Castlewood High School - Castletonian Yearbook (Castlewood, VA)

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CASTLEWOOD HIGH The name Castlewood High School was chosen for the new, modern brick building erected in 1949. Being fully accredited and with an enrollment of 670 students, Castle- wood High School is one of the finest schools in Southwest Virginia, There are twenty-seven teachers and one full-time guidance teacher in the high school and nineteen teachers in the elementary school. Thirteen buses transport the students to and from school. The high school and the ele- mentary school have separate cafeterias. The auditorium which was added in 1960 and with a seating capacity of 862 adds much to our enjoyment and appreciation of our school. 7

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Vanishing Americana . . . The One-Room School We seldom see one now, but generations of capable, successful Americans learned their three R ' s in schools such as this. We have all read how Abraham Lincoln went to a log school and became President of the United-5utes. Dr. C.C. Fisher graduated from Emory and Henry College, cum laude, with the class of 1880. That following fall he accepted a position at Temple Hill School where he taught for two years. There he met his wife-to-be (Elizabeth Bickley Dickenson) when he obtained lodging at her father’s plantation. He boarded with the Dickensons for $5 a month, which included his room, board, and laundry. In 1886 Dr. Fisher was licensed by the Southern Methodist Church in Pikeville, Tennessee, as a minister. Later an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Kentucky Wes- ley College, Winchester, Kentucky. 8