Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
Student Loan
Fund Assists
Large Number
By MRS. HARBERT DAVENPORT

In the fall Of 1928 q townsville
high school girl graduate wished
to attend college and had no i'm
mediate funds. There were no
student loan funds In the commu-
nifty then except one. d very small
one. created IN 1914 IN the Self
Culture club at the suggestion Of
Mrs. w. G. Craig. president. So, 10
assist this ambitious girl. three pub
lie spirited women signed her note
and helped her 10 borrow the nee
essary funds from a bank. she went
10 college and with this little help
In her freshman year graduated
from the college o. Industrial Arts.
Denton and Is now near the ton pt
her profession In the Home Dem
o~nstrat.on work.
This awakened the realization OF
the need OF a students loan fund IN
Brownsville, one that would ac-
comcdate both girls and boys. The
1923 graduating class started the
movement by contributing one hun
dred dollars from their Senior fulc.
The 1924 graduating class dmFo
made a contribution and graduates
OF ether years and other friends
added their .Iltes to the fund
until u has grown to $500. Four
hundred and twenty five dollars
have been collected this year In the
name OF the 1880 graduating class
fifty dollars OF this being con-
tributed from the class fund.
Many Loans
During the seven years, nineteen
Nans have been made, totalling
S44g0.O0, 50 1t may be seen that
much Of the fund has been put
into circulation several times. Ev-
cry penny loaned has been return
ed when due, which shows the
class or students who have been
helped, q contribution asked the
question. do students yer return
these loans?' you have read the
answer.
SIX loans have been made this
fall. four of these TO students at
tending our junior college.
Varied Careers
The 1923 class not only e-.COur-
aged college education by sugges-
tlc-- but bv practice. Thirty went
away 10 college the next year and
today twelve hold college degrees:
Oscar Champion. i. B. >. Okla
homa University.
Joe Calderoni. Pm. y. Texas Y.
Fred DeBardeleben, q. T.. "A. AZ M.
College. Texas.
Workman Davenport, p. A. r.. T..
p. Texas III.
Frank Goodrich. T. I. p. Virginia
University.
Franklin Graham, L. L. 3. Texas
University.
Elna Lind. 3. %. =. c. r. "A.
Robert Pierce, Ensign Z. 5. Naval
academy.
Frank Torres, 3. 3. A. Texas Uni
versity.
Mary Elizabeth Russell. y. p. :
Kingsville. G. A. J..
Juna walker. u. 70. NJ. Victoria
Canada.
Several are or have been repre-
senting .heir home land IN foreign
countries. Frank Goodrich is prac-
ticing law In Mexico City. Workman
Davenport represents the legal pro-
fession in BuenOs Aires. A. yentine.
Chas. Celaya Is q banker III Porto
Rico. L. G. Dalzell as Mrs. Lansing
lives in Assyria, having married n
geologist, Frank Pierce has touched
many foreign ports In the service
or the ". 8. navy and Fred De-
Bardeleben has been several times
around the Tlobe as a radio expert
on a transocean steamer. Irma
Walker has taken her professional
degree IN Canada and Bertram
Combe Is manager Of the airport
nc Merida. Yucatan-
Many Contributors
This fund has been sponsored
since its beginning BIZ the high
school Parent-Teachers Association
and the committee responsible for
its supervision H. composed of ..
"A. Caldwell, dean OF the junior
college. G. z. Dodd, principal OF
the high school. Mrs. :. O.. Tucker.
Mrs. Del Perkins. John Gregg. Mrs.
Harbert Davenport.
The classes represented IN this
years contributions are:
1896 Joe Bollack. DR.. Harry Leow.
l897-Mrs. r. 3. Rentfro eleanor
Russell.
l9C0-Herbert bennett.
l9l0-Mrs. G. G. Stewart CRowena
BuelN.
19ll-wil Craig. Mrs. D. Left
wich Bessie Vertrees).
l9l3-Mrs. y. :. Graham, mamie
White.
I9i5-J. : Graham.
19l6-Burt Hinkley. Jr.
l9iT-Lrs. Wallace Harwood IC.5
McChesney) Carlotta V~Illareal. 10
selma Castenada. Mrs. ". Gavito
tConsuelo TiierinaD.
i9i8-Bessie Brown CMrs. How
ard Bonham. Kansas C..y) ID. X.
Clint. James Shelton.
l9l9-Mrs. j. r. Aiken (Olra
TansilD III. WI. Shelton.
l920-Morris Clint. Billy Spivev.
Vivian Ashheim. Bsraire Graham.
J i~92l-Margaret Seabury. Edward
McChesney. Julian Ashheim, Jas.
!. Ruzs7l.
! l922-Owen Combe. Priscilla Stew
enson. Mrs. Albert Fernandez.
Eleanor Rentfro) Mrs. Henry
Smith fMaura Walker).
l923-Rartram Combe, Chas. Gel
ava. Franklin Graham. Joe Cald-
eroni, Fred DeBardeleben. Worth
am Davenport. Annie Tucker. Mary
Elizabeth Russell. Elna Lind. viii
liam Runvon. Irna Walker.
! l924-Mitchell DeBardeleben. Da-
Wis Cromack. Robert Rentfro.
George P~utegnat. Mrs. Chas. Burt