Buchanan High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Buchanan, VA)

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.S' C 0 C 0 A A t € BUCHANAN HIGH SCHOOL Tho Buchanan High School was established in 1901 ns Botetourt's first high school, by the eitizons of the town of Buchanan. The old bank building, located bclor; the town where tho present olcracntary school building now stands, was con- verted into a school building and tho school opened for its first session in 1S01 under the principalship of r. i!r. Hart. The school at this tine offered work on the two-year level. Hr. Hart died before the oponing of tho session 1902-03, and he was replaced by Hiss Lclin Holmes, a college trained woman who contributed much to the develop- ment of the school during its early years. In 1906 the High School Act was passed, making possible the appropriation of money to the high schools of the State, and Buchanan received for the first year an appropriation of §250,which was less than the. maximum appropriation. This and succeeding appropriations from tho State made possible for the school rapid growth, and by 1907-08 there was being offered four years of high school work. T-.e first graduating class under the four-year system consisted of two girls and one boy. The following year, 1910-11, the school graduated a class of five girls and one boy. The old bank building was Buchanan's only school building until 1916, when the county erected a large two-story brick building on the samo lot, at a cost of $20,000; Fifteen thousand dollars was borrowed from the Literary Fund, and the remaining five thousand was furnished by the County board and the citizens of Buchanan. The building was thought to be adequate for tho need of 3uchanan and vicinity for the next twenty-five years, but the advantage of the bettor graded school and high school as found in the town as compared with the country schools, and the advent of good roads increased tho enrollment of the Buchanan school until further provision had to bo made. In 1926 the County authorized a bond issue of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the orcction of additional buildings in the te' 17

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nocdod localities of the county. Of this sun, fifteen thousand dollars was spent in 1927 on an additional modern brick building. LIST OF PRINCIPALS 1901 - 1934 1901- 02 ---------------------Mr. Hart - Dead 1902- 03 -------------------- Miss Lclic Holmes 1903- 04 --------------------- Miss Rosalie Cox 1904- 05 --------------------Miss Rosalie Cox 1905- 06 --------------------Miss Edith Payne 1906- 07 ....................Mr. Snead 1907- 08 --------------------John H. Booton 1908- 09 --------------------John H. Dooton 1909- 10 -------------------- 0. L. Huffman 1910- 11---------------------0. L. Huffman 1911- 12---------------------0, L. Huffman 1912- 13---------------------0, L. Huffman 1913- 14---------------------j. s. McDonald 1914- 15---------------------j. s. McDonald 1915- 16---------------------j. s. McDonald 1916- 17---------------------IV. H. Ritonour 1917- 18 -------------------- Jos. Edmonion 1918- 19--------------------- 7. Reid 1919- 20--------------------- 7. A. Reid Miss Dorothy Mayo 1920- 21 --------------------J. H. Tignor 1921- 22 --------------------J. II. Tignor 1922- 23 --------------------J. J. Brovbaker 1923- 24 --------------------j. J. Brewbakor 1924- 25 --------------------J. J. Erewbaker 1925- 26 --------------------j. j. Browbakcr 1926- r27--------------------j. j. Brewbaker 1927- 28 --------------------J. r. Stono 1928- 29 --------------------j. stone 1929- 30 --------------------J. stone 1930- 31 --------------------M. L. Carper 1931- 32 --------------------M. L. Carpor 1932- 33 --------------------H. L. Carper 1933- 34 --------------------M. L. Carper 1934- 35 --------------------?!. L. Carper 1935- 36-----—----------------tl. L. Carper