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Sperryville School Faculty
Past and Present
The Sperryville High School faculty member who has the longest period of service to her credit is Miss Della Hitt. Few people of the Sperryville community ever call her surname; “Miss Della” is sufficient to designate this lady who started the majority of people in this village on the road to learning. Miss Della began her teaching career in 1904 when she taught in a one-room log house near the top of the Blue Ridge. A battered stove threw out heat from its sides and from the rusted wash basin used as a top. Toilet facilities there were completely lacking. The big event of a day would occur when a six-mule team hauling to Luray for the Sperryville Tannery would halt long enough for the driver to come in to warm and tell the news from the outside world.
Miss Della taught this school for three years, then taught near the foot of the mountain at the Atkirtstown school for four more years. She next took an overflow class from the Sperryville High School. Her schoolroom was the “Old Barroom” located in front of the Sandwich Shop. The next year Miss Della taught in the new school building, and the following session she had charge of
fewer and larger schools wherein more courses and more opportunities will be offered.
To the stranger or casual visitor, all little schools may appear alike. Those of us who have been a part of this school and community for many years know that appearances are often deceptive. The high esteem in which teachers generally have been held, the excellent co-operaition among parents, teachers and children, the warm hospitality froply ngoroij and enjoyed, the lasting friendships formed with young and old alike, have made teaching in the Sperryville High School a memorab’e experience.
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