Durham High School - Messenger Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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HQVA i MESSENGER ii e n FRANK M. MART.lN, SUPT. Mr. F. M. Martin, Superintendent of the city schools, is a native of Virginia. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University und has had subsequent work at the University of Texas, University of Tenn- essee, and the University of Chicago. He served for fifteen years in Texas as chief assistant in the State Department of Education and later became superintendent of the El Paso city schools. For four years, Mr. Martin was the head of the Farmville, Va., schools. He came to us from Petersburg, Va., where for the past nine years he was superintendent of the public schools. In the short time Mr. Martin has been here, he has fitted so naturally into the school and community life that he seems always to have been a part of it. His wide experience with and sympathy for childhood, his keen insight into men and affairs, his moral courage, and winning personality, have made him a power in school, church and civic centers. To the students of D. H. S. he has been an inspiring and sympa- thetic friend, and Il wise counselor. The Class of '24 wishes to ex- press its appreciation of his genuine interest in the immediate and future welfare of each member and to bespeak for him the success he so richly deserves. llfage Sevenl

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ll 92. THE Durham aa Educational Center W as ,,-z N this day of advancement and learning every person has from infancy the right to an education, not like the meager one of old, but of the broader type peculiar to modern times. Whether the life of the world tomorrow is to be a success or a failure depends entirely upon the youths of today, the men and leaders of tomorrow. No Durham lad or lassie can justly say that educational advantages are wanting in our own city. Our educational system, widely known, is of the threefold type-mental, physical and spiritual. Every institution in our community, each endowed with a strong and eflicient faculty, engaged in this important work for the youth of today, develops not the mental side alone, but also the physical and spiritual. These train in whatever channel of life one may wish to pursue. Most of the various schools are mindful of the necessity of physical training: some are equipped with modern, up-to-date gymnasiums where physical training and devel- opment necessary for health are taught and encouraged. Competent athletic directors are employed to supervise and instruct in this work. The spiritual part of education is carefully guarded. Regular devotional chapel exer- cises, in which the whole student body participates, are held in every school. The young folk of the city and suburbs are generally interested and active in the .work and organizations of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.. Ministers of the city churches visit the schools, and by association do all within their power to befriend the students and faculty. Christian workers from other cities and sections appear before the stu- dents and deliver helpful and instructive messages. Those higher institutions of learning in our midst are.: the Durham High School: the West Durham High Schoolg the East Durham High Schoolg the Durham Business Schoolg the Southern Conservatory of Musicg and that still -higher institution of learning, Trinity College. We, the future citizens of Durham, are truly blessed to be surrounded by all these places in which to prepare ourselves for future leadership and our places in life. The people of Durham have not, however, forgotten, the colored youths in their great educational work. The State Normal for colored, one of the largest and best-equipped of its kind in the South, is located in our city. Along with this college are elementary schools for the same, supervised by our own superintendent, Mr. F. M. Martin of the city school system. These schools are indeed creditable ones. With these widespread advantages and iniluences forecasting the development of an ideal type of manhood and womanhood, Durham, although less than a century old, may accomplish untold wonders in the years to come. 1Paye Sitj

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