Series of News Clippings

This is the first of a series of 11 news articles about the Mineral Wells High School 50 Year Club annual reunions. The articles were laminated at some point in the past and were scanned by Bob Shubert. The laminated originals are in the memorabilia collection of the 50 Year Club. You will be able to read about the past reunions beginning today and ending just before the annual reunion in June 2013.

Click here or on the heading above to read.

Mineral Wells High School 1920 Burro

MWHS 1920 Burro Staff

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1920 Burro

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Donate a Class Plaque and Help with Restoration

Don’t let your class be left out! 

The 50 Year Club is asking each class of Mineral Wells High School to help with an exciting project. As you know, the Lillian Peek Home Economics building is being restored. The original brick walkway leading to the building from 5th Street has sustained a lot of damage over the years and also needs to be restored. Work has already begun on a new walkway. We would like for each class to donate $2,000 to help with this restoration. With your donation you will receive an engraved concrete plaque with your class name. Below is the first plaque donated by the Class of 1949.

Don’t let your class be left out!

Have your class representative contact the 50 Year Club offices today; donate $2,000 and have your class name placed in the walkway for future generations to see.

  

Restored portion of walkway leading from steps

and NW 5th Avenue.

See other photos from the inside of the Home Economics building by clicking on the first slide show in the column on the left. Hank Gayler, vice-president of the club, or R. E. Mason, president, will be happy to arrange a tour of the building, tell you about plans for the restoration, and show you what has already been accomplished.

Remember, don't let your class be left out!

Call 940-325-5600 or email 50year08@att.net as soon as possible.

 

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Executive Board Meeting - Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012

NOTICE

MWHS 50 YEAR CLUB MEETING

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

10:00 A.M.

First United Methodist Church

301 N.E. 1st Street

Mineral Wells, Texas 76180

"See You There"

Our 2012 - 13 Coming Home Queen - Betty Vaughan Kidwell

Betty Jo Vaughan

Class of 1942

Mineral Wells High School

Home Economics Club - 1939, 1940,

Secretary - 1942

Chorus - 1941, 1942

MWHS 2012 Coming Home Queen

Betty Jo Vaughan Kidwell

REPRESENTING THE 50 YEAR CLUB

Escorted by her son, Richard Kidwell

At the June meeting of the Executive Board of the MWHS 50 Year Club and during the 36th annual Reunion festivities,  Mrs. Kidwell was presented as our representative to serve as the 2012-2013 MWHS Coming Home Queen.

In a halftime ceremony at the Mineral Wells High School home coming game played on Friday night, September 28, Mrs. Kidwell was escorted to the MWHS football field at RAM Stadium by her son, Richard, and presented to the enthusiastic crowd.  The passing of the crown was from last year's reigning Coming Home Queen, Yvonne Smith Vaughan.

MWHS 1942 BURRO

Home Economics Club

"Stir the cat and put out the oatmeal" or vice-versa is well applied to Miss Carter's future homemakers. These girls are enthusiastic over their duties of sweeping and cooking. They are learning to be neat and trim also.

Quote taken from beside Home Economics Club description in '42 Burro.

Betty was one of the few blond girls seen in this picture. I believe she is the one located toward the center, kneeling behind the girl in the dark dress sitting sideways.



MWHS 1941 BURRO

Home Economics Club

Betty Jo Vaughan can be seen in this photo in the first row

standing ninth from the left, in a dark sweater.

Betty is married to Jerry Vaughan and they have two sons, Jimmy and Richard. She has already made an amazing representative of our 50 Year Club and will continue to make  further contributions as our Queen! Please reach out and congratulate her.

June Roden - 2012 Teacher Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame Inductee

June Roden

B.S., McMurry University

Girls' P.E., Asst. Coach Girls' Basketball

English Language Arts Teacher

This year's Teachers' Hall of Fame winner honored at the annual Mineral Wells High School 50 Year Club Reunion was Mrs. June Roden. She graduated from Mineral Wells High School in 1949 and from McMurry University in Abilene with a Bachelor of Science.

After meeting her husband-to-be at Mcmurry, they married and eventually made their way back to Mineral Wells to establish their home. She entered the MWISD system where she filled many different positions: Girls' PE, assistant coach for girls' basketball, and English/Language Arts teacher. She taught many of our friends and then their daughters. Did any of their granddaughters pass her way?

She has been described by some of her former students as a real pro - determined to make them physically fit, having them "dress out" every day, warm up with jumping jacks and drills and play intramural basketball. She taught health and first aid as serious courses - no worming out of her classes!

Another said she was what all coaches should be: the compliments do not come any higher. She was introduced at the Induction Ceremony of the Class of 1962 Saturday, June 9, 2012, in the Mineral Wells High School auditorium by Marguriete Crum, Secretary of the 50 Year Club.

Each year a Teacher's Hall of Fame plaque is made to honor the teacher chosen. They are displayed in the meeting room of the Mineral Wells High School 50 Year Club. They will later be moved to the club's offices in the restored Home Economic Building.

Mrs. June Roden will join Mrs. Winnie Fiedler, Coach Pat Simmons, and Miss Laura Wallace in this honorable position.

Mineral Wells and the 50 Year Club Mourns the Loss of Member R. J. "Skeet" Walton

R.J. “Skeet” Walton 

 

A dedicated and faithful member of the MWHS 50 Year Club, R.J. "Skeet" Walton, 81 years old, died Sunday, June 3, 2012. Former Executive Director of the MWHS 50 Year Club, Jessie Teddlie, said, "It is a great loss! He was dedicated to his family and MWHS 50 Year Club. I know he loved doing any and all tasks to the very best of his ability including his work with MWISD. He had a smile for everyone and was willing to help his neighbors and friends at any time."

A service to celebrate and remember his life will be held at 2 P.M. Thursday, June 7, at First United Methodist Church in Mineral Wells.

Robert Joe Walton was born April 25, 1931, in Crane, Texas. R.J. “Skeet” was raised in Mineral Wells, where he later graduated from high school in 1948. He worked at a local radio station KORC prior to graduation and afterwards began working at the Baker Hotel. He learned the business by working in all departments and was appointed assistant manager in 1952.

It is also at The Baker that he met the woman he would later marry, Lou White. The two were married May 24, 1952. Soon to follow were sons Bobby and Danny and then daughter, Louann.

After 30 years in hotel management in Galveston, Wisconsin and Illinois, Skeet and his family came back to Mineral Wells where he began working for Mineral Wells ISD. He was with the district for 17 years, never missing a day of work.

There are many who will miss him: a large number of friends and family, including his wife and children, and a faithful companion, his dog Harley.

SOURCE:

The Mineral Wells Index