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Country schools dotted the landscape in and around Screven and the present school building is used for grades pre-k through five.

The school was relocated to this location from an area around the old Screven fire department in the early 1920s.

The upper building housing the pre-kindergarten classes and the office suite were built in 1922.

A Works Progress Administration construction crew constructed the auditorium and middle building as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’ s New Deal legislation in 1936 – 1937 when P. D. Griffis was the chairman of the Screven Board of Education.

This same WPA crew built the Jesup Post Office ( now Jesup City Hall ) and the Odum Elementary School gym and high school building.

Consolidation of schools in 1966 marks the beginning of the decline in population in Screven.

W. L.

( Bill ) Bohler was made principal of the school in 1966 and saw the school transition from a high school to an elementary and middle school ( grades 1-7 ) and remained principal until 1972.

His wife, Dorothy, was the schools math teacher for many years and was known for her progressive thinking and teaching methods.

Their only son, J. David Bohler, D. V. M., M. D., went on to become a nationally recognized physician and scholar in South Carolina and has been quoted as saying " If not for growing up in Screven, I wouldn't be were I am today.

I'm the best educated Redneck to ever come out of Georgia ".

Dr. Bohler has also travelled the world as a big game hunter, taking trophies including the " big five " in Africa.