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- Lena Stone Criswell           

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Sixty-Second Year - Number 159
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, October 18, 1962

(Headline)
FRIDAY IS HOMECOMING
DAY AT MARLIN SCHOOL

CLASS OF '12 WILL OBSERVE
FIFTIETH YEAR
                  by Roy Eddins

Anticipations are mounting for the annual school Homecoming tomorrow, Friday, October 19th.  Color, genial atmosphere, a pep rally, parade, football game, crowning of a queen between halves along with band performances, alert and vigorous students and reunions of former
students command expectations.  Superintendent A. M. Tate, the teachers and other members of the school faculty will be hosts and hostesses to visitors at the schools.

Program announced by Marlin Ex-Students Association:

1 p.m.Registration
    2:30 p. m. Pep Rally
3:00 p.m. Parade
      4 p.m. Registrations.
                   4:15 p.m. Business Meeting
    5 p.m. Coffee hour.
          6 p.m. Class reunions.
          8 p.m. Football game.
                     10:30 p.m. Mixer and dance.

Association president, George Stallworth, announced the business program as follows:  Silent prayer and invocation by Tommy Sehon, president of the Student Council; welcome address, Superintendent, A. M. Tate; reading of the minutes, Lester O. Hay, Jr., secretary; report of the archives committee, Judge John C. Patterson, chairman; treasurer's report, Richard Donohoo; report on book sales; reading of the proposed new Association Constitution, containing amendments to the original one, Sam Dollahite, voting upon the amendments proposal; Secretary Hay will call the roll of classes and members will be recognized and token awards will be given to ex-students, man and woman, who graduated earliest and to ex-students, man and woman, who came longest distance to the homecoming.

The class of 1912 will observe its fiftieth anniversary at a banquet at Houston's Restaurant at 6 p.m. and honor guests will be:  Dr. A. C. Ferguson of Commerce, former superintendent, and Mrs. Ferguson; Mrs. Herman Nussbaum of Galveston, nee Mildred (Millie) Frank, former teacher; Mrs. B. B. Harris of Denton, nee Miss Pearl Blow, former teacher; Mrs. Bertie Blow Potter of Fort Worth, former teacher; and Wilson T. Betts of Waco, former principal, who will be master of ceremonies for the program.  Mrs. Seawillow (Johnson) King said Thursday twenty-two of the twenty-nine members of the class have indicated they'll attend the reunion.

Mrs. J. W. Williams Jr., nee Blanche Norwood, said the class of 1937 will gather for coffee at the of her sister, Mrs. Robert Norwood, but details of the gathering will not be complete until her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Morris of Shreveport, Louisiana, arrives to assist.

Mrs. Robert Davison, nee June Houston, said she'll be hostess to the class of 1947 at a mixer at the Falls Hotel, Friday night at 10:30 p.m.

Basil Abate of the class of 1951 said he was elected agent for the class at the homecoming last year and the class of 1952 had joined in for music and dance at the Falls Hotel Saturday night, October 20, at 9 p.m.   He said all ex-students are invited to the gathering.

Mrs. H. W. Swenson said her daughter, Mrs. Harry Foster Rogers of Vandenburg Air Force Base, Compoc, California, nee Lavonne Pratt, was expected to arrive in time to assist in arranging a reunion of the class of 1954, in which she and Miss Patsy Bryant White of Riesel will be hostesses, in the Swenson home.  Details were incomplete, Thursday morning.

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