From the files of May 23, 1957
Buddy Poppy Parade To Be Saturday
The annual Buddy Poppy Day parade, sponsored by the VFW post, will be held Saturday, May 25th at 2 P. M.
All officials of the city and county have been invited to participate. All Gold Star Mothers of the county, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, National Guard Units of Cullman and Hanceville will have special sections.
There will be two floats as well as special cars carrying various people, including Miss Frances Kirk, Cheer Club queen; Little Jeannie Lou Spearman, Poppy Queen, etc.
A color motif of red, white and blue will be featured in the parade.
To and Fro
Little League baseball try-outs will be held at 3 P. M. Saturday, May 25th at Cullman High School.
Among the some 400 students who will receive degrees at the 30th annual commencement exercises on May 29th at Bob Jones University, Greenville, S. C. is Carole Elizabeth Fowler. Miss Fowler, daughter of Virgil B. Fowler, 1201 Broadway, Cullman, is a candidate to receive the bachelor of arts degree from the University School of Religion. Miss Fowler has been a member of Bronte Literary Society.
The PTA of Holly Pond School sponsored a community fair last Thursday. All grades of the school had various displays of their work of the year and all high school departments had exhibits. There were also community exhibits ranging from a hand made plow to 150 year old hand made quilt. Homer Hays is retiring PTA president and Mrs. Jewell Smith the new president.
Among the twenty-three outstanding students in the Electrical Engineering College at the University of Alabama who were initiated into Theta Tau fraternity was Othel Horsley of Rt. 3, Cullman, who is a junior, a graduate of Hanceville High and is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon math honorary fraternity.
One Cullmanite, Mrs. Lizzie N. Daniel of Route 3, will be among those receiving Howard College Extension Division Certificates of Christian Training on Saturday, May 25th at the college. The commencement exercises will be followed by a luncheon honoring those receiving certificates with President and Mrs. Harwell Davis as hosts.
Two Cullman girls were among the 50 Howard College students who were recognized for scholastic achievement at Howard Honors Day last week. Joanne Brindley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brindley was one of the 20 high class honor winners and Anna Woodard McClain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Woodard, was one of the 30 class honor winners.
A Cullman senior at Howard College, Lowell Vann, has his best art work on exhibit at that college library for two weeks. He was also among members of Kappa Pi Art Fraternity exhibiting pictures in that fraternity’s Second Annual Sidewalk Art Exhibit last week.
The first CHS student to be awarded the plaque for scientific achievement is Harwell Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Holmes. The Kiwanis Club is presenting the plaque to be hung in the school hall and on which will each year be engraved the name of the senior making the most outstanding record in science. The award for 1956-57 was made to Harwell on Tuesday evening. He will enter API, Auburn this fall.
Elected secretary of her class at Howard College last week was Barbara Tompkins, daughter of Mrs. Gracie Tompkins of Cullman. She will leave next Monday with other members of the Howard Choir for Chicago, where they will sing for the Southern Baptist Convention.
Cullman firemen are proudly displaying a plaque which was sent to them from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for their “wonderful and unselfish work” in the 1956 fund raising campaign on behalf of the 200,000 victims of muscular dystrophy in this country.
Among the almost 500 candidates for bachelor’s degrees at Mississippi Southern College is William Conrad Martin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Martin, Sr. of Cullman. He will receive the Bachelor of Science degree at the 5:45 P. M. ceremonies Sunday, May 26th in the football stadium of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi college.
The Pony League opens its season today with two games. Managers for the season are Graf Hart, Indians; Claude Wood, Tigers; Brock Hendrix, White Sox and Homer Wesley, Yankees.
Some people collect stamps. — Others collect coins. — Mrs. Ott Burrow, hostess at the Palomino Motel, collects miniature horses. Her favorite is the one for which the Burrows’ business is named, the Palomino!
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From The TRIBUNE Files of 1917 & 1937
20 YEARS AGO
Congressman Luther M. Patrick, of Birmingham, will deliver the commencement address at Cullman High School on May 25th.
Hon. M. L. Robertson and Mayor J. A. Dunlap attended the annual meeting of the Alabama Bankers Association. The meeting was in Birmingham this week.
Marvin Kelley, Washington, D. C., attorney, has been admitted before the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Cullman High School and the University of Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Arnold announce the birth of a daughter, Ann, on May 22nd.
Judge Chauncey Sparks, of Eufaula, is being mentioned by many newspapers over the state as a potential candidate for governor in 1938.
The Daily Vacation Bible School at the First Baptist Church will begin on Monday, May 31st.
Simcoe defeated St. Bernard on Saturday by a score of 10 to 5. The game was at St. Bernard.
40 YEARS AGO
George Metz has been elected by the County Board of Education as county school superintendent. He succeeds Prof. D. V. Smith.
Prof. Albert Keller is an applicant for principal of the city public school.
Four people from Cullman are in Montgomery taking the Pasteur treatment after having been bitten by rabid dogs. They are Billie Beck and his little son, and John and Charley Nichols.
The Cullman High School faculty entertained at the home of Mrs. Mae Brown Thursday honoring the seniors, who are Misses Thelma Burnum, Dessie Bain, Amelia Hartung, Merle Stripling, Bertha Scheuing, Clara Newman, Messers Clark Griffith, Leon Gibbs, Arthur Messersmith, Jas. Ryan, Julius Lowery, Wm. Cobb, Ratio Gowens, Harry Scheuing, Joseph Yeager, Irving Patrick and Henry Horsley.
Miss Rufie Scott has returned from Montevallo where she has been attending college.
