The Smithville Homecoming Organization Banquet brought together alumni from the former all-black Mary A. Brown High School and the current Smithville High School from the fifties up to the present. Those in attendance included dozens of former students who graduated as far back as 1942. Smithville ISD athletic director Cyril Adkins was the guest speaker, and Dez J’nae Hodge was the recipient of the first Smithville Homecoming Scholarship.
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