Jenkins Independent Schools

Classes of 1912 - 2012  
 

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8 live in Alabama
1 lives in Alaska
3 live in Arizona
3 live in Arkansas
1 lives in Armed Forces Pacific
9 live in California
2 live in Colorado
1 lives in Delaware
27 live in Florida
18 live in Georgia
7 live in Illinois
10 live in Indiana
2 live in Iowa
436 live in Kentucky
1 lives in Louisiana
4 live in Maryland
1 lives in Massachusetts
14 live in Michigan
3 live in Mississippi
3 live in Missouri
2 live in Nevada
1 lives in New Jersey
1 lives in New Mexico
4 live in New York
20 live in North Carolina
2 live in North Dakota
33 live in Ohio
2 live in Oklahoma
5 live in Pennsylvania
15 live in South Carolina
60 live in Tennessee
14 live in Texas
1 lives in Utah
63 live in Virginia
5 live in West Virginia
1 lives in Ontario
1 lives in Argentina
1 lives in Denmark
1 lives in Greece
1 lives in Mexico
693 location unknown
193 are deceased


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- ACTIVE CLASSMATES -

Percentage Of
Active Classmates: 46.8%



A: 708 Active
B: 804 Inactive

New Pictures posted on Picture Page 7/28/2011 

Welcome to the Jenkins High Classes Of 1912 - 2012 web site. Please join us for a no cost way to keep in touch with other alumni from the Jenkins Independent School System. 

YOU DID NOT HAVE TO GRADUATE FROM JHS TO BE LISTED ON THIS WEBSITE. YOU JUST HAD TO  HAVE ATTENDED SCHOOL AS A CAVALIER. We understand that for many of you, especialy during the 30's, 40's, and 50's that many students had to leave school to help support their families or to join the military.  If you are in this catagory, or for any reason you did not get to graduate, just list on your request to be added to the site the year that you would have graduated.  You can offer any other information on your profile page that you wish to share. 

 

SINCE WE ARE NEARING OUR 100TH YEAR AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR AS THE COMBINED JENKINS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CHANGE OUR LOGO.  THIS IS BASED ON A COMBINATION OF SEVERAL LOGOS OF THE PAST AND WE WISH TO THANK DAMIAN JOHNSON FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.  WE HOPE THAT YOU LIKE IT.  

Link to the Jenkins Independent School System Website

http://www.jenkins.k12.ky.us/ 

The Jenkins Education Foundation

The Jenkins Education Foundation is asking for your help. Since being established to help enhance the experiences of the students of the Jenkins Independent School System, the Foundation has been able help provide playground equipment for both the Burdine and McRoberts Elementary buildings, and fund needed repairs and updates to the sports fields.
 
One major project was the removal of the old bleachers on the home side of the football field and installation of new ones. The Foundation has also replaced the main drainage pipe under the bleachers and helped with repairs of different facilities.
 
The Foundation has been incorporated as a non-profit and has taken ownership of the football and baseball field from the Athletic Field Commission, which is no longer in existence.
 
The Foundation officers are the present elected school board members of the Jenkins Independent Schools and hold their meetings after the regular school board meetings on the fourth Monday of the month. The present members are Durward Narramore, Jr. Chair, Tracy Goff, Vice Chair, Eileen Sanders, Paul Stambaugh, and Paulette Sexton.
 
We now need to ask the alumni of the Jenkins Independent Schools for their financial support to continue our work. Projects we have set as priorities are:
Continuing upgrade of lighting and repair of existing fencing at the football field
Installation of lights and repair of bleachers at the baseball field
Replacement of fill material under the playground equipment
Other projects depending on available funding.
 
If you would be interested in helping the Foundation please make your contributions to:
 
The Jenkins Education Foundation
C/O Tracy Goff, Treasurer
Jenkins Independent Schools
P.O. Box 74
Jenkins, KY 41537
 
 

 

 

 

Jenkins Schools approximately 1913-14

View of Sharon Heights Hospital from the city park.  1913-1914

Wide shot of Jenkins taken from Raven Rock

 

 

McRoberts looking at the "Green". Company Store on right.

 

Drug Store Building around 1914

 

"C.V.Snapp" Home Lakeside around 1914

Mr. Snapp was an educator in Van Lear, KY around 1920 before coming to Jenkins.  Did you know that he served in the Spanish-American War from June 20, 1898 to August 23, 1899,

 

House beside "C.V Snapp" Home That Was Demolished in 2009.   C.V .Snapp Home Still Stands.

 

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  RE: TOBY LEE BREWER:

TOBY LEE BREWER, FORMALLY OF MCROBERTS, KY.,WAS A SENIOR CLASSMATE AT JHS IN APPROX., 1960. TOBY PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR JHS AND FOUR MONTHS BEFORE HIS GRADUATION CHOSE TO ENLIST IN THE NAVY, WHERE HE EXCELLED TO BECOME A NAVY SEAL.

I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE POSTED THAT TOBY PASSED AWAY ON MAY 7TH, 1996 IN WILKES COUNTY, NC. AT AGE 53. TOBY WAS VERY WELL LIKED AND HAD MANY MANY FRIENDS IN JENKINS AND MCROBERTS.

 

More pictures have been placed on the Early Pics Page.

 

 

Jenkins Independent School District

The Jenkins Independent School District was first organized as Jenkins Graded School District on August 15, 1912. At that time there was 490 children in the district, and the district was composed of three subdivisions; Burdine, Jenkins and Dunham — McRoberts did not become a part of the Jenkins District until April 26, 1915.

The original Jenkins Building was constructed in 1912, with the addition of the auditorium in 1924, the west wing in 1936, and two more new rooms in 1960. Funds for the construction of the west wing were furnished by Franklin Roosevelt's WPA program. The building originally consisted of classrooms and two large playrooms. Basketball games were played in a barn until the construction of the auditorium in 1924.

Consolidation Coal Company built the original building. At that time eighteen teachers were employed by the district. Seven of them taught at the central school at Jenkins, three taught at the branch school at Dunham, and four taught in the branch school at Burdine. At McRoberts there were two school buildings.

 

Jenkins Independent Schools is the only school system in Letcher County that has it's original mission, mascot, and school colors. Long live the Cavaliers and the Green and White. 

When reqesting to be added to the data base please list your year of graduation and where you are living at the present time.

Thanks,  Durward

 

Additions to the picture page.

New pictures of McRoberts have been added to the Early Pics page.  I am also starting to get a few pictures of JIS Sports. If you have any that you want posted send them to me as a jpeg file and I will try to get them added.

Durward

- UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS -


Danny Hayes 5/20
Priscilla Gales 5/22
Brent Arnett 5/23
Matthew Johnson 5/23
Lynn Tompkins Pugh 5/23
Teresa DeSimone 5/24
Angela C. Johnson 5/25
Bruce Lucas 5/25
Christopher Payne 5/27
Dewey Bunch 5/29
Burton Arnett 5/30
Natisha Johnson 6/3
Harvey Tackett 6/3
Charles Cassidy 6/4

- THIS DAY IN HISTORY -

High Wycombe Weighs New Mayor 20th May ( 1958 ) : An annual custom dating back to medieval times unique to High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England weighs the Mayor of the town each year so that the public can see whether or not he has been getting fat at the taxpayers' expense.

During the weigh in performed by the local "macebearer" dressed in traditional costume rings a bell and calls out the weight.
When he adds the words "And no more!" the crowd cheers as a sign of their appreciation and gratitude for the hard work done by the mayor for the community.

When he adds the words "And some more!", it means the mayor has been indulging in too much good living at rate payers' expense and the crowd jeers and boos.


Charles Lindbergh 20th May ( 1927 ) :Charles Lindbergh who many called the "flying fool" has set off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY, today flying the "Spirit of St. Louis" on an epic flight from New York to Paris and is a milestone in flying aviation history, he is expected to arrive in Paris sometime late tomorrow. His plane A Ryan is expected to travel up to 125 MPH as the fuel load decreases.


Freedom Riders 20th May ( 1961 ) An angry mob consisting of all white's attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" ( Freedom Riders were testing the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, that gave them a legal right to disregard local segregation ordinances regarding interstate transportation facilities. ) in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.



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