Date Original
1928-1929
Description
This collection consists of yearbooks from Amity High School, Amity, Arkansas, 1928-1929.
Biographical/Historical Note
Amity High School, Amity, Clark County, Arkansas, originated as the Amity Male and Female Academy and was founded in about 1877 by Richard Melancthon Burke, who operated it until his death in 1883. After a series of short-term successors, Samuel M. Samson arrived in Amity in 1888 and spent the next twenty years heading what became Amity High School, a private boarding school. This school held its first classes in October 1891 with an enrollment of 35 students. Samson also oversaw the construction of a two-story, four-room brick building that could hold up to 250 students, and in 1909 the school added a $12,000 auditorium and five large recitation rooms. Amity High School's annual yearbook, "The Reflector," was first published by the school's senior class in 1928. It contained class photos, along with news about the boys' football and basketball teams, the girls' basketball team, and two literary societies. After Samson's retirement and eventual death in 1925, the school was absorbed into the Amity public school system. Seventy years later, 1n 1995, Amity schools consolidated with those of nearby Glenwood (Pike County) to form the new CenterPoint School District.
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Amity, Clark County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
MG.00029
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Amity High School yearbooks, MG.00029
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Amity High School yearbooks, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
