Nell McRoberts Sketch Told at Thursday Club Meeting Sketches of lives of three personalities, "We Grew Up In America," was the subject of the Celeste Thursday Club in the recent meeting with Mrs. Charles Dupre, Jr., hostess, in the home of Mrs. Charles Dupre, Sr. Speakers gave reports about a Celeste native, Mrs. Nell Puckett McRoberts; a woman athlete, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias; and comedian and philanthropist, Bob Hope. " 'A Distinguished American Institution' is the universal title given Bob Hope," Mrs. J. E. Norris reported. "Hope is a man who hears from presidents when he is ill. His self sacrifice in entertaining overseas service men is unparalleled. He has given 562 service benefits since the bombing of Pearl Harbor," the speaker recounted. Miss Allegra Byers reviewed the activities of Babe Didrikson from public school athletics through her career with a Dallas Independent basketball team, that once played an exhibition game with a Celeste team here, to her achievements in national and international golf. She died in 1955. Mrs. Leon Norris, in the absences of Mrs. Bill Barnard, gave a reading of the Nell McRoberts story told recently by a Dallas columnist. Mrs. McRoberts is in counseling and reception work in the Wadley Clinic, Dallas. Mrs. George McGee told of the personal consolation and help the former Celeste lady gave her husband in past months and to many others. Mrs. Ruby Warren in roll call told of the honor bestowed on Jones Pearce, Richardson ISD superintendent and former head of schools here. Seventeen members and honorary members, Mrs. Bill Davis, Mrs. R. C. Denny and visitor, Mrs. Rankin Roach, were present. The next meeting, October 20th, is a covered dish luncheon at 12:30 in Howe with Mrs. Albert Click hostess. (October 14, 1966, The Celeste Courier) In the same issue, Mrs. Lois Lacy Lewis wrote in her "Our Town This Week..." the following: Our Home Town people make the news real often. Recently Nell Puckett was written up in "The Dallas Morning News" for her work in Wadley. Then on the Women's Page, Ruth Norris Fox was described along with her move to a compact apartment from a rambling home occupied by the family many years. She had used her collection and some furnishings to make a decorator's dream. I recall a peg board with copper bottomed pots and pans. Then Amy Ward Bolding of Lubbock had a review of her book, "Please Give a Devotion for Young People" presented at a Lubbock Baptist Book Store. We have had devotionals given from her first book, "Please Give a Devotion." That book is in its seventh printing. And no wonder. It has wonderful material. Amy Ward lived here when her father, the late B. J. Ward, was pastor of the Baptist Church. Her mother lives in Lubbock. Her husband, J. T. Bolding, is assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church, Lubbock. Then Jones Pearce left here in 1946 for Richardson to be superintendent of the school there, the town and school about the size of Celeste he left, but he and the town have grown. Pearce was honored with a J. J. Pearce Day with 1,000 educators, including state leaders, at a banquet. Fourteen speakers lauded the work of the superintendent who led the school from sixteen teachers and 351 pupils to a setup with 22,000 pupils, seventeen elementary schools, four junior high buildings, and three senior high campuses. The investigating man should have been here this week. One hundred new boxes went in to the Celeste Post Office. (October 14, 1966, The Celeste Courier)