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Current events
In 1926, the first class was graduated from Matthews High School. Mr. George D. Englehart was superintendent. Mr. Cline T. Hope was principal, and Miss Winnie Cooper taught English. In 1926-27, Mr. Englehart, Alvin M.W. Maevers, Kathryn Sackman, and Elizabeth Brakel were the faculty. Commercial subjects of typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping were added to the curriculum. In 1927-28, a four-year course of Science was added to the curriculum.
An innovation in organization was implemented in 1930-31, when the 7th and 8th grades were incorporated with the high school where their classes could have specialized teachers. This plan is still being used.
In 1936-37, Mr. John W. Huckstep became Superintendent of Schools and Matthews gave up playing football. In 1939-40, Mr. Dee N. Powell became Superintendent of Schools. The elementary building was completed in 1941. The senior class trips to New Orleans, and later to Washington, D.C. and New York City, etc. begun in 1941, were discontinued during the years of World War II, resumed after the war and continued until 1965 when increased class size made them unfeasible.
All of the faculty of the Matthews Schools, with the exception of Glenda Conrad, had gone to the St. Louis to attend the Missouri State Teachers Association meeting when the High School Building was destroyed by fire on the