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DENISON SCHOOLS 1941 Denison Press
Monday, September 8, 1941 SCHOOLS OPEN WEDNESDAY: BOUNDARIES AND TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS ARE NAMED Denison schools will open on Wednesday, September 10th, Supt. B. McDaniel announced today. The 10th, 11th and 12th will count for the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the Friday preceding and the Monday following Easter, on which days the schools will be closed, he said. Legal holidays to be observed: Armistice, Thanksgiving, January 1st and January 2nd. School will dismiss the the Christmas holidays on Friday, December 19, at the regular closing hour and will resume session on Monday, December 29. School will close on Friday, May 29. Pupils in last year's seventh grade who failed in any subject cannot be admitted to the ninth grade until these failures are made up by special examination. These pupils will report to the principals of their grade schools on the morning of September 10 to take these special examinations. All children who were six years old on or before September 1, 1941 may attend the Denison schools. Children who will be six years between September 1 and December 1, 1941 may attend the Denison schools on payment, for the entire year, of tuition. Rate of tuition will be $3 per month. CONTRACT SCHOOLS The School Board has contracted Reasor, Hyde Park, and Oak Grove. All high school students in these districts will ride the school bus. All 7th and 8th grade children from these districts will ride the bus to one of the elementary schools in Denison. All the children of the first six grades of these schools will attend their own school. REASOR - Children living east of Highway 75 and near Raynal school will attend that school. Children living near the Feild gravel pit, those living at Rayburn City and other camps near Rayburn City will ride the bus to the Reasor school. Children living in the Smokey camp may attend either Reasor or Central. Children living near the Riverside School site will ride the bus to Reasor. The 7th and 8th grades from Reasor will attend Central. HYDE PARK - The 7th and 8th grades from Hyde Park will attend Houston school unless that building is too crowded. OAK GROVE - The 7th and 8th grades from Oak Grove will attend Central school unless that building is too crowded. SCHOOL BOUNDARIES The Central district includes that part of Denison north and west of the Katy tracks. The Raynal district is east of the Katy tracks and north of the alley between Owings and Crawford streets. The Houston district is south of the Katy tracks and west of Mirick avenue to Day street, thence along the middle of Armstrong avenue to the city limits. The Peabody district is east of the Houston district and west of Houston avenue. The Lamar district is east of Houston avenue and south of the alley between Owings and Crawford streets. BOUNDARY FOR RURAL PUPILS The boundary lines for the rural pupils are those of the city districts extended. The new concrete road to Sherman will form a line between Peabody and Houston. Those living on the east side will attend Peabody; those on the west side will attend Houston. Children coming to town on the Carpenter's Bluff road (East Main street) will attend Raynal. Those coming on the Texas street road and the Dripping Springs road will attend Lamar. Those coming to school along the Fanning avenue road, on the Interurban or any road between Crockett avenue and Armstrong avenue extended south, will attend Peabody. Pupils living west of Highway 75 and those living along the Crawford street road beyond the railroad will attend Houston. Langston (Negro) - The boundary of Langston will be south of Main and east of Mirick avenue for the 1,2,3 grades and all south of Main for the 4, 5, and 6. Walton (Negro) - The boundary will be south of Main and west of Mirick avenue. Walton will be a four-grade school. Terrell (Negro) - All other pupils will attend Terrell school. ASSIGNMENT OF TEACHERS Mr. McDaniel and George P. Mecham, elementary supervisor, have named the following teacher assignments: HIGH SCHOOL R.N. Sandlin, principal; J.L. Dickson, assistant principal; Miss Dovie Mae Arnold, Miss Edith K. Austin, Miss Johnny Beck, G.P. Brous, Charles H. Bryant, Mrs. Stella Byers, Miss Margaret Clark, Luther B. Eastham, Lester Golding, Miss Marzell Grafft, C.H. Grimes, Miss Elizabeth Groves, Otis L. Hilliard, Mrs. Fay Ingram, Clark Jarnagin, Miss Lois Jenkins, Miss Clarine Johnson, Lloyd B. Keel, J.S. Kimble, Hunter Kirkpatrick, Miss Bertha Knaur, Miss Marjorie Leecraft, Miss Mary Etta Lipscomb, O.J. Malone, M.M. Marshall, Miss Margaret Miller, Howell Nolte, Miss Mary Moore, Mrs. H.Y. Parrott, C.R. Pattison, Isham Pemberton, Valton Redwine, G.E. Swindell, William Tallmadge, Miss Janice Taylor, Miss Mildred Walker, Miss Ruth West, Doyle Williams, Miss Mary Frances Wilson. CENTRAL Mrs. N.E. Campbell, principal; Miss Lorene Allen, Miss Martha Bryant, Miss Corrine Harper, Miss Margaret Lewis, Miss Maudbel Mathews, Mrs. Elinor Morris, Miss Anna Mosse, Miss Evelyn McCoy, Miss Beth Ownby, Miss Marjorie Pitts, Miss Lucille Quisenberry, A.P. Ragsdale, Mrs. Mabel Vinnedge, Miss Wyline Wheeler, Miss Ruth Young, Miss Melba Phillips. PEABODY Miss Bess Coppin, principal; E.T. Allen, Miss Elizabeth Berry, Miss Isobel Brinson, Miss Lutie Heard, Miss Julia Hayes, Miss Frances Herzinger, Miss Rhea Hunter, Mrs. Lillian Polson, Miss Edith Nell Rhodes, Miss Bernice Wilmeth. HOUSTON O.C. Mulkey, principal; Miss Beatrice Burrus, Miss Beryl Bushy, Miss Nell Johnson, Miss Blanche Mosse, Miss Carra Tarpley, Miss Margaret Tucker, Miss Judy McClain RAYNAL James Do---, principal; Miss Grace Hastings, Miss Virginia West, Miss Eunice Wiest. LAMAR Donald McDonald, principal; Miss Goldie Dillingham, Miss Clinta Jones, Miss Kathleen Wallace, Miss Vivian Williamson OAK GROVE Mrs. T.B. Livingston HYDE PARK Mrs. Venita Hartsin REASOR Miss Sadie Ball, Mrs. Josephine Spencer TERRELL (Colored) M.S. Frazier, principal; Xonyphen Brooks, Lillie B. Bunkley, Walter W. Duncan, Evans T. Harleman, Viola Hilliard, C.E. Holford, Mattie L. Keyes, Frances Lee, Helen Lewis, Thomas D. Peters, Mary Belle Platt, Melvin A. Truesdale, Maxine Young WALTON (Negro) Edna A. Gormany  School History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |