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History of Lawn District Number 54

The Santa Fe Railroad was built through the section where Lawn stands today, in 1910 and the little town at once sprang up, receiving its name, apparently from the attractive site selected. That year the Commissioners' Court organized the school district by the same name, from territory taken from Oak Lawn District (Number Eighteen), Ovalo District (Number Nineteen), and the Dewey District (Number Thirty-three). The first school was taught in a one-room building donated by the people of the community; it was poorly equipped. Mr. J. E. Henderson and Miss Sarah Jackson, were the teachers during the two years of the one-teacher school. In 1911-1912, Mr. Walter Griffith and Miss Lorena Holland had charge of the work and conditions were much improved with relief given to the crowded condition that had existed before. In 1912, taxes were increased and bonds to the amount of $6,000 were voted. The present building of which the district is justly proud, was erected in 1912. It is a red brick-structure with four good classrooms downstairs and a large auditorium upstairs, with space here for additional class rooms if needed and with two good small rooms properly arranged for work in domestic science. The site, a splendid two-acre tract just to the northwest of the town, seems ideal. In 1915, the tax of the district was raised to twenty-five cents and a third teacher was added; in 1917, there was another raise to fifty cents -in order that the district might have some of the advantages offered State Aid schools; in 1921, without any difficulty, Lawn voted the limit on the tax-one dollar and was enabled to have, for 1921-1922, a faculty of four teachers, for the first time in its history. The great number of pupils in attendance this year seems to demand a fifth teacher for the next year, if this arrangement is possible.

A good music department has been connected with the school this year, under the direction of Mrs. S. V. Shores, and domestic science has been very creditably done under the direction of Miss Ione Shackelford (now Mrs. Guy Weeks.) The domestic science equipment is especially worthy of mention. M. M. Sheffield, A. E. Chatham, and Miss Lettie Cottrell have been the other teachers of the school; under their good direction, the interest in the work has grown and Lawn has every prospect of becoming very soon one of the very best schools of its class in this section. Watch her "go over the top."

Class Roll

PRIMER
Arvel Hall
Grady Henderson
Ernest Wagner
Jake Shores
Ezcll Darby
Hertman Haynes
Gracie Trammell
Inez Noll
Novie Arnold
Lena Becker

FIRST GRADE
Louis Harris
Rollie Dragoo
Clovis Jones

SECOND GRADE
Madie Wagner
Docie Wagner
Gladys Barbee
Leola Counts
Cassie Hefley
Laverne Landers
Estelle Counts
Madeline Shores
Allene Hancock
J.B. Selman
Tom Crofton
Frankie Hall
Vance Preslar
Julius Lawiess
Albert Lockett
Johnnie Brown
Raymond Jones
Nora Trammel
Lucile Hayes
Lela Mae Chatham

THIRD GRADE
Jaunita Shores
Imo Hall
Vivian Allen
Jessie Allen
Violet Johnson
Dora Nowell
Opal Arnold
Willie Selman
Oliver Brown
Lee Hefley
Lucile Wade
Willard Arnold
Madge Ackers
Emma V. Ackers
Alma Cannon
Lily Clevenger
George Yost
Evert Grant
J.C. Rosson
Louis Deets
Harris Patterson
Grady Whittle
Fred Becker
Robert Crofton

FOURTH GRADE
Beatrice Burrus
Blanche Lawless
Liddie Bell Rosson
Reba Rosson
Ernest Salyer
Clair Anderson
Lester Landers
Coy Grant
Robert Carter
Loyd Haynes
Rudolph Becker
Carl Becker
Alex Clevenger
FIFTH GRADE
Mable Hancock
Murlee Roberts
Velma Clayton
Malissie Young
Annie Mae Lockett
Maggie Nowell
Christine Yost
Frank Wagner
Melvin Haynes
Walter Roy Darby
Herbert Darby
Lucian Wagner
Herman Lawless
Lois Counts
Mary Jones
SIXTH GRADE
Claude Ackers
Harvey Barbee
Finton Lawless
Fred Landers
Floyd Arnold
Robert Salyer
Bill Preslar
Maurice Wolfe
Leland Deets
Howard Shores
MalcoIm Anderson
Champ Clark Burrus
Bennie Christian
Gladys Salyer
Helene Cook
Lucille Shores
Verlie Ackers
Pauline Lockett
Ruth Selman
Ethel Brown
Pearl Haynes
Zula Nowell

SEVENTH GRADE
Clinton Lawless
Fieldon Hailey
Raymond Shores
Harvey Grant
Weldon Henderson
Arthur Neal
Robert Neal
Jay Dickson
Alton Stovall
Ruby Brown
Ruth Cook
Vera Mae Allen
Thelma Landers
Tempa Carter
Bessie Mae Carter
Beatrice Shores
Nellie Young
Pearl Preslar
Robert Patterson
Travis Counts
Velma Williams
EIGHTH GRADE
Zelma Barbee
Mae Bell Colbert
Jewel Preslar
Zella Sistrunk
Evie Dixon
Harvey Brown
Clyde Whittle

NINTH GRADE
Ola Deets
Eula B. Whittle
Georgia Zimmerlee
Clyde Lawless
Floyd Lawless
Huel Preslar
Bill Shores
Carl Whittle
Herman Whittle
Harold Stovall

Reference: The Buffalo Trail, 1922, yearbook of Taylor County Schools

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