Mount Airy High School - Airmont Yearbook (Mount Airy, NC)

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Heritage 3rom Dedicated (3eacfiers Dives mam (Left) MRS. KATE BARRINGER returns to MAHS for a visit and looks at early school pictures with Airmont co-editor Missy Clark. A vital personality in our school life has been absent since Mrs. Barringer became ill late in 1958. Teachers and students continue to miss her stimu¬ lating force and her infectious enthus¬ iasm. Mrs. Barringer admittedly loved teaching. She was articulate, straight forward, dramatic and dy - na m i c , generating enthusiasm for learning and thinking. As student council adviser she demonstrated an interest in the welfare of the entire student body and wisely guided the forming of school p o 1 i c i e s . Mrs. Barringer didn ' t know what an in¬ fluence she has been -- and is -- in this school and in this community. Present school personnel and the many MAHS graduates who felt her in¬ fluence in years past will remain in¬ debted to Mrs. Barringer ' s teaching and personality. Mrs. Kate Mitchell Barringer died January 10, 1961. WORKING IN Mount Airy schools for 25 years as teacher, student council adviser, and friend, Mrs. Barringer has built for us an immeasurably rich heritage.

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OUR PRESENT M. yi. Ji. 6. 1917 - NORTH MAIN STREET SCHOOL ADDED First and second grade pupils from the north side of town were transferred to North Main School, then a small frame building. 1922 - NEW NORTH MAIN SCHOOL A new brick school was built on North Main. Rockford School was remodeled. 1933 - BANNERTOWN SCHOOL Bannertown School came into the Mount Airy school district. 1951 - NEW HIGH SCHOOL Students from South Main School were transferred to the new high school on South Street. South Main School was made a Jr. High. Mount Airy High School 1951 Mount Airy High School 1916 - 1951 Now South Main School Rockford Street School in the twen¬ ties. This view is from the west side. Classrooms at the back were a recent addition. 1960 - JR. HIGH MOVED Grades 7 and 8 were moved to the new extension of the High School. South Main School housed grades 4-6; Rock¬ ford Street became a primary school; and North Main, an elementary school for walking students. 1961 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER After a hundred years of public education, the Mount Airy school system comprises 3,184 students, 121 teachers (641 students and 27 teachers in high school), and property valued at $2,034,500. Remodeling and additions are in progress at Bannertown School and the J.J. Jones School. The Ashby home next to South Main is to be converted to an administration building, and a 13 acre tract on Old Springs Road has been purchased for a future elementary school. i i

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On On Our Scdool, On Our ' down Retiring last spring, Miss Ada Haymore left a big gap in our school life and even bigger memories of love and respect. For 32 years, along with know¬ ledge of Latin, she gave her students a liberal edu¬ cation in her exacting standards of conduct, disci¬ pline, and work and in her continued interest in all phases of life. MISSHAYMORE ' S LOVE of Latin and of her youngsters built not only an unusually strong Latin department but also a strong in¬ fluence on generations of students. MISS HAYMORE (END OF TABLE) enjoys a farewell banquet with her Latin IV class and receives a watch from the Latin Club.