North Carolina School for the Deaf - Clock Tower Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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taken our lunch with us and enjoyed eating it on the mountain. Last February seven boys and I went for an- other hike to High Peak one Saturday morning. When we reached the foot of the mountain, we found a still there. Then we ate our lunch there. I think that High Peak is higher than Burkemont. We were very tired when we reached the top of the high mountain because the mountain is steep. We saw our water tank, Main Building, Morgan- ton and Drexel. There is a beautiful view from there. We took some pictures of ourselves and the still. We had an enjoyable time on High Peak, In March, 1933 we purchased a second hand bus to be used by the Athletic Association and for educational trips. Last March our boys and girls went to South Carolina in the bus to play basket ball against the South Carolina deaf boys and girls that night. Joe Rouse and I had been there twice before that, but the others had never been there before. We had supper at the school. After supper we played a double-header game. Both of our teams were defeated. After the games we had a party and returned here late that night. We enjoyed riding in the bus there and back. I have enjoyed going with the football team to other towns to play football against the hearing boys. I have been on the first football team for three years and on the first basket ball team for five years and have had many pleasant trips to neighboring towns. JI am glad I could take part in the games for I have had many pleasant trips. ,THE DEPRESSION CLASS NAME NICKNAME PET EXPRESSION HOBBY AMBITION Edward Farnell “Lanky”’ i “It’s dead easy” General Science Scientist Wallace Kinlaw “Wally” “Aw shux” Stamps Printer Roy Chandler The “Reverend” “Rotten’’ Politics Politician Albert Mathis “Rusty Abe” “A close shave” Novelties Carpenter Joe Rouse “J0-J0” : (CA Teenie Football Tailor Joyce Flynn el ly “I never did it” Pictures Farmer Paul Hemric “Wise Owl” “I saw you do it” Auto parts Cobbler

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MEMORTES By JoyvcrE FLYNN | aes this school in the fall of 1921 when I was eight years old. As I came to Goodwin Hall, I thought that it was my new home. I never had seen such tall buildings in all my life and I thought they would fall on me as I looked up to the top of the buildings. I found that they had strong foundations and soon got over my fear of them. When I entered Goodwin Hall, I saw many girls and boys and thought they were my sisters and brothers. Something reminded me of my father and mother. I wanted to see them and began to search for them, but I could not find them. I got away from the other children and began to be afraid and cried. A supervisor took care of me and persuaded me not to cry. The next day I went to school. Miss Watrous was my first teacher. Everything seemed strange to me and I could not understand why I was here. William McCord was one of my classmates. Once he persuaded me to tell our supervisor that we were sick when we did not want to go to school. While the other pupils were in school, we got up and played in our bedroom. When a nurse came into our bedroom, she put a thermometer into my mouth to see if I was still sick and also put another into William’s mouth. When she looked at the thermometers, she found out that we were not sick and told us to get up and go to school. After that we never tried to fool the supervisor by pretending to be sick. Edgar Winecoff was one of my classmates, too. I remember that one day we were having action work. Miss Wat- rous had Edgar do something with her fountain pen. Then she had us write what she did. He forgot to give the fountain pen back to her and put it in his pocket. At recess, he played with the other boys and feil down and broke the fountain pen. He was sorry about it. When he went back to school, Miss Watrous asked him why he QYYE SB SE did not give it to her before recess. He confessed that he had broken it. As he began to cry, she petted him as if he were a baby. When Otis Hudgins was in charge of the boys at Goodwin Hall he told me that I should practice basket ball when I came to Main Building I liked to play all kinds of games. One Friday night he took several boys and me to the assembly hall to witness the basket ball game. We tried to play basket ball. Otis told me that I played well and I must practice. I began to be interested in playing basket ball. When I came to Main Building in the fall of 1924, I enjoyed playing basket ball every Saturday afternoon. Two years ago I was chosen on the all star team of the Western Conference. My favorite sport is basket ball. Several years ago many boys and I went camp- ing at Clear Water Beach with Mr. Underhill. This place is fourteen miles from here. We spent the night there. That night several boys and I went frog hunting and killed twenty bull frogs. I doubted whether we should eat the frogs or not. So I asked one of the boys if we should eat them after they were cooked. He told me that they would taste very good. The next morning we cooked the frog legs and ate them. It was the first time that I had eaten any. They tasted very good. We enjoyed going fishing and hiking to the mountains. That after- noon we came home. We had a fine time at Clearwater Beach. Five years ago some of the boys and I got Mr. Goodwin’s permission to go for a hike to the We walked seven miles from here to Burkemont. We reached the watershed from which we get our water supply. Then we began to climb up to the top of the mountain. There were many chestnuts there. We enjoyed looking at the beautiful view and could see the Main Building and Lake James from there. We had mountains.

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CLASS PROPHECY By EpwarpD FARNELL NE SPRING day as I was walking along the street in Morganton, I passed by a tent. I noticed a large sign above the tent, saying, ““Come in and have your fortune read.” I entered the tent and there, sitting in a corner, was a man dressed in Eastern clothes. His skin and hair were so dark that I took him to be a Hindu. In front of him stood a very beautiful crystal ball. I told the man that I wanted to read the future of mysel f and my classmates. He invited me to look into it and read our fate. As I gazed into the ball, there appeared a minature figure of Wallace Kinlaw walking down Wall Street to the New York Times printing office where he was working as a linotype opera- tor. I could see by the cut of his clothes and his manner that he had been successful. Another scene appeared and showed me Wallace riding in a big, fine Cadillac beyond the city limits. I judged that he had a beautiful home and he did not want to live in the city so he had his home built beyond the city limits. Then I watched and saw the car approaching his house. It was situated on a big hill overlooking the beautiful Hudson River. When he was about to enter the house, he was met by several of his pet dogs which had come to greet him. This scene disappeared and another one appeared and showed me the interior of his home. The ar- rangement and plans of the home convinced me that his wife was an intelligent housekeeper with excellent taste. Another scene appeared and I saw Wallace sitting in a lounging chair by a cheerful blazing fire. A dog was sitting on the rug by him and he was reading an interesting book. Then the scene vanished and another came into view. This time I realized that I was looking at a Southern home. I saw Rev. Roy Chandler in his house looking all over his Bible, preparing a sermon which he meant to deliver on Qe %S wy Sat Sunday. The scene shifted and I saw a hand- some church, and from the looks of the streets, I realized it must be Atlanta, Georgia. Then I saw the Rev. Chandler in the pulpit preach- ing a sermon to the deaf. I could see by the thoughtful expressions on the faces of the con- gregation that Rev. Mr. Chandler was a success- ful preacher and that he had delivered a very good sermon. And the above scene began to fade away and { saw Paul Hemric with a big cigar in his mouth in his office in the largest shoe factory in the South. His feet were on his desk and he had grown very stout but a look of satisfaction was on his face. As the scene shifted and another one came into view, I saw the interior of the shoe factory and from the number of men emp!oyed and the large machines that were in cperation, I knew he had succeeded in building up a fine bus:ness and was prosperous and happy. And the above scene vanished and I was still gazing into the crystal ball. Another scene appeared and then I saw Albert or “Rusty Abe”’ working in the largest furniture factory in the South and he, in his white overalls, was working on a wood turner. I could judge that he was the best worker in the factory for I could see many different beautiful novelties near the place where Abe was working. As this scene shifted and a picture of the interior of his home came into view, I saw that Albert had brought much furniture and many novelties which he had made, into his house. His home was situated on a eautiful mountain not far from Grandfather Mountain and seemed to be comfortable and well-furnished. When the above scene faded away, another scene appeared showing me a small figure of Joe Rouse in his office. On the window I saw in gold letters, ‘“Rouse, the Tailor.” He had a huge cigar in his mouth and a big pencil over