Granite Falls Elementary Celebrating 50 Years

The Humble Beginning

The Granite Falls Academy – 1900s

Granite Falls School Built in 1922 – Grades 1-11 Falls Avenue

Granite Falls Elementary Est. 1963

Gymnasium

Present

Walking Track & Playground

Outdoor Classroom

Zarha Baker Shelter

Amphitheater

Principals 1948 - 2014

L. E. Cagle 1948 - 1975

Glenn Seabock 1975 – 1988

Willard McCall 1988 - 1990

Chris Burton 1990 – 1995

Byron Tolbert 1995 - 2001

Debbie Mason 2001 - 2004

Stephen Martin 2004 - 2008

Andrew Miller 2008 - 2013

Chris Greene 2013 - Present

A Change of Times

1960’s Notice the Paddle Free Time

1970’s

80’s

1990’s

2000

2010

Happy 50th

Fun Facts Teacher’s of 1872 Teachers each day will fill lamps, and clean chimneys. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and scuttle of coal for the day’s session. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books. Women who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed. Each teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for the benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.