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.
JHS Class of 1980 30th Class Reunion will be held the weekend of August 27-28, 2010 during Jenkins Days.
Save the dates on your calendar. We will have a dinner on Saturday; August 28 at the SECO Store/Highland Winery.
For more information, contact Suzanne Epling Holbrook @ (865) 771-7455 or info@greenleecampground.com.
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.
