John D Bassett High School - Timber Tints Yearbook (Bassett, VA)

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BASSETT HIGH SCHCDOL Q A HlSt0T1Cal Sketchl Few copies of the actual history of Bassett Hrgh School have been printed, therefore, rt IS rnterestrng to note the following facts which have been gathered from varrous sources The forerunner of the present school at Bassett was an old one room log burldrng lo cated on the land of a Mr Price, now the present home of Mr George Ramsey The act date of the foundrng of this school 1S no known but rt was prior to 1900 For seats e burldrng had slabs w1th holes bored near t e ends and pegs rnserted for legs The building was heated by an open fireplace rn the end It was a poorlv lighted burldrng with very little equipment of any kind Mr Bonnie Price was for a number of years the master rn charge of thrs seat of learning Thrs school was later abandoned for a school located nearer Bassett when the Bassett saw mill was beginning to attract residents to the community This first Bassett school was lo cated on the property of Mr J H Bassett near the John David Bassett Park The two room frame burldrng was burlt and donated by the communrty Some of the teachers who taught rn thrs school were Mr Joe Ramsey Mrss Etta Burze and a Miss Wade About that time the Bassett Furniture Com pany was founded and built its first factory Thrs resulted rn a rapid increase rn the popu latron rn the community and thus a larger school plant was necessary Mr J H Bassett donated another site and a burldlng was erected adJacent to the Riverview Baptist Church near the present homes of Mrs R L Qtone and Wir J D Bassett Sr The building a four room frame structure was adequate for a time but had to be enlarged rn 1909 by the addltron of another room secondarv school work was offered Wlth the fire teacher faculty two years of hlgh school work was added to the curriculum Mrss Emma Carter Wlrss Nannle Mltchell a lVIr Barnes and a Wir Coe were the persons serv Ing, as prrncrpals of thls school durlng the pcrrod 1000 1015 Thrs five room burldmg continued rn use un trl Ianuarx 101s at YVl1lCl1 time the school moxcd to the completed brlck structure ln town This bulldrng costing., approxlmatelv S30 000 wa built Jorntlv bv the drstrlct school board and the cltlzens of the community The old school burldrng., was sold at public auctlon December 41 1016 and the money applred on thc to t of the new burldrng., A third year of hrgh school work began during the session of 1916 17 The school at that trme still employed five teachers three full tlme grade teachers one full time high school teacher, and one teacher dividing her time between grade and high school work Teachers experienced drfliculty ln securing board and room at suitable locations rn Bas sett and the people rn order to remedy thrs srtuatron built and donated to the County an eight room brick teacherage Thrs was done rn 1923 the year MISS Crrckenbarger became principal of the school Thrs session of 1923 24 was also the first session for the school to be accredited by the State Department of Education with a full four' year course being offered A shortage of funds developed rn 1925 and after several meetrngs and much discussion the school board pald the teachers for seven months session the patrons raised money and paid for an addrtlonal month, and the teachers gave their services free for one month The school had again outgrown its classroom space so that two basement rooms were fixed up and put rnto servrce as class rooms for the session of 1926 27 and on August 16 1927 a contract was closed with Mr A T Atkins for the erection of a grade school building The contract was prrced at 0519 319 78 not lnclud mg the heatrng system Not long after completion of' the new burld ing Smith River swollen by heavy rams overflowed its banks and flooded both the school burldlng and the teacherage The water, being between two and three feet deep above the fioors caused consrderable damage A large grandstand at the rear of the school on the ball park and newly erected by the town was also swept away a total loss Chairs for the auditorium rn the new buxld mg were mstalled rn October 1938 and stage equipment valued at S1100 was purchased by the school through donatlons and advertise ments The school publrshed rts first newspaper River Rrpples rn 1925 and Timber Trnts rts first annual was publrshed ln 1934 35 The cottage plan of teaching Home Econom rcs was 1Y1t1OdLlC9d ln 1933 34 uslng the upper story of the teacherage for this purpose Also rn 1024 under the PWA program a number of reparrs were made concrete walks were lard and the building painted The following year basement rooms were plastered concrete fC0l'ltl!1U8d Page 1471 K l . 1 0 0 . .' . . . 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TABLE CDF CCDNTENTS H1sto15 of Bassett Hlgh School H1gh School Curr1cL.1um Ficultx Cluses Actnltleo Spoux Adxe1t1sQn1e11ts 9911101 bt xtlstlcs 145 Page ' ' 1 - s ' . . . . . . 5 ' ' ' ........ . . 6 1 - j ........... . . . 7 , za: ..... .... . . . 13 . ' '7 ...... . . . . . . . . 57 Features ............... 85 S ' . '..... .......... . 93 'e' . ...... . . . . . . . . 107 1 , ' ' z .... . . . . . . . . . 143

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CURRICULUM Cuulculum The totahty of sub lect mfittel, act v1t1es, and expeu ences uhmh COHSt1tL1teS the pup1Is sehool hfe The follow mg 'ue the mam coul ses of subject m'1tte1 offered IH Bassett H1 h Sehool XCADFMIC I IILIISII I'IlSf0lX I 1 III Sp IYIISII Algebra Plane Ceometu Solld Ceomctly Ceneml Sclence Blologk Chemlsuy Home Etonomlcs Band Nluslc X ocfil IILISIC Phvslcal Educatlon INDI, STRI AL ARTS Ceneml Authmetlc Nluhimc 11 Dmvung fnmz 11 S op VS ood Shop Nlntxl Shop 63 BUSINESS Busmess Engllsh Busmess A11thU1Qt1C Genelal Busmess Ts pxng Bookkeeping Sholthand Ofhce Plactlce GENER AL En Ilsh Hxstox V I atm Algbebm Plme Ceometry Sol1d Geometry Gene1a1 Smence Blology Chemlstry Home Economlcs Band IIIUSIC Vocal 'Niuslc Phw s1c'1I I dun ltlon Duel lfied Oqcupatlons IJlStI1b11UXL I' CILIQHIZIOH . C G i . . 3- I - . . , C . . , - n . C er ' 9 . . I . E ,, .1 Y . . ,zt A I , I. 4 -I4 . 1 A pa. ,.,. .W - Z , , I -I, ' . , ' ' ' .v . , . Spamsh , . If C I I ,. .. ' rv . Z I . . A .I I ' C A . I ., . ' . .' ' 1 C 4 1, I, C .2 .K , . . , . , 1 'K L -z ,X V: .,h - Y K I'I'SI nl I