Ganado Schools

The Ganado School

M. R. Hollenshead, superintendent of schools at Ganado, was an Edna business visitor Friday, and while in the city made this office a pleasant call. He informed us that the Board of Education at Ganado had let the contract to Laberdia Brothers of that city for the construction of the new high school building and gym, and as work is now under headway the new building is expected to be in readiness for the opening of school on September 7th. The new building will provide some muchly needed room and will greatly improve the school plant as well as add to the comfort and convenience of the teachers and pupils. Mr. Hollenshead also informed us that vocational agriculture will be added to the course of study in the Ganado schools the next term, thus Ganado will be the first Jackson County school to include vocational agriculture in the courses of study offered. Mr. Hollenshead also stated that the Ganado school board had ordered a new International school bus with a seating capacity of 50 or better. Mr. Hollenshead will likely have some "school news" in the Herald within the next week or so, in which he will introduce the new members of the faculty. The Ganado school lost several valued members of last year's faculty, including two from the high school we know of--Coach Fred Walker and Miss Laurie Dell Knipling.

Edna Weekly Herald, August 6, 1936

List Of Teachers And Assignments At Ganado School
Edna Weekly Herald, August 22, 1946

Superintendent: C. G. Masterson

High School

Coach, History and Science: A. H. Cheek
Vocational Agriculture: C. D. Speer
Mathematics: Mrs. Adair Nelson
Gen. Science, Biology, Math: Mrs. Lula Tisdale
Business Administration: Mrs. Margaret Whitmire
Home Economics: Mrs. Lavona Ross
English: Mrs. Jerry Wood

New Sutherland School

First and Second Grades: Mrs. Gertrude G. Peters
Third and Fourth Grades: Mrs. Lorraine Hartfield
Fifth and Sixth Grades: Miss Emma Chamrad

A band teacher and one more grade teacher are to be added

Grade Teachers

Principal and Seventh Grade: Mr. Reue
Eighth Grade: Mrs. Anna Lou Walch
Sixth Grade: Mrs. Raymond Reue
Fifth Grade: Mrs. Rosana Howard
Fourth Grade: Mrs. Clara Williams
Third Grade: Mrs. W. S. Hill
(substituting for Mrs. Brewer)
First & Second Grades--Latin-American: Mrs. W. S. Slusher
Second Grade: Mrs. H. F. Anderson
First Grade: Mrs. Laverne Lambert

Colored Teachers

Ganado: Eugenia Brook
New Sutherland: Alfrada Parlor
Rich Square: Lola V. Payne

Jackson County Common School Districts
No. 1 - Texana No. 3 - White Hall No. 4 - New Hope No. 5 - Morales No. 6 - Navidad No. 7 - Arenosa No. 8 - Cordele	No. 12 - Carancahua No. 13 - Francitas No. 15 - B. F. Ward No. 16 - Live Oak No. 17 - McCrory No. 20 - Deutschburg No. 26 - Blair

Faculty Announced For Ganado Public Schools
Edna Weekly Herald, September 4, 1947

Superintendent: Robert A. Allan, Jr.

High School

Principal and Science: Delbert C. Overstreet
History and Assistant Coach: James H. Little
Mathematics and Coach: Tom Talley
Band: C. A. Daniel
Vocational Agriculture: C. V. Speer
English and Girls' Physical Ed: Miss Mary Rebecca Parker
Home Economics: Miss Elizabeth Pfluger
Commercial Science: Mrs. Margaret Whitmire
English: Mrs. Jerry Wood

Negro School: Lola V. Payne, Eugenia Brooks

Elementary School

Principal and Arithmetic: Raymond Reue
First Grade: Mrs. Raymond Reue, Mrs. LaVerne Lambert
Second Grade: Mrs. H. F. Anderson
Third Grade: Mrs. Anne K. Overstreet, Mrs. Lucille Talley
Fourth Grade: Mrs. Clara D. Williams, Miss Winifred Harang
History: Robert Greet
Reading: Miss Jean Elaine Walker
English: Mrs. Katy Opal Horn
Geography: Miss Mary Landry

New Teachers This Year Are

Delbert C. Overstreet - Bachelor Science, Southwest Texas State Teachers College; 6 years experience.
James H. Little - Bachelor Science, East Texas State Teachers College: no experience.
Tom Talley - Bachelor Science, North Texas State Teachers College; 5 years experience
C. A. Daniel - North Texas State Teachers College, no experience.
Miss Mary Rebecca Parker - Bachelor Arts, Baylor University, no experience.
Miss Elizabeth Pfluger - Bachelor Science in Home Economics, University of Texas, no experience.
Mrs. Anne K. Overstreet - Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 5 years experience.
Mrs. Lucille Talley - Bachelor Science, Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 8 years experience.
Miss Winifred Harang - Bachelor Arts, Lady of the Lake College, no experience.
Robert Greer - Bachelor Science, East Texas State Teachers College, no experience.
Miss Jean Elaine Walker - Bachelor Arts, Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College; 1 year experience.
Mrs. Opal Horn - Bachelor Arts, East Texas State Teachers College; 5 years experience.
Miss Mary Landry - Bachelor Arts, Lady of the Lake College, no experience.

Faculty for Ganado School Announced
Edna Weekly Herald, September 2, 1948

Superintendent: Robert A. Allan, Jr., B. S., Texas College Arts and Industries, 12 years experience.

High School:
Tom Talley, principal; B. S., S. W. T. S. C., San Marcos, 5 years experience.
Mrs. Jerry Woods, English; B. A., Texas University; 2 years experience
James Little, social studies; B. S., E. T. S. C. , Commerce, 1 year experience
Miss Elizabeth Pfluger, home economics; B. S., Texas University; 1 year experience
Miss Frances Evans, Spanish; and Girls' Physical Education; B. S., T. S C W., Denton, 1 year experience.
Virgil G. Adams, Band; B. S. Michigan State; no experience.
Mrs. Margaret Whitmire, Commercial; B. B. A., Texas University, 11 years experience.
Jesse G. Walker, Vocational Agriculture; B. S., Texas A. & M.; no experience.
J. F. Makusek, Library; 3 years college; 25 years experience

Grade School:.
Ralmond Reue, principal; B. S., St. Mary's University, San Antonio; 14 years experience.

First Grade:
Mrs. Raymond Reue, B. S., University of Texas; experienced.
Miss Etta H. Fleming, B. S., S. W. T. S. C., San Marcos; experienced.

Second Grade:
Mrs. C. W. Barnett, B. S., University of Houston; experienced.
Miss Doris Townsley, B. S., S. W. T. S. C., San Marcos; no experience.

Latin American, 1st and 2nd Grades:
Mrs. W. F. Peters, 2 years college, experienced.

Third Grade:
Mrs. Nora K. Collins, B. S., E. T. S. C., Commerce; experienced.
Mrs. Agnes Brewer, B. S., S. W. T. S. C., San Marcos; experienced.

Fourth Grade:
Mrs. Clara D. Williams, 3 years college; experienced.
Miss Winifred Harang, B. S., Lady of the Lake College, San Antonio; experienced.

Fifth Grade:
Miss Lynette Ann Witee, B. A., Lady of the Lake College San Antonio; no experience.
Miss Mary Landry, B. A., Lady of the Lake College, San Antonio; experienced.

Sixth Grade:
Mrs. Lula B. Slusher, B. A., Stephen F. Austin College, Nacogdoches; experienced.

Seventh Grade:
Miss Ann Baumruk, B. S., S. W. T. S. C., San Marcos; experienced.

Eighth Grade:
Delbert L. Collins, B. S., E. T. S. C., Commerce; no experience.
Miss Shirley B. Polk, B. Mus., Baylor University; no experience.

Negro School:
Lola V. Payne, B. S., Prairie View College, grades 1-4; experienced.
Eugenia Brooks, B. S., Prairie View College, grades 508.

The New Grammar School

The grounds have not been landscaped, nor the old grammar school torn down, but the building itself is ready to hold classes in. The entire building is modernistic in design and is the latest word as far as lighting, acoustics and equipment are concerned. The ceilings in the halls and class rooms are acoustical tile. The floors are sound deadening asphalt tile. This makes for a quiet, workable building. The walls of the halls are glazed tile, 6 1/2 feet high, and above that to the ceiling painted a pastel green. The classroom walls are painted pastel red, pastel green, and pastel yellow. These colors were chosen to afford good light and at the same time be restful to the eyes. The building is furnished throughout with new furniture. The pupils in the lower grades will have airplane type desks and individual chairs. In the upper grades individual desk-topped arm chairs. All the furniture is mounted on glides, making it easy to move, whenever space is needed for classroom activities.

1950
Graduation Exercises
Ganado High School

Candidates For Graduation 1950
Edward Boehm Bobbie Burkholder Sallie Christ Jessie Hatch Engelmohr James Gaskamp Doris Hahn Johnny Hajovsky Dorothy Hubanek Fred Hubanek Willie Kacel Rose Marie Kaspar Marvin King (Veteran) Nelda Knopp Edith Kullenberg H. S. Kullenberg Jane Matula	Joyce Nixon R. D. Norris Gladys Olsovsky Merlene Pagel Anita Paredez Lillian Pecha Paulinne Auebe Jerry Skarpa Eddie Stephenson August Spalek Irene Sulak Victoria Uhyrek Iris Vordick Jack Walzel Joe Williams

Ganado Schools

Little School of the 400
Ganado Elementary School grounds

Little School of the 400

The Little School of the 400 was an educational project developed to integrate Spanish-speaking school children into the mainstream public school population. The program sought to teach these children a vocabulary of 400 essential words to enable them to successfully complete the first grade. Isabel Verver, a 17-year-old Ganado High School student, read an article in a Spring 1957 issue of Texas Outlook Magazine that expressed Felix Tijerina's desire for such a program. Tijerina was a successful Houston businessman as well as the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Verver contacted Tijerina and expressed her desire to implement such a program. Both Tijerina and Verver knew what it was like to be a first-grader unable to communicate with their teachers or fellow students, and hoped to remove that language barrier. Baytown educator Elizabeth Burrus supplied a list of 400 vocabulary words to Tijerina that she had formulated from years of teaching bilingual students. Verver taught the pilot class in Ganado during the summer of 1957 and produced 60 "graduates" in time for the fall school term. Seeing Verver's success, LULAC established similar classes in towns such as Vanderbilt, Edna, Sugar Land, Aldine, Brookshire and Wharton for summer 1958. Tijerina and members of LULAC worked for passage of House Bill 51 during the 56th Texas Legislature. The bill established a state-sponsored program called preschool instructional classes for non-English speaking children and eliminated the need for the privately funded "Little Schools." Head Start and other federally-funded programs of the 1960s eventually took the place of the state-sponsored program. (2009)

Photo courtesy of G. W. Franzen

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