1. Granite Falls Elementary
Celebrating
50 Years

2. The Humble Beginning

3. The Granite Falls Academy – 1900s

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

5. Granite Falls Elementary Est. 1963

6. Gymnasium

7. Present

8. Walking Track & Playground

9. Outdoor Classroom

10. Zarha Baker Shelter

11. Amphitheater

12. Principals

13. L. E. Cagle

14. Glenn Seabock 1975 – 1988

15. Willard McCall

16. Chris Burton 1990 – 1995

17. Byron Tolbert

18. Debbie Mason

19. Stephen Martin

20. Andrew Miller

21. Chris Greene Present

22. A Change of Times

23. 1960’s
Notice the Paddle
Free Time

24. 1970’s

25. 80’s

26. 1990’s

27. 2000

28. 2010

29. Happy 50th

31. 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.