HENRY COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL
1949-50 FACULTY
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| Teachers at the former Henry County Training School during the 1949-50 school year. Shown are (seated, from left) Mildred Palmer, Opal Wilson, Mary Will Gardner, principal Joseph Harden, Laura Hubbard, Clarence Kelly; (standing) Annie Jarrett, Darling Hudson and Versa Buckley. |
The portrait on the wall is of W.R. Jarrett, a former
principal of the school (Annie Jarrett was his wife.) Founded in the early 1920s to
provide elementary education for the Black children of Paris, the school operated at its Church Street location until the Paris Special School District was integrated in 1968. |
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