COMMENCEMENT

Monday Evening June 1
Nineteen Hundred Fifty-Three
Seven o'Clock
Texarkana, Arkansas
THEME: "Freedom of Choice"
Processional --- Pomp and Circumstance.........Elgar
Pianist: Jimmie Jo Beall
Invocation --- Jack Winfred Harrison
Introduction --- John William Evers
The Basic Principle --- Thalia Elizabeth Collins
Chorus Service------------ Cadman-Riegger
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Nilane Allen |
Sarah Lea Grisham |
Betty Ann Walker --- Accompanist
Community Life --- Mary Ellen Quinn
Our Livelihood --- William Q. Burns Jr
Education -------- Leta Jo Taylor
Chorus - Your Land and My Land....... Romberg
Spiritual Values --------- Carolyn Scoggins
This our Land ----------- Owen Major Kirkley
Awarding of Honors ---- K.B. Davis
Presentation of Diplomas ------- Joe Lavender
Alma Mater
------------- Led by Thomas Earl Carter
Jean Atkinson -- Accomanist
HONOR GRADUATES
| Nilane Allen Donald Ray Andrews Joanne Atkins Jean Atkinson Joan Evelyn Ball Jimmie Jo Beall Alice Dale Blevins Thalia Elizabeth Collins Georgia Laverne Cox Lena Nell Davis Jessie Mae Dickson Jerry Winton Dunn John William Evers Charles Fleming Ferguson Jr. Peggy Ellen Fincher Sally Gilbert Mary Margaret Gordon Madelyn Carrol Gorree Barbara Jean Green Sarah Lea Grisham Jack Winfred Harrison John David Hodge Jr. Natalie Hoffman Shirley Ann Kennedy |
Owen Major
Kirkley Norma Sue Landes Billy Alfred LaFevre Patsy Joan Loper Charles Ajam Malin Lawana Jeanette Meigs Dorothy Dale Moore Geneva Lavelle Nall Milton Fredrick Oefinger Kenneth Ray Pasley Billy Charles Poynter Mary Ellen Quinn Mary Sue Roberts Ernestine Russell Bobby Dale Santifer Carolyn Scoggins Robert E. Starkey Sandra Sandlin Tackett Leta Jo Taylor Herbert Leslie Temple Jefferson D. Thompson Betty Ann Walker Anna Helen Williams Carolyn Jearldine Worley |
MERIT GRADUATES
Martha Ann Anderson
Ester Lewel Armstrong
Newton Dale Arnold
Alberta Clarice Attaway
Nelma Duane Beasley
Helen Raye Beauford
Hollis Ferne Brazell
William Quinton Burns Jr.
Thomas Earl Carter
Donavon R. Caulder
Patsy Jean Crowson
Fannie Elizabeth Cunningham
Bobby Wayne Douglas
Emma Ruth Elliott
Mary Thomasene Ewing
Bobbie Jean Flores
W. Wallace Foster
Dolly Jane Goodson
Jean Elizabeth Green
Travis Wayne Hall
Vivian Hickman
Ona Irene Higgs
Charlotte Lee Hill
Mary Joyce Honea
Wayne Kirby
George Graham Knight
Tommie Lou Letcher
Winfred Erbin McDowell
William Reitzammer McManus
Norma Jean McNair (Wood)
Richard Martin
Barbara La Jean Parker
Robert Franklin Pierce Jr
Kenneth Post
Beverly Ann Quilin
Winfred Ramsey
Robert Dan Rogers
Robert Eugene Rutherford
Annabelle Scarborough
George Ivan Smith
William Thomas Smith
Charles Glendon Spears
Lowell Stokes
Betty Vann
Hoda Deward Ward
Charles E. Whitaker
Rissie Lavenia White
Wanda R. Whittenburg
Evelyn M. Wiley
Sara Alice Williams
Tom David Winchester
GRADUATES
Charles Sylvester Brown
Douglas Wayne Chandler
Rudy Gene Clowdis
Alta Jeanette Dinkins
Robert Christian Edwards
Carl Giles Evans
Billy Gaston Fincher
Molly Elizabeth Freeman
John Howard Gilley Jr.
Brosie L. Grigson
Richard Elliott Hearne
Cecil Hickerson
Sally Ann Holder
Larry Bruce Howell
Coy Icenhower
Samuel Alston LeePatsy Marshall
Fred Neal
John W. Nipper
Preston Philyaw
Melba Price
Clyde Donald Sewell
Ronald Smith
Shirley Rae Smith
F.A. Tachoir
Claudia Louise Tucker
Kenneth Weir
Hazel L. Wilhite
Margaret Ann Williamson
James Alva Wise
Dale Works
Lynn Douglas Yates
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