Wynne High School - Stinger Yearbook (Wynne, AR)

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i he Rainbow ADMINISTRATION

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 The Rainbow the X ynne Hlgli School The construction of the Wynne High School, ns it stands today, marked tin beginning of one of our most fundamental institutions. Under the leadership of F. L. Burke, President of the Board of Directors at that time, and the co-operation of Messrs. Tom Holt, B. F. Hamilton, Fred Bolfe, Will Tver and F. 11. Lcgg, we were able to secure enough money from the St. Louis Bond Company to put the new school building under construction. For the location of the building, Mr. Burke purchased a lot, consisting of two and sixty-five one-hundredths acres in East Wynne, costing two hundred and sixty-five dollars. The total cost of the building was to be ten thousand dollars, and the equipment twelve hundred dollars. After the completion of the building in 1906, school opened the following September, having an enrollment of two hundred and fifty pupils, and Mr. Wood- ward as Superintendent. However, this school taught only the first eight grades, and in 1915, due to growing attendance and the need for more grades, the Board of Directors, who were as follows: E. L. Burke, president; S. B. Curtis, Will Tyer, C. B. Wimmer, Tom Holt and W. H. Harrell, realized the necessity of building an annex, which would fulfill this purpose. The Board appropriated, by bond issues, thirty thousand dollars for cost of equipment, including the furnace and steel re-enforcements for the roof. The new addition was built onto the east and west ends of the old building. The school, as it is now, furnishes the required twelve years in high school, offering in addition to the usual course, studies in science, music, expression, and foreign languages. In 1925 the Wynne High School, on account of its well equipped library and various improvements, was admitted to the North Central Association, thus grad- ing it as an A-l school. In the fall of 1928 the Board of Directors, consisting of W. W. Stacy, presi- dent; H. N. Faulkner, J. C. Hilliard, J. H. Harris, I). H. Hamilton and W. R. Tyer, again appropriated funds by bond issues for a new grammar school and a gymnasium. The total cost of the building and equipment of the grammar school was fourteen thousand dollars; the complete cost of the gymnasium was ten thousand dollars. Mr. .1. H. Andrews has been Superintendent of the Wynne High School for the past two years, and Mr. W. B. Ooley, Principal. The enrollment of our High School at present is about one hundred and forty- five pupils, and under the faithful leadership of our superintendent, Mr. J. H. Andrews, together with the co-operation of the Faculty, Board of Directors, Parent- Teachers Association, and citizens of Wynne, we, as students are prone to look forward to making cur High School one of the greatest and best equipped of its size in the State. Helen Evans.

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 Mil W. W. Stacy. President Mil J. C. Hilliard Mil .1. II. Harris Mil I). II. Hamilton. Secretarii Mil W. H. Tver Mil S. V. Ogan t