Roxboro High School - Rocket Yearbook (Roxboro, NC)

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WHITE GRADED SCHOOL OF ROXBORO FROM 1911 TO 1921 The growth of our white school can best be appreciated by comparing some of the statistics for the years 1911-1912 and 1920-1921, respectively. These cover the ten years of the administration of the present superintendent. 1911-12 1920-‘21 Number of teachers (including suqerintendent).......... 10 14 Number of pupils enrolled... ee OME Bk vee DE oe oe ES 431 Number of pupils in average daily attendance... 244 360 Total salaries of teachers and superintendent ..................... $5,348.00. $15,180.00 Total expenditures-for-all- purposes: cocccccccccccccccccsscscssssssssesses cttccesee $5,940.88 $16,971.65 The items of average daily attendance and total expenditures for 1920-‘21 is a care- ful approximation, as the reports for the year have not yet been made out; but the other items are accurate. During the years 1911-1912. there were only two high school teachers. and only 63 high school pupils were enrolled. There are now four high school teachers, and already 91 high school pupils have been enrolled for this year. To be sure, during 1911-1912 the superintendent did. more teaching in the high school than he is doing now. A third high school teacher was added at the beginning of the year 1912-1913, and the fourth high school teacher at the beginning of 1919-1920. The fourth year of the high school was given for the first time in 1918-1919. In 1916-1917 we ran a primary, one-teacher school in a cottage in East Roxboro for the benefit of the small children east of the railroad and also to relieve the congestion in the primary grades of the main school. That was continued for four years; but, in 1920, the mill authorities erected a modern two-room school building, and we are nowrunning a two-teacher school in that community and are doing the work of five grades. During the year 1919-1920, we reached the limit of our capacity and had to refuse admission to many outside Roxboro who applied for admission. On the first day of the present year admission was refused to several who were here seeking to enter our schools, because of a lack of room. We have been able to accommodate about twenty-five more children this year than last only because of another room and another teacher in East Rox- boro. If we could have admitted all who desired to enter our schools, there is no doubt that our enrollment would have gone to between five hundred and six hundred. There were some in our graduating classes of 1912 and 1913 who did not complete a full course of even the three years which was then offered. These were given certificates instead of diplomas. Three boys and four girls received certificates at these two com- mencements. After'1913 it was decided to discontinue giving certificates, but to grant diplomas to all who completed the high school course. During the nine years 1912-1920 in- clusive, there have been twenty-five boys and forty-six girls, a total of seventy-one, who have received our high school diploma, in addition to the seven who received certificates. There were no graduates in 1918, because of the addition of a fourth year to our high school course. Of our graduates, sixteen boys and thirty-two girls, a total of forty-eight, have gone on to college or some other higher institution of learning. Also two ofthe three boys and two of the four girls who received certificates went on to other institutions of learning, besides a considerable number who have been studenrs in our high school but did not graduate. ; Most of our graduates of the last two years, since we have had a four-year high school course, have been admitted without condition to our colleges. A few have had some conditions to remceve, because of failure to meet fully the entrance requirements on account of the loss of time from the influenza. As soon as we get our new high school building, equipped to meet the requirements of a modern high school, we shall be in posi- tion to prepare our graduates adequately to enter college; and, for those who cannot go to college, to enter the battle of life with greater hope of success. A

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the students of the Senior Class of 1921, being of most brilliant mind and sound body, also having immense wealth and a generous heart, do hereby declare this our last will and testament: ’ eo First. To the Junior Class we bequeath our most dear and less used Senior privi- leges. Juniors, use them all for we have been unable to make any sign of wear on them. Second. To the Sophomores we bequeath the smallest things we have, as they have proved that small things agree with them. Our ability to get out of hard work, we think that when they get to the Senior Class they will be able to have their lessons in the cloak room. Third. To the Freshman Class we bequeath our pep, our intellect, our liking for our books and our “get along spirit” with Miss Redfern, and last our good looks, (excuse us we will have to laugh). They should be able to finish high school in three years with these. Now, that these are well provided for, we turn to bequeath other gifts to other people, that they be not left in cold darkness. ERR Fourth. To Mr. Stalvey we give this advice, “Let not old age and athletics interfere with your work.” Fifth. To the girls of the High School we give this advice, “Do not attend too many ball games that the High School schedules, you know that disease germs spread rapidly in large crowds.” Sixth. To the teachers we extend this advice, “Do not let the pupils of the High School run over you, always stand up for your rights, that should be easy as Bismark said, “Might Makes Right.” Seventh. To Miss Goode and Miss Talbutt, we give those names they took from us. Teachers you took them without our permission, but you may have them, we do not want them back. Eighth. To Miss Mildred and Miss Redfern we give our best wish. “May your homes be blessed with much happiness.” Ninth. Sam Merritt and Giles McCrary bequeaths their likizg for Athletics to Ken- neth Oakley and Winfrey Clayton, also the leg part of their Basket-ball suits, the foot has gone to its reward. Tenth. Minnie Lee Winstead and Bill Hall bequeaths their unexcelled Algebra grades to Elizabeth Featherstone and Nathaniel Warren. Eleventh. Robert Burch bequeaths his “wiggling” to Edward Bowles. Twelfth. Mary Lou Winstead bequeaths her “ability to know it all” to Mattie Hatchett. Thirteenth. Robert Long bequeaths “his get along ways with the girls” to Nathan- iel Warren. Fourteenth. Julia Yancey bequeaths her ability to pull down windows to Elizabeth Featherstone. Fifteenth. Isabel de Vlaming and Giles McCrary bequeaths their gift cf working the “old bluff” to Muzette Winstead and Helen Harris. Sixteenth. Willie Crowder and Minnie Lee Winstead bestows all their forms of for- mality to Louise Wilburn and Margaret Carlton. Seventeenth. To William Walker and Lawrence Allgood we bequeath this right, “To play on any team the High School may put forth for the next six years, we are sure they will still be here. —SAM MERRITT. CLARENCE OWEN WILLIAM HALL, Witnesses. 26

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C) JUNIOR CLASS ROLL Janie Abbitt Millie J. Brooks Janie Bradsher Pearl Bradsher Sallie Day Edwin Eberman Bertha Featherstone Robert Featherstone Elizabeth Featherstone Felix Fleig Elaine Goode Mary Hatchett Mattie Hatchett Mary B. Hall Clyde Hall Foy Jones Odelle Lunsford Elizabeth Masten Odell Mitchell Eva Newton Kenneth Oakley Eddie Perkins Marion de Vlaming Nathaniel Warren Muzette Winstead ' Dorothy Younger 28