"They paraded all over town and played a concert program standing between what is now Western Shopping Center and the warehouse."Īfter "Pop" Lewis' band played in Jenkins, the people demanded Mr. Snapp find a permanent band director to develop a high school band for the Jenkins Independent School District. To get community endorsement for a solid band program in the Jenkins Schools, C. V. Snapp asked an old friend, "Pop" Lewis, to bring his high school band from Pikeville to Jenkins for a performance. One of these early salesmen in Jenkins was Harold W.
The salesmen would come to town and sell as many instruments as he could and give lessons for six weeks (exactly like the story of the Broadway musical "Music Man"). The salesmen were paid a commission by the manufacturer of the instruments. In those days, almost all bands were community sponsored, and were started by salesmen of band instruments. In the early history of Jenkins several attempts were made to get a band started. Many of our former students went on to college and majored in music.
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The significant difference in the Jenkins Band of today and military bands is the educational emphasis plus the potential of music as a vocation or an avocation. The military bands were used for developing the esprit de corps of the troops, to entertain the troops, to sell war bonds, as a public relations medium for the army to communicate to the civilian masses, and part of the ceremony of welcoming visiting dignitaries and any numerous parade functions. The band movement started after World War I, probably as a result of the significant contribution of the military bands to the war effort. The history of the Jenkins School Band pretty well parallels the history of school bands all over the nation. The following is a list of Jenkins Independent School District Superintendents in the order in which they served: This building was built at an estimated cost of one million and three hundred thousand dollars. The new Jenkins High School building houses grades five through twelve. New schools were recently constructed at McRoberts and Jenkins, and a new school is now under construction at Burdine. The district is still composed of the three subdivisions - Jenkins, McRoberts, and Burdine. Today the Jenkins Independent District employs forty-five and enrolls approximately 1100 students. At McRoberts there were two school buildings. Seven of them taught at the central school at Jenkins, three taught at the branch school at Dunham, and four taught in the branch school at Burdine. At that time eighteen teachers were employed by the district.
Basketball games were played in a barn until the construction of the auditorium in 1924.Ĭonsolidation Coal Company built the original building.
The building originally consisted of classrooms and two large playrooms. Funds for the construction of the west wing were furnished by Franklin Roosevelt's WPA program. The original Jenkins Building was constructed in 1912, with the addition of the auditorium in 1924, the west wing in 1936, and two more new rooms in 1960. At that time there was 490 children in the district, and the district was composed of three subdivisions Burdine, Jenkins and Dunham - McRoberts did not become a part of the Jenkins District until April 26, 1915. The Jenkins Independent School District was first organized as Jenkins Graded School District on August 15, 1912. If you or a relative find yourself misspelled, or if you have other corrections, please let me know. Similarly, I have no way of checking the dates and other numbers, although I do have reason to suspect that some (few) dates are wrong. Not knowing these people, nor in fact that they are the same people in each case, I made no corrections, except as noted when I was absolutely positive for one reason or another. On this page especially, what I suspect to be the same persons get their names spelled in different ways.
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