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Show Milford High Planning Big Homecoming Day Old Grads to Be Honored at Special Afternoon Assembly One of the most important dates in the history of Milford High School is Friday, Sept. 25, 1964. That is the date of the school's Homecoming, and will mark the observance of the Golden Anniversary of the school, established es-tablished in 1914 as the Beaver County High School. The school building was not completed, and the first classes were held in an extra room of the elementary school building, with a Mr. Carman as instructor. In 1915, a Mr. Draper was principal of the first classes held in the present building. First graduating class was the Class of 1917, and of a class of seven, only two are known: Mrs. Mary Schow Crookston, now living in Las Vegas, and her brother, Spencer Schow. Their sister, Mrs. Letha Schow Smyth, was president of her graduating class in 1922 and still re- president of the Board for 18 years. The Homecoming Parade Is scheduled for 2:30 p. m., led by the Milford Hijfh School Band and Including floats from all classes and student organizations organiza-tions of the school. Also in the line of march will be the Milford Junior Band, Minersville Miners-ville Elementary School Band, the Tigerettes and other Milford Mil-ford High marching groups. Prizes of $15, $10 and $5 will be offered for the best floats. The Homecoming Game pits the Tigers against their traditional tradi-tional rivals, the Beaver Beavers. Beav-ers. This will be the first home game of the '64 season. Both Beaver and Milford won their pre-season tilt, Beaver over Richfield and Milford over Lincoln High of Nevada. The Beavers dropped their first season game to Kanab, and the Tigers tied Hurricane. Climaxing the day will be the Lettermen's Dance, starting immediately after the game. Music will be by the popular Spyders Combo. The Homecoming Queen and her attendants will ride a special spe-cial float in the parade, and will be featured during the game and the dance. sides in Milford. As graduate students, Mr. Schow and Mrs. Crookston attended classes in 1919, and a paragraph on the History page of the 1919 yearbook year-book reads: "We are elated over the fact that the school can offer a course of study sufficiently varied to be able to give our graduate students sufficient additional work to make it profitable for them to come back to us for another year's work; but above all we are proud of the fact that our alumni students retain such a splendid attitude toward their Alma Mater that when opportunity oppor-tunity arises they will come back again and participate in the advantages of the institution institu-tion . . . The precedent established estab-lished by these students is noteworthy and should act as an incentive for other graduate students." The Class of 1919 included I Elva Burns, Lilino Poulter, Delia (Gray) Cottrell, Mae Bowen, Clinton Bond, Howard Gospiii, Alberta Morris and Alfred Morris. Clinton Bond, now a Milford city employee, was captain of his basketball team. In 1920 the students included Manila Poulter, Fred Cottrell, Cuma Bond, Frances Wood, Bernard Jameson and Inez Williamson. Wil-liamson. The Class of 1922 listed Letha Schow (now Smyth) as president; Harold Vic Carlson, Merle Pitchforth, Mercy Or-win, Or-win, Marcia Levi, Alta Griffiths Grif-fiths (now Hickman), and Lillian Lil-lian Tanner (now Atkin). In 1923 the graduates were Walter Griffiths, Margaret Levi, LaVon Bird, Barbara Fotheringham, Gaylord Martin and Clair Nichols. Homecoming activities open with a special assembly at 1 p. m. which will feature recognition recog-nition of all alumni present, with special recognition for , graduates of the very early classes, and crowning of the Homecoming Queen by officers of the Lettermen's Club. Candidates Can-didates for queen are Cheryl Wunderlich, Kathy Killam and Connie Burke. Alumni numbers on the assembly as-sembly program will include a talk by J. C. Smith ; musical saw number, Bonnie Easton; a reading, Zelda Coon; piano solo, Jake Schow, and vocal number, Nelouise Schow. Mr. Smith will recall incidents inci-dents and experiences of the early days of Milford High School. He is not an actual alumnus of the present Milford High School, but attended a high school class in Milford in 1908, one of only three of a starting cdass of 15 who completed com-pleted the school year. After attending West High School in Salt Lake he graduated from the Cedar City High School in 1914, the year the present building was completed. Mr. Smith served on the Beaver County Board of Education Edu-cation for 23 years, and was |