T. C. Rozelle's archive included several copies of the Campus Chatter, Sugar Land ISD's student newspaper. These excerpts come from an issue published on January 11, 1929. The main article on the front page was a seasonal greeting from Carrin Foreman, Superintendent of Schools & sister of famed defense lawyer, Percy Foreman. This is sort of a poignant, considering 1929 wouldn't be a good year. The stock market crash occurred in October, but the depression actually started during the summer when commodity prices fell precipitously.
Basketball was the big topic in other front-page articles. The Gators defeated Richmond in a home game the week before. (I have no idea where they played since the gym wasn't built until 1932.) The same article said the Gators were going to Houston to play Milby and to Wharton to play the Tigers in the coming week. I like the humorous final paragraphs which said the new uniforms were 'the berries.' (I wonder who Cobbler was.)
This next article covers news from the colored school. It wasn't named M. R. Wood at that time. I'm not sure when it took that name. (I don't recognize any of the names listed among the PTA contributors.) Their girls basketball team would play Rosenberg in the coming week.
These ads made up the last page of the issue.
