Paramount Years
The year Dunbar High School opened its doors.
What is 1923?
The early years at Dunbar High School was reflective of classical tradition. In order to graduate, a student had to take four years of the following 5 subjects.
What is English, Mathematics, History, Science and Latin.
Phrase engraved in the marble of Dunbar's central building.
What is Dunbar High School?
P. L. Dunbar Middle School for Innovation is named after this person.
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
By the 1950's, Dunbar had moved away from their original classical education to this type.
What is vocationally oriented program?
During the 1930s, Dunbar High School was characterized by significant growth in this.
What are extra-curricular activities?
The number of seats in Dunbar's auditorium.
What is 900?
Dunbar High School's principal whose 30 year period of dynamic leadership enabled the institution to achieve academic excellence in spite of segregation barriers.
Who is Clarence Williams Seay?
In 1934, black citizens formed this which played a vital role in the life of Dunbar High School.
What was the Dunbar Parent-Teachers association?
In 1994, when P. L. Dunbar Middle School for Innovations opened its doors, the academic program had this central theme.
What is Communication?
This building located on the Dunbar Middle School campus houses primarily sixth grade students.
What is the Mozee building ?
The Dunbar Library was a “branch” of Jones Memorial Library, a private, segregated institution and under the leadership of this woman.
Who is Mrs. Anne Spencer?
After World War II, Dunbar High School experienced remarkable achievement and community pride which lasted well into the 1960s which is often referred to as this.
What is its “golden age?"
Dunbar is the only middle school in Lynchburg City Schools to offer this foreign language.
What is German?
Dunbar High School was renamed this in 1994.
What is P. L. Dunbar Middle School for Innovation?
As many as 90% of the students in the graduating classes from Dunbar High School during the 1920s did this.
What is enrolled in college?
The last year Dunbar was officially a high school.
What is 1970?
The four areas of innovation currently offered at Dunbar Middle School.
What are Communications, Cultural Arts, Science, and World Languages?
The old Dunbar High School (“North Building”) was demolished during the summer of this year.
What is 1979?
The number of years of Dr. Dani Rule's tenure at P. L. Dunbar Middle School for Innovation.
What is 4?