Junius H. Rose High School

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Junius H. Rose High School

Greenville, North Carolina, US
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Principal	Dr. George Frazier (2001-present)
Students	1613
Grades	Ninth - Twelfth grade
Motto	Where Pride is Rampand and Achieement Abounds!
Mascot	Rampants, believed to be a combination of "Rams" and "Panthers", mascots of the previous Greenville High School and C. M. Eppes High School
Color(s)	Green, Columbia Blue, White
Established	1957
Homepage	Official Site

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Junius H Rose High School (known informally as "JH Rose", "Rose High", or simply "Rose") is a comprehensive public high school in Greenville, North Carolina, in the Pitt County Schools system. Originally dedicated in 1957 on South Elm Street, it moved to its present location on Arlington Boulevard (the former Greenville Middle School) in 1992. Students that made up the original student body came from the former Greenville High School in downtown Greenville. Students from the former historically black C. M. Eppes High School were integrated in during the early 1970s.

J.H. Rose has a nationally recognized Advanced Placement Program^{[citation needed]}. Graduates of J. H. Rose have attended notable universities, including Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, Ambassador University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Rose students have been recipients of honors such as the PSAT Merit Scholarship, the Morehead Scholarship, the Park Scholarship, and the Presidential Scholarship.^{[citation needed]}

The school has received an 8 out of 10 rating from greatschools.com.

In 2005, the school was listed on Newsweek magazine's list of top high schools in the United States for the first time. In 2005, it was listed #645, #471 in 2006, and in 2007, #682. Typically, about 50 schools from North Carolina (primarily from the Charlotte, Research Triangle, and Piedmont Triad regions) make the list.

1 Namesake
2 Predescessors
3 History: South Elm Campus (1957-1992)
4 History: Arlington Campus (1992-present)
5 Principals
6 Performing Arts
7 Long-time Faculty
8 Athletics
9 External links

[edit] Namesake

The school was named for longtime Greenville area educator Dr. Junius H. Rose (1892-1972). Rose was a World War I veteran who came to Greenville in 1919 to serve as principal of Greenville High School, a predescessor institution to the present school. He later served as superintendent of the former Greenville City Schools district. He was also the Civil Defense Chairman of Pitt County and a Boy Scout Leader. According to local historian Roger Kammerer, "... Rose almost missed the life he found in education. He wanted to be a railroad man, but was persuaded by his professor at Trinity College in Durham (now Duke University) to take a position in education in Kinston. From there, he came to Pitt County and remained for the rest of his life. Known to be very involved with the students, Rose even missed the announcement of his appointment as superintendent because he was on a trip with students. Rose was active in his church, Jarvis Memorial [United Methodist Church], and in statewide civic organizations" (http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/ncc/PittPast.cfm). Dr. Rose's son, Junius H. Rose, Jr., practiced dentistry for many years in Kinston and continues to practice on a part-time basis in Greenville. His grandson, Junius H. Rose III, is a psychiatrist in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Education continues as a tradition in the Rose family, as Dr. Rose's grand-daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Rose-Miller, is a professor of music education and music therapy at Appalachian State University. Dr. Rose-Miller holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a Board Certified Music Therapist. Dr. Rose-Miller is certified in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a methodology that emphasizes coming to know music through expressive movement, and she has presented clinics nationally. Her professional interests include creativity and the arts, as well as expressive musicianship through Dalcroze Eurhythmics.

[edit] Predescessors

For many years, white students attended Greenville High School (opened by at least 1919, when Rose became principal), located in the downtown area on the site of what is now a parking lot for East Carolina University.

Until desegregation was hastened by a fire that destroyed most of the school around 1970, African-American students attended C. M. Eppes High School near the intersection of what is now West 5th Street and Memorial Drive. Upon the opening of the Arlington campus of Rose in 1992, the name C.M. Eppes was given to the South Elm Rose campus.

[edit] History: South Elm Campus (1957-1992)

For thirty-five years, the school was located on South Elm Street, directly east and adjacent to the College Hill section of the East Carolina University campus and within view of the university's Ficklen Stadium. At the time of its opening in 1957, it was under the jurisdiction of the Greenville City Schools district.

The school was built on the former site of the National Youth Administration Center. According to local historian Roger Kammerer, the center's site included six to eight barracks, a mess hall, and an administration building.

For many years, white high school students in Greenville attended the Greenville High School in downtown Greenville, now the location of an East Carolina University parking lot. The South Elm Street campus of Rose High was dedicated in 1957, and was all white until the early 1970s. Meanwhile, African-American high school students attended the historically black C. M. Eppes High School near Memorial Boulevard.

When the majority of the Eppes campus burned in the early 1970s, integration at the high school level was accelerated (all that remains of the original Eppes campus is the gymnasium). Rose was closed for several days in the early 1970s when racial violence errupted on the bus lot and in the cafeteria, prompting the calling out of the National Gaurd.

In 1973, the school's Kiwanis sponsored Key Club was founded under the guidance of community business leader and future Greenville Mayor Leslie Garner. Over the years, the club produced several divisional and district leaders, including the organization's incumbent district administrator.

As of the 1980s and early 1990s, only tenth through twelfth grades were housed at the South Elm Street campus, while ninth graders were housed at E. B. Aycock Junior High School on Red Banks Road.

On July 1, 1985, the Greenville City Schools district was consolidated into the Pitt County Schools district. With the merger, came the introduction of the Junior ROTC program into Rose's curricular offerings.

Dan Peek, former lead singer of the band America (band), performed a concert in the South Elm Street campus' gymnasium in the fall of 1986.

[edit] History: Arlington Campus (1992-present)

In 1992, the Arlington Boulevard campus of Rose opened in the renovated and expanded Greenville Middle School campus. With the addition of ninth graders, all four high school grades were housed under one roof for the first time in many years. Although there was much speculation and discussion regarding the South Elm campus being sold to East Carolina University upon the opening of the Arlington campus, the site now houses a middle school that carries on the C.M. Eppes name. The western most portion of the South Elm campus has been integrated into the East Carolina University campus, primarily as a storage and maintenance area. Although the Arlington Boulevard campus did not fully open until 1992, the football stadium was in use as of the fall of 1987. Prior to this, games were held in Ficklen Stadium on the East Carolina University campus.

Several "artificats" of the South Elm Street campus were brought over to the Arlington Boulevard campus. The letters on the sign directly in front of the school were once on the front wall of the main building on South Elm. They were a gift of the Class of 19??. In addition, the memorial to David Samuel Johnson, a student killed in an auto accident in the fall of 1985 on Memorial Drive, was a gift of the Class of 1988 and was originally placed just outside of of the front doors of the main South Elm building. An attempt was made to move the tree that was originally planted when the monument was set up in 1987. The magnolia behind the monument now was planted as a replacement tree after the monument was moved to Arlington Boulevard.

After the Arlington Boulevard campus opened in 1992, the first graduation held on the new campus in 1993 was abruptly interrupted by a power outtage and heavy thunderstorm that quickly came up on the football stadium. Attendees huddled under the stadium, and/or fled to the main building, some believing that a tornado was approaching. After the storm passed, school administrators quickly set up for a scaled down ceremony in the school's gymnasium.

After the departure of Dr. B. Patrick Austin as principal in the summer of 1993, the school was served briefly by a collaborative team of administrators before the appointment of Shirley Carraway as principal. Carraway, a former elementary teacher and principal, was the first woman and first African-American to serve as principal at Rose. After Carraway left Rose in 1997 to serve with the central office of Pitt County Schools, assistant principal Barbara Mallory was appointed as principal. Mallory had previously served at both E. B. Aycock Middle School and Roanoke High School. Mallory left Rose in 2001 to serve at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in Raleigh.

Governor James B. Hunt,Jr. spoke on campus in 1996. Dr. Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of North Carolina State University, spoke on campus in September 1998.

In 2001, Dr. George Frazier, formerly of the Guilford County Schools, was appointed as principal. He was the first principal to be appointed at Rose from outside Pitt County since B. Patrick Austin in 1985.

Lauren Nelson, Miss America 2007 spoke on campus in March 2008 during the North Carolina Association of Student Councils conference.

As of 2008, the school has been located on Arlington Boulevard for sixteen years, almost half the time that the school was located on South Elm.

There are several coincidences surrounding the two Rose campuses. A railroad track crosses both South Elm and Arlington near the campuses. Both streets have medians dividing the lanes. Finally, tennis courts and a city park are located across the street from both campuses. Also, the Evans family cemetery (namesakes of nearby cross street Evans Street) which predates the school by a hundred years or so, is located on campus near the football stadium.

[edit] Principals

The current principal of Rose High is Dr. George Frazier, who came to Rose from Guilford County Schools in 2001. Frazier had spent many years at Western Guilford High School, and had also served in the Alamance-Burlington and Durham school districts.

Former principals since the 1980s have included Howard Hurt (1981-1985), B. Patrick Austin (1985-1993), Shirley Carraway (1993-1997), and Barbara Mallory (1997-2001).

After Hurt's departure in 1985, he later served as associate superintendent in the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. Hurt, a native of West Virginia, had once been on the basketball team of Duke University.

B. Patrick Austin, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began his career as an English teacher, later serving in administrative roles in Wake County and Dare County. While at Rose, Austin began doctoral studies in educational leadership at East Carolina University, later transferring to the program at Campbell University. Austin resigned from Rose at the end of the 1992-1993 school year, announcing that he was taking a position at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. However, reports about Austin's arrest over issues of personal conduct in the Greenville Daily Reflector during the summer of 1993 led to a change in those plans. (A minor footnote of trivia: Like the namesake of the school, Austin was a member of Jarvis United Methodist Church).

Rose was served by an interim transitional team after Austin's departure, which included, among others, the late Bernard Haselrig. Upon Carraway's appointment in 1993, she became both the first female and first African-American to serve as principal at Rose. Carraway served at the district level in Pitt County after her departure from Rose. From 2003 to 2007, she served as the superintendent of Orange County Schools near Chapel Hill. She is celebrated as one of the outstanding and most successful female alumni of the School of Education at East Carolina University. She is now retired and living in Greenville. Several school districts outside of North Carolina have approached her about serving as Superintendent.

Dr. Mallory, who served at the state level in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction after her departure from Rose, is now a professor of educational leadership at Georgia Southern University, and has been published in various professional journals for school leaders. Including her service as an English instructor, Media Center Coordinator, Assistant Principal, and Principal, she probably has the most collective experience at Rose of any recent principal. In 1999, she was one of five finalists for Wachovia Principal of the Year in North Carolina.

[edit] Performing Arts

The performing arts - band, chorus, orchestra, and theatre - have been staples of the Rose experience for years.

Betty Topper, wife of East Carolina University violin professor Paul Q. Topper, served as chorus director on the South Elm campus for several years.

Rose's first band director was James Rogers. Other directors have included Charles Allen, Mike Fussell, and K. Dean Shatley. Shatley is now a successful education lawyer with the Roberts and Stevens firm in western North Carolina.

For many years, Lynn Roberson has conducted the orchestra. A highlight of the orchestra's history was the 1993 appearance on Good Morning America. The orchestra has won numerous awards.

[edit] Long-time Faculty

While many faculy members have come and gone over the years, several have maintaned longevity or made substantial contributions to the school. An attempt was made to only include faculty with twenty or more years of service at Rose. While this is not a comprehensive list, an attempt was made to include faculty members who had the most seniority at Rose at the time of their retirement or other departure:

Barbara Mallory (1970?-2001) - English instructor, Library Director, Assistant Principal, Principal
Ella Harris (1971-present) - Social Studies instructor, Assistant Principal
Virginia Jones (1971-2001?) - English instructor
Billie Lennon 1982-2003?) - Social Studies instructor
Dorothy Brannon (1965-1995?) - Social Studies instructor
Steve Donald (1970-present) - Art instructor
Billy Stinson (1970-present) - Art instructor
Sandra Stinson (1987-present) - Foreign Language Instructor
Will Wiberg (1985-present) - Social Studies instructor, Coach
Eve West (1970-1990) - English instructor
Jean Darden (1971-1988) - Assistant Principal
Sandra Heath (1965-1990) - Math instructor
Bud Phillips (1965-1990) - Athletic Director
Lonnie Willer (1978-1998) - History instructor (who, upon his retirement, was tragically killed in a parachuting accident north of Raleigh, c. 1998-1999)
Nancy B. Wynne (1961-1964) then (1979-1994) - Biology,Chemistry,& Aerospace instructor

[edit] Athletics

The J.H. Rose Football team, the "Rampants", were at one time the reigning 4-time, 4A state champion football team, claiming the title in 1975, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006[1]. The Rampants began the 2006 season on a 22-game winning streak, dating back to the last regular season game of 2004. The Rampants have also claimed the title of back-to-back conference champions as of the 2006 season.

A long-time fan of the Rose football program is Marvin Jarman, a Rose graduate for whom Marvin Jarman Drive is named near the football stadium.

Baseball has also had a strong tradition at Rose with the Rampants holding state titles in 1975, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, and 2008. Since the NC High School Athletic Association went the 4 division classifications, no other school in NC at the 4A level has as many state titles. Rose continues to produce major Division I college talent year in and year out under the direction of Ronald Vincent who is the state's winningest HS baseball coach.