Hugh Morson High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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alclminia tra iion MR. JESSE O. SANDERSON Superintendent of Raleigh Public Schools Jesso O. Sanderson was born in Wayne County on January 19, 1901. He received his early education in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was graduated from high school in 1920. At Duke University, in 1924, he received his A.B. degree. He attended George Washington University in 1924-1925. Later he did graduate Work at Duke University during the summers of 1927, 1928, 1930, 1943, at North Carolina State College, 1944, and at Columbia University in 1949. He began his professional career in the public schools at Nashville, North Carolina, in 1925, as athletic coach and teacher of English. Following this, he was made principal of the Nashville Ele- mentary and High Schools and served in this capacity from 1926 to 1930. From 1930 to 1932 he was principal of Robbinsville Consolidated School. For ten years he was principal of the Methodi.st Orphanage School. He was elected superintendent of the Raleigh Public Schools in 1942. Conrad L. Hooper was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina, where he received his early education and was graduated from high school. He attended western North Carolina College where he earned his M.A. and B.S. degrees. Later he did post- graduate work at the University of North Carolina, the University of Colorado, and Temple University. His first teaching experience came at Glenville, North Carolina, where he coached athletics and taught mathematics for three years. The next year he was principal of Wilmont School. Following this, he was Quality Supervisor for Ecusta Paper Company in Brevard, North Carolina. He served in the Armed Forces from 1942-1945. The next two years he spent working for the Veterans' Administration. After coming to Raleigh in 1948, he was principal of Fred A. Olds School un- til he was appointed principal of Hugh Morson in 1954. Mr. Hooper and his family, which consists of a wife and two children, attend Fairmont Methodist Church. ll --,H MR. CONRAD L. HOOPER Principal of Hugh Morson High School

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Raleigh's first public high school was located at the end of Fayetteville Street. From 1905-1908, it, along with seven elementary grades, occupied the old Centennial School building. In the fall of 1908, the four upper grades moved to a new home on Morgan Street, just next to the Presbyterian Church. Instructions for these grades continued here until the fall of 1923 when the seventh and eighth grades of the Raleigh Public Schools moved into the building which now houses the State Board of Health. In the fall of 1925, Hugh Morson High School came into being. It was built on the three hundred block of East Hargett Street, and, since only half of it was completed at that time, it accommodated only theninth, tenth, and eleventh grades. The seventh and eighth grades returned to the old high school structure. Between the years 1925 and 1929, the new school was completed and was the home of grades seven through eleven. By this time, however, another school was needed, and, in the fall of that year, students from the western part of the city entered Needham B. Broughton High School. Eventually all seventh grades returned to the grammar schools, and a twelfth grade was added to both high schools. Now another era is ending. Next fall all tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students, including those from the Methodist Orphanage, will attend the Needham B. Broughton High School. Hugh Morson as a senior school will cease to exist but will become a junior high school. Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders from Broughton will move into the new Josephus Daniels Junior High School. And so time moves on and progress con- tinues. Raleigh hopes for and expects the best of its three high schools.

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afclminiatraiiue and uperviaory femonnel Superintendent JESSE O. SANDERSON Business Manager RAYMOND T. GREGSON Assistant Business Manager H. A. HELMS Supervisor of Music RICHARD FREDERICK EBERT Bookkeeping Office M. A. RUSHTON, JR., Head Bookkeeper MRS. INEZ ALEXAKOS Supervisor of Elementary Education FRANCES LACY Supervisor of Libraries MRS. MARY PEACOCK DOUGLAS Director of Cafeteria MRS. O. F. MCCRARY Secretary MRS. WILMONTT FREEMAN Stenographer JEWEL WYNNE