Farm Life High School - Parrot Yearbook (China Grove, NC)

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Parrot fagp 12 Faculty Poem Oh yes, our faculty is very fine Haughty, naughty, that ' s not their kind Good sports are they ? Well we should say! This wonderful faculty of ours. They ' re always ready for work or fun They always help us, our affairs to run Yes they are the best And they ' ll stand the test This faculty of ours. Have they not through the four long years Revived our hopes and demolished our fears They ' ve kept us straight Yes they ' re first rate This faculty, faculty of ours. And F. L. S. is lucky indeed To have these toughs to take the lead. To tell us how To quiet our rows This faculty of ours. Now here ' s to these, the best ones yet Not one could possibly forget Here ' s hoping that ' they Come back some day This wonderful faculty of ours. — Frank Blackwelder.

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Qltff Parrot History of P L S. Seven Years at The Rowan Farm Life School (By Mrs. Sallie Hunter Jones) This is a rather rambling history of the Farm Life School for the past seven years. It is written with a view to recording some of the history which will assist in keeping a correct reaord of the school, and because there are many who have gone in and out of the school for the last time who will enjoy looking back to the time spent here. Some of the events and facts mentioned can be found by referring to catalogs of the school, the Parrot, the minutes of the board meeting and so on while some can be supplied only by those who were here during those years. The year 1919 was one of great importance to the school. In the spring of the year there was only one building on the Farm Life campus. The boara of trustees was reorganized. The 20 acre farm was increased to fifty acres to meet the state requirements. The contract was let for a boys ' dormitory which was to take care of the increasing number of boarding students and supply new class rooms. For the first time all the class room work was car- ried on at the Farm Life Plant. Mr. 0. B. Jones became principal of the school and teacher of agriculture in June of the year. Miss Edith Gilbert, teachei of the China Grove High School the previous year, became lady principal and teacher of math and history. Miss Margaret Flemming taught English and science. Miss Helen Mays, the Home Economics teacher and Dietitian, re- signed and Miss Ennis Strupe succeeded her and remained with the school for two and a half years. Before the opening of school in September Mr. Jones married a wife to assist him in bearing the viscissitudes of a school man ' s career. Together we endeavored to build a school that would be of the highest type for the training of boys and girls, and fulfill its mission for the surrounding com- munity and for all Rowan County. Just here I must mention the kind and cordial reception given us by the friends of the school in China Grove, espe- cially Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Earnhardt and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Swink. These good people have always encouraged every effort for a school that would make real men and women besides cheering our hearts with their personal loyalty and friendship. During the year 1919- ' 20, no Latin or other foreign language was taught in the Farm Life School. The enrollment that year was sixty pupils, thirty-five of whom lived in the dormitories. We had a graduating class of seven, Robert Flemming, Blanche and Dunham Graham, Edith Menius, Mary Lippard, James Patterson and Burley Lyerly. The middle of the year 1919-20 saw the boys ' building finish- ed and occupied by a goodly number of boys. The classes which had been reciting in the dining room were moved to the newly furnished rooms of the basement. Two of these rooms were thrown together for chapel and for most of the commencement exercises for five years. As we look back we can hardly realize how we worked in such close quarters, but the girls and boys in those classes have already made records of which anyone might be proud. The fall of 1920 found the faculty increased from four to seven members and an enrollment of eighty-seven. Sixty-one of these lived in the dormi- tory all or part of the year. The teachers were Mr. Jones, Mr. Wolfe, Miss