Axton High School - Axtonian Yearbook (Axton, VA)

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THE f XTONIflN 1944 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIORS OF AXTON HIGH SCHOOL AXTON, VIRGINIA

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LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA GIFT OF DIVISION OF EXTENSION

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■H ) ' I , F - FOREWORD TIME marches on and echoing footsteps carry up farther and farther from Axton High School, we may forget our school I 1 and its historical traditions. In publishing the 1944 edition of “THE AXTONIAN”, we are endeavoring to preserve the sacred memories of our Alma Mater. The Axton High School had its beginning more than fifty years ago in a one-room school located near the present site of the Carol Memorial Church. The school was later moved to a three-room building at the present location. Here in 1923 the brick building at the front of our school was erected; and in 1927 the auditorium and vocational build- ings were added. The P. W. A. project of 1933 brought about the ter- racing of the grounds and the building of the walls and steps. Soon the P. T. A. beautified the campus by planting grass and shrubs. In 1934 there was an addition of four class rooms to the rear of the auditorium and a modern heating plant. In 1940, the lavatories which connect the two buildings on the east side were constructed. By digging out the basement of the front building, in 1942, room was made for a large lunch room and kitchen where hot lunches are served to several hundred chi ' dren each day. In 1943, another part of the basement was made into a spacious laboratory for teaching science, and the old laboratory became a part of an enlarged library room. The growth of the school has progressed with the gradual consolida- tion of most of the one and two-room schools which were previously located in sections of Irisburg and Leatherwood Districts. The consolidation was made possible by busses for tranporting the pupils from the various places to the central school at Axton. In 1926, two busses ran to Axton— one from Mountain Valley, another from Iris- burg; and in 1927, a third ran from Leatherwood. In 1928, Morgan’s Ford and Lone Oak pupils were transported; and in 1929, those from Beckham. The busses were soon making extra trips. Under the present arrangement eight busses, making ten trips, serve the communities of Dyers’ Store, Leatherwood, County Line, Mount Vernon, Lone Oak, Mor- gan’s Ford, Boxwood, Irisburg, Poplar Cross, Beckham, Old Liberty, Car- lisle, and Burnt Chimneys. The enrollment has shown a corresponding progressive increase. In 1926 there were about 250 pupils. Now in 1944 there are more than double that number of pupils, most of whom reach Axton by busses. Axton High School was placed on the accredited list of high schools first, of Henry County to attain to this date. The teachers, now of Virginia in 1927-, and ' wa s pi ' ie ' bf the this standing, which Jiag been maintalhed: sixteen in number, are p.ro,gressive .and Vork, in cooperation with their leader, Mr H. L. Say ' ille,;wh6. hfi? been ' at Axton for eighteen years. —JOHN HARRIS. P-Dpcrly of Ti .a Library cf mond, VA ALDERMAN LIBRARY-EXTENSION SDR VIC university Station Charl« t tesvill© , v«.