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

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in school twelve years. She has been promoted every year and has done very good work. She has a sweet disposition and has won many friends. She has learned to swim and has stood the Junior Red Cross Life Saving test. She has played on the first basketball team for five years. She was a Girl Scout for two years. She has been taught to sew and cook. She has helped her mother make dresses during her summer vaca- tions. She wants to be a dressmaker. She is fond of reading, especially Western stories. She was nineteen years old in April. Elsie Readling comes from Cornelius, Meck- lenburg County. She lost her hearing as the result of whooping cough when she was five weeks old. Her parents heard about this school from Kathleen Knox, the deaf daughter of one of their neighbors. Kathleen brought Elsie to school with her in the fall of 1925. She has not lost any time from school as her health has been excellent. When she was in the fourth grade she became a Girl Scout. A year later she successfully passed the Junior Red Cross Life Saving test. Basketball is her favorite sport. She has played on the first basketball team for two years. She liked algebra best of all her studies. Her favorite past time is reading. She has a very sweet disposition and is a general favorite. She has been trained in sewing and cooking. When she leaves school, she wants to be a dressmaker till she has a home of her own. Lillian McCorquodale is from Durham. She was born deaf. Her mother was a former pupil of this school, but her father is a hearing man. She has one deaf sister who finished school several years ago. Lillian entered school in 1924 and has come to school regularly. She is the most athletic girl in school. She played on the first basketball team for several years and is an excellent swimmer. She spends her leisure time reading, crocheting and taking pictures. She has been taught sewing, cooking and general housekeeping and hopes to be a dressmaker. Luther Yerton is from Concord. He was born totally deaf. He is the son of deaf parents. His father attended the School for the Deaf when it was in Raleigh and his mother, who was Miss Ada Phillips, attended school first in Raleigh then here. Luther has two deaf sisters, both younger than he. He entered school in 1925 and has been regular in his attendance. He has been promoted every year and ranks among the third highest in his class. He has a good disposi- tion and has given very little trouble to those in authority over him. He enjoys outdoor sports and all kinds of games. He has played football, basketball and baseball. He likes to swim and go on hikes. He enjoys going to moving pictures but his chief recreation is reading the paper. He has worked in the printing office for four years and has been trained as a linotypist. He wants to get a position as a linotype operator when he leaves here. Joseph Blaylock comes from Canton. His deafness was caused by a rising in his head when he was eight months old. He did not enter school till he was eight years old. He and Max Brown have been in the same class during all of their school life. He entered school in 1924. Miss Scott was his first teacher. He had to repeat the tenth grade work as there was no graduating class in 1935. He is fond of sports. Football is his favorite game. He played on the first football team for several years but had to stop playing as he hurt his cheek bone. He likes to go to the moving pictures and reading the paper is his favorite past time. He worked in the tailor shop for several years but he did not like the work. This year he has been working in the boiler room. His ambition is to get a position with the Champion Fiber Company at his home town.

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Class History HE CLASS was organized in September 1935. At that time Lillian McCorquodale, Max Brown and Joseph Blaylock were trans- ferred to this class. Laverne Palmer, Elsie Readling, Maxine Walker and Hayward Wright have been classmates ever since they entered school in 1925. Luther Yerton and Catherine Moore have been in the class since 1928. Mary Stevens was in the original class but was obliged to remain at home for nearly a year on account of illness and on her return, she was put into a lower grade. The average age of the class is nineteen, and the average number of years in school twelve. Hayward Wright, class president, is from Lawndale, Cleveland County. He was born par- tially deaf. He has two deaf sisters and a deaf brother. He entered school in 1925. Mrs. Clod- felter was his first teacher. He has attended school regularly and has usually led his class. He has an amiable, cheerful disposition and is popular, especially with the girls. He has taken an interest in sports and has been on the football and basketball teams ever since he was in the eighth grade. He has been trained in the print- ing office and hopes to secure a position as a linotype operator. He was nineteen years old April 22. Max Brown, vice president of the class, is a native of Hickory. His deafness is due to an attack of influenza which he contracted at the age of eighteen months. He entered the primary department of this school in September, 1924. He has done good work, often ranking first in his grade. He has a fine character and has never given any unnecessary trouble to his teachers or the officers. He was promoted every year till 1935 when it was necessary for him to repeat the tenth grade work as there was no graduating class that year. Max is athletic and was captain e of the 1935-1936 football team. He is a good swimmer. He has had five years training in the printing office. He hopes to enter Gallaudet College next fall. After finishing his education, he intends to be a linotype operator. Laverne Palmer was born in Lenoir September 26, 1918. Her deafness was caused by influenza when she was two years old. She is studious and has done good work both in the academic and industrial departments. She has taken an inter- est in both outdoor and indoor sports. She was on the first basketball team for several years. She was a Girl Scout and enjoyed one summer at the Girl Scout camp at Townsend, Tennessee. She is a good lip reader and has made friends with hearing girls of her own age wherever she has been. She sews well and hopes to be a dressmaker. Catherine Moore was born in Mt. Airy, Surry County in 1918. At the age of three she con- tracted spinal meningitis which resulted in her deafness. She entered school in 1925. She and Luther Yerton were classmates. In 1928 she was transferred to this class. She has a bright, attrac- tive manner and keen sense of humor. She enjoys life and is inclined to look on the bright side of every thing. She likes outdoor sports and has learned to swim well. She was a Girl Scout for three years and enjoyed hiking and camping. She has a good command of English but she is not very studious. Algebra has been the bane of her existence for the past two years. Physics is her favorite study. She is an inveterate reader and has exhausted the school library long ago. She would like to attend High School in Greens- boro after leaving school. Maxine Walker was born deaf. Winston- Salem is her native town. She has a deaf brother older than herself and a small sister. Her fami- ly now live in High Point where her brother is employed in a printing office. Maxine has been

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