time on, the school population gradually decreased. Most of the families at that time had from five to seven children in school. Union Hill always had a good basketball team and competed with all the other rural schools in the county and often the city schools also. We never played as good on wood floors because all of our practice was on dirt and in the wind. Union Hill even had a football team in the fall of 1931. We played without uniforms, pads or helmets. The school board hired John Brown to coach us, since our principal (W. E. Sherman) knew nothing about football.

In 1937 Union Hill had an outstanding girls basketball team. It was coached by Victor Harman and the members of the team were Frances Partlow, Juanita Raymond, Opal Evans, Maurine Watts, Lorelle Watts, Eula Johnson, Ola Mae Evans and Virginia Rossi. In those days there were no divisions and all large and small schools competed against each other. The Union

Hill girls won this area and went to the state tournament. They lost the first game and then won the consolation tournament. Union Hill was also very involved in Interscholastic League activities and won many sports and literary events.

In 1947 when the county was divided into three districts, Union Hill was closed. Approximately one-third of the district was transferred to the Tulia district and the remainder to Happy. The school building was sold and moved away. Hank Rossi built his house out of the lumber from half of it.
By Otis Harman

VALLEY VIEW
The education of the children of ranchers and settlers of Swisher County about 1900 was given by a few rural schools, located in large districts covering the county. Union Hill met such needs for the area northeast of Tulia