Mr. Berry was born in Marion County near the present town of Bull Shoals, Arkansas.  He graduated from high school at Mountain Home Baptist College and in 1924 began teaching in rural schools in Baxter and Marion counties.

Mr. Guy Berry was the superintendent of schools in Mountain Home, Arkansas from 1931 until 1939.  Following his time at Mountain Home Schools, he then held the same position at Norfork and Flippin school districts before being named Dean of Students and assistant to the president of Arkansas A & M College.

From 1947-1951, he was with the state Department of Education.  During this period, Mr. Berry imitated and directed the statewide program for the education of handicapped children.  In 1952, Mr. Berry was employed at the University of Arkansas, Division of Continuing Education, where he worked until his retirement in 1973.

In October 1985, the intermediate school at Main and 10th streets was renamed Guy Berry Intermediate School in honor of the former superintendent.  According to an article in The Bulletin at the time, Mr. Berry was described as an honest person and a dedicated educator who tempered discipline with understanding and genuine concern for his students.  He believed in corporal punishment for both boys and girls.

The area where the school is located had been the site of a school for more than 100 years in 1985, but the actual building that was the Mountain Home High School when Mr. Berry was superintendent was torn down in 1940 after being condemned.

THE MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY

Professor John S. Howard, a minister and scholar from Plattsville, Wisconsin opened the Male and Female Academy in 1853 in Rapps Barren, which is now Mountain Home. 

Col. Orrin L. Dodd donated the land on which the school was located, with the stipulation that if it were not used as a school it would revert back to his heirs.

The Male and Female Academy was burned during the Civil War but rebuilt about 1868.  The new building was used until about 1935 when the new Mountain Home Public School (now Guy Berry) was built.

At the dedication of what is now the Guy Berry Intermediate School, it was said to be "big enough to house all the students of Mountain Home forever."