Meade Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Williamsport, NY)

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SCHOOL HISTORY For many years prior to the opening of Meade Memorial School, citizens at Williams port and Boon's Camp viclnity had been inter ested ln havlng better school advantages than that offered by the schools they had flrst, the chlef deslre was to have better work for grade students but s lt became ln creaslngly necessary for people to send thelr ch1ldren away from home for hlgh school work there bec me deslre for the establlshment f hlgh school In 1931 Superlntendent Arvllle Wheeler looked over the 11 t of elghth grade gradu ates that could be served by such a school At th t tlne the late A J Arrowood was a member of the Johnson County Board of Edu c tlon Dr Lloyd G Meade and M Arrowood took keen lntrest ln the establlshment of a hlgh school ln that communlty The hlgh school w s flrst suggested to be loc ted at Offut+ Ky but through the work of Dr Me de wlth the 1d of Mr Arrowood they per su ded the John on County Board of Fduc tlon, g lnst 1ts wlll, to est bllsh the school ne r the mouth of Two Mlle Creek t Wll1lqmS port, Kentucky Dr Meade gave two acres of land to serve as a slte and campus for Meade School Mr Arrowood dled before the bulld 1Dg was constructed and Mr Jlm Cobe Preston carrled on the work he started harly 1D l93l a bulldlng was erected and school open d August, twentleth, of that year wlth George L Rimey as prln wpal Mr Ramey school fork, ard Mr Vlrgll Prestfn nd M1 s J llSS ll t ufh gr lr Blocaer h s n w1t1 tde school co T1HUOUSlV r R mey n s b ef N y only one ye r On open ng d y tn re :ere trlrty nlne hlgh school stud nts 1D ttend nce Thls t tend nce v s lncre seo to flfty by the end of .. . .. .. . . . At . . . . . 3 .. . . C - . . . 9 1. C O 9 , . . . . S .- C . q ' c. A , , c.. A A fx . C' I Q o u 0 . . . ci . , , . , I , , 5' I El W . -4 P a S O 1 5 -, ' ' Q' Q . - A' fx . cv S . .1 ci - . . . E. 9 if . F . .ct ' I O F . HI- . - -. .. U 5 I - f . C . -5 Q . . . 'X C .. A 1' . c A . CQ. .. . A M . - + M J, ' and Mr. George N. Butcher cfughu the hlgh H. A Y' E J. .f 0 F 3 J, S mr-1' f:'f A , - Z lf F '-'IU S 3 6 T.. the ades. TT Q ' L . . . - ft- bee ' f it Tl, V J. M . Z1 A ' . O 63 ' 1 E' Q' 19 , ' ' l ' ' E . C F' 'u' . ' 1 E Q' , Z' A , . -. 2 '- . 6 2 se ', ca ' ' '

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the flrst semester Durlng the second semes ter the attendance reached seventy four The second year the enrollment was one hundred nlne, the thlrd year one hundred flfty and the fourth year two hundred Durlng the suceedlng years the enrollment has had a normal growth Durlng the second year and Home WCODOm1CS were added to lum and the new grade bu1ld1ng twenty f1ve hlgh school and healthy AgT1Cu1tUT6 the currlcu was erected Later an addltlon was made to the or1g1nal hu1ld1ng t present a modern stone struct ure 1S belng completed whlch w1ll serve for 3th1et1CS and other extra curr1cular act1v1 tles At the close of the second year three boys graduated Frank Butcher, Arnold Pack year there was a Jo Imogene Butch Mollette, Grace Mabel Walters, Preston, Russell Slnce that year and Donis Pack The thlrd graduatlng class of eleven er, Mlldred Meek, Gladys Mollette, Ethel Walters, Stella Ward, Mrs Mltchell Boyd and Russell Davls graduatlng classes have averaged more than thlrty Thls years class has more than slxty More than half of last years class 1S attend lng college Nkade school's graduates are . . . .- .. . . . . . - . . . . . . Q . . H -. . . . . . . . . . I I Q I1 . . . . . . . . 1 1 . o U o . O . ' 2 - . I . If I . . O . . . . 0 . X i . . . . . . - - x J . . , ,Ja J Q . - . . . . . . . C . . . . . . 5 I - . . -- .I ,' L' A . L-Q 1 . . . . . .. .-. ' QQ 7 A . . au 3 s... , , - . . . . . . . maklng good 1n many colleges and UD1VQPS1t1LS The school was glven a B ratlng c rly In 1936 lt was made an A grade accredlted school, an 3CCT6d1t1Dg whlch lt stlll has The school 1S 1n a d1StT1Ct whlch serves by means of a bus whlch was put on the road ln l934, from the Floyd County llne to the mrtln Courty llne Ieade school serves a lalge and appreclatlve communlty It 1S en de xorlng to meet the needs of the people of th t communlty Its frlends face the future wlth thc conf1dence that lt 1S gust gettlng started 1D a long career of usefulness