The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1950 Page: 1 of 4
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What’s New
by Mary Frances Forkner
JUNIOR AND SENIOR
beys who are interested in
some phase of business for a
career, will hear IVir. George G.
Heather, the dean of business ad-
ministration at xexas Teen, today
at the activity period in the audi-
torium.
Girls, who are interested in
business, will meet in room 217
to hear Mrs. Ethel Terrell, chair-
man of the marketing and secre-
tarial division of business admin-
istration at the college. Also on
hand.to speak to the girls will be
Mrs. Mabel Chapman of the Tex-
as Employment commission.
NANCY GAMBLE
. . . is the new president of West-
ernettes. Other officers include
Joyce Davis, vice-president; Bet-
tie Delahunty, secretary; Beatrice
Adkisson, parliamentarian; Lola
Anderson, treasurer; and Shirley
Cartwright, reporter.
PAN AMERICANO CLUB
. . . has elected new officers. They
are as follows: Frank Ford, presi-
dent; Kitty Hinchey, vice-presi-
dent and Shirley Chapman, secre-
tary. Rossi Stiles, Marybeth Tol-
es, and Elizabeth Mitchell are
candidates for princess to repre-
sent Lubbock in .the contest for
queen of a Spanish fiesta which
will be held; here April 15.
WESTERNER BAND
. . . members and their dates will
attend a skating party Tuesday
at Playmor.
NED HARDIN
. . . played his accordian for home
room 132 at the activity period
Tuesday.
EXCHANGE ASSEMBLY
. . . members went to Lamesa
Tuesday morning to present the
program.
JUNIOR THESPIANS
. . . have elected new officers
for this semester. They are Bill
Rogan, president; Barbara Moore,
vice-president; Kay Lynn Wat-
son, secretary and reporter; Gerre
Hancock, paliamentarian; Delores
Owen, clerk; and Virginia Suitt,
social chairman.
Round-Up Program Features Favorites
’T won’t be long now! Nope,
soon everybody will know who
the favorites for the fourth an-
nual Westerner Round-Up are.
The presentation of this cowpoke
and cowgirl will be the main at-
traction of a program to be given
in the auditorium tonight at 7:30.
Bright, plaid shirts, blue jeans,
fancy western clothes, boots, and
ten-gallon hats are the duds that
all Westerners are wearing to-
day. It’s even legal for gals to
wear jeans and such stuff to
school.
Gerre Hancock, foreman of the
Round-up program committee,
has went and told this reporter
that stage event will be centered
around each letter of W-E-S-T-E-
R-N-E-R. Betty Brown and Gerre
are gonifa be the ones to tell the
hands what’s gonna be next on
the program.
Gerre with ranch hands Ray
McLarty, Walter Austin, and Hu-
bert Waddill will sing some dit-
ties. Six cowgirls are gonna sing
too. They are Barbara Moore,
Mickie Willis, Phyllis Hesser,
Julia Hallmark, Yona Parr, and
Koelle Smith. Some mighty-fancy
tap-dancing’s to be done by Ann
Snell ahd Shirley while Rossi
Stiles and Travis Hammer sing a
duet.
Ned Hardin will play his
squeeze-box; Bill Rogan, the
organ; Ann Grant, the piano; and
Carol Jean Sandlin, her fiddle.
As usual there was some big
contests for everybody to enter.
Seven people entered posters. Pat
Harris made eight of ’em. Others-
who drew posters are Christine
Evans, Basil Wolfe, Palmer June
Anderson, Dolores Owen, Jimmy
Smith, and Carla Pruett.
Eight songs were written for
the song contest. Mary Belle Per-
ryman wrote the lyrics and music
of ‘When It’s Round-Up Time in
L.H.S.” “All Westerner Day” was
submitted by Jean Evelyn Lane
and Helen Johnston, who wrote
the words and music respectively.
SPORTSMANSHIP - THEN VICTORY
Betty Martin entered “Me, A
Cowboy?” Neil Ross’s is “It’s
Round-Up Time.” ‘ The Hayhurst
Song,” “Rosey Is a Sweet Cow-
girl,” “After Work,” and “West-
erner Round-Up in the Skies”
were turned in by Gene Julian.
Cynthia Loveless, Bobby Ann
Pool, and Pat Harris entered the
slogan contest. Winners of all
contests will be announced to-
night. They will be given tooled
belts for prizes. If time will al-
low, the winning song will be
sung. Winners of the rope twirl-
ing contest will put on an act.
Tickets for the program are
being sold by the Student council
members for 20 cents. Oh, yes,
hpw could anyone forget? A
round-up couldn’t be complete*
without some square dancing.
Plenty of this will be done in the
gymnasium after the program:
When some hand and his gal get
tired of dancing they can get re-
freshed up in the cage.
Well, pa’dna’, have a good
time!
VOLUME 16
Lubbock Senior High School, Lubbock, Texas, Friday, February 24, 1950
Number 21
Mr. Tarbox Speaks
At Hi-Y Father-Son
Banquet Tuesday
Mr. Elmer Tarbox, a well-
known business man and ex-Tech
athlete, was the guest speaker
at the Hi-Y Father-Son banquet
Tuesday night in the cafeteria.
Following the invocation given
by Mr. R. O. Thomas and the
dinner, the fathers were welcom-
ed by Garnet Reeves, president of
th club. Mr, C. C. Chambers gave
the response.
Then Garnet introduced Mr.
Tarbox, who is the present hold-
er of the national record for pass-
es intercepted in one season. Mr.
Tarbox spoke on the essentials of
clean living emphasizing the im-
portance of good sportsmanship
and abstinence from drinking and
smoking. He also told of his ex-
perience with the Chinese ath-
letes in China during the war.
While there he was only .2 of a
second off the Chinese record for
the 220 high hurdles.
Mr. Floyd Honey and Mr. Joe
Holmes were also guests at the
banquet which is one of. the
club’s annual affairs. The dinner
was terminated by the singing of
the doxology.
Powell, Owen
Enrich Play
''Green Vine”
Two other roles that make the
senior play, “The Green Vine,”
the enjoyable comedy-drama
that it is are those of Peter and
Mary played by. Kenneth Owen
and Mona Powell. Quite differ-
ent, from the other cousins, Who,
failures, meet at dead Cousin
George’s home, the duo care
nothing for George’s rumored
fortune.
Peter and Mary have grown up
together, bearing for each other
a rather deep sort of love. They
also, more than the other cous-
ins, have been fairly successful in
life.
Peter, until recently, has been
a fairly successful business man,
l?ut has now lost his pile in a bad
business deal. He comes for a
vacations, despondent, defeated,
and contemplating suicide, to
George’s home, “The Green Vine,”
where the other cousins try to
borrow money from him. Peter
is serious and levelheaded and
had a good bit of liking for
George, whose specter at the
house reaches him with sugges-
tions.
Mary, the favorite of George,
also has come to “The Green
Vine” in need of a vacation.
She’s an actress, fairly success-
ful, but who has lost much mon-
ey backing a play of her fiancee,
Jeffrey. Already troubled and
in need of aid, she becomes even
more so after finding out Jeffs
marriage to her cousin, Peg.
Finally, urged on by dead Cousin
George’s ghost, Mary and Peter
find a haven in each other.
The play, directed by Mr. D. M.
Howell, will be presented in the
auditorium the nights of March 9
and 10.
More Failures Than
Honor Students
Suppose that every year 5 percent more of the world’s popu-
lation were failures than were successful. Civilization would decline
mentally and physically; and the progress world would eventually
come to a halt. Well, that’s just what is happening to Lubbock Senior
High school.
An average of 11 percent of the total enrollment made the honor
roll, while 16 percent failed in one or more subjects. In other words,
at the close of the fall semester 159 students made the honor roll in
comparison to 222 who failed.
The sophomore class has an enrollment of 639 with 22 percent
failing and 9 percent on the honor roll. The junior class^Jias 439 en-
rolled with both 13 percent failing and 13 percent on the honor roll,
while the senior class has 322 enrolled with 7 percent failures and 14
percent honor students.
Although the sophomores had the least percentage making the
honor roll, 17 percent of those who were on it made ail A’s, ana there
were 15 percent of the honor roll seniors making straight A’s.
The reason for the seniors having so few comparative failures is
attributed to the fact that out of the 533 seniors who entered L. H. S.
in 1947, 40 percent, mainly those with the lower grades, have drop-
ped by the wayside, and only a select group—the cream of the crop
—is left. On the other hand, the sophomores, some used to the half-
day schedule, have had to forge the break between junior and senior
high school and become accustomed to the more advanced type of
work required in L. H. S.
JP. ittle fCnsHun tf-octl
Of Local State Interest
luf. SUisiletf. QeluUon and fj. W. Reid
Visitors Inspect
Pottery, Metal,
Other Art Work
Visitors to the Parent Teacher
Association open house last
Thursday night found the exhibit
in room 135 one of the most out?
standing. It was the art exhibit
and was composed of quite a few
subjects taught in the different
art classes: crafts, commercial
art, and pottery.
There were all types of pot-
tery-ware offered for sale at a
surprisingly low price. These ob-
jects were fashioned from clay
and then exposed to 1940 degrees
F. of heat in a fire clay kiln for
six to eight hours so that the
clay might harden. After being
allowed to cool for. another 24
hours, the apt pieces were spray-
ed with different colors of glaze
and then again subjected to the
terribly hot temperatiure of the
kiln.
Caricaturing the visitors by art
students Jimmy Gary and Pat
Patrick also drew a great deal of
interest as did the paper mache-
like animal figures and string
and hand puppets made by the
pupils.
Because of a regional exhibit
at Ft. Worth at which L. H. S.
had 26 entries, some of the finer
examples of art were missing
from the show.
L/-/S Students Speculate
On Futures After Sixty
“ ‘When I Get Too Old To
Dream,’ what am I to do?” is a
question people often ask them-
selves. Didn’t you ever think of
growing old and of the time when
silver threads are seen among the
gold?
It seems that some students of
Lubbock Senior High school have,
given a great deal of thought to
this subject, and after much con-
templation they gave their views
concerning the future.
Pat Norman— “When I grow
old I want to be the founder of
an old maid's home and have a
houseful of cats and dogs.”
Carolyn Chick— “I want to be
rich and have a Cadillac.”
Jim Lawrence— “I want to set-
tle down, retire, start a harem,
and lead a peaceful life.” (Looks
doubtful?)
Mary Duggan— “Making cook-
ies for little boys and having the
neighborhood children for my
friends is what I want to do.”
Travis Hammer— “To be a
millionaire and retire on an old-
age-pension is for me.”
Jimmy Gary— “I’m too little to
think about such things.”
Charles Lambert— “I want to
be a hobo and start an all-round
flea circus.”
June Elder— “To travel and
see the world is what I want to
do.”
Donnie Dean— “Have fun ’til
I’m 60 and then get married.”
Mona Powell— “I want Travis
Hammer to sing to me.”
(Editor’s note: Below is an
excerpt from a feature pub-
lished in the Saddlehorn, a
Lubbock Senior High school
magazine published by the
Quill and Scroll society in
1948).
* * *
Lubbock High school’s old foot-
ball practice field was the camp
grounds of hundreds of native
Americans—that is, Indians —
and many of their hearths were
still intact near the field when it
was in use. Arrow heads were
actually found on the field in
1934.
* * *
The Llano Estacado was explor-
ed almost 100 years before the
pilgrims landed at Plymouth or
before Jamestown was founded.
The corner of Broadway and
Avenue J was an ol’ swimmin’
hole years ago. Some grownups
still remember “swimmin’ as
natcher’l as could be” in a hole of
water there.
The plainsman was the original
Westerner fan.
Mr. R. W. Matthews was an
aviator in World War I.
The Westerners played a foot-
ball game in the fall of 1935 in
the same place where the Span-
iards put on a pageant 409 years
ago.
* * *
March 5, 6, 7, 1934, the wind
blew so hard and there was so
much sand in the air generating
static electricity, that automobiles
especially Model “T” Fords
would not run.
The Texas capitol building at
Austin is higher than the United
States capitol in Washington D.
C.
May 30, 1925, it rained so hard
in Lubbock that the roof of the
postoffice fell in, and boys pad-
died canoes down Thirteenth
street.
The last cattle round up near
Lubbock was held in the vicinity
of the old high school in 1906.
Texas has given twice as much
land as there is in the whole state
of Pennsylvania to her public
schools and colleges since 1838.
The counties of Lubbock, Gar-
za, Crosby, Lynn, Hale, Hockley,
and Lamb were all named after
Texas revolutionary heroes.
* * *
The Westerners used to be call-
ed the Pirates. At the assembly
where the name was changed,
“Mavericks” was also considered
as possible “handle.”
Texas is a Cinis Indian word
meaning “friend.”
The Westerners played their
first game in 1907 against the
Amarillo Sandies. The score was
5-0 in favor of Lubbock.
March I Deadline
On Contest Entries
The English department of the
Texas State College for Women
has issued a final invitation for
entries in the creative writing
contest before the March 1 dead-
line.
Students are invited to enter
stories, essays, and poems in this
contest. All literature must be
typewritten, double spaced, and
mailed to Dr. Autrey Nell Wiley,
director of the T. S. C. W. English
department by March 1,
Each student may submit one
story, one essay, several poems or
One-Act Play
Is 'Andante’;
Gott In Lead
“Andante,” a strong dynamic*
drama, will be the Lubbock Sen-
ior High school entry in the In-
terscholastic league one-act play
contest,” announced Mr. D. M.
Howell, director of dramatics, re-
cently.
The play, which seemingly ap-
pears to be a little bit of the psy-
chological type of drama, will be
competing with four other district
3-AAA schools here on Morch 18.
The cast of the play, authored by
Wesley Coutts, is now meeting
during the fourth period in the
auditorium.
The play deals with David
Lawrence, played by Jimmy Gott.
He was once a successful concert
violinist; but now, as a result of
a wreck, he has a crippled hand
and is full of despair. He feels his
•whole life’s work has been lost,
and he is on the point of contem-
plating suicide. Harriet Hender-
son is cast as his thoroughly dis-
parent wife, Martha.
His son, unkonwingly selfish
and believing his father to be
jealous of his hands, plays a
strong part in the play fend later
becomes the key which unlocks
David’s mind to reality. Bruce,
the son, is played by Milton
Beach.
The specialist, portrayed by
Bob Bratcher, taking care of
David is the old, familiar, philo-
sophical type of family physician
full of homespun phrases and
thinking. The remaining member
of the cast is Betty Joyce Brown,
who plays the role of the Law-
rences’ new maid.
any combination of these. Entries
will be judged in connection with
the annual Writers’ conference
week, March 27-April 1. Writers
of the best works will be invited
to read them April 1 at T. S. C„
W. and their works will be pub-
lished in the Daedalian Quarterly..
'ABC-TV’ To Televise Assembly
“We will televise our program
over the American Broadcasting
Company next Thursday” stated
Mrs. Lillian Hayne, a sponsor of
the junior class, when asked
about the junior class assembly.
“We received our suggestions
from Alexander Graham Bell,
who will be here next week,”
exclaimed Mrs. Hayne.
The program consists of mus-
ical talent, a cartoonist, juggling,
and a dog act from members of
the junior class.
A peaceful world
TH ROUGH,
FRIENDSHIP
l
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INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK FEBRUARV 18-27
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The Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1950, newspaper, February 24, 1950; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth699787/m1/1/?q=green+energy: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lubbock High School.