Shepard High School - Lion Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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Chen . . 1939 Shepard High Salma! 1930-7970 Shepard High School will ring down the curtain on June 1, 1970 to a most exciting and challenging four decades of educational growth and pioneering in the history of Wake County schools. For forty years this institution, situated just east of the town limits of Zebulon, North Carolina on Highway 41564 East, has been a symbol and mecca for aspiring black youth of Eastern Wake County to study, to learn, to live and to receive formal instruction in the arts and sciences which characterize the many facets of education. Approximately 3,800 Qthree thousand eight hundredj enrolled in the high school during these four decades. More than 2,000 Qtwo thousandj did not remain to graduate here: however, many transferred to other high schools to complete their secondary education. More than 1,700 fone thousand seven hundredj remained to graduate from Shepard High. These, in large numbers, assumed their status in the adult community as parents, as farmers, and as workers in the skilled and unskilled service occupationsg while hundreds of them continued their training in the professions and higher educational pursuits, Hundreds moved away from the area to play their roles as responsible citizens in widely-scattered localities from Miami to Detroit: from Boston to San Francisco. The original name, Wakefield-Zebulon I-IighSchool, was changed to Shepard High School in 1943. The dual school system will be eliminated following the end of the present school term. All Wake County schools will become a unitary system of education. September, 1970, the high school program and pupils will be merged with the Wakelon High School. Commencement in 1970 will mark the final graduating class from Shepard School. The 1970 class will bring to a close the forty years of secondary instruction in this institutiong thus, it seems fitting and proper that this Yearbook give a panoramic review of the highlights of the past four decades of high school achievement. .QL 1970

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.iour dccades of Sducatiomzl Growth and Devclvpmeut Wake Uounty 6l1icf Administrative Ofhcers John C. Lockhart Randolph Benton Fred A. S1'nith Aaron E. Fussell 1930-1970 November 1, 1918 - October 1, 1940 His twenty-two year tenure witnessed the beginning of con- solidation and development of union schools for both races. During his leadership vocational programs began in secondary schools. October 1, 1940 - March 23, 1956 His sixteen year tenure wrought many changes in the struc- ture and organization of the school system, Scores of one and two-teacher schools phased out, March 23, 1956 - April 18, 1967 Eleven year administration brought rapid and phenomenal growth in pupil population, extended consolidation to all areas of county, and began the development of many curric- ulum changes which offered programs and courses more relevant to the transition from a largely agricultural to a more industrialized community. July 1, 1967 - Administration characterized by in-depth implementation of programs already initiatedg by positive action to eliminate dual school programs and dual Uansportation systems: by organization of continuous progress curriculum for elemen- tary levels: by establishment of first kindergarten programs in county - one under Federal funding, the other one of the pilot programs authorized by the General Assembly,