Peabody High School - Lion Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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'lk If - 5'1- ,ff i' 1 '95 fi Gn- 1 G..- 'Q' l FACULTY MISS GRAYCE M. TOWNES Librarian FIRST ROW MISS MARIAN B. LUNDY Science MR, NOAH H. MANDY Art MRS. BEATRICE M. MCKENZIE Physical Education MRS. REBECCA H. MERRITT History MR. RICHARD W. PEGRAM Diversified Occupations THIRD ROW MRS. EMILY M. TURNER MR. WALTER B. TYNES Home Economics Auto Mechanics hg- f SECOND ROW MR. CALVIN I, POWELL History MR. ELMORE E. RAINEY Radio and Electricity MISS SUSIE P. SCOTT Cosmetology MISS EDITH M. SHARPE English and French MISS FLORENCE L. TATE Mathematics MR. IESSE C. WILLIAMS Building Trades

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w gas. Lx .- .., .5 Q 12 of' .1 I Cr' La' 1' f x mx 5 JK. 07 41! FIRST ROW sAr9 MR. SYLVESTER BLUE Cabinet Making MRS. FLORENCE D. BROWN English MR. JAMES S. BURTON History MISS VIRGINIA D. CUTLER Home Economics MR. CLARENCE W. GALLOWAY Chemistry and Biology MR. ALBERT W. JONES Physical Education AF' L.. TH? RZ- ku SECOND ROW MR. MATTHEW S. GILLIAM Biology MRS. SADIE B. GIST English MRS. NANNIE P. GRANDBERRY French and Latin MISS OTELIA I-I. HARRISON Mathematics MISS VIVIAN O, HART Business Education T HIRD ROW MRS. BESSIE G. KING Music v MISS MARIORIE P. LEWIS MISS PEARL V. LOMAX English Mathematics OV

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To those persons who have had the good fortune to luve un the cuty of Petersourg and uts envurons several superuor opportunutues un culture employment and assocuatuons are offered There us for example Vurgunua State College wuth uts well trauned faculty of Vurgunta and the surroundung states and uts specual opportunuty for traunung at low costs to those un the college communuty There usC ntral State Hosputalwuth uts num erous loo opportunutues and the Colony for Feeble Muncled Persons wuth employment possubulutues Then there us Fort Lee whuch has work offerungs both un skulled and semu slculled occupatuons The untermunglung and assocuatuons of these several groups guve a cuty the suze of Petersburg some defunute superuor advantages Along wuth these advantages there are o portunutues for advancement un the more umportant posutnons un the school system whuch came earluer than sumuluar advantages un near oy cutues Petersourg employed Negro hugh school teachers as early as T832 whereas a n ar oy caty empuoyea uts furst Negro hugh school teachersthurty two years later un l9l5 ln Petersourg hugh school pruncupals were guven employmentalongwuth hugh school teachers Some cutues un Vurgunua employed theur furst Negro hugh school pruncupals un T933 more than fufty years after Petersburg Petersburg usthus year begunnung the hugh school work un uts thurd hugh school buuldung Thus one modern un every respect reflects ments Here the Idea of gracuous luvung can be most fully carrued out The buuldung and program whule not de emphasuzung the so called academuc sublects nevertheless are arranged and equupped to traun students to become trained artusans un such skulls as carpentry bruclclayung raduo and electrucal repaurworlc automechanucs cabuneu mak ung and beauty culture On the whole the traunung ofworthwhule cutuzens for Petersburg the state and natuon whether such cutuzens enter hugher unstututuons or enter ummeduately the fuelds of labors usthe goal of Peabody Hugh School ut us usung uts numerous faculutues un that certaun du rectuon wav' ' ,I u' 'TBM' V ' ' 1 T , . ., . . ., . u T 1 Q - T - 1 t 1 T - I ' 1 ' I 'fa 44749,-Bi-T V n c I s 3 . . . ' ' ' l - 1 s a I , . I I . . . . . . I I . . . . . . . T I I l I its large student groups, many from all parts the later trend in construction ancl appoint- , . I I -. - - I I I . . ' f I I - 1 I A ' . I , I I I . . . . I I J , I P . . . I 6