Class of 1943

Officers:

Helen Hooper, President
Veldia Hooper, Vice President
Christine Strickland, Secretary-Treasurer
Eleanor Holden, Historian

Motto:
We finish to begin

Flower:
Carnation and Aster

Colors:
Scarlet and Yellow

Graduated with this Class:

Effie Anna Mae Crews
(09 Oct 1924-07 Mar 2001)

Virginia Louise Dunson
(08 Dec 1925-20 Nov 2005)

Horace Waldon (Custer) Durrance
(18 Jan 1924-30 May 2008)

Phynis Elizabeth Durrance
(13 Aug 1923-28 Sep 2017)

Eleanor Pearl Holden
(29 Jun 1926-29 May 2017)

Helen Kathryn Hooper
(30 Mar 1927-

Jessie Veldia Hooper
(20 Dec 1924-14 Jan 2014)

Leonard  Coveida Moody
(13 Jun 1923-27 Oct 2017)

Harry Halford (Hal) Murray
(12 Jun 1926-05 Dec 2019)

Anna Lee (Annie) McCraney
(31 Jul 1926-11 Nov 1979)

Laura Elizabeth (Polly) Pellicer
(03 Oct 1923-26 Sep 2013)

Christine (Chris) Strickland
(12 Feb 1925-30 Apr 2023)

Others with this Class:

Swint Bradbury
Robert Bratcher, (19 Mar 1923-24 May 1972)
Evelyn Clements, (22 Sep 1922-22 Nov 2003)
Martha Lou Clements, (22 Sep 1922-20 Mar 2007)
Tony Diaz
William Sanford (Billy) Dunson, (01 Mar 1924-12 Sep 1975)
Dorothy Florence Dupont, (23 Oct 1924-21 Oct 2003)
Doris Herring
Malcolm Leroy (Mickey) Johnson, Jr., (29 May 1925-14 Apr 1992)
John Francis (Johnnie) Kozak, Jr., (13 Jun 1925-14 Feb 2005)
William Chrsitie Luten, (30 Apr 1919-09 Feb 1984)
Margaret Martin
Virginia Lee (Jennie) McKenzie (20 Apr 1926-
Casmier J. Ociepka (01 Feb 1923-15 Sep 2001)
Francis Flagler (Frank) Ruark, (15 Jul 1924-17 Feb 1995)
Ann Rutherford
Eunice Sheeler
Doris Vickery, (21 Jul 1924-21 Jul 1961)
Wayne Wilbur Wallace, Jr., (25 May 1925-27 Oct 1996)
Eunice Wheeler

ADMINISTRATION

Prof J. F. Houck, Principal and Teacher - He died on Wednesday, 09 Dec 1942 and Nevoline Cowan became acting principal. She, for some reason or another, did not allow the Class of 1943 to have a Senior Prom to their great disappointment

FACULTY

Nevoline Cowan
Boze H. Kitchens
Walter Morris
Frank Reynolds
Anne Southerland
Vesa E. Stolbrand

 

SOURCES: Bunnell High School, 1917-1967 by Mary Ketus Deen Holland, 1992; Florida Death Index; Social Security Death Index; The Daytona Beach News-Journal, Daytona Beach, FL, 11 Jun 1999, 10 Nov 2001, 22 Feb 2009; The Flagler Tribune, Bunnell, FL, 01 Jun 1972, 18 Sep 1975, 07 Jul 1977.

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