Marvelous Mavs: Two honored with Marshall ISD’s 2026 Alumni Award of Excellence

For Velma McAfee Williams, seeing her brother, Dr. Walter Samuel McAfee, posthumously recognized this past month as one of Marshall ISD’s 2026 Alumni Award of Excellence recipients was deeply moving. “I feel really excited,” she said, noting how special it was to see the district bridge the histories of alumni from Central, Pemberton and Marshall high schools. “I did not know that they do this sort of thing. This is the whole school district rather than just one high school, because there were about three different high schools that kept merging together. So, I never figured that he would be honored in Marshall.” The annual Alumni Award of Excellence ceremony was held in conjunction with Marshall High School’s homecoming festivities.

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