Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, April 20, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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Editorially Speaking—
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Not Dead After All
The International Quill and Scroll Honorary Journalism Society.
Monday, April 20, 1942
Volume 5
Number 28
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Julia Morgan—Mary Langford
Still wanta be housewives? •
Band Week Plans
For 1942 Cancelled
Rayford Bolin
Well, Rayford. You look hap-
py enough!
others we merely looked in our
example—
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Announcements were made to
the Seniors Monday morning of
the activities in which they will
participate during the remainder
of the year.
Mrs. Dulce Brooks, who will
______v______
There are 2,109 panes of glass
used in windows and doors in the
Senior High main building.
Margaret Atkins and Opal Cecil
plan Co answer Uncle Sam’s ur-
gent call for 10.000 nurses. (They
will go as stretcher-bearers).
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aid “he’ll probably
ay.”
Side Glances
By Mary Lanrford
Tigerette
InterarholMtie I.f.suf P«»« Conference. Tnn Univereity. T-.». High School Pre.. As.orl.tion. Ten. State Tocher. College for Women
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er poet, has all kinds of con-
tempt for the Japs since he thinks
thev are yellow! To quote him:
“In a second the knife on my
gun was in his liver,
But all he did was grunt and
by now, though, with
supply of manpower,
Jones promises some games next
year tha* vdL create wide inter-
est.
After the circle is formed, the
King will ascend the throne, fol-
lowed by the crown bearer and
the Lady in Waiting. The Queen
------- -— — —, ——— ----- - then approaches, and is erovrned
Haggard enacted a playet, “Tit i as 5he reaches the throne. After
the participants sing the school
song, accompanied by the band,
the trumpeter announces the ar-
rival of the Ivy Poet and the Ivy
Bearers. The Ivy Poem is read
and the Bearers leave to plant
the Ivy. After this ceremony is
finished, folk dances will be giv-
disperse.
Seniors Have Full Day
After the Festival program, the
Senior schedule for the day con-
sists of a picnic and party in
the park from noon until three,
a theatre party in the afternoon
and a barbecue or banquet that
night.
proach of the King. Queen and
the speakers and dancers.
Will Present Huge
Program On May 5 Festjva| |_|ere Pjrst
All o Vn zszxl c rtf 1VT t PI nd <2 a -* i
born-—not made
fliver.” Unquote.
Dot (Step-em-Off) Wilson is
winning fame for her “Confes-
sions of a Girl in Love." (Off the
subject, maybe, but they do say
experence is the best teacher).
The poem at the first of this
article, by Jack Oliver, is sworn
to be original but for some rea-
J. A. Butler, evidently anoth- |son it sounds familar. Must be
Shakespeare or a reasonable fac-
imile. ' *i ’•»
Well, so much for the poetry.
Maybe by next time there will
be a star—or a flashlight. After
all, one never knows.
a good
Coach
I
It may seem old-fashioned to
some, but about twenty local
gals still want to be stenogs—
including Mozelle Adams, Valer-
ia Crooks, Louise Culver, Helen
Hobbs, Gertrude Randall and
Evelyn Andrews.
.a Golindrina.
Bruce Denny then made a short
speech on the meaning and sig-
nificance of Pan-American Day.
The members of the Spanish
Club sang “Quierme Mucho” and
“The Gay Ranchero.”
Margaret Ann Reed. Mary Jo
Embrey, Glenn Ccok, and Mickey then approaches, and is crowned
Schools Will Take Cpn;nrQ
Part In Music Week
ditty we
(“some-
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The selling of Tigerette sub-
scriptions to Senior High stu-
dents was started last month
as a public service feature.
The copies are sold at cost,
and the Tigerette makes ab-
lolutely no profit from them.
Jow that the sales have been
sufficiently publicized, the
staff does not intend to push
the matter further. If the stu-
dents want to subscribe, they
may do so at the same cost,
twelve cents for four succes-
sive copies. Subscribers are
asked to come to the publi-
cations office (Room 14) to
get their copies each Tuesday
morning. They will not be de-
livered.
All who
nledges during the drive will
be expected to pay for their
papers.
ticities. I
| “Instead of dividing the pro- |
i gram up, and presenting a part !
of it each night, as we have done
before,” said Mrs. 1
“we have <_______ r____ ____
together, and therefore to create Pau' Porter, Charles
more interest and to promote,
through music, a closer relation- .son;
ship between every person in Mt. .
Pleasant.” !^r’
Although the program is not j Black, Mary
yet complete, it is known that
the Tiger Band will present a
concert at the opening of the
event, and then will follow, in
an order to be determined later,
inumbers by the Boy Scou’s. the
or Tat.” Then followed a dis-
lay of the twenty-one flags of
the Pan-American Union.
The program ended with the
entire student body singing “Am-
erica the Beautiful.”
On Wednesday the same pro-
gram was presented to the Ki-
wanis Club and on Tuesday of en by the guests of honor, stu-
this week the Club will produce dents of Junior High. The Sen-
the show for the Rotary Club.
__v_______
Mrs. Viola Brannon, typing in-
structor, awarded first, second,
and third place pins in each of
the two shorthand classes Tues-
day.
4^
neth Jackson, Jerry Harkrider,
Billy Joe Phillips, Eli Roach,
Jack Rogers, L. D. Ward, Thom-
as White, and Joe Vaught will
be given awards for their parts
in adding another successful
year's history to Mt. Pleasant
High’s basketball record. The
awards, the exact nature of which
will not be made known until
the presentation, will be given
to the boys as soon as they ar-
rive or during the following as-
sembly.
Coach Jcnes said that although
attendance at the games this year
was poor, he is pleased with the
way in which the team played
and is proud of all the boys who
practiced all during the season.
About fifteen were out for bas-
ketball this year.
As to prospects for next year,
the Coach expressed even more
satisfaction. Six of the boys who
lettered this year are eligible to
lay again next season, and if
all or most of them return, the
1943 basketball chances for the
Tigers should be the best in their
entire history. Mt. Pleasant has
shown little interest in basket-
ball so far mostly because the
game is new here, since the first
gymnasium was built in the city
only a few years ago.
With the gym well broken in condition, the program has been
called off, said Mr. McKay.
The band will, however, give
a short concert at the commun-
ity program Tuesday. May 5, in
observation of Music Week. Also,
all or part of the band will fur-
nish music for the Senior Festi-
val on May first, and for the
Commencement exercises.
Maurine Camp wants to be any-
thing but a housewife. (Just
wait until some handsome man
crosses her path—which isn't
likely in any case.)
Ten outstanding
players have been
Coach Lewis Jones
Billy Dean Wallace
So that’s what Billy Dean's
x-girl friend meant when she be in charge of the Senior Pag-
hang some eant to be given at the Com-
mencement exercises, urged all
Seniors to try out for parts in
,the pageant on Monday.
( On behalf of the Junior Class,
Mary Jane Lide invited all Sen-
ders to a junior-senior party to
be given in the gymnasium the
night of May 15.
Sponsor Miss Cornelia Varner
invited the class to a banquet
to be given by ladies of the Bap-
tist Church on May 8, and to a
party or barbecue on May first to
Geneva Jolley, 1952
So help, us Jolley—this
What the crystal ball said!
THE
here’s proof poets
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star."
What in the heck do you think
you are
—a flashlight?”
Maybe the above isn’t exactly
a poetical masterpiece, but ac-
cording to Melvin VandenBark.
journalism instructor, you can
| expect almost anything these
idays when students are request-
The Pan-American Program,
iput on by the Spanish Club in
I the gymnasium Tuesday, opened
with the band playing two num-
Senior Ambitions & Predictions
There's a difference in one’s ambitions and in what vou’ll really
be. With this fact in mind we present for your inspection a view
of the futures of some of MPH’s Seniors, and to keep it from be-
coming boring we asked some what they WANTED to be. and for
, , never-failing crystal ball. For
Palmer McCown
Our crystal ball has just been
taken away by the finance com-
pany so we’ll have to use this
picture of Palmer McCown for
present. (We are in a position to
sympathize too, P.)
Caroll Lee warts to be princi-
pal of MPHS. If eleven years isn’t
enough, he ought to be strangled!
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ClasB of Mount Pleasant Senior High School, Mount Pleasant, Texas
JOHN PAUL PORTER. Editor — MARY LANC^ORdT Associate
STAFP Rayford Bolin, Evanelle Culver, Evelyn Driggers, Marjorie
Davis, Geneva Jolley, Grace Evelyn Laden. Mary Lou Lain, Julia
______Ruth Morgan, Charles Stephenson, Dorothy Wilson.
Melvin Van den Bark, Sponsor and Faculty Adviser
Band Week plans for 1942
have been cancelled because of
other activities and because the
band is not in as good march-
ng form as the parades would
require, stated Director Neil Mc-
Kay Friday.
Band Week was inaugurated
the last week of April in- 1941,
and it was intended to have been
annual event, with parades
and concerts in a combined ef-
fort to raise funds for the band
and to promote good feeling f:r
the schools. Because of various
war activities and other things
which take precedence over
many peacetime events, and
since the band is not in marching
One Of Biggest Fun
Nights In History
Held Friday Night
One of the most successful Fun
Nights ever held at Mt. Pleas-
ant High took place in the lo-
cal gymnasium Friday night, un-
! der sponsorship of the Student
Council, as part of the Second
; Annual Visitors’ Day.
Admission. to the party and
' dance were paid in War Stamps,
. and as the supply of^ stamps ex-
hausted early in the evening
many were necessarily admitted
free. According to Jean Cooper,
chairman of the Student Council
Visitors’ Day committee, about
$25 w’orth of stamps were sold.
Over two hundred students
and visitors were at the party,
about fifty of the ninety-seven
visitors from other schools at-
tending. Games were played and
there was dancing later, with
music furnished by the school’s
record player and the supply of
records recently donated by clubs
of the schools. A group of Junior
High health-education girls per-
fromed several folk dances for
the group, and Mrs. Gerry Burch
was in charge of the games.
I Senior Activities
Rest Year Outlined
Charles Stephenson
Stevie will probable turn up as
that dope who says Modern De-
sign!!! and Pepsie Cola is the
drink for you—nickle nickle
nickle nickle trickle trickle—.
Pole dance. The event has been
i Cook. Planned by Senior committees
Fleming, jwith the aid of the sponsors and
i Hunt, was approved by a vote of the
decided to rut it all . Charles Lide, Arthur Moss. John class Monday morning.
T__: ~ . T1 ' 3 Robinson,! Main characters in the pro-
Jimmy Sivess, Charles Stephen- 8ram will be the Festival King,
Perry Trice, Jimmy Wallace, who will be Charles Stephenson,
Mozelle Adams, Evelyn An-
*ews, Thelma Austin, Beatrice
’ ' ” r Ann Blackstone,
Janice Brown, Louise Cargile, [ will not be known
Opal Cecil, Mary Jean Cooper, |t*':22 “2: 7’2:2 :::
Virginia Cropp, Doris Ann
Daughtry, Evelyn Driggers, Nel- j
da Glass, Dorothy Grissom, Mar- [
jorie Gunn, Betty Hall, Joy Hark-
rider, Geneva Jolley, Mary Lou . ------------
Lain, Mary Jane Lide, Billie Ann es to lead the processional, the
McClintock, Betty MacKinnon, | Class Poet, and the Class Ora-
Geraldine Montgomery, Sue
Reese, Alice Ruth Rogers, Amy
Lee Salinas, Nettagene Shoemak-
er, Julia Ben Stroman, Dorothy
Dell Talley! Nell Weaver, Imo-
gene White, Imogene Wilhite.
Pan-American Dayj
Observed Tuesday
Second Annual Day
For Visitors Rated
Big Success Friday
The Second Annual Visitors’
Day, held at Mt. Pleasant Sen-
ior High last Friday for stu-
dents who will attend school here
next year, was pronounced a suc-
cess by the students and teach-
ers who sponsored the event.
Activities began with the ar-
rival cf the ninety-seven visi-
tors from twelve schools through-
out Titus County. They were reg-
istered in the gymnasium during
the morning and were met by
students who were their guides
for the day.
At 11:30 an assembly program
was given in honcr of the visi- I
tors, featuring the Tiger Band,
the hillbilly band, Mrs. Dulce
Brooks, and a vocal trio in sev-
eral musical numbers, and Alice
Ruth Rogers reading, “Old
Glory'.' Charles Stephenson, pres- 1
ident of the Senior Class, wel-
comed the students and recog- 1
nized groups from Argo, Cook-
ville, Monticello, Old Union,
Marshall Springs, Midway, Farm-
ers’ Academy, Green Hill, Chapel
Hill, Lone SGr, Overland, and 1(
Stonewall. \ (
During the noon hour (
lunches were spread on- the (
ground in picnic style and in the 1
afternon, from 12:45 until 3:45, ^
the guests visited classes. After I.
school about half of the ninety-
seven who decided to stay for ‘
the Fun Night were guests in the
homes of Mt. Pleasant students
until the party and dance at 7:30.
Members of the Student Coun-
cil were in charge of the pro-
ceedings, and Mary Jean Cooper,
chairman of the entertainment
committee, expressed the great-
est satisfaction with the manner
in which the activities of the day
were conducted.
One of the most impressive and
interesting ceremonies ever to
be held at Mt. Pleasant Higa
School will be the Senior Fes-
t val of 1942, to be presented by
the entire Senior Class to the
The procession will start at
10:30 in the morning from the
auditorium, and two lines of
Seniors will march to the Fes-
tival place and form a circle
around the throne. The audience j
j will be seated in chairs outside
of the circle. The Court Mu-
sicians ( to consist of part or all
of the band) will be seated near j
the auditorium and will furnish
I
music for the procession. A
bers: Zacatacas (a march) and trumpeter will announce the ap-
o rirtl inrlrid -.G xi rx: 1
Bruce Denny Glenn Cook
These two should have sensa-
tional careers as “Yes Men”.
Ophelia (High-Flyer) Garcia
wants to be an air stewardess.
Senior president, the Queen, to
be selected by vote of the Sen-
iors Monday, and whose name
1 until she
takes her place in the proces-
sion, the ladies of the Queen,
o be the eight Senior girls
ranking highest in scholarship,
the flower girls, selected from
the Sophomore and Junior Class-
ier Poet will then recite the
Senior Poem, after which the
May Pole dance will be per-
formed. Following the dance, the
lourt Orator will give the
Senior Address.
The King will invite all Sen-
iors to the Festival Feast, to be
held in the park adjoining the
campus, and with the fanfare of
Names Next Week
The names of the poets and the
Class Orator, as well as all who
will take the leading roles in the
Festival, will be announced by
the Tigerette next week.
Most of the characters will be
selected according to their scho-
lastic records. Others, however,
such as the Poet and the Orator,
will be selected in competition.
The judges will be the class
sponsors, Melvin VandenBark
and Miss Cornelia Varner. ■
This Senior Day festival will W
be the only Senior activity this
year, excepting, of course. Com-
mencement and Graduation cere-
monies. No official Senior Week
will be held as before. According
to Class President Charles Steph-
enson, more will be done on this
one day than has been done be-
fore in twenty "Senior Weeks.”
and the class heartily approves
the innovation.
Forty - Six Make
Next To Last Honor
Roll For The Year j the entire Senior Class t„ ‘.l.L
’ high schools and to the >pubi*c
Fourteen hov« and thirtv-two 1 M-.. »
The colorful program is to be
--J on the south side of the
i Senior High campus, and will in-
le-among the highlights, pag-
eants, the crowning of the Sen-
The following made an aver- ior Queen, the Planting of the
age of ninety or above in all sub- Ivy, the reading of the Senior
1 in deport- poems and oration, and he May
Those of us who have ever taken any interest at all in school
affairs have long wondered where all of cur school traditions, school
spirit, and activities were. The answer is simple enough now—all
the spirit and tradition is here; it’s the activity that’s been lacking.
The Senior Class has prbved this fact. For the first time that we
know of the whole group of graduates is to have a part in the ac-
tivities—not just ten to teach classes one day of the week (which
was no fun anyway), ten to put on the usual Senior Play flop and
about twenty-five out of a class 120 to attend the class picnic. This
year the Senior Festival will be a success because every single
member of the class is to have a part in it. Representatives of other
classes and of Junior High will take part. There will be more than
a speech and a reading cf the "Class Will" or some other such
■ditty. There will be something to remember. The class this year is
inaugurating traditions that can be carried from year to year.
Highest praise to the Senior Class, to the committees which
have detailed the plans of the Festival, and to Spenser Melvin
VandenBark. In the words of the many students we have talked
<o, “I’m surely glad we’ve a sponsor this year who cares something
about the class.”
In these times, tradition becomes more and more important.
The things that we can remember may soon be the best things we
have to think about.
Very Hearty Handshakes
The Second Annual Visitors’ Day held Friday was a brilliant
success in every way, and each student who had a part in the day’s
program is to be commended. The Student Council, which has
devoted much time to the project and exhausted all its funds in
making it a success, has done at least one thing to be remembered
this year and the members of that organization who promoted the
activities deserve much praise. A great deal of the credit, too, goes
to the student body and to the visitors themselves, both of whom
showed some of the friendliest, democratic spirit we have seen
this year. ' _________ ______________
to us by one of Mr. VandenBark’s
sophisticated relatives):
Thirty purple boids,
A sitt’n on the courb,
A chirpin and a burpin
And 4 eat’n dirty woirms.
Along comes a skoit,
Named Goit,
With a guy named Boirt.
Says Goit to Boirt,
"The boirds are on the wing.”
“Aww, you're crazy,” says
Boirt to Goit.
‘The wings are on the Boirds.”
Apply io tne Tigerette Staff
within 24 hours after this paper
is published.
__ TIGERETTE — 5th Year Of Publication — 19 4 2
Published weekly during the school year by thTstudent Publications |be given bV Mrs Wilson Jones
s and Mrs. I. E. Daffer, Class
All schools of Mt. Pleasant,
together w’ith the Boy Scouts, and
other civic organizations, will
present one big community mus-
: ical program on the night of
Tuesday, May 5, in the local
auditorium in observance of Na-
tional Music Week.
The program is to be a com-
bined community event, the pur-
pose of Which will be to pro- igecon<j six-weeks of the spring held
mote a spirit of friendliness and semester Thirteen boys and thir- Seni
civic pride among the c*tzens | ty-six girls received honorable'dud,
of Mt. Pleasant, according to mention j
Mrs. A. C. Hoffmann, president i
of the Euterpean Club, which is |
cnhenrintinn i in charge of all Music Week ac- UI runviy °* ou”
signed subscription I s jects and excellent
ment:
David Brogoitti, Glenn
Bruce Denny, Jakie 1
Hoffmann, Mickey Haggard. Vernon
and Mrs.
Mothers.
The plans for the Senior Fes- [ed to compose a Senior poem,
tival to be held May first were I The subject matter ranged from
read, and the Senior Queen was J spring, spring, and more sweet
selected by vote. The name of the memories of spring to the inevit-
Queen will not be announced un- able stabbing of a Jap. (Well,
til the Festival. timely anyway).
Bob Cargile
It can be nothing but the wide
.open spaces and cow's milk (?)
for Bob.
James Ousley enjoys gathering)
and cleaning other people’s dir-
ty clothes so much he’s going to
keep at it.
Fourteen boys and thirty-two on May first,
girls made the honor roll for the
spirit of friendliness and sernester Thirteen boys and thir-
TenCageLettermen
Slated For Honors
Won During Season
basketball
chosen by
to receive
their letters for their caging in
the 1942 season.
Oscar Green. Billy Moses, Ken- I
i West Ward school, Junior High.
East Ward, Senior High the Ne-
gro school, and the Junior Mu-
sic Club. Each school or organ-
ization will be responsible for
making out its own program.
The Kiwanis Club, and per-
haps several other organizations
are also expected to have parts.
The program will close with the
singing of “America” by the en-
tire audience.
the little white jacket—just be- ’contest—just a little
hold the new poet laureate of picked up somewhere, y ...
MPHS, Sam Cook, or some other where,” meaning they were sent ^be tmmpets, the Seniors will
| ability in the Senior Poem Con-
test.
Add Puns:
Now we hear that a lot of
graft is being carried on in
MPHS. But don’t get excited! We
agree that honest confession is
good for the soul, but we are re-
ferring to the FFA boys’ new
project—and it concerns trees.
And More Poetry
And the following poem has
absolutely no connection with the
Much unexpected talent, how-
ever, seems to be coming to light
because who would ever have
guessed Sam Cook was an up
and coming young poet (?) even
if he did write eighty lines just
to get two good ones. (Cheer up,
Sam, after all it’s all for the
CAUSE).
i Senior eager to show his poetical
A train was on the railroad
track,
A Senior was coming fast,
The train jumped off the rail-
road track
To let the Senior pass.
Poetically Speaking
The place is all abuzz this
week with plans for Senior ac-
tivities. So if you hear some-
body mumbling something ebout
pring riding high .and dogwood
blooming,” don't call the man in
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