Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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THE SCHOOL

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C. C. WRIGHT Charles C. Wright, instructor in Latin, has completed his twenty-third year as a teacher :it M. U. S. He graduated from, the University of Virginia with his B.A. degree in 1904. During his time at the University, he was assistant in the Leander McCormick Observatory in 1895-1896, Licentiate Jn Latin in 1894-1904, and Instructor in Latin in 1894-1904. He then continued teaching Latin in the Virginia Summer School, 1903-1904, and in 1904 became a Co-Principal of the Univer- sity School of Atlanta until 1907. In the fall of 1907, he came to M. U. S. and is stiJ with us. Mr. Wright is not only a very capable and excellent Latin Teacher, but also a golfer and chicken fancier. Without him and Mr. Ford we would feel lost, both ' of whom deserve much credit for run- ning M. U. S. so well. Mr. Wright is seldom ill, and has been at school almost every day since he first came here. We wish Mr. Wright continual success and luck in the future years. H. G. FORD Howard G. Ford has devoted his past two years to teaching our lower forms, which he has done so successfully, believing that a boy needs a good start for his preparatory school work. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and began teaching in 1892 at the Cleveland High School, in Faquir County, near Markham, Virginia. After he taught there for two years, he came to Memphis in 1894. Here he began teaching at Werts and Rhea, now known as M. U. S. In 1921, after he had taught at M. U. S. for twenty-seven years, he and Mr. Kilvington started a school of their own, Ford-Kilvington. In 1925 Mr. Ford returned to M. U. S. again, since the two schools consolidated, and then he was made Co-Principal besides a teacher. Here he has taught with most favorable success and we shall always hope he will remain here and continue with suc- cess and luck after we have left.