Dubois School History

Excellent teachers at Dubois School instilled values that led students toward community service, fundraising, and contributions to projects around the world. Faculty members remembered as instrumental in personal success included Eunice Fleming in music, Robert Lewis in engineering, Laura Ferry Griere in English, journalism, and the Echo newspaper, Joyce Sweeney Harris in civics, James Brooks in biology, Clarence Edmonson as band director, Irving S. Leece in NFA and vocational agriculture, Dorothy Christian Harris in home economics, Col. James Bouldin, Andrew Calloway, Russell Moss, Edith McCall, Florence McMillion, Christian Harris, George Scott, Clifford King, and Major Gen. Calvin C. Rogers, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Student clubs and activities included football, basketball, the Home Economics Club, Cafeteria Club, Student Council, Band, Hi-Y, Y-Teen, Library Club, and Dramatic Club. The DuBois football team won state championships from 1937 to 1939 and in 1942, and eastern championships in 1955 and 1956. In 1950, William Brown won a national award for his watercolor painting, The Other Side of America, at the National High School Art Exhibition in the Fine Arts Galleries at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The DuBois chapter of New Farmers of America won the Sweepstake Award for winning more places than any other chapter and earning the highest number of points, and the Commercial Club won first place three times and second place four times in the Annual Commercial Contest at Bluefield State College. In 1954, DuBois students and faculty were recognized by the state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for their contribution to the March of Dimes campaign, and DuBois also contributed to the Red Cross, tuberculosis efforts, and the Band Fund. Also in 1954, Janice Muse, a junior, won first place in typing and shorthand in the Annual Commercial Contest. In 1955, the Glee Club received an A rating in the Annual Music Festival.

Mount Hope, West Virginia · United States