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Profile: Dooly County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
c. 1958

Unadilla and Byromville both got new African American elementary schools. Vienna High & Industrial received an addition to its Rosenwald building.

Year of total integration
1970.

Dooly County lost federal funds in 1969, according to the April 16, 1969, Atlanta Constitution, for not agreeing to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's integration mandate.

Known high schools
  • Vienna High & Industrial

Known schools
  • 1950-51: Vienna High & Industrial
  • 1951-52: Bakerfield, Bay Point, Bethel, Big Popular, Brown Grove, Byromville, Dooling, Drayton, Forest Chapel, Friendship, Holly Grove, Lebannah, Lilly, Little Creek, Little Popular, Morgan Grove, Mount Mariah, Oak Grove, Pinehurst, Pleasant Valley, Red Hill, Sandy Mount, Snow Spring, Tippettville, Unadilla, Vienna High & Industrial; 28 total schools (05/29/1952 The Vienna News); only high school in county is in Vienna
  • 1953-54: Vienna High & Industrial (13 teachers)
  • 1954-55: Bakerfield (1), Morgan Grove (1), Mount Mariah, (1), Sandy Mount (1), Tippettville (1), Vienna High & Industrial (the five elementaries consolidate in 1955)
  • 1955-56: Drayton, Lebannah, Pinehurst, Unadilla, Vienna High & Industrial
  • 1956-57: Bay Point, Big Poplar, Brown's Grove, Byromville, Dooling, Drayton, Forest Chapel, Holly Grove, Lebannah, Lilly, Little Poplar, Oak Grove, Pinehurst, Snow, Unadilla, Vienna High & Industrial; 16 total schools (09/13/1956 The Vienna News); full list
  • 1957-58: Vienna High & Industrial; Holly Grove closed (09/26/57)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Byromville (grades 1-8), Lilly (1-8), Pinehurst (1-8), Unadilla (1-9), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12). Not a complete list (see above for full 1956-57 list).
  • 1957-58: Bay Point (grades 1-8), Big Poplar (1-7), Brown Grove (1-7), Byromville (1-8), Dooling (1-7), Drayton (1-7), Forest Chapel (1-8), Lebannah (1-7), Lilly (1-8), Little Poplar (1-8), Oak Grove (1-7), Pinehurst (1-7), Snow (1-7), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1958-59: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1959-60: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1960-61: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1961-62: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1962-63: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1963-64: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1964-65: Byromville (grades 1-8), Unadilla (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1965-66: Jack Buckholt (grades 1-8), Paul Vance (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1966-67: Jack Buckholt (grades 1-8), Paul Vance (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (1-12)
  • 1967-68: Jack Buckholt (grades 1-8), Paul Vance (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (9-12), N. Williams Elementary (1-8)
  • 1968-69: Jack Buckholt (grades 1-8), Paul Vance (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (9-12), N. Williams Elementary (1-8)
  • 1969-70: Jack Buckholt (grades 1-8), Paul Vance (1-8), Vienna High & Industrial (9-12), N. Williams Elementary (1-8)
Additional notes
Several Dooly schools were renamed in 1965, some Black, some traditionally white. The Oct. 25, 1965 Macon Telegraph said Byromville was renamed Paul Vance to a local blind Black citizen. Jack Buckholt, new name of Unadilla, was for a former principal and community leader.

The elementary department of Vienna High & Industrial was renamed N. Williams Elementary for its current principal Napoleon Williams. This chance was not acknowledged in the Georgia Educational Directory until 1967-68. The new name for the elementary department was also part of a split for the school to have two principals, one for each division.

Another change in the white schools, renaming of Unadilla's elementary department to T.E. Woodruff Elementary, does not seem to have ever been mentioned in the Educational Directory. The Oct. 28, 1965, Telegraph described Woodruff as a "banker, civic and church leader who was murdered in a bank robbery last spring."

On the flip side, Vienna Elementary's renaming to Jenkins Elementary (for former city schools superintendent and basketball coach J.H. Jenkins) was acknowledged in the Georgia Educational Directory.