Award Diplomas To 46 Graduates At Jackson High Jackson High School staged its sixty-sixth annual commencement exercises Wednesday night, when 46 graduates were awarded their diplomas. Mrs. Will Miller, president of the Corsicana Board of Education, presented the diplomas at the conclusion of a program held in the Jackson auditorium. Dr. I. B. Loud, pastor of St. Paul Methodist Church in Dallas, was speaker. He was introduced by Walter F. Cotton, Jackson High principal. Honor Graduates Bertha DeGraffenried was class valedictorian, and Cecil Huckaby, Jr. was salutatorian. Music was furnished by the Jackson band under direction of Dazell Lee, and Mrs. A. J. Smith played the piano. Helen Ruth Ward gave the invocation, followed by the class and audience singing the Alma Mater. After Dr. Loud’s address, the Jackson male quartet sang “Oh Clap Your Hands.” Ever Arnetta Green sang a solo, “As We Part.” Remarks by Supt. W. H. Norwood also were featured on the program. The graduates are: GIRLS Dorothy Corine Brooks, Ella Frances Carroll, Mable LaVonne Chaney, Pauline Curry, Bertha Mae DeGraffenreid, Ever Arnetta Green, Henrietta LaVonne Green, Alvin Ruth Jackson, Doris Jean Jefferson, Pearlie Mae Jefferson. Loretta LaVonne Meadows, Earline Price, Elnora Louis Primous, Omega Renfro, Mary Lee Robinson, Eleanor Frances Sanders, Helen Ruth Ward, Carrie Mae Watts. BOYS Vern Lustrin Carroll, Fred Coleman, Jr., Charles Earl Dempsey, Booker Talingo George, R. B. Green, Norris Gene Hart, Bennie Henderson, Joe Melvin Holmes, Jr., Curly Bernard Holt, Cecil Ralph Huckaby, Jr., Hosie Lee Jackson, Leonard Johnson, Herman Clarence Jones, Jr. Homer Jones, Jr., Arthur Armstead Lee, Isaac Douglass Robinson, Bobbie Joe Sealey, Charles Everett Stevenson, James Andrew Taylor, Jr., James Edward Thomas, Louis Andrew Thomas, Freddie Lee Toliver, James Ray Turner, Wilbert Wilkes, Wilbert Lee and Clyde Samuel Yeldell. Yeldell was president of the class. The Corsicana Daily Sun - Thurs. May 31, 1956 Submitted by Diane Richards