Gastonia High School - Spinner Yearbook (Gastonia, NC)

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DEDICATION To Superintendent William Pressley Grier, wlmo, as principal of our scliool for ten years taught us, encouraged us, and inspired in us a love for lmiglner and better timings, and who for tl1e past year has laeen our beloved Superintendent, the class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty -Two gratefully dedicates tlwis volume.

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OUR SUPERINTENDENT 1 0 ILLIAM PRESSLEY GRIER was born in Crab Orchard Tovxn -1 ' f . , - ship, Mecklenburg County, N. C., February 28, 1885. His early life was spent on his father's farm. In the Mecklenburg county schools, and later at Bain Academy, his preparation for college was obtained. In the fall of 1905, he entered the University of North Carolina, Where he early became actively interested in various phases of college life. Besides being a student, he was a leader in athletic activities, was active in Y. M. C. A. work, was a member of the Yackety-Yaiclc staff, and was one of the two debaters chosen to represent the University in a Georgia-Carolina debate. It was chiefly as a speaker that he Won for himself a name at the University. He graduated in 1909, with an A. B. degree. After serving two years as Head Master at Christ's School, Arden, N. C., Mr. Grier was elected Principal of the Gastonia Schools, and began his work here in the fall of 1911. In December of the same year, he mar- ried Miss Virginia Lucile Cross, also of Mecklenburg County. As Prin- cipal, Mr. Grier identified himself with the educational forces of the State, in State and National Teachers' Assemblies, and further fitted himself for his profession in summer schools at the University of North Carolina and at Columbia University. Throughout his ten years of service as Principal, he manifested such qualities of leadership and tact as won for him the affectionate esteem of both pupils and patrons. He has been not only an untiring Worker for the school system, but also an invaluable asset to the church and to the civic life of the communityg and in recognition of his worth as a school man Mr. Grier was, last June, elected Superintendent of the Gastonia City Schools. Under his leadership the schools are completing a year of most satis- factory Work.

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FACULTY MR, W. P. GRIER .,, .A ,.... S ll1J6l'2 Ill'6'Hd6lZf MR. RAY ARMSTRONG .A..... ...... P rifrzcipal MISS EULA GLENN MISS ELLA BRADLEY MISS MARY BALDWIN MITCHELL MISS FANNIE STARR MITCHELL MISS MARY ALDERMAN MISS SUE RAMSAY JOHNSTON MISS MAIDA MCKAIN MISS KATHERINE VVHITENER MRS. STEPHEN B. DOLLEY MISS LOUISA REID MRS. PASCAL MCLAIN MISS ARABELLE GILL MISS EDMEE SMITH