Fayetteville High School - La Famac Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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, 5 5 MR. I-IORACE Slsls I!

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Page Ten MR. HORACE SISK AND TWO DECADES OF PROGRESS While planning the pages of the 1951 Lafamac, the staff learned with regret that lvlr. Sisk had resigned from the superintendency of the Fayetteville City Schools and would retire at the end of this year. It is hard for us to think of our school with- out Mr. Sisk, for he has been our superintendent, respected and loved by the whole community, longer than any member of our senior class has been in the world. Though reluctant to give him up, we are grateful to him for his loyalty and untiring efforts in our behalf. Because of his wide influence and enviable reputation through- out the state, we proudly publish this record of one ofthe foremost educational leaders of North Carolina. Mr. Horace Sisk was born in Gaston County on luly 11, 1884, and was educated in the rural schools of Gaston and Cleveland counties, at Rutherford College, the University of North Carolina, and Columbia University, having obtained the A. B. degree in 1913 and the A. M. degree in 1925. Ever since he was six years old, he has been, as student, instructor, or administrator, associated with some phase of school work. 1-le taught his Hrst school in Cleveland County in 1903 and taught three years before attending preparatory school and college.. After graduation he was a teacher in the High Point I-ligli School for two yearsg then he became superintendent of Lenoir City Schools, where he remained for seven years. From 1922 until 1931 he was superintendent of the North Vvilkesboro City Schools. Un Iuly 1, 1931, Mr. Sisk came to Fayetteville as head of our school system. Since that time our enrollment has grown from three thousand to six thousand, the faculty has increased from seventy-two to a hundred seventy-threeg the buildings have in- creased from six to twelve. This remarkable expansion entailed one hundred six additional classrooms, with another six now in the planning stage, one gymnasium, four auditoriums, and eleven cafeterias. Besides the enlargement of the school plant, the curriculum has been enriched considerably. We now have twelve grades, not just eleven as we did in 1931, several new courses, and an abundance of new instruc- tional equipment. To assure a continuation of an improvement policy, Mr. Sisk used his inlluence to persuade our citizens to vote a special tax of twenty-Hve cents on the hundred dollars to provide a better educational program for Fayetteville. ln his ca acity as Su erintendent of City Schools, Mr. Sisk has had an im- .P . P . V ' H portant part in the growth of our schools. Through his many other activities he has been, and is, a wonderful influence for good. As superintendent of the 1-lay Street Metliodist Sunday School, as Bo Scout adviser, as Red Cross director, as a Kiwanian . Y and as a wide-awake, public-spirited citizen, Mr. Sisk has been a vital and a valu- able part of Fayetteville. 1 It is natural that one who has great local influence makes that influence felt abroad. Mr. Sisk has served in many important positions in county, district, state, and national educational work. 1-le has had the unusual distinction of serving as president of both the Northwestern and Southeastern districts of the N. C. E. A. and is the only Fayetteville superintendent to have been president of the North Carolina Education Association. This honor was his in 1943. We do not know Mr. Siskis lans after 'une 30, but we do know that, al- . . . P . ' . though the schools will miss him, he will always be our friend and a gallant champ- ion of right. To Mr. Sisk we express real affection and heartfelt thanks for his wisdom and sympathetic understanding of young people, and we hope that he will enjoy good health and long life with his many friends in the town that he has served so ably these past twenty years.

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