SUPERINTENDENTS & PRINCIPALS OF CENTER SCHOOLS

 


 

IN THE LATE 1800 AND EARLY 1900 DATES OF TENURE FOR PRINCIPALS AND SUPERINTENDENTS ARE SKETCHY.  IN THE 1880S, THE SCHOOL HAD ONLY PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANTS. THE FIRST ENTRY OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IS MADE IN 1892. THE DATES SHOWN BELOW ARE ESTIMATES BASED UPON FINDINGS OF J. B. SANDERS AND CONTACT WITH PERSONEL   FROM  CENTER SCHOOL SYSTEM.  IN 1903 RECORDS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ARE RECORDED.  IN 1963 A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAS NAMED AND INCLUDED GRADES SEVEN & EIGHT.  GRADES FIVE AND SIX WERE DESIGNATED AS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL AND GRADES NINE, TEN, ELEVEN AND TWELVE AS HIGH SCHOOL.   IN 1989 A PRINCIPAL FOR F. L. MOFFETT PRIMARY SCHOOL WAS NAMED,  AND AS OF THAT DATE THROUGH TODAY THE SCHOOLS ARE DEFINED AS:

F. L. MOFFETT PRIMARY SCHOOL - GRADES PRE-K THRU 2

CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - GRADES 3 THRU 4

C. H. DANIELS SCHOOL (CENTER INTERMEDIAE SCHOOL) - GRADES 5 THRU 6

CENTER JR. HIGH SCHOOL - GRADE 7 THRU 8   

CENTER HIGH SCHOOL - GRADE 9 THRU 12

SUPERINTENDENTS
1892-1897 F. P. MARSHALL 1900-1910 A. E. DAY
1910-1914 M. M. DUPREE 1914-1916 OSCAR J. RUSHING
1916-1917 GEORGE ADAMS 1917-1921 M. B. BROWN
1921-1924 A. E. DAY 1924-1926 W. W. BENNETT
1926-1967 F. L. MOFFETT 1967-1970 LUTHER PEARSON
1970-1973 FRANK RHOLES 1973-1981 S. D. FLETCHER
1981-1985 JOE ELLIS 1985-1994 H. A. HALVORSON, JR.
1994-1999 AL CHANCE    
PRINCIPALS - HIGH SCHOOL

1881

G. N. LASSITER

1882

W.C. HUNTINGTON, SR.

1888

C. H. HOBBS

1889

W. P. HAYES
1891-1892 MISS MISSOURI GARRETT 1892-1897 C. B. FARRINGTON

 

LOUIS BRYAN

1903

W. H. RUSHING

1907

WILL HURST

1908-1910

MR. YOUNGBLOOD
1914-1917 H.T. BURTON 1917-1926 EMMITT BUSSEY
1926-1944 F. P. MARSHALL 1922-1923 F. L. MOFFETT
1926-1944 A. E. DAY 1944-1947 R. J. EDDINS
1947-1962 R. E. MALONE 1962-1964 CHESTER MC LEROY
1968-1969 TONY DE MARE 1969-1970 DONALD STEVENS
1970-1971 EDWIN ROBERSON 1971-1974 JACKIE CANNON
1974-1985 JACKIE M. HILTON 1985-1987 GUY T. HARRISON
1987-1989 RONAL D. SULLIVAN 1989-1991 PETER CAMERON
1991-1998 DR. CHARLENE CROCKER 1998-1999 HOBY HOLDER
PRINCIPALS - JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
1963-1965 ORAN B. WHEELER 1965-1969 RUSSEL WHITESIDE
1969-1983 DENNY ADAMS 1983-1986 BOBBY L. LEE
1986-1995 LYNDON G. JOBE 1995-1999 PAUL P. GIANANDREA
PRINCIPALS-ELEMENTARY/GRADE SCHOOLS

1900-1910

B. F. WHITESIDE 1926-1934 JEFF E. SAMFORD
1934-1963 ORAN B. WHEELER 1964-1965 FLOYD WATSON
1968-1970 CHESTER MC LEROY 1968-1970 BOBBY STANLEY
1970-1983 DENTON HALEY 1970-1983 YONDELL BARR
C. H. DANIELS 1983-1987 WILLIAM DENTON HALEY
1987-1989 MARGARET HATHORN 1989-1991 LYNN HOOPER
1991-1996 DOUGLAS C. DUGAT 1996-1997 DEANNA THOMPSON
1997-1999 MARGIE BLOUT
PRINCIPALS - INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS
1983-1994 JAMES ROBERT ALLEN 1994-1995 DEANNA THOMPSON
1995-1999 ROBERT D. ANDERSON    
PRINCIPALS - PRIMARY SCHOOLS
1989-1997 MARGARET A. HATHORN 1997-1998 DEANNA THOMPSON

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