Thomasville High School - Growler Yearbook (Thomasville, NC)

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MR. G. H. ARNOLD MR. S. HORTON S Il pe rj 121 cm! em' Pmzfipal BOARD OF EDUCATION Slallldljllg, Jef! to rjgfalf Mr, Harry Curlee, Dr. O. R. Hodgin, Mr. G. H. Arnold Q Seated: Mr. J. D. Fraley, Dr. R. I.. McDonald, Mr. Russell Van Landingham. X 8 Q

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For more than thirty years Mr. J. N. I-Iauss led in developing the Thomasville schools from a single frame building, housing a seven grade school, to a modern and efflcient system of gram- mar and high schools. Some of those who knew him during those years may feel that a building other than a gymnasium might more appropriately have been named for him. lt is true that he never particularly emphasized athletics or physical edu- cation, but on second thought one must realize that any building that contributes to the develop- ment in any way of the youth of Thomasville may happily bear Mr. Hauss' name. He has always been interested in the education of the whole individual and never over-emphasized any particular field. Let us hope that the Hauss Gymnasium may long serve to promote the welfare of generations of Thomasville students. But Mr. Hauss is far more enduringly memorialized in the lives of hundreds of men and women in this town andielsewhere to whom he taught by precept, and especially by ex- ample, those qualities of character that a good athletic program promotes: integrity, sportsman- ship, consideration of others, clean living, and self- control. A Long ago, when Mr. Hauss used to teach ninth grade English, he asked his students to memorize lines from Shakespeare that might well apply to him, His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a manl'

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FACULTY Allison Oliver Eargle Miss Betty Allison . Mrs. E. C. Burrus . . Miss Vera Dixon . . Mr. Lawrence Page Mrs. James Oliver Miss lla Hensley . . Miss Naomi Howie Mr. L. D. Shealy . . Mr. G. M. Eargle .... Mrs. David Jackson Miss Betty Welch . Mr. Chester I. Litwin . . . Burrus Hensley jackson Dixon Page Howie Shealy Welch Litwin ....... ... Home Making . . . ....... Efzglifh ......... S0ria!Sf1zdiel' . . . Dizferfified Ol'CIlpdfj07I Librarian . . . . . . . . Pzzblic School Mnfic Bible . . . Playmzzl Edzrfaliou, Mallaematirf ...................Matbematirr Girly' Healllo and Physical Edzzmiiofz Malbenzaticf . Band Director