Corsicana High School - Corsican Yearbook (Corsicana, TX)

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tl. Wi .-.rv 75' ' 1 'ff-'flf4 'u245 55553-F!359Jff1l'f35'Er2Sl. Y? 4'SQ '.1?'Q:Lt'Q ifl32'94Tf'-f f5'Ef2 ?i:!li?'34 2l-1'i31'k-Qi-Y-f' 1r 3W4S 5 17 'g QT? 1 if-at ' wr' g gg Corsicana now has a school system valued at well over a million dollars. 1 ku. The high school is the most valuable school: first, since it furnishes the highest 'W education in our school course, and second, because more money has been . spent on this building. gl .. Sf t, The high school was built in 1924 at a cost of approximately SS400,000, - ' f and school was first held in it in 1925. This building is very beautiful and is one of the most modern and complete high school buildings in Texas. Generous 1 gifts from various citizens of Corsicana have provided the building with t ' unusually attractive equipment and ornaments. Stage curtains and stage set- tings were donated the school by I. N. Cerf in memory of his father, Louis ' Cerf. Mrs. Kate Huey Vv'hiteselle gave the chapel seats in the auditorium in lgl lin memory of her father, Joseph Huey, and her husband, J. E. Whiteselle. Mrs. J Robert Neblett presented the school with the lights in the library and several is V 4 volumes of books in memory of her husband, R. N. Neblett. A later gift from ,iq X - e Mrs. Neblettis the statue of Minerva in the auditorium. Mrs. J. D. Jackson lil ' gave a marble seat and marble urns, that were placed in the main hall at the ,gl , front entrance, in memory of her husband, a former chairman of the school A, board. The Lions' Club of the city presented the school with the drinking l fountains inlaid with tile. Mrs. E. S. McGee gave the leggia and entrance gl FE! lights in memory of her husband, a former secretary of the school board. The El senior class of 1918 left a statue of Venus as their class memorial. The senior ' gif class of 1925 gave the trophy case in the library, and the class of 1926 S93 gave the speaker's stand in the auditorium. Many volumes of books and 92 yy y numbers of lovely pictures have been presented to the high school by different I citizens who are interested in the school system. ' it ' In the last three years cafeterias in the high school, in the Sam Houston, Ti lf ' Robert E. Lee, and William Travis Schools have been equipped and they now , I I function regularly under the supervision of Miss Bess Carlock. . 5-z 54. , Corsicana now has a teaching force of more than one hundred teachers. A - The course offered in the city schools is very complete. There is the regular i elementary course through the seventh grade completed in the Junior High :Q 1 School. The high school offers four years of English, four years of history, ,gl a half year each of economics and civics, four years of science, two years of algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, applied mathematics, commercial ' 3 , arithmetic, shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, domestic art, domestic science, A 1 manual training, mechanical drawing, four years of Latin, and three years of ai? Spanish: all these courses are affiliated with the University of Texas. tl Corsicana's schools have always been very prominent in Texas. She has Q 5 S' gained state-wide recognition through such activities as boys' and girls' debate, 'if declamation. typing: contests in football, basketball, track: the Blue and Gold S51 Hi News, and the annual, The Corsican. I -IZA MURCHISON. l u ' fi mir ' 1 H9 5,1 we is -assay . e ' f ue-am-Qeaftamaa -:4Ewsisasie'wi+fsaa.ff 1 Page Fourteen l.1Mlixw, ,,.,.,. ,.iyl,w'Wv' i.1 V. A N 1

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i l , A l is A lg m 'r . 1 'f A kT' 'SWF '11 5 7 . H 1 Pu i nfl ' 1. .1 , y History of Corsicana Public Schools ti . 'L 5 we ne ' A public school system was established in Corsicana in 1881: there had 2: -Q been schools here before, but it was not until this time that the city assumed , control of the school system. The first school building constructed here was 35. the Collin Street School which was located where the new high school now 'fl V , stands. All the grades were held in this one structure: J. A. Townsend was 'Wai the first pr ncipal, J. T. Hand the first superintendent: Miss Florence Bright, fl Miss Mattie D. Steele, Miss Sallie Evans, Miss Pope, Miss Davis. Miss Ida ,sr Thompson and Miss Lottie Picton were among the first teachers. Mrs. Sam ' il Kerr, Miss ,Wilma Edwards, Mrs. Claytie Woods, Mrs. Maggie Carter, Mrs. -A., A. S. Knezlle, Mr. Elmer Butler, Mr. Reuben Morrison, Mrs. Allie Moore, aj 2 1 Mrs. Hennie Sanderson, Mr. Emmett Sutherland, Mr. B. B. Bates and Mr. ja Robert Haynes were among the first graduates of the high school. n li l '-fi' - I Six months after the first building was completed the David Crockett 4 . School was built. The first Stephen F. Austin School was constructed next: . -1 Q then the William B. Travis. The next addition was the Sam Houston School '57 t' which was purchased from a Catholic convent: two buildings were included in it J this purchase. The old high school, which is now the Junior High School, lil 5 was the next school building constructed. Eb A-f In 1920, under the superintendency of Mr. J. E. Blair, a bond issue of l 3 8600.000 was passed by the citizens of Corsicana, and as a result four new schools were constructed. The buildings provided for were: Sam Houston School, William B. Travis School, High School, and Ci. W, Jackson School. gas In the last ibond issue of 1925 the money necessary for the erection of the an Robert E. Lee School was voted. This school serves the western part of our will , City. 51 , 'T fi- Since its organization Corsicana High School has had seven superintend- ents, each of whom has done much toward making our high school what it is Q' today. These men are in order of their terms of office: J. T. Hand, Professor Carlyle, Cl:-airles Alexander, J. T. Hand, H. S. Melear, J. W. Cantrell, J. E. Blair, and T. D. Fillers, our present superintendent. at There have been quite a few teachers in the Corsicana school system of b whom we are very proud, since they have taught here a good many years. A 53 few of these are: Miss Sallie Evans, Miss Florence Bright, Miss Mattie D. Steele, Miss Sue McCrery, Miss Tommie Lacy, and Miss Laura Moore. G. W. 37 Jackson, first principal of the colored schools, served almost forty years, and 51575 as an appreciation for his faithful service, G. W. Jackson High School has been QA named for him. Q' l 53.1 i l?iYifb4 lEe.Cf7w7ff1'!'1f5if'i??sie?il5 Zff1QmI'i'f55l'!'?2i9'8flisfififiiiaiili205-Cfmiltdilla'925QWJQL Z L N Page Tliirleen

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CLASSES And they sat around the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read load out of a large book.-GRIMM.