Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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 MR. EDWARD J. SHELTON, PrincipaI B.S., Northwest State College M.E., University of Colorado Our Teachers Are Busy J People . . . Our teachers and our principal. Mr. Edward J. Shelton, were busy people. They taught us fifty-one different subjects, worked with us in fourteen school organizations, and coached us in three varsity and seven intramural sports. MR. REDMAN DUNHAM B.C.S.. Drake University M.A., University of Missouri Teaches typing, bookkeeping, business law. business English. consumer economics . . . Sponsors a senior homeroom. MRS. MILDRED BASKIN B.S.. Southeast State College Teaches shorthand, typing, secretarial practice, general business . . . Sponsors a junior homeroom. MRS. RUTH PATTERSON B.S., Arkansas State College Teaches English II and III . . . Sponsors Honor Society and a junior homeroom. MISS PATRICIA BREWER A.B.. Lamhuth College Teaches Spanish. English II, journalism . . . Sponsors Pep Club and Tiger Rag. MRS. LOUISE PARKER B.S., Arkansas State College M.A., Memphis State College Teaches English I and speech . . . Sponsors Thespians. Drama Club, and a freshman homeroom. 10

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TODAY Caruthersville High School in 1957 YESTERDAY Caruthersvillc High School from 1897-1911. The first high school graduating class in 1897 graduated from this school located at the site of the present Lee Rood Annex. The size of our present school system is made more impressive when contrasted with that of Caruthersville’s first high school, organized sixty years. ago in 1896-97. The total budget for the 1896 school which employed four teachers, including Superintendent Lee W. Rood, was $2,241. The annual budget for our 1956-57 school, with its twenty-five teachers, superintendent, principal, two secretaries, and two custodians, was $948,000. The high school enrollment in 1896 was 38: this year, it was 435. The total evaluation of property for taxation in our school district in 1896 was $300,000. Today, it is $6,500,000. Caruthersville and its schools have grown in these first one hundred years of our history. TOMORROW—The future Caruthersville High School Auditorium-Gymnasium. The class of 1958 hope to have their Commencement Program in this new building. 9

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MRS. LORENE CUNNINGHAM B.S., Southeast State College Teaches English IV and world problems . . . Sponsors S.A.C. and a senior homeroom. MR. CHARLES ROOME B.S., Southeast State College Teaches civics and world problems . . . Sponsors a freshman homeroom. MISS MARY ELLEN HORNER B.S., University of Missouri M.A., George Peabody College Teaches American history, American problems, and geography . . . Sponsors the Cotton Blossom and a sophomore homeroom. Our Teachers Are Professional- Minded MRS. LENORE MUIR B.S., Southeast State College Teaches algebra I, general mathematic , and English I . . . Sponsors a freshman homeroom. MISS LENA WALK B.S., Central State College M.A., University of Missouri Teaches algebra I, plane geometry, advanced algebra, trigonometry . . . Sponsors a senior homeroom. MRS. MOODIE, president, thanks Mr. Lynn Twitty, President of the Missouri State Teachers’ Association, who has just spoken at the District Classroom Teachers’ meeting at Sikeston. Mrs. Muir is secretary of the Classroom Teachers’ Association. Our teachers belonged to and worked in many professional organizations. They were lOO f in their membership in the National Education Association and Missouri State Teachers’ Association. Most of them belonged to our local Classroom Teachers’ Association and to the professional organizations in their own fields. Mrs. Hazel was a member of the Advisory Staff of the Scholastic District Art Committee and the State Art Curriculum Guide Committee. Mr. Shelton served this year as Chairman of the SE Missouri Principals’ Association and Mr. Cobble as a member of the SE Missouri Administrators’ Association Executive Board and the MSTA Resolutions Committee. Mr. Mock was President of the County Schoolmasters and Mrs. Moodie and Mrs. Muir were President and Secretary, respectively, of the District Classroom Teachers’ Association. II