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Press Pays Tribute To Memory Of Dougherty DR. B. ». DOUGBMTY i (Aaheville Citizen ) Dr. Blanford Barnard Dougherty was the but of a great trio of piopeers ill higher education in the Wetter# North Carolina mountains. He and Robert Lee Moore of Mars Hill College and Robert Lee Madison of Western Carolina College contributed mlghtly in bringing educational opportunities to the youth of this region. Dr. Dougherty, co-lounder of Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone, died Monday two years after he had retired as president of the institution he had served 56 years. He was in his 85th year. Dr. Dougherty was also a businessman and banker, but his devotion was to the cause of education, not only as a college president but as a long-time member of th« State Board of Education. He was a leader in the movement for state support of public schools. He was almost as well known in Raleigh as in Boone, for he, did effective work in behalf of both his college and the public schools at numerous sessions of the Genferal Assembly. Born in a log cabin near Boone, the son of a blacksmith, Dr. Dougherty won his own education and success the hard way. learn lug lessons which be hammered At constantly in encouraging people to develop schools and in inspiring young people U> obtain an education ^ In 1880 be and his brother, the late D. D. Dougherty, built a twqp .room school on their father's term. From it grew the Resent Appalachian College. The college' and the people of North Carolina an in debt to the memory of Or. Dougherty, for he contributed in very large measure to Mutational development in this state. THE SCHOOLS LOSE A PIONEER (Charlotte Observer.) A little handful of men, remarkably able and remarkably dedicated, began to' preach the virtues of public education to North Carolina around the turn of the cantnry like ministers in a pulpit. The last of that breed is dead. He is Dr. Blanford Dougherty, contemporary oPAycoek and Joyner. founder of Appalachian ' State Teachers College at Boone. He devoted a long and active life to education. He trumpeted the blessings of better teachers and better schools throughout the mountain country. He was an educational missionary to two generations of legislators in Raleigh. He built, in his school at Boone, a Local Realty Values G.l. and F.H.A. Require Loan» Note I^MMRn Small Down Available Payment RESTAURART AND SERVICE STATION, fully equipped, doing good business. Located on Highway 421—near Boone. Terms if needed. Owner selljpg due to bad health.Now is time to buy this type of business. Ideal for Truck Stop, good frontage. FULLY EQUIPPED ABATTOIR—Building 40 ft. x 40 ft. Half acre land. State approved. Terms. 109 ACRE FARM 3 miles north of Boone on hard surfaced road. 20 acres bottom land. Good barn and silo, 90 acres cleared land, with 79,000 feet of timber. One-third down. 300 ACRES BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN LAND on good State gravel road. 100 acres cleared land. Make me an offer. Terms. One-fourth down. LARGE BRICK HOME at enormou* discount. The location i* good (339 Grand Blvd.) and it U sorrounded by fine homes. The house is really big (four bedrooms, ceramic tile bath) Also bath in basement. Spacious lot. G. L loan can be assumed. Prompt action and inspection invited. AS MODERN AS TOMORROW—Ranch style home combining livabUity and • view with newest conatruction details. 3 bedroom brick, 2 ceramic baths, full basement, double garage, sunken living room witlf fireplace. FHA approved." HOME BUY worth seeing! 3 bedroom, 2 baths, new furnace, conveniently located to center of town. Marvelous opportunity. • X ROUGH-HEWN STORE HOUSE, 3 bedrooms, Mohawk carpeting, full basement, large corner lot. $,1000 down and home la yours. OUT WHERE IT IS COOL, Stone 3 bedroom house, bath, basement, one acre beautifully landacaped. Priced to sell. COMMIRCIAL LOT with 78 foot frontage on Wert Howard Street. 99 ACRE FARM LOCATED DEEP GAP—Frontage on highway 421, new chicken house (10,000 chickens) • room house, 2-3 cleared land. Income eatablished on chickens. 1-S down will buy. . NEW 4-ROOM HOUSE AND LOT—Located Deerfleld Road. Priced to sell. * GOOD 4 BEDROOM HOUSE, garage. Corner lot located corner Pine and Oak Streets. Priced for quick aale. 6% ACRES LAND—4 room house, located on highway near Boom. Price $3000. y GOOD GOING BUSINESS tor aale. 60 ACRES FARM LAND—6-10 tobacco base, I room brick house, x very modern, bars. Located on good road. GOOD S-ROOM HOUSE, bath, bam, 7 acres land located 1 mile east of Boone, Juet off highway 421. Verf desirable property. TWO ROOM SUMMER COTTAGE—2 acres land. Located on Winkler's Creek. Pricod for quick aatol GOOD 3-BEDROOM HOUSE, 2 baths, spacious living room with stone fireplace, double garage, 2 acres land beautifully landacaped. Located just out of city limits. INVESTMENT PROPERTY—B-epartment brick house, located near college, groaning 10 per cent Terms If needed. 2 APARTMENT BOUSE, heat, corner lot Located fear college. Monthly rental $88.00. Terms if needed NEW SEVEN R<t>M BRICK HOUSE, two full hatha, hot water heat, large lot Just out ^f city limits. Excellent neighborhood. ■fOR SALE—10 acre farm, good • room boose, bath, hot air beat, lMT and tobacco baae. Lo GOOD BUSINESS LOT located on Mate Stmt Deelrable tar nay type ot hnaHiees SELECT RBUDBNTIAL LOTS FOB SAL* List Your Property with Vt for a Quick Sale Haw Pimm! tmr Small Mmm — Alao Cor I COE INSURANCE AND REALTY COMPANY E. F. COB, Mmpgtr ■ dial am *-m$ -gjpoq^re, m. c.—m main stkkt ■ton*meat that grown more impressive every year. He looked the part of the pedagogue He wu tall and thin, alow and fragile, very patient and very, very deliberate. When he talked It wan like a kitten purring. He besieged every General Asaeinbly for SO years, hunting money for schools in general and his school in particular. He was a master beggar. If he could not get a whole loaf, he would take half. U he could not get that, a biscuit would do. Anything *lhat would help train teachers for mountain school kids was more than welcome. He would tell the legislators of the 1990s how he had come tQ Raleigh in 1BQ3, when the educational renaissance was on, to get the charter for Appalachian State. He would tell them how a senator had accused him then of wanting to bankrupt North Carolina with an overbundance of education. He would turn his own mistakes, into points of pleading. Once a legislator found an error in the Appalachian budget requests and asked Dr. Dougherty how come. "Well," he purred. "I fixed 'em up myself. I'm sorry about it, but it's just like,I've been telling you. We've got to have some more for clerical help up there." When other tekchers colleges were dropping the "teachers" in their name, he insisted that Appalachian should always retain It. What better mission for a college than to turn out school teachers, and what b^ter advertisement than the name? North Carolina education will not seem the same without him. He was still talking, still preach ing, still begging long after Aycock and tte fellow pioneers were gone And because he was, hi* state is richer and his mountain country wiser. MAN WITH A MISSION (Winston-Salem Journal.) Dr. Blanford Barnard Dougherty was a quiet, modest, unpretentioBi person. But he was a man with a mission. He was dedicated heart and soul to the cause of education. The great passion of his life was the education of North Carolina's mountain youth. His own peculiar mission, he felt, was to train teachers to teach these children. While still a mere youth Dr. Dougherty and his brother, Dauphin D. Dougherty, built a little two-room private school on their father's farm in the Watauga County hills. Within a few years they developed it into a five-room school noted for its thorough teaching: Then Dr. Dougherty began his long series of biennial treks to the North Carolina General Assembly. He persuaded the legislature to make his school a state training school for teachers. Called the Appalachian Training School for Teachers, it was operated by the Doughertys as a statesupported high school for 18 years. It became a junior college in 1921 and a four-year college In 1920. An extremely able teaclier. Dr. Dougherty was also a competent executive and a veritable miracle worker with a dollar. Given slender appropriations by the legislature, he made every penny do more than its normal duty in expanding and improving Appalach STRAWBERRIES We will start picking about May 20th. We Will Have Plenty of File Berrtea This Year. Plant* Have Bees Sprayed and Well-Cared For Also Have BURLEY TOBACCO PLANTS W.D.DAY WALNUT LANE FARM-NEVA, TENNESSEE j ™ 4j| ,.j| J® lr.fg ' (Take No. MS fey Watauga Lake or the Loenst Gap load) ian's facilities and increasing the faculty m enrollments grew. Ho* he gut to much from to little always amazed other educational administrator* la the state, But Dr. Dougherty's genius (or making bricks without straw and his quiet patient persistence made him in the course of time a powerful lobbyist in the legislature. He always went to Raleigh knowing exactly what he wanted. The legislators knew that he was asking only for what'he needed, and that he would wring about $1.60 out of every dollar appropriated for Appalachian. 9e he got more and more generous treatment as time went on. Dr. Dougherty's unique abilities and wide experience as an educa- i tor and college executive enabled him to arve as one of the most useful members of the State Board of Education for many years. His services were especially valuable in carrying out the j board's program for the establishment of large consolidated high schools and the allocation of state aid funds for school construction. He gave to his board duties the same meticulous care which he devoted to the development and operation of his own.beloved Appalachian State College. Few men In North Carolina public life have ever been so completely wrapped up in one cause as Dr. Dougherty. His name, like those of Aycock, Mclver, Wiley, Alderman and Joyner, will always be synonymous with North Carolina education. His contribution to the prom-ess of the state Is beyond computation. Gets Degree At Black Hills Spearfish, S. O.—Robert Baird, ion of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baird, Vfcas was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Scienct on Friday morning, May 24. Baird was especially active in the Young Democrats Club on the campus. He headed the organization for the vast two years. He was also chairman of the Board of Directors of the Veterans' Club. His wife is the former Terry Mhbbott of Belle Fourche- The Baird's have three children. Baird and his family plan to leave Belle Fuurche Immediately for Glenwood, Minnesota, where Baird has accepted a Job with the State Welfare Department; he will work ; with the Pope County Welfare Board. Baird entered Black Hills College following four years ta th» service with the Air Force. >,r Secretary of Agriculture Ezra ! Taft Benson recently stated that agriculture is now in a position to start its "upward climb toward a more adequate share of the nation's record prosperity." He predicted that farm income this year would climb above five per cent above last year's level. Wataugan Goes To Forestry Camp Dennis Trivette, ton of Mr and Mr*. Roy Trivette, Beidi Creek, will represent Watauga County at 4-H Forestry Camp the week of June 3. Dennis is taking tree planting as one of his projects and last spring he planted 1,000 white pino seedlings. The camp is held at 4-H Camp Millstone in Richmond county. One 4-H club member from each county In the state will attend the camp. He will be accompanied by W. C. Richardson, wiKut county •Sent, and a 4-H club,mepiber from Avery, liitehell, Yancey and McDowell counties The purpoee of the camp la to develop "ka«w • how" through "show-hew." Experienced foresten and woodsmen will demonstrate such thin** as plaatiag a forest, measurinf timber, improving timber stands, harvesting the timber crop, and how to work safely in the woods, plus the care of woods equipment. The camp is sponsored hy Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the North Carolina Extension Service Columbia, Conn.—Offered the post of deaconnoss of the Columbia Congregational Church. Mrs Laura Squler declined because: the is town tax collector, secretary of the board of education, substitute organist of the church choir, singing and a Sunday school teacher.f I
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