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

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935 Normal Training Class Left to right: BiLLre Sims, Dorotuy Poac, ELizABETH NEWLAND, Mina AVERY

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Two Boy Scouts’ Ambition Realized By JAMES RussELL HERRING BY I JOINED Troop 3, the Boy Scouts of America at this schooi in November, 1928. Lyon Dickson, my old friend and classmate, had joined the troop at his home in Durham during the summer of 1927. Mr. Fred Kent, of Illinois, who organ- ized the troop here, was our first Scoutmaster. He taught us the true meaning of the Scout Oath and the Scout laws. He took us on hikes to the mountains and did a great deal to interest us in Scouting. The next year Mr. Kent left here, and Mr. O. W. Underhill succeeded him as Scoutmaster. He kept up the good work that Mr. Kent had started and inspired us to keep on trying to advance in Scout work. For the last two years Mr. Harold Larsen has been our Scoutmaster and has done good work with the troop. Lyon Dickson has been associated with the Durham Scouts during his summer vacations ever since he joined them in 1927. He went canoeing with them from Smithfield to New- bern on the Neuse River in the summer of 1932. He was elected as the honor camper that summer. He has attended both the Pied- mont Council Camp and Camp Craggy in summer time. During my summer vaca- tions, I have been a mem- ber of Troop 11, Rocky Mount and Troop 1, Clin- ton. I had more than one month of camping at White Lake last summer. There I was elected as the best All-round camper. EAGLE SCOUTS RusseL L Herrtinc and Lyon Dickson Ever since we became Scouts, Lyon and I have been working for merit badges in camping, first aid, athletics, life saving, personal health, public health, bird study, camping, civics, cooking, path- finding, safety, firemanship, first aid to animals, scholarship, pioneering and other things. Lyon has twenty-three merit badges and I have twenty- six. On April 12 our highest ambition was reached when we were admitted to the rank of the Eagle Scouts at a Court of Honor held in our auditorium. On April 27 we attended the Scout Jamboree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. About 1,500 Scouts from differet councils of our state attended the meeting. James West, Chief Scout Executive, and Governor Ehringhaus made addresses. Lyon and I were glad that we were Scouts and could take part in the great meeting. Scouting has been a great benefit to us: We have been associated with hearing Boy Scouts and have learned to get along with people. We have enjoyed the camping and hiking and feel that Scout work has done a great deal towards making us useful citizens. We are indebted to our superintendent, Dr. Good- win, our committeemen; Messrs. Underhill and Alex- ander, Scoutmaster Larsen and Scout Executive Schiele of Gastonia for inspiration and support and deep inter- est in our Scouting. “Br PREPARED”

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1935 Normal Training Class Bt 7 ue Crass in normal training at the North Carolina School this year is made up of five young women who come from four different states. Miss Billie Sims is from Talladega, Alabama, and was graduated with the class of 1934 from Alabama State College for Women, Montevallo, Alabama. She earned the B. S. degree in the field of Physical Education. While in coilege she took an active part in all school athletics, winning a number of awards. She was a member of the Student Senate and was elected to the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. As a part of her normal course Miss Sims has had charge of all physical activities for the girls, including assistance in the direction of the Girl Scout troop. Miss Elizabeth Newland’s home is in Pasa- dena, California. She attended Duke University, Durham,. North Carolina, for one year and was eraduated, after three years’ attendance, from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her major study was History, in which she holds an A. B. degree. She worked in the University Dramatics Society and was affiliated with the Kappa Gamma Sorority in which she served as chairman of the Standards Committee. Before coming to North Carolina for normal training, Miss Newland was engaged in social welfare work in Los Angeles. Miss Dorothy Poag’s home and Alma Mater are both in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She was graduated in 1934 from Winthrop College. Miss Poag took the Primary-Kinderarten course at Winthrop, specializing in this field of Education and winning a Bachelor of Arts degree. During her four years of training she was active in both the Athletic Association and the Student Gov- ernment Association. Miss Mina Avery, whose home is in Morgan- ton, North Carolina, is an alumna of Berea Col- lege, Berea, Kentucky. She holds an A. B. de- gree form Berea, having done major work in the English department. In school she worked on the paper, Te Pinnacle. During her last year she served as president of the Women’s Student Council. Miss Avery has had work in her normal training course as student-teacher of a prepara- tory class. Miss Nevelyn Wall also lives in Morganton. She attended Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina, for one year, where she was a member of the staff of the school annual The Laurel, and of the Nonpareil Literary Society She was graduated from Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia, where she was active in school athletics. Last year she was a student in Women’s College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Miss Wall has taught Home Economics classes and helped direct the Girl Scout troop as a part of her work during normal training. During the second semester Mrs. Elizabeth Walker of Morganton has also been with the class. She was trained in the training class of 1918-1919 and is expecting to reenteer the work. She has not taken the complete course but has reviewed a part of the work.