Homecoming 1984 – Quiz
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15 September 1984

Can you pass this Forney school quiz? Answers below.

1. On a cloudy October night in 1921, the Senior Class observed one of its
many social events of the year. Can you name this one?

2. Where did the sophomore class of 1922 have its sunrise breakfast?

3. The F.H.S. football banquet was held on December 19. 1921 at what cafe?

4. In 1897 who had the distinction of being the only boy on the football
team who had ever before witnessed a football game?

5. Who was the opponent in the first Jackrabbit football game?

6. In what year was the first Jackrabbit football team organized?

7. Who organized the first jackrabbit football team?

8. After the Commerce-Forney football game on November 11, 1921, who
treated both teams to an after-the-game “feed”?

9. Who was coach of the Jackrabbit football team in the early ’20’s?

10. Who was superintendent of schools in 1922?

11. Who was superintendent of Forney schools from 1952 to 1956?

12. Who was everyone’s favorite history teacher at F.H.S. in the mid-50’s?

13. Who served as editor of the 1956 yearbook staff?

14. What was the name of the class of 1956’s Junior play?

15. What was the destination of most Senior trips in the 50’s and 60’s?

16. Who is the 1936 grad who later became a drama critic in New York City?

17. What class of ’22 grad later lettered in football in his sophomore year
at Texas A & M?

18. What two prominent Forney bankers were stars of the American Legion
Men’s Baseball Team in the early 50’s?

19. What was the name of the “big event” at Forney High in the 50’s when
the favorite boy and favorite girl was announced?

20. What 1921 grad served for 45 years on the faculty of the T.W.U. Art
Department.

21. What 1960 grad is now Dean of Journalism at the University of South
Carolina?

22. Name 2 out of 3 ladies who taught private piano lessons for many years
in the basement of the old elementary school.

23. Who was the high school principal in 1950?

24. Where was the favorite parking place for Forney’s teenagers in the
’50’s?

25. In 1960, Patrolman Frazier’s greatest obsession became catching him
speeding in his red ’59 Chevy Convertible.

26. Presently a prominent local farmer, he was an Honorable Mention
All-American football player in 1962.

27. As members of the class of ’59, they formed their own company,
“Escorts, Inc.” and advertised rates as follows:
Dining – $5.00 day or night
Dancing – $7.50 day or night
Movies – $3.75 by day; $5.99 per night

28. What F.H.S. faculty member was famous for singing the “Aggie War Hymn”
on the band bus while everyone was singing the Rabbit Fight Song?

29. What was the really “hot” gathering place in Forney in the 50’s? This
well-known eating place burned in the mid 50’s.

30. What was the name of the F.H.S. drill team in the 50’s?

31. What did the F.H.S. band wear in the mid-50’s when the weather was bad?

32. What was the name of the big parade in Terrell each fall that Forney
High School Band always marched in during the mid 50’s?

33. Who was superintendent of Forney Schools when two high school students
turned loose a skunk in the superintendent’s office.

34. Where did the F.H.S. band meet for classes for one year in the early
1950’s?

(Note: 35 & 36 missing)

37. What popular eating place was located where the present Forney Super
Market is?

38. Who was janitor at Forney High School for many years?

39. Which present Forney educator had a private kindergarten in her home in
the mid 60’s?

40. What was the name of the steep incline north of town where youngsters
went to ride bicycles in the 50’s?

41. Where did all the young boys go to swim in the 50’s?

42. Where did the ’49 Jackrabbit football team eat after its 20 to 14 win
over Duncanville?

43. The 1958 band director shared his sir name with what brand of English
pea?

44. What Forney Jackrabbit went on to play Professional football for the
New Orleans Saints?

45. What group of people collaborated to write the school song? In what
year was it written?

46. In 1934, the F.H.S. home economics class, under the sponsorship of Mrs.
Mary Alice Pinson, won first place in the State home Economics Contest.
Their prize was a “first” for the home economics department. What was it?

47. What 1932 F.H.S. graduate was later recognized by East Texas State
University and The University of Texas at Austin as “Distinguished Alumnus”?

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Answers:

1. The Senior O’Possum Hunt.

2. The Tillery “mudhole”.

3. Douglass Bros. Cafe

4. Tom Pinson

5. Toon-Hewin College of Terrell

6. 1897

7. Edward S. Lovejoy

8. The Girls Red Cross

9. Pete Layden

10. J. Nelson Andrews

11. Mr. Logan Stollenwerck

12. Mr. G.T. Allen

13. Sarah Pinson

14. Minx from Missouri

15. New Orleans and Galveston

16. John Chapman

17. Clem Pinson

18. Mac McCuistion and Conway Senter

19. The Coronation

20. Coreen Spellman

21. Richard Cole

22. Mrs. Bauer, Mrs. Moore, and Mrs. Dickey

23. Clark O. Hitt

24. Lovers Lane

25. David Duckworth, Class of ’60

26. Martin Popp

27. John Boles and Leslie Stark

28. Betty Pippins Haynes

29. The Pink Elephant

30. The Bunnyettes

31. White coveralls

32. The Vetch Festival Parade

33. O. B. Johnson

34. Basement of the Presbyterian Church

35. H. W. Campbell’s

36. With a football helmet

37. Vertie Mae’s Cafe

38. John Thomas

39. Saleta Welch

40. Monkey Hill

41. The Scout Tank

42. The “Pig and Whistle” Restaurant in Dallas

43. Mr. Alex Lesuer

44. Don Morrison

45. John Milner and the stage band – 1966

46. The first electric sewing machine

47. Pendleton Thomas