Tell School Reunions

Submitted byHelen Barley-Baros

Steve  &  Mary  Rucker-Barley  (10 children) were early residents of the SHORES CREEK
Community,  which  consolidated  with the HIGH POINT School where Zada graduated. For
10th  grade,  students  were  moved  to  the  TELL High School. J.D., Donald, Helen &
Clarence graduated from TELL School - J.D. who was older than Zada was given a chance
to  play  basketball  at  TELL which was his choice. Donald, Helen & Clarence had the
choice  of  going  to  CHILDRESS  or TELL and never regretted their choice - Memories
survived  "WWII"  and the Reunion brought us back together. It has been a pleasure to
attend  the  TELL  Reunions from 1979 to the closing in 2007. TELL was an exceptional
School -we knew everyone in school not "just our classmates" we were friends with the
first graders as well as the upper classes.

At one reunion - James Richardson asked people to relate stories of their school days
-  in  1937  we  did  not  have handicap ramps - Claude Cheatham had Polio and was on
crutches  - the school had stairs to get into the upper classes. Asked how he managed
to  get  up the stairs for classes - he said he stood at the bottom of the stairs and
when  the  bell rang - a boy emerged on each side of him and put their arms under his
and  carried  him to class. Each time he had to use the stairs - the same was done to
enable  him  to  go to the playground and was helped to get on the bus to go home. He
very seldom missed a Reunion.

My  Class of 1939 celebrated their 50th Class Reunion arranged by Laura Smith (Plano,
TX),  R.T.  Spinks  (Corpus  Christi,TX)  Wayne  Pistole (Midwest City, OK) and Helen
Barley-Baros  (San Diego, CA) with 11 of 21 students attending along with 3 teachers.
We  continued  attending  and  6 of our class attending the Reunion of 2005 are still
keeping in touch with each other by phone in 2009. Also, I talk to 3 friends from 1st
grade at SHORES CREEK who chose to go from HIGH POINT to CHILDRESS to attend school.

Our  family  had - 5 brothers in US Service, 3 ARMY, 2 NAVY, however, 1 killed in the
Battle of the Bulge.

Our Education and Basketball was very important to kids on a farm in TEXAS.

Helen Barley-Baros 3560 Ottawa Ave. San Diego, CA 92117-5709 858-273-4554