Winter Haven High School - Wha Hwa Hta See Yearbook (Winter Haven, FL)

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Nov. 6 . . . Margaret Pottinger, Harry Dye, and Norman Boyle star in a play in chapel. Everyone is imitating Harry’s dawgone!” The Annual staff is introduced. Nov. 30 . . . We arc gently reminded to get to work on the Wa-Hwa-Hta-See. Alas! I have been putting off the hard labor! Dec. 2 . . . We are sorry to lose Miss May hew, and we wonder what the new teacher will be like. Ouch! Dec. 16 . . . O woeful day!” Exams begin and there are no exemptions. Ed Stoneburg and ’’Chuck” Mccsc arc sleepy as a result of midnight reviewing. Dec. 18 . . . Hurrah! We have two whole weeks of bliss before us! We miss Santa Claus in chapel. -1932- Jan. 5 . . . The new Freshmen arrive from Junior High. Were we as small as they when we were Freshmen? Jan. 8 . . . Football letters are given out in chapel. ''We’re proud of our Blue Devils.” The Senior play, Smilin’ Through is presented. Jan. 15 . . . We receive red, white, and blue buttons in chapel, for merit. The Seniors get their rings at last. Jan. 19 . . . We enjoy a fast-moving lecture on temperance in chapel. Jan. 22 . . . The tall man of the Orange Festival visits us in chapel. Strange, no one seems willing to take up his challenge to fight! Jan. 29 . . . Chief Red-Wing teaches us a war-dance and gives us a most entertaining program, sign-languages and all. Ya-hoo! W. H. Anderson entertains with the Indian, and how! Feb. 12 . . . Ace High is presented by the Dramatic Club. Feb. 23 . . . What a clever sign adorns Fiavcn High: Father Beeson's Kindergarten. Mar. 11... Those original Juniors entertain with stunt night, instead of the usual play. The Seniors are there—with bells on and win the prize. Apr. 22 . . . Soft music, beautiful gowns, sweet perfume, laughter, and sadness that our high school days arc nearly finished—these are our memories of the Junior-Senior banquet. May 1 ... It is Kid Day and the Seniors revert to type. May 22 ... At the baccalaureate sermon, the Seniors make an impressive assembly, but methinks their minds are wandering. May 23 . . . Caps, gowns and diplomas. Haven High, farewell!

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-1930- Jan. 6 ... I am mad as hops! I work my head nearly off on a booklet on Julius Caesar and find that it isn't due until tomorrow. Jan. 8 . . . Prof. Roberts presents football letters in chapel, and chapel takes up the whole Latin period. What luck! Jan. 21 ... I am indignant. At the Orange Festival gate the man asked me if I weren't a school teacher! Mar. I J . . . The ides of March arc come.” I feel restless. Apr. 1 . . . Half the school takes a vacation to celebrate Prof. Roberts’ birthday. Heck! I wish I’d gone too. Apr. 20 ... I forgot what happened. I haven’t written in my diary for ages. Sept. 2 . . . School is nothing but chapel. What an ideal day! We arc Upper Classmen. Think of it! Sept. 5 . . . Again Miss Sentcr is our class sponsor; Katherine Blood is president; vice-president is Barbara Green; and Roger Stephenson is secretary-treasurer. Sept. 24 . . . Kat” Blood and Don” Gray draw mental pictures of poems on the blackboard. Art? Sept. 26 ... I go to the Freshman-Junior picnic and sec Prof. Roberts playing mumble peg. Oct. 3 . . . Tom Sawyer whitewashes the fence in chapel. Oct. 10 . . . The Juniors have individual pictures taken for the Annual. I hear girls say, That’s a good picture of you, but isn’t mine simply awful?” Oct. 23 . . . The Blue and Gold” is backed by the Juniors and sponsored by Miss Godwin. Nov. 17 . . . Kitty Ellis is crowned Football Queen at our Homecoming game. -1931- Jan. 14 ... 1 wring my hands and tear my hair over examinations. Jan. 19 . . . Everyone is talking about the home-room plan. I, for one, don't like it, but I suppose I’ll get used to it. Jan. 23 . . . The Junior class presents It Won’t Be Long Now. We’re proud of our actors and actresses. Fee. 14 . . . I’m so thrilled! I received a valentine from an unknown sender. Who could study, thinking of that? Fib. 18 . . . They were only playing Leap Frog, but they dug up the campus.” Mar. 4 . . . ’Lasses White tells us tricks of the trade in chapel. Mar. 8 . . . Our basket-ball girls win the Polk County Championship. Hurrah! Mar. 19 . . . Our class sponsors a benefit bridge party. How many tickets have you sold?’’ Apr. 29 . . . The Junior-Senior banquet, carrying out the Colonial idea, is a big success. Aug. 31 . . . Whoever heard of school starting in August? Now that I am a Senior at last, I don’t feel the least bit like one. Si pt. 9 . . . We must march.” Oct. 5 . . . Miss Walker and Miss Boltin are chosen as our class sponsors; Don” Gray is class president: Betty Runkle, secretary; and Kilty” Ellis, treasurer. Oct. 6 . . . Miss Boltin mistakes Primo Camera for a cigar! Oct. 8 . . . The Annual staff is elected. Oct. 9 . . . The Seniors give a chapel program, which is the best yet! Oct. 13 ... As the school clubs are organized today, I choose to hike. Oct. 19 . . . The whole school hears Hoover’s speech at the Yorktown Sesqui-Centennial over the radio. Several of the English sharp-shooters spot errors in the introductory speech. Page 23

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POT POURRI Name Hobby Noted For Future Occupation W'hat he or she needs Alligator Al Oliver Allen Snakes, alligators, bugs Camping ability Taxidermist A canoe for courting Cat” y. Catherine Bill Talking Her Georgia brogue Interior decorator - - A soda-jerker Kick” Katherine Blood Writing letters Straight A’s” Chemical research (?) That cornhusker Billy” W. H. Anderson, Jr. Cartooning the Faculty Squeezing pennies Physician or surgeon An appetite ”Fmt Wayne Bailf.y Desperate bluffing Flunking Racketeering To study Emma Letoise Coburn Typing Sense ————-—— “—— Postal clerk Hair pins Aboo Evelyn Coleman Making cute clothes Her boy friend Beauty culturist To grow up Nails” Nels Benson Orange groves Chemistry brightness” Citrus culturist A bottle of hair glue Charles Bentley Stringing ukes That blue silk shirt Mechanic A new undershirt r7o” Joyce Dixon Making candy That laugh Library work Freckle cream y Biscuit” S Owen BissETT Waving his hair That Palmetto eve Medicine Another permanent Use” Louise Duccer Driving a Chev’y” Her extreme lassitude Social secretary A steady Shelton” Norman Boyle Being in plays His passion for all womankind Medicine A high-life rubdown V Peter” Robert Cooper C-hauff curing Johnny Lcps Flivver Politician Some new cracks for Ford Rozella Emry Anything in the way of making noise ' That quiet look Nurse A megaphone Page 25