{"id":7092,"date":"2025-11-29T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:50:33","slug":"northside-elementary-schools-christmas-play-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/northside-elementary-schools-christmas-play-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Northside Elementary School’s Christmas Play (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

Northside Elementary School’s Christmas Play (1960)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ball bouncers, from left to right, are George Crumes, Lee Shannon, Curtis Dees, Russell Jennings, and Douglas Thurman. The ball bouncers provided the beat while two choirs of first graders (children sitting on stage with bows) sang Christmas songs.

The children in the center of the stage were part of the manger scene and included from left to right, Roy Lyons, Brian Heise, and Eddie Adams as the three wise men, standing behind them was Ellen Chesser, an angel, Beverly Smith was Mary, Paul Easley, as Joseph, Vicky Turner, an angel, Robby Chatham (partially blocked by Russel Jennings’ head), Ricky Blackaby, and Leonard Ballard as shepherds. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

Date<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

December 1960<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

Tags<\/h2>\n\n\n
African American<\/a>, <\/span>Building<\/a>, <\/span>People<\/a>, <\/span>Schools & Education<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    \n
  • Given to Jim Cleveland from Cleveland Photo Service<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jim Cleveland Photo Collection ID 10960004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
    \n

    Rights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    This file may be downloaded for personal, research, or classroom use, free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Portion of Northside Elementary School’s Christmas Play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[106,50,93,96],"post_folder":[77],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","tag-african-american","tag-building","tag-people","tag-schools-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}