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Class of 1915
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About the first of April,
eighteen male voices were added to the
organization, forming the present "Glee Club,"
which rendered a double number at a joint session
of the societies.
With the support of Grace
Higgins at the piano, Edwin Seiser with his
clarionet, and Angie Demaree with her violin, the
efforts of the club have been pronounced quite
successful. This reputation, however, was won only
by the incessant labors of the directress.
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Choral Club
Early in January, 1915, a few of
the vocally talented girls of the high school
organized a choral club, electing Marion Paul as
president, and Ethel Williams, secretary. Work was
begun with spirit under the leadership of Miss
Nannie Mer buck.
The club made its debut at an
open meeting of the several literary societies.
Their second appearance was made at a lecture by
Miss Gearing, the State Domestic Science Inspector,
from Austin.
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Not in order: Minnie Carpenter, Nina Dawson,
Willie Mae Estes, Mary Gerlach, Berma Goolsby, Lael
Gretzinger, Ilione Morrow, Mayme Hudson, Dorothy
Norris, Floy Roots, Gladys Spicer, Grace St. Clair,
Louise Wolff, Vivian Ballard, Ruth Pursley, Tennie
Morrow.
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Diotimian Society
Pres. - Dorothy
Norris
Vice Pres.- Nina
Dawson
Sec. & Treas.- Ethel
Williams
Sergeant-at-Arms -Gladys
Spicer
Critic- Miss
Rogan
The Society was formed
primarily for the purpose of training the Senior
girls for the interscholastic declamation contest.
Illione Morrow and Gladys Spicer were chosen to
represent this society in the school preliminaries.
Gladys Spicer represented the school in the Cameron County contest,
held at Brownsville, in which she won second
place.
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HomeEconomics
First Homemaking Class in San
Benito High School. Teacher was Mrs. Bellinger,
mother of Boyd Brooks, who had a hardware store at
that time.
Not in order: Grace (Higgins) Fitch, Beulah
(Driver) Bowman, Floy Roots, Tennie Morrow, Cecil
Dye, Neta (Carpenter) Sherer, Florrie (Robinson)
Manning, Illione Morrow, Isabel Roever and Angie
(Demaree) Taylor.
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Not in order: Genevieve Buck, Florrie
Robinson, Clara Agee, Edith horkman, Erie Prentill,
Lucile Glover, Nellie Robinson, Carolyn Whitney,
Lois McChesney, Celeste Long, Ruth Carter, Ruth
Kindig, Grace Higgins, Ruth Thacker, Eva Pfeifer,
Olive Barge, Ruth Talbot, Lucile Smith, Marion
Paul, Nyra Smith, Nita Carpenter, Marion McChesney,
Willard Harris, Iona Stephenson, Frances Espey,
Grace Harris.
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Erisophian
Society
Pres. Genevieve
Buck
Sec. & Treas.
Marion Paul
Fac. Rep. C.E.
Thomas
The object of this
society is to study things that give culture and
refinement to its members as well as mutual
pleasure.
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Not in order: Lyle Estes, Phillip
Brown, George Boyle, Pousette Pohner, Robert
Brooks, Robert Hollingsworth, Fulton Dye, Roy
Caldwell, Paul Hornbeck, Oscar Mertz, Russell
Whitney, Bryan Stephenson, Bryan Long, Levi
Robinson, Edwin Seiser, Jack Norris, Clifford
Davis, John Kuhn, Roswell Bohner, Guy Craig,
Cleveland Wheelus, Dewey Welch, Edward Robinson,
Frank Prue.
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Rotary
Pres. Robert
Brooks
Sec. & Treas.
Fulton Dye
Sergeant-at-Arms Lyle
Estes
Fac. Rep. F. L.
Flynn
This organization literally sprang into
existence this year and has been setting the pace
ever since. Its membership includes all the larger
boys in the high school and a few "frosh." In
fulfilling its purpose as a debating and
declamation society representatives from this
society won first place in all the county contests
in debate and declamation among the boys and first
place in the district debate and in the Junior
declamation and second place in the senior boys'
declamation contest. It must also be mentioned
that the membership of this club won county
championship in football, baseball and track. This
organization has the distinction of sending the
first debating team from the Lower Rio Grance
Valley to the state meet at Austin.
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Agricultural Class
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