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