Rocky Mount High School - Hi Noc Ar Yearbook (Rocky Mount, NC)

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been maintained ever since, despite the fact that the requirements for accredited schools have been raised year after year. Rocky Mount's distinction, as one of the few schools in the State to be so recognized, has been a source of gratihcation to our com- munity. The high standing of the school has en- couraged and enabled large numbers of its graduates to be admitted to the different col- leges and universities of the country. Since 1914- students have gone from Rocky Mount to Johns Hopkins University. Virginia Mili- tary Institute. Randolph-Macon Womanis Col- lege, Randolph-Macon College for Men, Hollins Institute, Georgia School of Technol- ogy, Baltimore University, and Jefferson Med- ical College, and to practically every institu- tion in the State, especially to the University, the North Carolina College for Women, and A. K E. No school in the State was more loyal during the war. The pupils were 100 per cent Junior Red Cross members and they invested more than 5525.000 in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. At present every pupil is a member of a thrift society. In no single year of its history has the High School better justified its claim to be numbered among the foremost secondary in- stitutions of the State than in the one just past. Relief from the strain of the long and t. it l . . ,I I z lf tt 3 1 I Ninclccn.

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anxious months of war was given patriotic expression by the school and community in Our Heritagef' an historic pageant, exhibited on a bigger scale than has yet been attempted by any other school in the Slate. For the hrst time a non-teaching principal has been employed. resulting in increased elhciency on the part of teachers and pupils. In equipment. the school has been greatly improved. Books have been added to the library until it now contains about six hundred volumes. Physical and chemical laboratories have been supplied with all necessary apparatusg especially to be noted is the Domestic Science Department. which was opened for the first time in 1919. Its laboratories have all modern equipment for the teaching of sewing and cooking. The spirit of the student body is most commendable. Several organizations have grown up to develop this spirit. The Athletic Association has won State-wide honors for the school. The Chase Society and the Girls' Club do good work as voluntary literary organizations. The Student Council, composed of representatives from all the grades. is doing much toward bringing about a better understanding between the pupils and school authorities. Along every line of work progress is being made, and the future gives promise of a continued growth. TIl't'ltIVt -nm'