Students Take Part In
Christmas Parade
December 3

  Wills Point’s annual Christmas parade looked like a school campus parade last Friday, December 3.
  The high school float, entitled “Up on the Housetop,” featured Santa Claus, Jerry Estes, with a bag of gifts going down the chimney.

  The junior high float emphasized how much they wanted a state football championship for Christmas. Riding the float were Ellis Robertson, Dale Scott, and Mike Lindsey, football players; Tommy Deen and Jack James, basketball players; and Lauree Longacre, Karen Furrh, Vicki Pratt, Karen Gunter, and Jeanette Ferguson, cheerleaders.
  The elementary school expressed the eagerness of Julie Allred, Nancy Hagler, and Janice Powers for Christmas to arrive in a big letter to Santa addressed to the North Pole.   

  The Latin Club added color and interest to the parade by having Ronald Evans and James McKnight roman slaves, pulling the chariot of Dale Travis. Two roman soldiers, Larry Geddie and Cary Conn walked beside the chariot.
  The FFA float featured Miss Peggy Vinson, FFA Sweetheart, seated in a sled. Greenhands Danny Day and Ted Jones were on the float with Peggy.

  The FHA float was entitled “Key to the Future.” Beauty was added to the theme by the appearance of Rosalee Hall, Willene Woolverton, Sherry Lasater, Cindy Moses, Donna Thompson, Polly McCully, and Martha Kinney dressed in white formals.

  The Student Council featured the Homecoming Queen Joyce McFarland and Duchesses Mary Woodruff, Dianne Deen, Peggy Vinson and Ginger Roberts. The girls rode in a red convertible.
  The Wills Point school lunchroom wished everyone a Merry Christmas. Their representatives were Brenda Truett, Linda Kennemer, Melanie and Kirk Wilson, Kathy Hall and Harold Sprague.
  The local MYF featured a large candle encircled by cedar branches with the slogan “May This Candle Enlighten Your Holiday Season.” Junior MYF members Susan and Sally Hollandsworth, Frances and Kathy Pierce, and Malia Ashley rode the float.
  The PTC float featured a world globe with “the children of the world” seated around it. The elementary students, dressed in appropriate native costumes, were Susan Burfoot, Marilyn Fuller, Kathy McLeod, Polly Jamieson, Jessie Gonzales, Bill Huff, Guy Herrin, James Lyons, and Jeremiah Webber.
  High school students driving cars and tractors pulling floats were Billy Parker, Glen Holt, Randy Rankin, Buddy Weathers, Donnie McFarland, Jimmy Langford, Jimmy Warren, Win Murrey, Jimmy Truett, and Dickey Mullin.

         ------- On To State Big Blue -------

Editors note: Folks the paper had me listed as being on two floats. As I remember it, I rode the FFA float. Also, I think that Dianne Deen rode the Football Sweetheart float but she and I both were duchesses ... we just didn't get to ride with them in the parade! ~~Peggy

Dear Santa: I am four years old and have tried to be good this year! My stocking will be over the fireplace at my grandparents, Goggy and Dade Wingo’s house. Please fill it with candy and bubble gum, a metal cement mixer, and tow truck, boat, raceway, and some records. Remember my cousins Tim and Phillis will be in Wills Point with me— I love you, Stephen David Joyce.

Dear Santa: My name is Carolyn Sue and I am 4 ½ years old. I have been a good girl and hope you will come to see me. Please bring me a Baby Boo doll, some dishes for my playhouse and a cleaning set. Bring anything else you think I’d like. I love you. – Carolyn Sue Rice.

Dear Santa: My name is Little Joe. I am 1 ½ years old and hardly know about you yet. If you come though, please bring me some little boy’s toys. I need guns, cars, and trucks at my home. I love you – Joe Martin Rice, III

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12 Senior Girls Take
Betty Crocker Test For
Scholarship Award

The “Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow Test” was given December 7 to the senior girls who were interested. The person who scores the highest in the state will receive a $1,000 scholarship to the college of her choice. Those taking the test were Polly McCully, Linda Flanagan, Carolyn Ferguson, Linda Gunter, Sheila Barnes, Linda Earnheart, Paula Furrh, Barbara Shelby, Ginger Roberts, Pat Truelock, Janet Baker and Pat Frost. The test was a multiple choice and essay on personal attitude and personality.

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Breakthroughs Created
By Furrh and Longacre

With the aid of butcher paper, paints, marks-alots and a wild imagination, Paula Furrh and Walter Longacre have created impressive and colorful 9’ x 10’ breakthroughs for several of the Tiger games. The games were Homecoming, Bi-District, Regional, Quarter Finals, and the State playoff game Saturday night. “We always enjoy making them because we want the boys to know that everyone is behind them,“ stated Paula and Walter.

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The Great Deer Hunt
or “Billy’s Big Kill!”

One of the Wills Point High School’s sharpest shooters, Billy Parker, gunned it down to Hawkins over the holidays to prove his marksmanship at deer hunting.
  As luck would have it, Billy, the greatest shot in the west, (so he says) didn’t kill a thing all day Thursday, but bad luck didn’t keep our trooper down.
  Friday morning he was back in the ‘woods’ stalking his prey. Then, without warning, he raised his trusty gun and downed a seven point buck.
  Being the strong, able bodied person he is, Billy decided to carry his “prize” back to his car two and one-half miles away. Over hills and through bushes he crashed his way like an early pioneer until finally he reached his car and drove off with his meals for the next two months.

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Tiger Tattler

  Ronnie Travis, are you back to your baby-sitting days again?
  Carolyn Ferguson wishes to make an apology to the Tiger Cat in order to win $20. She will not marry in the fall.
  Dianne, did you and Peggy get a homemaking lesson Friday, when you went to cut a Victory Apple?
  Mr. Turner, did you enjoy coaching the basketball players at Van Saturday night?
  Danny Mapes, is it true you were Santa Claus in the Christmas parade?
  Richard, couldn’t you sharpen Dianne’s pencil for the SAT test in Tyler Saturday?
  John Allen, you must have meant it when you said that you were going to keep the money you get for selling papers.
  Lynda Rusk, what are you trying to prove by running out of gas three times in one week?
  Ronnie, what happened to your eye? Did Jeanie get after you?
  Pat Truelock gets attention one way or the other, even if she has to faint.
  The major cause of all the power failures is the fact that all American women forget to pay the light bill at the same time.
  Paula to Walter: If it is at all possible, please don’t make this week’s break through look like modern art, like last weeks!
  If anyone knows of a 12x12 floor space, please notify Paula and Walter.  
  Bonnie Rushing has a new way to remember how to spell arithmetic: “A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Turkey In Church.”
  Mary Woodruff, why were you and Nelda Penny so happy Monday? Could it be that a certain senior girl was absent?
  Joyce, shame on you for making Jimmy hitchhike just to come home from college.
  The Tattler would like to thank Chuck Allen, Ted Jones, Billy Parker, Dale Martin, Billy Morgan, Lynda Rusk, and Libby Craft for preparing the great bonfire for the game. Also thanks to Mr. Carl Rusk for the use of his wrecker to put up the adornment on top.
  Fanny: Mac, do you know why it takes three Aggies to pop popcorn? Mac: No. why? Fanny: One to hold the skillet and two to shake the stove.
  Who is the girl that’s real crazy about a certain Edgewood football player but doesn’t yet want to go steady with him? Could it be N.E.P. and D. J. V.?

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Catching up with...

This month our featured classmate from school is Donna Whitehead and we all remember her as Donna Dewees and Donna Rankin, Class of ‘69
  Donna married her sweetheart, Randy Rankin in the winter of 1967. They were both still in high school. They went on to finish out the school year with Randy graduating in the spring but after that year like the good little wife that she was, Donna stayed at home. Their daughter Pam was born that fall and son Rusty came along in 1970. She and Randy stayed in Wills Point and went into business. She took care of the ‘bookwork’ end of the business; they worked together and raised their children. Then in 1979 they learned that Randy had cancer and eight years later in 1987, she lost him to the disease. Shortly after his death, she sold the business and went to work in a doctor’s office. Donna stayed there for seven years until she bought the Flower Shop in Edgewood. After eight years she sold the shop and has been working for Hiett’s Lybrand Funeral Home for eighteen months. She says that she loves her job and the Hiett’s are great people to work for!
  Her children have been her life and salvation. Pam (WPHS Class of ’86) has two daughters, Cassie who is a sophomore in WPHS and on the National Honor Society and Kylie who is in the 5th grade. Rusty (WPHS Class of ’89) has a son, Rustin who is in the 3rd grade. And of course, Grandma couldn’t be prouder!
  In December 2003 Donna was diagnosed with breast cancer. And after losing Randy to cancer, it was one of the darkest hours of her life. She feared for her children and grandchildren but after chemo and many prayers from family and friends she is a breast cancer survivor.
  Brother Steve Dewees, class of ’66 had a good friend who lived in Mesquite named Wayne Whitehead. He was one of her brother’s rodeo buddies and Donna had known him for many years. After time had passed they began to date and finally married. Donna and Wayne have been together for 16 years and her life is complete once again.
  When it comes to retirement Donna thinks that she’s not good at that. “I did all of my staying at home when the kids were little. I like to be out and about now”. She likes what she does and says that she eats too much when she stays home!
  Her proudest moments since school are all about her children and grandchildren. “I can’t imagine my life without them!” Donna has no regrets. She says that throughout her life, especially since she lost Randy, she’s tried to take everything that has come to her as a learning experience and something that was God’s purpose for her. 
  Her life in five words or less.... Great & very blessed!

Donna’s memories:
1) How do you remember WPHS? Lots of fun!
2) What was a fun Saturday night for you back then? Being with Randy.
3) What is a fun Saturday night for you now? Usually going out to eat and ending up at Wal Mart.
4) What’s the funniest thing that you remember about WPHS? The first year that we integrated Tommy Seale told John Spencer that he was a magician. One day out on the playground (this was all pre-arranged) Tommy pretended to turn Jimmy Truett into a frog. Jimmy got down on his all fours and started ‘croaking’. I’ll never forget the way John looked.
5) What was your proudest moment in school? Being with Randy made me proud.
6) What is a secret that we never knew? Don’t think that I had any.
7) Who did you have a crush on and they never knew it? Warren Jamieson. I was supposed to go to a party with him and he got sick ... I went with Randy and it was Randy from then on.
8) Did you ever cheat on a test? Oh yeah!
9) Who was your best friend? I had many ... Carolyn Corbett, Nelda Barnett, Donna Thompson, Diane Dewees, and Phyllis Hampton.
10) What’s the craziest thing that you ever did together? Most of our craziness was after we were out of school.
11) Who was your favorite teacher? Mr. Roberts
12) What did that teacher teach you that wasn’t in a book? After Randy and I married everyone was telling us that we were too young. One morning Mr. Roberts took me aside and congratulated me. He told me that if that is what we wanted to do, that it was fine. He had faith in us when others didn’t and he taught me to be true to myself.
13) What is your biggest regret? I wish that I had been friendlier to people.
14) Your very best moment in high school? The night that we won state. That whole year was magical.
15) If you could go back for a day, what would you do different? I would pay more attention in class.

It's Christmas in Wills Point!

I found these Christmas lights in Vicki Bridges, class of '68, parents front yard. They are proud to be from Texas .... ya'll!

For anyone who lives out of the state now you know what you can put in your yard next Christmas!

I was driving around and just happened by Wayne Langford's home, class of '66.

He and wife Linda have really done some work on their yard. They even had a stagecoach that was being pulled by several horses! It was the best yard I've seen yet!

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