Front Cover
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The Pirate Published 1947 by The Seniors
of Emhouse High School- Editor –Monte Ray Freeman Ass’t
Editor –Norma Jean Loper, Associate Editor –Curtis
Bell, Business Mgr.- Ann Moore, Sports Editor –
Pete Thompson, Feature Editors – Hattie Herrington, Jo
Ann Lambert, Johnnie Harrison, Laverne Williams, Travis Harrell
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Foreword – picture of Emhouse School
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Dedication – Superintendent – Ernest C. Butler
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Message and Picture – Superintendent – Ernest C. Butler
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Board of Education – President –
Swint Huling, Secretary –
Troy Holcomb, Homer McNabb,
Ralph Chaney, Homer Reames, Charlie Watkins, Claude Vernon
Breithaupt
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Administration Fly Page
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Faculty – Mr. C. E. Smith, Mirl
Craddock, Ruth Yelvington, Miss Pattye Hobbs, Miss Lois Hobbs,
Mrs. T. E. Minshew, Mrs. E. C. Butler, Mrs. C. E. Smith
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Senior Fly Page
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Seniors – President - Norma Jean Loper, Vice President –
Ann Moore Secretary – Lenora Rutherford
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Seniors – Hattie Herrington, Pete
Thompson, Curtis Bell, LaVerne Williams
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Seniors – Travis Harrell, Johnnie
Harrison, JoAnn Lambert, Monte Freeman
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Senior Credits
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Junior Fly Page
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Juniors – President – Nancy Eastland, Vice-President –Lynn
Tomlin, Secretary/Treasurer – Mary Lou Wetzel
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Juniors – Ruth Ponder, Roy Carrol
Rogers, Jeneva Johnson, Jack McCann, Jimmie Collins
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Juniors – Johnnie Sue Gillen, Martha
Sands, William Ratliff, Joy Loper, Reuben Richards
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Sophomore Fly Page
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Sophomores – President - Lola Beth
Farmer, Vice President – Hugh Rutherford, Secretary –
Troy Holcomb
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Sophomores – Sherwood Herrington, Nelda Burton, Bobby Brown,
Louise Gamble, Wanda Mahoney, Evelyn Montgomery
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Sophomores –
Sammie McDonald, Pattie
McCullough, J. Don Wright, Helen Horton, Dorothy Vyers, Gladys
Moore, Christine Williams
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Freshman Fly Page
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Freshmen – President – Betty
Richards, Vice President – Jerry Tomlin, Secretary - Priscilla Farrish
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Freshmen – Flo Wetzel, Doris Stringer, Thomas Lindsey, Don
Bolen
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Freshmen – Donald Lynn Freeman,
Wanda Freeman, Gladys McDonald, LaVerne Rich, Hilton Price
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Our Ex- G.I.’s- Billy Basham, James Estell, Wayne Beard, Wallace Tomlin (picture has been clipped
out)
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Elementary Fly Page
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First Grade – Bobby Anderson, Neal
Ray Baggett, Bobby Don Brown, Dorothy Ann Boruk, Iris Jan
Burnett, Pat Chaney, Danny L. Colquitt, Glenda Coker, Larry H.
Gilliam, Alvis G. Johnson, Patsy Lile, Betty Jane McCann, Donald
R. McCrory, Hollis D. McCrory, Julia Ann Mariott, Shirley A.
Morgan, Byron McDonald, Jeanette Parrish, Donald Gene Rash,
Patricia Richards, Willie Gene Vest, Billy Williams, Joe Jolly,
Sabiano Jolly, Isabell Jolly Carmelia Jolly;
Second Grade – Loretta Armstrong,
Joyce Armstrong, Jesse Ballew, Kenneth Drain, Shirley Horton,
Darrell DeRusha, Wayne E. Farmer, Bobby G. Freeman, Janie L.
Freeman, Martha G. Gray, Peggy D. Grantom, John Henderson,
William Henderson, Shirley A. Loper, Jeanett Maggard, Edgar Lee
Montgomery, Isabell Palos, Marlene Shows, Hattie S. Shelton,
Gail Toldan, Margaret R. Yelvington, Raymond Wilson, Judy
Huddleston; Teacher – Miss Lois Hobbs
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Third Grade – Eddie Anderson, Leon
Baggett, G. H. Basham, Ernest Charles Butler, Lou Ann Collins,
Kenneth Ray Colquitt, Linnie Cox, Nannette DeRusha, Fanny
Farmer, Deanna Fulton, Daisy Henley, Linda McCann, Robert
McCrory, Mary Jo Parrish, Benny Parrish, Reeda Joe Reid, Alvin
G. Rich, Kenneth Scott, Maurice Shelton, John K. Thompson,
Jimmie E. Williams, Christine Wilson, Mary Joyce Wooten; Teacher – Miss Pattye Hobbs
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Fourth Grade – Bobby Allen, William
J. “Sonny” Armstrong, Guy Ballew, George Boruk, Cope Brack, Jim
Ray Brown, Geraldine Farmer, Joan Farmer, Richard Freeman,
Billie Ann Gray, Derwood Lile, Ott Loper, Oscar McCrory, Charles
McCrory, David McMillen, Sue McNeel, Larry Melton, Luther Palos,
Murlin Price, Kenneth Ray, Martha June Reid, Arline Scott, Carol
Stewart, Doris Teague; Teacher – Mrs. C. E. Smith
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Fifth Grade – Betty Joann Allen,
Clovis Bassham, Robert Wayne Boruk, Neal Davidson, Shirley Dean
Gilliam, Roy Don Holcomb, Mary Ann Johnson, Nancy Johnson, Roy
Don Loper, Betty Sue Maggard, Katie Sue McCrory, JoAnn Parish,
LaVonne Ray, Barbara Richards, David Richards, Shirley Ann
Spurlock, William Teague, Geraldine Thompson, John Wayne
Thompson, Patricia Toldan;
Sixth Grade –Bobby Armstrong, Jackie
Jo Armstrong, Beatrice Boulware, Bobby Ray Brack, Roy Deen
Brown, Betty Bob Collins, Joyce Ann Colquitt, Freddie Eastland,
Patsy Gray, Aubrey Horton, Charles Leslie Johnson, Thomas Earl
Melton, Harry Palos, Bernard Pattison, Donald Pike, Newton
Price, Bobby Joe Richardson, J. D. Shelton Jr., Hugh
Springfield, Robert Watkins, Eden Wilson; Teacher – Mrs.
E. C. Butler
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Seventh Grade – George Brown, James
Brown, Bobby Don Collins, Ruth Gamble, Tommy Harrell, Jack
Harris, Zella Harrison, Same Lile, Paul McCann, Cecil Scott, Leo
Tolden, Willie M. Vyers, Patty S. Williams, Mary Wilson;
Eighth Grade – Edna Jo Bates, Eulan
Bates, Alva Gene Bell, Jimmy Boruk, Billy Don Collins, Kenneth
Davidson, Randall Davidson, Jean Farmer, Peggy Gray, Zelda
Harrison, Joe Henley, Johnnie Huddleston, Robert Huling,
Patricia Moody, Sammy Moore, Katy McCrory, Charles McMillen,
Annell Parrish, Roy Parrish, Billy Rogers, Esther Rutherford;
Teacher – Mrs. T. E. Minshew
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Favorites Fly Page
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All School Favorites – Nancy Eastlant and Lynn Tomlin
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Senior Class Favorites – Norma Jean Loper and Pete
Thompson
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Junior Class Favorites – Ruth Ponder and Jack McCann
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Sophomore Class Favorites – Sherwood Herrington and
Wanda Mahoney
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Freshman Class Favorites – Betty Richards and Jerry
Tomlin
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Scholarship Fly Page
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Scholarship for girls – Ruth Ponder
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Scholarship for boys – Roy Carroll Roger
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Sports Fly Page
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Most Valuable Forward - Jimmie Collins;
Most Valuable Guard – Johnnie Sue
Gillen;
Girl’s Basketball Team – Front Row – Senior Lenora
Rutherford, Co. Captain Senior Jimmie Collins, Senior Hattie
Herrington, Junior Mary Lou Wetzel; Back Row- Coach Mr.
C. E. Smith, Senior Johnnie Harrison, Junior Johnnie Sue
Gillen, Senior Norma Jean Loper, Sophomore
Sammie McDonald,
Co.Captain Senior JoAnn Lambert
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Most Valuable Player - Monte Ray
Freeman; Most Valuable Player – Pete Thompson; Boy’s
Basketball Team – Roy Carroll Rogers, Monte Ray Freeman,
Curtis Bell, Jack McCann, Lynn Tomlin, Sherwood Herrington, Pete
Thompson
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Activities Fly Page
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King & Queen of High School – Pete
Thompson and Norma Jean Loper
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Coral Club group picture; Crafts Club group picture
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The yearbook staff – Ann Moore,
Curtis Bell, Monte Freeman, Hattie Herrington, Pete Thompson,
Johnnie Harrison, LaVerne Williams, Norman Jean Loper, Jo Ann
Lambert, sponsor – Mirl Craddock
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Snap shots
1st row - #1 by pump, Johnnie Sue Gillen & other,
#2 Ann Moore & other, #3 Laverne Williams & others
2nd row - #1 unknown, #2 Ann Moore, #3 School
3rd row - #1 Christine Williams, #2 Laverne
Williams
4rh row - # 1 Lynn Tomlin, #2 unknown, #3 unknown
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Snap shots
1st row - # 1 Mary Lou Wetzel, Hattie Harrington, Jimmie
Collins, #2 Johnnie Harrison & Jo Ann Lambert, #3 Mary Lou
Wetzel & Lynn Tomlin
2nd row – Laverne Williams
3rd row - #1 Norma Jean Loper & Wayne Beard,
#2 Nancy Eastland, Mary Lou Wetzel, unknown, unknown, #3 Hattie
Harrington & Wallace Tomlin
4th row - #1 Norma Jean Loper & Wayne Beard,
#2 unknown & Monte Freeman, #3 Hattie Harrington & Wallace
Tomlin
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Snap shots
1st row - #! Hattie Harrington, Wallace Tomlin,
unknown, #2 unknown, Ruth Ponder, unknown, #3 unknown
2nd row - #1 Wanda Mahoney & Nelda Burton, #2
Jerry Tomlin, #3 Hattie Harrington & Wallace Tomlin
3rd row – #1 Mary Lou Wetzel, #2 unknowns, #3
Jimmie Collins
4th row - #! Johnnie Sue Gillen, Martha Sands,
Jeneva Johnson, #2
Sammie McDonald, #3 Teachers- Miss Pattye
Hobbs & Miss Lois Hobbs
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Advertisers
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Advertising – The Sherwin – Williams
Co., State National Bank, Sam Daiches, E. D. McCarver’s
Corsicana Laundry & Cleaning
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Advertising – Adam’s & Iker Grocery
& Market “Pap’s Place, Sixth Ave. Cleaners, E. E. “Pete”
Harville Grocery & Market
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Advertising –Vogue Café, M. Evans
Jewelry & Music Goods
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Advertising – Swint Huling’s Grocery
& Market, City of Emhouse, C. B. Turner Grocery
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Advertising – J. C. Penney Co.,
Inez Compton & Louise Sthoug’s Hair Creations of Fashion, J.
D. Nettle’s Navarro Coffee Shop, C. O. Ferguson & Co. Quality
Seeds, The Record Shop
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Advertising – Burson & Pearson
Flowers, Miles Furniture Co.
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Advertising – N. R. Tinkle Magnolia
Service Station J. N. Tinkle Mgr. (Better known as the
“Skin-Joint), J. F. Taylor & Co. (W. M. Taylor, prop.),
Rhoads Jewelry, Dr. Pepper Bottling Co.
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Advertising – Vaughn’s Service
Station, Boyds Grocery (Home killed Meats), Cason’s Flowers
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Advertising- McCammon Funeral
Home, The Corsican Motor Lodge Restaurant Service Station,
Velvet Ice Cream
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Advertising – First National Bank
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Advertising – The Fabric Mart
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Advertising – Grapette Soda Bottling
Co., Simon Daniel, Barg’s Bottling Co.
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Advertising – Seely’s Service
Station, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., The Staff
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Advertising – Phinny & Blessing Auto
Trim & Paint Shop, Levy’s Dickie Work Clothes, Griffin
Funeral Home
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Advertising – Whiteselle Brick &
Lumber Co., City Office Supply, Morton Printing Company
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Advertising – T. R. Red’s
Pharmacy, Clowe Flowers, Alva Taylor’s Studio
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Advertising – Cream Crest Milk and
Ice Cream
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Advertising - West End Flower Shop,
Spurgeon Laundry & Cleaners, Sanders Pharmacy & Grill
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Advertising – George’s Grill,
Corsicana Poultry & Egg, Lester Atkin’s Texaco Service Station
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Advertising – B&B Barber Shop, B&B
Cleaners, K. Wolens Department Store, Collin Street
Bakery, Parham Barber Shop, Payne’s Drug Store
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Advertising – Taylor Publishing Co.
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