Coahoma Community College - Coahoman Yearbook (Clarksdale, MS)

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C.I.C. Yesterda The Past is but the beginning of a begin- ning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. Herbert George Wells STUDENTS WHO ENROLLED IN THE FIRST COLLEGE CLASS 1949-1950 1. Jimmie Adams 2. Caldonia Bland 3. Joseph Bissett 4. Eugene Fox 5. Timothy Gates 6. Florence Gorgon 7. Lee Roy Garmon 8. Morlon Henry 9 . Oliver Johnson 10. Robert L. Johnson 11. Earline Mills NOTE: During the first two years of its operation the college offered work on the freshman level only. Effie Montgomery Mary Sanders Josephine Silas Willie Stewart George Strong Marion Topps St. Henry Topps Frank Towns J. D. Wardlow Orville Ward Percy White THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS OF THE COLLEGE IN 1952 Charles Henry Ball, Jr. Addie Mae Beasley Charles Harvey Berry Joseph Lee Bissett Sadie Mae Boyd Areatha Brown Margaret Kyles Chapman Arnold Moore Chambers James Kantayana Cox Harry Cummings Chauncey O'Hara Daugherty Thomas James Freeman Eugene Gooden Florence Gordon Aix. Y ,ff 1 , Mr. Lee Roy Gorman Lillian Daugherty Hatch Jean Yvonne Herron Annie M. Lumsey Hodges Mary Laura King Alva M. Carter Norphlet Thelma Penny Edna M. Pulliam Eddie Lee Riley James Robinson Excell Terrell Myrtle Louise Thompson James Amos Ward Ann Ruth Williams Geneva Valjean Williams Mr. Eugene Fox Mrs. Arnold Chambers Mrs. Ma f 1 4.1 5 :jf C7 X MEMBERS OF THE FIRST COLLEGE CLASS - 1949-50 MEMBERS OF THE FIRST GR.-XDL.-XTING Cl..-XSS - '

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B 6 I... -11-7 ' 7 ' -1 I F 4 xf , 1 X, V V . 1 J . ' G g Il . ' is I fl, 4,,, N ,fm L. to R.: B. F. McLaurin, Sr. , Length of service 34 yearsg Vocational teacher 1935-'40, On leave 1940-'45, Supt. and Presi- dent 1945-'66, Assistant to President 1966-'74 Zee Anderson Barron, Length of service 25 years: College Director and full-time teacher 1949-1952, Student Personnel Director and English Instructor 1952--1971 , Student Personnel Director and HEAP Coordinator 1971-1974 Frank W. Gambrell, Ir. , Length of service 22 years: Head of Science and Math Department, and Science and Mathematics Instructor 1952-1973 - Academic Dean 1973-'74 4 S96 Y ., .5 ,- x?-Sis. I-,AX 5.51-'j.. LEFT: J. E. Cain, Sr. , Length of service 27 years: Industrial Arts Instructor, Agricultural High School. 1947-'49 Coa- homa Ir. College, 1949-'74 sith' ,,5,,.....:....t'0'L' MSL, Y , . .v mf wifi' .ww . 15 V5O '51 .AK 1-7.-vt' 'wr'- RIGHT: Consuella Carter, Length of service 27 years: Band Instruc- tor Agricultural High School 1947-'49, Coahoma Junior College 1949-'74

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5 'xxx Dr. McKinley C. Martin On this Fiftieth Anniversary of Agricultural High School and Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Coahoma Jun- ior College , the 1974 Coahoman Staff sought and found an individual who had his roots deep in the soil of Agricultural High School and Coahoma Junior College. We are proud to honor one who came to us poor in worldly goods, but richly endowed with enthusiasm , interest, ambition and academic potential. We honor one who took the best of Agricultural High School and made it better: one who justifies the establishment of Coahoma Junior College as a Poor Man's Col- lege for development of human and natural resources and participation in contemporary society. Beloved honoree, you excelled as a student at A.H.S. and C.J.C.: went on to a State Senior College and made an outstanding record: came back to your Alma Mater and served as Principal of Sandy Bayou, Registrar and Education teacher of Coahoma Junior College. But your ambition to make the best education you had better, caused you to leave us and seek further education. You succeeded in earning the highest degree possible - the Ph. D. from an outstanding University. With this educational and professional bargaining power you could have named your figure and gone to a larger institution, but you chose to return to your Alma Mater and render sacrificial service and help to give young men, women and adults the spark needed to continue their education and develop into the best human beings possible. Because you are a real Coahoman and represent the true spirit of Coahoma Junior College and Agricul- :ural High School: because you work wherever you are needed and prove that success comes before work only in the dictionary: because you are still humble and likeable despite your skill and academic accom- plishment, we dedicate this 1974 Anniversary issue of THE COAHOMAN to you, Dr. McKinley C. Mar- tin, our alumnus, co-sponsor, teacher, administrator and friend.