1. Based on Mrs. Beard's list of 76 graduates, the girls outnumbered the boys 49 to 27


2. At least eight - one of every six - of the girls were married prior to graduation: Allene Collins Aaron, Stella McKinney Ballou, Martha Hubbard Gaskin, Addie Mae Reeves Hendrickson, Nelda Sue Lloyd Rowe, Margie Wooten Moore, Jessie Tupman Shirley, & Daisy Sandusky White.


3. A mother & child were graduated together: Addie Mae Reeves Hendrickson & son, Arthur June Hendrickson.


4. One class member, Gordon Anthony "Tony" Clarke, was admitted to an Ivy League school. In the Adair County News, September 8, 1948:

Will enter Harvard

Tony Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Clarke, who graduated from the Columbia High School in June, will leave the last of next week to enter the Freshman Class at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Enters Agness Scott College in Atlanta

Miss Pat Lancaster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [Virginia Banks] Frank Lancaster, left Sunday for Atlanta, Ga., to enter Agness Scott College. She graduated from the Lebanon High School in June.