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Wedding 1946

picture submitted by Joanna
Simpson Paterson
Bride Joyce Shuler, Groom Jerry Burns, Maid of Honor Gwen
Derrick
1st Row. 1 __________, 2 __________, 3 __________, 4 Marian
Chapman (‘56), 5 __________, 6 Joanna Simpson, 7 __________, 8
__________, 9 C.J. Mowell, 10 Lewis Allen, 11 __________, 12 __________
Girls standing behind 1st Row and to extreme left and right.
Left _________, Right __________
2nd Row (short row). 1 Doris Derrick, 2 Virginia Curran, 3
__________, 4 “Minister” __________, 5 Joyce Anglin, 6, Charlotte
Westbrook
Back Row. 1 __________, 2 Betty Avery, 3 Jeanette Williams, 4 Barbara
Pitman (’56), 5 __________, 6 Francine _____, 7, Diane Duncan, 8 Tommy
Pyle, 9 Jerry Watson, 10 Don Rainwater, 11 __________, 12 Jimmy Busbey, 13
_________
Note: The little preschooler in the audience looking back
at the camera is Ora Scott (’58)

1ST Grade 1946
Ms. Moye

1st Row. Johnny Alston,
Kenneth Holland, Lamar Griffin, _____4_____, _____5_____
2nd Row. Marcia Foster, Gwendolyn
Derrick, Joanna Simpson, Jerry Edwards, Tommy Pyle, Montene Swafford, Jimmy
Roundtree, Betty Lou Avery, C.J. Mowell, ____10______, ____11______
3rd Row. Billy Landrum, Leila Sanders,
__________, Jerry Burns, Lewis Allen, Joyce Shuler, Jerry Watson, Johnny Mullinax,
Joyce Anglin, __________, Virginia Curran
4th Row. Virgil Baker, ______2_____,
_____3____, ____4_____, Jimmy Busby, George Bauer, Francine _____, Don
Rainwater, Charlotte Westbrook, Jeanette Williams, ____11____, Ms. Moye

2nd
Grade 1947
Ms. Wise

1st Row. ___________, Boon Cottongim , Dickie
McLeroy, Jimmy McLeroy, Danny Shannon, Wayne Mullins, Paul Driskell, Sammy
Merritt
2nd Row. Leila Sanders, __________, __________, Robert
_____, Ruby _____, Ralph Allen, Carol Whaley, Francis Gillis, __________
3rd Row. Kenneth Coombs, Henry Parker, __________,
__________, __________, __________, Kenneth Holland, __________, __________
4th Row. Ms. Wise

2nd Grade
Ms. Pearce (a.k.a M. Pearce)

1st Row. __________, Johnny Alston,
__________, Kenneth Coombs, Stanley Hardy, Jimmy McLeroy, C.J. Mowell
2nd Row. __________, Joyce Anglin, Gwen Derrick, Charme
Robinson, Nancy Griffin, Virginia Curran, __________, Joanna Simpson, Jeanette
Williams, Joyce Shuler
3rd Row. __________, Jerry Edwards, Charlotte Westbrook,
Marcia Foster, Francine _____, Alice _____, Montene Swafford, Betty Avery, Jimmy
Busbey, Jerry Burns
4th Row. __________, Billy Landrum, George Bauer, Tommy Pyle,
__________, Virgil Baker, Donald Fisher, Don Rainwater, John Mullinax, Jerry
Watson, __________
picture provided by
Joanna Simpson
Patterson

3rd Grade
Ms. Dent (a.k.a L.L. Dent)

1st Row. Dickie McLeroy, Johnny Alston,
Jerry Burns, __________, Billy Landrum, C.J. Mowell, Sammy Merritt
2nd Row. Lewis Allen, __________, Joyce Anglin, Becky Brown,
Gwen Derrick, Joanna Simpson, Marcia Foster, Joyce Shuler, Larry Jones
3rd Row. Leila Sanders, Carol Whaley, Alice _____, Charme
Robinson, Nancy Griffin, __________, Betty Avry, Laverne Robinson
4th Row. Tommy Pyle, Wayne Mullins, Jerry Edwards,
__________, Michael Callahan, Virgil Baker, Sammy Grant, Don Rainwater
picture provided by
Joanna Simpson
Patterson

3rd
Grade 1948
Ms. Wise
The grade and teacher for this picture is in question.

1st Row. David Bowen, __________,
_____________, Montene Swafford, Wayne Walker,
Marie Cort, __________, ________
2nd Row. __________, Jeanette Williams,
Stanley Hardy, Charlotte Westbrook, Virginia Curran
3rd Row. Jerry Watson, Gene Black, Donald Fisher, Johnny
Mullinax, George Bauer, Kenneth Coombs, __________
4th Grade
1949
Ms. Wise

Colonial Hills 4th grade class attending Harris Street.
Colonial Hills School was torn down and the 4th grade class attended Harris
Street until Jere A. Wells was built and then class moved there for 5th grade.
1st Row. John Alston, Kenneth
Coombs, __________, Joyce Shuler, Becky Brown, Gwen Derrick
2nd Row. C.J. Mowell,
Jeanette Williams, Jerry Watson, Marcia Foster, Johnny Mullinax,
Charlotte Westbrook, Billy Landrum,
___________, _____, Montene Swafford
3rd Row. Dickie McLeroy,
Lavern Robinson, Charme Robinson, Nancy Griffin, Betty
Lou Avery, Joanna Simpson, Marie Cort, Jimmy
McLeroy
4th Row. George Bauer,
Wayne Mullins, Gene Black,
Sammy Grant, Virgil Baker,
Sammy Merritt, Stanley Hardy,
Larry Jones