Ringgold Colored High School - Yearbook (Ringgold, LA)

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HISTORY OF RCHS The Ringgold Colored High School was organized and established in 1938, as the result of the need for high school in Ringgold, Louisiana, and to better edu cate and serve the boys and girls of the ad joiruirmg communities A site of six acres of land was given by the O G Thomas familv and this being located one mile south of Ringgold on the Coushatta highway Through the cooperation of the citizens arld the Bienville Parish School Board under the leadership of school building was erected In October, 1938, pupils who had completed tlue seventh grade in any of the fourteen near by rxural elementary schools could enroll in the eighth grade at the St Luke Elementary School There were fbrqr nine pupils This was done with advanced knowledge that the high school building would be completed and ready for use by the end d' the first semester At the beginning of the session, three teachers and a principal were employed to teach the eighth grade On January l, 1939, the new staff and forty nine eighth grade students moved into the new building QCon't on next pagel a Superintendent J. A. Shelby, a new nine-room hi gh Q ' '