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Submitted by: Kay Cunningham
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.
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