Coahoma Community College - Coahoman Yearbook (Clarksdale, MS)

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HISTORICAL STATEMENT Coahoma County Agricultural High School was established in 1924 to meet the need of a central high school accessible to all Negro children of Coahoma and adjacent counties. In order to provide even greater educational oppor- tunities for the Negro youth and adults of Coahoma County, the high school curriculum was extended to a junior, or community, college in 1949 with Mr. L. L. Bryson, County Superintendent of Education, spear- heading the movement. 5 g W V Q RETRQQECUON' I S 'cM'en M uurmg its Il'I 1S year of operation the junior college . was supported .by county funds. Later the state legis- lature appropriated funds for the expansion of build- ings and the acquisition of much needed equipment and Coahoma became the first state-supported junior college for Negroes in Mississippi. Mr. B. F. McLaurin who was serving as me fifth superintendent of Agricultural High School, became the first president of Coahoma junior College and Agricultural High School. The college was organized and directed the first three years by Mrs. Zee Ander- son Barron and the first college graduation was held in 1952. J, . STUDENTS WHO ENROLLED IN THE FIRST i 1 I COLLEGE CLASS j I 1949-1950 1 V 1. Jim,mle Adams 9. Oliver Johnson 16. George Strong 2. Caldonla Bland 10. Robepi L. Johnson 17. Marlon Topps 3. Joseph Blssett 11. Earllne Mills 18. St. Henry Topps 4. Eugene Fox 12. Effie Montgomery 19. Frank Towns 5. Timothy Gates 13. Mary Sanders 20. J. D. Wardlaw 6. Florence Gordon 14. Josephine Silas 21, Orville Ward , 7. Lee Roy Garmon 15. Willie Stewart 22. Percy White ' 8. Morlon Henry j Note: During the first two years of its operation the college offered work on 5 the freshman level only. I. STUDENTS WHO ENROLLED IN 1950-51 AND BECAME THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS OF THE 1 COLLEGE IN 1952 , Charles Henry Ball, Jr. Harry Cummings Mary Laura King Addie Mae Beasley Chauncey O'Hara Alva M. Carter Norphlet N Charles Harvey Berry Daugherty Thelma Penny ,1 Joseph Lee Bissett Thomas James Freeman Edna M. Pulliam 1 Sadie Mae Boyd Eugene Gooden James Robinson 5,3 Areatha Brown Florence Gordon Myrtle Louise Thompson Margaret Kyles Chapman Lillian Daugherty Hatch James Amos Ward nl Arnold More Chambers ' Jean Yvonne Herron Ann Ruth Williams .-'i James Kantayana Cox Annie M. Lumsey Hodges Geneva Valjean Williams 4,1 I COMPLETED REQUIREMENTS IN THE . f SUMMER SESSION .ffl 3, i Ruby Brown Cosby Eddie Lee Riley Excell Terrell h Laura G. Harris 4 7 gb-WHA Y - fu K . . ,, -J , H, , ggg A , , A- I 5 . - ' Mississi i 'A . 'Quo-:tn The Aggie Band - One of the Best ln PP jj l , , 2 1 r fVlf.fs Cofvsuella C arfegr - fred-or 1 A 4.14, J l

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