Sugar Land Faculty Basketball , 1950s

Another picture from Dot Hightower. It shows Sugar Land school faculty members who volunteered to play in a charity basketball game. Pretty funny. Dot identified the women, but I failed to write down their names, so I've tried to figure them out using old annuals. Here goes from left to right:

Carolyn Baker, Eleanor Berry, Dot Hightower, Ida New, Joyce Ledger, Dorothy Grimes, and Clifford White.

Mrs. Brown with Her First Grade Class, 1959/60

I got this picture of Mrs. Brown from Dot Hightower. It shows Mrs. Brown with a first grade class in the 1959/60 school year. Most of these kids were in the 1971 senior class at Dulles High School. Notice all the children standing with her are boys. I'll bet she's lining them up for a paddling - especially Ray Babineaux.

Dulles JV Football Team, 1962

Here are a couple of articles from issues of The Fort Bend Mirror published in October, 1962. Note that Sam Carver wrote them, so they may have appeared in The Viking Shield. The JV team's coach, Chuzzy Jenkins, saved these clippings in his scrapbook. The JV team looks like a tough bunch to me, especially number 12.

Notice the picture of the freshman team. I assume they are practicing on the old Missouri City football field. They look like a vicious bunch of thugs.

H. L. Jenkins

Thanks to Janice Jenkins Girard for letting me scan her father's scrapbook. The first two pictures are undated. I can't identify the other boy in the first picture. The newspaper article appeared in The Fort Bend Mirror (The Viking Shield) when Chuzzy became a teacher and coach at Dulles High School in 1959.

Young Pups in 1954

Jerry & Jonelle Cooper lent me their '54 Gator yearbook, so I could scan some football information. I noticed some other interesting photos and decided to scan them. Here are four showing some old-timers when they were just young pups. Pretty amusing.

Chuzzy looks spiffy in his bow tie. Mr. Ernest is all business with the pencil behind his ear. Jim Gary's tie is snazzy, and notice the FFA patch on Jack Neal's coat. (Hmm - maybe that isn't an FFA patch. It has something to do with ag because Jack was SLHS's ag teacher that year.)

The Fort Bend Mirror, June 23, 1960

Thank you, Teachers, from long ago, for your sacrifice and service!

Mrs. Mittie Mae Webb, Miss Veronica Mary Summerville, Miss Eva Jane Barlow, Mrs. Nellie Inez Phillips, and Mrs. Addie Roach Jones.

Mrs. Brown's First Grade Class, 1956/7

Linda Hagler Mosk lent me this picture of her first grade class. You see Mrs. Brown on the right. She was a well-known tyrant at Sugar Land Elementary for many years. This photo was taken toward the end of her career. You see Mrs. McNeil (her eventual replacement) on the left. I guess Darvin Altenhoff (our principal) knew regime change was necessary.

Mrs. Gary's First Grade Class, 1956/7

This is my first grade class picture. You may recognize several members of Dulles High School's Class of 1968. Of course, we've changed over the years, but people are still recognizable, I think.

T

Coach Hightower's QB Club Membership Cards

Scotty Hightower Bass (DHS '66) has sent me some great stuff to post. Here's the first shot - Coach Hightower's quarterback club membership cards. I think I'll post a couple of stories about Coach Hightower later in the week. Some of you may heard me tell them before, but what the heck. A good story needs retelling occasionally.