Shepard High School - Lion Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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CHARLES ALBERT MARRIOT RICHARD ALLEN CARROLL, IR 1929-1932 1932-1939 GARLAND LAFAYETTE CREWS 1939-1970

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Princzpals I 930- I 970 Principals who have guided the growth and development of Wakefield-Zebulon High, later named Shepard High, through four decades of educational history: CHARLES ALBERT MARRIOTT - Principal, 1929-1932 Educated: Wake County Schools: A, B, Degree - Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.: M,A, Degree - Columbia University, New York City, inaugurated first four-year high school program for Shepard High, Purchased from personal funds first school bus to transport high school pupils from communities of Knightdale, Shotwell, Wilder's Grove, Riley Hill, Wendell, White Oak, and Pilot. This marked the first step in transportation of black students to any school in Wake County, Parents paid a weekly fee for each child to cover the cost of operation and upkeep of the Ford T Model used school bus, The school custodian served as operator bus driver without pay for the first year of service to these communities. RICHARD ALLEN CARROLL, IR, - Principal, 1932-1939 Educated: Classical High School, Providence, Rhode Island: B, S, Degree - Lincoln, Pennsylvaniag Graduate Study - Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, Organized and directed the first basketball tournament in East Piedmont region, embracing the counties of Durham, Wake, Johnston, Granville, Vance, Franklin, Person, Nash, Warren, Edge- combe, and Pitt. Persuaded County School Board to provide additional classrooms, central heating, and indoor sanitary facilities, Developed Vocational Agriculture and Home Economics programs in the curriculum, Received accreditation by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in 1933, GARLAND LAFAYETTE CREWS - Principal, 1939-1970 Educated: Granville County elementary and high schools - Creedmoor and Oxford, North Carolina: B,S. Degree - Shaw University, Raleigh, N, C.: Graduate Study - University of Michigan and Columbia University: Graduate professional degree - M. A, New York University, Served thirty-eight years in the field of education - thirty-three of these years as principal in the Wake County Unit. Term of office highlighted by growth of physical plant from one to five buildings: increase of staff from twelve teachers to thirty-seven: accreditation by the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges, 1955: reevaluation, with school maintaining accredited status, 1968. 'Ili

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Che Hrs! ij ARTHUR P. PERRY 1930-1950 First Bus Driver and First Custodian of High School, He rendered 27 years of service before retirement. MRS, ODESSA HARRIS ROBERTS 1951-1959 First High School Supervisor, She assumed the supervisory position in the Wake County Unit in 1951 after sewing for eleven years as principal of Lockhart School, Knightdale, North Carolina. ff' MAMW WILLIE H. HUNT 1930-1933 First High School Teacher. He taught all high school sub- jects, His salary for the First year was paid by popular sub- scription from parents of stu- dents whom he taught, Later, Mr, Hunt served as principal of I uniper Level School Q 1933- 1940J and Holly Springs School 11940-19603.