MATAGORDA COUNTY SCHOOL HISTORY
 

Tablet picture courtesy of
Bobbie Dykes

 

SCHOOL  PAGES

African-American Meet 1931

Colored School Takes First Place In County Meet

County Graduation 1911               County Graduation 1930

County Superintendents Register of Teachers 1905 - 1914

County Teachers Institute - 1914               County Teachers Institute - 1915

County Teachers Institute - 1916

1896 Public School Report

Facts About the [Rural] School Districts 1926-27

Graduates of Matagorda County 1900 - 1945

Graduates of Matagorda County Common School Districts 1923-26

Matagorda County School Districts

Music Memory 1926

Opening of the County's Schools 1914

Rosenwald Schools

School Census Records
School Census 1894               School Census 1895               School Census 1923
School Census 1940               School Census 1923-1946 - Link to images

Schools Generally Will Open Monday - 1923

Superintendents And Principals Meet

Teacher Institutes - AA - 1929-33

Teacher Institutes - White 1929-34

Teachers and Trustees - 1930-31

Teachers Home for Christmas 1914

Trustees for Common School Districts 1926-27

UIL Results 1920  1921   1922  1923
1925 Program & Articles
 

How to Study Your Math

  1. Sharpen about five pencils.
  2. Sit down with math book, pencils and paper in front of you.
  3. Read over the problem.
  4. Glance around the room once and fix your gaze on the candy dish.
  5. Turn over a page in the math book.
  6. Wonder what the picture show is about tonight.
  7. Wonder when the next football game will be, and if you will get to see it.
  8. Turn attention back to your math book and gaze at the problem, thinking all the while about the next dance.
  9. Draw pictures of pretty girls until you break the points on two of your pencils.
10. Try to sharpen your pencil and cut your finger. Cuss.
11. Turn attention back to math book.
12. Decide to wait until tomorrow to get your math, close your book with a snap, and then throw it at the cat for getting mixed up with it.

The Matagorda County Tribune, November 23, 1928
 

Superintendents And Principals Meet

The following teachers were present at the superintendent's and principals' meeting which was held by County Supt. Claire F. Pollard in the courthouse, Saturday, Jan. 7, 1933. Mr. T. P. White, Miss Dorothy Franzen, Miss Beryl Bell and Mr. Frank Balusek of the Collegeport school; Miss Louise Walter of the Citrus Grove School; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Herrington and Mr. J. T. Bertrand, Jr. of Midfield school; Mr. A. D. Thompson and Mrs. Eva Einkauf of the Van Vleck school; Mr. B. P. Riddle and Miss Mary Elizabeth Cash of Cedar Lane school; Miss Dorothy Thompson of Lukefahr school; Mrs. Vades Richardson of Hasima school; Miss Mary Alleen Elliott of Prairie Center school; Miss Mary P. Wolf of Turtle Bay school; Mrs. J. O. Watkins of Pledger school; T. P. Hale of Wadsworth school and Mr. Oliver McNeil of Ashby school.

The Matagorda County Tribune, Thursday, January 12, 1933
 

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