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Black Heritage, June 2 - Aug 31, 2007
 
Cheerleading Team   1954
Lakeview School

Teacher: Essie Lee Person

Ruby Stean Price, top

Mary Gilbert, Alice Faye Foster, Kay Frances Henry

Etta Marie Hill, Shirley Faye Warren, Jewel Stroud, Cyneather Woods, Jewel Brown, Betty Tom Biggs


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Lakeview Boys Basketball Team

Teacher:  Roosevelt Brown

Top row l to r: Robert Byrd, William Toles, Jimmy Hill, Sam Williams, Earnest Byrd, Billy Weatherall

Bottom row:  T.J. Kinnard, Cornelius Price, Hubert McCoy, Robert Allen


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Tenth Grade Class

L to R: Ora Lee Foster, Earnest Byrd, Nellie Faye Burks, William Toles, Alice Faye Foster, Billy Weatherall

 

 


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Girl's Basketball Team

Coach Roosevelt Brown, right

Top row:  Alice Faye Foster, Willie Mae Toles, Ora Lee Foster, Betty Tom Biggs,
Ruby Stean Price, Shirley Faye Warren,
Jewel Stroud, Willie Mae Toles, Etta Marie Hill

Bottom row:  Mary Gilbert, Cyneather Woods, Jewel Margaret Brown, Kay Frances Henry


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Friends

Floyda Mae McIntyre, Robert Byrd, Janice Miller, Robert Burks


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Church of God in Christ (Number 1)
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Church of God in Christ (Number 1)
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Milton Perkins
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This collage of approximately 3x4 feet is a collection of pictures and newspaper clippings from the Mt Bethel Baptist Church.

 


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This second collage is a continuation of the collage pictured just above.  This one deals also with members of the community which Mt. Bethel serves.
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LVN School at Howard College

The exact year is not known, nor are most of the names of the students.

The lady on the right in the front row is Millie Hartfield, mother of Clarance Hartfield, Jr. picture in uniform below.


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Boy Scout Troop 17  (approx 1957)

Floyd McIntyre, Scoutmaster, top center

Arbin Gene McIntyre at left, and Nathaniel Green at right

Melvin Wrightsil, Floyd Green, Roger Henry, Jr., Clarance Hartfield, Jr., Rufus Andrew Davis

Sponsored by Elks Club


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Doris (Sue) Brown's working at the drug store that her parents managed, owned by Mr. Frank Robinson around 1954.
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Doris (Sue) Brown's father, Ellis Brown, Sr., worked for the McGehee's as a gas station attendant when he first arrived in Big Spring around 1936 or 1937.

Pictured are Sue's father Ellis Brown, Sr., her mother Inez, Inez's brother Lewis Clark, and the little fellow is Ellis Brown, Jr.


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Pauline Banks, Geneva Glass, Mrs. Ransom, Mrs. Burel Perkins, Mrs. Arbin Lee
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Exhibit showing the everyday work of a kitchen worker of a bygone era.
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Mr. R. J. Walker, principal of Lakeview School in 1954, on the wall behind the case
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The old Lakeview school, which later became the elementary school when the new high school was built 1955.
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Choral Club Lakeview School 1954

Miss Charles E. Richardson, director, sitting at the piano.

Top left, Cyneather Woods, Carolyn Eldridge, Bradford Hastings, H. T. Baker, Robert Allen, Robert Byrd, Billy Weatherall,
Cornelius Price, Earnest Byrd, William Toles, Shirley Brown, Janice Miller, Billie Jean Nash, Mary Gilbert, Phyllis Mae Gilbert.

Bottom Row:  Shirley Jean Ransom (right of piano), Alice Faye Foster, Joyce Ann Byrd, Beverly Jean Johnson, Ruby Stean Price, Doris Jean Brown, Shirley Faye Warren, Betty Tom Biggs, Floyda Mae McIntyre,  Doris B. Brown


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SP/E-4 Clarance Hartfeild, Jr,, pictured here at Fort Rucker, Alabama in 1966, dressed for inspection. He was a helicopter aviation instructor.  His students were in basic training prior to going to helicopter flight school or aviation maintenance. 25
The uniform worn by Clarance Hartfield, Jr. in the picture above was included in the exhibit.
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