Bonham Public Schools Birth in 1890 and Evolving Heart
Bonham established its first public schools in 1890 after years of private academies like the Masonic Institute for Females and Lyceum. B. F. Pettus led initial reforms, with Stephenson and Bailey Inglish buildings expanded by 1894 and bonds in 1904 funding a high school at West 5th Street.
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Stephenson
West 5Th Street
Old Bailey
Theugh
Duncan Elementary
Rayburn
Foster
S W Evans
Evans
Bonhi Exes Elect Mackley President At Reunion
Lucille Thompson Mackley was named president with D J Kelley as vice president and Avis Conine Caldwell as secretary treasurer. The unanimous election honored Edna Sweeney Inglish of Bonham and the sole 1894 graduate present. Former superintendents spoke, honoring World War II veterans and long serving teachers Minnie Gribble and Cora Fuller. The Bonham Exes reunion drew about 1,000 former students for a golf outing, barbecue, and program at the high school.
Bond Exes Reunion Highlights 1955 in Bonham
The Bonhi Ballyhoo marks the 1955 Bondi Ex-Students reunion in Bonham with Choice Moore as ex presidents. Officers include Mrs Delia Roberts Cole and John E Meade. chorus by Elizabeth Palmore May and others. dances led by Buck Spurlock and Martha Nevill Bybee. Sunday service led by Dr Edward Grant.
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Madeline Jones Arlenge
Helen Evans Buron
Choice Moore
Delia Betty Roberts Cole
John Evans Meade
John Bacon Saunders Trea
Bondi
Stewart Arledge
Elizabeth Palmore May
Martha Lane Richardson
Frances Denton Keeton
Jewel Evelyn Angelus
Marjeane Shelton Crick
Wayden Brent Fletcher
Ruth Higdon Stevens
Adlyn Harris Smith
Bennie Estes
Mary Miller Grunert
John Ed Hodge
Alvis Jones
J. O. Tate
George Stevens
Buster Thornton
Ray Lovelace
David Lane
Jack Lipscomb
Olvin Gross
Edward Grant
Lois Newton Rogers
H. L. Rather
Mary Alice Pritchett
Corneliy McClellan Cunningham
J W Salman
Elizabeth Patmore May
Elizabeth Williams Baggarly
D. J. Kelley
Bonham
Bond Exes
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Furst Public Schools
Genham
L. H. Rather
Stay Engraving Co
Houston
Rather
P. m. W. T. White
Dallas
H. A. Glass
Texas Education Agency
Austin
J. B Golden
Carruth
Waco
H. Dillehay
Golden
Dillehay
Barney Inglish
Dallyhoo
Fannin County
Bonham High
Exes
Texas
Jesse Smith Adams
Helen Evans Barow
Lucille Thompson
Hackley
Avis Conine Caldwell
B. P. Weaks
John Bacon Saunders
Mary Campbell Rodgers
Irene Nevill Aby
Josephine Gray Mitchell
Margaret White
Rose McFarland
Beverly Jones Christian
Betty Blake Stewart
Nina White Burke
Buster Cole
Bonhi Grads
Ballyhoo
Bonham State Bank
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