School Year 1948 – 1949

Year By Year Navigation

This year and in the following years the concept of “team teaching” at all levels seems to have been applied. As far as I can determine Mr. Woods and Mr. Nikkel were the only staff who did not teach some in the grades below 9th. Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4 were used for the first 8 grades, with the teachers moving between classrooms. Therefore the description is more complex than in earlier years.

Elizabeth Heien provided me with a copy of the 1949 Yearbook which has even more information. The staff page giving credit to those who produced the book. The detail of this year would have been impossible to collect to easily without the aid of the Yearbook for 1949. Still some questions noted at the end of this section.

THE STAFF OF THE 1949 CON. 8 YEAR BOOK (Picture on the Right)

EDITOR ……………………….. Mary Shockley           GIRLS’ SPORTS EDITOR ….. Maxine Holder
BUSINESS MANAGER …….. Clell Joy Reese           BOYS’ SPORTS EDITOR ….. C. H. McClure
ASSISTANT MANAGER …… Charlena Dempsey     SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR … Billte Jo Guy
LITERARY EDITOR …………. Zoe Ella Sims              TYPIST ………………………… Patsy Ivey
ADVISOR …………………….. V.E. Woods

These assignments are ones deduced from the yearbook But there was more sharing of the grade school load than this remembered by grade school students.  One example: Miss Kerbo was teaching some 7 & 8th grade materials in Room 4.  If so someone else would have helped in 1 & 2. Some more input from classes of 1953-1960 might clarify further details.

Class of 1949: Charlena Demsey, Billie Jo Guy, Maxine Holder, Ted Blish, Zoe Ella Sims, Patsy Ivey, Jimmy Reese, Teresa Morris, Blell Reese, C. H. McClure, Mary Shockley.

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Director: George McKinnis

Clerk: R. V. Shockley

Member: Roy Bolding

Superintendent: – V. E. Woods – Room 5

• 1^st & 2^nd Grades:  Nora Kerbo in Room 1
• 3^rd & 4^th Grades: Mrs. Lloyd Hutchinson and Margaret Martin Room (?)
• 5^th & 6^th Grades: Mrs. Irene Nikkel in Room 3 (?)
• 7^th & 8^th Grades: Major McClure and M. L. Sims in Room 4
• 9^th through 12^th Grades: L. Sims – Biology and Geography Room (?) and 7th and 8th grade studies. Carl Nikkel – Principal – Coach & Social Studies. Margaret Martin – English I,II,IV Room 6. Major McClure – Math (algebra and Geometry) and 8th grade studies. Mrs. Lloyd Hutchinson – Typing I and II Room 5

#1 Harold Mathew – East Route

#2 M. A. McFarland – West Route

#3 Bud Ayers – North Route

#4 Robert Schrader – South Route

Glee Ayers

Georgia Smith

Velma McFarland

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