Four Oaks High School - Acorn Yearbook (Four Oaks, NC)

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JOHN THOMAS HATCHER and RUTH GEDDIE HATCHER The Four Oaks School was indeed a young institution when in l925 John and Ruth l-latcher began to pilot it through so many growing pains. Two years before their arrival the district had erected a new school building con- taining sixteen rooms and an auditorium, Their work began with only thirteen other teachers and 400 students. Gradually the Four Oaks School District was enlarged to include seventeen adjoin- ing districts Forty-eight additional classrooms and many other facilities have been added to accommodate a 400 per cent increase in number of students and faculty members. But the vision of John and Ruth l-latcher is, and always has been, much more than the securing of the brick and mortar for the physical plant. Their vision always included the concept of an educational home for every individual in this large community, ln the school room, as in their own happy home, the rigid requirements of the educational processes, and the stern requirements of formal discipline were always warmed by affection and cheerfulness. ln every walk of life, they have practiced and taught kindness, tolerance, justice and love. NOw there are in school, children and grandchildren of some of the first pupils the l-latchers taught, The sterling influence of their character can be seen in thousands of students of three generations. Seldom have two teachers done so much to make reason and the will of God prevail. They have lived to witness in the lives of so many others their own immortality, and also, to feel a soul satisfaction in the knowledge that what men often ignored in them, that were they worth to the children of the district and to God.

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