Hunt Co., TX - Schools - Looking Back
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Looking Back

Where They Teach
 
        "Where They Teach" was an early Celeste Courier article about
recent Celeste High School college graduates (in 1978).  It prompted
another article by the same title (also undated) from Mrs. Lena
Harrison Rowell.  It reads as follows:
    "(Mrs. Dee Rowell of Route 3, Greenville found the following
column from a Celeste Courier of September 1920).  ' Since it is
September and teachers are going out from Celeste, like it was
fifty-eight years ago, this may be of interest,' Mrs. Rowell
commented.  Mrs. Rowell was the Miss Lena Harrison who lived in the
large house (razed in the 50's) corner of 4TH and Cockrell streets.
Her youngest brother, I. E. Harrison, ran the printing presses for the
paper.  Mrs. Rowell doesn't remember the editor of that date.
    The column read Where They Teach.
    Our little city is become quite a center for teacher training, and
we note the following home people who will be in the teaching
work this fall:
        Miss Onilla Ewing, expression, at Kiowa, Oklahoma.
        Miss Orleta Payne, expression, at Henrietta, Texas.
        Miss Erma Phillips, expression, at Bells, Texas.
        Miss Laureta McGuire in Dallas.
        Miss Mary Byers, Shamrock.
        Miss Willie Sparks, Celina.
        Miss Rita Maude Ellard, at Annona.
        Miss Ellen McClure, expression, at Caddo, Oklahoma.
        Miss Merle McClure, musice, at Caddo, Oklahoma.
        Mr. Tatom, at Mount Carmel.
        Miss Grace Mitcehll, Crescent.
        Miss Myrtle Stevens, at Mount Carmel.
        Miss Inez Bickham, expression, at Van Alstyne.
        Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones, Crescent.
        Miss Clara Mdelin, expression, at Center.
        Miss Geraldine Kerr, White Rock.
        Miss Lena Harrison, Pilot Grove.
        Miss Bertie Barnett, Kingson.
        Miss Leta Masters, at Greenville.
        Miss Faye Harris, music, at Electra.
        Miss Maxine Harris, music, at Josephine, Texas.
    Home teachers in that year of 1920, according to the yellowed
clipping were E. H. Watson, Mrs. Hesa Bickham, Mrs. J. Frank
Hudson, Mrs. N. S. Jefferson, Miss Tila Mae Armstrong, Mrs. C. E.
Patterson, Miss Adalyne Mathews, Miss Mary Eastwood, Miss
Pearl McClure, and J. G. Roach." 
(From the Lena Harrison Rowell materials.)