Notable Faculty
Oscar P. Barnes, Jr. (c. 1921 - April 17, 2008), was band director at Winnsboro High School in Franklin Parish and assistant band director at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge before he began his tenure at Ruston High School. In 1987, he was inducted into the Louisiana Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. The City of Ruston proclaimed June 16, 2002, as Oscar P. Barnes Day. A native of Plaquemine, the seat of Iberville Parish in south Louisiana, Barnes was a former choir director of the John Knox Presbyterian Church choir. He was the first conductor of the Russtown Band and played the trombone in the band, "The Debonnaires".
Robert W. Mondy (1908–1997), alumnus and a former social studies teacher at Ruston High School, was subsequently a history professor from 1935-1974 at Louisiana Tech University.
Harold Montgomery, a former Louisiana state senator from Bossier and Webster parishes who also operated Montgomery Feed and Seed in Ruston, taught agriculture at Ruston High School in the 1930s.
Morgan D. Peoples taught history at Ruston High School prior to 1965, when he joined the faculty of Louisiana Tech University for a 20-year career in college teaching.
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