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MHS ALUMNI STORIES…..2010
Series 4 Honor Years 1930 and 1935

BIGHUMNI STARTED AT MHS IN 1930

There was no Yearbook for the Class of 1930, celebrating eighty years since graduating from MHS; therefore newspapers are the main source of information. The Mangum Star, April 27, 1930, Alumni Edition, has a very large picture of Edgar H. Pace, President of the MHS Alumni Association, on the front page. Assisting him was Vice-President, H. Eldon Pickard, Class of 1930 and the Secretary was Anna Fritsche, Class of 1929. No Treasurer was listed.

The Mangum-Star News, May 15, 1980, says the Class of 1930 graduated twenty two girls and twelve boys. Reda Taylor was the valedictorian and Dorothy Winchester, served as salutatorian. A group picture by Wade Studio of Mangum shows these seniors:

Anna Joyce Banks
Lucille Bolen
Mary M. Bradshaw
Wilma Nell Bray
Genevieve Browne
Ronald Carpenter
Rosa Chapman
Ruth Conrad
Agnes Cupp
H. Marion Doolen
Edward Ely
Leon Freeman
Vada Gentry
Lee Green
Oreta Hall
Oma Haston
Lou Ethel Kirk
Jerome Kirschner
Mildred Lennon
Everett Lockhart
Florine Lindley
Herbert Miller
Robert Powers
Herschal Price
Elizabeth Ray
Jesse Roper
Grace Stiles
Laura P. Slaton
Paul Taylor
Reda Taylor
Ruth Taylor
Virginia Warlick
Tommie Faye Wilhite
Dorothy Winchester

Sponsors for the class were: Miss Rachel Gansel, Mr. Eldon Pickard and Mrs. William. Williams. Class Parents were Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Talley.

A poem was also published by a classmate:

ODE TO MANGUM HI
BY LEE GREEN, 1930

When I die bury me deep;
Put my Latin under my feet.
Put my history on my chest;
Tell Miss Hall I did my best.
Put my English under my head.
Tell Miss Harrison;
She knows why I’m dead.
There’s no use to grieve,
So please don’t cry;
I met my death at Mangum Hi!!

Note: The Mangum Star-News, May 15, 1980, published a letter written by Robert Lee Green, wherein he summed up his Mangum school days: “We had hard years with dust storms, hot weather and no rain. We had good teachers and a good principal, Mr. Reese. Miss Moore, for math, and Miss Nina Davis were the ‘most dedicated teachers’ that ever taught at Mangum High. I rode to school in a covered wagon pulled by a team of mules and driven by Roddy Cotton. I left home at 7:00 a.m. and returned at 5:00 p.m. I played three years of football. The north end was nice and sandy and the south end was hard,
bare ground full of goat heads.” Mr. Green’s address was listed in San Pablo California.

According to the Mangum Daily Star, April 30, 1932, an article by Gene Browne titled “Who’s Who’ In Alumni, gave the following information about this class: Reda Taylor won a scholarship to Baylor College for Women and was married to Bill Stewart, (also a MHS grad who died in 2009); Dorothy Winchester was a student at OCW, Chickasha, studying to become a public school music teacher; Mary Bradshaw was secretary for the First Methodist Church, Mangum; Ruth Conrad was studying for a Home Economics degree at OU; Wilma N. Bray was cashier for a shop in El Paso, Texas; Ronald Carpenter was attending SW State Teachers College at Weatherford; Grace Stiles Smith was married to Herschel Smith at lived in Mangum; Leon Freeman was studying civil engineering at A&M, Stillwater, and Everett Lockhart was a student at OU and had received an appointment to West Point.

BI GHUMNI STARTED IN 1930………CELEBRATING 80 YEARS in 2010!!!
Mangum Daily Star, Saturday, April 30, 1932

The Bi Ghum Ni Club (spouses of MHS Alumni Members) held their first banquet in 1930. According to this paper, the BiGhum Ni Club “staged a feast for Friday, May 20th. Wives and Husbands of Alumni members are urged to join. They held their 3rd annual banquet and social Friday night at the Franklin Hotel. The organization has twenty charter members and new additions come on board each year.” Mrs. Goodwin Crittenden, served as president in 1932 while Dr. Hill and Oscar Duffy were handling the tickets which were seventy-five cents each.

CLASS OF 1935…..75TH REUNION TIME

The 1930’s only produced two yearbooks. These were the Classes of 1938 and 1939, both of which contain excellent pieces of history. The Class of 1935 had no yearbook; therefore information on this class hasn’t been easily forthcoming. Oma Passmore Wetsel helped this writer with information and help was also received from Olga Shadid Hawkins, Altus, and the widow of Paul Wiseman, deceased member, of Hillsboro, Texas.

The year 1935 began with the Mangum Daily Star, January 6, 1935, headlining “DR.MCGREGOR KILLED”. Dr. McGregor was a 43-year-old surgeon and hero of World War I; he was also a prominent Mangum citizen and partner with Dr. Border and the Mangum Hospital (today the site of the Old Greer County Museum). Dr. McGregor went to Temple, Texas, to visit an ill sister, accompanied by Manse “Butch” Collier. When his auto ran out of gasoline a mile west of Bowie, he flagged a passing motorist. As he was returning back to his auto, he was struck by a fast moving freight truck and thrown beneath the rear wheels. This was a defining moment in the lives of Mrs. McGregor and her two sons, Frank Jr. and Robert, as well as Greer County and Mangum.

The M.H.S. Tiger was published each Sunday in the Mangum Daily Star. It was written and edited entirely by the Mangum High School Journalism Class under the supervision of Miss Zuleka Burkhart. The Staff consisted of: Editor-in-Chief, Lenore Arnett; Associate Editor, Mary Alice Garner; Society Editor, Muffet Jackson; Sports Editor, R. A. Goad; Alumni Editor, Kathleen Lowrance; Humor Editor, Kathleen Lowrance; Edison Reporter, Melba Tailey; All-School Reporter, Geraldine McNeil; Other Reporter: Texanna Curtis.

Page Five. One article was titled “Home Ec Pupils Serve Meals to Local Children”. This was about the serving of free meals to needy children and how beef and rice were furnished by the FERA; bread was paid for through the local Milk and Bread Fund. Ice Cream was donated by the Mangum Ice Cream Company once a week. Miss Faye Thrower, Home Economics instructor, was well pleased with the total project.

The Society news covered the J. U. G.’s, an entertainment group; a dance at the Elk’s Club; the Soiree Club held a round of holiday parties also singing Christmas carols and climbing the water tower. At 12:00’clock, the group went to the Catholic church for Mass. At one of the last gatherings, the article said, “Bridge, dancing, dominoes and gossip” were the main features of the evening.

The MHS Alumni Association Officers consisted of: President, Otto Armstrong, Class of 1922; V-President, Mildred Bartee-Harris, Class of 1924; Secretary, Lacy S. Noble, Jr., Class of 1929; Assistant Secretary, Margaret Neil-Wilson, Class of 1933; and the Treasurer’s position was held by Floyd A. Sooy, Class of 1934.

Class parents were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Caffey. Class sponsor was Miss Tommie Johnson, Class of 1918 MHS grad and long time teacher in the Mangum schools.

Class Valedictorian was Duralle Roberts and Salutatorian was Elaine Jackson.

Anyone who has more information about this class, please call this historian at 580-782-5107 or e-mail joy.grant@sbcglobal.net

These 65 classmates are listed on the records:

Frances Allen
Lenore Arnett
Bill Baker
Lola Brewer
Charles Briley
Mary Jane Brooks
Nora Burgess
Jane Byrom
John Cochran
Ruby Cochran
Cletis Cook
Katherine Cowley
Frances ‘Pat’ Chambers
Texanna Curtis
Bernice Davidson
Horace Doughty
Winona Elkins
Helen Foster
Jerry Freeman
Ovid Gates
R. A. Goad
Mary Alice Garner
Eudora Garrett
Helen Hall
Lorena Hartman
Ruth Head
Carl Herndon
J. B. Hollis
Elaine Jackson
Selma Jones
Lucy Anne Lovett
Pleasant Lowder
Katheleen Lowrance
Geraldine McNeill
Margaret Mallard
Louis Moss
Loretta Neal
Dorothy Osman
Alta Faye Phillips
Houston Pruitt
Duralie Roberts
Vance Robertson
Olga Shadid
Wesley Silk
Albert Skalicky
Charles H. Smith
Ruth Speed
Tommy Stewart
Louise Sumrall
Melba Talley
Rex Tillman
Josephine Todd
Obera Train
Winona Turner
Elbert Wade
Edison Waldroop
Doris Vaughn
Catherine Warwick
Darrell Wells, Sr.
Curtis Wetsel
Paul Wiseman
Jones Witcher
Alzie Worthen
Dick Wright
Dick Young

1935 MHS CLASS COMPOSITE insert composite picture here if you don’t want to list the class roll separately. Identification is below:

1st ROW L to R:
Bill Tillman, Billy Baker, Alzie Worthen, R. A. Goad, Cletis Cook, Louis Moss, Houston Pruitt.

2ND ROW L TO R:
John Cochran, Carl Herndon, Tommy Stewart, Darrell Wells, Jones Witcher,
Ruby Cochran, J. B. Hollis, Charles Briley, Elbert Wade, Vance Robertson,
Curtis Wetsel

3rd ROW L to R:
Dick Wright, Margaret Mallard, Dorothy Osman, Nora Burgess, Duralie Roberts,
Elaine Jackson, Bernice Davidson, Louise Sumrall, Katherine Cowley, Paul Wiseman

4th ROW L to R:
Albert Skalicky, Winona Turner, Ruth Head, Mary Jane Brooks, Eudora Garrett,
Helen Foster, Olga Shadid, Horace Doughty

5th ROW L to R:
Dick Young, Melba Talley, Pat Chambers, Lucy Anne Lovett,
Mary Alice Garner, Selma Jones, Ruth Speed, Edison Waldroop

Miss Tommie Johnson (Class of 1918) was the class sponsor.

6th ROW L to R:
Pleasant Lowder, Alta Faye Phillips, Catherine Warwick, Kathleen Lowrance,
Lenore Arnett, Obera Train, Geraldine McNeill, Frances Allen, Wesley Silk

7th ROW L to R:
Josephine Todd, Helen Hall, Jerry Freeman, Loretta Neal, Texanna Curtis, Doris Vaughn, Lola Brewer

Series 5 will follow with history on the 1940 and 1945 classes.

Compiled and Researched by Joy Hall Grant, Class of 1957 and Alumni Historian

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