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NELSON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CONTENTS Administration, Faculty Services Classes, Honors Organizations, Activities Music Sports Features Advertisements 6-19 20-27 28-77 78-101 102-109 110-125 126-137 138-200
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FOREWORD i Mrs. Barita Wills, retired teacher of Gladstone, Virginia, is the author of the following resume of educational progress in Nelson County. Progress is the keynote of our lives today, and in no area is this more apparent than in the field of education. Many of us can recall our grandparents ' description of the little one-room log schoolhouses with their long homemade benches, a water bucket and dipper in the corner, and a stern teacher standing in the center of the floor with a frown on his face and a switch in his hand. These were the old field schools, so called because they were often built in a field that had been worked down and abandoned for crops. The teachers taught the three R ' s and a little history, geography, and formal grammar fora term of five months at a monthly salary of $15.00. Later on came the Little Red Schoolhouse a painted framed structure with patent desks, black¬ boards and chalk available. Two and three room schools came next. Terms were lengthened to six or even seven months, teachers ' salaries were raised to a maximum of $30.00 a month and requirements for certificates became slightly more rigid. Consolidated schools followed with horsedrawn wagons to transport the children. As the process of evolution went on, the buildings were improved, buses replaced the wagons, facilities and equipment became more adequate and the curriculum was enriched. Salaries were raised, more highly trained teachers were demanded. Today as we look at our fine elementary schools and our modern central high school with its lunchroom, library, auditorium, its rest rooms and gymnasium, its well-equipped classrooms, its staff of highly trained teachers and workers, we may cast a backward glance at the old field school of our forefathers, and say Verily, tall oaks from little acorns grow . The Gladstone Elementary School, though no longer in operation, is lovingly kept up by the citizens of the Glad- ' stone community.
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