Lynch High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Lynch, KY)

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DEOICATI ON BECAUSE OF YOUR UNSELFISH INTEREST AS A HELPR FUL COMRADE AND FAITHFUL SERVANT WHOSE ASSOC- IATION WE ENJOY AND WHOM WE CHERISH, WITH GRAVE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT, WE, THE CLASS or 1950, oEDIcATx-: 'rs-us YEAR soon TO You PRO- FESSOR SY. L. SHOBE,

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,L .I-I I 1 I I I I , I, 31 www A ,Q 5 ,A aff' if 79 I ffm., I K, . iff r I' AI' I I I 1 I RWWQ u'-IrI- , 2, ,, I gui, 6? 'C ff X. I4 . .,.-sr-Q4--www..-.-a..H.A. A-.. 2 I ..I.-.-.. SCHOOL H I STORY WITHIN A THIRTY YEAR PERBOD, LYNCH COLORED SCHOOL HAS GRADUALLY GROWN FROM K TWO DWELLUNG HOUSE SCHOOL IN CAMPS ONE AND FIVE, WITH THREE TEACHERS TO A TWO STORY BRICK EDLFHCE WITH ELEVEN CLASS- ROOMS AND GYMNASIUM, AND A FACULTY OF FOURTEEM TEACHERS, IT HAS DEVELOPED FROM AN EIGHT GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INTO AN HAM ACCREDITED FOUR YEAR HIGH SCHOOL, PRINCIPAL B. B. SMITH WITH MRS, HENR1ETTA SAUNDERS SwEATT AND MISS LULA KYLE WERE THE FIRST INSTRUCTORS, MRS, SWEATT WHO HAS MAINTAINED HER,POSLILONwFORHlWENI H RS ES TO BE COMMENDED FOR HER UNTIRING EFFORTS AND OUT- STANDING SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.lN 1923 A BRICK EIGHT CLASSROOM BUILDING WAS ERECTED AND A FOUR YEAR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE WAS ADDED TO THE CURRICU- LUM, CLASSES BEGAN IN THE NEW BUHLDING IN JANUARY 1924 wITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ENROLLHNG FROM BENHAM AS WELL AS LYNCH,KY. THE FIRST HJGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT WAS HELD BN 1928 WUTH FOUR GRAQQQlE3 RECEIVING THEIR DBPLOMASfT DURING THE ADMTNISTRA- TION OF PROF, P.W. WILLIAMS, A'GYMNAS1UM, ' HOME ECONOMICS' DEPARTMENT AND THREE CLASSROOMS WERE ADDED TO THE SCHOOL, AFTER THE DEATH OF PROF. WILLIAMS IN 1939, PROF, W.L,SHOBE, A VETERAN EDU- CATOR, wAS ELECTED PRINCHPALO ELEVEN 'OF PROF. SHOBEUS FORTYPFOUR YEARS AS TEACHER AND ADMINISQ TRATOR HAVE BEEN SPENT BN LYNCH SCHOOL, THESE HAVE BEEN ELEVEN YEARS OF UNDISPUTED PROGRESS, BECAUSE OF PROF, SHOBEDS PLEASING PERSONALITY AND TACTFULNESS, A MORE FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN FACULTY, STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY. HIS PERSISTENCE AND DHLUGENCE IN 1945 RESULTED IN THE EQUALIZATION OF TEACHERDS SALARIES, WITH THE AID OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE BRILLIANT LEADERSHIP OF OUR PRMNCIPAL,THE SCHOOL HAS HAD MANY OUTSTANDING ADDITIONS, AMONG THE MOST OUTSTANDING ARE THE IN- STALLATION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SEwING MACHINES UN THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, THE INSTALLATION OF AN ,ELECTRIC PROGRAM CLOCK, A PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM AND STUDENT LOCKERS,. BAND INSTRUMENTS AND A PIANO HAVE BEEN PURCHASED FOR THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT, PHYSICAL EDUCATl0N,VISUAL AIDS, AND COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENTS HAVE BEEN BNSTIR