| Dorothy Mae ANDERSON Savage | 7th grade | |
| Albert Charles BAKER | 1st - 3rd grade | |
| Clinton Max BAKER | | |
| Curtis BAKER | 6th - 8th grade | |
| Douglas J. BAKER | 1st - 6th grade | |
| Earl P. BAKER | 3rd - 8th grade | |
| Harold K. BAKER | 5th - 8th grade | |
| Leon L. BAKER | 1st - 8th grade | |
| Loreta Doris BAKER Durham | | |
| Mildred Irene BAKER Dixie | 8th grade | |
| Ralph J. BAKER | 2nd - 8th grade | |
| Troy E. BAKER Jr | 1st - 6th grade | "Mrs. Moore made peanut-butter cookies and would have
warm cookies for us at last recess." |
| Carolyn BANGS Johnson | | |
| Janet BANSETT | | |
| Barbara BEAM McCorn | 7th - 8th grade | |
| Billie BLACK Ball | 7th grade, 1938 | "I remember Lewis Duncan would stick his head backward
over my desk and rub oil on my hair." |
| Dicie BLACK Hill | 1st - 3rd grade | |
| Irene BLACK Flaherty | 8th - 9th grade, 1940-1941
| Graduated 1941 as class Valedictorian
"One
of the vivid memories i have of Starr is the outdoor toilets.
The girls
was on one side and the boys was on the other. The
only tissue we had
was catalogs."
|
| Kathy BLANKENSHIP Dophied | 1st grade | |
| Arlett F. Boney | 1st - 7th grade | |
| Reuben F. Boney | 1st - 5th grade | |
| FloraDell BOWERS Moeller | 4th - 5th grade | "My black horse got out every day and came to school.
I would ride it home without a saddle or bridal." |
| Shirley Ann BOWERS Lewis | 2nd - 3rd grade | "Miss
Mae, as we always called her, nicknamed me Belle
Star because I was
quite a tomboy and always wore my scabbard and pistols to school" |
| Jackie BOXLEY Day | 4th - 5th grade | "During
Christmas time, Mrs. Cockburn would let us go look
for mistletoe and we
would end up at Marilyn Shaffer's house and her Mom would fix hot cocoa
for all of us - we'd loved it." |
| Bobbie CLEMENT Ruyle | 5th - 8th grade | |
| Marjorie CLEMENT Hood | 1st - 5th grade | |
| Verne Dean CRESWELL Atkins | 3rd - 8th grade | Graduated 1954 |
| Beulah CROWSE Beall | 3rd - 6th grade | |
| Edna CROWSE Crutcher | 6th - 7th grade | |
| Lela CROWSE Beall | 5th - 6th grade | |
| Letha CROWSE Miller | 3rd - 6th grade | |
| Mable CROWSE Cole | 3rd - 6th grade | |
| Betty DAVIS Parks | | |
| Billy J. DAVIS | 3rd - 8th Grade | Graduated 1951 |
| Bobby W. DAVIS | 8th Grade | Graduated 1952 |
| Roger DAVIS | | |
| Jack Wayne DUNCAN | 1st - 8th Grade | Graduated 1947 |
| Leonard DUNCAN | 1908 - 1910 | |
| Leonard Lewis DUNCAN | | Graduated 1941 as Class Salutatorian; Served in USAF 6yrs |
| Lillian DUNCAN Morgan | 4th - 6th Grade | |
| William DUNCAN | | |
| Leota FORISHA Bassham | 5th Grade | |
| Sylvia FORISHA Harris | 8th Grade | |
| Glen GASKILL | 1st - 6th Grade | " I remeber getting a lot of spankings." |
| Paul GORDON | 7th Grade | |
| Edna Earl GORE Abood | 1st - 3rd Grade; 1920s | |
| Basil GORE | Attended in 1920s | |
| Marie GORE Brandt | Attended in 1920s | |
| Mary Frances GORE Berto | Attended in 1920s | |
| Meador Rae GORE Turner | Attended in 1920s | |
| Bonnie GRASTON Tibbets | 2nd-7th grade;1917 - 1923 | |
| Barbara Ruth [Ruthie] HARROD Doolittle | 1st - 8th grade | |
| Bettye Jane HARROD Vandagrif | 1st - 8th grade | "Christmas at Starr was so special. I wish my children could
know what that kind of Christmas meant." |
| James Robert [Jim Bob] HARROD | | |
| John Albert [Scout] HARROD | | |
| Linda [Louie] HARROD Ridinger | 1st - 4th grade | "My one big disappointment was working for 4 years
to get in the Big Room and after 2 days being transferred to town." |
| Harold HEATH | | |
| Leo HEATH | | |
| Benton HELM | 2nd - 8th grade | Graduated 1949 |
| Barbara HESS Styles | 1st - 6th grade | |
| Charles Glenn HESS | 1st - 8th grade | Graduated 1954 |
| Dean HESS | 1st - 4th grade | |
| Earlene HESS Hicks | 8th grade | Graduated 1946 |
| Jerry HESS | 1st - 3rd grade | |
| Wannell HESS Dobbs | 4th - 8th grade | Graduated 1950 |
| Edith Velma HOWARD Novak | 1st - 8th grade
| Graduated 1946 |
| Della JORDON | | |
| Charles 'Dude' KIMBERLING | 6th - 8th Grade | |
| Edwin KIRSCHNER | 1st - 8th Grade | |
| Elaine KIRSCHNER Lovell | 1st - 8th Grade | |
| Bobby Gene LARKINS | 1st - 7th Grade | |
| Cynthia Janelle LARKINS Johnson | 1st - 7th Grade | "In
the fall of 1954, I was in the eighth grade and really looking
forward
to my graduation from Starr. The school had to have 35 students to
remain open and we had only 33. So, after 3 days at Starr, I began at
McDaniel
Junior High. That was a real culture shock after years of 3
and 4 students in
my class - I could not see the floor for the
students, let alone find another class every hour." |
| Sherman Wayne LARKINS | 1st - 8th Grade | Graduated 1949 |
| Thurman Edward LARKINS | 1st - 8th Grade | Graduated 1949 |
| James Ray MARKHAM | 1st-3rd Grade; 1940-1943 | Served in U.S. Army |
| Mattie Oleta MARKHAM Boney | 5th - 6th Grade | |
| Naomi May MARKHAM Weaver | 5th - 6th Grade | |
| NevaDee MARKHAM Evans | 5th - 6th Grade | |
| Betty MAYES Beam | | |
| Judy METCALF Caughey | 1st - 3rd Grade | "When
I was in the first grade, there was a school play and I was to sit in a
rocker with a teddy bear - I was very shy and at the last minute I
wouldn't do it - another kid had to take my place. |
| Virgil METCALF | 2 - 3 months | |
| Barbara MOORE Fleming | 1st - 3rd Grade | |
| Charlie MOORE | 8th Grade | |
| Bobby Jim MORAN | 1st - 5th Grade | |
| Dorothy P. MORAN King | 1st - 8th Grade | |
| Lula MORAN Beall | 1st - 8th Grade | |
| Mary E. MORAN Smith | | "My father (Jim Moran) painted the first Star on the school building. He served as a Trustee." |
Jack B. MURPHY
| | "One
day during a winter snowstorm, Prof. Hampton could not drive to school
so Jack Murphy and an older girl divided the school up and kept the
classes
running that day." |
| Jerry PEDIGO | 1st - 8th grade | "I remember several whippings - Miss Wilburn could really swing a paddle."
|
| Wayne PEDIGO | 1st - 8th grade | |
| Earl POLSTON | Began Starr in 1917 | |
| Donnie PUGH | 1st - 5th grade | |
| Leona Jean PUGH Ward | 1st - 4th grade | |
| Charles QUASSA | 5th - 6th Grade | |
| L. G. QUASSA Jr | 6th - 7th Grade | |
| Maude QUASSA Cullen | 5th - 6th Grade | "The Christmas plays and the tree with Santa giving each of us a bag of fruit
is a special memory." |
| Jerry D. Ridinger | 1948 - 1950 | |
| Lonnie D. Ridinger | 3rd - 4th grade | |
| Ralph W. Ridinger | 1948 - 1950 | |
| William P. Ridinger | 1949 - 1950 | |
| Del Marie RODGERS Ball | 1st grade | |
| Frank SANFORD | | |
| Wanda SHADDEN Youree | 6th grade; 1948 | "Jim
Bob Harrod and I were talking and Mrs. Cockburn told us to be quiet and
she wanted to know what we were talking about and I smarted off and
said I was telling him how to make mud pies. Well, she made me get up
and
tell everybody how to make mud pies - then, I got up and started
and then
she told me to sit down." |
| Dan SHAFFER | 1st - 3rd grade | |
| Marilyn SHAFFER Lee | 1st, 4th, 5th grade | |
| Neal SHELLEY | | |
| Frances SHIPP Smith | 5th grade; 1937 | |
| James E. SMITH | 1st - 2nd grade | |
| Martha SMITH Davis | 1st - 4th grade | |
| Rebecca Ann SMITH Steele | 1st - 8th grade | |
| Robert L. SMITH | 1st - 4th grade;1946 - 1953 | "It
has been reported by Robert's mother, Bessie, that she attended a
PTA
meeting where the minutes were read regarding a certain fire incident.
It seems Robert and several other boys were sent out to burn the trash.
It was so cold they decided to get under the school house to burn it.
OH Robert!" |
Wanda SMITH Floyd | 1st - 8th grade | |
| Bobby SPAUGH | 2nd - 3rd grade | |
| Edith L. SPAUGH Kohler | 8th grade | |
| Harold SPAUGH | | Served in the Air Force stationed in Germany |
| Jerry W. SPAUGH | 4th - 5th grade | |
| Sharon SPAUGH Kunkle | 1st grade | |
| Wanda SPAUGH Williams | | "I remember the squabble between
Leon Baker and Barbara Beam -
one afternoon in the pouring rain. He had
teased her to the point of anger -
so she shoved him off the porch and
was sitting on top of him hitting him.
Mrs. Cockburn broke it up - it
seemed to cease the teasing from then on."
|
| Delores STALEY Hardcastle | 1st, 3rd, 4th grade | "One of my Starr memories was the eclipse of the sun and everything was dark."
|
| Peggy Sue STALEY Atwell | 7th grade | |
| Tomar "Buddy" STALEY | 4th - 5th grade | |
| Gladys STANFORD | | |
| Herman Willie STONE | 6th grade | |
| Edward Earl (Bud) THOMPSON | 1st - 8th Grade | Graduated 1941 |
| Lois Marie THOMPSON Saltzman | 1st - 6th Grade; 1943 - 1948 | |
| Marguerita THOMPSON Harden | 1st - 7th Grade | |
| Charles R. (Chuck) TURLEY | 1st - 4th Grade | |
| Dorothy TURLEY Houser | 1925 | "Mr.
Starr donated land for the first school. It was a one room building
where
they had school during the week and church on Sundays. In 1925,
South Gale,
Starr, and Dripping Springs were all one school district -
all three schools got new
two room buildings that year. The old school
(one room) was moved a little south
of the school building and began a
full-time community church, which burnt in 1928" |
| Dorothy TURLEY Shearin | 2nd - 8th Grade | Graduated 1948
"My father (Roy 'Jack' Turley) and aunts also attended Starr." |
| Ray TURLEY (1909 - 1923) | 1st - 7th Grade | |
| Roy Thomas (Jack) TURLEY | | "It
was almost Christmas in 1925. Mr. Hamilton sent Fat Work and me to
get wood -
it was cold and windy. We decided for the heck of it to fix
his car . . . we took two wood chips and put under two of the coils on
his Model T. He went out to start it up -
it would fire one and miss
one . . . he worn himself and the battery out. When we came back to
school after the first of the year, he called Fat and me back in during
recess
--- He told us next time to get all four of them."
|
| Kathleen TURNBULL Prolino | | |
| Rosemary TURNBULL Bolling | | |
| Gladys Irene TURPEN Holder | 5th, 6th, 7th | |
| Billy Joe VANDAGRIFF | | Graduated 1944 |
| Blanche WALKER Pedigo | | |
| Mary Sue WALTERS Leggett | | |
| Nancy WALTERS Saxon | 1st Grade, 1954 | " The closeness to everyone is what I remember." |
| Claudia WASHBURN | 1st - 2nd Grade | |
| Jerry L. WEAVER | 2nd - 3rd Grade | |
| Melvin L. WEST | | Graduated 1941 |
| Larry WINBURN | | |
| Francis (Fat) WORK | Attended 7 years | |
