W. B. Turner, principal of the colored school here, announces a Commencement program for five graduates this evening at the colored Methodist church at 8 o'clock. The class address will be made by Rev. U. Z. McKinnon, pastor of the White Rock Colored M. E. Church.
They have considerable of a program prepared for the evening, which will permit the grades to show their educational advancement as well as present the graduates. The graduates are: Mary Lee Jackson, valedictorian; Gladys Patton, salutatorian, Jessie Spears, Rodney Spears, John Wallace

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, May 19, 1933
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Notes:

• In 1940 census Reverend U. Z. McKinnon, was living Port Arthur, Jefferson Co., TX.  [ED: 123-105] He was born abt 1904