Salisbury High School - Beacon Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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H. CRAWFORD BOUNDS, Examiner and Treasurer of Public Schools for Wicomico County. 4

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INTRODUCTION. 4 4 4 A book without a preface is like a dinner without dessert, with this difference, the dessert comes last and is awaited as the best part of the dinner, while the preface is in the beginning and is skipped by most read¬ ers as the dullest, most uninteresting part. Still it is an unwritten law that every book must have a preface. Thinking that our kind friends and well-wishers might care to know what w e are doing up here in our little kingdom, we, the Class of 1904, humbly present this book, the fruit of our first labor, to your view ' . May ' it fulfill our best wishes for it and give you pleasure. 3

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H. Crawford Bounds. Mr. H. Crawford Bound t he present county School Examiner, first attended the public school of his nat ive village, Mardela Spring!. After “keeping school” in this cmaty a couple of years he attended the State Normal School, then principaled by that prince of teachers, Dr. M. A. Newell, when the subject of this sketch graduated in 1882. In the fall of that year he accepted the principalship of the Oxford High School, in Talbot county which position he filled for three years when he resigned to accept a professorship in the Maryland Military and Naval Academy then being organized in Oxford. This place he held during the life of the school, two years. In the summer of ’87 Mr. Bounds conducted a Summer Normal at Mardela Springs which was attended by many of the teachers of this and adjoining counties. This was his last active school work in the State until he was made county Examiner some four years ago. In the fall of 87 Mr. Bounds went south and entered upon a business life in Alabama. He, however, still kept up his interest in school matters and was for several years residence in the south secretary and treasurer of a local school board. Returning to his na¬ tive State in 1890 he again took up his residence at his old home at Mardela Springs and in the spring of 1900 was made county Examiner. Since that time he has been conspicuous in all efforts to attain a higher degree of efficiency in the public school system of Maryland. lie is a staunch friend of the new education and through his efforts, in a great measure, a practical course of study has been adopted by the State Board of Education and is now in effect throughout the entire state. The State Teachers Association while in session at Ocean City in 1903 made him president; he is also a member of the Board of Managers of the State Teachers Reading Circle. II i 9 work to the state at large has been most valuable yet his chief ambition has been to promote the best interests of education in his own county and especially is this notice tble in the rural districts. He has fully realized the needs of our rural schools and his heart has been with the boys and girls who attend those schools; he has worked to give them the best teachers available, has urged that their surroundings be made homelike and that all discouraging conditions be eliminated so far as possible. During his administration a great deal has been done along the line of systematizing the grade work and in bringing the teacher up along the line of professional work. The latter is evidenced by the teachers meetings, the district associations, and the present way of con¬ ducting our County Institutes.