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

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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.”

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

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