The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1982 Page: 1 of 28
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Vol. 133, No. 14
Rusk, Texas 75785 — Thursday, May 20,1982
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R usk School Board
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MAKING PLANS FOR Rusk's first Old Settlers' Reunion, May 29 at the Texas State Railroad park are front row
from left, Mickey Eckel, Lila Whltesides, Joy Westbrook and Marge Hunter. Second row from left are Gerald
Fagan, Frank Bowden, Glen Stanley and Henry Westbrook. In back from left are Karen Vaught, Jay Mowrey and
Will Cumbee.
Night R ide
SaidFestive'
Despite weekend problems at the
Texas State Railroad more than 200
persons from the Rusk-Jacksonville
area boarded a TSR excursion train
Monday evening for a moonlighted
ride through the East Texas forest
country to Palestine and then back to
Rusk.
The ride seemed to be somewhat
more festive than other rides, TSR
Superintendent Curtis Pruitt said
Tuesday morning.
Inside This Issue:
♦SWCD BANQUET, p.3
♦RUSK FOLKS p.4
♦PINK LADIES, p.4
♦DECA BANQUET, p.5
•MAYDELLEGRADS p. 12
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Pruitt says other moonlight rides
are scheduled for Friday, July 16 and
again on Monday, Sept. 13.
Preparation for the ride between
Rusk and Palestine took all weekend,
according to Pruitt, who said long
runs were shut down for the weekend.
Cars carrying rocks to be used
along the tracks derailed around 3
p.m. Friday. The derailment was
caused after ground became soft from
some 18 to 20 inches of rainfall. These
cars weigh 50 to 60 tons more than
regular passenger cars, he noted.
Saturday's and Sunday's long runs
were cancelled and short runs were
made available for passengers. All
staff members were called to report
to work. They worked until past 9 p.m.
Friday night and then to 9 or 10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday nights.
Reservations are being made a
week to 10 days in advance, Pruitt
says. Regular summer schedule will
begin May 31, with runs scheduled
daily except Tuesdays and Wed-
nesdays from both stations.
*Round Town
with Mrs. Roundabout
Graduation is at hand, across the
land. Countless millions of young
people will meet this event in their
lives, doublessly with mixed emotion.
Where does the word, "graduation,"
fall in your category of memories?
Perhaps you recall your own. Or
possibly it was the completion of
public school education for your own
child, or even a grandchild. So quickly
the time flies. It seems only yester-
day.
We were singing, "Beneath the
shadows of the pine trees, the days
have flown so quickly by. We've
worked and played and sung
together..." No sense boring you with
the remainder of a high school song.
But I was one of the students who
met the event with great regret. Many
of our group, Uke you perhaps, were
not so apprehensive and looked for-
ward to the challenge of change. I
have always been comfortable with
the status quo. Some say it is univer-
sally inherent with us that we resist
change. If that be true, 1 guess I
measure up 100 per cent.
Then, I couldn't see what the words,
graduate and commence, should
mean. Graduate from today and
commence tomorrow. Now that I'm
older, I realize that each of us, in our
own way, graduate from today and
commence tomorrow.
Just last month, our high school
class held Its 37th year reunion. We
met at the end of the first 10 years and
after that we met at five year inter-
vals. But the 35th reunion was marked
by the loss of one of the members who
symbolised the spirit of our group,
and we decided to meet again In two
years.
Attending that event in HunUville a
few weeks ago, I couldn't help but
remember that when we finished high
school together, the number "37"
seemed very old to me. And now,-
well- we've been out of high school
that long! And the words from the
song, "the days haye flown so quickly
by," suddenly took on deeper, more
significant meaning.
Geologically speaking, time for
each of us is much less than we under-
stand- at least when we're high
school graduates! Looking back on
our memories, whatever they may be,
It is possible to believe that we are,
each of us, constructing a patchwork
quilt of memories. Many are the
pieces that go Into the creation of the
total quilt, which must begin with the
earliest memory, and isn't finished so
long as we are making memories. But
one of the stars in life's memory
blanket has to be graduation. Perhaps
it is because it symbolizes the advent
of adulthood and a really major change
in Ufe style.
As the years pass, we tend to go
back and review this fabric which we
are still weaving and survey what has
been. Graduation really stands out as
a major turning point in most young
people's lives. It was- then- a new
beginning. And it is kind of comforting
now to realize that graduation and
commencement don't belong to the
very young only. It belongs to all of us
who awake each day with a new sense
of dedication and purpose, a
realization that this is "the first day of
the rest of our lives."
Therefore, fellow citizens, share
with our young people this portion of
the month of May! Graduation and
commencement Is for them, but It is
also for us I
Until next week? -mw
Planning
Continues
Plans are moving along quite well
for the Old Settlers Reunion set for
May 29 at the Texas State Railroad
Park in Rusk, according to Frank
Bowden, coordinator for the event.
Committee chairmen are meeting
weekly for last minute detail work,
according to Bowden.
He says tickets for the event are on
sale at Rusk stores for $2.50 per book
of 10. He added that ticket books often
have blank sheets, which entitles the
owner to extra tickets.
Glen Stanley, chairman of the
domino tourney is taking
registrations for the event. The tour-
nament will be staged all day at the
park and only 16 teams will be allowed
to participate.
Stanley asks that serious and
amateur domino players sign up at
Mathews-Miller's Dept. Store. Cost is
$5 per team.
Trustees for the Rusk ISD employed
an architectual firm Monday evening
to do a site study of the district's 74-
acre tract at Rusk High School. A site
plan will be prepared for the board for
a phased construction of the entire
school system at the high school cam-
pus. Campuses for K-12 will be in-
cluded. Board members agreed at the
meeting probably the No. 1 priority
would be a new middle school.
Gary Keep and Ed Sevcik of the
firm of SHWC Inc. met at length Mon-
day night to discuss the school's needs
and priorities with the board. The
firm is the same one which designed
the district's new athletic complex
completed last year.
Keep explained that his firm, which
has been in operation since 1947, is
designed to offer help to school
districts in architectual needs. They
work on contingency basis until a
bond issue is passed. In the event the
bond issue fails, they collect nothing
for their services. They have worked
with some 140 school districts in the
state since the firm first organized,
Keep said.
He explained the district should
consolidate as many services as
possible between the high school and
middle school if the board decided to
build one. Probably the need for an in-
termediate school or middle school is
the No. 1 priority for the district. He
suggested that behind the new football
field would be a good location for the
building if built. However, he said the
firm would study the tract before
coming to a conclusion as to where the
best location is for the new school.
A meeting on May 28 with faculty
members was set. He said he hopes to
have something for the board to work
with prior to the June 21 board
meeting. There is no average middle
school, Keep said. He suggested
meeting with the teachers and school
administrators to determine the
curriculm and needs of the local
school.
The board discussed with Keep and
Sevcik the Dossibilitv of sharing the
use of a band hall, music hall and other
buildings by both middle and senior
high school students.
"This," Keep said, "could be done
with a great deal of efficiency. Both
campuses could use a band hall with
separate buildings for instruments.
This would be a good savings."
Keep talked about future additions
including the kindergarten to be
placed at the far back corner of the
campus. This would eliminate
congestion between mother and "little
kid" traffic and high school traffic.
Board member Mary Buchanan
said they talked about an assembly
room-which is greatly needed for
the district and the community. Keep
said a middle school would be the best
place for such a building. He
suggested that the district plan the
assembly room in a cafeteria type
building. "You can make a pretty
decent building with different levels
as you get closer to the stage," he
said. The middle school would be the
ideal place, because 75 to 80 percent of
the students are fed at school on that
campus, he added.
Keep said "we need to start looking
at a K-12 campus, even if you don't
want to complete this for 20 years. If
there isn't enough land on the campus
you should be looking for more land."
He discussed at the meeting the
district's responsibility to educate the
public on the school's needs. It's their
school, he said.
There should be meetings with
teachers and programs for
organizations. He said his firm would
assist in preparing information for
programs and would furnish
speaker's programs. "You need to get
the whole community involved in
this. Tell the public what the school
needs are and what they cost. Tell
them all you know about it and then
ask them to vote."
Supt. Tony Murray said the school
belongs to everyone There are needs
at the high school, elementary school
and kindergarten. "We aren't forget-
ting those areas," he said.
Keep said his firm's fee would
probably run around 64 percent of
the bond on a middle school complex.
Programs,Personnel
Approved by RISD
1932 Grads To Meet
At a recent meeting plans were
made for a reunion for the 1932 Rusk
High School graduation class. The 48-
member class was the largest to
graduate from the school up to that
time.
Letters have been sent to the
remaining 38 members asking them
to participate in the day-long
celebration on June 5, 1982. Plans are
being made for a picnic at Fireman's
Inn at noon and a dinner and program
at Rusk Motor Hotel that evening.
Classmates attending the planning
meeting were Mary Louise Allen
Baird, Ona Arnwine Jenkins,
Margarete Birdsong McKellar,
Marion Bolton, Mary Ella Meredith
Bolton, James Banks, Charles Chap-
man, Ethel Clark Pledger, Marvin
Echols, Ruth Echols Braswell, Erma
Hardy Ross, Dorothy Jones Brad-
bury, Bunella White Maness, Jimmie
Owens Kilmer, Irene Russell Powers
and Junita Waggoner Maitland. Also
attending the meeting were George
Baird, Ruth Chapman, Leon Pledger
and Winston Powers. Classmate An-
nabell Banks Jones was unable to at-
tend because of illness,
A vocational program for Rusk
schools was approved Monday
evening at a meeting of the Rusk ISD.
The program will be financed with
$9,913 in federal funds.
Included will be $5,178 for
agriculture, distributive education,
health occupations, vocational office
education, industrial education--
including teacher travel, supplies,
equipment, support services for
women, day care services and
displayed homemaking; $958 for
preparatory-supplemental training in
industrial health including salaries
and supplies; $2,518 for the disadvan-
taged to be expended to persons with
special needs, including teacher
travel and equipment for CVAE
programs; $1,259 for the handicapped
including those persons with special
needs who are receiving excess cost
services
The program will call for 1'2 units
of production and >2 unit for general
agriculture mechanics in the
vocational agriculture division. The
CVAE--Farm and Ranch Mechanics
will include one unit. One unit will be
devoted to distributive education and
one unit for industrial cooperative
training. Vocational homemaking
education will include 1'2 units of
useful homemaking and >2 unit of
HECE.
In other matters the school board
accepted resignations from Jo Lee,
high school teacher; Kerrie Huffman,
special education junior high teacher;
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RUSK HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1932 as they were In the second grade are: first row left to right, Mildred Bagley,
Samuel Shook, Ethel Clark, Robert Klcketts, Florence Pryor, Jack llolden, an unidentified person; second row,
left to right, an unknown person, Tom Klrkland, Chester Crow, Tom Frailer. Jr., Vera Lanier, Clyde Sanders and
Garland Manning; third row, left to right, two unknown persons, Evelyn Mason, Mary Louis (Peggy) Allen,
Virginia Heatl, unknown person, and Jack Belvln; fourth row, ieft to right, Frances Cobble, llarry losh, George
Peace and Charles Chapman. Tearher Mrs. Doll Summers, Annabell Hanks, Gladys Sowed, Elizabeth Looney,
Curtis Gentry and others are not pictured.
Linda Ramm, kindergarten teacher,
Kyle Lock, high school teacher and
coach; Clarence Kennedy, vocational
agriculture teacher; Debbie Dame),
special education teacher at the
elementary school; Ella Frances
Williams, special education teacher
at Alto; Audrey Townsend, Aide II,
secretary at the elementary school
and Betty Hendrick, elementary
teacher.
Employed were Brenda Gold-
sberry, Irene Joyce, Jerry Holland,
Margie Coleman, special education
teachers at Alto; Helen Joyce Selman
and Janie Sue Daniels, special
education aides at Alto, Judy Morcom
and Pam Sessions, special education
aides at New Summerfield ; Travis
July, special education teacher at
Rusk State Hospital; Pam Grimes,
special education teacher at Rusk
elementary; Reggie McCollum,
vocational agriculture at Rusk High
School; Cristie Parrott, business in-
structor at Rusk High ^chool; Glen
Wilson, P.E boys coach at high
school; Mary Kay Evans, P E girls
coach at the high school, and
Stephanie Caveness, high school
English.
In other matters, the board agreed
to advertise to mineral lease 455
acres at the old Ponta school site and
to advertise for sale of one acre at the
old Sardis school site Winning bid-
ders will pay all legal fees and cost of
advertising.
Budgetary
Talk Set
By CCAD
The Cherokee County Appraisal
District Board of Directors will meet
at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the district's
offices in Rusk to discuss tax collec-
tion budgets
The board is expected to adopt a
$20,730 tax collection budget for the
agency's operations from Sept l to
Dec. 31, 1982, according to Sid Dan-
ner, chief appraiser.
Danner says the board will discuss
a pending $44,960 tax collection
budget for Jan 1 to Dec. 31, 1983
However, the 1983 budget will not be
adopted until later State law requires
that it be adopted prior to Sept. 15.
An appraisal district budget will be
proposed at the June meeting, accor-
ding to Danner.
Appraisal rolls should be ready by
June 1, according to Danner.
RHS Graduation
8.p.m. May 27
Eagle Stadium
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The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1982, newspaper, May 20, 1982; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151540/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.