THE HISTORY OF DOYLINE SCHOOL

 ALMA MATER

Dear Doyline High School
Thou hast Inspired Us
Through years of study
And through years of strife.
Though we may leave you
As the years go by.
We will not fail you
Doyline High.

Blue and gold, blue and gold.
Colors staunch and true.
Grateful ever, young or old,
We belong to you.
You have taught us to be loyal
Loyal, brave and true,
And Our future was begun to you.

The history of Doyline school dates back to the late 1800s by town founder Captain Downs B. Doyle. Did you know it started as a one room?  In 1902 a new two room building was built on the same site, and enrollment climbed to seventy-five. By 1910, a six-acre tract of land was bought  and a frame two room building was built on the same site, and enrollment climbed to seventy-five. By 1910 , a six-acre tract of land was bought,  and a frame building was erected. In 1914 the first class graduated. A second floor was added in 1919, and later the home economic cottage was added in 1921.erected. In 1914 the first class graduated. A second floor was added in 1919, and later the home economics cottage was added in 1921. Later,  this building was converted into a gymnasium.

 Doyline High School Reunion February 18, 2006

 Parking Lot......Does anyone know what the building in the background is?

Bennie Jean Gresham, Class of 1948  and Theressa Greeson, Class of 1951

Miriam Booth, Drew Chreene, and Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh)

Miriam's brother Elton Booth was in the class with Drew and Sherry when they attended Doyline school.  Elton did not attend the reunion this year. He now lives in Odessa, Texas. Last year he and Joe Pyle drove from Odessa, Texas to be there. Drew and Sherry were the only two from that class in attendance. We were disappointed that we did not get to see them. If they read this message maybe they will e-mail me at MindenMemories@AOL.COM and send me a picture to add to the site.

Wonder if any of our class remembers when we square danced to "Old Dan Tucker" for the entire school and made idiots of ourselves?  :>) My partner was BobbyWray Herren.  I thought he was sooo cute.

This is Wick Pickett, the  younger brother of Marion Frances "Black" Pickett and Bob Pickett. He had not started to school in 1944. It warmed my heart so to see and be able to visit with him at the reunion. His sister was my best friend when we attended Doyline school. Black and I often spent the night with each other. We would take a boat and  play in a creek behind the Doyline housing project. It probably wasn't very deep.  

This is Shirley Greeson and Theressa Greeson Hunter.

This is Jack Shelly and Ruth Gordon Shelly. Ruth lived in "Rest-A-While" near the old Edgar Hands Drive-In. We had fun remembering the day we walked to her house when we were kids. She was the younger sister of Mack who is married to Mary Ruth McGinty Gordon. Mary Ruth is the lady that is writing the history of McIntyre. They were best friends and next door neighbors. We all rode Mr. Bert Rankins school bus when we were growing up and going to Doyline school. Two of the Gordon brothers recently died.  Mack is still living.  

The two ladies you see in the background are the Greeson sisters, Shirley and Theressa.  Regina was with them but she was mingling with the crowd and we did not get her picture.  Wanda did not attend. We were sad to learn that the eldest sister, Dolores Greeson Mays, was deceased.

Does anyone know if Jack and J. B. Shelly below are the same person?

                                                                                  THE PANORAMA

                                                                 DOYLINE  HIGH  SCHOOL, 1944

To J. B. Shelly and S. J. Collins who should have been members of our graduating class, but who have answered the call of our country, we the seniors of 1944, dedicate this annual, the Panther.

                                                            Faculty

                                                      Senior Class of 1944. - 11th grade

                         

                                                         Junior Class of 1944 - 10th grade

                          

                            

                                   Sophomores  Class of 1944 -  9th Grade

                          

                           Freshman Class of 1944 - 8th Grade

                                        6th and 7th. grade of 1944 - Doyline School

                           5th and 4th grade - Doyline School

                                  3rd. and 2nd. grade - Doyline School - 1944

Doris Triplet  - 3rd. grade
Written by Press-Herald Staff   
Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Funeral services for Doris Triplet, 74, of Minden, will be held at 10 a.m. at Rockett Funeral Home Chapel in Ringgold on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, with Bro. James Phillips officiating.  Interment will follow at Gilgal Cemetery in Minden.Mrs. Triplet was born Jan. 4, 1935, in Doyline and passed away Jan. 29, 2009, at the Grace Home in Shreveport after a long illness.She was preceded in death by her parents, Alva Jarrett and Gladys Clark; a sister, Evelyn Lee; brother, Lonnie Jarrett; and two sons, David and Russell Triplet.Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Stacy Garcie of Sibley; son, Mike Triplet of Minden; sisters, Louise Coyle and Barbara Evans, both of Minden; brother, Jimmy Jarrett of Irving, Texas; Six grandchildren; Six great-grandchildren; and a number of other relatives and friends.Pallbearers will be Justin Moss, Nathan Triplet, Ricky Lee, Sonny Wilson, Millard Boyet, and Robert Cross.  Honorary pallbearers will be Earl Uzzle and Ricky Uzzle.

                                1st grade - 4th club - 1944

Bennie Gresham played the saxaphone.  She is the shortest girl in the middle of the second row.

1944/45

My family moved to Louisiana around 1942/43 about the time WWII started. I attended Doyline school. This is a picture of my 3rd. grade class while I was attending school at Doyline.  In 1948 we moved to Minden. My parents bought a home on Police Street. My Mom lived there until May, 2004. My family moved to Route 4 in Minden, Louisiana located in the Webster Parish School District in 1943. We attended Doyline School. There were only eleven grades back then. I do not have a picture of my 1st. or  2nd. grade class. 

From left to right starting at the top row: One of the five boys may be Elton Booth, the tall girl could be Mary Margaret DeSoto (?) standing next to me, Maxine Brooks, Sherry Gresham, LaVerne Owens, Doris Jarrett, W.D. Sharpling, H.A. Carlisle, Andrew "Drew" Chreene, unknown boy, maybe Joe Pyle next to him, unknown girl, unknown boy, Donald Gene Bradley, unknown boy, Christine Dick and Ms. Bangs. 2nd. Row:  Ms. Capps, Albert Booth, four unknown boys, Faye Smart is standing in front of me, unknown girl, unknown boy, Lenora Carter, unknown girl, Annie Bell Hines, unknown girl, Barbara  Strong, Is this Glen Rathburn? and the last three are unknown.

 

                                          UPDATES

Drew Chreene looks so cute in his white shirt and tie doesn't he? He moved to Minden and became an expert carpenter and still lives there today.

Albert Booth lives in Doyline, Louisiana.

Elton Booth lives in Odessa, Texas

Donald Gene Bradley

H. A. Carlisle

Lenora Carter.

Christine Dick is in a nursing home.

Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh lives in Bellaire, Texas

Bobby Herren had been living in Shreveport.

Arnold Lee Kendrick

Mike Nicholson

Jimmy Pullig

Joe Pyle lives near Odessa, Texas

Patsy Scott moved to Haughton.

Raymond Smith

W. D. Sharpling moved to Minden and served in the Viet Nam war. He lives in North Carolina.

Donald Gene Bradley went on to Minden High School to play football for the Minden Crimson Tide.

Annie Bell Hines Sledge married a Minden dentist, Dr. Sledge and now calls Minden her home.

Francelia Wiggins

If you remember any of these people please ask them to write to me at Memories@AOL.COM

 

              GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

 

Marie Beckham Harville died 14 May 1984

Geneva Booth is deceased

Lois Jean Lockwood is deceased

Marion Frances "Black" Pickett McBride died 01 June 1991

Bobby Lester Smith is deceased

Melvin Taylor is deceased.   - He was in the U.S. Air Force and had a wreck on his way home from work.

                                       

The Doyline Gym...Taken December 2003, Photograph by Ann Mays Harlan

We did not have a football team at Doyline. I still remember this cheer we would sing at basketball games.

My mans a panther man
He goes to Doyline High
And in my future life
I'm going to be his wife
Hey! Ho! How do you know?
I told him so!!!

This is not the way I remember the way town of Doyline looking from 1942-1947.

in my memory the drug store was on the corner about a block from the Scott home.

Was the building torn down?