class of '40-'41 were: President, COY McGEE3 Vice-President, JOLINE STEWART, Secretary, GENE KERN. Heading the Sophomore Class in 1941-42 were GENE KERN as Presidentg FLOYD TAYLOR as Vice-President, and GLORIA HOLLEYMAN as Secretaryg MARY STEWART was Treasurer. Officers of the Junior Class of '42-'43 were: President, BILLY PHILLIPS, MARGARET GIBBONS, Vice-Presidentg LaDOT WHITE, Secretaryg and GLORIA HOLLEYMAN was Treasurer. ! -I ? 4 ,. 9 I