1933 First Homecoming Event

Home-Coming Day For Carrollton School

The first "Home-coming Day" for Carrollton High School was held Friday, Nov. 17. This day was the first of its kind ever held in the school. Ex students came "home" to represent their classes dating back as far as 1903, and to meet with their old class mates.
The public meeting meeting of this body of "boys and girls of yesterdays" was held on the square at nine o'clock. The Carrollton High School Glee Club opened the program with two selections, one of which was "the Last Round-up." Two talented members of two by-gone classes rendered music relative to their time. The early history of this community was related by R. A. Warner, who attended the frst school in these parts. H. L. Goeiner (?) County Supt., and Tom W. Field, County Commissioner of Dist. No. 1, spoke to the large crowd. Mr. Roy Gravley, member of the class of 1917, acted as master of ceremonies. Some old time fiddling music was then offered. Following the general program, members of each class were presented and and it was very interesting to see the "old timers" mingle and hear them relate their school experiences.
After the program was concluded the crowd returned the High School Building where they visited the class rooms and saw the progress that had been made in the school work. At one o'clock a gigantic parade started at the school building and paraded the business and residential sections of town. An interesting feature of the parade was the cars which were decorated to represent the various classes from 1903 to 1933. Representatives of the class rode in the cars. After the parade the crowd returned to the football field to witness the battle between the Wilmer Hutchins Tigers and the Carrollton Yellow Jackets. Much to the delight of the students and ex-students the Carrolton Yellow Jackets got hold of the big end of the score 13-6.
Prior to the game on Friday the Carrollton High School staged a big pep rally Thursday night and much enthusiasm was shown by the large crowd that gathered for it. The main attraction of this rally was the gigantic bonfire.