Edmunds High School - Hi Ways Yearbook (Sumter, SC)

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1 MR. WILLIAM HENRY SHAW ff BA., MIX., DUKE UNIVERSITY Superintendent SUNITER CITY SCI-I0oLs BOARD OF EDUCATION Left to riqht: Mn. S. L, Ronnriv. NIR. NV. J. SIIAXV, NIR. EARLE RONN'LAND, MR. S. K. NASH. NR. R. K. NNILDER. Cfmirnmn, Mn. F. M. IVIOISIE, Mn. E. F. IVIILLIZII. Mn. BI.ANuINc UPSI-Iun, DR. C. J. LEIIIMON, Vice-Chairmang Mn. H. G. OSTEIQN Mn. VV. H. SHAW, Secretary.

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CWI PRESENT The following pages in lour Clivisions. each showing, loesicles our school life, something of what Edmunds High School has done for Na- tional Defense. In the first picture usecI to show the contents of the hoolc, IVIr. Stocldarcl, our principal, makes announcements over puhlic aclclress. In the second, Deuwarcl Buttman, presiclent ol the student hooly, and Charles Propst. president of the senior class, mmap things out lor the seniors. The third picture shows tennis players, Barnes Boyle, Dorothy Ralflielcl, Elizabeth Boylcin, and Sonny Lawson as they pause lor a clrinlc of water. In the last picture, a group ol seniors oio research worlc lor their term papers in English. They are, left to right, sealed: David Britton, Norma Boney, Matilda IVIcI..elIan, Harold Hatlielcl. Standing: Serena Spencer, P. G. Reynolds. 1 rf ski- wem .' II. THE SENIORS 5 .1 '-1 f: W .-..-T ' ' I III. ATHLETICS o oc: I. THE SCHOOL IV. ACTIVITIES ki a I I i 1 3 ' i

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TR TI The Superintendent and Board ol Educa- tiong the principal, Assistant Superintendent, and Dean oi Girls: and the Faculty rnalce up the Administration ol' Edmunds High School. They shape the policies of the schooi lor the instruction and guidance of the pupiis. This year they have introduced two new features. DEFENSE VVORK in order to prepare the hoys and girls to talce their proper places in Americais great national defense program, extra emphasis was placed, at the end oi the first semester, on science and mathematics. Additional classes in these sulajects were formed. and schedules of students were changed to suit the interests and needs ol individuals. Classes in radio, auto mechanics, model airplanes, nutrition, agricul- ture, home nursing, gardening, knitting. and Red Cross were crowded with students glad ol' an opportunity to lit themselves for deliense worlc. Defense stamps, gradually turning them- selves into defense honds. were sold daily in the school. A fund lor handling these stamps was ohtained hy sponsoring an entertainment in the auditorium early in the year. The school enrolled l00'XJ in the Junior Red Cross. Also, hoth students and teachers con- trilmuled freely to the call ol' the Red Cross for the emergency war fund. The Board of Education granted leave of ahsence for the duration oi the War to those young men ol the faculty who were called into the service. They are: iVir. J. R. Barnwell, Wir. J. N. Berry, Wir. VV. J. Clarlc. Mr. S. J. Smith, lVlr. J. M. Harris, Wir. Paul Lolton, and lVir. Howard Lindsey. QCCUPATIONAL SURVEY in the spring, an occupational survey ol the entire community was undertaken as a senior class project. There were two purposes in this fcontinueci on page 72 Mus. R. C. Foluesrun MR. Huou 'lf Sronmxnn Mus. LOUISE Y. liARLE Dean of Girls Principal Assistant Superinlendent 5 N