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

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Class Superlatives aie (BeStaltOO KING) 0 Paul Crutchfield Pretiiest eG)... anon =. Carrie Morgan IWOstINLeliCci ia 0) ————— ——— Paul Crutchfield Most JileliceniG)) Ermine Stanley LOSERS TUQIOUS =D 0) a Grover Fordham Most Studious Gul 2 ee irminew taney WLOSt RL OPULI= 50 Paul Crutchfield WV OStePOPULGAG Ermine Stanley WVWosiA thieiic, D0) Guy Stevens IMOSTRALILE LIC“ GI) a .. Nelda Rozzelle WititestaP 0 Guy Stevens Witttest: G17) mane ee ee ee ATIC my OCU cnn WVEOSteINGUSII 201 56.0) Waverly Hood WV OSpelnausli10SaG 1) 2 Carrie Morgan WMO AW TE WOO oe . Edgar Newnam Vi OSieA mile Gt) en . Nelda Rozzelle DES BIDE S COnD.0 ne . Edgar Newnam Bests Dressed Gl). a eee Carne wv 01 gan Tallest Boy Tallest Girl iota ee ee Edgar Newnam ee Nelda Rozzelle

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high standing in school. He has spent much of his time playing pranks on the boys and having a good time. He has a keen sense of humor and is full of fun This has made him popular with the boys. His health has been good and he has taken an interest in all the sports. He plays football, basketball, baseball and bowls. He does not enjoy swimming, but he likes to tramp through the mountains. He plays volley ball in his leisure time. Edgar Newnam is from Pelham, Caswell County. He was born totally deaf. The cause of his deafness is unknown. He has an older brother who is deaf and attended school here. He came to school for the first time in 1925. He has a fine character and has been a model of good behavior. He is neat and precise in all he does. He has never attained a high rank in scholarship but has done his best and we predict for him success in his work. He is athletic and has played on the first football, basketball and baseball teams. He enjoys hiking, swimming and all out door sports. His health is excellent. He has been trained in tailoring for six years. When he leaves school, he wants to get work in a tailor shop. If he fails in this, he will be a farmer. ERY Glassroimivos EEE NAME NICKNAME PET EXPRESSION AMBITION Paul Crutchfield Generalissimo le cdomisecates Linotyping Grover Fordham Model T “T don’t know.” Tailoring Waverly Hood Parson “What say?” Cabinet making Carrie Morgan Camae “Nothing” Housekeeping Edgar Newnam Professor “All right” Tailoring Nelda Rozzelle Nell ‘le cant Melpelic Homemaking Ermine Stanley Snoots Now Dress designing Guy Stevens Happy-Go-Lucky “What?” Cabinet making (2 Ee ee ae

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Class Autobiographies q aie Ermine Mary Stanley I was born early one Monday morning in the spring of 1917. The day was the second of April, only four days before the United States entered the World War. The place was New Smyrna, Florida, a pretty town on the extreme east coast of the state about fifteen miles south of the well- known Daytona Beach. It was there that I spent my early childhood. How well I remember the orange trees, bend- ing down with golden fruit, the gray Spanish moss hanging from the oak trees, the sweet-smelling magnolias, the stately palms, and at Christmas, the beautiful poinsettias that grew far above my head. Most of all I remember my old home, the sea-shell school building and the little brown brick church where I enjoyed going on Sunday mornings. My father and mother were both North Carolinians and when I was in the fourth grade my family moved back to North Carolina. We had moved once before, but this time we were to make the O.d North State our permanent home. I started my fifth year of school at White- ville, where my home is at present. I successfully completed my grade and was promoted to the sixth. I felt very proud because I thought I would have only two more years in grammar school. But then, I did not know what the near future would bring. A little more than two months later, the first of July, I was taken seriously ill and carried to the James Walker Hospital, in Wilmington where I underwent several operations. In the fall of that year, as a result of my sickness, I lost my hearing. Attempts were made to restore it, but all failed. I was in bad health for several years. Knowing that I was deaf, I knew that I could not attend public school again. Mother and Father had heard of the School for the Deaf at Morganton and since I wanted to go to school, they decided to let me come here, so after missing six years of school I started again and in such a different place. At first I thoroughly disliked it and wanted to go back home. Seeing the girls signing, made me feel like a foreigner in some distant land. This feeling soon left me, for I found that the girls could talk to me and understand what I said. After being with them a few weeks, I felt like one of them. This is my fourth year here and not a day have I regretted that I came. I think that I have been greatly benefitted by coming as have many others who came before me and as will be many others who come when I am gone. A great deal of credit, I think, should go to the teachers for nowhere have I seen teachers who were so interested in their pupils and so willing to help them. I think that we were very lucky to have Dr. Goodwin for our superintendent so long and lucky again to have his son-in-law, Dr. Rankir succeed him. Dr. Goodwin’s life work was teach- ing and helping the deaf and as a result of his work many a deaf person’s life has been made brighter and more useful than it otherwise would have been. When I leave school I expect to be a dress- maker or take up beauty culture.