Welcome to Bells High School
Bells, Texas, 1948


N.B. Nicholson (Principal), Mrs. Jesse Mead, Mrs Lucille Booth,
Mrs. Ralph Duncan, Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Mrs. H.E. Washburn,
Mrs. Hester Hastings, Mrs. L.O.May, Mrs. Agnes Oliver


Mildred Chesser, Mary Ruth Patterson, Robert Brooks, Bobbye Phillips, Nell Bledsaw.


Board of Trustees
President..... E.L. Craig
Secretary..... J.S. Patterson
T.F. Sherer, Wayne Ramsey, C.C. Haliburton, Houston Young, J.L. Jernigan (retired)
In MEMORIAM
W.S. Roddy, Jr, deceased, served as a member of the Board of Education for many years.

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SENIORS, 1948


Nell Bledsaw..............Robert Brooks..........Barbara Burleson


Jack Caraway..............Billy Cherry...........Mildred Chesser


Martha Jo Cunningham.....Alice Lou Douglas......Mary Elsie Francis


Morris Haliburton.........Fred Outlaw............Grover Marlow


Jimmy Moore...........Mary Ruth Patterson.....Bobbye Phillips


John David Reamer........Ray Reynolds...........Marvin Turner


Johnny Vaughn ...........Jean Wagner............Charles Wilson

Howard Williams

The Senior Class of 1947-48 has had a very pleasant and profitable
year in Bells High School. Many restrictions have been lifted since
the war on the use of school buses, so we have enjoyed more privileges.

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Juniors
Tommy Todd
Jennie Watson
Darrell Meek
Gene McCullough
Robert Witlock
Palph White
Betty Oliver
Josephine Pointer
Peggy White
Joe Youree
June Prince
Jane Prince
Reba Youree
Jimmy Reamer
Theresa Stogsdill

Billye Dunn
Cass French
Alvin Futch, president
Jimmy Ford, vice-pres
Max Hastings
Melvin Keitz
Margaret Wilson, sec-tres
Louise Keitz
Betty Lawhorn
Joe Neal Anderson
Peggy Bradshaw
Thomas Lucas
Gladys Martin
Jozell Booe
Jewel Cooper

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Sophmores

Jack Vineyard
Elizabeth Washburn
Earlene Brown
Stanley Burnett (no photo)
Mary Jo Walters
Patty Walker
Lou Nell Climer
Loretta Cobble
Margaret West
James Williams
Ruby Douglas
Earlene Fletcher
Catherine Yeary
Martha Freming
Kenneth Garner, no photo
Billy Moore
James Mitchusson
Fay Hodge
Howard Hodge
Edwin Owens
Jimmie Phillips
Billy Henley, no photo
Valeta Jernigan
Geraldine Rice
Earline Rice
Betty King
Elva Keitz
Joyce Rollen
Arlene Stone
Billy Lucas
Estelle Miller

Louise Price, president
Geraldine Turner, vice-pres
Laverne Pedigo, sec
Bobbye Smith, treasurer
Willie Maye Alverson
Lillian Anderson
Bobby Anderson
Marcel Booe

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Freshmen, 1948
Dennie Caraway
Jimmy Cooper
Anna Jean Ford, president
Nancy Price, vice pres
Martha Cobble
Zelda Francis
Cookie Pike, sec-treas.
Zuela Claiborne
James Henry
Glen McCollum, no photo
Tommy Black
Nelda Britt
Don Mullinix
Harry Rickman
Billy Brawley
Gwen Clark

Wanda Stogsdill
Jessie Spence
Dee Smith
Sue Smith
Harold Smith
Lettie Taylor
Donald Wilson
Glendon McGehee

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F.F.A.
First row: Reamer, Riddle, Smith, Owens, Turner.
2nd row: Kite, White, Mitchusson, Whitlock, J.A.Smith, (Instructor),
3rd row: Mullinix, Caraway, Marlow, Hodge, McCollom, Henery, Meek,
Smith, Spense, Wilson.
4th row: French, Todd, Reynolds, McCullough, Reamer, Galyon,
Moore, Wilson, Brawley.
5th row: Brooks, Haliburton, Cherry, Anderson, Moore, Garner,
Vaughn, Burnett, McGehee, Rickman.

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The Football Boys
1st row: Brawley, Reamer, Haliburton, Lucas, Vaughn, Wilson,
Vineyard, Futch, Ford.
2nd row: Caraway, Moore, Reamer, Brooks, Lucas, McCullouhg, Hodge.
3rd row: Youree, Moore, Loyd Press (Coach).

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Pep Squad
1st row: Pike (majorette), White, Phillips (leaders), Mozell Dawson,
(mascot), Bledsaw, Cunningham (leaders), Wilson, (drum major).
2nd row: Norma Beck (sponsor), Martin, Jernigan, Ford, (sec-treas.)
, Dunn, (drummer), Prince, Francis, Renee Beazley (sponsor), Watson.'
3rd row: Prince, Walters, Taylor, Phillips, Price, Bradshaw,
Stogsdill, Chesser (pres).
4th row: Smith, Rice, Walker, Black, Stogsdill, Rice, Pedigo.
5th row: Burleson and Clark (flag bearers).

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L-r: White, Phillips, Price, Miller, Turner, Walters, Wilson,
Rice, Stogsdill, Douglas, Bradshaw, Jernigan.
N.B.Nicholson, Coach.

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L-r: Haliburton, Lucas, Vaughn, Wilson, Vineyard, Futch, Ford,
Youree, Lucas, Todd, Caraway, Hodge, Meek, Moore, Anderson, Marlow.
Lloyd Press, Coach.

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Thanks for Stopping By, PinBally
Thanks goes to Robert and Josephine Tarpley, for sharing their 1948 Bells High School annual with us.
Thanks, Bob and Josie!
Bells, Texas.