Fryer tapped principal at BCHS

By By Anastasia Scarborough
Published: July 20, 2010

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Barbour County High School will welcome Jimmie Fryer as its new principal this autumn, but Fryer is no stranger to the BCHS campus.
“I spent six years (previously) on this campus,” said Fryer. “Two years as a math teacher and four years as assistant principal.”
Fryer comes to BCHS from Barbour County Intermediate School, where he served as principal for four years. He is in his 17th year with the county system.
Fryer says he is eager to begin his role as high school principal.
“What I look forward to the most is seeing our students - these young men and women - make their transitions from high school into the ‘real world’, helping them make the right decisions and accept the great responsibility of adulthood,” says Fryer.
Fryer assumes the role of principal on the heels of major renovations at the high school - the greatest being the school’s gymnasium expansion project. The BCHS gym can now seat 1,000 people. Two main buildings on the campus experienced renovations last school year and new lights were installed at the football stadium.
“I believe it is one of the nicest-looking gymnasiums in the area. (However) we want the surrounding areas to know (BCHS) for its academic standards as well as athletics,” says Fryer. “We want to maintain an environment (at the school) conducive to learning. Students will be taught discipline and we will look for ways to target students who are struggling. We will have no uniforms (this upcoming school year), but a dress code which will be strictly enforced.”
New personnel will also greet students this fall. The new BCHS assistant principal will be Anthony May, a former math teacher with five years of experience teaching at BCHS. BCHS will also welcome a new band director - Lorenzo Manuel, who hails from Columbus, Ga.
The school also recently spent $6,000 on landscaping and beautification.
and students and teachers will be using new MOBY devices this autumn.
Fryer is a resident of Louisville. He and his wife, YuLanda, have a daughter, Janiah, and two sons, Jasper and Jarel.
According to a recent article in The Clayton Record, Fryer earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1991 from Troy State University with an emphasis on computer science and business administration and received his master’s from Troy State in Secondary Education with Administrative Certification.