Murphy's School Lunchroom: Are You Proud Of It?
YOUR CHILDREN ...
Yours to love, to guide, to educate, to nourish, dointy girls. They're having lunch in the lunchroom of
Here they are, an active crowd of fun-loving boys and Murphy Elementary School.
NICE STROLL IN THE SUN...
The walk from the classroom to the lunchroom yards under the trees and around another classroom
(the white building in the for right bockground) is building.
pleasant for the little ones. It's only a few hundred
BUT WHEN IT'S SIX DEGREES...
The stroll becomes bone-chilling. The waiting is worse, becose all can't get
in the fragile frame building ot one time Of course, the classes are scheduled,
but unexpected delays can't always be helped.
The Challenge
For Cherokee
The future of Cherokee County is in its schools,
just as surely as tomorrow follows today. For whatever
this county and every community in it is to be, will
be determined by the men and women who today arc
the children in the classrooms.
In a real sense, a people's hope for the future may
be seen in the schools it provides today for its child
ren.
The Scout, in a series of picture features, will show
the people of Cherokee County the face of their
schools.
Today, we look at one facet of the Murphy Ele
mentary School, its lunchroom. Murphy schools have
an enviable record for scholastic quality and competent
instruction.
But what about the physical plant?
Are they schools of which you may be proud? Or
do they cry for improvement and expansion?
The judgment must be yours. For the credit will
be yours if the young men and women of Cherokee
County can stand with any others and say "We're proud
of the kind of opportunity our schools gave to us."
The blame will be yours if one day they can point
a finger and say, "You failed to give us the proper
facilities to help prepare us for a better life."
YOUR BOYS... YOUR LUNCHROOM...
Yes, these two youngsters happy and eager to learn, are at school. They are
leaving the lunchroom which you, the people of Murphy and Cherokee County,
provide for them. A wholesome place to be proud of? Certainly not, as you can
see for yourself.
AND INSIDE... A HOLE...
Principol John Jordon points out one of several holes in the lunchroom. A
hot* for what? Not for ventilation, although it does offer frigid oir in the winter.
But for ?ats or insects, if they've the mind to use it. Not very healthful for a
lunchroom where the nourishment for grammar school children is stored ond pre
pared
LOOK, MOM, NO TRAYS..'.
* \ ?
A hot bowl of soup, on opple, crackers, and milk
con become quite a hondful for a little boy or girl.
Here, one boy goes through the lint and finds on ef
fective, if owkword, woy to carry hit apple.
A KITCHEN FOR HUNDREDS...
Primitive ond crowded, where cooks bump elbows as they prepare lunch
for the hundreds of pupils at Murphy Elementary School. This is the only cooking
area in the lunchroom, ond when the stoves are fired up it con get both crowded
ond stuffy.