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FHS Newsletter

30 January 1953

The Staff

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GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP —

ALL CHEERS

NO JEERS

Home Economics Department

Seventh period appetite arousing aromas will be floating out from the H.E. lab every few days for the next six weeks. Each third year girl will give two food demonstrations to the rest of the class. Study hall, FHA members, faculty and the general public are invited to observe. At the end of the six weeks demonstration period the girls will put all their accumulated knowledge into a dinner to which they will invite guests. If you are interested in an invitation to a delicious meal and the very pleasing company, the girls to court for the next six weeks are Mary Lou Bailey, Wanda Gann, Marilyn Moore, Peggy Martin, Peggy Reames, Mary Carey, and Faye Murray.

Mrs. Rorie

(We are very interested in a good meal, Mrs. Rorie, but isn’t there something else we girls can do to get invited??)

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Let’s not forget the football banquet which will be held Thursday nigh, February 5, at the First Methodist Church at 7:30 P.M. Good food, good company, good entertainment, good speaker – what more do you want for $1.50?

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E D I T O R I A L

Mr. Sonntag made some pretty pertinent remarks last week about studying. Doesn’t it seem a short time ’til school is out? Only eighteen weeks left, then Commencement, Baccalaureate, senior trip, and along with all these nice things, there’ll be final exams and final grades.

Will those final grades be better than our mid-term ones? They CAN be, you know, but it depends on what we’re doing in class (listening or talking) and how hard we’re studying right now. It’s easy to say that we can study next week and make up that little test we flunked last week, bu can you??

If you keep up with your classes and put out a little work now, you’ll reap lots of dividends later – say in about six weeks?

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March 1 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – March 8

PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK IN TEXAS

The week of March 1 to March 8 has been designated by Governor Shivers as Public Schools Week in Texas. Every public school in the state will be active in the observance of this week. We, in Forney, are also planning to make this a special week in our school year. We want you to give this message to your parents and to urge them to take an interest in and participate in the observance of this week. We particularly would like for all of you to visit the schools sometime during that week. Visit the room and talk with the teacher who has your child in care. On Thursday night, March 5, we plan to have a special public schools week program in the auditorium of the elementary school starting at 7:30 P.M. A very interesting program is being planned and we have an out-of-town speaker who will bring a very interesting message to you. Please spread the word among all of the parents of this community. We want them to become better acquainted with the work of the Forney Public Schools.

— L.H. Stollenwerck
Superintendent

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Say, Jackrabbits, you’d better get you some high-life to put on those Cedar Hill Dogies during the tournament. The Bunnies took care of the girls – what happened to you?
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FORNEY*INVITATIONAL-BASKETBALL-TOURNAMENT*FORNEY

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

January 29, 30, 31

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SPORTS

All students who like to participate in sports:

You like to wear the uniform.
You like its colors.
You like to hear your school song.
You like to hear the cheers of the crowd.
You like to go to the drug store or your favorite cafe and replay the game.
You like to meet your old classmates and talk about the past and the present.
So when you get on the filed or the courts, remember Tommy, John, Mary, Ann, Betty–
It’s your mental attitude: play clean, be in condition, go to bed properly, don’t be an individualist, play for team work.
Bear in mind that if you are good, people will know it without your telling them or acting it.

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FOOTBALL BANQUET

The football banquet will be held Thursday night, February 5, at 7:30 at the First Methodist Church. The banquet will be informal and start on time.

The banquet is to honor the football team. Mr. Matty Bell, athletic director and former coach at S.M.U. will be present to speak. A good half-time program has also been planned.

If you plan to come to the banquet and you have not made reservations, please do so by Wednesday noon.

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Fellow Students:

In Forney High School we have an abundance of pupils who are blessed with the ability to make love. It seems as though they choose the hall so everyone can get a bird’s eye view.

Now, I don’t propose that the two sexes break off friendly relations; but personally I get a little bit sick at the very sight of such. From the looks of things, there are going to be a few premature marriages this coming spring. Maybe it’s true love; but nine times out of ten, it’s a simple little case of puppy love climaxed by a sobbing break-up.

When a girl does all this public petting she becomes thought of as cheap. Everyone wonders about her. It doesn’t matter if she is a minister’s daughter or a drunk’s daughter – the ideas are the same.

So I, therefore, recommend that you try to restrain your emotions a little in the hall anyway.

A STUDENT

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There are a number of boys today reaching the age of eighteen. Some of these boys wish to go to college and continue their education, but the real reason is to continue their athletics. But to continue their athletics, they must meet certain standards scholastically.

I. Keep grade average 85 or above.
II. Be in upper 50% of class.
III. Be in regular attendance in school.
IV. Pass all of work – not 75% of it.

The army, navy, marines, and air force are looking for well-educated boys, so to you athletes – if you really want to go to college, and you want to stay out of the army, it is now time that you begin studying and raising your scholastic standing. The grades that you make in high school and college will be part of the answer to your future.

Not a day passes that some business firm does not call or write Forney High School about some boy or girl who went to school here at one time. Your record answers this question when they ask us.

Mr. Sonntag

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HONOR ROLL

Bettye Allen, JoAnn Allen, Alice Ash, David Bannister, Elizabeth Brummett, Barbara Dickey, Wanda Gann, Gerald Helm, Perry Pinson, Sarah Pinson, Truman Powell, Nancy Riter, Dolores Shipley, Sam Tanner, Alta Vineyard

SCHOLARSHIP ROLL

Jack Banister, Sally Bush, Sarah Bush, John Chism, Dorothy Davis, Jo Ann Dennehy, Lenis Douglass, Fern Hendley, Sue Johnston, Josephine Medina, Virginia Rhodes, Brooksy Roland, Joyce Singleton, Myra Shipley, Edna Earl Smith, Cullom Tillery, Bettye Williams, Jackie Pippins, Billy Roy Kinard

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To the girls:

Just yesterday I was talking with some of the high school boys, and these were the exact words one of them said: “Miss Barley, I’d like to go with one of these girls up here, but the minute you start paying attention to them, they start draping themselves around your neck, and I don’t like that old stuff.” Think it over.

These words may be a little strong, but they show the attitude of some on the matter.

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STUDY HALLS

To begin with, Study Hall was very inaptly named in the first place. They could have called it “The Chatterbox” or the “Holiday Hall” and hit the nail precisely on the head, so to speak. But no, they had to pretend that people really studied and so — the inappropriate name.

Modern study halls are dark dens of idle chatter. Gossip flits gaily from tongue to tongue and vast quantities of notebook paper are consumed in writing notes.

Here, the funniest jokes are told, the latest break-up of “steadies” is dramatically re-enacted, complete with heart-rending sobs, to a packed house. And here, fellow students, teachers are slowly driven mad.

That’s the reason there’s a different study hall teacher each period. Show me a teacher who could stay in study hall all day, five days a week, and I’ll show you a person with nerves of steel, the patience of Job, and also one who is deaf, dumb and blind.

If you are a timid soul, study hall is not for you. Better for you to take an extra algebra course than expose yourself to the greater of the two evils – study halls.

It is only for those who like to live dangerously, who don’t mind being almost pushed out the window, who can stand being grilled hour upon hour about who put the false teeth in the soup at lunch. You must be able to face this questioning with a cool smile of contempt, and your eyes half-closed in boredom. If things get a little dull, someone can always set fire to the magazines, watch them burn, then snuff out the blaze with a few new library books.

Yes, some people like football, or basketball. Some may like agriculture or homemaking better than any other subject. But me? I can’t wait each day for Study Hall to come around. It’s the mystery of it that intrigues me. Who knows if I may come out alive?

Phyllis Anderson
Seagoville High School
Reprinted from the Dragon’s Tale

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INAUGURATION DAY

The Free Soil Party’s president-elect will be inaugurated on April 1, 1953. President-elect Dwight D. Donohue will have one of the most elaborate ceremonies ever witnessed by the American public. The rites will be broadcast by all leading radio and TV stations throughout the United States.

President Donohue will be sworn in by the Honorable Grub Tune. The text of his speech will be “Better Basketball for Girls.” The big event of the day will be the inaugural parade which will be led by the Forney High School Band. Leading the impressive band will be drum major Red Wallace. The main floats in the parade will be the Regional V Champs in football and the best girls’ basketball team in Texas. (Forney, of course!) On some of the minor floats will be riding Miss America, Bernice Brooks; Maid of Cotton, JoAnn Marshburn, and many other beauties of the country.

In the early evening there will be a Cocktail Party honoring all of the members of the President’s family. His family consists of only two members, Donohue and his car, “Leaping Lizzie.”

The gala occasion of the day will be the Inaugural Ball which will be held in the new home of the new president on Pennsylvania Ave. The ball is to be formal and all the dignitaries will be dressed in their Sunday best. Some of the notables expected to be there are the following: Hon. Frank Sonntag–Ambassador to Mesquite: Hon. L.H. Stollenwerck–Ambassador to Crandall; Hon. Jess Pinson–Ambassador to Seagoville; and Hon. George P. Brown–Secretary of Agriculture. The music will be provided by the Ken Mueller Dance Band, and the flora decorations will be the compliments of the Terrell Floral Company, who did a very beautiful job on the FHS Coronation decorations.

This great day in American history will end with the ball, which will be over about 4:00 a.m. Of course, the president will be too exhausted after such a tiring day to take office, so immediately following the ball he will leave for a two-week cruise on his private yacht. His famous piano and Doris Day will accompany him.

I think you will have to agree that this is one of the most unusual inaugurations any of our past presidents have ever had!

Peggy McCallum
Marilyn Davis

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Be courteous to:

Lancaster, Mesquite, Cedar Hill, Rockwall, Crandall, Kemp, Duncanvile

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AROUND SCHOOL
By the Roving Reporter

DONALD RAY and HELEN flirting at the door of the typing room……
JOSEPHINE MEDINA keeping what she knows to herself….
MR. and MRS. STOLLENWERCK driving their daughter’s car….
GUS CANDLER arriving in Forney….
Report cards causing severe cases of acute indigestion…
PEGGY MARTIN playing hookey….
Commercial arithmetic class having a contest……
JERRY DON back in Forney….
JAMES BUEL checking out of school to move to Caddo Mills….
Cedar Hill DOGIES chasing the Jackrabbits. JACKIE PIPPINS playing a good game….
YVONNE LEE keeping an eye on Truman Powell….
JOHN cleaning up after a messy bunch…..
MR. BROWN celebrating his birthday quietly….
MISS DAVENPORT getting ready for a week-end in Louisiana….
MR. PINSON minding his own business (It’s a shame we don’t have more like him!)…..
JOE HENDERSON taking a make-up test……
SKEET STEWART just being SKEET. (Isn’t that enough.)….
MR. SONNTAG cruising around trying to stir up some excitement…..
FERN HENDLEY looking rather sad……
BROOKSY ROLAND and BETTY NICHOLS, together of course, at the game…..
Everyone bidding for dates to the football banquet…..
Cedar Hill girls trying to find out SARAH PINSON’s name. (Seems that Sarah made quite a hit with them.)…..
Paper staff planning a little jaunt up to Dallas…..
Mrs. RORIE and MISS BARKLEY discussing the “good old days” at North Texas State…..
MARY CAREY wearing that pretty white dress again…..
Blue birds flying all around…….
Forney girls wanting to know EDDIE PATTON’s name. (Cedar Hill #7)…..
GLEN GRIFFIN vowing that he is through with girls…..
SUE HOLLOWAY – enough said….
PERRY PINSON apple polishing MRS. STOLLENWERCK….
MISS BARKLEY throwing a temper tantrum on her sixth period typing I class because of their grades…….
FERN asking different ones for a ride to the P.O. every morning….
LENIS DOUGLAS calling home to see if there is any mail…..
Freshman girls winning Consolation at Irving….
Jane Tanner driving their new Ford. (Herding it, would be more like it.)…
ROBERT FREEMAN and TED GLEGHORN breaking their necks to be the first to get to town at lunch…..
PATSY OWEN and VIRGINIA RHODES acting as if they had something up their sleeve…..
MR. MUELLER reading a magazine in first period study hall…….
SAM TANNER drawing BERNICE BROOKS….
DORIS WARREN and YSAVEL MEDINA studying during study hall….
MRS. ASLIN and MRS. YANDELL discussing plans for football banquet….
CARMELEOTIA BLAYLOCK arguing with COACH SONNTAG….
EDNA EARL SMITH and BILLY ROY KINARD arguing……
BERNICE BROOKS and CHARLES OSBORNE standing at BERNICE’s locker….
DAVID YANDELL following the FFA Sweetheart around…..
JoAnn Marshburn following the FHA Hero around…..
Etheline George walking down the street at 7:15 a.m…….

Enough dirty work for one week

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GOSSIP

Who was Sue Johnston writing to in Study Hall? Could it have been Steve Pritchett??

Girls that have dates for the football banquet:……………………….. nobody much.

Where did Miss Barkley go Monday night….. We hear she had a date… (Date? What’s that?)

Where is Jackie Pippins going Friday night if we don’t play basketball? Could it be to Scotty Dare’s graduation?

Jack Cook was in the show Saturday night with Cullom Tillery… Where was Mary Bess, Jack?

Carmeleotia and Mary Lou surely do talk to each other a lot… What do you find so interesting, girls?

What were Marilyn Moore and Skip Humphries discussing very friendly in the hall Monday?? Is your old romance budding again, kids?

Pat Evans and Jo Ann Allen were laughing hysterically in study hall the other day….. What was so funny???? Was it the way Jo Ann messed up Pat’s hair???????????????

Say Marilyn Davis, who is the “handsome” basketball player from A&M college you keep dreaming about??? Tell us more about him……

Why was Rosemary so mad at a certain Sulphur Springs boy? Maybe she has found a Forney boy….. What about this Rosie???????

Who was James Stewart seen talking to Sat. night??? Do you know anything about this Sarah Provence????????

Hey, Sonny it looks like you’ve lost your touch with that girl from Tripp. I hear she is going with a boy from Sulphur Springs who now lives in Dallas but don’t give up Sonny keep trying……

It seems as though Joanne Marshburn and David Yandell are making it just fine…..This must be true love…. Keep it up kids…………..

Imogene looks as if your old flame has started to school here. Could his name be J—- D– S——????????????????

We wonder who has been flirting with William Lee in 7th period study hall?????????? Could it be Juanola Ragsdale?????????

Who was the certain Sophmore boy smiling at Joanne Dennehy the other day?

Is Gwendola glad that Jerry Don has moved back to Forney again??? We wonder!!!!!!!!!!

Say Gerald Helm, who asked you to the “Taffy Pull” at the Home Economics party????? Could it have been Robin Seyforth?????

Who was the “cutie” that Barbara Shook had a date with Saturday???? Let us in on the news Barbara!!!!!!!!!!

Does Peggy Lewis still have a crush on Teddy Gleghorn????? It could prove interesting……………

Who is Jimmy Shipley’s new heart-throb????? Come Jimmy let us in on the secret………………

Who was Su Johnston sporting around with in town Saturday???????????? Was it Bob Glassgow????????????????????

Al Adams, whats the meaning of this?????? You were flirting with Dorothy S. Tuesday in study hall………..

Jimmy Shipley, why are three Senior girls always kidding you about “zip”?????????????????????????????

BOO!

Jimmy Shipley and Dorothy Saydoh surely looked as if they were having lots of fun in 6th period study hall Monday……

Say, Wayne T., do you have a crush on Marilyn Moore???????

Hey, Jo Ann Allen, who was that cute boy you were fighting over a picture with in 6th period study hall Monday?????? Was it Pat Evans????? What is Peggy M. going to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss Davenport surely is talking a lot about marriage now a days!!!!! Wonder why?? Could it be that the school year is about over??????????????????

Gene Osborne where did you go Saturday night?????????? We saw you……….

What was Mr. Donahue doing in Forney Sunday?????? Was he looking for someone in particular????? We wonder…………………

Chaney from Mesquite sure is cute, don’t you think so, Jane???? We think so, too……………………….

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you get a look at Mrs. Rorie at the F.H.A. party Monday night?????????????

Charles O. and Gwendola B. sure look as if they have good times during second period study hall……….

Who did Jane Tanner want to go to Mesquite to get for the F.H.A. party Monday night?????????????????

Say, Faye, who were you sitting in the show with Sunday????? Won’t Lillian get mad???????????

Fern sure must like the climate in San Antonio, she goes down there every chance she gets…………………

Say, how did Nancy Riter get those foot prints on the back of her blouse????? Does Everett Ray know anything about this, could be…………..

What is so special about Oct. 20 and part of the 21????????????? Ask three Senior girls……..

Lenis Douglas sure looks lonesome now days!!!! Could it be because Pat Murray doesn’t get to come home on the week-ends anymore??????????????

Who was that cute freshman making eyes at B.J. Vineyard Tuesday during lunch????? Could she be Drusilla Pinson?????

Surprise!!!!! Surprise!!!!
Fritzie Vaughn was seen in the show Monday night with Bettye Allen……..

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CITY CAFE

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Wonder how Lee Roy Mitchell feels now that he has J.C’s car and can go to Tripp more often??? Pretty good, right Lee Roy?????????????????

Well it looks as though Billy Roy and Edna Earl have finally settled down to a full time job, for she surely admires that identification bracelet she’s wearing………..

Reckon’ Pat Evans had rather have American History after school rather than in school???? It seems as though he had rather shoot the talk in regular Amer. History class, right Miss Davenport??????????????????????

Did anyone notice who Coach Sonntag was riding around with last Saturday afternoon???? Coach, two can play that job – as if you didn’t know……

What boy were Mary Good, and Pattie Brooks from Crandall hunting Saturday? What about this Sonny Miller, did they find you????? It looks as though they did………….

What were Everett Aslin, and James Stewart doing in Crandall Sunday afternoon????? Come on, boys, don’t keep it a secret, for we know all about it………………….

Wonder why Teddy Gleghorn typed his carbon on the wrong side Monday??? Don’t you imagine the girls in there got on his mind pretty bad???????????

What was Peggy McCallum looking so happy for Tuesday morning?? Do you know anything about it Pat Evans??????????????????

Who was Lois Stovall seen in Forney with Sunday afternoon???? Could it have been Billy Good, Lois????? It looks as though it may be love.

Wonder who Coach Donahue will ask to the Football Banquet??? Tiny Duckworth, Miss Davenport or Peggy Lewis???? Hurry up Coach and make your decision for they are all hoping……….

Wonder who Lillian Hutto’s new boyfriend is??? Lillian let usin on the secret don’t keep it a backstreet affair forever!////////

Who was Truman Powell chauffeuring to school Tuesday morning?? Could it have been Yvonne Lee by any chance????

Why has Miss Barkley been mad the past few days??? Reckon it was because her second 1st year Typing class made such good grades?????? What about it Miss Barkley?????????????

Why was Bernice Brooks having such a fit for Tuesday morning????? Was it because she forgot to take the cleaning tag off her skirt and the staple in the tag stabbed her, but good???????????????????????

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JACK PIPPINS GROCERY & MKT.

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