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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
