Austinville High School - Memories Yearbook (Austinville, AL)

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The year 1954 brought other improvements and services to the town of Austinville. A G. M,C, fire truck was purchased in January. In August Ralph Hood opened a dry cleaning plant next door to Bussey's Drug Store. In September, when door-to-door U, S, mail service was instituted in this section, all streets were re-named, and each house was numbered. The construction of a janitor's home east of the high school added to the value of school property. B, L, Holmes and his family were the first occupants. In this year of 1956, the population of Austinville is about 2, 000. Austinville School, with its 343 grammar school students and 280 high school students has a faculty of 19 qualified and experienced teach- ers. We have the use of four county buses. School trustees are H, F, Roberts, Chairrnang W, L. Waits and C. E, McRight, S, M, Dollar is principal of the school. The Senior Class of 1956 is very proud to be able to present as its class gift to the school a 1956 model 54 passenger bus to be used for school trips. As a student of this school for 12 years and as a member of the 1956 class, I have tried to the best of my ability to complete this history of our community and school, hoping that it might be of help to the future students of this school and the citizens of Austinville. I wish to thank J. T, Daniel and the many other people who helped me gather the material for this paper. - Alice Louise Vickers - 1 ka-uf' , IW r' 'Q - ' .. ,-AY , 4. ,g.fZr AUSTINVILLE SCHOOL - 1914 K 2 U 'l. s s- : C. h. . 1 5 ' fg ,.iaaa,,1.,,,, Q. lip X, A ll.'.:.. 7 i . I , -A 5 4 I -.f- ., - ' .al ' i pb . '-' ,...n..-runs! r. SC HOOL 1956 - GRAMMAR SCHOOL 3. 'in

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M L Whrttfreld was elected mayor rn 1924 wrth S H Bradley followrng htm for two terms that ended rn 1930 The communrty was justly proud when 1ts school became a senror hrgh school rn 1931 ln 1932 when the populatron was 900 A T Beaty s term of offrce as mayor ended and G W Spark man was elected The old McC1uskey store the Lodge Hall and Court House were all destroyed by frre that year The members of the Church of Chrrst frrst met rn the home of G W Sparkman rn 1932 and four years later they burlt the present church on State Avenue wrth Barney Kerth as frrst pastor There were other srgns of progress rn 1933 Elmer Bussey burlt a new drug store whrle the crty of Austrnvrlle burlt a court house on Clara Avenue just to the north of the drug store R V Bracken was servrng as mayor when the Jarl was burlt about 1934 The populatron count then stood at about 800 ln 1933 whrle H R Leeman was prrncrpal of Austrnvrlle Hrgh School H A Golden became school Janrtor and served farthfully rn thrs capacrty untrl a few months before hrs death rn 1954 Ht. was a de voted frrend to every student and teacher who knew hrm The present hrgh school burldrng was burlt rn 1936 when the enrollment was approxrmately 120 students The land was bought from A J Roper the burldrng was burlt wrth P W A and Morgan County funds Trustees were R C McWhorter B E Braswell and S H Bradley To garn accredrtatron for the school from the Ala Assoc of Secondary Schools and Colleges patrons bought over S2 000 of equrpment County Board of Educatron pard S6 500 of the total cost the P T A furnrshed the rest In 1942 when the populatron was strll about 800 three mercantrle stores operated by W O Brce L L Hartselle and E E Vrnson respecrrvely and Bussey s Drug Store made up the 'busrness establrsh ments of the town Decatur crty bus servrce was started here rn that year wrth the frrst bus nrcknamed The Doodlebug The Baptrst Church burned rn 1944 but was reburlt the next year whrle C E Calvert was pastor The Methodrsts reburlt therr church rn 1948 whrle F M Weston was servrng as therr pastor W C Crafton sold hrs store to R K Crarg who opened a grocery store January 22 1946 A H Long also went rnto the grocery busrness that year When the Mayor I W Sparkman dred I N Roper frnrshed hrs term succeeded by S H Bradley who was elected Mayor rn 1948 When H R Leeman was elected Superrntendent of Educatron rn Morgan County rn 1947 S M Dollar came from Tuscumbra to become prrncrpal of Austrnvrlle School The year 1949 saw the openrng of two grocery stores one by E L McConnell on Cedar Street the sold thrs property January 19561 and the other by L H Porch who had bought the store from O O Chunn Iune of the followrng year brought the fulfrllment of another crvrc dream when crty water was extended to rnclude thrs sectron In 1951 S H Bradley the mayor burlt a general merchandrse store In August of the next year, the Home Demonstratron Club House was barlt by the club members and therr husbands at a cost of S1 232 The modern one story brrck Grammar School burldrng located next to the hrgh school was burlt rn 1953 at a cost of S100 000 The crtrzens of Austrnvrlle pard 38, 000 of thrs through a specral tax the rest was pard by the State of Alabama Erght teachers and about 265 students moved rnto the new burldrng The town purchased for one thousand dollars the old Elementary School burldrng to use as the town hall At thrs trme the second part of the burldrng was razed as rt had been condemned Thus the part that now stands rs the orrgrnal structure that was burlt rn 1905 In 1953 the lunchroom was burlt at a cost of S13 500 plus S1 500 of equrpment S1 000 of whrch was pard by the Senror Class of 54 . . . . . . E . . - . r . D I . . . , , 1 . . . . 1 1 ' - n 0 - v , . 3 n - Q . - . . - . . , . . , . . ' . . . I - - . - S . Q . - . . , . . , , . . . ' Y ' l Q . . . . . I D 'x h 1 ' f f Y ' 5 I U I J I I x A 1 J I - O Q I I O I l ' . . y . . D . . Y, , ' I H .- g . . - . n - . . . . n p - . . - g . . , . . r - . - . - . . . . 1 . . p . - . . . . - 1 . I - . ' . . , . 9 ' I I 1 s - Q , . , . v - - . . . . , 1 I I 9 g .

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