The Transylvania Times
A Newspaper Devoted to the Best Interest of the People of Transylvania County
Vol. 53: No. 16
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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943
★ 16 PAGES TODAY ★
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Congratulations And Sincere Best Wishes To Transylvania County High School Graduates—Much Success To You
94 TO GRADUATE FRIDAY Nil »I
Brevard And Rosman High School
Students Go "All Out” To Help
Win The War; Sponsor Campaign
Brevard Students Sponsored
Red Cross, Scrap, Bond
And Other Drives
By Willoree McGuire and Vannoy
McAuley
The students and faculty of
Brevard high school have been
having a part in our country’s
war effort by cooperating in the
various patriotic efforts and drives
promoted.
During the school year, War
Savings Bonds and Stamps have
been on sale at the student store.
The store operators cooperated in
the current drive for sales. In the
recent drive among faculty and
students, competition was aroused
between homerooms in buying
the most bonds and stamps. Total
sales were $645.40, a direct loan
to government for use in winning
the war.
In the recent nation-wide drive
for Red Cross funds, the school
put on a campaign and contribut
ed a total of $40.73.
In the national iron and steel
scrap campaign the entire faculty
and student body went out whole
heartedly in collecting scrap. To
the homeroom collecting the most
scrap went the prize of a half
holiday offered by Principal R. T.
Kimzey. The splendid cooperation
helped fill the county’s scrap
quota and the quota of the mills
producing steel.
Physical Fitness Program
Under the able leadership of
Mr. William W. Wallis, of the
American Legion, the juniors and
seniors of the Brevard high school
have taken part in a physical
training program which includes
drill in marching, calisthenics and
an obstacle course. The two upper
classes, in other high schools of
Western North Carolina, if and
when they enter a branch of the
service, will be able to advance
more quickly in training than
otherwise.
—Turn To Page Sixteen
Rosman High Students Have
Made Outstanding War
Effort Records
By W. B. Head, Jr.
The students of Rosman high
school have taken part in a num
ber of activities relative to the
war effort this year. During the
present school term students have
bought bonds and stamps amount
ing to $827.35 and collected 38,
640 pounds of scrap metal.
Ninety-five per cent of the
students are planning for partici
pation in Victory projects, in
cluding Victory gardens, poultry,
swine, baby beef, canning, drying
and mending clothes.
The Red Cross drive, which was
held in March, received splendid
response from the student body.
All the high school students
have been taking a course in First
Aid in order to know what to do
in case of an emergency. All
those who pass the course will re
ceive a Red Cross certificate from
Washington, D. C. Miss Sadie
North taught the course, assisted
by faculty members who have
First Aid certificates.
The high school students have
been taking courses in physical
education every Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons. The
tenth and eleventh grade boys
have been taking military train
ing. They are now combining the
physical training with class work,
including a general First Aid and
practical mathematics course,
Four senior boys took the test
for the United States naval re
serve V-12 program and several
more are considering entering
either the V-12 Navy program or
the army.
The patriotic cooperation of the
student body in all programs for
the promotion of the war effort
has been outstanding and many
student projects will go forward
after school closes.
• ALL GRADUATES—
• TEACHERS AND
• BOARD MEMBERS ...
“WE ARE PROUD OF OUR SCHOOLS”
Transylvania county’s greatest assets are our
schools. The children of today will be leaders of
tomorrow. Their future, their success, their joys
and) sorrows . . . and the county’s welfare is depen
dent on our schools—on Education. We salute the
grads.
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B&B
FEED & SEED CO.
PHONE 66
BREVARD, N. C
GRADUATING CLASS OF 1943, BREVARD HIGH SCHOOL
There are 66 members of the Brevard graduating class of 1943. Shown above, reading from left to
right, in front are the Mascots, Gale Gaither and George Bell. The graduates are:
Front row: Javena Austin, Harold Garren, Stella Gaither, Richard Nicholson, Eloise Brown, Lawr
ence Ray, Catherine Siniard, Bradley Wyatt, Lucile Cox, Homer Tate and Jannett Tinsley.
Second row:. Constance Pipkins, Orville Mull, Jane Walker, William Duckworth, Willoree Mc
Guire, Ray Simpson, Helen Nicholson, and Vannoy McAuley.
Third row: Doris Wilson, Franklin Tankersley, Helen Norris, John Hunter, Catherine Jones, Jack
son Wiley, Ethel Snelson, Malcolm Hamilton.
Fourth row: Mildred Orr, Leroy Lee, Doris Wiley, Betty Roberson, Opal Raxter, Harold Meyer,
Rosemary Dunlap, and Robert Eason.
Fifth row: John Misenheimer, Llaieet Simpson, Henry Summey, Ruth Osborne, Richard Tinsley,
Catherine Raines, Benjamin Thomason.
Sixth row: Edward McMahan, Barbara Bobst, Charles Cantrell, Melba Siniard, Jackson Patton,
Nelle Gallamore, Herman Keener, Miriam Merrill.
Seventh row: Dale Orr, Grace Bracken, James Kanipe, Irma Rahn, Ned Barnett, Winifred Mullen
ax, Henry McCormick, Nelle Wilson.
Eighth row: Arthur Jenkins, Martha Jean Hardin, Richard Orr, Hicks Scruggs, James Charles,
Thelma Bishop, Taylor Norton, and Lucille Merrill —(Photo By Austin.)
SENIOR CLASS AT ROSMAN HIGH SCHOOL PICTURED
In the graduating class at Itosman there are 17 girls and 11 boys, making a total of 28. Shown
in front are the Mascotts. They are Robert Lawrence Jr., and Margaret Owen, and the graduates,
reading from left to right are:
First row: Ruth Gillespie, Donna Ruth Galloway, Annie Galloway, Sally White, Bill Galloway,
Evon Owen, Frances Patterson, and William Tolley Jr.
Second how: Ola McCall, Boice Winchester, Chlora Keaton, Margaret Whitmire, Martha Whit
mire, Cornelia Gillespie.
Third row: Vivian Glazener, Frances Gillespie, Roma W7hitmire, Curtis Reid, Blanche Owen,
Pat Summey, W. B. Head Jr.
Fourth row: Guy Bryson, R. M. Owen, Lee Bryson, Millie Fisher, Albert Israel, and Henry
Snipes. —(Photo By Austin.)
Transylvania County Has 16 Schools And
84 Teachers And Principals. Jones Supt
During the 1942-43 school term
which closes tomorrow, Transyl
vania county had a total of 84
teachers and principals, 4 more
than the previous year, Supt. J. B.
Jones announces.
This number is divided as fol
lows: 58 white elementary teach
ers and 21 high school teachers.
Brevard elementary school has
the largest teaching staff in the
county. Its faculty is composed of
19 members. The Brevard high
school has 13 teachers and Bos
nian 8. Eleven teach in the Ros
man elementary unit, and 6 at
Pisgah Forest.
The teaching staff, as announced
by Mr. Jones, is as follows:
Brevard High — R. T. Kimzey,
principal; Miss Earleene Poin
dexter, Mrs. Sara K. Tilson, Mrs.
Margaret M. Kimzey, Mrs. Lucile
V. Trantham, Mrs. Cora Neal
Turner, Miss Lena Redfearn, Miss
Doris Emily Whitesides, Miss Eula
Mae Hudson, Mrs. Sally K. Josey,
Mrs. Lindsay S. Olive, Mrs. Ruth
E. Sparks and C. L. Simmons.
—Turn To Page Sixteen
Final Commencement Exercises
Will Be Held At Brevard And
Rosman Schools At 8 O’Clock
ENROLLMENT IS
OVER 3000 MARK
Largest In History Of Coun
ty. 576 Students In
High Schools
This year, for the first time in
the history of Transylvania coun
ty, total enrollment in the coun
ty’s 16 schools surpassed the 3,
000 mark.
Figures released this week from
Supt. J. B. Jones’ office show that
the county school enrollment for
1942-’43 is 3,097, an increase of
154 over last year.
Enrolled in the two high schools
are 576 students, in the 13 white
elementary schools 2,317 and in
the two colored schools, 186.
Brevard elementary has the
largest enrollment of all 16
schools. Enrolled there this year
are 801 students. Rosman elemen
tary enrollment totals 511, and
Pisgah Forest ranks third in ele
mentary enrollment with 252.
Total enrollment by schools is
as follows:
Brevard high, 414; Brevard ele
mentary, 801; Cedar Mountain,
48: Connestee, 74; Little River,
93; Penrose, 95; Pisgah Forest,
252; Selica, 91; Rosman high, 162;
Rosman elementary, 511; Balsam
Grove, 100; Lake Toxaway, 104;
Montvale, 18; Quebec, 58; Silver
steen, 72.
The Rosenwald colored school
has 145 students and Glade Creek,
41.
Dr. Phil Elliot. To Speak
Here And Grads To Be
In Charge At Rosman
SERMONS LAST SUNDAY
At final graduation exercises
Friday night of this week, diplo
mas will be presented to 94 Bre
vard and Rosman high school
graduates.
Here at Brevard 34 girls and
32 boys will graduate, making a
total of 66, while at Rosman 17
girls and 11 boys are to finish,
giving a total of 28 in the class.
The final exercises will start at
8 o’clock tomorrow night at both
schools.
At Brevard the commencement
address will be delivered by Dr.
Philip Elliot, and the students
will have charge of the program
at Rosman.
Brevard High Program
The full Brevard high program
includes: Invocation by Rev. B.W.
Thomason; salutatory address by
Vannoy McAuley; graduation song
by the graduates; valedictory by
Willoree McGuire; introduction of
speaker, Supt. J. B. Jones; ad
dress, Dr. Elliott; awarding of
diplomas and medals, Principal
R. T. Kimzey and school song,,
graduates.
Rosman High Program
The program at Rosman is as
follows: invocation, Rev. M. E.
Summey; introduction, Margaret
Whitmire, class president; salut
atory address, Cornelia Gillespie;
talk. Boice Winchester; special
music, senior girls; talk, Ruth Gil
—Turn To Page Sixteen
WE, TOO,
ARE PROUD
-OF
Brevard & Rosman
Graduates
And Wish For You Much Success!
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