Jasper High School - Yearbook (Jasper, AR)

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MESSAGE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT It has been my pleasure to work in the Jasper School System for the past ten years, both as Principal and Superintendent. I have seen the school grow from a student body of 150 and a faculty of seven to one of 650 students and a faculty of twenty-three. I will briefly mention some of the improvements that have been made. In the school year of 1944-45, Jasper School had one bus, eleven years old, and most of the children were transported in pick- ups and stock trucks. Today, we have seven of the most modern busses in which all the children may ride in comfort -- some for a dis- tance of 23 miles, The latter part of the school year of 1943-44 the Jasper School started the hot lunch program on a small scale We began with two cooks an old discarded wood stove and about thirty dollars worth of kitchen equip ment all of which was located in a small room in the basement of the old school house Today we have a modern hot lunch room equipped with electric ranges hot and cold water refrigeration storage room and all the equipment necessary for the operation of a modem school lunch program All of this equipment which has cost roughly S4 000 O0 has cost the school district nothing It has been purchased from the savings made each year from the proceeds of the lunch program Since 1949 three very useful buildings have been added to our school plant one four room classroom building for the lower grades with the hot lunch room in the basement a garage for our bus mechanics and an agriculture building for the veterans We have also added about five acres of ground to the school site - 1 1 - 1 I 1 1 1 ' U , . . . I 1 l I . 1 4 Q n. , ,WMM Arrests.:-ws-' News-s .Q -4 ' , 5 r, N ,, 1. A i,y1s,'Q1f-1 -is ., Nivifff-,Q 1, fs if s is A A ' X - K W-f3'37 nT?'Y' ff 79-sw' 9,11 lim? igfis-f2's.'-lfhsfiff Skmivt 4 K 1,1199 ' H 55251197451-s ' '

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In the last few years our llbrary has grown from a few f1ct1on books to a new 3 500 volume lrbrary Th1s 1mprovement has also been made w1th very lrttle cost to the school d1str1ct Our accompllshments have never exceeded my hopes but when I look back and see what we had ten years agq, I cannot help but feel that the Jasper School has made conslderable advancement How ever we must not be satrsfred w1th what we now have The least we can do for the chtldren of the Jasper School D1str1ct 15 to g1ve them opportumtres that are enjoyed by the chxldren 1n many other schools It rs our hope that wrthm the near future a modern ftre proof bu1ld1ng can be erected well equrpped w1th furnrture and frxtures I realxze that along through the years many mrstakes have been made and more w11l probably be made 1n the future But I do feel that much progress has been made If our school has been a success and Ith1nk rt has our School Board 1S due much of the credrt for therr untrrmg efforts and cooperatlon I also want to offer my thanks to the school faculty both here at Jasper and rn the w1ng schools of Parthenon Atkxn son Mt Sherman Low Gap and Boxley Ponca To the people of the Jasper School D1str1ct let me say that I have rece1ved much joy and pleasure 1n workrng w1th your chlldren and I can say w1th all s1ncer1ty that Ihave done the best w1th them that has been wrthrn my ab1l1ty to do Arch Smrth Superrntendent 1 . . 1 1 1 Q Q 1 v 0 I - 1 1 . 1 1 - y . l 1 Q 1 u