Covington High School - Derrick Yearbook (Covington, OK)

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HISTORY OF COVINGTON SCHOOLS COVINGTONI THE THIRD LARGEST TOWN IN GARFIELD COUNTY, HAS A POPULATION or APPROXIMATELY IOOO. IT IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 64. HALF'WAY BETWEEN ENID AND PERRY. THE Town wAS FOUNDED IN THE YEAR I905. THE FRISCO RAILROAD wAS BUILDING ITS PRESENT LINE THROUGH GARFIELD COUNTY AT THAT TIME. IT ASKED THE PEOPLE NEAR HERE T0 suv A TRAOT or LANo EDR A TOWNSITE9 THE FARMERS NET IN A LITTLE oNE ROOM scHooL. ONE MILE WEST or THE PRESENT TOWN ron THE PURPOSE or RAIsINo THE NECESSARY MONEYS IT SEEMED AS IF THE PLAN MUST BE GIVEN UP WHEN MR. JOHN Z. COVINGTON GAVE THE NECESSARY oNE HUNDRED DOLLARSIAND THE TOWNSITE wAS ASSUREDQ UUT or DRATITNDE roR MR. COVlNGTON'S oENERosITv THE Town wAs NAMED IN HIS HONOR. COVINGTON EXISTED AS A SHALL TRADING POST FDR PIONEER FARM' ERS UNTIL l9I6I WHEN THE FIRST OIL WELL ll THIS COMMUNITY WAS BROUGHT IN. SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS COMMUNITY BEFORE THE EXIST' ENCE or THE Town. IN 1900 A SCHOOL WAS BUILT oNE UILE WEST or THE PRESENT TOWN. NOT LONG AFTERWARDS AN ELECTION WAS HELD AT WHICH IT WAS DECIDED T0 MOVE THE SCHOOL INTO TOWNA THERETHEFIRST SCHOOL TIAS HELD IN A CHURCH BUILDING. IN I906 A SMALL max HJILD' ING wAs BUIET AT ouR PRESENT GRADE SCHOOL SITE. UPON COMPLETION or THIS BUILDINGQ TWO TEACHERS WERE IN CHARGE or ALL THE GRADES. IN IQI8 AN EIGHT Room MODERN BRICK BUILDING wAs ERECTEDQ IT WAS CONSIDERED AT THAT TIME AS HAVING ONE or THE BEST GYMNASIUMS IN THE STATES THIS BUILDING IS STILL IN cooo coNDITIoN AND IS USED A5 THE GRADE SDHDDL. IN i920 ADDITIONAL ROOM WAS NEEDED AND A FOUR ROOM FRKME STRUCTURE wAs EREcTED NORTH or ouR SCHOOL BUILD' ING. THESE BUILDINGS STILL PROVED INADEQUATEI AND IN I92I THE CITIZENS DECIDED T0 EREOT THE PRESENT HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. AT PRESENT THE SCHOOL IS OPERATED BY A FACULTY OF FOURTEEN EMPLOYEESQ CONSISTING OF ELEVEN TEACHERS: TWO JANITORS AND A BUS DRIVERA OUR TEACHERS ALL HAVE DEGREES FROM ACCREDITED COLLEGESA OuR PRESENT EEFIEIENT BOARD or EDUCATION IS composes or THREE MEMBERS, MANLEY BAILEVI WILLIAM SNYDERA AND CHRIS BEOPPLEA WILLARD 8ovcE IS THE SUPERINTENDENTA WALTER H. WILL- AHAN IS THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALI AND BENN G. PALMER IS THE GRADE PRINCIPAL.