West Rowan High School - West Wind Yearbook (Mount Ulla, NC)

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INTERESTING FACTS (continued) GHOGRAPHY Twenty-seventh State in size, with a total land area of 31,193,631 acres, North Carolina has 125 moun- tain peaks 5,000 feet or more in elevation, 43 of these being over 6,000 feet. North Carolina has about 320 miles of shoreline on the Atlantic. Ocean, more “than 1, 500 miles of inland waterways, and approximately 3,000 square miles of coastal sounds. Greatest length of the State is 503 miles; greatest width, 188. EDUCATION There were 892,543 pupils enrolled in the elemen- tary and high’ schools of the State during 1938-39. More than $116,000,000 is invested in public school property. North Carolina transported 340,000 pupils to =schoolo at public expense. The State appropriated $27,000,000 to- ward the operation of an eight-months term for the school year 1910-41. The State operates six institu- tious of Righer- earning =for the whitew race, Tivestcr Negroes, and one for Indians. There are 36 donomina- tional and privately endowed colleges for white students and seven for Negroes in the State. HIGHWAYS North Carolina was the first State’ to take over the Ieintenance of all its principal roads, There arse some 27,000 miles of roads in the State, of which over 11,000 miles constitute the major system, about half of this being hard-surfaced. More than $210,000,000 has been Spent in creating one of the best highwey systems in the nation, : NATURAL RESOURCES Approximately 20,568,000 of the 31,193,631 acres in the Stata are forest lands. About a billion board feet of timber are provided. annually. Returns’ from commer- clal fisheries have been as high as $4,000,000 annually. some 300 different species of native minerals are found, Wildlife and game is abundant. The State ranks high in value ofyfgrm products, (From Publication No. 228--A LEAFLET OF INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA) 6

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SALUTATORY Dear School Officials, Teachers, Parents and Friends: On behalf of the graduating class of 1942 of . Mount Ulla High School, it gives me great pleasure to great you and to bid you welcome to our Class Day which msrxs the beginning of our Commencement Seasone It has . been, and will continue to be, a source of great inspiration to us that you have been so ‘genuinely interested in our progress from month to month, and year to year, and that you still care enough to come here at this: time and see for yourselves the completion of our work, and our preparation to commence larger under- takings and higher studies, We ask that you will be lenient and not expect too much of uS, Please let your minds run back to the time when you were just our ages, and looking forward ¢x- pectantly, eagerly, and perhaps halt fearfudly, oo -se6 what life held for you. We, too, are doing what very thing now-- Standing as it were, with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet. We hope that our ambitions may be realized, and that we shall not be discouraged by the disappointments bound to meet us along the pathway of life. We trust that, looking at the examples of splendid citizenship high courage, real achievement, and integrity and pro- gressiveness, which you have set for us, we, too, shait reach the estate of manhood and womanhood prepared to do for others what you have done so well for us, We want to thank you for coming here today. It meant an effort and the sacrifice of time, .We know you would not have done it if you had been disinterested. And because you care, we shall try to prove ourselves worthy of your continued interest and affections, and we hope that some day we shall build records of which you and the dear school we have known and loved so long, shall be proud. The Class of 1942 salutes yout This afternoon we are honoring our State--and our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her'=-—The Old North State. ‘The Class of 1942 adopted her motto, Rgse Quam Videri,” meaning To be rather than to seem; her flower, the ox-eye daisy; the music to her song; and the pattern of her toast. S0i--- Herets to the land of the Long Leaf Pine, The Summer Land where the sun doth shine; Where the weak grow strong, and strong great, Herets to Down Home,” the Old North States Coleste Brotherton, Salutatorian Sight