PROFILE UPDATES

•	Misty Stiltner Stiltner 6/7
•	Wanda Woods Adams 6/7
•	Gary Whitaker 5/13
•	Steven Cantrell 5/12
•	Gail Miller Johnson 5/2

WHERE WE LIVE

Who lives where - click links below to find out.

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
28 live in Florida
18 live in Georgia
7 live in Illinois
11 live in Indiana
2 live in Iowa
445 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
1 lives in Montana
2 live in Nevada
2 live in New Jersey
1 lives in New Mexico
4 live in New York
21 live in North Carolina
1 lives in North Dakota
34 live in Ohio
2 live in Oklahoma
5 live in Pennsylvania
16 live in South Carolina
61 live in Tennessee
13 live in Texas
1 lives in Utah
64 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
675 location unknown
214 are deceased

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MISSING CLASSMATES

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ACTIVE CLASSMATES

Percentage Of Active Classmates: 48.3%

A:	731	Active
B:	782	Inactive

Welcome to the Jenkins High Classes Of 1912 - 2013 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.

WELCOME BACK OLD FRIEND!

08/22/2012

If you are wondering about the sign. It has sustained wind damage and is being repaired by Martin Signs of Hazard. They will have it back up shortly.

Thanks,

Durward

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. We are now replacing the aging lighting system with new electrical drops, replacement of transformers, installing a remote start lighting system and replacing old bulbs and ballasts with newer technology which give better light at a lower cost. This project has cost over $50,000.00 to this point.

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, Laura Revis, 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

Link to History of Jenkins Article: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United

_States/Kentucky/Letcher/Jenkins/_Texts/HJK/J*.html

Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Web Page and Play information.

http://www.littleshepherddrama.com/index.htm

Here is an interesting link to Kentucky's Eastern and Western Coal Fields

with Picturs and descriptions.

http://kycoal.homestead.com/KYCoalMiningHistory.html

New Pictures posted on Picture Page 12/10/2012

MIne 201---1911

Jenkins 1914

Jenkins Coal 1915

No. 108 Mudtown 1918

Jenkins Panorama

May Day 1932

Jenkins Baseball Field

Jenkins Schools approximately 1913-14

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

Wide shot of Jenkins taken from Raven Rock

Jenkins/Pound Tunnel 1947-1949 Jenkins/Pound Tunnel 08/12/12

The Old Jenkins Jail

Kindergarten Class in Burdine

Dunham Store

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

McRoberts Store and Gas Station

Drug Store Building around 1914

Gas Station in Jenkins

"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

•	The class of '65 is looking for a 1962 yearbook. We are planning our 50th reunion and need to use all four years of yearbooks. If you don't want to sell, maybe we can copy. This would be a help...... Thanks
•	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