HCHS Celebrates 40 years!

Did you know???

In March of 1972, a group of interested persons met with the Community Betterment Association in Mound City, to draft plans for a Holt County Historical Society. The goal would be to kindle and keep alive the history of the county and to promote interest with publications, programs, and observances to discover, collect and preserve articles, artifacts and other items; and to designate and mark various historical locations throughout the county.

A committee of nine was selected to pursue these goals and organize a society: Carolyn Gaffney Kent, Billie Jo Reynolds Ripley, Esther Nauman Field, Edith Chuning Derr, Erma Smith Hinkle, Dorothy Minton Dodson, James Broker, Bruce Thomas, and Silas Allen.

The first Society officers elected on May 26, 1972, were: President - Erma Hinkle; Vice- President - Esther Field; Secretary - Edith Derr; Treasurer - Helen Hatch; 3 year board member - Eloise True; 2 year board member - Jay Cotton, and 1 year board member Silas Allen. By June 1972, the organization had grown to 365 members.