Negreet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Negreet, LA)

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14 l it iii I 'Q 2 A HISTORY OF NEGREET HIGH SCHOOL NEGREET HIGH DCHOOL, TEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANY ON HIGHWAY 6, wAS NAMED FOR AN OLD INDIAN CHIEF IT IS LOCATED NEAR NEGREET CREEK WHICH wAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS BAYOU NEGRETE EIGHT ONE ROOM SCHOOLS SERVED AS A MEANS OF EDUCATION FOR THIS COMMUNITY DURING THE LATE 18008 AND EARLY 19OOS, UNTIL THE HIGH SCHOOL wAS ESTAB LISHED IN 1921 LIBERTY, PILGRIM'S REST, SELF COM MUNITY, SPRING GROVE, AND OAK HILL WERE CONSOLI DATED wITH NEGREET IN 1921 TO FORM NEGREET HIGH SCHOOL HOOKER BEND JOINED US IN 1922, UNION HILL IN 1928, AND ALLIANCE IN 1945 MR G C REEVES WAS SUPERINTENDENT OF SABINE PARISH SCHOOLS IN 1921, AND NR BILL ADDISON wAS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR WARD 3 WHEN NEGREET HIGH SCHOOL wAS ORGANIZED MR G S MANNING wAS THE FIRST PRINCIPAL MONG THE TEACHERS IN 1921 wERE MR G MANNING, MISS 5USlE WASHBURN, MISS FANNIE GRIFFIN, MR G S MANNING, MRS ELLA MAE EMANUEL, MRS MAE CURTlS,MlSS LUCY HAMMETT AND MISS JEWEL JONES THE FIRST GRADUATES wERE MYRA ADDISON AND DAN CANDY I PRINCIPALS FOLLOwING MR MANNING wERE NR D OOPER, NR M RICHA DSON, L HE , LILLY DURING THE TIME THAT LD WAR Il E BR LILLY RESUMED HIS DUTIES AS wHEN HE RETURNED FROM ACTIVE FORCES MR LILLY SERVED IN wAS PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL IN 1945 DUTY IN OUR ARMED V OI? . 1 , 0 I I C ' 1 ' ,Xm. PX S O . in A . .S. I X Sl O 0 I l M. C I . . S. R MR. A, . AD MR. A. D. LUCIUS, MR. H, A, MIMS AND MR. w. G. X won , MR. T. , ITT . MR. lx . I . - K I-O JI -,i I ,V A 22, S