1. Your Worst Nightmare!
POP QUIZ
50 years
later

2. POP QUIZ RULES
•You are required
to CHEAT.
•YELL out
the answers!!

3. PART I
Name That Teacher

4. Name that teacher, amigos.

5. Senorita Dean taught Spanish
( and perhaps Mexican hat dancing)

6. These teachers had
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
for you . . .
Miss
Burnaby
Mrs. Harvey

7. Who’s this teacher
. . .
and what is
Doug Tomblin
showing her
on his iPhone????

8. Mrs. Pickell must have been very
proud of her speech students!!
Which two are our classmates?
Doug
Tomblin
Tom
Taylor

9. WHO IS THIS and who’s he
fixin’ to call to the office?

10. How many times did we hear Mr. Floyd say,
“Mr. Siros, Mr. Siros, report to the office.“
Mr. Floyd,
Assistant Principal
Mr. Siros,
Custodian

11. Mr. Floyd apparently
wasn’t very good at
enforcing dress code!
Anybody remember “David and the Hicks”?

12. Did the faculty have a dress code too?
Not for the
Womanless Wedding!
Mr.
Neville
Coach
Billy Ray
Adams

13. If you don’t
know this one,
you’re going
down,
down,
down
like the
Titanic!!

14. Miss McFarland, math
Miss
Mac
Is David Linscomb
losing his marbles
in math class?

15. Who are they?
What did they teach?
“Big Al”
“Baby Ruth”

16. English teachers
Miss Cashen Mrs. Mills
“Big Al” “Baby Ruth”

18. And a one, and a two – who are these
directors?
Mr. Meehan and Mr. Hutchinson

19. Can you “figure out” the next two?
Mrs. Davis and Mr. Compton,
math teachers

20. Anybody remember this guy?
He was a newcomer to
South Park in 1962.
He dressed funny, but we
learned to love him.
SPARKY, mascot of
South Park High School

21. Hey, Kenny Ogden, Jimmy Wheat, Jackie Baxter,
Richard Cook ---- WHERE are you taking our mascot?
Industrial Arts
Honor Guard
escorts Sparky
to South Park
football
games.

22. What ever happened to Sparky?
• Under the protection of another Honor
Guard (NOT OURS!) Sparky fell off the back
of a truck and was damaged beyond repair
while riding home from a football game in
Pasadena in 1971.
• His successor lives at the South Park Heritage
Museum. Greenie spirit never dies!!

23. Hey, what
are you
kids doing
here??
I thought
we got
rid of y’all
50 years
ago!
Dr. Jones,
our
beloved
principal

24. Don’t be
stupidus,
-- a, -- um!
Learn your
Roman
landmarks
from
WHOM??

25. Mrs. Emmons had the
highest standards for
her Latin students.

26. WHO taught French . .
. and sponsored
L’Academie Francais?

27. She taught German too –
Jawohl, das ist Frau Buller.
Officers Lilyan
Goode,
Melancon,
Helmke, and
McBride
with Chef Heinz
and Frau Buller

28. Who
sponsored
these guys?
Pity the poor
teacher who
got stuck
with V chapter
Hi Y.
Recognize
anybody?

29. Who taught you to cook and sew?
Mrs. Himel and Mrs. Davidson

30. If you remember this teacher,
just sing it out.
Choir director
Mrs. Scarpa

31. Are these teachers
“just your type”?
Mrs. Faris,
typing and shorthand
Mr. Lively, typing

32. Menace to
society? Yep,
your driver’s ed
teacher . . .
Coach
Kimbrough

33. Coach Anders and Mr. Folmer
(history) (chemistry)

34. Did you
love her,
or did she
BUG you?
Miss
Simpkins --
Biology

35. Some say this one “REALLY takes the
cake.” Who is she??
Office workers just LOVE
picking up attendance
slips from Miss Ross!

36. Good job, Greenies!!
And now for PART II

37. Part II: GEOGRAPHY
NAME THAT PLACE

38. What used to be HERE, at the corner
Of Highland, Washington and
Port Arthur Road?

39. The PIG STAND

40. What used to be HERE at the corner of
College and 11th Street??

41. Pizza made its debut here in 1958
Vic and Al’s

42. Vic & Al’s was located between
Gateway and what landmark?

43. Vic and Al’s was conveniently located
on THE CIRCLE

44. What used to be HERE, across
from SPHS on Highland Avenue?

45. Ever grab a drink at THE DRUG STORE
after school?
Highland Avenue Pharmacy

46. Susan
Wennerbom,
Madelyn
Gibbs and
Charlotte
Spinks . . .
sipping pink
ladies and
cherry cokes

47. What used to be HERE, on Highland,
near Sno-Wiz and Paul’s?

48. Lamar Theater
Saturday matinee – so fine!

49. Another good place to spend Saturday
morning . . .
The Organ
Club

50. Or Saturday DATE NIGHT
Can you name the other 2 movie theaters?

51. Did you come over the back fence, or in
the trunk, or actually pay to drive in?

53. What great historic event occurred
here – at City Auditorium?

54. GRADUATION!!

55. What used to be here???
4500 Highland Avenue

56. South Park High School
1915-1986

57. The wrecking ball arrived on Good
Friday, 2010.

58. South Park, South Park
Dear old South Park

59. Time the change may bring

60. Still the name of South Park High School
Ever more we’ll sing.

61. Photo Credits
• Spindletop yearbooks
•1961-1964
• Google images
• Sherrysharp.com
• South Park Heritage Association
• RandyWellborn.com

62. Thanks, yearbook staff 1963-64!!
Ruth Ann Cookie Muffy
Sharon Becky Carol