The Robert T. Henry Memorial Pool Complex Restoration Project - Greenville, MS

Historical photos of the Robert T. Henry Pool  *allow time to load* 

We are in search of more photos of ALL the pools and wading pools of Greenville's past.

If you have some to share please contact me, Jennifer Jones, 662-335-3096 or E-mail me!

Standing in line opening day - first in line - Jimmy Jordan, Homer Dill, Bill Blackman &

Pool Director- Mary Tom Berry 1949

Pool Director - Mary Tom Berry at

Opening Day-Sept. 28th, 1949                           Lifeguard -Kirk Luckett and Mary Berry  

Winning Aqua Swim Team of 1950                     Lifeguards Kirk Luckett & Mary T. Berry 

Top of diving board down-Patricia Hunt, Bob Lanier,

Charles Hedrick, Buck Roper, Tommy Sawyer, Kirk Luckett

and Lynn Virden - Greenville, MS

June 1950

Kirk Luckett demonstrates with Bill Ham as victim, Lifeguard training, and the Diving Team 1950

The First Girls Swim Lesson Class    1950                    The First Boys Swim Class 1950

  

1st girls swim class-front row- L-R -Kitty Solomon, Diane Reynolds Pepper,    1st Boys swim lesson class-Front row L-R.

Lola Eustis, Patsy Ann O'Brien, Lafon Pease and Minor Morrow.                  Sidney Selvidge, Gerald Abraham, Roy Selvidge, Bill Kimbrell 

Back row Linda Nelken, Mary Lynn Steed, Elizabeth Bruce,                             Bill Swain and Robert Altshuler.

Mary Alice Myer, Lanier Sykes, Sharon Gail Pugh and Elwyn Ward.                  Back row Henry Tipton, Michael Cauthen, Bobby Milton  Pierre Cook,   

                                                                                                                    Jerry Gunther and Henry Richard Myer. 

 

  

 A Mississippi Bathing Beauty - Elaine Davis 

  

 

 

     

Unknown Divers and jumper

 

The "New" Robert T. Henry Memorial Pool - 1950

 

Humphreys "Sam" Henderson -Marathon Queen

1956 for Vicksburg/Greenville marathon meet.

From Delta Democrat Times:  June 21, 1956

 BOBBY HENRY POOL STAFF- Members of the staff at Bobby Henry Memorial Pool
this summer include (left to right): Humphreys Henderson, Bobby Rawlingson,
Marcia Williams, Aquatic Director Mrs. Colleen Bennett, Bonnie Sue Dugger,
Harold Love, Mrs. Mar Mae Symonds, and Harriette Gildart.  Although more
than 500 youngsters have signed up for swimming, diving and lifesaving courses,
as the bulletin board sign says, competitive swimming and synchronized swimmers
are still wanted.

 Young Kenny Day at the RTHM Pool-mid 1950's

 A day at the pool with Grandma -                          Crowds and Fun at the City Pool -

Siblings -Mike & Nina Kuhn - 1959                           Little Blonde girl facing camera- Patricia Day -approx. 1960 

Bobby Dyer, Margaret Fisher, Martha Williams, Jerry Childs, Coach King, unknown-Linda Fisher??,  Bobby Long,

Kenny Day & little sister, Patricia Day-mid 1960's

   Diver - Teen Kenny Day-mid 1960's- Day children, niece

  and nephew to Hansel Day shown in above photos taken in 1949.

Strange Park- 1954 - Orlando Street -Park Director and child patron.

1987 Swim Lessons -Allen Jones, son of Jennifer and Roy Jones, off the high dive and swimming from the deep end.     

 

1987 Swim Lessons - (Moody grandkids of Hansel Day-Diver above in 50's photos,cousins to Day Children -older photos)

Kelly Moody, Toni Jones and Dayna Moody.                                               Lifeguard and Toni Marie Jones, daughter of Jennifer and Roy Jones