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ECIATTON HENRY BURWELL MARROW The class of 1953 should be commended for setting down in black and white, before it is gone and forgotten, the history of the first half century of public schools in Smithfield. My class was enrolled in 1912 and graduated in 1923, so the half dozen of us who stayed on the treadmill for the full cycle had contact with one of the five decades now being chronicled. We were the first class to begin our schooling in the new brick building that was erected on the site of the wooden monstrosity which had housed Turlington Institute. As a matter of fact, at the time of our matriculation the new building had not been entirely finished and for a few initial weeks we wrestled with our ABC ' s in a second-floor room above a grocery store on the north side of Market Street. Eleven years later we were the first class to be graduated from the high school building. While these two firsts do not particularly burden us with fame they do show that our class was to a degree a link between the old and the new in the educational life of Smithfield. When we were first graders people were still coming to town once a year, in huge numbers, mainly by horse and buggy, to decorate the graves of the Confederate dead. And when we graduated our valedictorian was quoting a World War I poem beginning, In Flanders fields. . . All this is put down here not to suggest that we were anything extraordinary but rather to indicate which was our era. That is necessary in order to come to the point I wish to make— simply, that in our times, that transitional decade between the old and the new, the one man most responsible for educa- tional progress in Smithfield was Henry B. Marrow. I doubt that this statement will be challenged by anyone who was familiar with conditions in the Smithfield School when Mr. Marrow arrived around 1916 and when he moved on to head the county schools around 1922. If anything, my statement is too obvious. Somewhere in this volume there is, perhaps, a detailed record of the advances made by the schools under Mr. Marrow. However, records rarely convey the intangibles. Call it spirit, tone or mood, there was a considerable change under Mr. Marrow. When a long heat spell is broken the weather records show that at Henry Burwell Marrow such and such an hour the mercury dropped so many degrees. But what the persons on the spot at the time recall, the persons who had waited and waitecfand waited for relief to come, is that a cool refreshing breeze swept over the land. Educationally, Henry B. Marrow was such a breeze. The years dim our memory of precisely how many degrees the educa- tional mercury changed, but we do vividly recall how he invigorated us all. DON WHARTON 24 Gra mercy Park New York
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Ira Thomas Turlington IN APP IRA THOMAS TURLINGTON (1859 - 1918) An opportunity to pay tribute to the memory of Professor Ira T. Turlington is welcome indeed. Much time has elapsed since I last saw him, and more since I sat in his classroom. Yet the impressions of him formed long ago have but little dimmed with the passing years. Moving to Smithfield in boyhood, I was soon enrolled in Turlington Institute and for several years v as in almost daily contact with Pro- fessor Turlington. I learned to like him for his fairness, to esteem him for his kindness, to respect him for his firmness, and to admire him for his ability and integrity. By precept and example he sought to inculcate high ideals in the young people under his charge. His influence endures in the lives of those whom he taught, and his community and state are richer because of his life and work. Colonel Oscar R. Rand, U.S.A., Retired. Washington, D. C. (Member first graduating class of Smithfield Graded School) IRA THOMAS TURLINGTON I saw him first at Turlington Institute in 1901, when I was a boy of five and he was a man of forty. I saw him last in 191 1 on the platform of Turlington Graded School in the closing chapel exer- cises of the year. I grew up under his influence in the school and on the school grounds, and studied under his teaching in the eighth grade Latin class. I have forgotten the Latin, but not the man who taught It, nor the personality, character, and painstaking thoroughness which came to his students through the interstices of Latin grammar. His name was a household word in my family, in the town of Smithfield and the county of Johnston, and in the surrounding territory in eastern North Carolina from which his students came. His life out- lived his body, as succeeding teachers continued his schooling principles, as school boards settled many a problem of educational policy by recalling what Ira Turlington had said, as his students named their children for him a generation after he had gone with a silent prayer that they might grow up in his image and likeness. He was born in 1859 and grew up in the Pleasant Hill community in Johnston County in the days of Civil War and reconstruction, went to the University of North Carolina in 1879, graduated in 1883, went back home to plow his own life into the lives of his fellow citizens in the belief that men and women can not only lift themselves by their own bootstraps but they can not lift themselves in any other way; and at the end of a lifetime looked back upon his pioneering labors with the heart lifting assurance that a prophet is not always without honor in his own country and among his own people. If Aycock, Alderman, Mclver, and Joyner at the turn of the century could go forward in a state- wide program of education for all the children of all the people, it was because they were standing on the shoulders of men like Ira Turlington who for a generation had planted their lives in a thousand com- munities throughout the land and laid the foundations of life more abundant in North Carolina. INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Albert Coates, Director Page 4
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HISTORIANS OF OUR TIME MRS. A. G. GLENN English, Speech MR. ROY J. BROWN History, Coach MR. OSCAR BRANNAN Algebra MRS. MARY SPHANGOS English, French MISS MARY TAYLOR Science MRS. ELIZABETH LIDE Commercial MISS RUBY LANGFORD Mathematics, Geography MISS INEZ WANNAMAKER Latin, English MR. A. G. GLENN Principal MRS. MILDRED BELL Librarian, English MRS. RAMONA CASH Home Economics MISS JANE LEWIS English, History
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