Henry Grady High School - Orator Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MR. KING Mr. Byron King is known and loved by every sTudenT ThaT graduaTes Trom Grady High School. ITS advisor To boTh The STudenT Council and The SIciT Club, we see The producTs oT his labors behind The scenes all Through The school year. He inTro- duced many oT us To declensions, conjugaTions, and The oTher sTrange sysTems of LaTin. IT is as an English Teacher ThaT he has perhaps made his greaTesT conTribuTion To Grady sTudenTs, He has The rare abiIiTy To make IiTeraTure meaningful and Tremendously imporTanT To sTudenTs, AIThough any oT his sTudenTs will Tell you They have worked harder in Mr. King's classes Than in any oTher, They will also Tell you how much They have enioyed iTg ThaT iT was a memorable experience. They crowd inTo his classes despiTe The hard work. because he malces IiTeraTure come alive. IT is no longer a chore buT someThing They enioy and do because They wanT To. Mr. King is a scholarly person, graduaTe oT VanderbiIT UniversiTy, he was educaTed in liberal arTs and The humaniTies. He holds boTh a bachelor and lvIasTer Degree. He brings To his classes noT only The beneTiT oT his Tormal schooling, buT also The experience he has had on his exTensive Travels. I-Ie has been To Europe Twice. He was in World War II. He is Teacher oT English IO-DramaTics, he direcTs The Senior Play which is a highIighT oT everyone's school year and is so very imporTanT To Those in Their senior year. Mr. King noT only gives adeguaTe preparaTion Tor college and daily usage To his sTudenTs, and worlcs wiTh many acTiviTies around The school, buT he manages To be a Triend and respecTed advisor To his sTudenTs. He is loved and respecTed by his Tellow Teachers as well as his sTudenTs, 14.

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What's the Good Word? MR. DERTHICK IT seems almosT impossible ThaT Mr, Roger H. DerThiclc has been aT Grady only one year. He has become a very imporTanT parT oT The liTe oT every Grady sTudenT, noT only because oT his oTFicial capaciTy as principal and Tinal auThoriTy on all maTTers ThaT concern us as sTudenTs, buT because everyone aT Grady, Trom The meelcesT sub-Treshrnan To The mosT sophisTicaTed senior, has come To Teel ThaT he is our Triend. Mr. DerThiclc has been in The ATlanTa School SysTem Tor 20 years. He is a graduaTe oT Millican College, in Tennessee, and received his lv1asTers Degree in EducaTion aT The Univer- siTy oT Tennessee. From There he wenT To Peabody College and TaughT aT The Demon- sTraTion School. He TaughT aT Murphy Junior High School, also. In l952, he became prin- cipal oT Ther NaThan B. ForresT ElemenTary School. From l954 unTil he came To Grady This Tall, he was principal oT The Cleveland Avenue ElemenTary School. Mr. DerThicl4 is presidenT oT The ATlanTa Teachers AssociaTion and a member oT num- erous oTher organizaTions. He is proudesT OT his honorary membership in The Grady Chap- Ter oT The BeTa Club. This is Typical oT Mr. DerThiclc's Tine aTTiTude Tor Ti.rsT and primary concern oT The sTudenTs.