East End Graded School

Where do I start? If I could turn back the hands of time, I would definitely turn back to east end. Principle Mr Wynn was awesome!! He named me and my sister the 10"oclock scholars because for some reason we showed up at 10:00 quite often! Lol

Kindergarten Mrs Painter

First grade Mrs Fox

Second grade Mrs Kerr

Third grade I just can't remember 

Fourth grade I just can't remember 

Fifth grade Mr Huggins

Who were the third and fourth grade teachers?  I really miss the east end days 

Hello East End Elementary School Family, 

I was a student from 1st grade - 5th, 1965-1970. I can still smell those delicious peanut butter cookies baking in the cafeteria. I remember Ms. Bevins, Ms. Thompson, and Mrs. Lester, those were my favorites and the ones that I can remember. I then was bused to Club Blvd. in the 6st grade where I had my first white and male teacher Mr. Amos, he was a short man with a deep voice. He would tell great stories on cloudy or rainy days. Such fond memories. Thank you for allowing me to share.

Saundra Carrington 

Hello East End Elementary School Family, 

I was a student from 1st grade - 5th, 1965-1970. I can still smell those delicious peanut butter cookies baking in the cafeteria. I remember Ms. Bevins, Ms. Thompson, and Mrs. Lester, those were my favorites and the ones that I can remember. I then was bused to Club Blvd. in the 6st grade where I had my first white and male teacher Mr. Amos, he was a short man with a deep voice. He would tell great stories on cloudy or rainy days. Such fond memories. Thank you for allowing me to share.

Saundra Carrington 

I am sure I know more about this school than any other living person today. What's funny is I see people posting wrong information about this school and other things about Durham. The reason I know so much is because of the study programs we participated in when we were kids and the documentary studies we did with the city. Also my family history and the life we lived. East end school did not turn into East way. When they integrated the durham publc school system the main elemenrary schools were Y.E. Smith, Hollway and East end. In 1995 they built A new school for kids to attend because they already announced the closing of these schools that were black as part of the integration because they were the last two schools of all african american student and the history of the schools. When they closed Hollway and East End school the kids had to find schools to go which they went to so many differen ones but the name they came up with for the new school they took half of Holloway and half of east end and named it East Way. When i look at the movie best of enemies with taraji p henson i see a lot was left out of that story and some of it was not right. I also know the names of the people who started the fire that caused the school to be rebuilt. I even have a list of all the names of the teachers who taught here and can remember every single teacher who taught when i attended. Also my family lived at 205 Dowd st our entire life and til this day i remember the last names of every single house on Dowd st from the kings which is the first house to the Satterfields(my family) the last house on Dowd. We would walk to school everyday. In fact before the school was closed me and my siblings attended the school every year in elementar  up until the last year it was open. Then we went to attend Glenn elementary school for the 3rd, 4th and5th grade. I remember going down stairs to the cafeteria which is directly underneath the front of the school and what use to be the gym is now the sanctuary for the church that uses the building today. The side of the school to the right was divided in 3 sections which was a black top for play , parking lot and a play ground. I have a scar on my chin from when i fell on the monkey bars til this day. The principal and staff was johnson-principal. Ms Dorthey- library

My teachers those years were Ms Saddler/ Ms Byrd taught class together who were the coolest of the teachers. Ms Alston, Ms Taylor, Ms Thompson, Ms Holloway, Ms Royster who would hit your hand with the big blue and green pencils before the #2pencil was a standard if you were talking or being disruptive. The principals office was located to the right when you first walk up the stairs from the down st main entrance. There was a Tucker street entrance to up stairs and the cafeteria and another on the parking lot side directly across from the tucker st entrance , another on on the side od the school and one in the back by the stairs where they had ISS which stood for in school suspension that was technically in the basement of the school. I remember exactly where each teacher taught and all the other teachers who taught in the school names and locations of the classrooms as well. R.I.P. to Linda Estes who was a great loving classmate of mine who passed away while we attended east end and was the first funeral i ever attended at Mt gilead Baptist church on dowd st. East end was fun. We stuck together and we sung the black national anthem at every assembly we had. We called them assemblies back in the day. Not sure what they call them today. We also did the pledge of allegiance every morning at the beginning of the day before starting class. America was so different at this time not just for blacks but for all. I remeber a gallon of gas being $1.14. East end park was the park we all went to and played ball, at the time union Baptist only had the old building across the street from my house and the new building wasn't even thought about. The school across the street called Global scholars academy was not even thought about either. In fact that was the old ice cream parlor that was Charles dunham chicken spot at the time that had the best chicken in durham. Leo'swas the best fish market. Haiti Heritage center was where I performed my poetry and the DPAc downtown was not there yet neither. The armory and the ymca were the big things downtown at the time with all the hair salons and barber shops and wards furniture was the furniture spot for the best furniture. I know I got off subject but writing this got me thinking about my city. I could talk about politics, Woolworth , housing and so much more.