Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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Zb e School 38oavb fg OK a county to have a real live, progressive School Board, one that hai the good of schools at heart, and is willing to do anything for their progress, is something of which its whole population should be proud. If this be true Wicomico should be very happy, for such a School Board has this county. These gentlemen—Charles E. Williams, Levin T. Cooper and Harry L. Brewington—constitute as strong a body of School Commissioners as could be found in our county. They work in season and out of season for the progress of the schools. No labor for scholastic improvement is too great for them to undertake. They seek for good teachers and do their best to hold them by encouragements such as many other School Boards do not offer. We would sav to the Board of County Commissioners, and to the taxpayers of the county, that while these gentlemen are good business men, they cannot possibly run the schools pioperly with¬ out money. They have so much given them, and when it is expended they are obliged to close the schools. So we would urge that the people of the county be more liberal toward the School Board with finances, that they may continue to have good schools and have them nine months of the year. Surely, good schools are as important as anything else in the county. While these gentlemen hold their positions at great personal sacrifice, it is to be hoped for the good of our schools that they will continue to remain members of the N ieomico School Board for many, many years.

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County Supertntenbent of Schools HE Wicomico School Board, Wicomico teachers and W icomico people, as a whole, are to be congratulated upon the retention 1 a man as County Superintendent who was born, it seems, just for that function in life. Mr. H. Crawford Bounds, this Superintendent, has been sought for in many quarters where the salary paid is far in excess of what he is paid here, yet so self-denying is he and so wedded to the progress of Wicomico ' s schools, that, without any wavering or hesitation, he put these offers Aside and remained with us. His reputation is not bounded by the limits of this county, but he is known from Garrett to Worcester as one of the most energetic and professional school men in Maryland. We are proud «o claim him as a Wicomico countian by birth and very thankful to have h»s services as School Superintendent He G a man to whom his teachers can get very close, for they all recognize his sympathy for them and his readiness to help them in every difficulty with which they are confronted. 1 here is not a teacher in the county that does not respect and admire him. Mr. Bounds is just as popular with the pupils of Wicomico, for they, too, realize his efforts in their behalf. Wonderful advancement has been made by the schools during his incumbency, which covers a period of seven years. In short, he is an ideal School Superintendent, and we express the wish that he will be at his post in our county for years yet to be [ 13 ]