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Above photo was the 1943 graduating
class of Moody High School on their senior trip.
Previous classes had been on trips to Monterrey, Old Mexico, Carlsbad Cavern
in New Mexico and New Orleans, Louisiana. World War II created a shortage of
everything from shoes and sugar to tires and gas, so class of 1943 were
given a trip to Waco where they were guests of Blackland Air Force Base.
There they were given a guided tour and lunch in the mess hall.
Front row: Mary Nell Griffin,
Frances Glass, Billie Louise Wright, Gladys Merle Mason, Evelyn Faye
Schmidt, Nina Jean Eakin, Coralee Hatter, Marcelle Duncan, Mary Ann Aycock
and Billie Catherine King. Second row: Mrs. Ruby Ballard, teacher, Nancy Ann
Morgan, Junie Mae Carpenter, Viola Schmidt, Christine McBride, Jessie Frank
McDonald, Ruby Elna Denton, Daisy Marie Ball, Dorothy Henager, Emogene Tosh,
Margaret Townlin, Shirley Clopton, Morton K. Shipp and Delbert Pratt. Third
row: Mrs. Anis Denton Snyder, Mr. R.E. Sandlin (superintendent) Laverne Seay,
Jack Bouldin, Lloyd Howe, Ray Harris, O.A. Gerloff (teacher) Delbert Rayborn,
R. B. Linder, Bobby Daniel, Clarence Clark, Wallace Reed Burson, Travis
Kitchens, Clarence Schultz, Ed McKamie, John McNiel, Jr., Cordice Teague,
Jr., Doran Perryman.
Absent that day were: Edgar Keltner and Everett Jackson.
Charlie Cantrell and Billy Bell had enlisted in the
Navy a few days before the trip.
Teachers attending reunion: Pearl Williamson, Frances Porter, Cora Moore,
Ruby Ballard, Variel Garner, Annie Anderson, Twalah Jackson and Joe Potter.
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