JHS Alumni Association Hall Of Fame 2009 Inductees

1970 Varsity Football Team Glen Acker Helen Bloxom Kenneth Bransom Ronnie Galbreath Ed Gillium Glen Holley Toni Landers Sue Martin R.A. "Bob" Slack

JHS Alumni Association Hall Of Fame 2008 Inductees

1951 Varsity Football Team 1952 Varsity Football Team Dennis Bryant Floy Carlock A.G. Elder Ed Farrar Casi Florida Ethel Galbreath R.C. Loflin Glen Miller Stan McVey Tom Nichols H.D. Staples Howard Yeary

1.) Additional School & Town Web Sites
The Joshua ISD Education Foundation web site is HERE.
The Joshua I.S.D. web site is HERE.
The City of Joshua web site is HERE.
The Joshua Star newspaper web site is HERE.

2.) If you have any of the missing Yearbooks below please let us know by clicking here. Return time on any items is 2-3 weeks and all items will be returned.We are missing the following Joshua I.S.D. Yearbooks:

Elder Elementary (missing)
- 2001 and before
- 2008

North Joshua Elementary (missing)
- all

Plum Creek Elementary (missing)
- all

Joshua Primary (missing)
- 1996 and before
- 1998 to Final issue

Joshua School Memories (missing)
- 1990
- 1996 to Final issue

Joshua Intermediate School (missing)
- 2001 and before
- 2004 to Final issue

Staples Elementary (missing)
- 1997 and before
- 2008
- 2009

Joshua/Loflin Middle School (missing)
- 1977
- 1983
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1996
- 2003
- 2007

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7.) If you have any school videos (especially sports and non sporting events), photos (not found in the yearbooks), football programs, Yearbooks, mini footballs, buttons, flags, ribbons, ornaments or other memoribilia let us know here.

8.) To nominate a Hall Of Famer, report a Memorial, etc click here.

9.) For information on how to scan your own items, what we are looking for, etc click here.

10.) To view all of our online videos that are still being sorted and added to this site in the correct sections click here.

New Information thanks to JHS Alumni in the 1940s-1970s:

Owl Stadiums

a.) Owl Stadium #1 [??? to ???] - located in the field adjacent to Staples Elementary on the south side of Main Street (old Highway 174)

b.) Owl Stadium #2 [??? to 1968] - located in the Owl Meadows along new Highway 174 next to the Administration Building

c.) Owl Stadium #3 [1969 to 2008] - previous stadium

d.) Owl Stadium #4 [2009 to Present] - brand new stadium

School Colors/Songs

a.) When Darrell Williams became Superintendent for the 1948-1949 school year, he said that he thought an owl would not be purple and gold...and he changed the school colors to blue and gray. As far as the JHS Alumni from the 1940s and 1950s can recall, the Joshua School Song was first played in the 1948-1949 school year. The word of the school song is the exact same song today except gray has been replaced with white.

b.) The Joshua Owls mascot was derived from the the Rice Owls. * From a Rice Owls historical web site: In 1912, Rice's first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, chose as the Rice school colors "a blue still deeper than the Oxford blue" and "the Confederate gray, enlivened by a tinge of lavender." When athletic activities began at The Rice Institute in 1912, the Rice intercollegiate teams adopted the owl as their mascot. Owls of Athena--symbolic of wisdom--were chosen for the charges. The Athenian owls on the Rice seal were patterned after a design found on a small, silver tetradrachmenon coin dating from the middle of the 5th century B.C.

2009 Alumni Reception

JHS Class of 1949 60 Year Reunion Placemat

2008-2009 JHS Spirit of Joshua Band

1930s JHS Varsity Owls Basketball Team (YEAR UNKNOWN)

1925 JHS Varsity Lady Owls Basketball Team (basketball is upside down)

1952 JHS Regional Football Program - the game ended in a Tie 7 to 7 (OWLS UNDEFEATED)

These two Joshua Letter Jackets are from the 1940s. The school colors from 1940 to the 1948-49 school year were Purple and Gold (on the right). The school colors changed to Blue and Gray for the 1949-50 school year (on the left). Notice on the bottom of the left Letter Jacket that it does not have the elastic with stripes at the bottom of the jacket. The school colors changed to Blue and White in ???.

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Joshua High School Class of 1918 (previously Willie Denton College)

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A few of the 400+ videos we have online. click here for more of the online videos.

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Image from 2008 Homecoming (member of the Blue Crew)

JHS Burning Sign that was displayed at Football games in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Homecoming 2006 ticket stub