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

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CLASS HOBBIES By ALBERT MaTuIs Me DWARD FARNELL’S favorite hobby is collecting clippings about scientific happen- ings, about new inventions, discoveries and ex- periments. He knows more about such things than any other boy in school. He always takes a deep interest in accounts of experiments and disco- veries. His favorite magazine is The Popular Science Monthly and he usually hangs on to it till his mind, which seems to be always exploring new things, has thoroughly grasped the meaning of the articles in it. Wallace Kinlaw likes to collect stamps. He has some 4,000 stamps in all. He has about 350 United States stamps. He has been collecting them since he was in the sixth grade in 1927. He is so much interested in stamps that he joined the Morganton Junior Stamp Club and tries to be present at every meeting. He is planning to secure the Boy Scout merit badge on stamp collecting in the near future. From collecting stamps he has gained valuable information of geography and history of other countries. Roy Chandler reads all the political news he can find. He has a trunk full of political clippings, pictures of politicians, and information about them and their lives. He takes deep interest in the study of civics and hopes to learn more about how the government is run. The teachers and in- dustrial instructors say that he will make a wise voter because he ‘“‘knows his onions” about such things and will not be easily fooled into voting for the wrong man. Albert Mathis’ hobby is making things from wood. He thoroughly enjoys that kind of work and has made several good pieces of furniture in his leisure time. He hopes to pass the Boy Scout merit for wood turning this month. He already has three merit badges on wood-working. Joe Rouse collects souvenirs of his sporting days. He gets something from almost every place he goes. A football shoe cleat there and a shoe string here. He has pictures of almost all the teams that he has played against or newspaper clippings about them. He has souvenirs of his football, basketball and baseball trips. He wants to keep them to remember the friends he has made on these trips. He lost almost all of them when his home was burned a few months ago. Paul Hemric has a desire to be an automobile mechanic. He likes to investigate the mechanism of cars and find out how the parts work and what they are for. He has liked to work on automobiles since he was a small boy. Although he is a cobbler, he likes to work on automobiles in his spare time. ‘Joyce Flynn has been collecting pictures of his school days. He has been taking pictures for several years and has many kodak views of our camping trips, his possum hunts and hikes. He has pictures of the football, basket ball and base- ball teams and many more taken on the campus. These pictures will give him many pleasant hours as he looks them over and recalls incidents of his school life. He may win prizes in amateur photog- raphy.

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his ear and he was issuing orders to the em- ployees. Then I saw fashionably dressed people coming out and going into the shop. I concluded from the cut of the men’s suits that Joe was a successful tailor. I wondered where his shop was, but just before the picture faded, I saw the outline of the dome of the capitol against the sky and then I knew he lived in Washington, D.C. As the above scene disappeared, another one appeared showing me the figure of Joe Rouse riding in his big car out to the outskirts of Wash- ington. Finally I saw the car draw up to a pretty house and a handsome lady came out to greet Joe on his arrival. Then I knew he was married and he had a nice home near Washington. Slowly the scene about the future of Joe’s glided away and Joyce Flynn’s figure appeared and I knew that I was looking into Joyce’s future. He had a large farm. Whe tertile land produced fine crops. I saw a substantial farm house surrounded by a lovely lawn. Near it were fields of tobacco, corn and cotton. Many men were working in the field. On the other side of the fields were cattle grazing in the pasture and great flocks of chickens dotted the land by the pasture. I saw Joyce mounted on a snow white horse riding through the fields giving orders to his hired men. He looked fat and pros- perous. I was still gazing into the crystal ball when the above scene disappeared and the minature figure of myself appeared and I knew that I was looking into my own future. Slowly scene after scene of my life appeared in the crystal ball and I read my future in them. I was a famous scientist living on the top of Mt. Mitchell, the highest mountain in Western North Carolina. The first scene showed me in a big observatory room where I spent my nights looking up at the sky. One side of my room was a huge sliding glass and before this was a big 200 inch telescope through which I gazed at the stars in the uni- verse, making some very interesting discoveries about the planets and other. heavenly bodies. Then another scene of my laboratory room ap- peared. I saw benches upon which there were row after row of test tubes, bottles and myster- ious looking instruments. There I saw a tiny figure of myself at work on the benches. I was making experiments which proved that some of the scientific theories were true and some were false. Then the above scene disappeared and I turned away from the crystal ball and looked about the tent taking a deep breath. There was a gloomy atmosphere in the tent. The Hindu was still sitting in the corner smiling and was watching me. I wondered if the future of my classmates and myself were true after all. I paid the man and strolled out into the sun light well satisfied to know that the ‘Depression Class” would turn out so successfully and I wondered if our motto “Strive and Thrive” would not help bring us success.

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SPORTS By Jor RousE v HEN I entered school, the boys had few sports, but they had military training. The girls had very few sports and took very little exercise. They took a brisk walk on Sunday if the weather was good, but when they had finished their work on week days, they did not know what to do. The boys had a good basketball team and a baseball team. Basket ball was the chief sport at that time, but no football was played. In 1923 our gymnasium was built. It contains a swimming pool, a bowling-alley, and a recrea- tion hall. It has been giving us a great deal of pleasure. Every year a class of boys and girls have taken the Red Cross life saving test. We have many more pleasures than we used to have. In 1926 Mr. Underhill came here from Florida and became our head coach. Our new athletic field was graded and laid off in 1927. He organ- ized a new football team. The boys played awkwardly at first, but the next year they made a splendid record winning six games and losing only two by a close score and tying one game. In 1926-27-28 our basket ball players took part in basket ball tournaments in Atlanta, Georgia, which were held to see which team of deaf boys would win the championship of the South. I went there in 1928. In 1930 we had a successful football team and won most of the games. In the winter of 1931 we joined the Western Conference of the State High School Athletic Association. We had a hard time trying to defeat the heavy teams for we were too light to fight against the husky lads. We did splendid defen- sive work, but we made poor progress on the offense side. In 1928 the foot ball team, with four substi- tutes, motored to Virginia. I was one of the sub- stitutes, so I went along. The next day we had a game with the boys of the Virginia School for the Deaf. It was a hot fought game. On the way back home we had an opportunity to visit Lexington, Virginia. There we saw Washington and Lee University and the chapel in which Robert E. Lee is buried. We enjoyed that trip. At another time we made a journey to Ten- nessee where we had an exciting football game with their team, but we were disappointd at losing the game to them. We went across the Blue Ridge Mountains where we obtained a beautiful view. In February, 1928 our basket ball players with two substitutes went to Atlanta, Ga. There the basket ball teams from all the Southern Schools for the Deaf met to take part in a tournament to decide who would win the championship of the South. We enjoyed seeing the sights of Atlanta. Arkansas won the championship. We stayed in Atlanta one day and returned here by way of Asheville. It was a nice trip. I have been to South Carolina School for the Deaf four times with our basket ball team. We have never won any basket ball games on their court because it is too small, but we have won several games from them on our court. During the winter on every Tuesday night we have made many short trips to neighboring towns to have basket ball games with the other schools. These trips have been a great pleasure to us. It has been good for us to mingle with the hearing boys. It has given us more self confidence and will help us to get along with people when we are through school. Sports are good for us because they make our bodies strong, improve our health and develop our muscles. They help us to be useful, self-controlled citizens. They help us to take defeat cheerfully. We have had a great deal of pleasure in playing games and making many nice trips to other schools. We have made many good friends among the hearing boys through these games. All this will help us when we leave school.