Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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without ceremony everything that smacked of the artificial. He took no stock in the fine-spun pedagogic theories of the day and discouraged all tendencies to reduce school work to a mechani¬ cal process. He believed in the individuality of both teacher and pupil, and encouraged freedom and self-reliance as far as possible, in both mental training and discipline. He held the theory that education is not only a preparation for life, but that it is life, arid that all phases of life should be developed in the student. No department of school work which was founded on some underlying principle of life failed to receive his stimulating support. Ills method of administration and teaching reflected itself in the pupils as a splendid school spirit of which our schools are justly proud. In the spring of 1910 Mr. Swift resigned as Supeiuntendent of the Greensboro city schools to begin the practice of law in Greensboro. He carries with him into his new field of labor the love and esteem of all his teachers and pupils. We hope that the profession of law has in store for him even greater success and possibilities than that of teaching. As a token of our love and gratitude we dedicate to him this our third volume of The Reflector. Page five

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Wiley Hampton Swift . “Education is being led into one ' s fuller manhood.” W. H. Swift. ILEY HAMPTON SWIFT was born at Brandy Wine, Watauga County, North Carolina, in the year 1875. Tie received his early training at the country school near his home and at the private school of R. P. Pell, at Linville, N. C. He entered the University of North Carolina in the fall of 189f and remained there one year, after which time he returned to his home county and taught two years. In the fall of 1898 he resumed his work at the University and remained there until he graduated in the spring of 1901. In the fall of 1901 he came to Greensboro as principal of the Greens¬ boro High School. He was made superintendent of the Greens¬ boro Public Schools in the fall of 1904, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1910. As a teacher he did not belong to that class who think that teaching is merely imparting knowledge. Ills idea of real teach¬ ing was to descend into the depths of the soul and touch the root of the human plant; to develop the student along the line of self-reliance and mental freedom; to sow the seeds of truth and patiently wait for the harvest, knowing that it must have time to take root in the deeper mind. Such a teacher leaves his stamp upon the lives of his pupils. He creates an atmos¬ phere, wholesome and uplifting. He lives from a great depth. We feel and act the consequence of such lives without knowing how we follow. Such a teacher was our former superintendent, Wiley Hampton Swift. As a superintendent he was painstaking and energetic. He was in sympathy with all school progress, yet he brushed aside Page four

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®abU ' of (Eirntrats PAGE Dedication . 2 Wiley Hampton Swift . 4 Board of Editors . 8 Dr. James L. Mann . 10 Faculty . 12 Purpose . 14 Senior Grade . 15-35 Class Song . 16 Statistics . 17 History . 33 Intermediate Grade . 37-41 Class Roll . 38 History . 40 Building the Fire— Poem . 42 Junior Grade. 43-47 Class Roll . 44 History . 46 “Bimonthlies are My Pest”. 48 Eighth Grade . 49-52 Class Roll . 50 History . 52 Debating Societies . 53-73 Diaphesian Literary Society: Roll of Members . 54 History . 56 Day Dreams— Poem . 57 Philomelian Literary Society: Roll of Members . 58 History . 60 The 137th Time . 61 Ionian Literary Society: Roll of Members . 62 History . 64 Page six