Crewe High School - Railroader Yearbook (Crewe, VA)

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Table of Contents Page The First Fifty Years 4 Administration 17 Classes 21 Student Activities 41 Athletics 53 Special Events 61

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Foreword Since 1910, Crewe High School has been sending forth grad¬ uates from its four-year courses; in the first class, there were but three students. In the fiftieth, the Class of 1959, there will be nearly fifty. The 1959 Railroader staff salutes these graduates of the past and present. We shall reminisce a bit and attempt to recount briefly what Crewe High has meant to her first fifty classes of graduates. We hope our story will prove to you that she has made progress in scope as well as in size. If you find the story interesting, then we shall feel that this book is a success. We enjoyed creating it; we hope you will enjoy reading it. The Staff 2

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A School Grows Log House School Crewe was proud of this school built in 1897. Growing Pains seems to characterize the his¬ tory of Crewe High School. From the five-room brick high school building, from which the class of 1910 was graduated, Crewe High Schoo l has grown to a seven-building ca m p us occupying 14 acres of land. Crewe ' s first school was known as The Old Log House. It was a small, one-room, log build¬ ing, located in the yard of the property now owned by Mr. U. K. Franken. This first school had an enrollment of twenty pupils in 1887. When the Norfolk and Western moved its shops midway be¬ tween Norfolk and Roanoke, the school population increased so rapidly, that a new school building was erected by the fall of 1888. This building had two recitation rooms, a cloak room, and a hall. (This building, located on East Tennessee Avenue, is now the residence of Mi ' s. Joe Wilson.) Eighty pupils registered for this term; however, before the term was over the cloakroom and the hall had to be converted into a classroom. Each year brought increased enrollment and more crowded conditions. By 1895twoextra rooms had to be rented. In 1896, an effort to grade the school was made but owing to the crowded condi¬ tions of the main building and the location of the rented rooms, not much was accomplished. Through the interests of public-spirited persons, arrangements were made to erect a new school building. The money was raised from private sub- The Tyler Street building and the frame building (which burned in 1920) serve as a meeting place for paraders. The building at the left was one of several used for temporary classrooms after the fire.