DuPont High School - My High School

At the time I graduated from high school

all I could think about was getting out

of school. At that time I never really

took in what all my school was about.

DuPont Senior High School actually went

back to 1926 when the original school

high school came to be in Old Hickory TN.

It had 3 teachers and 63 students.

But as Old Hickory grew, so did the school.

The first class to graduate was in 1929.

The high school had been held in the

grammer school but in first high school was

built in 1930.

Years down the road, that school burned

to the ground and the only thing left

standing was the gym.....which still stands

and is used today. Later on another school

was built on that spot. Later this school

became the Jr. High school.

In 1967 another high school was built

on another spot of land. This would be

the new DuPont Sr. High School.

I attended both the Jr. and the senior high.

Graduated from the senior high with

a class of 300 and something.

Each graduating class has their own reunions

but years ago there was a Alumni committee

started and I have been honored to be

able to photograph the Alumni Reunion

the last two years.

This gentleman was my principal, Abby

Williams. According to what I heard at the

reunion, it was Mr. Williams that suggested

there be an Alumni committee.

Mr. Williams was also a DuPont graduate...

1948

This guy is Coach Brown. He was at DuPont

while I was there. Nice man and I will say this,

I have been out of school 34 yrs., this man has

not changed a bit!

This lady was there the other night at the

reunion, she graduated in 1949.

What a beautiful lady.

Had to throw this pic in the mix. This is Charles Hockett and

Melody Ward. Charles graduated the same yr. that I

did...1978 and Melody was behind us. These

two special people sat on the committee board for

the Alumni. Thanks to Mel, I was introduced

to the committee as a photographer for doing the

event....I have never been voted in on anything

that I know of before last year...lol

35th Alumni Reunion. So much fun and

so much laughter that night.

As a school we continue to have the support of our

fellow classmates, or teachers and our principal also.

DuPont Sr. High was closed down as a Sr. High

school in 1986. It is now a middle school for the community that

it is in, Hermitage. The original site of the Sr. High, went from

being the Sr. High, to a Jr. High to a middle school.

My grandson, Caleb, now a 6th grader is attending his

2nd yr at the middle school that now carrys the name

DuPont Hadley (the street it is on) and the middle school

that is in Hermitage is DuPont Tyler (the street it is on).

Anyway, Caleb is now the 3rd generation from my family

to go to that school. It was a Jr. High for me, and

a middle school for my son and now Caleb.

DuPont Sr. High may not be an actually operating

Sr. High anymore but.....that spirit of it goes on.

So much so that the Board of Ed and the coucilmen for

our area are trying to get another community high

school built in our area. There has not been one

since 1986...it is time. There is also hope

that the school when built will carry the

DuPont name!

Isn't history awesome?

Thanks for stopping in,

Pam