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1940 Parker-Gray High School Teachers and Graduating Class

1940 Parker-Gray Teachers — PG 1939-1940 Teacher List

The Parker-High School year of 1939 to 1940 had one principal and seventeen teachers.

William H. Pitts, Sr. – Principal
A.W. Adkins – Ninth Grade
Susie Anderson – Eighth Grade
Ferris Holland – Tenth Grade
Louis Johnson – Industrial Arts
Edith W. Keys – Ninth Grade
Sarah Michie – Ninth Grade
Dorothy Pierce – Eleventh Grade
Ruby F. Smith – Home Economics
Marie T. Butler – First Grade
Bernice W. Diggs – Second Grade
Laura M. Dorsey – First Grade
Ellen C. Goods – Third Grade
Evelyn Johnson – Fourth Grade
Alma P. Murray – Second Grade
Julia Prichett – Third Grade
Helen L. Robinson – Fourth Grade

Parker-Gray High School had 15 students that graduated in 1940.

Rutherford Adkins
Alma Arrington (King)
Bernice Arrington (Evans)
Mary Baker (Odom)
Alice Bell (Lewis)
Christine Charity (Johnson)
Clarence Cooper
Urguart Dixon
Vivian Edwards (Putman)
Melba Gamble (Bond)
George Lewis
Theola Martin (Chambers)
Ora Roberts
Collia Strong (Rivers)
Samuel Taylor

1939 Parker-Gray High School Students

Senior Students of PG — 1939 Parker-Gray High School Graduating Students

Parker-Gray High School had 14 students that graduated in 1939. There are 15 people in this 1939 picture taken on the front steps of Parker-Gray High School.

Aldrich Adkins

Willie Mae Askew (Griffin)

Daniel Batts

Paul Carter

Louise Euille (Hernandez)

Gladys Howard (Davis)

Marie Johnson

Theola Luckett (Johnson)

John Majors

Lillian Norton (Winslow)

Carlton Tyler

Gladys Wair

William Willis

Eleanor Yeager

Principal Henry T. White’s 1920 Parker-Gray Class

: 1920 Principal Henry T. White and First Faculty

Prior to 1920, the colored boys and girls of Alexandria were taught separately in two buildings. The boys were in Snowden School, on the west side of South Pitt Street near Gibbon Street. Mr. John F. Parker was principal of Snowden School. The girls were in Hallowell School on, the east side of North Alfred Street between Princess and Oronoco Streets. Mr. Henry T. White was their principal.

Mr. Henry T. White was selected to be the first principal of the combined schools of Snowden and Hallowell for black boys and black girls. The school was named Parker-Gray School after Mr. John F. Parker and Miss Sarah A. Gray. Ironically, Mr. John F. Parker’s declining health might have prevented the School Board for selecting him as the principal of the school that was named after him.

Mr. Henry T. White was born in 1862 in Pittsylvania, Virginia. He was married to Marcella Mayhew. He and his wife migrated to Alexandria in the late 1880s. Though he was principal at Parker-Gray, he taught classes. He taught 7^th and 8^th grades in 1920 – 1921 school year. The students were:

Margaret Bell, age 15, grade 8^th

Thomas Bell, age 13, grade 7^th

Llewellyn Butler, age 14, grade 7^th

Corinne Byrd, age 13, grade 8^th

Ellen Carter, age 12, grade 7^th

Ida Colbert, age 15, grade 7^th

Elizabeth Contee, age 12, grade 7^th

Rosena Dixon, age 13, grade 7^th

William Ellis, age 13, grade 7^th

Rosier Gaddis, age 13, grade 7^th

Anna Gaines, age 15, grade 7^th

Ruth Gilliam, age 12, grade 7^th

Eva Hill, age 15, grade 7^th

Norris Hopkins, age 12, grade 7^th

Gladys Lewis, age 15, grade 8^th

Charles Lucas, age 12, grade 7^th

Patrick H. Lumpkins Jr., age 13, grade 8^th

Lucille Majors, age 15, grade 7^th

Wibrow Martin, age 15, grade 8^th

Edgar McGee, age 12, grade 7th

Elbert Norton, age 15, grade 8^th

Nannie Parker, age 14, grade 7^th

James Redd, age 13, grade 7^th

Mildred Russell, age 14, grade 7^th

Samuel Shanklin, age 15, grade 7^th

Esther Speaks, age 12, grade 7^th

Florence Stewart, age 15, grade 8^th

Richard Strange, age 15, grade 7^th

Wallace Strange, age 12, grade 7^th

Ernest Turner, age 15, grade 7^th

Edmonia Washington, age 15, grade 7^th

Kathleen V. White, age 13, grade 7^th

Eliza Whitmore, age 15, grade 7^th

Marie Jones, age 14, grade 7^th

Dr. William H. Madella (Snowden School Teacher)

Dr. William H. Madella was one of the first teachers at Snowden Public School for black boys founded in 1870.

Dr. Madella was born in 1855. He married Ms. Senia M. Walker. He taught 4^th and 5^th grades at Snowden School for the school year of 1896 – 1897, and he had 47 students in class. The students were:

Raymond Murray – age 11, grade 5^th

Alfred Williams – age 13, grade 5^th

Marshall Raines – age 14, grade 5^th

Alfred Hamilton – age 10, grade 5^th

Harry Anderson – age 11, grade 5^th

Horace Hill – age 12, grade 5^th

Raymond Bentley – age 13, grade 5^th

Frank Chinn – age 12, grade 5^th

Ralph Jackson – age 11, grade 5^th

Basil Bush – age 14, grade 5^th

Morris Murray – age 10, grade 4^th

Edgar Johnson – age 12, grade 4^th

Alfred Johnson – age 11, grade 4^th

William Lomax – age 13, grade 4^th

Isaac Thornton, age 11, grade 4^th

Lawrence Arnold, age 11, grade 5^th

Eppa Murray, age 14, grade 5^th

Douglass Richardson, age 12, grade 5^th

Lemont Haney, age 15, grade 5^th

Temple Carter, age 13, grade 5^th

Grafton Cupid, age 13, grade 5^th

Daniel Griffin, age 16, grade 5^th

Philip Webb, age 13, grade 5^th

Charles Smith, age 14, grade 5^th

John Williams, age 16, grade 5^th

Arthur Acey, age 13, grade 4^th

Robert Bush, age 13, grade 4^th

Boyd W. Burke, age 13, grade 4^th

Robert Cole, age 13, grade 4^th

William Jackson, age 16, grade 4^th

Wesley Lucas, age 15, grade 4^th

Joseph Lucas, age 13, grade 4^th

Herbert Murray, age 10, grade 4^th

Frank Rose, age 15, grade 4^th

Louis Raines, age 13, grade 4th

Ellis West, age 13, grade 4^th

David White, age 15, grade 4^th

Alfred White, age 13, grade 4^th

Edward Brown, age 12, grade 4^th

Ernest Adkins, age 14, grade 5^th

Frank Jackson, age 14, grade 5^th

John Peters, age 15, grade 4^th

Julian Earley, age 11, grade 4^th

Edgar Lewis, age 14, grade 5^th

Angus Lewis, age 15, grade 5^th

Howard Barret, age 14, grade 4^th

Harry Carter, age 16, grade 4^th

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