SEQUOYAH  VOCATIONAL  SCHOOL

   The Units (A, B, & C) were home to the older boys. Seniors and Juniors in Unit A; Juniors and Sophomores in Unit B; Freshman and 8th graders, plus a few 7th graders in Unit C.

   The oldest building on campus. Superintendent Jack Brown's office and the administration offices were here in the early fifties.

   It was home to the youngest girls, 1st grade thru the seventh.

   This was the hospital for the school until about 1953. I remember it being full of kids with the Mumps and another time Measles.

   In the late fifties it was used as a dormitory for the junior high girls.

   The Weaving Shop was doing a lot of business in the forties, but in the early fifties it wasn't used much.

   When the hospital closed, a clinic and dentist chair were set up for visiting doctors to tend to the students medical needs.

   The laundry was operated until about 1953. The big girls did most of the work running the machines and the ironing.

    It was converted to class rooms for Special Education and Riley White's art classes.

   A place we all remember. We soon learned the sound of the Dining Room bell meant: "Come and get it!"

   I remember as a second grader, walking in formation from Home One to the Dining Hall for meals and later, as a high school student, working in the kitchen, helping Ms Meigs prepare meals.

Home of the senior high girls.

   The location of the "Store" where we had "Coke dates" during the recreation hour in the evenings. Where we listened to the birth of "Rock and Roll" on the juke-box and watched the first TV many of us ever saw.

   This is where the girls learned home making skills such as cooking, sewing, child care, etiquette and the things that make a lady. They were taught by Mrs Covey, Mrs Vaughn and Ms Rhoten. 
   The senior boys attended a formal dinner served by the classes and were instructed in the proper behavior at a formal affair.

   We received our "writing and arithmetic" education here, but we learned important lessons in other parts of the campus that have served us well.

   It looks quiet now, but remember how it was during class change and after school.  I remember graduating from Mrs Hunt's 1st and 2nd grade class room in the basement to Ms Bohart's 3rd grade class on the first floor; later moving upstairs to high school.

   I have fond memories of lessons learned here after school hours.