The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1951, Page 8

one ea THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1951 Paget Thursday, December 6 STUDENT PRESS KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL NO. 10 THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 1951 Written and Edited by Students of the S LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT " nne BY SHIRLEY TRUDEAU — The Student Council wrote a let ONE MAN‘S OPINION ter to President Truman, \ inviting | By FRANK VELi him-to visit our High School I askec I all-star When an answer arrived, everyone team of the t vho played was excited and eager to know the | on the Key n this year reply. » make such Eugene Roberts, Student Council | i did my best. Here president, was pleased but a little disappointed, on opening the letter, t ci Jesse ‘Ht read as follows: “The President | Thomas of So Bill ‘sincerely appreciates the thoughts | Wodtki of V« each tackles expressed in your message, and re- | Ruel Galbreat f South Broward grets that it will be impractible for | and Carlton Pinder of Key West ‘him to visit the Key West High | guards J B r of Belle School.” Glade and ‘ We are all very proud to receive | and center ell i, letter from so prominent and! Bazo of Key West ‘busy a man as our President. fhe j field I will start with quarterback Becretary of the Student Council 1s | Carney Wilder of Pahokee; half ‘putting it in the school scrapbook ' back Jack Metz of Vero Beach and ‘which the council prepares each |Ray Caldwell of Belle Glade; and wear.as a record of the year's |fullback Ed Bass of Vero Beach. ities: All the scrapbooks are} We had so many stars on the library for the students | gridiron that we need a second ends Bob and James Mil jteam. My choices s Cooper, Key West = SHE'S HERE lion, Pahokee; tackles Bill Murphy “BY SHIRLEY TRUDEAU St. Mary’s, and Car sone. i Whe sixth period dramatics class jcrest; guards Charles Durand ewere-all excited. Mr. Ertzman in-'South Broward, and Jimmy Dur ‘troducéti the thrilling movie star|and, South Broward; center Bob Md TV actress, Miss Louise Al-|Knowles, Seacrest; quarterback, see records of past years. are |, to each of the starry-eyed | Joe Salvino. South Broward; half ‘pupils. backs John Cruz, Key West, and © Conversation immediately began | Bobby Roine, St. Mary's: and full Decause Miss Albritton was very | back Bill Kennedy, St. Peter and unformal and made everyone feel; St. Paul’s ‘wery rélaxed. The class especially! For honorable mention I nomi- ested in makeup because that | nate the followin. ayers: Del We has been: their study for a while ‘now. It Was'surprising to learn that ‘Miss Albritton requires only twen- villey of Seacrest Bill Osterhoudt, and Lucilo Gonzalez of Key West; Pat Galbreath of South ‘ty-five minutes to put on her own | Broward; Dick Weatherby of Punta imakeup. for a television show. Gorda; Rick Adams of St. Peter * “Another topic which was taken| and Paul; and Dodder of ‘up was how she started in her | Belle Glade ieareer. She began by playing inthe | Turning the pa to the n ‘and senior plays in high |Conch team, I would like to con- igchool. She added to her dramatic | gratulate the twélve graduating experience by studying ‘at the|gridsmen: Hoke Holcomb, Ken ohn Cruz it Joe over of Oklahoma, although | Bazo, Don Bernreuter, Roy Butler. family are Texans, She major-| Art Di Lallo, Bob Cooper, Billy | in direction but then decided | Osterhoudt, John Curry ando ‘that her ‘real ambition was to be | Henriquez, Morton Hall, Exiquio ap actress. | Vidal, and James Baker. I would © Mr. Ertzman and the class were | like to commend the following un- 3 ‘interested in what she thought |derclassmen who did well their ' Holloywood. She told them of |first year; versatile Joe Pineda stars like Jimmy Stewart, | Gus Perez, Jim Solomon, Harold rieh, and Elizabeth Taylor. Harry | John Carbonell mery Clift, Marlene Diet-|Solomon, Xavier Oropeza, and I would also like Norviel asked her whether she had | to congratulate Coaches’ Winston | ever seen Dean Martin and Jerry | Jones, Ed Beckman, and Arthur Lewis. She replied, “Yes, and I | Murray. you'remind me of Jerry| After having been absent from wis.” The room immediately {the gridiron for 23 years, the with laughter. |Conchs had a good season with ne of the pupils wanted to know | three wins. five losses, and one what a movie star's schedule was |tie, They are being entertained at 2 said that they start shoot-| banquets by the Kiwanis Club 4it D A.M, Actresses have to be | Shriners, Masons, Methodist Men Were-at six o’clock"in the morning | and at parties by various parents. ‘Start putting on their “makeup | Their record was costumes. Work usually ends six. o'clock in the evening. | Key We jetimes: some of the more im-| Key West 19 Lake Worth 22 Pahokee 6 mt pictures end their day at | Key West 19 t. Mary’s } o'clock in the evening. Every. | Key West 6 Seacrest was astonished@at-this-reply;| Key West 0 Belle Glade we had thought a Hollywood | Key West 2 South Broward "s life was easy! | Key West 12 St. Peter & Paul “‘Students were interested, also,|. The fans wish the Conchs the in her-own pictures—“The Egg and | best of luck when they travel to 1” “Pittsburgh,” and “Walk a | Panama this we rocked Mile.” I think the dra- | Matics class, as well, as Key West, de proud to have a visit from By BARBARA ADAMS The Key West High School Band IT’S HERE NOW — STEAM OR DRY IRONMASTER 2, Se aeagee PLUG-IN for STEAM Just as you do for current * No water tank to push around ¢ Weighs the same—DRY or STEAM~2% Ibs. * * * Yates Refrigeration Service 800 WHITE ST. TELEPHO Punta Gorda 6 | vas honored with thé presence of {hard on the | Mr. Henry Fillmore, as guest con- | seventy five members in the group. | ductor at their concert Wednesday,| On Sunday afternoon, December November 14 at the Convent Aud- | 2, the chorus, under the direction of itorium. The concert went over | Thomas Whitley, sang at the Elk’s big and was a great success. Memorial Service, which was held The band really enjoyed working | at the Elk’s Club Annex with “Uncle Henry.’ He has such| Included in the selection: a wonderful personality, you are | ‘Gloria Patr “God So I bound to get along- with him no | World” h of Our F how tough he is and no | and Recessional how hard he works you. | yand students were so honored | that such a famous | as to direct them, th ven harder and gave him that they could put into | forms of the 5 r As a result, Fillmore | past fe id that the Key West High School] First o' has a chance af becoming one | en three best High School bands in the | report on He also made the s brought ir were hers”’, UP TO DATE IN BIOLOGY BY TERRY PARRISH Chapm rilled Mrs. have been study classes lifferent 1 these it to the University of Miami | the report e inte B the Key West High} One of our recent S cho { could, in a few years} that of studying : a c be the best band on Fio-| long to the lowe st coast, The Key West High | :lant kingdo s sand realizes the significance of | f algae arc n a statement from so famous | and bandsman as Mr. They hope to live up to | 1as_ been cast, realizing that the eyes | ‘han six le all over the country are , Among these n. Wherever Fillmore goes | ‘nown hat ever he does, people arc | 2eop! g and of course listening Ke ector i r 1 plankton | o collect plz alankton had I hey vould take plankton for By lining s' silk folder over s }were able to get This, howe fious job. Pe some civic raise enough much JUNIOR DEB MEETING BY BETTY ROWAN The Junior Deb ‘meeting this | a very interesting one vd was throughly énjoyed by all | of the girls | After the roll was taken and the minutes were read our guest speak rs, Mrs. Edna Miller and Mrs. Jo. in Bernreuter a former Girl who plans on opening.a Charm School here, spoke to us on poise, posture, exercise’ we can take how to sit and stand properly, what Pressing d colors are in ‘season, what type} weed was an of clother to wéar; what hair. style | ject. Seaw needed) f to wear and many other interesting | is used for mar things which are of concern to the | tiliz and many medicir We girls. collected the seaweed the beaches and mounted the varieties on pape these with wax Ff them for sever ;merous beauti Our latest drawing different col teria, the sma exposed dishes of bacter ious things s s ter, finger pr en cov ering the dishes, we placed the bac ) The Junior Debs are planning to |have a fashion show and Mrs. Mil ler owner of the Mar Ed Dress Shop, offered to lend us clothes to model. We are also having a trophy jin honor of Mrs. Mae Douglas, one ‘of our sponsors who recently passed y, and this trophy is to be in bed with the name of The |Girl Of The Year, which we will choose ourselves, The’ Meeting was adjourned and refreshments were project to date a Ik, wa served teria in a moist place to grow 1 days t CHRISTMAS VESPERS were taken out to be studied and FEATURES BOY ‘SOPRANO | drawn JANET BROWN Featured solist for the Christmas ‘Vespers this year is a remarkable |boy soprano, Orlando Puig, an 8th grader. He will do ‘Ave Maria” This boy is new to the group, and his clear, pleasing voice is a wel-| know who w Y Ye na come‘addition. section of With at least two rehearsals aj and gray* j week, the chorus is working very | exccptiona THE BOOSTERS BY BETTY ROWAN AND MARGARET LITLE Most of you, I ar have seen the Boosters in actio ved the ; - ~\the famous composer and director, | great strides. There are now over | the team. | The Boosters are |to 12th grades. Wheh they first Started in 1946, only 16 girls turn- jed out. Each year, however, our ; 8roup has grown and we now have ; about fifty girls in the club. Our organization is run like any other club. Our officers are: presi- dent, Judy Pellicier; vice-president, Evelyn Nettles; and secretary- treasurer, Eleanor Garcia. We ;meet every Friday afternoon and go through the cheers with the| cheerleaders. Last year our uni- forms which we chose for our- selves consisted of a red skirt, gray blouse with red tie, and saddle ox- fords. some new uniforms. Our financial status, however, is quite a poke— ;no money in the treasury and with Christmas coming up. Our sponsor | ball players will be on this team. who is |We hope that the basketball team is Miss Eunice Harra, spending quite a lot of her time with us The Boosters are hostesses of the | High School. They work hand in hand with the cheerleaders. Quite often the character of our school is judged by our actions. The way we act is reported by visiting teams to their high schools. During basketball season we en- tertain the own team at ties, picnics, and dances. Last year we gave quite a few successful parties. Since foot- ball has started here we plan to have even more if possible. Quite often the Boosters take road with the team and cheerlead- We are always in need of Often parents help transportatinn 1 Finally, the Boosters help keep up school spirit phys’ Vespers and is makingJas our name implies--‘boosting” | tant. I suppose now is the time to iris in the 9th | o, praising the team for their com- If possible, we want to get | gladiators. Now these knights of the |the gridiron boys. The squad, as I | James Baker, Armando Henriquez, |Harry Norviel, | Robert Sawyer, and Jimmy Curry. visiting teams and our |The eager basketball fans will be {ready to go to the first game at Redlands, December 11. Success to | ally and moral-|Mmmmm. Wonder if make one of those eloquent speech- mendable work, but I'm not one for pretty words. All I can say 1s hats off, congratulations, and our appre- ciation to the team. Well, this started out to be a story on basketball, but before I knew it the thing turned out to be sports chatter column. As long a8 basketball was my first objective, that will have to be next on my list, At the beginning of the year, the students were greeted by the sight of battered football players gashed from practice and game, strutting down the halls like Roman Royal Order of the Pigskin will be slightly ovetshadowed by a new king, Basketball. Many of the foot- will be even more successful than understand it, has been tentatively selected. These boys seem to have berths on the squad: Bob Cooper, Raymond Lones, Ken Bazo, Squeaky Vidal, Billy Osterhoudt, Lucilo Gonzalez, | you all. Well, now that we've gone through the masculine side of sports, it’s time to turn feminine. |The cheerleaders, a very import- | ant part of any sport, are planning to form an association with cheerleaders’ they sort of a union can ly. They keep up the spirit of the |strike? Well, anyway, this sound team and the student body. hope that we can keep up our work and continue to be a credit to the | waves at South Beach and have j school THIS AND THAT ABOUT | SPORTS BY SANDY GRAY No matter how much you hate | it, the beginning of school is never- theless exciting and this year it was more exciting than ever, for Key West High had a football team, the first in twenty years. Football, | for most schools. life blood; Now | Key West High has hers I asked one | of the football b Armando Hen. riquez, how they had felt when foot- all practice began and he said that they were quite excited about | the whole thing. He added that th strenuous practice has been rewarding and especially so since they are going to Panama Decem- There thirty-two of them will play football and basketball ; and go sightseeing (they will also » a banquet I suppose ing For the season, the boys did fine. | and tied | That's almost remarkable for | We won three, lost five, one. first season. Well xperience now we've had the and that’s impor- STR ft e Si SI ri INDIVIDUALIZED FIT ~Your Size, Your Sleeve Length CUSTOM-SUIT-TAIL “As Fine os $7.95 KANTOR’S Mens Shop | 2 Stradivari in “LIN A Stradivari Spun-Rayou Creation LOOKS LIKE LINEN FEELS LIKE LINEN WASHES LIKE LINEN has that clean, smooth feeling. lt emerges crisp and smart after very laundering. Wt is wrinkle- resistant, steam-tested, fade- proof, shrink-proof. In fact, the tradivari Strad-O-Lin Sport hirt has all of linen’s good quali- ties, none of its shortcomings. In your size, your sleeve length, in the new longer length that won't ide up out of your trousers, ORED SHIRTS Skilled Hands Can Make" Opposite Palace Theater just to break train- } We | like a good idea to me. New cheers have rolled in this year like the made the games more interesting A swell job, kids. Oh, by the way, the cheerleaders aren't all femin- j ine. Special notice should he given |to the boy cheerleaders who help. ed during the football season— ; Charles, La Clement Mc (®) Wirephoto MANAGING EDITOR KENNETH DIXON (left) of the Lake American Press, goes over briefs with his attorney, s, before going on trial in Lake Charles on charges of defaming 16 public officials and three gamblers during an anti-gambling crusade the | other cheerleaders of the district- | do Lopez, and Jimmy Cooper. hard for the Alma Mater. | Dixon is the first of five newsmen who will be tried on the same charges. Ralph Staves, Frank Veliz, Orlan- | ebrities, 1 think Mr. Whitley de- serves a cheer. There is the biggest Special mention should also go | bundle of school spirit I have ever to the letter girls who have worked ; had the pleasure of observing. He, |I'm sure, sets an example for us On to the tennis teams. As far as and helps raise our own school T can learn, the boys’ tennis team / spirit. Thanks, Mr. Whitley. is lying idle, and the girls squad! seems to be in a lull, too. Let's not age our racquets too much kids i As long as we're mentioning cel- Well that's it. My compliments to everyone who supported the team during football season, Let's all get in and pitch for basketball. tional new Steam or Gry tilled water, outside the iron—; You can go from steam to dry back again, instantly, and famous Sunbeam efficiency w tional size or weight. There See it demonstrated. 605 Simonton St. STEAM or DRY. STEAM OR DRY No measuring, filing No slopping or spilling The wonderful new answer to ALL your ironing problems. 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