 Ruth Potts, ninth grade English teacher, alumnus of Block High School; Northeast Louisiana University; Louisiana Tech University; The Catholic University of the West in Angers, France; Tufts University; and the University of California in Santa Cruz.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.