Mayo High School - Golden Bear Yearbook (Darlington, SC)

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Mr. Italy Greene Our assistant principal creates plans and sets them in motion. He is both a man of thought and a man of action - both dreamer and doer. Mr. Greene has faith in students. He believes and trusts in them and thus draws out the best in them. His warmth and his casual manner ease the most troubled student. He uses his heart as well as his head. After he has looked at the facts with his head he lets his heart take a look too. All we can give in return for his faith in us is our faith in him. He has helped to teach us who we are, but knowing him has been the greater experience. Office Staff Keeps Busy Miss Clara J. Youmans Secretary Mrs. Gloria B. Dargan Assistant Secretary

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Focus On OUR PRINCIPAL Mr. Bennie Amos Gary THE PRINCIPAL S MESSAGE GREETINGS! ALUMNI, PARENTS AND FRIENDS This issue of the “Mayo Bears” bring to a close the 80th year of existence of Mayo in this community. We arc able to look back over the years with great pride and accomplishment in the area ol Secondary Education. Through sweat, tears and frustrations we have overcome many road blocks, yet, parents, students, teachers and friends of education have kept the faith. We have “crossed the Rubicon”, have improved in education and have encouraged every student to develop the innate talents which have been granted him by his Creator. 1 am happy to pay tribute to the dedicated teachers who have passed this way during those trying years and have left their foot prints upon the sands of time. Their service has been a path of light and inspiration to many who have continued to hold the torch high and passed it on to the unborn generations. By hard work and a profound belief in quality education. Superintendent G. C. Mangum of Area One Schools and County Superintendent Elect, Board of Trustees, County Board of Education, Parents, Students, Teachers and Friends have enabled Mayo High School to meet requirements for membership into the nation’s highest accreditation agency for Secondary Schools - The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. We are grateful to this community for the help and encouragement given during our struggle to reach this goal. Therefore, we must continue to improve our instructional program with new materials and techniques of teaching, with a new dedication to the spiritual and intellectual needs of our girls and boys in this rapid changing society. In the final analysis, a school is rated by its finished product. Our finished products are our graduates who will be job seekers, whom the employers will evaluate, not by school, but performance on the job. Therefore, it requires a cooperative effort on the part of parents, school and community to get them ready for this final evaluation by employers. We must become more effective, efficient and sensitive to the individual needs of our girls and boys. This requires teachers who are dedicated to the Profession of Teaching; whose resources involve quality teaching and arc mentally and physically elert in relating to the students that the job can and must be done. We must give the community a good product for money invested in our schools. Our students must be able to contribute to the democratic system their share of “Know How” in order to make it a rewarding enterprise, allowing each to participate according to his ability and preparation. We realize that the changes that occur from the time a student enters Mayo and leaves upon graduation will be determined by the way in which he will coordinate the available resources of our school. The changes can be evaluated only by knowing the student’s objectives when he enters high school. Therefore, it is important that teachers and counselors know in advance the directions and goals to be achieved by the student. We, Mayo High School Faculty and Student Body take this opportunity to wish Mr. Russell C. King, Sr., who retires from his position as efficient Superintendent of Darlington County Schools, many happy years, endowed with good hcaUh for the untiring »hie i,» Hprehin in the interest nf nualitv education for all bovs and girls of-Darliniiton County during his efforts, his dedication and leadership in the interest of quality education for all boys and girls administration. With our best wishes. Bennie A. Gary Principal

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