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PAQE TWENTY-TWO—SECTION B
AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE, AMARILLO, TEXAS.
PUBLIC SCHOOL HISTORY
(Continued from Page 21)
me up In Amarillo, this time for
two ward buildings. The election
carried, rnu the McKinley building,
to cost $15,000, and the Wilson, to
oost $25,000 were planned.
Sites for these schools were se-
cured at 700 Adams (McKinley),
•nd the south half of the 1600 block
between Taylor and Fillmore.
Pall term, 1917, opened with the
new buildings complete. M. H. Dun-
can was still superintendent of
schools; J. L. Duflot was principal
of the high school; Elizabeth Nixson
a as head of the junior high school
group. Annie McDonald was assis-
tant principal of high and junior
higl ; J. G. Pace was at the Taylor
8treet building—as it was then call-
ec'.—G. C. Beard at Johnson ward
school, Eugene Ballangee at North
Amarillo on Buchanan and Ethel
Jackson was principal at the new
McKinley school.
This was during the World War,
and like everything else the schools
felt the tension. New trustees were
3. P. Sullenberger and J. M. Oakes
on the board. Permission was given
for using the school building for
Red Cross work during vacation pe-
riods.
Fall term had hardly begun when
the fearful flu epidemic hit Ama-
rillo and all the world. Schools were
closed, and as the hospitals over-
flowed, temporary hospitals were
set up in the school buildings. The
entire year was disrupted, still the
graduating class of 1918 had 16 boys
and 3i girls—not at all a last year.
Normal conditions returned after
the war; Amarillo took stock of her
schools. She found her high school
badl-- in need of repair and mod-
ernizing, her wards s-till crowded.
I bruary, 1919, a bond issue of $80,-
000 was voted to remodel the high
school building and erect a wing
bark of it for use as a ward school.
C. J. Blackburn, L. B. Newby, E.
S. Blasdell and W. W. Flennikin
were trustees elected in 1919.
Fall term opened with G. C. Beard
at the head of the high school,
Annie McDonald was at Wilson,
Ethel Jackson at Johnson, Violet
Davidson was principal at North
Buchanan, and Willie Kate Meadow
at McKinley. The other schools
had no change of principals.
The trustees had another problem
to consider in the fall of 1919, but
there was really no discussion or
debating. For the first time in all
the history of the schools the ques-
tion of a holiday c« Armistice Day
came up. It was declared, of course,
and schools dismissed.
With the Tyler Street ward build-
ing completed, the trustees realized
they were still facing a room short-
■ge. The small frame buildings
that had been moved from school
to school were again shifted. The
school census gave 2261 scholastics
to Amarillo while the rural schools
had 143.
The rural schools still had only
the six districts, with District No. 1
claiming 37 children. No. 2 had 20;
No. 3 had 34; No. 4 had 18; No. 5
only 5; and No. 6 claimed 20.
Growth of Amarillo schools Is
shown by the fact that t.hfre were
57 graduates at the close of the
1919-1920 term.
New trustees elected In April,
1920, were J. H. Russell, J. H. Harris
and C. H. Dixon.
Amarillo had again outgrown her
schools; the trustees again began
wrestling with the building prob-
lems. In 1921 the first unit of the
present high school building was
erected on the site where the old
Red Brick had stood. Many fond
i mories of school days linger still
around the Red Brick, "but all Ama-
rillo breathed a sigh of relief when
the wornout building was torn down,
although the third floor had long
since been abandoned. Glenwood
also had a new, modern school
bi ilding in 1921.
Estimated expenditures of the
Amarillo Independent schools for
the term of 1921-22 were placed at
$131,206, with scholastics placed at
3,283. Thirty-two boys and 43 girls
graduated in Amarillo that year.
• • •
In April, 1921, the first women
to serve on the Amarillo school
board were elected. They were Mrs.
S. L. Seay and Mrs. J. I. Kendrick.
The election of women to the school
board brought on much discussion
i Amarillo; everyone admitted that
they were well quali" ed to serve;
that they made excellent trustees.
But for several years, as time drew
near for election of school trustees,
the issue came up again.
Next year, J922, saw decided
changes in Amarillo schools. The
first athletic coach was employed,
although school teams already made
a name for Amarillo schools. This
was the first athletic coach em-
ployed in Amarillo, however. From
this date, interest in school sports
grew until for three years in suc-
cession, the Amarillo High School
football team captured the state
championship.
M. H. Duncan resigned at the
close of the spring term. The trus-
tees employed W. A. Mcintosh as
j his succces'sor. and he continued as
J superintendent of schools until C.
M. Rogers, the present superinten-
dent, was employed.
Mr. Rogers was principal of the
high school n 1922.
Along with T. W. Cotten, George
W. Faller and J. A. Travis, another
| woman trustee was elected in 1922,
Mrs. A. J. Crow.
Trees on school property became
! of vital interest at that time, and
the first plantings were made that
| year.
Amarillo was growing tremen-
dously. New brick school buildings
were erected in San Jacinto, 400
Carolina, and in East Amarillo,
where the Sanborn School was built
at 700 Roberts Street. Amarillo's
first stadium was erected in 1922,
the Lee Bivins Playground located
near Tenth and Travis Streets.
Soon after the fall term opened,
| r small group of high school stud-
[ ents gathered. It was in Oct. 1922,
! with Oscar Wise, head of the man-
uel training department, who organ-
ized the high school band. Now
there are two bands, the senior of
which boasts 80 members.
School life In the rural sections of
Pottpr County received a gr at, im-
petus 111 1923 when the first super-
intendent of Potter County schools
was elected. Ray Johnson had fol-
lowed T. W. McBride as county
Judge in 1918, and as such he was
ex-officio county superintendent of
schools, but now he gladly relin-
quished the work to Miss Laura V.
Hamner, first county superintendent
of schools.
When Miss Hamner began her
work there were 10 schools in the
county system—Bushland, Soncy,
Cliffside, River Road, Brady, St.
rYancis, Jones, Allison, Pavillard
and Crawford.
In 1916, when the first election
foi county trustees was held, George
Menke was among those elected.
When Mis.- Hamner came into of-
fice, this man was giving valuable
t at had to be propped up a few
years later, but school spirit in the
River Road --hool was excellent.
They were determined to have good
schools.
St. Francis school, taught by Miss
Louise Loving, had a one-room,
large building wit'- eight grades
under the one teacher.
Jones' teacher was trying to teach
and there is no reflection on the
teacher—all grades from beginners
through high school, in one room,
and there were not enough desks for
the children.
Pavillard had a very small en-
rollment—an average attendance of
five children. They were not
crowded.
Crawford, across the river, was not
crowded, either. At one time in its
it was not long until the board was
composed entirely of men again. J.
Ray was a made a trustee in 1923,
David Warren and S. D. Vaughan in
1924. H. L. Milholland, W. M. Dur-
ham and Walter Blackburn were
clected in 1925, while J. A. Bowman,
U. S. Strader and J. B. Coe were
elected in 1926.
S. F. Newbold resigned as tax as-
sessor and collector In the fall of
1923, and George M. Waddili was
employed as business manager for
the Amarillo Independent School
System.
One of the first tasks of the new
business manager was to survey all
schools. The survey revealed that
24 more rooms were badly needed in
the San Jacinto, McKinley, Buchan-
an, Glenwood and East ward schools.
months. This was practical for
Amarillo, but worked too much
hardship on transfers to and from
the Amarillo schools.
• • •
The period from 1922 through
1926 saw several changes in princi-
pals. Annie McDonald was made
l^incipal of the Tyler Street school
In 1923. Two years later Ethel Jack-
son was in charge of Wilson, John
Winters of Buchanan Street, W.
E. Routh was at McKinley, C. C.
Walden In San Jacinto, Maude L.
Fletcher at East Ward, and E. F.
King was the new head of the
V/ler Street school. Miss McDonald
was elected supervisor of all ele-
mentary work In the Amarillo
schools in 1925.
S. C. Patten is listed as principal
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ver-growing school popu-
service to the county on the rural
board, and today George Menke is
still on the Potter County school
board.
Miss Hamner found almost the
same condition in all the schools of
the county. New buildings and re-
pairs on old ones were badly needed.
Bushland, with Miss Bessie Blair
teaching, had a good frame build-
ing, but it was too small. Soncy had
no steps to its school building. The
• trons had taken pains, however,
that, the building should not blow
away; it was firmly staked at thp
four corners. Kenton Penrod and
Joe Gray were trustees at Soncy
and Cliffside. TIip Cliffside build-
| ing was still perched near the creek
: bed. Window panes were broken
i out, and the children were using
j long benches, as the seats were all
I broken.
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The River Road school, north of
! Amarillo, had a tiny frame building
history this Crawford school had
five pupils, all Crawford children,
and the teacher was named Craw-
ford. However, he was not related
to the father of the Crawford chil-
dren and the trustee of the school.
Miss Hamner began work by seek-
ing to create an interest in the rural
schools, thus arousing a desire to
i...prove them. This was accom-
plished by proposing to each of the
■ men's civic clubs that they adopt
a rural school and make it their
; duty to know each rural pupil per-
' sonally, and to see that their parti-
i cular school had equal advantages
; with the Amarillo pupils. The plan
j worked. All this was not done in
a day, however; it took several
years.
The records of the next, several
years in all schools of the county
! read alike—new buildings and addi-
j tions.
Changes in trustees in the Ama-
1 rillo schools, werr not, frequent but
j Also, some recent sub-divisions of
| Amarillo had no school near enough
j for their small children to attend.
Many schools were built in 1926;
Wolflin, at 2100 Hughes, at a cost
| of $130,000; the second unit of the
high school, casting $235,500; a
$66,800 addition in San Jacinto; the
same amount was spent for the first
I unit in North Amariilo at. 610 North
Buchanan; and an addition and
I repair to the Glenwood building
I costing $13,000. All this was done
J h 1926. Prior to that, the Ama-
| rillo schools were terribly crowded
j for many years, beginning soon
after the end of the war. Such bad
i things as "split days" and half-
I t'—ie schedule had to be resorted to
I so that all the children might be
j cared for.
Because Amarillo had a cool cli-
j mate, it was proposed once to es-
| tablish year-round classes, with the
j schedule to he worked out so that
each child attended for only nine
of the Fred Douglas negro school at
103 Jackson Street In 1925. He soon
proved his worth and lifted the
school to a much better status.
Amarillo's school census showed
4,750 children for several years and
in the spring of 1925, for the first
t me, the graduating class numbered
more than 100.
In 1927 a junior high school unit
was built on the Buchanan Street
property, adjoining the ward
school: Sanborn building spent
$133,800 for an addition at 700 Rob-
erts; Humphrey's Highland, a new
sub-division school, cast $15,000; the
Pleasant, Valley school north of the
cit received a $25,000 building;
and the Summit building, to care
for children in the Smelter section,
was erected at a cast of $56,000.
Two more brick school buildings
were, erected in 1927. These build-
ings received names of women
whose memories are cherished In
Amarillo. Among early teachers in
the city schools was Margaret Sum-
mers, who later married Wills. The
School erected at 700 Sunset Street
was given the name Margaret Wills
School. A young woman lived In
Amarillo for only a short time yeais
ago; she died in early womanhood,
but ail Amarillo loved her, andeveiy
orphan or needy child knew her
as an angel of mercy, as an "nder"
standing friend. Alice ^andergin
School was erected at 3209 Taj lor
Street at a cost of $78,600.
The Amarillo school board made
one other purchase in 1927, and it
was named, as a memorial to a -
loved football coach, Butler Field,
the high school athletic plant.
Almost, all of the new buildings
were ready for the fall term, but no
mention is made of teachers for
Alice Landergin and MarSaret
schools at the opening of the 19-7
28 terms.
Dewey Reed had been principal
of Johnson Street ward school for
the 1926-27 term and the new school
year finds him there. C. M.
was listed as supervisor of both the
senior and Junior high schools
Ventura Smith had the position of
music supervisor; Annie McDonald,
supervisor of elementary grades; C.
F Poole was principal of both the
junior high and ward school at Bu-
chanan Street; E. Frank Klr.g, I\-
ler Street principal; C. C. Walden,
San Jacinto-. Maude Fletcher. San-
born; Ethel Jackson, Wolflin; Sarah
C. Miller, Wilson; J. S. Evans, at
McKinley; Wallace Dickson, Sum-
mit: J. W. Hill, Humphrey's High-
land; Maria Villareal, the school for
Mexicans; Dwight Morrow at 1600
Cleveland Street; and C. W. Patten,
Fred Douglas.
The rural schools of the county
had also been growing and building,
as well as meeting standard classi->
fications in their grades. One of the"
mast successful ventures of the
rural schools in arousing interest
In each other and in their com-
munities was the school fair, first
held at the River Road School—or
the Ford School—in 1923. Inter-
scholastic meets followed; Potter
County won in many events and
went to the state finals, often plac-
ing high there.
• • •
New and remodeled buildings
[appeared. Bushland ran a partition
through their one-room frame
school back in 1923, but soon a mod-
I ern two-room brick building was
S erected, to which an addition was
built in 1927, and still later more
room provided by a rearrangement
; of rooms.
The Jones school, later known as
the Masterson, was forced to use
the building erected in 1913 for
: some time, but t.hev soon began to
need a new building. A brick school-
I house was erected In 1930, and Mrs.
Polly Merchant and Mrs George
Hudson were its first teachers. Roy
Pavillard, R. D. Lewis and Mike
Wink were trustees.
The St. Francis, or Highland Park
|school had much trouble before they
secured their beautiful modern
j building. After a fire In 1907, the
ischoolhouse burned again in 1926.
IA new structure was built, moved
and the name changed. The High-
' land Park school building was crect-
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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 1938.
Timely Work
Horace Greeley was responsible
for J. T. Russell's coming to Ama-
rillo and for the subsequent found-
ing of the Russell Jewelry Company,
pioneer institution of the city.
Mr. Greeley advised young men to
"go West." Mr. Russell was a young
man, thought the advice good, so ha
boarded e train in Gainesville, Tex-
as. with this city his destination.
That was 33 years ago. For four
and a half years after arriving here,
Mr. Russell, still in his early twen-
ties, worked in the grocery busi-
ness.
On January 10, 1912, he borrowed
$1,500 and went into the Jewelry
business—at the same site his store
now occupies, 123 East Fifth Avenue.
The building he's now in is the sec-
ond, for, as he puts it, "I wore the
first one out."
Mr. Russell is official watch in-
spector for the Rock Island Rail-
road division in the Panhandle and
part of Oklahoma. Watches are In-
spected once every 15 days, and if
they vary as much as 30 seconds,
adjustment is necessary.
In the many years he has been
In the jewelry business, Mr. Russell
has had only three watchmakers
work for him.
The present one, C. C. Holt. ha.
been with him three years. He Is
a certified U. S. government watch-
maker.
Accounting
The Pioneer School of Executive
Accounting was founded in Sep-
tember, 1934. by C. W. Barkley, who
saw the need of such a school after
working as an Income tax auditor
for several years.
For this school Mr. Barkley se-
lected the system of texts that have
supplied the large business firms for
many years.
The Pioneer School of Executive
Accounting accepts only student,
with education and background that
will fit them for the work of an ac-
countant.
Mr. Thomas Place of the Univer-
sity of New York, also has taught
in the accounting school for the past
I year.
The school is now located at
I 1219 Polk Street, where Mr. Barklc
i has an extensive library for the use
i of present and past pupils of hi
j school.
An old time cowboy named Pen-
nell; "For seven years I didn't sleep
n a house, summer or winter.
AMARILLO
SHOE
HOSPITAL
for shoe repairing
COWBOY BOOTS
Made to Measure
5 I 8 Taylor Street
12 YEARS OF PROGRESS
IN THE PANHANDLE
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J. F. JONES
President and Manager
JOHN F. ROSS
Vice President
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R. A. BROWN
Secret ary-Treasurer
J. S. FISCHER
Vice "President
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ORGANIZED OCTOBER 23rd 1926
Have arown from an Association rf less than $5,000.00
to over $825,000.00 in Assets in 12 years.
Hav Paid Out in Dividends over a quarter million dollars
to over 3,000 investors since organiiation.
Have made over 1,700 loans totaling more than two million
dollars to Home Owners in Amarillo and neighboring
cities and towns.
Each individual investor is insured up to $5,000.00 by
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
INSURED
Panhandle Building
L. R. BARKER
Vire President
118 EAST SIXTH AVE.
Loan Association
AMARILLO, TEXAS
EVELYN DALE
Bookkeeper
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