Union High School - Gleam Yearbook (Union, SC)

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Personnel All Enjo Hobbies And Taking Trips Working with flowers was shown to be the most popu- lar pastime of Union area personnel, from a questionnaire circulated among them by the GLEAM. Other interests and activities enjoyed by the secretaries and office work- ers, included testing new recipes, playing bridge, sewing, working needlepoint, working in the yard, and making short trips. Trips of special note were taken by Mrs. Gladys Gamer who went to New Orleans, Louisiana, and to Houston, Texas, and by Mrs. Elizabeth Peake who attended the American School Food Service Associational convention in Washington, D. C. Family and homelife appeared as featured matter with some. Mrs. Katherine Gregory was proud to have come PERSONNEL: ftop to bottom, left to rightj Mrs. Dolly Clyburn, county librarian, Mrs. Theo Dunbar, county secretary, Mr. Farr Fincher, maintenance superintendent of area schools, Mrs. Edith Flynn, visiting teacher, Mrs. Gladys Garner, Union area secretary, Mrs. Katherine Gregory, Union area bookkeeper, Mrs. Grace James, from a large family of 15, children, Mrs. Eva Smith en- joyed doing outside activities with her two boys and husband participating, Mrs. Grace James was pleased when her son won fourth place in an essay contest. Some of the personnel especially liked their work with young people, as was stated by Mrs. Thelma Sims who said, Young people have always afforded me much pleasuref, and by Mrs. Carrie Tinsley, 'Tve enjoyed my work with young people and advise them to study hard and 'eat a lot.',' All of the personnel were residents of Union. All of them resided in town, with the exception of Mr. Farr Fincher, who lived on Route 4, and Mrs. Eva Smith, who lived on Route 1. assistant librarian, Mrs. Elizabeth Peake, county school lunch supervisor, Mrs. Thelma Sims, school nurse, Mrs. Eva Smith, secretary to the principal, Mrs. Mattie Smith, cafeteria cashier, Mrs. Carrie Tinsley, cafeteria manager. O

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Looks like a iight over the News and Huckleberry Hound in the Farr household! Marvin, Mr. Farr, Karen, and Mrs. Farr, prepare to Watch television. Zeal Of dministrators Besides administrators, teachers, and personnel , many behind the scene workers contributed to the stability and the progress of the schools in 1960-1961. Chosen by popular election and divided into two groups, were the County Board of Education and the County Board of Trustees. The Board of Education's main concern was the Financing of the whole school program, while the Board of Trustees was primarily concerned with person- nel and the curriculum program. The members of the County Board of Education were as follows: Messrs. Harry B. Farr, chairman, I. N. Berry, Charles Blackwood, Robert J. Crocker, Harold C. Fowler, Dr. J. H. Guess, Jack Kelly, Sam T. Strom, and I. D. Whitehead. Members of the County Board of Trustees from the Union area included Messrs. Darrel C. Wade, chairman, Walker Carver, vice-chairman, Harold F owler, F. S. Glass, W. S. Gregory, Willard Hines, Sammy Sher- bert, Tom O. Thomas, and James L. Zimmerman. These two groups directed the operations of the 28 schools in Union County, and of this total number, 20 were in the Union area. Michael Gaylord May fborn October 9, 19591 is being intro- duced to some of the joys of Christmas by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon May Crightlg his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Gaylord May Cseatedlg and his uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Graham May Cleftl. This picture appeared on the Gordon May family Christ- mas card, which went to each of the 250 teachers, administrators, and lunchroom managers in the Union area. It was supple- mented by a poem by Mrs. May, entitled Letter to Santa . Mr. Gordon May, A.B., A.M., Area superintendent, pet peeve: Someone trying to carr on a conversation with a mouth full, of chewing tobacco. Harry B. Farr, A.B. County Superintendent, pet peeve: Trying to listen to two people at the same time.

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August 30 was the date of the reception for teachers, adminis- annually by Superintendent and Mrs. May, the occasion is looked trators, and lunchroom managers of the Union Area Schools. Given forward to as the special opener for the school year at Union High. I' Teachers and promoters of education in Union and the Coun ty, have been active and influential for much more than a hundred years. In 1811 the free school system was adopted, and little school houses began to dot the district for the benefit of the many children whose parents could neither afford to maintain their instruction in the home same nor pay to send them to private schools. In the year the Union Library association was chartered . . . then came the era of the academy, and in the village of Union there were two of these pay schools -one for young afemalesv, the other for boys. judge D. A. Town- send while was head of the boys, academy before the warv, a professor from Up Northv, L. W. Curtis, was the first teacher of the Female academy. ee School System Cf 1811 Serves As Starter When the two academies were reopened in 1869, after having been closed eight years, four for war and four for reconstruction, judge Townsend was in charge of both of them. Only a few of his boys had returned from the battlefields of Virginia. An advertisement appearing in the Union press in February, 1861, headed 'cAn Extraordinary School for Boys , announced that a school would be opened on March 1, 1861, with Dr. William Pierce, a native Caro- linianv in charge. It said, Living being cheap, the ex- penses of the entire year inthe English department will be 8110, in the Classical, S1207 All the modern languages of Europe were to be taught without extra charge. The rates included meals and lodging.