Crockett Tech High - Class of 1921

 






It is not known if there was a Yearbook published for 1921.  If anyone has information about the Class of 1921, please contact Rob Jolly

 

The articles below were recently discovered in the Commercial Appeal archives.

 


The Commercial Appeal
Sunday, June 5, 1921

MANY WILL RECEIVE TECH HIGH DIPLOMAS

Certificates will be awarded to members of Night Classes.

The closing exercises of the public schools will take place Wednesday night, when diplomas will be awarded to the students who have completed the various coursed of study at Crockett Technical High School.  The graduation programme will be rendered at the Scottish Rite Cathedral and will be as follows:

 Selection …………….C. T. H. S………………………........Orchestra
Invocation……………………………………………….........Dr. H. O. Hofstead
Song……………………………………………………..........Edith Mai Andrie
Greeting…………………………………………………........Raymond Kinkle
Voices of the Woods (Rubenstein)……………………...........Class
Salutatory………………………………………………..........Fannie Lee Martin
Merry June (Vincent)…………………………………...........Class
Valedictory……………………………………………...........Mamie Lee Talbert
Belsotion…………….C. T. H. S……………………….........Orchestra
Address to Graduating Class…………………………............Rev. Robert George
Presented by Principal J. L. Highsaw.
Fleecy Clouds – Minuet in G (Beethoven)……………...........Class

Awarding of Prizes – Tech Medal to Best Drilled Officer            -Capt. Raymond Kinkle

Tech Medal to Best Drilled Private……………………            Sergeant Mallory Matties

Totary Medal to Captain of Best Drilled Company, R.O.T.C. – Cadet Capt Raymond Kinkle

Rotary Medal to Second Best Drilled Private, R.O.T.C. – Cadet Sergeant Mallory Mattice

Cash Prize to Best Drilled Midget, Memphis R.O.T.C. – Cadet Corporal David Jones

Cash Medal to Most Rapid Shorthand Writer ………            Talmadge Wolfe

Grill Medal in English……………………………….............. Mary Roberts

Wright Medal in Civics …………………………….............. Raymond W. Baker

Awarding of Diplomas and Certificates………….................Hon Hardivig Peres

(President of City Board of Education, Presented by Superintendent Wharton S. Jones)

Finale…………..C. T. H. S. ……………………………. .........Orchestra

Diplomas will be awarded to the following twelfth grade graduates:  William N. Beleer, Lana Moore Douglass, Marie Frey, Raymond Kinkle, Fannie Lee Martin, Minnie Lee Talbert, Talmadge Wolfe.  Graduates in the Smith-Hughes departments are J. B. Hutchinson and Frank Rice, architectural drawing; Raymond Kinkle and Nelson Nichols, automobile mechanics;  Eleanor Clark and Mildred Williams, Commercial Design; Roy Baker, Harry Mincer, Wilber Rodgers, James Smith, Thomas Spence, Raymond Watson, Electrical Trades;  Viola Branch, Irene Crump, Lena Douglass, Willie Inez Kennedy, Gertie Mai Smith, Ida Willis, Home Economics;  Henry Mitchie, printing

Certificates of Merits have been awarded to the following students of the Evening School and will be mailed to them:  Algetra, J. T. Coleman, Fenton Hunt, C. F. Morris, Sam Woldofsky, Roland Baum, Hattye Mincer, L. M. Palmquist, Liland Rice, F. C. Scarborough, C. F. Morris; automechanics, C. S. Lovett, A. M. Lunamand, George Lunamand, R. F. Johnson, J. L. Foster; cabinet making, Robert Schrivener, John Meuhl, Joe Neuhl, Thomas Todd, N. Farber; cotton grading, E. Harris, S. Jaffe; commercial arithmetic, James Dolan, A. R. Klyce, Sam Woldefsky, Alfred McAlpine, Paul, Carter; domestic science, Miss Aline Barrington, Miss Frances Rutland, Mrs. J. B. Stanley, Mrs. J. O. Eaton, Mrs. N. S. Matthews, Miss Mary Butler, Mrs. G. O. Waring, Miss Mary Tighe, Mrs. J. L. Jelke, Mrs. E. A. Rome, Mrs. S. F. Marsh, Mrs. C. F. Bimmerman, Mrs. J. C. Prescott; domestic art, Leona Belger, Eva Botto, Mrs. E. B. Alexander, Miss Lola Bette, Miss Cornelia Jett, Dorothy Pickett, Lois Mathews, Miss Bessie Peye, Mrs. J. A. Moore, Mrs. G. J. Schmitt, Mrs. J. M. Saunders; electrical trades, Sam Waldefsky; English, H. R. Whiteside, Fenton Hunt, Jason Dolan, Hattye Minor; French, Mrs. Mary L. Gotchell, Mrs. Mary L. Gotchell, Mrs. Marie Hill; Lumber Inspection, J. A. LaCowe, S. S. Humphries, W. E. Nolan, J. C. Fleniken, Harry Crawford; Sheet Metal Work, James Mathis; Show Card Writing, James Anderson, Luella Anderson, Charles Cutir, Clare Whitaker, Earl N. Suddoth, Mallory Mattice.

 

 

1st Honor Military Tournament against Central (See article below)