De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1985 Page: 2 of 10
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EDITOR • GAYLE E. WILKERSON
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ASSOCIATION
ADMITTED
May 20- Fred Joiner, Nova Dafft,
Lavers Neeley, Ruby Evans, Minnie
Cason
May 21 - Margie Williams, Inf.
Female Williams, Willie F. Scott,
Lona Lightfoot, Addle Koonce
May 22 - Juanita Barham, Jewell
Klmmell, Roacoe Daniel, Reba
Lane, Margie Ree Smith, Texanna
Blair
May 23 - Ruth A. Warren, Kristen
Willoughby
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COMMENCEMENT
ADDRESS
influenced your life the most - your
teachers, your parents, and
yourself. .
Special recognition is due to each
teacher tonight who has in any way
been a part of these seniors’ lives.
Only through your contributions of
dedication, motivation, and concern
are you about to witness such a
triumphant moment as each senior
becomes the recipient of that long
awaited diploma. You have greatly
influenced their lives and you have
set the example for each of them to
follow.
As teachers, Webster says you
instruct. Not so! Not only have you
taught these students to read, to
write, to add, and to subtract, but
you have instilled in them survival
skills - to think, to reason, to endure,
to persist, to excel, to care, to love,
and to respect. And it’s these things
that will remain in their memories.
As you look back over the years of
teaching, be grateful for the
opportunity to have served these
students and as you continue to
teach, remember the class of 1985
and all those wonderful
opportunities you had to change
their lives for the better.
And to the parents, the vital part
you have played in these seniors’
lives is so tremendous, words can’t
begin to justify. You have guided
their lifestyles, taught them the
value of education, and encouraged
religious guidance.
Such a task! Yes! But the
Supreme Being didn’t promise us
that it would be easy to rear a child.
He does assure us if we bring up that
child in the way he should go, he will
not depart from it And now as you
look back over the twelve years, you
may sigh a relief of satisfaction
from a job well done and maybe
whisper a prayer of gratitude.
Grateful that what you have
anticipated to happen has now
become a reality.
DISMISSED
May 20 - Linda Hughes, Anita
Olvera, Clarence Pell, Marge
Swanner, Dovie Andress
May 21 - Bernice Easley, Odis
Shugart, Jesse Locke, Dana Power,
Nova Dafft, Rodney Schoen
May 22 - Dale Shoemaker,
Santiago Peres, Margie Williams,
Inf. Female Williams
May 23 • Ronda Mahan, Roscoe
Daniel
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BARBARA NOWLIN
Tonight, truly, is a time for
memories and emotions of happy as
well as sad feelings. Because you
care and you are a conscientious
parent, let this graduation be a spirit
booster and you continue to grow
with these students as they aspire to
greater heights. Always be open-
minded to their dreams and positive
toward their determinations.
And to the seniors of 1965, again
we say we are proud of you and your
accomplishments. You have
successfully completed twelve years
of education, you have been exposed
to ample knowledge, and you have
acquired skills for a lifetime of
continued learning.
Tonight you are on the verge of
adulthood getting ready to take
command of your life. And as you
plunge into the unknown, you will be
faced with new challenges, new
environments, new friends and new
identities. How can you move
forward successfully?
First, you must realize that you
are setting and moving toward new
goals. Goals that will give your life
purpose. These goals or ideas will
be taking you somewhere on your
life’s journey to a destination of
personal satisfaction. Should your
destination include work, marriage,
or college, set realistic, practical,
attainable goals and always have
specific (dans for achieving them.
Next, make the most of your
abilities. Sometimes our abilities
seem very small, but it is then that
we must exercise them to the fullest.
People with ordinary talents or
abilities often achieve more than
those with greater physical and
intellectual endowments because
they work harder with what they
have. What better ancient story
illustrates this than that of the
Laon Hospital Memorial Fund
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Johnnie Anderson • Secretary,
Janyce Bradberry - Regent Elect,
and Launa Purvis - Regent
represented Teha Lanna Chapter at
the 94th Continental Congress of
NSDAR in Washington, D. C. Tens
Lanna Chapter received the coveted
Gold Honor Roll for its work in 1964-
85.
Following the U.S. Marine Band’s
stirring concert of patriotic music
for the opening meeting, the
assembly call was sounded and the
pages entered with the colorful
procession of state flags. The
national officers proceeded down the
aisle. When President General Mrs.
Walter Hughey King reached the
center of the crowded Constituion
Hall, the great flag of the United
States of America unfurled from the
ceiling. The splendor of this moving
scene and the sound of the National
Anthem filled with tears the eyes of
many of the 2,529 delegates
assembled. J
Sen. Albert Gore’s opening night
address on the Geneva Conference
Senior Citizens' Menu
Friday, May 31 - Oven baked
steak/cream gravy, mashed
potatoes, carrot cabbage slaw
w/vinegar dressing, spinach,
canned fruit, bread, butter, milk
Monday, June 3 - Barbecue on bun,
pinto beans, cabbage carrot raisin
salad w/mayonnaise, chocolate
bread pudding, milk
Wednesday, June 5 - Oven fried
chicken, macaroni/cheese, lettuce &
tomato salad, green beans,
pineapple in jello w/topping, bread,
butter, milk
tortoise and the hare. The tortoise
kept plodding toward the goal while
the hare dallied along the way. As
you put your abilities to work, great
or small, you will experience
successful achievements and
happiness which may have been
beyond your wildest expectations.
Then, you must learn to cope with
failure. Lincoln once said, "The
older i get the more I realize that
there is but one wealth and that is
found in the ability of a person to
perform a task well done and that
ability must start with knowledge.”
That knowledge must be to analyze a
situation and make a decision. So
often we are like the quarterback
whb in the closing moments of an
important game called the wrong
signal. A pass was intercepted and
the championship game was lost.
After several days of isolation, the
quarterback ventured out to the
barber shop and after moments of
silence the barber said, “I’ve been
thinking and studying that play you
called last Saturday and, you know,
if I had been in your shoes, I don’t
think I would have called it.” The
quarterback, never changing his
expression said, “No, and if I’d had
till Tuesday afternoon to think about
it, I wouldn’t have called it either.”
It’s because we live in a fast
moving economy and a competitive
world, we are going to make
mistakes. And it’s through these
mistakes we learn a valuable lesson,
and that is - success doesn’t come
easily.
Last, you must stay in tune with
your Maker. The most important
power you possess is the power of
choice. Choose a life that includes
spiritual growth and as you continue
on your life’s journey, you will have
no problem in moving forward
successfully.
Every elementary teacher has
that treasured box of memoirs and
in closing I have selected to read
from this collection a poem which
was written about these students
nine years ago.
The Year of ’76
Gee, what a year and wasn’t it
great! Remember - twenty five
little beavers started third grade at
a fast rate.
You wanted to learn and you did -
I’m glad, But as I think of you each
now I am a bit sad.
My summer will be lonely, I have
no doubt. I can see in a vision little
feet jumping about. Saying -1 know,
I know, Mrs. Nowlin, I know! or Let
me be first, -1 know It’s our row. I
can’t find my pencil - My homework
is missing. I know that I did it-What
page did you say? Oh! My! What a
day!
I’ll bet you will always remember
quite well these favorite sayings that
I now tell.
You must stop that daydreaming -
I will not repeat. If you don’t stop
talking you will have to change
seats. You don’t wear your hat in
the classroom, my boy. Speak up, I
can’t hear you or give me that toy.
Vacation is fun and I hope you
have your share of baseball, and
swimming, of picnics and fairs.
Your great, your good, your
precious as gold. Here’s wishing you
a good life and fortune untold.
And again I say to the 1965
graduating seniors - Here’s wishing
you a good life and fortune untold.
was well received.
The U.8. Air Force Ceremonial
Band provided music for the
Tuesday night session. Phyllis
Schlafley, National Chairman of
National Defense, captured the
minds of the assembly, inspiring
them to new heights of awareness.
She introduced the evening’s
speaker, Robert C. McFarlane,
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs, who spoke
with intensity and directness to a
rapt audience.
Texas State Regent Nancy Tiner
was among those making reports at
the Wednesday session. Texas has
the largest membership in NSDAR.
Mrs. Tiner was one of five vice-
president generals elected at this
94th session.
“A Special Salute to the Statue of
Liberty” was given at the Thursday
session by William F. Maye,
President of The Statue of Llberty-
Ellis Island Foundation, stressing
progress on the restoration and
methods used to insure preservation
for 1,000 years of the symbol of
America’s promise to the world.
Forty percent of Americans can
relate to those who came through
Ellis Island. Note was also made of
NSDAR’s substantial contribution of
money and the aid given to
immigrants who had to stay on the
island, and the NSDAR’s service
through over one million copies of
the “Manuel for Citizenship.” Great
Neck Junior High School, Virginia
Beach, Virginia, presented an
original musical program, “The
Statue of Llberty-The Lady With the
Lamp.” The NSDAR Continental
Memorial Hall will be used by the
Statue of Liberty Foundation’s
October meeting. This is the largest
auditorium in Washington, D. C.
The NSDAR buildings cover an
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exemptions, and Article VIII Sec.
Idl farm land exemptions, and
county appraisal offices among a
number of other things. This gave
the State of Texas control of the
taxing units throughout the state.
The De Leon office maintains one
of the lowest tax rates in the state.
The patrons of the De Leon I.S.D.,
De Leon Hospital and the City of De
Leon have always responded when it
comes to supporting their respective
establishments, and this made it all
possible.
Clark states, "It has been with
pleasure to have worked with the
patrons, the De Leon Board of
Education, De Leon Hospital Board,
and the City of De Leon, and
administrators of the three units the
past 11 years. This office has
operated only through
understanding co-operation and
communications on everyone’s part.
With Juanita Gray as Tax
Assessor/Collector and Ingrid
Lindsey a deputy, it will continue to
operate in the same manner.”
entire block near the White House.
< The meeting concluded with “A
Musical Tribute to General Douglas
Mac Arthur" by the U.S. Army
Band. Excerpts from five of
Mac Arthur’! speeches were
interspersed in the music by
outstanding oratorial officers. The
NSDAR contributed to the Douglas
Mac Arthur Academy of Freedom in
Brownwood, being responsible for
one of Its rooms.
The annual banquet at the
Presidential Ballroom of the Capital
Hilton was highlighted by Lynne
Chaney’s humorous excerpts from
her book “Mrs. Smith Goes to
Washington.”
Tours of the White House, Mount
Vernon, and Williamsburg were
outstanding special events for those
attending from Stephenvllle and
Dublin.
Teha Lanna DAR members from
De Laon are Faye Howard, Clyde
Wright, and Connie Hightower,
Several other ladies are eligible and
some have applications pending
Regent Launa Fretwell Purvis is a
De Leon native. Faye Howard Is
Registrar for 116647, In charge of
helping candidates prepare papers
showing proof of eligibility.
OBITUARIES
GEORGIA LEONARD
Georgia Leonard, 93, of Gorman
and formerly of De Leon, died at
12:05 p.m. Monday, May 27,1965, at
Blackwell Hospital In Gorman
following a lengthy illness. Services
were at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 29,
at Higginbotham Funeral Home in
Gorman.
Payne Hattox, Church of Christ
minister from De Leon, officiated.
Burial was at Sipe Springs
Cemetenr.
Bom 'Jan. 25, 1892, in Fannin
County, she married Charlie
Leonard Aug. 30, 1910, in Trent. He
died Feb. 18, 1967. She was a
homemaker and a member of the De
Leon Church of Christ.
Survivors Include a son, Charles
Leonard of Fort Worth; three
daughters, Jacque Gattis of
Cleburne and Leona New and Willie
Mae Stokes, both of Brownwood; 13
grandchildren; 21 great-
grandchildren; and eight great-
great-grandchildren.
Grandsons were pallbearers.
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1985, newspaper, May 30, 1985; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1148748/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.