Article Published in  The Monticello News - In the 1970's 

Written by Mr. John Harvey

Jasper Reflections

Class Portrait 1911

The youngsters in the accompanying picture were in the third and fourth grades at the Monticello District School in 1911.  The picture was loaned to us by Mrs. R. D. Campbell, whose late husband posed with his classmates for the photograph.  Miss Bessie Banks was the teachers of the two classes.

The school building stood on the site of the old elementary school on College Street.  The building was replaced in 1923.

Among the students who have been identified are:  Audrey Leverette, R. D. Campbell, Lint Thomason, Powell Goolsby, Irene Alexander, Catherine Lane, Mamie Penn, Walker Flournoy, Annie Lizzie Powell, Dorothy Penn, Rogers Downs, Carter Stinson, Rose Malone, Lois Gilmore, Eva Blackwell, Oscar Roberts, Lillie Funderburke, Elizabeth Atkins, Gladys Jordan, Sally V. Lane and Susie Holland.

If you recognize others who are not identified, let us know.

A partial list of students in the school for the 1911 - 12 term has been found, and this list may help in identifying some of those in the picture.

      Among Monticello District School students in 1911 were: Valley Bearden, Alvert Folds, Corry Goodman, George Harvey, Mary Henderson, Katherine Lane, Carolyn Furse, Ida Hecht, Mary K. Knight, Norman Barker, Mattie Downs, Mildred Gilmore, and Harvey Powell.

Also, Martha Penn, Rebecca Powell, Lauralu Smith, Robert Alexander, Howard Cunard, Evelyn Flournoy, Helen Leverette, Fred Middlebrooks, Mary Newton, Adolphus Holland, Edgar Ballard, Gertrude Davis, Buela Mae Davis, Sara Folds, Albert Lane, Elizabeth Pope, Phillip Cohen, Tom Cunard, Leila Goodman, Pauline Kelly, Mary Malone, Mamie Minter, Jane More and Ethel Persons.