School Year 1932 – 1933

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This was the first graduating high school class.

George Dempsey remembered that Roy Williams was the boys’ basketball coach this year. A photo of Cooperton students for the year 1926-1927 shows Roy Williams and Willard Smith (a 1943-1944 Con. 8 teacher). The caption states that Willard Smith was the first Cooperton High school graduate in 1928. It seems from this information the earliest Roy could have graduated from high school is 1929, and it is probable that this is Roy’s first year teaching.

Wilma (Duke) Stout has found a picture of the entire high school student body and teachers taken on “Senior Day”. The teachers shown are DeWees, Williams and Atchinson. The people shown in the picture agree with the assumption that grade 8 was with the high school. A link to the picture page is given in the next section as it is the only source of near contemporary pictures for some of the 1934 graduates.

Class of 1933: Houston Duke, Helen Jones, George Dempsey, Shirley Murrell, Alden Henderson, Mattie Thelma Smith, Clyde McDowell, Leonard Cleal, Cecil Hawkins, Eva Mae Hutchinson, Hubert Jones.

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President: Warren P. Dempsey

Clerk: Carl Heien

Member: Charles R. Smith

Superintendent: C. L. DeWess

• 1^st Grade: Mrs. Atchley? in Room 1
• 2^nd & 3^rd Grades: Mrs. DeWees in Room 2
• 4^th & 5^th Grades: Stella Fraley in Room 3
• 6^th & 7^th Grades: Stinnet? in Room 4 – DeWees assignment to 2nd and third and Mrs. Atchley to the first is based on Bernice (Dempsey)’s recall.
• 8^th through 12^th Grades: Roy Williams (was the Basketball Coach), Mr. Atchinson (based on picture of high school in spring 1933).

#4 Mr. York, Bud Smith, Leon Messick all drove in the 1929-1936 period.

#2 Mark McFarland most years in 1929-1936 period.

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Edward E. Burdick?