Broadway High School - Memories Yearbook (Broadway, VA)

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Our New School “The beautiful new consolidated Broadway High School is a dream come true.” This is the way that John C. Myers, former superintendent of Rockingham County Schools for thirty-three years, expressed himself at the dedication ex¬ ercises on January 16, 1953. Before retiring as superintendent, Mr. Myers had, with the help of the school board and a survey commission in 1947, laid plans for the ten high schools of Rockingham County to be consolidated into three schools. Wilbur S. Pence, who became the new superintendent on July 1, 1950, assumed the responsibility of carrying out these plans. The first of the three consolidated high schools was constructed at Monte¬ video in 1950. The second, at Broadway, was built by the English Construction Company of Alta Vista, Virginia. Mr. Edward Phillips was superintendent of construction for the English Company. Actual construction took just about one year, the building having been completed in October, 1952. Norman Dixon of Richmond, Virginia, were architects for the building. The bid on the building was a little less than one million dollars not including equipment and furniture. The twenty-acre tract of land for the new school was bought from Mr. S. E. Hoover, the consideration being twenty-five thousand dollars. The first contact relative to the purchase of the school site was made in March, 1950. Soon after that, the site was viewed by the school board and the architect. Four meetings were held at which the communities of Timberville, Linville-Edom, and Broadway were represented by their local school board mem¬ bers or selected leaders in the community. The consolidated school includes the former high schools of Linville-Edom, Timberville, and Broadway, also the junior high school of Bergton. The open¬ ing day enrollment of 580, on September 15, 1952, came from the four schools mentioned above and from the seventh grades of the following schools : Tenth Legion, Lacey Springs, Singers Glen, Genoa, Criders, Cootes Store, and Orebaugh. Mr. J. Frank Hillyard, a native of Broadway, has the honor of being the first principal of our school. He comes to this position with twenty-five years of service in the former Broadway High School, twelve as teacher and assistant principal, and thirteen years as principal. Our school is beautiful, and is as nearly perfect as money and building effi¬ ciency can make it. This fact places a great responsibility on the faculty and patrons, and the students as well. To complement the beauty of the building, we must have better students. We must have boys and girls with nobler characters, and graduates who will live their lives in such a way that the entire communitv will reflect the purpose of it all. Let us make another ‘dream come true’—a dream of better citizens in a better community.

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Administration Mr. Wilbur S. Pence Superintendent Rockingham County Schools Mr. Joel T. Kidd Director of Instruction Rockingham County Schools MR. J. FRANK HILL YARD, Principal PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE If we are to deal successfully with the problems facing us at home and throughout the world, we must have a large number of citizens who are grown up in the true sense of the word. In short, the future of our nation depends upon the proportion of its people who are mature citizens. Neither the nation nor the individual can cope with problems adequately by thinking and acting in a childish manner. What do we mean by a mature citizen ? What qualities does such a person have? Maturity is stick-to-it-iveness! It is the capacity to give more than is asked in a given situation. It is reliability, or dependability a characteristic that enables others to count on you. It is persistence to carry out a goal in the face of difficulties. It is the quality of exercising a considerable degree of indepen¬ dence. A mature person is not dependent unless ill. It includes the capacity to cooperate, to work with others, to work in an organization and under authority. The mature person can show tolerance, he can be patient; and above all he has the qualities of adaptability and compromise. How well are you progressing toward these goals, even though you have not as yet reached a full degree of perfection?