Beattie School

School Mascot: Bears

School Colors: Originally red and gray but were changed to blue and white.

In 1907, a school was constructed in the Beattie Community replacing the Eureka School which had previously served the area. The Eureka School building was sold and the money turned over to Beattie.

Bill Scott gave the land for the new building and he, Luther Auvenshine and John Welch constructed a two story building. Two classrooms were on the lower floor and a single large room was on the second floor. In 1908, the students of Eureka and one teacher Miss Nettie Smith moved to the new Beattie School. She was joined by Miss Lily Brewer of Rising Star as the other teacher. Brewer taught the first four grades and Smith the upper grades.

In 1915 Hickman school consolidated into Beattie and the teaching staff was increased to four. The first two grades were taught at the Church of Christ.

The following year, the new school building pictured above opened. It was built about a quarter mile north of the final school building. It accommodated eight classes at a time.

In 1928 both the Bibb School and Suez merged into Beattie and were followed in 1931 with part of the Suez School coming to Beattie and the remainder going to Sidney.

In 1948 the Beattie High School students were transfered to Comanche. At the close of school in 1953, two teachers, Mary Beaty and Opal Ross and the remaining pupils merged into Comanche.

Part of the information came from memories of Addie Welch Williams in De Leon’s Monitor Sept. 13, 1995. Also contributing were Minnie fisher Nowlin.

BEATTIE 1ST -- 4TH GRADES

1939-1940

Bottom Row (L-R): Dale Auvenshine, Jo Ann Mull, Joyce Park, Rex Mull, Thomas Dwane Holdridge, Nellie Joyce Mull, Bernice Mull, John Ray Johnson, J.T. Laughlin. Second Row: Modina Bingham, Modina Frailey, Bobby Joyce Ross, unknown, Grandal Welch, Joe Donald Smith, Martha Sue Laughlin, Ardis Fisher. Third Row: Unknown, Billy Bingham, Ava Nell Droke, Harold Wayne McQuary, unknown, Jerry Welch, J.W. Wright, Ruthie Warren. Fourth Row: Betty Lee Bingham, John Henry Loudermilk, unknown, Geraldine Ferguson, Gracie Fay Bingham, Lavoice Jetter, Gerald Warren, Glen Pitts. Fifth Row: Jessie Joe Wallace, Olita Fisher, unknown, Laurence Merwerth, unknown, C.L. Mull, unknown. Sixth Row: Derrel Frailey, Jimmy Moore, Danny Cheatam, Gwenn Warren, Calvin “Junior” Horton, Lee Kea, Nelda Neighbors, Bobby Ray Eads. Top Row: Charles Henry Vinyard, unknown, David Callison, Miss Short, Miss Jewell Halbrooks, Mary Francis McMillan, Joe Frank Ross. Photo provided to De Leon’s Monitor by Gerald “Shorty” Warren.

Superintendents

1929 B. Ray McCorkle