| | Junior,Senior,Alumni Banquet One of the highlights of the school year was the Junior, Senior, Alumni Banquet. Bigger high schools had proms but most Russett students didn't dance and so we had a banquet. Sometimes we had a band that played after the meal but very few danced. The banquet was a community affair. The Ladies Home Demonstration Club cooked the meal, the sophomores served and the junior/senior class honored the alumni. It was a great time. Being toward the end of school things seemed to be a bit more relaxed as the students busied themselves decorating the gym. Each year the classes would come up with different themes for the decorations. Below are some photos of these banquets. Click on the thumbnail photo to view it enlarged. Click on the arrows to show more thumbnails.
Sophomores Serving 1943-1944 Banquet Home Demonstration Club - 1947. Preparing the Junior/Senior/Alumni Banquet Food Sophomores - 1950
Serving Jr/Sr/Alumni Banquet
Junior/Senior/Alumni Banquet - 1951 1952 Banquet - Russett Faculty and Wives
Imogene Dake is the one to the far right and the one coming through the archway to the far right is Fern Easterwood. Can you identify the others?
(Photo Courtesy June Boyer)
(Photo Courtesy June Boyer) (Photo Courtesy June Boyer) From right to left: Geraldine Cumbie, Ora Lee Turbyfill, Cleo Jones, Grace Sutton, Jewell Hall, Carrie Easterwood, Belle Lemons, Blondell Alexander, Belle Hood, Lucelle Owens, Mary May, Bertha Ritchey.
(Photo Courtesy Wayne Easterwood) Left to Right: Front Row: Ina Fay Scruggs, Joy Scruggs, Lometa Word
Back Row: Jerry Heny, Lawrance Wilcox, Dale O'Steen, Delton Benge Left to Right:Louis Easley, James Behrens, Jerry Henry, J K Biles, (Hidden - Lometa Word, Delois Coffman), Billy Jo Clark, Dale O'Steen, Donald Serner
(Photo Courtesy Jim O'Steen) (l-r) Donald Murk, Pete Littlepage and BB Smith
(Photo Courtesy Larry Wilcox) Left to Right: Front Row: Codeen Looney, Lavella Smith, Mary Jane Smith, Mary Covington
Back Row: Jackie Cumbie, Ollie Gray, Ruel ?
(Photo Courtesy Wayne Easterwood)
Sophomores Serving 1943-1944 Banquet
Imogene Dake is the one to the far right and the one coming through the archway to the far right is Fern Easterwood. Can you identify the others?
(Photo Courtesy June Boyer)
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