Henry County Missouri
NORRIS HIGH SCHOOL - HISTORICAL PHOTOS & INFO
Norris High School Story

Courtesy of the NHS Alumni Reunion, historian Hugh Wilson (Class of 1942).
Compiled by the late Margaret Norcross Ragland (Class of 1942).
Photo scans courtesy of Lou Ann Wolfe (wolfel@jamestown.k12.mo.us)

Norris High School Song

At the crossroads just at Norris
You can find us any day.
Just a bunch of happy youngsters
Climbing on our upward way.

Gathered 'round the old store building
Sweetest memories will cling
When the days our alma-mater
Gathered us beneath her wing..

(pre-1915 when the school was located in the upstairs of the Norris store)
Submitted by Mary Chitwood Vance, NHS Class of 1924
Author Unknown

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Norris High School 1910

Norris High School 1912 - The identified are: front row, left to right, Harry Gray, Orval Swindell, Forrest Harrison, Ivan Howarton, Harold Waugh; second row, Lewis Beaty, Blanche Ward, Lida Swart, Mildred Hampton, Beulah Swindell, Verlie Swart, Virgie Hendericks; third row, Ralph T. Lionberer (teacher), Cecil Gray, Paul Ward, Grady Swart, Rolla Swindell, Emil Harrison.

Members present of the first graduating class of NHS (1912):
Paul Ward, Verlie Swart Beaty, and Grady Swart

Lewis V. Beaty Pupil's Report - Norris High School 1912

Norris High School Girl's Basketball Team - 1913
Vergie Hendricks, Ina Hastain, Elverene Chitwood,
Marion Butcher, Marguerite Hampton, Mary Stansberry

Norris High School Alcott Literary Society - September 23 1914

Claude Bailey, Ruth Benezette, Fred Butcher, Seldon Butcher, Elverene Chitwood, Cecile Dean, Mable Dunn, Temple Dunn, Ruby Haines, Margaret Hampton, Ina Hastain, Eula Howerton, Ivan Howerton, Uel Howerton, Violet Jageman, R. T. Lionberger, Pearl Marksberry, Helen Pope, Kathleen Pope, Hampton Ross, Helen Smith, Norma Smith, Mary Stansberry, Edith Streight, Roy Swindell, Daisy Trent, Ruby Vance, Ruth Vance, Blanche Ward, Harold Waugh, Neal Waugh.

Norris High School Commencent - April 18 1914

Lewis V. Beaty, Marian Butcher, Harry P. Gray, Forrest A. Harrison, Ina Hastain, Virginia M. Hendrick, Eula Howerton, Ivan M. Howerton, Rev. A. B. Jackson, Uel W. Lamkin, Orval F. Swindell, Blanche Ward, J. Harold Waugh.

Class Clowns:
Lyle Albin, James Jageman
(Class of 1929)

Margaret McQuitty
(Class of 1929)

Norris High Student Group
1929-1930

Back Row:
G.W. McQuitty, Ruth Haines, Leona Mae Butcher

Second Row:
Floy Virginia Park, Eddie Waugh, Wilma Ruth Albin, Ila Park

Front Row:
Dorothy Belle Butcher, Virginia Waugh, Roberta Helwig

Senior Class of 1931

Back Row
Jim McQuitty, Harry Lewis Jerome

Second Row:
Wilma Ruth Albin, Ila Park

Third Row:
Roberta Helwig, Ruby Hathaway, Eddie Waugh, Olive McFarland

Norris High School Students 1948

Daily Democrat, Clinton MO - April 8 1980 - In keeping with the coming Norris Reunion, former teacher, Mrs. Frank Waugh, passes along this picture taken of the junior class in 1948. Mrs. Waugh was a junior class sponsor. In the photo are: girls, left to right, Patty Wilson (Green), Ruth Powers (Childers), Mrs. Waugh, Lois V. Beaty (Cason), and Freda Seaton (not sure of last name but now lives in California). Boys are Don Bradshaw, Carol Childers, Bob Hudson, Dick Hetherington and Junior Wilson. The reunion will be held in June at Camelot.

First Reunion of the Norris High School Alumni and Friends
Members present of the last graduating class of Norris High School (1953):
Eugene Rouse, Delores Bradshaw Rouse, and Caroll Hunter

Previous NHS teachers at first NHS reunion (1964):
Back row: Paul Ward, Robert Hunter, Homer Clevenger, Mary Alyce Butcher, Frank M. Butcher. Front row: Jessie Waugh, Elverine Chitwood Dale, Nellie F. Wells, Verlie Swart Beaty

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