Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Progress arks School' Histor With 21 pupils on roll, Miss Minnie Tubbs started Lubbockis first public school in 1891. The Lubbock High of today is a far cry from Mis.s Tubbs, early school. Miss Tubbs taught the three B's in a little red jail, also used for church services when they chanced to have preaching. Later that year, school was held in the Norwood Building on the north side of the city square. A one-room building between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets on Avenue I housed the young- sters in 1892 with Mr. P. F . Brown teaching. Fol- lowing Mr. Brown in the one-teacher school were Mr. C. F. Stubbs, Mrs. Lee K. Anten, Mr. M. N. Park, and Mr. A. I . Clark. An assistant was hired for Miss Laura Davis in 1898, and the building was enlarged to three rooms. Miss Davis was suc- ceeded by Mr. George R. Bean, Mr. R. B. Hol- land, Mr. B. N. Graham, Mr. Ed Couch, and Mr. W. S. Norton. O, Happy Day-the school is burning downlv might well have been the chant of the students in the spring of 1908 for their school did burn down! Their freedom was short lived, however, as another frame building was erected in the fall of 1909 on Sixth Street and Avenue O. This school included ten grades in eight rooms. That same year 325,000 in bonds provided for Central Ward, a brick building with two stories and a basement located on the present site of Sears, Roebuck, and Company. Mr. I. K. Wester became superintendent in 1910, and Mr. G. N. Atkinson, high school principal. It is interesting to note that Lubbockis high school has had only three principals: Mr. Atkin- son, who served until 1926, Mr. R. W. Matthews, from 1926 to 1944, and Mr. Floyd Honey, who assumed the principalship in the fall of 1944. Mr. M. M. Dupre, superintendent in 1914, in- troduced manual training, home economics, and agriculture. In 1916 the school had eight teachers and oyjtered 16 ayjliliated credits. Twelve grades were taught in this school until a separate high school was completed in 1923. The new high school completed in 1923 in the 2000 block be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, is today the north wing and auditorium of Carroll Thomp- son Iunior High. Superintendent Dupre defended the Khugei' building saying it would last the needs of Lubbock for at least fifteen years. However, 1924 saw the addition of a south wing and two study halls to the structure. Mr. Dupre died before the close of the 1925 term, and Principal Atkinson finished that year as acting superintendent. Filling this vacancy the following school year, Superintendent M. H. Duncan introduced public speaking and music into the curriculum. Because of the rapid increase in population, a 3650,000 bond issue was voted for a new high school in 1930. Construction of this building was begun that same year and completed in time for the fall semester of 1931. Dr. Kenneth E. Oberholdzer became super- intendent in the fall of 1934, followed by Dr. W. B. Irvin in 1937. Mr. R. W. Matthews filled this position from 1942 until his resignation in 1951. At this time Mr. Nat Williams entered the system as superintendent. Lubbock Senior High received the addition of a metal shop in the 1942343 school year. The east wing addition of 14 classrooms and offices for the superintendent was completed in 1949. Also added were an agriculture room, a gymnasium for girls, and a cafeteria. Athletics were introduced into the Lubbock schools in 1910 when Mr. I . E. Vickers and Mr. C. D. Lester organized the yirst football team. The athletics program was broadened in 1913 with the organization of track and basketball teams. In 1934 the athletic department of Lubbock High purchased a practice field and later named it in honor of Coach Weldon B. Chapman, whose death occurred in the fall of 1939. From 1909 through 1954 about eight thousand, seven hundred forty-five students have been re- corded as having received diplomas from Lub- bock's high school. The first graduating class which included eight girls and two boys attended the frame building between Avenue O and Sixth Street in 1909. They were offered only seven or eight courses. This hardly compares with the 71 afliated credits offered the students of today. Another note- worthy fact is that the 1955 graduating class of an expected yive hundred twenty-five total will be the largest group ever to be graduated from Lubbock High School. As there can be no speed limits of the highway of progress, one high school cannot provide ade- quate educational facilities for the rapidly grow- ing city of Lubbock. This year will make its mark in history as the last round-up of high-school stu- dents in one student body. Next year when the fall session begins, the high-school students will be split into two groups-with more than one- half going to LHS and the others to Monterey High School presently under construction be- tween F orty-seventh and Fiftieth Streets and be- tween Gary and Indiana Avenues.

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1400 Exes Return For Homecoming Lubbock Senior High School held its first Homecoming last fall on Thanksgiving Day. Highlights of the big return were a night pep rally, group meetings of the exes, the West- erner-Sandie football game, crowning of the homecoming queen, and a reception for all exes and Lubbock High students after the game, Homecoming activities were begun with a night pep rally and bonfire at Chapman Field. Mr. Burl H uffman, Westerner Coach from 1931 through 1935, was the principal speaker at the pep rally. After the program the students and exes went across the street where the 30-foot- high bonhre was blazing. l Thanksgiving morning exes had a chance to renew acquaintance with former schoolmates at vari- ous meeting places around town. The exes present from before 1921 met together as did the ones from 1921-,29, 1930-,34, 1935-,40, 1941- ,45, 1946-,50, and 1951-,54. The Student Council sold mums for homecoming, and at the meet- ing places they furnished cofee and soft drinks. The Y-Teen Club transformed the art room into a lounge and held open house for all past members of Y-T een and Girl Reserve organizations. Westerner In the top picture Mrs. Olive Tubbs Fluke, a Westerner of 1915, registers in the O. L. Slaton Iunior High cafeteria. ln the two center pictures are the attendants to the homecoming queen, Pat Rainer and Sharla Pep- per, respectively. Tommy Wynn, 1952, Ramona Davidson, 1952, Carolyn Pope, 1952, and Betty Hancock, 1951, recount school memories during the Y-Teen reception held for all ex-Y- Teen and ex-Girl Reserve members. In the lower right corner picture, Keith Cecil is buying a mum from Sarah Simmons and Glenda Harris. Keith, Sarah, and Glenda are pres- ent students in Lubbock High. Publications Department furnished copies of the Thanksgiving issue of the Westerner World for all exes. Chicks and ducks and geese bet- ter scurry when I take her out in the surrey-with the fringe on top -,D to this tune, played by the Lub- bock High School W'esterner Band, Carma Iean Williamson, Lubbock High Schools homecoming queen, rode around the playing yield at Jones Stadium at half time in the Westerner - Sandie game Turkey Day. Fourteen hundred exes sa- luted the senior queen as she passed by in her surrey with a con- vertible top that popped up half way around the field. Carma Iean and her attendants, Pat Rainer and Sharla Pepper, were presented bou- quets of red roses by Mr. Nat Wil- liams, superintendent of schools. Presentation of the homecoming queen climaxed the half-time ac- tivities of the traditional Thanks- giving Day football game between the Lubbock Westerners and the Amarillo Sandies. Even though the Westerners came out on the short end of the 14 to 7 score, the game was not lacking in tense excitement. This Homecoming was truly the Big Round- Upv of traditions, mem- ories, and people who have left their mark on Lubbock Senior High by being students, teachers, or both, in our school. if . Pix

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