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August, 1958
School faculty members were announced for Pocomoke City schools for the 1958-1959 school year:
Pocomoke High School
Leon N. Timmons, Principal
Verlin C. Krabill
Betty Jane Burton
William C. Carey, Jr.
Lucille G. Hatfield
Louise Holbrook
J. Nelson Jester
Clothilde H. Kellogg
Gladys N. Lankford
Louis Malkus
Elizabeth P. Marshall
Mary E. Matthews
Marilyn P. Melendy
Charles S. Murphy
Rheba Alice Palmer
Pauline L. Robertson
Marian G. Severance
Phillip W. Slacum
Luella H. Tatam
Jacquelyn E. Trader
Lawrence A. Powell
Pocomoke Elementary School
John W. Tatem, Jr., principal
Violel Chesser
Ruth Cropper
Dorothy A. Elliot
N. Mae Ellis
Katherine S. Etchison
Anna E. Meyers
Margaret V. Stoffers
Pauline P. Tyndall
Agnes B. Willard
Ruby T. Wilson
Blanche D. Wright
Pocomoke Primary School
Anne L. Ross, principal
Sara S. Dallas
Martha W. Duncan
Zella C. Lamdem
Pearl P. Mariner
LaReine T. Powell
Julia E. Robertson
Footnote: From a little earlier I recall Barbara Lee Tull (later active in Pocomoke business and civic affairs) as one of my Junior High teachers...possibly her first teaching job(?). -tk for PPE
February, 1964
Winners were announced in a contest in which high school students in Worcester County vied for honors for bringing in Civil War relics. Pocomoke High School winners were: Mike Bloxom placing first for an 1858 Colt .44 revolver; Jack Tatem, second, with a Springfield rifle and a Civil War era postage stamp; Melissa Jackson, third, with a Civil War sword that was used by her great-grandfather. The contest was jointly sponsored by the Worcester County Historical Society and The Maryland Civil War Commission.
June, 1941
With the closing of the one-teacher school in Westover Miss Mary Ritzel, the teacher in charge, was retiring from active duty. When school resumed the Westover students would be transported by bus to Princess Anne.
April, 1946
School news reported by students in the "PHS Speak's" column in Pocomoke's Worcester Democrat newspaper included items about a month long competition among home room classes for cleanest rooms...the annual Commercial Day program under the direction of Miss Mary Emily Matthews...an Easter Party being planned by Miss Pearl Bratten's 5th and 6th grade classes...a victory garden project under the direction of Mrs. Wilson...a fried chicken dinner for faculty and Chef Club members, directed by Miss Mable Jones...the organization of an Aviation Club to make model airplanes and collect information about important flights, under the direction of Mrs. Mae Taylor...and the organization of a Camera Club under the direction of Mrs. Cutright.
March, 1949
A fire broke out at the old Pocomoke school building on Walnut Street where some 190 first through third graders were attending classes. They filed out safely under the supervision of Principal Miss Annie Ross. Pocomoke firemen had the blaze under conrol in about 30 minutes. The 70-year-old three-story structure sufffered roof and water damage. An overheated flue was believed to be the cause of the fire.
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Of the thirty ladies listed I can count at least seven of the older ones who never married. Back then, before political correctness, we called them spinsters or old maids. Anne Meyers didn't count: she was young at the time and would shortly marry William Taylor.
ReplyDeleteYour friend,
Slim
Where on Walnut Street was the old Pocomoke school building?
ReplyDeletetk, this is a wonderful post -again!
ReplyDeleteI believe the Pocomoke school was where the Senior Center is and the health dept. Between Cedar and Walnut, 4th and 5th.
Yes, the primary school, grades one and two, was located where the current senior is. Grades three and four were located in the old wooden building on the same lot that served as the high school many, many years ago. That building was demolished approximately 1958. Overflow classrooms were located in the Masonic Temple on Walnut Street, a few blocks south of the primary school. When the current high school was completed third through sixth grades were housed in the building located where Hartley Hall is now. Kind of like a Chinese fire drill until they got everything sorted out.
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Slim
I was in Sara Dallas's first grade class the day of the fire. The new elementary school (current Health Department building) was under construction at the time. We were in the new building the next year. Mary Lee Moore was my second grade teacher. She and Klein Leister were married during that school year. Julia Robertson was my third grade teacher. Fourth grade was in the old building Slim refers to; my teacher was Agnes Willard. The next year it was off to the building connected to the west end of Pocomoke High at 10th & Market Streets where fifth and sixth grades were located. As Slim indicates, classes in various buildings varried over the years.
ReplyDeleteGreat memories, Slim and TK! I've learned alot of things I never knew.
ReplyDeleteSlim- Councilman Malloy laughed at the comment you made about him- just thought you would like to know.
??? I don't recall a comment regarding Councilman Malloy. He has my highest respect.
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Slim