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Submitted by: Kay Cunningham

 

PREFACE

 

     At the annual homecoming assembly of Marlin Ex-Students Association in 1957, Albert L. (Dutch) Sebesta, president, proposed that, for all time, the Association, as a service to faculties and boys and girls, preserve the history and traditions of Alma Mater (1) by establishing a permanent archives and (2) by publishing a catalog and history of the schools. His proposal was unanimously adopted and, soon afterwards, Judge John C. Patterson was appointed archives chairman and Roy Eddins, historical editor.

    

     Information for this volume proved meager and it was necessary to confer and correspond with many people to get it. Especially difficult to get was information about school athletics, school music and student organizations, publications and activities. Human recollections are fickle and the Association asks forgiveness if errors and omissions appear herein.

    

     Sources of information were; minutes of the board of education of Marlin Independent School District and those of Falls County Commissioners Court and Marlin City Council; conferences with Superintendent A. M. Tate and other members of the 1959-60 school faculty; HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS; interviews and correspondence with former school personnel and former students, including Dr. A. C. Ferguson of Commerce, Texas, former Marlin School superintendent, and Mrs. B. B. Harris, nee Miss Pearl Blow, former Marlin teacher; newspaper files; student publications; PEN PICTURES FROM THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD, published in 1893; and others whose names appear herein.

 

DEDICATION

 

     With veneration and esteem this book is affectionately dedicated to boys and girls of all times and to the devoted men and women of education who have labored, and are laboring, to guide them to happiness and high-minded leadership in our state, nation and the world.

MARLIN EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION