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A school may boast of its axrards, its championships, its achievements, but the heart of the school is its students. They are its best advertisement. As such, Bailey is unusually proud of some of its alumni. That first graduatioh class,'1918,' had' one member, Gertrude Ferrell, to follow the inspiration of the school by becomr'ng a teacher. Since then, there has ’.een an average of at least two prospective teachers going out from the school each year. Among this number are a few who have done particularly outstanding work. Ambrose Man ning as a Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Recommended as an ex change teacher to England, Evelyn Poole Gorham is teaching English in Alexandria, Vir ginia, Winning a scholarship to Berry College, Ralph Farmer remained there to teach. Having been awarded a Ford Fellowship last year, he is now studying for his Ph. E, in Business Adjninistration at the University of North Carolina. He will return next fall to head the Business Administration Department of Berry College. A number of Bailey students, turned teachers, have selected Nash County as their teaching homej three—Edith Farmer, Rachel Bissette, and Clara Lou Stott—have return ed as teachers to their AL^aa Mater, Bailey High. Better yields in crops are not the only thing that Bailey agricultural studonts strive for. The Department of Agriculture has produced Carolina farmers, ilmcrican farmers, a State FFA president, and a top State Hybrid Corn Producer. Bobby Periy, who received the Planters Cotton Oil Company scholarship to State College, is now Farm Supervisor for Planters National Bank, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, For the past ten years John H. Uells as served as adviser for this department. One of the most famous ex-members of the comiiiercial department is Margaret Brown, a ten-ycar member of the FBI, Washington, D. C, Margaret has a private office and holds an important position iri.th this organization, Dorothy Jordan and Doris Murray are also with the FBI, Numerous students from this departr,ient arc working different offices of the State department, as secretaries of privatfe firms, and as employees of several banks in the State, Bailey is represented in aLiost anj'- field one may mention. There is Marks Under wood, Research Chemist at Dan River Mills, Grady Stott, who has his law office in Gastonia, has recently been appointed Solicitor, Doing heart research work at Chapel Hill is Jacqueline Collie, Three dentists~-Charles and Edxfard Eatmon anc. William Bissette," a doctor, William Farmer; and three ministers—Keith Glover, John Jernigan, and Lester Bissette—have gone out from Bailey. Phi Beta Kappa member, Jane Morgan, was urinnor of one of the two English scholarships given by Harvard University to Duke students. Piayuiond Potter is County Agent of Anson County. Kenneth Farmer heads the Engineering Divi.sion of Sears Roebuck and Co., Greensboro, North Carolina, Bernease Eatmon Luna is superin tendent of one r’ivision of the Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, And the list could continue. Then there are entire families who have brought honor to Bailey School, The men tion of a few will suffice. The Percy Liles family has Paul as Advertising Manger of the Wilson Times; Percy Lee, Captain in the Naval Air Force; Raydolph, Cashier ( of First Citizens Bank in Fayetteville; Elsie, a former social worker of the First Meth odist Church in Tampa, Florida. An attorney in the Justice Department, Washington, D. C., a Methodist minister, and a college graduate are positions of honor earned by Travis, John, and Robert Jernigan. In the Edgar Farmer family is the head of the Engineering Department of Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone Company, Washrngton, D. C.; the head of the Business Ad ministration Jtopartnent, Derry College, Georgia; buyer for the Leg-jett Meyers Tobacco Company; a teacher in Bailey High School; and a past secretary to the vice-president of Wachovia Bank. The three daughters of the M. F. Morgan family have graduated from L\ike, two of whom made Phi Bata Kappa (Mario and Jane); two bccame teachers (Marie and Bobbie), and ono has been secretary at the United Nations (Jane), Millard Morr^an, Jr,, a graduate
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