Shepard High School - Lion Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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Zrauspvrfafivu I 930-I 970 'I ri? Transportation services have been the key to the development of Shepard High School over the four, decades. Until 1930, neither Wake County nor the State of North Carolina had as- sumed responsibility for the transportation of black children. To meet the critical need, one second-hand Model T Ford school bus was provided as a gift of the incumbent principal, Such a method of meeting the challenge to provide transpor- tation for high school pupils from all areas of eastem Wake County to this union school was without parallel in this adminisuative unit, This bus served Wilder's Grove, Knightdale, Shot- well, Riley Hill, Wendell, White Oak, and Pilot communities, traveling approximately eighty miles daily. An example of the zeal and dedication of parents in the 1930's was that Mr, Arthur R. Perry, first bus driver for the high school transportation effort, served without monetary com- pensation forthe full year. Mr, Perry had the distinction of driving a school bus to Shepard for twenty years, longer than any other individual in Wake County, and of driving without acci- dent or traffic citation, Shepard High, today, 1970, is served by twenty-one buses in the Zebulon attendance area: in addition, five transfer buses operating outside the Zebulon attendance area transfer high school children from the Eagle Rock, Wendell, Rolesville areas to attend Shepard High. CHUUL BUS 'fill-'-

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Disfrilrufivc fducafivn Distributive education was offered for the first time at Shepard School during the year 1968-69, Students have been employed in grocery stores, a wholesale grocery firm, knitting mills, restaurants and variety stores, They have participated in DECA activities including district contests and leadership conferences and served as hosts for the State Leadership Con- ference held in Raleigh. Several were models in a fashion show in the North Hills Mall during the State Leadership Conference. X9 3 .Q A XX D, E, Students at Work. DECA Members Enjoying Leadership Conference. , BULL-ET'N o Qxqvwvlt I cove-4004 lf E-5,14 '25 2 X 0 f i- I 1 ' . . f f QU: up ' -I Q5 Q . Xi- J Q cf Q . , X X XX ff if ' 1' 1. .' 9 0 .' 1 EJ A. Q 5 . M- 5 4 ' I I 'cn ll MQ, it ll' a K .ir I , J J , :vip 3- t A - - - . -' -'-'-21 f Hausa Q f k . K I 4 u.i.vL:L,5 L..A'v ml

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Guidamz' Guidance services have always been a part of Shepard's history. Even when the faculty was small and individual responsibilities extensive, there were those on the staff to offer help whenever the students' personal decisions and crises required attention. 'I'hen, as now, the guidance-minded persons recognized the worth and dignity of each person and sought to always help each pupil become all that he could, Since 1961 a full-time professional counselor has been a part of the staff. The three per- sons who have served in this capacity are Frank L. Tumer, Benjamin F. Merritt, and Mrs, Verna L, Lee, Today 's guidance services are specifically designed to offer professional assistance in every phase of the students' development: personal, social, educational and vocational. To this end the guidance services are involved in the following activities: ,individual and group counseling, testing, assimilating and distributing educational and vocational information, orientation, placement and follow up, i