Pictured is Pocahontas High School during the 1921-22 term, including the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Herbert H. Price, standing left, was superintendent, Verda Robbins was principal, and James L. Spikes, right was a teacher. The photo, taken by the late George F. Lemmons, Srl, is the property of Zenna Lemmons Henley. Making up the group are: first row, seated, from left, Mary McNabb, Eugenia Pace, Dorothy Dixon, Myrle Phipps, Lillye Vermilye, Wesley Nibert, Clyde Smith, Marvin Pickett, Paul Lewis, Howard Throgmorton, Virgil Pace, Bert White and Raymond Mock. Second row, kneeling from left, Rufe Haynes, Lena Fry, Cleo Rains, Jewel Tucker, Joe Bowers, Helen Meridith, Miss Verda Robbins (Prin. and teacher), Lowell Waldron, continuing right standing, Wright Shannon, Carl Dickson, Glen Rice, Glen Brown, Marvin Wells, James L. Spikes, teacher. Third row, from left, Supt. H.H. Price, Montana Vermilye, Mazie Schratz, Orlean Stubblefield, Inez Brown, Mae Knotts, Clara Bates, Edith Fry, Essie Bennett, Cordia Smith, Duel Brown, Lois Hamil, Susie Ballard, Flora Blanche Hamil, Lelia Perrin, Lillian McIllroy, Charles McDonald. Fourth row, from left, Oral Mays, Turner Bigger, Bert McAllan, Lige Spikes, Curtis VanHooser (behind Duel), Evelyn Bristow, Nina Rains (behind Evelyn), Lehman Carroll, James Rogers, Sylvester Vermilye, Raymond Bennett (almost hidden). Fifth row, from left, Dowell Balck, Lewis Dalton, Cecil Perrin, Pauline Bishop, Rheta Price, Anna Baltz, Anna Peters, Ella Brown, Everett Bates, Roy Bennett. Sixth row, Willa Boyd, Ruth Jackson, Ouida Blankenship, James Pickett, Comfort Poindexter. (Matt Baltz, a senior, was absent when picture was taken.) Identification of students and faculty was made by Roy Bennett with the assistance of Virgil Pace, Dowell Black and Wesley Nibert.
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