WASKOM SCHOOL
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(Date that story or picture was in newspaper is in parentheses.)
1898
teacher, Mrs. Lem Hales
Nannie Edmonds resigned her teaching position
1916 - 1917
J.A. McLeod, J.B. Moody, Mr. Veach - trustees
Prof. Allen
Miss Bertha Pippin
(The Rains County Leader, June 16, 1916)
1915-1916 Waskom Basketball team
Rosie Veach
Elvie Veach
Bertie Hubbard
Jimmie McLeod
Mattie Waskum
Tressie Pace
(Rains County Leader, March 3, 1916)
1917 (school began 10/15/1917)
trustees : Mr. Pound, Mr. McLeod (12 Oct 1917)
teachers : Prof. W.F. Shipp, Nathan C. Purcell
1917-1918
Prof. Shipp
1923/24(photograph
contributed by Constance Fenter Griffin)
Guy Sisk, teacher
Boyd, Louella
Hogue, Beatrice Simmons Trimble, Juanetta
Burgess, Bardin
Irwin, Estalee
Tuttle, Adeline McDonald
Cochran, Ila
Ivie, Mattie Luckett
Tuttle, Bula
Cooper, Jack
Jaggers, Henry
Turner, Jewel
Griffin, Constance Fenter Levicy, Jasper
Vincent, Loretta Tuttle
Pound, Ruth
Woodall, Ruby Prather
1924-1925
Guy Sisk - Principal
90 students
1925-1926
Guy Sisk - Principal
M.M. Vincent
Miss Fay Sisk
F.R. Gorman - Trustee
1926
Faye Sisk, teacher -- (photo submitted by Constance Fenter Griffin) Only
a few are identified.
top row #2 Letha Mae (Skeeter) Prather, #7 Faye Sisk (Price) #10
Dora Mae Worsham
second row #3 Vester Griffin
third row #7 Wilbur Pound
fourth row #3 Ellie Hoe Luckett
Girl's Basketball Team
-- Contributed by Constance Fenter Griffin
left to right:
Adeline (McDonald) Tuttle
Constance (Fenter) Griffin
Ruth (Pound) Hughey
Loretta (Tuttle) Vincent
Lovella (Boyd) Wafer
Leona (Turner) Irwin
Faye (Sisk) Price, Coach
(not pictured, Beatrice (Simmons) Hogue)
1928(photo submitted
by Constance Fenter Griffin)
standing: Eddith Griffin, Loretta Tuttle, Louise Nelson,
Addie Maddox, Mr. Price, teacher, Beulah Tuttle, Ila Cochran, Beatrice
Simmons, Leona Woodson, Leona Turner, Henry Jaggers.
sitting: Roy Henderson, Robert Garmon, Jim Tuttle,
Clara Bell Prather, Katie Pearl McDonald, Marie Newman,
Jewel Turner, Clara Herriage, Estalie Irwin.
1929-1930 Waskom
girl's basketball team - (photo submitted by Constance Fenter Griffin)
top row: Jewel Turner - guard, Moyel Eason - center,
Ollie Greathouse - guard.
bottom row: Leona Turner - guard, Stella Griffin -
guard, L C Johnson - center
1931(photograph
contributed by Odeal Hays)
teachers : Douglas Vincent & Constance Fenter Griffin
1932-1933
Mrs. Lis Freeman of Oklahoma - teacher (Rains County Leader, May 19
1933)
1933 (19 May 1933 Rains Co. Leader)
Mrs. Lis Freeman, who taught in the Waskom school the past year, has returned
to her home in Oklahoma.
1937-1939
Mr. Raymond N. Fitzgerald
Mrs. Evelyn (Raymond N.) Fitzgerald
Mrs. Thelma Giles
Mrs. Johnie Bishop
1947-1948
Constance Fenter Griffin