School Photos

First Public School in Macclenny (1903-1922) located at Minnesota and 6th St. [burned]

Macclenny High School
Built 1922 on former site of St. James Academy & razed 1969 . New High School built behind this structure in 1955-6

St. James Academy
A private school - used as a hospital during the yellow fever epidemic

Cuyler School
North of Glen St. Mary as it appeared around the turn of the century. Identified are one of the teachers (next to door on left) Earn Rhoden and twin girls (front row, center) Edith and Annie Harris. The school was located off what is now SR 125 about six miles north of Glen St. Mary.

Cuyler School
This is either Cuylar School in Baker County or Carter (North) School on the Columbia County, Florida/Georgia border.

Class of 1927/28 Macclenny High School
top row, L-R is Prof Blair
2nd row fm top, L-R - Everett Rowe, 4th is Bessie Rowe Fraser
3rd row fm top, L-R - 2nd is Effie Rhoden Wolfe, 3rd is Ida matthews Padgett
4th row frm top, L-R - 3rd Caroline Rowe Liebowitz

Class of 19?? Macclenny High School
top row, L-R - 3rd is a Milton (?Clarence), 4th is a Milton (?Tobie),5th is Gladys Milton Nolan Chassereau
third row frm top, L-R - first is Maxine Milton

1935-39 9th Grade Macclenny
Bottom row: Harold "Babe" Wolfe, Alabama Dicks, Marie Hodges & John J. Crews.
2nd row: Marie Powers, Eloises Henderson, Francis Dowling, Odella Yawn, Mary Estelle Padgett, J.S. Yohn, Billy Knabb & teacher Louis Thomas.
3rd row: Jewell Combs, Afiseneal Hall, Thelma Thompson, Willie Lee Dykes, Lucile Rowe, Van Reynolds, Clara Sue Lott, Houston Sapp, Unknown, Jewell Harvey, Ruth Brown Blond, Lois Fraser & Charles Barber.
tall man in center in dark suit is teacher Harold Milton

Macclenny School ca 1936
Bottom row L-R: Iris Williams, Gloria Wolfe, Unknown, Catherine Anderson, Mildred Scott, Luta Poythress & Alma Sweat.
2nd row: R.L. Tison, Doc Finley, Rudolph Wilkerson, Oliver Tison, Unknown, R.N. Thomas, Rufus Bembrey, Robert hart & Roy Prevatt.
Standing: Buck Starling, Unknown 9 sweater w/struoe, Lucy Griffeth, Unknown, Betty Jean Wells, Unknown, Cora Rye, Unk & Unk.
Back row: Mr. Harold Milton, J.B. Anderson, Unknown, Howard Fraser, Unknown, Leslie Croft & Unknown.

Macclenny Public School
Built ca 1903, burned 1922.
top row, L-R is Prof Blair 2nd row fm top, L-R - Everett Rowe, 4th is Bessie Rowe Fraser
3rd row fm top, L-R - 2nd is Effie Rhoden Wolfe, 3rd is Ida Matthews Padgett
4th row frm top, L-R - 3rd Caroline Rowe Liebowitz
also Mae Howell & Edwina Corbett in photo

Macclenny High School - 1939 Graduating Class
Front row L-R: Mary Estelle Padgett, Frances Dowling, Lucile Rowe, Marie Hodges & Mary Catherine Davis.
2nd row: Cora Boyette (Evans) Teacher, Clara Sue Lott, Alabama Dicks, Izetta Estes, Jewell Lyons, Lois Fraser, Carli Taylor, Teacher.
3rd row: Charles Barber, Houston Sapp, Van Reynolds, Russell Lee,
Back row: Lonnie Dugger, Principal & teacher, Billy Knabb, Alan Boyd, J.J. Crews & Bill Barber.

Macclenny High Scool, Class of 1923
Principal: Mr. Duncan
1st row: Eugenia Fraser, Ernon Fraser, Sophia Rhoden, (Walter Rhoden's dau), Giles Bethea
Back row: Pauline Rowe, Harold Milton, Vesta Turner, Lonnie Dugger

Undated Class
Sitting L-R: Unk, Edwin Fraser, Mildred Fraser & Margaret Mathis
Standing back: Rudolph Brown Loholtz, Nellie Hart, Marie Burnsed, Audry Thompson
Standing rear: Roy Hart

Class ca 1924
Sitting L-R: Nealie Dugger (peeled off), __ Vining, Mildred Thompson Cone, Hunter Matthews, Unk, Unk
2nd row: Unk, Unk, Edith Fraser, Next 5 unk, Asa Coleman's first wife, Principal Lillian Watkins. All others unknown.

1925 Cherokee Camp Fire Girls Irene Rhoden, Emily Cone, Aileen Thompson, Eugenia Fraser, Pauline Rowe, Marie Rowe, Elizabeth Turner, Irene Rowe, Alice Milton, Vesta Turner, Nettie Ruth Rhoden, Maxine Milton

Guardian, Mrs. W.B. Cone, President Vesta Turner, Vice Pres. Pauline Rowe, Sec. Alice Milton, Scribe Rose Tyler

Macclenny-Glen High School Graduation Class of 1949 Front Row L-R: Mary Brown, Nettie Thrift, LaVann Powers, Patsy Chisholm Parker, Evelyn Thrift, Dugan Townsend, Doyle Griffis, L.D. Bradley, Virginia Rhoden & Leila Thompson
Back two rows: J.W. Stewart Jr., Wiley Dykes, Melvin Harvey, Earl Starling, Dwight Jones, Wayne Hurst, Margaret Morgan, Dorothy Jean Allen, Frankie Thomas, Delta Jean Yarbrough, Everett Combs, Robert Hood, Edsel Jones, Orie Hicks, Edsel Alford, Aline Rhoden, Wendell Scoles, Joe Barber & Clyde Thomas

Macclenny Elementary School Fourth Grade 1964-65
Mrs. Mary H. Porterfield, Teacher - Ernest Harvey, Principal

Front row L-R: #4 Eva Sue Clemens, #5 Patricia Wells
2nd row: #1 Martha Vorhees, #2 Mark Walker, #3 Phil Rhoden, #5 Ray Conklin
3rd row: #1 Patrick Barnes, #2 Robert Davis, #3 Carol Yarbrough, #4 Judy Wheeler ??
4th row: #3 Pam Crews, #4 Robin Milton, #5 Odell Griffis
5th row: #3 Robert Johns, #5 Henry Crews
6th row: #2 Charlotte Wolbert, #3 Joel (Joey) Thrift

Macclenny-Glen High School's first band 1948
{front row l-r}Verna Fraser, Sandra Fraser, Arline Ruis, Patsy Owens, Patsy Beckham, Barbara Barnes, Rachael Mobley, Patricia Hiers
{2nd row} Berkley Fraser, Bobby Dugger, Wayne Groves, Jackie Douberly, Ann Piatt, Betty Taylor, Marjorie Rowe, Jean Douberly, Elenor Starling, Lois Dinkins, Johnny Milton, Libby Hiers, Director Stanford Beckham
{3rd row} J.W. Stewart, Connie Tyson, Billy Milton, Joan Knabb, Raymond Mills,
{4th row} Dorothy Jean Allen, Sylvia Matthews, Emily Elmore, L.W. Dykes, Sue Brinson, Felton Pittman, Kenneth Turk, Granvel Kirkland
{5th row} Gene Barber, Louise Davis, Marjorie Byrd, Wilbur Groves, Shannon Davis,
{6th row} Randolph Chisholm, Erma Jean Burnsed, Laura Combs, Jackie Blair & Marion Fraser

Class of 1946 Bottom row l-r: Charlene Reynolds, Willie Jean M. Walker, Allen (Pete) Harvey, Evelyn Rhoden, Estelle Godwin, Annette Barber, Allen Griffis, Juanita Griffis, Bertie Bellfish
Middle row: Wilma Morris, Class sponsor
Top row: Sara Lee Fraser, Robert Combs, Beulah M. Yarborough, Ellwood Crews, Mildred Lewis, Joseph Rhoden, Iva Dell Padgett, Willie Green, Fay Piatt, William Dean Overstreet & Patricia Dean Overstreet

9th grade future class of 1953 Macclenny Students
front row, L-R - Johnny "Tomey" Starling, Ralph Self, Leonard Wilkinson, George Reynolds, Randolph Chisholm, Gene Barber, Shannon Davis, Marcus Gene Thrift.
2nd row, L-R - Victoria Plair, Vernice Mobley Lyons, Lois Jean Thrift Smith, Julia Mae Dyal Thrift, (?Charlene Reynolds), Velma Williams, Rachel Gilbert Nasrallah, Florrie Hall, Rachel Mobley, teacher Susie Clayton Barber
3rd row, L-R - teacher Elizabeth Wansley Gazdick, Eva Mae Thrift, Dolly Kirkland Register, DeWitt Chessman, Archie Roberson, ?, Geraldine Howard MacDonald, Sylvia Spivey
back row - Carolyn Barton Boatwright, Tony Crawford, ?, Daniel Combs, John Burnett, Clara Sue Thrift

1909 Students
Robert Clayton, Willie Clayton, Gladys Clayton, Nellie Vining, May Howell, Annie Powers & Myrtle Bair

Dinkins School House at Church
R-L Clarine Burnsed, Roy Williams, Ethel Crawford, Annie Dugger, Harry Williams, Gertie Rhoden & Dunk Dinkins (unknown Ghost)

L-R: Louise Bryan, Louise Bryan, Teacher & Juanelle Combs 1951

Faye M. Milton's 1st Grade Class, Macclenny, FL
Front Row L-R (cut off) ___ Ellison, ___ Bowman?, Edward Wray Crockett, Sharon Hines, ___ Evans; Sherron Crews, Tommy Crawford, Bonnie Green, ? , Earnie Mae Griffis, ? .
Row Two ? , ___ Fraser, Lawrence Howard, ? , ? , ___ Crawford?, ___ Crews, ? , Wendell Kirkland, ___ Ellison
3rd Row: ?, ___ Barton, ___ Gatlin, ___ Gatlin, ? , ? , Manley Johns
East steps of old auditorium (later library & band room)

Karlie Tyler's Class, ca 1936/7 Macclenny/Glen High School
#17 (middle back row) teacher Karlie Tyler, #8 Rose Mary Wolfe

Old Baker County High School

School Club?
The teacher/sponsor is Mrs. Al (Mary Ellen) Bostick, a history teacher at Macclenny-Glen High School and Jr. High. Her husband was a Florida Highway Patrolman stationed in Macclenny. He was the first to teach drivers' ed in our school.
front row, left to right: Mrs. Bostick, Mavis (Crews) Griffis, Robert Scholes, Joann (Thomas) Osteen, Daryl Newmans, , Jerry Moran, Bonnie Burnsed, Richard Rowe.
second row, left to right: Faye (Prevatt) Moran, Lizzie (Starling) Crews, Florried Hall, Everett Rhoden, Peewee Hicks, Shirley Alford
back row, left to right: Ila (Davis) Yonn, Yvonne Newmans (or a Crews), Maisie or Daisy Crews, Davis, Davis, Raulerson (?Ophelia), Myrtle Lee Morgan, etc. etc., Harvey.

photo made on the main steps of the old auditorium in about 1947 or '48.

man upper left of center is Prof. Blair; lady behind & to his left was a teacher, Effie Turner; upper far right is Arthur William Rowe; girl 4th from left, 2d row Caroline Green Thompson (hair parted in middle); boy lower right Everett Rowe; girl 2d from left in front is Effie Rhoden Wolfe (her sister Mabel Rhoden Johnson is at her left)

1904 9th & 10th grades at McClenny, FL
top row, L-R - ?, ?, ?, unidentified teacher, Mattie Knabb Hodges, ? Roebuck, ?Claude Wolfe
bottom row, L-R - ?, ?, ?, ?, Rosa Wolfe

1909 Students
Robert Clayton, Willie Clayton, Gladys Clayton, Nellie Vining, May Howell, Annie Powers & Myrtle Bair

Future Farmers of America ca 1952
In front of the old ag/shop building in MacClenny
1st row L-R: Eugene 'Speck' Walker, ?, Romey Varnes, Ed Hall, Mr. Campbell
2nd row: David Lee Norman, R.V. Bradley, Maines Thornton, Donald Moore, Eugene Hodges
3rd row: Ellis Crews, L.D. Bradley
4th row: Earl Starling, Winifred Wlikerson, E.K.Crews, Chester Posey, A.J.Beasley
Back: Joe Newmans

Band Council 1965

Marching Wildcats 1965

1966 Honor Grads

Cheer Leaders 1965-66

Macclenny Class 1936/7
3rd Grade, Ms Rosa Wolfe Teacher
left to right; 1st row: fifth girl Lois Wood Higginbotham;6th girl Undene Chisholm; 2nd row: 6th boy Al Chisholm; 12th boy Carl Wendell Mobley

Gladys Stringer-Crews 1946 Class
front row left to right: Victoria Plair, Vernice Mobley, Charles Eiserman, Rachel Gilbert, Shirley Mikell, Ernestine Mobley, Avery Reynolds, Myrna Nell Chambliss , Eva Mae Lyons
2nd row L-R: Julie Mae Dyal, Jimmy Lyons, Evelyn Davis, Geraldine Cowart, Dollie Kirkland, Dewitt Chessman, Gene Barber, Lois Ellison, Randolph Chisholm
Top row L-R: Tony Crawford, Joyce Raulerson, Carolyn Barton, Jewell Mobley, Leo Crawford, Verna Bell Hodges, Allen Burnett, Vasco Godwin, Jack Posey, Gladys Crews, Teacher

Macclenny Senior Class 1946 or '47
1st row left to right: Ovid Thomas,---?---Thomas, Oswald Anderson, Mildred (Raulerson) Prevatt, "Hogeye" Earl Green, Mildred (Blair) Finley
2nd row L-R: Mr. Raleigh Odell McEwen, Bill Mobley, Margaret Thomas Voorhees, Madge Johns,---?---,---?---,---? Newmans, ---?----.
3rd. row L-R: Wilford Wilkerson, -----Rhoden, Al Chisholm, Hubert Crews, Marguerite or Clarine Kirkland, Van Harris
Top row L-R: Winifred Wilkerson, Wildon Cook, Harold Milton, Lester Burnsed, D.W.Finley, Sammy Green, Carol Willis

Junior Class of 1945-46

Left to right: First Row: Bill Mobley, Myrna Thompson, Jessie Vene Thomas, Wilber Wilkinson, Alma Jean Blair, Wilber Mobley, Earl Greene
Second Row: Mildred Raulerson, Wealthy Ann Bryant, Wildon Cook, Van Harris, Margaret Thomas, Mary Johns, Ovid Thomas, Mildred Blair
Third Row: Betty Jean Jordon, Carrol Willis, Hubert Crews, Louise Harvey, D.W. Finley,Jr., Lester Burnsed< Katherine M. Rhoden, Clarice Kirkland,
Not in picture: Reuel Anderson, Anna Lois Davis, Lossie Straling, Billy Crocket, Bobbie Mae Whitener, Catherine Cahalan, Frances Hampton, Verna Mobley

Sophomores 1945-46

1st row: Winfred Wilkinson, Stanley Padgett, Billy Dykes, Wanda Jones, Alan Milton, Alice Walker, Doris Blair, Lila Lee Blair, Jean Johnson, Lorraine Kirkland, Mavis McLenden, Aline Newman, Rose Mary Crews, Applean Reynolds.
2nd row: Teacher & Sponsor: Mrs. Susie Barber, E.K. Crews, Jimmy Rowe, Henry Crews, Mary B. Williams, Golda Williams, J.W.Sparkman, Edward Thompson, Roselle Combs, June Ruis, Dorothy Thrift, Mr. L.B.Thomas, Teacher & Sponsor
3rd row: Junior Powers, David Foley, Carl Green, Luclare Chessman, Yvonne Hicks, Claudell Walker, James Lowe, June Yarborough, Alvin Piatt, Loretta Griffis, Ollie Odum, Faye Fraser.

6th Grade 1937
L-R Row 1: Lamar Starling, Erin Portytress, Bernice Walker, Violet Davis, Betty Cox
Row 2: Raiford AIford, ?, Ben Knabb, ?, Elgin Barnes, Leslie Green, Ben Shaw
Row 3: Max Hodges, Oscar Wilkerson, Lawrence Williams, Gale Hart, Leonard Isserman, Manies Finley, Tommy Dowling, Junior Dugger, Milton Clark, George Johnson
Top Row: Fannie Rye, Lilla Mae Croft, ? Hodges, Delores Thompson, Rufus Rewis (Teacher), Doris Anderson, Bernice Peggy Robinson, ?, Claude Carter

Macclenny Elementary 1968 3rd Grade Class
L to R front row: Brenda Sapp, Carol Lauramore, Denise?, Jeanie Greene Lisa Davis, Rhonda Wood, Susan Martin, Cheryl Lowery, Roxanne Kirkland
2nd row: Ronda Kirkland, Sandi Harvey, Karen Griffis, Pamela Starling, Sheri Methvin, Wendy Lane, Angie Roberson, Patricia Rowe, Martha Sue Starling, Susan Johnson, Tony Mayhall
Back Row:Kenneth Johns, Terry Griffis, Johnny Kirkland, Mike Hurst, Tim Dewey, Charlie Sharman, Greg Harden, Jeffrey Piatt, Dennis Finley, Warren Mobley, Mark Starling, Terry Kellogg & Teacher Ms Smith (waters)

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