Jun. 1, 1933: Grandmother's High School Graduation

With a grandmother of 97, age is a preoccupation--her miraculous vigor is something of a mystery to me. So when I see the list of students in her graduating class, I have to wonder, how many are left?

As grandmother describes the time when she met grandfather, when they were both working at Coffee High, as having separate junior and high school buildings, I have to assume the school had grown a bit in the intervening years, even as the article mentions that her class was the largest ever at the time.

Article: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1wgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BboEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2968%2C3938910

Diplomas to Be Presented: Coffee High Will Graduate 79

Seventy-nine students will receive diplomas at the auditorium of the Coffee High school this evening at 8 o'clock, when Judge J. Fred Johnson will deliver the commencement address. This is the largest class to graduate from the school during its history.

The program to be presented at that time will be Grand march (Verdi), Mrs. D. A. Springer; address, Judge J. Fred Johnson; presentation of diplomas, J. W. Powell, superintendent of city schools; Alma Mater, class of 1933; prayer and benediction, Dr. D. W. Hollingsworth.

The following will receive diplomas:

Alma Angel, Grace Barnard, Nell Beasley, Mildred Billingsley, Ruth Bounds, Bille Brown, Brooks Brown, Fred Bryant, Elaine Cauhorn, Blanche Copeland, A. W. Darby, Evelyn Dial, Frances Dominick, Virginia Eastham, Josephine Edwards, Ollie Mae Ellis, Margaret Ezzell;

Susan Jane Fleming, Everett Gamble, William Grace, Charles Haley, Mildred Hardeman, Cora Mae Harris, Ruth Hill, Dorothy Hill, Christine Hite, Mildred Holland, Harold Hughston, Betsy Jane Jacoway, Brooks Jackson, Mildred Jaynes, Gertie Jolly;

Ruby Kachelman, Ray Kennedy, Harley Kirby, Billy Lacefield, Cornelius Langer, Marie Langer, Nancy Lucas, Aldine Mackey, Homer Martin, Eliza Malone, Mary Duke Mansell, Edward Meadows, Walter Mitchell, Ellen Moore, Alene Moore, John Morgan, N. P. Morrison, Nellie May Muse, Robert McKinney.

Mary Emma Parham, Lee Porter, Marguerite Power, Dorothy Price, Allen Price, Virginia Reeder, Marilou Reeves, Edith Evelyn Rhodes, Howard Romine, Carroll Rickard, Mary Evelyn Roberts, George Scarce, Leona Sharp, Billie Simmons, Virginia Simpson, Arlin Smith, Billie Stafford, Martha Frances Stafford, Harriet Stone, Jimmie Lou Stribling, Margaret Stumpe, Corinne Stutts, Doris White, Jimmy White, Sue White, Myrtle Williams, Thomas Wilson and Eva Womble.