Class of 1919

Continued from page 1 her patience and kind guidance that we now have attained the heights that we are "

The classed passed through the next four grades under various teachers and when they reached the sixth grade, it was stated that they reached a year of fun and not school work

"It was not wholly our part, but we share part of the blame," stated the writer

After grade school, they entered high school where they were taught High Mathematics and Science, English, History, and last but not least, dreaded was Latin

"By the careful supervision of our various teachers we steered our ships clear of rocks and bars With the blots and marks of red ink we have attained ambition of most high school students

We are now seniors but have not reached our goal but may some time in May or June In all struggles for position we have had a large class until this year There are only a few to share the glory of our work and answer the call of Seniors We may be few in number but we have the school spirit and make our presence felt in school, as the saying - little but loud."

There seemed to be a major rivalry between the senior and junior classes as it was quite the theme of the yearbook in 1919. Shelley seemed to be one of the instigators as he was one that helped to fan the flame by running all of his fellow senior classmates as officers of the Woodrow Wilson Society The base of the feud began with the juniors trying to shear the seniors and their senior rights

The first trouble came up over library and class meeting privileges The juniors contended that they should have the same library rights as the seniors

"The babies kept on their howling until the senior library rights were greatly diminished and the seniors were the losers," wrote Shelley

The juniors won the library battle, but lost the class meeting privileges issue

"The Proffs decided that they did not need the desired rights This time the seniors were the ones to have the laugh, and laugh we did," wrote Shelley

Despite being two seasons before the UIL formed for athletics, Howe school fielded a football team

"In past years a boy was sent to school to apply himself strictly to his books, anything that tended to take his mind off his books was looked upon as useless and detrimental Athletics was looked upon as useless and therefore was tried to be left out We have come to see the error of our ways, however, and now athletics occupy one of the most prominent places in high school life We have come to believe that a healthy body is necessary to a real active mind " -

The Argus staff 1919

Howe played Sherman in their first game that season and lost 34-0 It was documented that team captain Omar Corbin let his heart get away from him in the game as he landed in the midst of the bunch of pretty girls standing on the sidelines

Howe then defeated Van Alstyne 60 Then, on the day the Armistice was signed, November 11, 1918, Howe traveled through the countryside to take on Whitesboro. They were defeated, 18-0 Howe then lost to McKinney, 18-0

"We have the making of a great team for the next season and we are going to try and convince all of the neighboring teams that they can be beaten and that we are the contractors for the job We will do it, too." - Argus, 1919.

Members of the Howe 1918 football team were Noble Davis - center, Truett Holloway - left guard, Ray Bradshaw - left tackle, Ross Wood - left end, Severne Haizlip - right tackle, Owen Smith - right end, Elmer Holloway - right guard, Omar Corbin - fullback, Jack Denton - quarterback, Hazel Calloway - right half, Ernest McBee - left half, and Coach O L Jackson

Basketball was the most popular sport and the Howe girls were so good that they would play Austin College page 4