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

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Ultjp f arrnt ! Kl I S ! Kl j the old barn. This was remodeled and made as comfortable as possible in p i i ' .:25 but is a very poor place for class work. g : Kl i The number of boarding students and teachers has averaged over fifty and I this department will be necessary until Rowan County has more accredited S J High Schools. g I g i When the present main building was erected Mr. W. J. Swink gave $1,000 p 1 to the school. Part of this was used to install lights and part of it to pur- g I chase furniture for the reception rooms of each of the dormitories. g ! Kl 1 We expect to see the Farm Life School continue to render a great service E I Kl i as it has since its establishment in 1914. The early history is recorded in the g i Parrot Annual for 1924. I

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©iff Parrot - - 5 page 16 S Is of the Parrot have been: Marvin Eddleman, Lucille Gillon, Ella Bost and Frank Blackwelder. The business managers have been: Walter Hinson, Otis g I Pleasants, Yorke Roberts and Hollie Ritchie. Just here we might say that i I for a second time the English and Agriculture Departments were consolidated | S by the marriage of Miss Minish and Mr. Sutton. To Miss Minish must be §2 given credit for launching the Parrot safely and to Mr. Sutton for leading the i I winning crop judging team to Raleigh the same year. To Mr. Presson for p g developing such a fine athletic department in the school and w- ' ining a number 3 of county championships including two silver loving cups in 1925 and the basketball championship in 1926. M The first Junior-Senior Banquet was hel d on St. Patrick ' s day in 1922 under g g the direction of Miss Gahagan, Junior Class advisor. This event has become 1 an important occasion of each year and means much in the social life of the I students. Each student has the pleasure of attending two banquets during his high school career, and much of the preparation for these banquets has been S, done by the girls of the Home Economics Department. The two girls ' literary societies were organized in the spring of 1922. The McNeil, named in honor of John Charles McNeil, and the Bickett, named in memory of Governor Ihomas Walter Bickett. These societies have done some splendid work. The boys have had two societies most of the time also. They engaged in a reading and declamation contest each year. To date the Bicketts have won four gold medals and the McNeil only one. I can not give the record for the boys. The graduating class of 1925 numbered thirty and the student body more than two hundred. Now for a few facts about the physical growth of the place. The farm shop was added in 1922. The first unit of the main building was opened in the fall of 1924. The tennis court at the boys ' building was built by the teachers of the school in the fall 1923. Two pianos have been added to the Music Department making three. The Boarding Department has added almost entirely new equipment from its own funds, a large range, new uten- sils and so on having been purchased recently. Mr. P. A. Earnhardt of the Patterson Manufacturing Company has been the efficient bookkeeper of all funds except the teachers salary, for the five years without remuneration. The interest that Mr. Earnhardt has taken in the school represents many hours of confining labor to say nothing of his genuine good will at all times. Mr. L. S. Presson has been the buyer for the Boarding Department for four years and his good wife has been the lady principal for the girls and dietitian for three years. To them we owe the smoothly running Boarding Department and we hope that the school may enjoy their presence for many years to come. In the spring of 1921 the shrubbery which now adorns the place was planted. Shrubbery was made possible by the County Board of Education which accepted a special offer of the Van Lindley Company to furnish the plants at half price. The library has grown along with other departments. Books from the China Grove High School added much to the number purchased by Misses Gilbert and Fleming and the class of 1920. This class donated the oak sec- tional book case to the school as their parting gift. The library has been en- larged entirely by money made from plays given by the dramatics clubs. Juniors, Seniors and teacher training classes. The work of the different departments has expanded until it has been neces- sary to make temporary quarters for the agriculture class and wood shop in

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Editorial Staff FRANK BLACKWELDER Editor-in-Chief HOLLIE RITCHIE Business Manager HAROLD GRAHAM Advertising Manager WILLIAM ATKINS Assistant Business Mgr. EDNA CARRIGAN Assistant Editor STEPHEN SLOOPE Assistant Editor CARL BELK Circulation Manager