Rock Hill High School - Bearcat Yearbook (Rock Hill, SC)

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A HEARTY SALUTE TO MRS. MARY THOMSON SPENCER, THE OLDEST LIVING BEARCAT,' The oldest known, living graduate of Rock Hill public schools is Mary Thomson CMrs. Samuel Reidj Spencer, a resident of Columbia, South Carolina. Mrs. Spencer was born in Abbeville, South Carolina, on October ll, 1886, the daughter of Dr. James William Thomson and Sarah Perrin Thomson. Her father, Doctor Thomson, was the second superintendent of the Rock Hill Graded School Cforerunner of the Rock Hill High Schoolj and later was a venerated professor of Education and Bible at Winthrop College. He was known as Tommy to gen- erations of Winthrop graduates. Thomson Hall on the Winthrop campus is named for him. Mrs. Spencer was the first-honor graduate of the Class of 1902 of the Rock Hill Graded School. She entered Winthrop before her sixteenth birthday, finishing there in 1906. Later, she returned to teach at the Rock Hill Graded School, where she met her future husband, Samuel Reid Spencer, also a faculty member there. They were married in 1915. Two children were ultimately born to this union: Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., now president of Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, and Mrs. Sarah Spencer Gramling. There are now seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Thus we see that three generations of this family have served the cause of education well and long. Rock Hill High School, the lineal descendant of the Rock Hill Graded School, proudly claims its connection with these distinguished friends and educators. We wish Mrs. Spencer well as she approaches her ninety-seventh birthday! Mary Thomson Spencer Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr., Ph.D. CMrs. Samuel Reid SpencerD President of Davidson College 13

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