[3] Following the closure of Blytheville Army Airfield in 1946, a portion of the High School was moved to the officer's club on the deactivated military base.

The building burned down on May 6, 1955, only a few days after it was announced the high school was moving back to Gosnell.

Reportedly, she told a Chinese student who had recently moved to the United States to "learn English or you shouldn't be in our country.

During Mr. Rea's 21-year tenure, the Gosnell Public Schools underwent sudden growth by the reactivated Blytheville Air Force Base in the late 1950s.

As the Cold War Era subsided in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Blytheville Air Force Base was marked for closure that occurred in 1992.