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\"Cisco<\/a>\u00a0 the Cisco pool<\/em><\/p>\n

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Senior trips for Breckenridge High School were one -day trips near the end of the school year.\u00a0 In the thirties and forties, the seniors went to Cisco.\u00a0 The 25 -mile trip took them to an outstanding recreation area, a swimming pool behind the base of the dam which created Lake Cisco.\u00a0 It was known as the world\u2019s largest concrete swimming pool. (It was actually a natural bottom pool with concrete sides.) \u00a0The dam was hollow, and the brave could walk through the center. \u00a0The highway from Cisco to the neighboring town of Moran was atop the dam. \u00a0Beside the pool was a two story building which housed concessions and dressing rooms on the lower level and a roller skating rink on the upper level.\u00a0 The pool closed in the seventies and the roller rink burned several years later.<\/p>\n

At that time, the Breckenridge seniors rode to Cisco on a cattle trailer with the sideboards removed.\u00a0 There were bales of hay for them to sit or lean on.\u00a0 \u00a0The trucks traveled slowly.\u00a0 There was no hurry.\u00a0 They sang and had a good time as they rode along.\u00a0 No one fell off and there probably was no horse play.\u00a0 My older brother, Carroll Williams, was in high school by the time I was old enough to wave as the truck went by our home. \u00a0We lived one mile out of town on the Cisco highway (US hwy 183). \u00a0\u00a0My mother would stand in front of the house with me. \u00a0As the truck went by, I would wave, and the seniors would wave to \u201cCarroll\u2019s little sister.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0At some point, the seniors began traveling on school buses.\u00a0 It was safer and faster.\u00a0 The classes continued going to Cisco during the forties.<\/p>\n

The class of 1950 desired a change.\u00a0 They wanted to go to Forest Park in Fort Worth. The senior class sponsor was Kate Bailey.\u00a0 She had reigned for several years by this time and was described by some as strict and unyielding.\u00a0 When the matter was brought up in class meetings, there was little discussion and no class vote.\u00a0 There was only one vote and that vote belonged to Kate Bailey.\u00a0 It was NO, and the discussion ended.\u00a0\u00a0 The class realized that it was a dead issue with their sponsor. They did not give up easily.\u00a0 They began to make their own plans.\u00a0 Every class member who had access to a car was to take other class members and they would go to Fort Worth without the blessing of their sponsor. Senior Day arrived and the parking lot was full of cars.\u00a0 Each class member knew with whom they were to ride.\u00a0 The buses were waiting.\u00a0 The class officers approached Mrs. Bailey and told her that they were going to Fort Worth.\u00a0 Her response was that if they did, it would be the first time in the history of Breckenridge High School that there would be no graduating class.\u00a0 They began walking to the cars and were preparing to depart when she asked them to wait.\u00a0 She relented.\u00a0 They left their cars and boarded the buses.\u00a0 They became the first class to go to Forest Park in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

Two students in the class of 1951 decided to take their own trip instead of going to Fort Worth.\u00a0 By the time the buses were loading on Senior Day, they were in Carlsbad, New Mexico, waiting for the first tour of Carlsbad Caverns to begin.\u00a0 My husband, Ken, who had graduated in 1950, was with them.\u00a0 The trio toured the caverns and afterward returned to Breckenridge.\u00a0 When the two boys went to school the next morning, they were expelled and told they would not graduate because they did not go on the trip and didn\u2019t stay in class.<\/p>\n

Early the following morning, one of the boys and his Dad were waiting for superintendent John Bailey when he arrived for work.\u00a0 The boy\u2019s father invited Mr. Bailey into his car for a discussion. \u00a0When Mr. Bailey exited the car, the boys were no longer expelled.\u00a0 Both returned to class and graduated.<\/p>\n

The class of 1952 traveled to Fort Worth in a moving van owned by local businessman, Vanno Carey.\u00a0 They had hay bales inside for sitting and lounging.<\/p>\n

(Breckenridge ex-students provided the information on trips after I graduated in 1953.)<\/p>\n

The trips to Forest Park in Fort Worth continued through the fifties and sixties.<\/p>\n

One responder said that some of the guys in the late sixties got to go to Southeast Asia.\u00a0 Another just said \u201cWent to Vietnam on my senior trip.\u201d\u00a0 He did not have a fun trip but said, \u201chad a wonderful time returning home.\u201d<\/p>\n

A person from the class of 1968 wrote that they went to Forest Park and were threatened within an inch of their lives if they boozed it up like the class of 1967.\u00a0 There would never be another senior trip ever if they messed up.\u00a0 \u00a0No one from the class of \u201967 commented on that.\u00a0 However, another member of the class of 1968 said that the class had a great time at Forest Park Zoo and he was going to leave it at that.\u00a0 Someone else agreed that he should do just that.<\/p>\n

Forest Park and the Zoo were still the destination in 1970.\u00a0 Reportedly a class member watching the orangutans laughed so hard he was in tears<\/p>\n

I believe that the class of 1971 was the first class to go to the Six Flags Over Texas Theme Park.<\/p>\n

The class of 1972 went to Six Flags.\u00a0 Miss Ola Frazier was the class sponsor and she told them to be back at the bus at a certain time or be left behind.\u00a0 In the words of a class member, \u201cShe wasn\u2019t kidding.\u201d\u00a0 This was the class of my niece, Margaret Stewart.\u00a0 She said she doesn\u2019t remember whether she had fun.\u00a0 Leaving friends behind in a large city is what she remembers.\u00a0 One of the guys had an older brother that lived in the area and he picked them up.\u00a0 She says she later asked them if they were worried.\u00a0 The answer was, no, they just stayed inside and rode some more rides.\u00a0 She asked, \u201cCan you imagine what would happen today if students were left behind at a school event?\u201d\u00a0 My first thought was, termination.<\/p>\n

The class of 1973 went to Six Flags and had much fun in their bell -bottomed hip huggers.\u00a0 Six Flags was the destination through 1978.\u00a0 The class of 1977 was supposed to go to the Seybold Guest Ranch in Mineral Wells, but the trip was changed a couple of days before senior day\u00a0so they also went to Six Flags.\u00a0 They also took a side trip to North Fort Worth because of a wrong turn\u00a0at the Mix Master in downtown Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

The class of 1979 did go to the Seybold Guest Ranch in Mineral Wells.\u00a0 They tubed down the Brazos River, or as one class member put it, \u201cwe were thrown into the river to float down on inner tubes.\u201d\u00a0 It was cold and someone said they should have had a beverage to warm up.\u00a0 The response was, \u201cI believe some of us did.\u201d\u00a0 Someone else remarked that the class should have gone to Six Flags.<\/p>\n

The last trips made were in the early eighties to\u00a0 Six Flags.\u00a0 There were no trips in the mid and late eighties.\u00a0 \u00a0 There was one mention of a trip in 1997, but it was not school sponsored.\u00a0 A company came and offered a trip to Cancun, Mexico, and a few students went.<\/p>\n

The trips are a \u201cthing of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sincere thanks to members of the facebook group, Remember in Breckenridge When,<\/u> for the information which they furnished.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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