ROBERT LEE SENIOR CLASSES - 1927-1928, Coke County , TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net

Written by Albert E. Baze, Fort Worth, TX

1927-1928 School Year.  Robert Lee Independent School District, 
Robert Lee, Texas.

Sixty years ago the Robert Lee School had only ten grades, therefore
the tenth grade was the Senior Class.  L. C. PYLE was Superintendent
and Lela Kate GRIFFITH was the teacher and class sponsor.  There were
nineteen students:

     Albert E. Baze                         Aura Puitt
     Ruby Bessent                           Pauline Rabb
     Margie Collier                         Corina Roberts
     Dora Davis                             Verna Robertson
     Roy Gene Denman                        Wilbur King Simpson
     Ora Beth Ditmore                       Nell Sparks
     Woodrow W. Gardner                     Virginia Williams
     Harold James                           Vivian Woods
     Jewell Ledbetter                       Elgene Wyatt
     Leroy McFarland

Five boys were on the basketball team:

     Frank Allen                            Leroy McFarland
     Albert E. Baze                         Thurman Rabb
     Woodrow Gardner

1928-1929 School Year.

The eleventh grade was added to the system and Baze, Davis, Gardner, 
Roberts, Simpson, Woods, and Wyatt came back to graduate again.  They
now had two high school diplomas.

Others in the 1929 graduating class were:

     Reagan Daniel                          Katherine Bilbo
     Victor Wojtek                          Velma Ione Havins
     Opal Hurley

Lois Denman wa also in the class but did not receive a diploma because 
she already had two:  one from Robert Lee in 1926 and one from Rotan in
1927.  Some more started but transferred out before graduation.  The were:

     Roy Denman                             Irene McDorman
     Boyd Smith                             Ora Belle Vestal
     Ethel Bessent

B. M. GRAMBLING was Superintent and George TAYLOR was principal.  High
School education in the cotton raising farms of that period has been 
described as "catch-as-catch-can" type.  But that is alright because I 
know of no business failures among thos graduates.

Copied from "Stalkin' Kin," Vol. XV, Nos. 3 - page 135
by Mary Love Berryman, marylove@tyler.net.  
Used with permission by the San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society