Gober High School - Plowboy Yearbook (Gober, TX)

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The new building cost approximately $35,000. There are ejLeven class rooms, one large study hall, an auditorium with a seating capacity of three hundred, a library and office each adjoining the study hall. The building has hardwood floors, Celotex ceiling, plaster walls finished in light buff color. The building is being ideated with Butane gas -and two-of the 'cook-stoves in the Homemak ing-'-de part merit are Butane burners, the third on,e being a kerosene burner. . The Parent-Teacher Association has been a great help to the school during these years. In 1938-1939 they bought an electric water pump for the s chool and this year they have bought a beautiful velour curtain for the stage in the auditorium. These are just examples of t he work done for our school by this worthy association. During the last two school terms the school has been classified and fully affiliated as a four-year high school. Vocational Agriculture and Eomemaking have been added to the course of study this year (1939-40) and the commercial work has been increased. The high school now has enrolled 107 pupils and the grades have 190, a total of 297 pupils. The school playground has been enlarged by the addition of the lot directly behind the building and the lot just west of the gymnasium. The lot behind the building was used this year for a football field, and a softball field has been made on the lot west of the gymnasium. Six posts have been set in the field for lighting. Certainly the whole community as well as the school is proud of these playground improvements. The Vocational Agriculture classes have set out shrubs and taken steps toward beautifying the school grounds. The front yard has been sodded by Mr. Thompson and the NYA boys. 11

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School Building Gober Independent School District was created by act of Fannin County School board April 28, 1938, at the request of the trustees of Gober Consolidated School District. The trustees of the consolidated district were A. H. Burkett, president; Z. 0. Trout, secretary; W. H. Dunn, W. B. Richardson, Ralph Smith, G. H. Deary, and W. J. Davis and these men were appointed by the county board to serve as trustees of the new district until the next election, in which all were reelected. On May 21, 1938 an election was held for the purpose of determining whether the board of trustees should be authorized to issue the bonds of the district to the amount of $17,000 for construction and equipment of a new building. This election carried three to one. On January 6, 1938, the s chool board authorized Superintendent M. G. Moreland to proceed in an attempt to secure WPA aid, which was secured in July, 1938, and work was begun October, 1938, and completed December 16, 1939. -I- X XX-t-

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{SCHOOL DAYS} FACULTY Jeffie Hargrove B. S.--E. T. S. T. C. High School English Robert Graham King B. S.---N. T. S. T. C. Business Administration C. N. London B. S.---E. T. S. T. C. Principal Elementary School Xt-tJt.t M