Weekly Democrat Gazette, April 15,
1937
SEDALIA SCHOOL WINNER OF MANY
HONORS RECENTLY
Its Record Is Hardly Equalled By Any Other
in County
The Sedalia School,
located right in the northern edge of Collin County, has possibly the best
record of any school of its class in this part of the state in
Interscholastic League activities during the past term.
It is a county line
school, which had to journey twenty miles to McKinney to the county meet.
Yet it won an unusually large number of places and deserves the praise of
all the county for its interest and the work of the faculty and pupils.
Honors won this past year
included the girls Class C basketball championship of the county. Also at
the county meet, Sedalia won first place in Senior Spelling, first place in
Junior Spelling, first place in Picture Memory, first place in Story Telling
and third place in Senior Girls’ Declamation.
Sedalia also won first
place in Choral Singing, being the only school to enter. But, the students
and faculty are deserving of high praise since they went to a great deal of
trouble, learning all of the songs and placed twenty-five singers in uniform
on the stage for the contest. Choral singing was started six years ago in
Collin County, and Sedalia has had a group of singers every year, the only
school in the county to have this continuous distinction.
Eight cars of patrons
attended the Interscholastic meet here to cheer on the Sedalia contestants.
The school has been fortunate in having for principals and leaders wide
awake, energetic faithful men and women, both faculty members and patrons.
It is one of the best rural schools in the state.
The faculty at present is
composed as follows:
Prof. Joe Chumbley,
Principal; Mrs. Eula Downey, Miss Martha V. Arnold and Mrs. A. W. Jernigan.
The last named teacher, Mrs. A. W. Jernigan, Route One, Van Alstyne, is a
daughter of the late County Commissioner Perry Coffey of Westminster, where
she was born and reared and a granddaughter of the late Esq. J. P. Coffey,
Collin County pioneer who served for forty years as Justice of the Peace of
the Melissa-Anna Justice of the Peace Precinct.
School Index
- Recommended citation:
- "Sedalia -
SCHOOLS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy
Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13 13:37:28 US/Central 2004 ].
