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Waggener High School Administrators & Faculty, 1958 to 1962:Earl S. DuncanMr. Duncan was born in Georgetown, Kentucky, on August 21, 1920.He graduated from Oxford High School in Scott County, and received his A.B.in education from Morehead. He also has his Masters degree from the Universityof Indiana.In high school he was picked for the first all state basketball team picked by EarlRuby in 1939. While at Morehead he became one of the best basketball playersthat has ever come from the state of Kentucky. One time he personally outscoredthe total opposition.Mr. Duncan then entered the Marine Corps where he received his basic training at Parris Island and atQuantico Marine Base. He then went to Officers Candidate School. In 1943 Mr. Duncan came to JeffersonCounty as a teacher at Fern Creek High School. Mr. Duncan transferred to Jeffersontown HighSchool for the year 1943-1944 where he was head basketball coach. In 1950 he transferred to EasternHigh School as basketball coach where he coached two county champs. Mr. Duncan continued servingin this capacity until Waggener was opened in 1954. He became the boys‘ counselor at Waggener. In1957 he became the assistant principal, and in 1959 became principal.
Waggener High School Administrators & Faculty, 1958 to 1962:Mary Bernice Hughes ElyMay 9, 1914 - September 2, 2003Mary Bernice Hughes Ely, former music teacher at Eastern and Waggener highschools, dies at 89Mary Bernice Hughes Ely, 89, died Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003. Mrs. Ely graduatedThom Barbourville High School in 1931. Union College in 1934, and earned hermaster‘s degree from the University of Louisville. She also studied at WesternKentucky University, the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.She taught music in Barbourville grade and high schools and Eastern and Waggener high schools InJefferson County. In these schools, her choirs, quartets, trios. sextets and mixed quartets, received acclaimearning many Superior 3 ratings at Kentucky‘s annual musical festivals in Lexington—this in asmany as 13 categories each year.She also worked as her late husband‘s (Dr. Cecil Ely) secretary and receptionist in Manchester, wassecretary to the late H. C. Chiles (deceased)., pastor of the First Baptist Church in Barbourville, andwas a secretary at Deer Park Baptist Church in Louisville.An active member of Beechwood Baptist Church, she taught Sunday school in every church in whichshe has been a member and retired from her last class, the Lydia Class at Beechwood Baptist, after herfirst stroke in 2001.She was preceded In death by bet husband, Cecil; her mother, Nannie Trotter Hughes; her father, JacksonF. Hughes; her brother, Randall Hughes; and her stepmother, Nelle Wand Hughes.Survivors; her sister, Irene Hughes of Barbourville; her sister-in-law, Nina Hughes of Palm Bay, Fla.;two nieces, Nancy Bender of Ohio and Barbara Schrelber of California; two nephews, Jack Hughes ofLouisiana and Mike Ely of Georgia; a cousin, Geraldine Corey; and a longtime friend, Doris Foster.Funeral services, conducted by Beechwood Baptist Church Pastor Robert Blackburn, were held atPearson's Funeral Home, Graveside services where held at Barbourville Cemetery.Memorial gifts; Beechwood Baptist Church, 201 Biltmore Road, Louisville, KY 40207.
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