Jarratt High School - Builders Yearbook (Jarratt, VA)

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Cigh. th Grade Gertrude Babb Ronnie Bell Richard Bria Alfred Coleman Allen Conwell Claude Dancy Jimmy Ezelle Bert Gordon Pete Gordon Ollin Harrell Joan Harris Wayne Mangum Ronnie Richardson Judy Riggan Brenda Velvin Burnell Wilkinson Edward Williams Linda Williams Larry Woodruff Linda Woodruff William Wray Not Pictured: Onnie Woodruff

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Freshinen Freddy Briley Clifford Brown Mary Craft Joan Edwards Meade Fuller Joan Hall Donnie Harrell Frances Harrell Tommy Horne Lawrence Jarratt Melvin Jarratt Ann Lyzotte Charles O'Berry Tommy Parker Frankie Pennington Boots Winfield Ann Woodruff Patsy Woodruff Irene Zimmerman

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Carly School Group During the session 1904-05 a photographer came out from the city to take this baby picture of an infant institution, Those who appear in this first known picture of a public school in Jarratt are as foliows: first row: Rufus Matthews, Richard Harrison, Humphrey Horne, Jesse Jarratt, Willie Johnson, Russell Bowen, and an unidentified boy; second row: Mamie Partridge, the teacher who is Mrs, Ella Harrison, and Fenton Partridge; third row: Beulah Johnson, Mabel Vincent, Mary Johnson, Ruth Bowen, Gladys Grizzard, Frances Irby, Blanche Grizzard, Lillian Grizzard, and Mary Tench; fourth row: Guy Harrison, Bessie Tench, Pearl Grizzard, Elizabeth Jarratt, Virgie Tench, Mary Feild Person, Pearl Matthews, Nellie Johnson, Estelle Grigg, Florence Jarratt, and Eva Wells; fifth row: Linda Tench, Gladys Harrison, Irene Vincent, and Daisy Horne, The individual equipment of these scholars consisted of three books and a slate, Some erased with sponges, most used spit and sleeves, The building that housed this one-room school faced north and stood among four elm trees on the present basketball court, The building has been moved just off the school grounds and the west window through which the smallest boys were wont to steal in and out has been cut into a door. Asa school room the building hada platform for teacher's chair, her easel-type desk, and a bench to which scholars were summoned for recitation, Conveniences consisted of one water bucket and one dipper and a fresh bucket of water from the Joe Grigg pump twice a day. Punishment was corporal: whacks across the palm of the hand with a ruler, The course of study was reading, writing, arithmetic, and dictionary. Friday afternoons were given over to spelling matches, multiplication matches, and dictionary matches, The greatest glory was to stay at the head of the line for months; the worst disgrace was to miss the answer and go to the foot of the line, As need arose this one-room school became a two-room, then a three-room school until finally all seven grades were taught and an offer for “individual instruction in higher education was made, Most of today's adult citizens do not appear inthis picture because Greensville County operated a public one- room school not far from the head of Jarratt Avenue. Then, too, in the early 1900's a governess was considered more thorough and more fashionable, But as the school grew, people became more public-school minded, and eventually Greensville and Sussex pupils enrolled together, Clemen lary