Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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MR. F. P. WYCHE

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igtugrapbical bkettb W E CAME to meet a foe, formidable and revengefulg and lo, he found a friend! This has been the experience of many of our pupils sent to interview Mr, Wyche in the office, for though he never excuses wrongdoing, they have found him anxious to be just, and willing to hear their side of the matter. He is a strict disciplinarian, realizing that order is a necessity in any school-a quality for which his teachers are very thankful. It used to be a common accusation that teachers knew little of the outside world. Their ignorance of business was ridiculed, and practical manual work was considered outside their sphere. Now the demand is a man first, then a teacher. Our principal is unusually well informed as to new movements, and urges us to be content with nothing less than the best-to find out what experts say about any of our work, and apply of it what we can. He is careful about the physical welfare of the pupils, and often calls our atten- tion to health articles in the magazines. Apparently so stern, Mr Wyche has a keen sense of humor and a great store of anecdotes. He is the son of a Methodist minister, and was born in Halifax County, attended Albemarle Academy and Kinsey School, and graduated at Trinity College in l885. He was editor-in-chief of Trinity College Archive, presi- dent of the Hesperian Society, and made the highest grade for scholarship in his junior year. He has been principal of lVlason's Academy, and of high schools at Beaufort, Gibson, and Laurinburg, coming from the latter place to Dilworth, then to the South School, and our High School. He has had sum- mer school worlc at Chapel Hill, Knoxville, and Columbia University. Mr. Wyche is in sympathy with anything that he thinks will improve the school, but he disapproves of too many outside activities, and of things done merely for show. We consider ourselves fortunate in having him as Principal. --F. B. M.

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Qlihitnrtal Staff 'id Business Managers ROBERT BOYD ARTHUR BEATY '30 Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor-in-Chief JENNIE KIRKPATRICI4 RUTH IVICIVIICHAEI. 'If Social Editors MELLE BEARD RUTH ROBINSON + Sporting Editors WILL ANDREWS LAFFERTY ROBINSON ri- Comic Editor WEBB DURHAM 'if' Sophomore Editor JOHN JAMISON wi' Freshman Editor KENNETH CROOK