Hunt Co., TX - Schools: The Blue Devils' Den ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** The Blue Devils' Den By Betty Perkins and Betty Chambliss Everyone knows, by now, that this is Public Schools Week. We had a full week of activity with a PTA meeting on Tuesday afternoon and Open House Thursday. All in all, we had a great number of visitors. The big event of the week was the all-school program on Thursday afternoon at 2:00 PM. This program was built around Texas Public Schools' Centennial Celebration. Each grade presented something pertaining to Texas and Texas Schools. ViAvia Roach, as narrator, coordinated the program nicely. The first grade symbolized bluebonnets, our state flower. The second grade gave an interesting version of the part the Indians played in Texas' history. Each member of the third grade depicted some famous person in Texas or our own community's history. The story of Texas under six flags was splendidly told by the fourth graders. Members of the fifth grade used costume and story to depict the types of people contributing to Texas folklore. The old-time camp meeting, typical of early Texas, was dramatized by pupils of the sixth grade. Seventh graders gave a Western skit. Texas is famous for its ranches and cattlemen. For entertainment, the early Texans had spelling bees, quilting parties, corn huskings, Fourth of July celebrations, weddings, and many other types of social gatherings, including parties, square dances or country sociables. The eighth grade pupils represented the "Country Sociable" type of party. Freshmen girls gave a pantomime showing how Jane Long outwitted the fierce Karankawa Indians. Freshmen boys portrayed the pirates. Sophomores gave a humorous version of an old-time Texas School. Junior and Senior students represented various departments of our high school. "The Inner Willy," the senior play is rapidly progressing. The seniors announce that they plan to give this hilarious comedy March 16th. You will not want to miss this laugh-provoking play. A number of our high school boys went down to Greenville last Friday afternoon where they participated in a track meet. Other schools having entries in the meet were Terrell, Bonham, Greenville, Mesquite, and Royse City. Our very own Jerry Sumrow out ran all other contestants to win the mile. Congratulations, Jerry, we are proud of you. Jimmy Lipsey and Jimmy Barnett are entered in the Royse City boxing tournament which is under way as this is written. Best of luck, fellows. During the week of February 22-26, the FFA Chapter observed National FFA Week. On Tuesday, we went to Fort Worth, where we visited the Stock Yards and the Swift Packing House. This trip proved very informative to each of us, and we enjoyed it a lot. We attended a movie in Greenville on Wednesday night. On Thursday night, we skated at the rink in Farmersville. We finished a very busy and enjoyable week with a big hobo stew on Friday night. Everybody at school and many of our visitors have been mostly complimentary of the homemaking girls' curtain-making project. The PTA bought lovely material for draw-drapes for the lunchroom windows, and the homemaking girls made the drapes. They came out very satisfactorily and look very lovely installed. Another nice recent project was our serving cooking hot chocolate and coffee at the Sinclair Show in the auditorium last week. We were able to earn some money for the department, and get some good experience all at the same time. Everybody in Elementary School has been busy working and having fun while getting ready for Public School Week. We thoroughly enjoyed doing our various assignments for the Thursday afternoon program. We had two new pupils Wednesday. They were Joyce Malone, in the fifth grade, and Charles Malone, a first grader. Welcome, Joyce and Charles. The second grade won the dollar this week for having the most mothers at PTA Tuesday afternoon. (March 5, 1954, The Celeste Courier) ------------------