Goree, TX High School Class of 1939
Submitted by Linda Horton
Goree
GOREE, May 6.--Members of the senior class of Goree high school will have charge
of their commencement program to be held Monday evening, May 22. Baccalaureate
service will be on Sunday, May 21. Speaker for the occasion has not been
designated.
Class members are:
Thena M. Hutchens, valedictorian
Francis Mayfield, salutation
Claude Maloney, class president
Julia Ann Good
Christine Jones
Billy D. Morton
Clifton Butler
H. D. Arnold is school superintendent and J. H. Bardwell is principal.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, TX 7 May 1939
Goree, TX High School Class of 1945
Submitted by Linda Horton
Goree to Graduate 10 Seniors May 25.
MUNDAY, May 18.--(AE)--Ten graduates of Goree high school will receive diplomas
in graduation exercises Friday night, May 25. The program will begin at 9 p.m.
Graduates are:
Mary Jo Arnold
Peggy Noris
Johnnie Williams
Barbara Barger
Tommy Coffman
Billy Joe Wright
Wayne Payne
Leo Koenig
Dalton Jones
Billy Frank Moore
Baccalaureate service will be held at the high school auditorium on Sunday
night, May 20, at 8:45 o'clock. The Rev. J. Wald Griffin, former Goree pastor,
will preach the sermon.
Graduates will deliver the program at the exercises on May 25. Highlight of this
program will be a tribute to the ex-students in the service and presentation of
diplomas.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, TX 19 May 1945
Goree, TX High School Class of 1950
Submitted by Linda Horton
Goree to Graduate 11 Seniors May 26
MUNDAY, May 20, (RNS)--Eleven graduates of Goree High School will receive their
diplomas in the graduation exercises on Friday evening, May 26.
Honor graduates are, Virginia Anne Arnold, valedictorian and Douglas Allen
Moore, salutatorian.
The baccalaureate service will be held on Sunday evening, May 21, at eight
o'clock, with the Rev. S. Y. Allgood, pastor of the Goree Methodist Church,
delivering the sermon.
A. W. Akins will deliver the address at the commencement exercises on Friday
evening, May 26, and diplomas and awards will be presented by James C. Carver,
principal.
Both exercise will be held in the Goree school auditorium.
Seniors who will receive their diplomas are:
Virginia Anne Arnold
Margaret Jean Bowman
Anna Joyce Brogden
Joel Lynn Coffman
Gypsy Lee Decker
Billy Dolan Moore
Douglas Allen Moore
Kenneth Roberts
Joyce Dean Weir
Margaret J. Williams
Edith Rosella Wilson
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, TX 21 May 1950
Munday, TX Ward School Honor Roll 1st-7th
Grades, May 1927
Submitted by Linda Horton
HONOR ROLL FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR EIGHTH MONTH.
The honor roll for this month as made up of all students who have, during the
month made an average of 90 or better. Some of these named have averaged nearly
100, which is very extraordinary. We assure you the students whose names you see
here, are students who rank far above the average in the school work. It is a
great pleasure to have such a large number on the honor roll this month, because
that shows us that there is lots of work being done.
A. D. STARLING, Principal Ward School.
Low First
Wanda June Williams
Ellen Frances Mauldin
Lois Williams
Alice Palmer
Lillian Lair
Lanerna Eiland
Dorothy Floyd
Emilly Little
Glenn Dobbs, Jr.
Marvin Fomby
Preston Ingram
Bobbie Barton
Joe Isbell
High First
Plummer Edwards
Sidney Johnston
Woodrow Worthington
Allen Little
Vera Harrison
Katherine Harlan
Opal Pippin
Ophia Pruitt
L. B. Lee
Irene Roddan
Laverne Rowell
Ruby Lee Yeager
D. E. Holder
Gladys Curry
Second Grade
Geraldine Campbell
Nadine Johnson
Lucille Neff
Nell Marle Wiley
Fred Broach
Bruce Duval
Joe Lynn Kethley
W. R. Moore
Rupert Williams
Willard Bauman
Irene Brewer
Darwin Campbell
Glenn Wallace Kennedy
Martha Hammond
Leroy Phillips
Ruby Mullican
Roy McNeil
Troy Harrell
Jessie Rose Wallace
Trudelle McKiney
Third Grade
Billie Dingus
Gordan James Barnes
Lillian Burns
Betsy Reeves
Margaret Whittemore
Janel Williams
Dale Rankin
M. B. Caughran
Drucilla Wren
Ray D. Burnett
Maxine Lane
Florene Kendall
Mary Eva Rigsby
Fourth Grade
Bonnie Scott
Inez Campbell
Hazel Clough
Docia Phillips
Virginia Bess Atkeison
Buster Brown
Billie True Hill
Myrtle McNeil
Jerry Kethley
Fifth Grade
Lowry Rigsby
Emma Lucille Seifert
Katherine Milam
Mary Adelaide Barton
Pauline Gray
Barbara Eiland
Sixth Grade
Mavoureen Reeves
Marie Spelce
Vincent Lane
Willie Belle Cardon
Billie Wiley
Robert Reeves Wyche
Dolores Campbell
Dorothy Matlock
Elnor Jungman
Ethel Isbell
Lucille Lowrance
Seventh Grade
Marjorie Harris
Blanche Newsome
Madalene Spelce
Margaret Campbell
Hazel Deane Eiland
Helen Frances Eiland
Clarence Morgan
Frankie Redwine
Opal Russell
Mary Hope Smith
The Munday Times, Munday TX 5 May 1927
Munday, TX High School Class of 1927
Submitted by old yearbooks
David Chase Eiland
Lois Wyche
Helen Elizabeth Smith
Clara Webb
James Lloyd Bowen
James Price Tolson
Conway Owen McKenzie
Stanley W. McCarty
Lois E. Bowden
Earnest Salman Ameen
Jaunita Reid
Jewel Rosvell Stephen
Kate Ledbetter
Cecil L. Blanton
Nolley Craft Farrington
Walter David Counts
Alvin Taft Hughes
Margaret Ann Keele
Lillian Milam
Charles Welton Parker
Clyde Mitchell Brewer
Charles Wain McGlothlin
Class Roster extracted from "Graduation Exercises for Munday High School Will Be
Held Sunday and Monday : Twenty-three Graduates Will Receive Diplomas," in the
The Munday Times, Munday TX 26 May 1927
Knox County, TX School Teachers 1938-39
Submitted by Linda Horton
W. C. Cunningham is superintendent of the Benjamin school of 245 students. Other
members of the faculty are Wendell Watson, Francis Basye, Francis Diersing,
Voyal Vaughan, Mrs. R. C. Ferguson, Bliss Miller and Oleta Thompson and Mrs. W.
C. Cunningham.
Edward Adams is principal of the Cottonwood, located east of Vera. Eighty
students attend the three-teacher school. High school pupils go to Vera and
Benjamin. Other members of the faculty are Mrs. Edward Adams and Mrs. R. L.
McMahon.
101 AT HEFNER
Eva Jones and Mrs. Lucille Marlow are teachers in the Hefner school, seven miles
northeast of Goree, which has an attendance of 101. High school students attend
Goree.
There are 138 scholastics at Gilliland, in the northeast part of the county,
where nine grades are taught. Sam H. Thompson is superintendent of the following
faculty: Forest B. Carter, Mary Strothers, Mrs. Sybil C. Thompson, Elizabeth
Parris. Classes have been held in temporary buildings since the school was
destroyed by fire two months ago.
One of the county's largest rural schools is located at Rhineland. There are 159
pupils in the four-teacher school. John J. Hoffman is principal and Jean Walsh,
Mary Ruddy and Genevieve Adams are faculty members. Eleven grades are taught in
the Rhineland school.
SUNSET SYSTEM
There are 343 scholastics in the Sunset school of which T. W. Harber is
superintendent. The school has 21 affiliated units; boosts[sic] four school
buses and there are 84 square miles in the district. A new gymnasium-auditorium
was added two years ago. Faculty members are W. C. Kimbrough, Shirley Gray, home
economics, Mrs. Ottis Cash, J. T. Sykes Jr., N. T. Underwood, Mrs. N. T.
Underwood, Mrs. Claude Reed, Mrs. I. W. Walling, I. W. Walling, and Exa Faye
Hutton.
High school students from Union Grove, west of Knox City and only a grammar
school is conducted. Mrs. E. F. Branston and Mrs. Eric Lea are teachers.
Mrs. C. D. Tanner is the only teacher at Brock, northwest of Knox City and
across the Brazos river.
Forty-two students attend Dixon, northeast of Gilliland. Nine grades are taught.
Ernest Wright and Mrs. Neal A. Brown are the teachers.
Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, TX 2 May 1939