From left: Danny Paul Windham (RSF), Jerry Pinkston (RSF), Shirley Owens (Class of 1960), Polly Smith (Class of 1960), Fred Wulf (RSF), Shirley Shofner (Class of 1960), David Chadwick (RSF), Linda Hughes (Class of 1960), Matthew Mettauer (RSF), and Wailan Hughes (Class of 1960).
June 6, 2017 - Representatives of the Center High School Class of 1960 received a plaque from the Catherine Pinkston Roughrider Scholarship Foundation (RSF) in honor of their $5,000 contribution to the foundation. The plaque was then placed by school counselor Alease Copelin inside the display cabinet in the front hallway of Center High School which is dedicated to the display donations to the Catherine Pinkston RSF.
Daniel Parker, Class of 1960 President, proudly announces the class finished raising the funds for their first $5,000 scholarship and have started plans on the next donation.
The donation provides a perpetual scholarship to a graduating senior each year forward. The donation was made in April and the first scholarship recipient to receive a RSF in honor of the Class of 1960 was Bre'Aunna Hightower, a 2017 CHS graduate.
According to the Shelby County Historical Society's website, shelbycountytexashistory.net, the following were the graduating class of 1960: La Morris Adams, Steve Adams, James Andrews, Shirley Auline Anthony, Linda Armstreet, Anita Askew, Hulon Baggett, Elaine Ballard, Polly Anne Barron, Nancy Blackstock, Clifton Bonial, Eugene Borders, Kenneth Bradshaw, Latain Bradshaw, Glenn Campbell, Joyce Anne Campbell, Mary Evelyn Campbell, Charlotte Anne Christian, Jerry Conway, Grayford Corder, Audrey Crawford, Deanna Marie Cross, Bobby Crosser, Dexter Davis, Eldora Barbe Davis, Lyndon Edge, Gene Fenley, Sheila Fleming, Karen Foreman, Joan Delores Fults, Sandra Bussey Gault, Mary Lynn Gillis, Sue Gillis, Bill Goodrich, Bobby Griffin, Eugene Haley, Nelda Fay Halliburton, George Harris, Jerry Harrison, Sue Ann Haynes, Carolyn Horne, Wailan Hughes, Alda Faye Johnson, John Keith Johnson, Johnnie Johnson, Lynda Johnson, Marlin Ray Jones, Betty Sue Keith, Nancy Lacy, Virginia Lampley, Bobby Lout, Linda McKay, La Nell McSwain, Jean Mena, Louie Don Mitchell, Charles M. Noble, Roger Noble, Marvin Oliver, Danny Parker, Judy Parker, Nancy Parker, Mary Pate, Sandra Goff Paxton, Kennard L. Peace, Donnell Peacock, Frances Penick, Wayne Perry, Libby Philips, Patsy Powdrill, Barbara Gay Ramsey, Linda Ray, Velma Reynolds, Taylor Ross, Haron Russell, Judy Samford, Linda Samford, Jimmy Scates, Martha Nell Shadowens, Linda Sherman, Barbara Smith, Douglas Wayne Smith, Judy Stack, Sarah Ruth Stanley, James Tindol, Tom Tribble, Carolyn Sue Watkins, Travis Watson, Billy Wiggins, Jimmy G. Wilburn, Judy Williams, Sue Smith Williams, Mary Wilson, Patsy Wilson, Betty Windham, Shirley Windham, and Omie Yarbrough.
The motto for the class was "Not merely to exist, but to amount to something in life."
