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' ..) s A TRADITION OF SPIRIT... . ' ' • V • I . T hroughoiit the years. Milby stu- dents have proven an asset to Hous- ton ... . . . “Onward Milby.“ our first official song, was written ,by a student in 1931. and is still sung with as much spirit ... of the original thirteen faculty members, five are still here . . . . . . Mrs. Clara McLendon organized the first Milby club, the Girls’ Re- serves . -. . beginning a long line of clubs in the Milby tradition . . . . . . additions were made to the build- ing as we grew . . . we acquired an invaluable boys gun. a cafeteria, and extra rooms ... . . . . Mrs. Fannie Davis, first sponsor of the Coeds, and W. I. Stevenson brought back Charlie” Buffalo from Colorado . . . . . . campus life, once similar to a large club, has now expanded much, to offer wider curriculum, but never again will we see the “Good Old Days.” when magnolia trees and Spanish moss graced the sleepy bayou . . . . . . And it is somehow fitting that the founders of Houston, the Allen brothers, and our school's namesake. Charles II. Milby. now lay side by side in their final rest in Glendale Cemetery. Who are these young ladies? The Coed Cadettes. circa 1938. At the 1962 Homecoming, one of Milby’s most spirited sup- porters is honored, Mrs. Clara McLendon. II •f, ;
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Evidence of the Dare to Dream And the Will to Do . . . “To link the new with the old . . . to join hands from our glorious new Milby High with those other, our supporting schools ... to convert the walls and halls of this new building from mere steel and stone to a sentimental, intrinsic part of student life . . With these words, the farsighted students of Milby in 1926 dedicated their BUFFALO. The city of HOUSTON and the township of HARRIS- BURG, once separate, joined together to grow into the pulsating metropolis that is Houston today . . . . . and in March, 1926 ... A great citizen of Harris- burg had died, the man who had given the land for the first school in the town . . . and the people of Harrisburg, in his honor, petitioned to have the new school named for him . . . and so it was . . . CHARLES H. MILBY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL The part is a hand turning the leaves of a yearbook of 1926 . . .
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