About four miles east of the community of Kalgary, just after crossing the bridge over White River, is a road south. If you follow this road approximately thirteen miles south, you will find the shell of the old Catfish School. Catfish was the earlier name of White River. The original building was a twenty by twenty plank structure about two and one-half miles east of the brick structure. The school was established in 1910.The first teacher was Dannie Lee Sears from Snyder, Texas. She boarded with the Baxter Scoggins. Family. The pupils the first year were: Willie Davis, Charlie and Porter McClain, Buford, Lois and Odell McKeever, the two Pope daughter, Rena and Nell Higgins and Richard, Lena and Lora Self.
Teachers following the original teacher were: Mamie Bayless, Essie Rogers, Minnie, Maxie, Bonnie McMahan, Minnie Reed, ZaZa Chinewith, Lina Jo Pearson, Dot Taylor, Bell Witt, Flora Fuqua, and John Randolph.
Some of the children who attended the school in the later years were: Edd and Viola Tarplies, Gertie and Effie Burkes, Wallace and Newt Bingham, Bessie and Lis Fuqua, Avis, Andy and Dorothy Rhodes, Arthur Davis, Clara Woodley, Richard, Lena, Lora, Teague, Flora, Hazel and Ruth Self, Rena and Neil Higgins, Finis Hindman, Buford, Lois and Odell McKeever, Clarence and Robert Ward, Charles and Porter McClain, Eldon, Sylvia, Johnie, Tookie McClain, Abb, Ester, Thedford and Lucille Fry. There were children of the Pullins, Lewis, Valentines, and Swaringen families, none of whose names can be remembered.
Some of the families who lived in the community for a short period of time were the Finches, Butlers, Sweets, Scoggins, Jake Jones, Clyde Grishams, Albert Smelser, John Davis, John Smith, Lew King, Gallager Sweets and a Scott family.
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