Charles H Milby High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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W. I. Stevenson Principal Chas. H. Milby Senior High School

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health. Every child in the elementary schools has been weighed and measured several times during the school year and many of them have received direct suggestions that have been the means of getting physical defects corrected. Closely related to this health program is the operation of our school cafeterias. At the present time we have five cafeterias operated in accordance with the best practices in school cafeterias. There has been a notable expansion in the work of the Parent- Teacher Associations. From three organizations two years ago we now have six active organizations that are making good contributions to school progress in the district. We have published both a high school annual and a student news- paper publication and these have been developed to the point that they rate with the best in Texas. In another respect we have made great progress and that is in the building of unity in all parts of the district. The people are coming to realize that all of the schools belong to all of the people in the district and local lines are being obliterated. The people of the Harris- burg District have much to be proud of in the past and much more to hope for and expect in the future. J. 0. Webb, Superintendent of Schools.

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Vernon Johns Grimes Dean of Girls in Milby High School, Director of Physical Edu- cation, Public Speaking Instructor, and Coach for School Plays, also Girl Reserves Advisor. Mrs. Grimes is a graduate in Fine Arts, Mississippi Woman’s College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and holds B. S. Degree from S. H. S. T. C., Huntsville, Texas. She is a member of the Woodrow Wilson Scholarship Society. As dean of girls Mrs. Grimes keeps record of the attendance and work of every girl in school. She is their disciplinarian, their advisor in matters of health, troubles, grades, conduct, ambitions, and failures. As director of girls’ athletics, she has two large classes in gymnastics and folk dances, drills, and marches. Miss Bertram assists Mrs. Grimes with basketball, indoor baseball, and volley ball. Tennis has been open to both boys and girls this season. As public speaking instructor, Mrs. Grimes has forty-four students in the 9th, 10th, and 11th grades interested in debates, declama- tions, extemporaneous speech, impromptu speech, and play acting. Lorraine Lyon, trained in this class, won first place in senior girls’ decla- mation at the County Meet. As coach of plays for school or P.-T. A. bene- fits, Mrs. Grimes is responsible. The plays given for the benefit of the Parent-Teachers Association were: “Not So Bad After All,” “The Hoosier School,” “The Visiting Smiths,” “Aunt Billie From Texas.” The senior play was “Mr. Bob.”