Walker County High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Jasper, AL)

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3 Q vu- 7' ii' Ku nu It vs AA' P4 I Iimlkllll '4'Q I s- 4 SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ERSKINE SMITH PAULINF MCELROY LA VERNF BARDEN J E BLACK Presudent Vuce Presudent Secretary Treasurer HISTCJRY OFW C H S The furst school buuldung un Ja per was a one room structure buult uuu T857 On January I8 I886 Jaspers furst hugh school was completed Thus school whuch was located on what us known as Academy Hull was called the Jasper Academy Thus buuldung was destroyed by ture about I9I5 and a new buuldung was erected on the present Iocatuon a puece of land donated by Mr L B Musgrave Thus new buuldung was funushed un I9I6 and was renamed the Walker County Hugh School It was not untul I925 that thus school really began to grow In T929 ut was neces sary to add a new wung on the south sude of the buuldung Thus addutuon consusted of four new rooms a luncheon and cu new dressung room In I935 the audutoruum was en larged consuderably and the lubrary was umproved The athletuc fueld was completely done over and a large stone grandstand was buult un 936 Durung the followung years the school grew steaduly and because of an ever school unto the old grammar school buuldung un I939 In the past year I94O I94I many umprovements have been made A number of rooms have been ceuled unstead of usung the forrner way at plasterung and some new desks have been unstalled The lunchroom has been redecorated and the dressung room has been consuderably enlarged Wuth thus kund of work and improvement Vulalker wull contunue to grow and de velop unto the outstandung school ut us destuned to be I I 'un' Page Iuglt N Ill. . 52'r1 .:...-If:-.:-- 'VI A J'fLCO.P 1 L' I I Q Q I . . . increasing enrollment, it was necessary to transfer the first two grades of the high .:':.: ' ' ' A ' ln lv 'v I I A I 1 91355555 - A I A , - I . mullml . . . . . . A ' u t Y 'ml u u A f f 7 5' t Y R-' nu- u u u X all ,tu .4 ,4 ' 7 7 ' . A be ,Hire u