Mrs. C. W. (Royce) Vernon has served the church as organist since 1947. Most of the music directors have been students from Wayland or W.T.S.U. The youth choirs, under the direction of Steve Vernon, a Baylor student, made tours and presented musical programs to other churches during the summers of 1971 and 1972. The congregation purchased a used school bus fir these tours, and it was later used for the Bus Ministry under the direction of C.W. Vernon.

The First Baptist Church has a great heritage from those who came early and labored so hard and well. The present members have taken the torch so that future generations can inherit a rich spiritual foundation.

By Maurine Allison

HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH
Father David Dunn, pioneer priest of Amarillo celebrated the first Mass in Happy on the second

floor of the old bank building in September of 1908. In the fall of 1909, a block of land was donated and the present church was started by eleven families who made up the charter members: Mr. Kline, John Bauk, Lewis Irlbeck, Ludwig Irlbeck, William Schmitz, Nicholas Uselding, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Stangle, Mr. Langfelt, Mr. Sextro, and Mr. Carney and their families.

By March 1910, first Mass was celebrated by Father C. J. Bier, who baptized Marie Schmitz at this time. There were then forty souls in the community, most of them of German descent.

In 1912 the church was dedicated by Bishop J. P. Lynch of Dallas and given the name of the Holy Name of Jesus. The five acre cemetery located near the town was also blessed at this time. The original building cost $2,400.

Reverend Anselem of Nazareth succeeded Father Bier in 1912.ln 1915, Father J. J. Dolje of