Lee M Waid School - Hawk Yearbook (Rocky Mount, VA)

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y o 7 JEAN IORI Ess: TREN SIXTY-NINE

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. 7 . 0.0. CHM The cafeteria plays a four-fold role in the educational program of the school. As a source of nourishing noon meals it helps to combat malnutrition and to maintain in the students health and vigor essential to the success of the teaching program; it is a center for the teaching of proper food selection and of good health habits, for the vo- cational training of some students, and for correlating classroom teaching with the in- terests and experiences of children which center around food; and it furnishes a means of interesting the community in the food service of the school and of giving some training in the nutritional needs of children through this interest. 42

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A THUMBNAIL SKETCH Lee M. Waid School Make new friends, but keep old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test-time And change--are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendships never know decay. For mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, also! May die, New friends, must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast, New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. The 1969 Annual of Lee M. Waid School is routinely looking for a simple format from 1911 through 1969 which will reflect past events. Slightly more than a half century has passed since the present Lee M. Waid School had its beginning with a public school on High Street. Through the efforts of the Pigg River Baptist Association, The Franklin County School Board aided by Rosenwald Funds, and the WPA, our school progressed extensively. The first structure; namely, Rocky Mount School, was a two room frame building constructed by the school board. For fifty years this building served as classrooms for Franklin County students. Education was terminated at the end of the Seventh Grade until 1921, provided students passed the State Examination. After 1921 two additional years of training were added to the curriculum. The founders were: Lee M. Waid, Ben Beasley, Henry Smith, Zack Hopkins, Martha Brown and William T. Walker. The first teachers included W. F. Graspy, Sam Phelps, Della Dickerson and W. A. Bond. In 1915 a dormitory was built that accommodated teachers and students from Franklin and adjacent Counties. Because more courses were added to include summer study for teachers, and more space became available, the name was changed to Booker T. Washington Normal and Industrial Institute. Bus transportation was provided around 1929 when Mr. M. H. Hopkins and Mr. Willis Board purchased the first buses. Their salaries for operating the buses were paid by the school board. Around 1926, Rosenwald funds were made available for the construction of a four-room building which was renamed Franklin County Training School. The school board aided in erecting this building. Several years later, the Federal government, under the WPA, built the Agriculture Building which is currently in use. About 1948, the Franklin County School Board purchased the- remaining 23 acres of land from the Pigg River Baptist Association to build the first unit of the present school. Upon the completion of the second unit in 1959, the school was dedicated, The brick structure was completed in 1964 with the ad- dition of more classrooms: Atnw Realizing that 50 years is a short period of time for substantial progress in education, however, Lee M. Waid High School has had its beginning--all indications tell us it will have its ending. We've seen its growth from a two-room frame building to a thirty-three room brick structure; from elementary education to Senior high school education; from a faculty of two to a faculty of forty; from 100 students to 1,000 students; from private transportation to school buses; from outdoor lavatory to modern rest- rooms; and from pot-bellied stoves to central heat. To the Pigg River Baptist Association, to the Franklin County School Board, and to the interested citizens of Franklin County, we, the present generation, owe you our thanks. 'Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. 44