Jarratt High School - Builders Yearbook (Jarratt, VA)

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ee First Graduates and Ama Tater In 1912, the newly established Jarratt High School saw its first graduating class. It consisted of only three girls: the Tyussisters, Evelyn and Mary, and Florence Jarratt, who went away to college (a female academy in Littleton, N.C.) but returned after the high school was founded. Although her name wasn't first alphabetically, it has been said that Mary Tyus was the first to be handed a diploma at Jarratt High School. On the opposite page is published greetings she has sent to this year's graduating class, the fiftieth and largest in the school's history with twenty-three members. This June, she will have been followed by 407 graduates, Below are pictures taken at the school in the days of its youth. Regrettably, a picture of the first high school building was not available. SECOND GRADUATING CLASS- 1913 LEFT TO RIGHT: Carrie Owen, Annie Mae Tyus, Eliza- beth Jarratt, and Lelia Parsons, In the foreground is Charles Owen, first male graduate of Jarratt High School. FIRST FLAGPOLE The significance of this picture is patriotically that this is an expedition of high school boys into the Jarratt family tract of land adjacent to the school to get a staff for the new school's American flag. FIRST MUSIC TEACHER Miss Genevieve Eubank

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VIRGINIA N. ROSE WILLIE G, JENKINS Music Seventh Grade MABEL B,. REDMAN ELIZ ABETH F, JARRATT LOUISE H, GRANT Sixth Grade Fifth Grade Fourth Grade MARY M, JONES KATHLEEN S, HARRISON VIRGINIA H. WILLIAMS Third Grade Second Grade First Grade

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A First Graduate Sends Greetin Gs to Ochool’s Siftieth Graduates Greetings, Young friends and fellow alumni! Let me commend you in your undertaking this year to turn back the clock for one- half a century and glean through the intervening years to see what the pioneers ofthe Jarratt High School had left in the way of a heritage for you the seniors of this class of 1962. It is very difficult for us in our passing days to realize that we are filling in the pages ofhistory and contributing to the heritage to be built upon by the on-coming generations. There is little that can be told of the first graduating class of Jarratt High School, that evening inJune so long ago, unless it could be their fortitude and endurance, in view of the fact that all members of this class lived in rural areas, the roads of that day being what they were and the school buildings, a far cry from the modern structures. Progress took a mighty hand and wonders have been wrought since that era. This class of 1912 would like to think they did spin a thread, ever so slender it may have been which could be there for each succeeding generation to weave upon. Young people of this class of 1962, please never forget you are very much inthe making of history today and you are weaving upon the threads of heritage which you have received and will pass on to future classes of our Alma Mater. Spin your threads well, in fulfilling that purpose and plan that God has so wisely and beautifully laid out for each of your lives. From this class there well may come a President of the United States, missionaries to the far corners of the earth and other men and women holding responsible positions in a Christian world. May your generation be the one to tum the tide of an unfriendly, hostile world to one of everlasting peace. May God bless and keep you always. Your Alumni Grandmother, Mary Louise Tyus Baicy Classes