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1 i THURSDAY, FEBRUARV 5, jj Page 12 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER ' ' i ' 'i M if i, ;' 1 1 i El '.I i it I. Fines Creek School Is One Of Best In All Haywood County Plant Is Valued At $61, 298.16, and Cares for Needs of 495 Students- Patient struggling, thwarted hopes, relentless work and undaunt ed perseverance all these char acterize the spirit that has built a standard high school for the youth of the Fines Creek and White Oak townships the most remote see tion of Haywood county containing a high school. The school, established in 1926 when the brick building now used as the elementary school was erect ed by Jerry Liner, Junaluska Sup ply Co., has grown from a Bmall institution with the elementary grade and high school housed in one building to the present situ a tion in which the high school is housed in a separate modern stone construction. This build mg, erect ed in 1934 under the supervision of T. B. Davis, contains besides class rooms, a gymnasium, business edu- tion department, cafeteria, voca tional agriculture shop, library, and home economics laboratory. Not only has the physical plant in creased in size, but there has also been a broadening of the curricu lum of the school. Although the Fines Creek high school was established in 1926, it did not become a standard high school until 1938 when P. A. Rob erts was principal. This year, the school had three high school teach ers, six elementary teachers, and an average attendance in the high school of forty-nine which was the required number at that time. George A. Brown was the chair man of the school committee, and N. C. James, Grover C; Ferguson, Marion M. Kirkatrick, and R. W. Teague served as committee mem bers. That year, five students were graduated. In 1929, the principalship of the school was taken over by Fred L. Safford, who hag held the position since that time. Mr. Safford, an honor graduate of Trinity Univer sity, now Duke, in the class of 1915, dents enrolled in the high school department, and this year two new full-time faculty members were added to the teaching staff. B. G. O'Brien became vocational agriculture teacher, and Flossie Whitley home economics teacher. It was this year that the school first had a school lunch-room, a W. P, A. project, under the direction of Miss Whitley. Mr. T. W. Rogers became chairman of the school committee. Fifteen students were graduated. Miss Ruby Violet Lane took over the home economics department in 1937, remaining for three years The same committee members served and twenty students were graduated. The year 1939 marked the be ginning of an extensive grading and improvement of the grounds through a W, P. A. project. The school purchased a sixteen milli meter film and sound projector, and a velour curtain for the auditorium and Mr. Safford completed ten pro gressive years as principal of the school. The same committee serv ed as the year before, and the largest graduating class in the history of the school twenty-four memoers 'was graduated, In 1940 a clean-up campaign was begun and the grounds were beautified. A motor mower was purchased for the lawns. For the first time, the elementary grades had a full-time music teacher. Miss Marguerite Clark became public school music teacher for the ele mentary school. 1941 marked further expansion of the curriculum when a commer ml department was established with Dorothy Gahagan as teacher. New business equipment nurchas - 1 ... I 1 . . . ea ior me department includes a mimeograph duplicator, ten Under wood typewriters, and a mimeo- scope. This equipment makes bos ible the publication of a monthly A varied athletic program is car ried on during the school year at Fines Creek. Softball and baseball Crabtree-Iron Duff School Serves Large Section Of Haywood County By Edith Tate. came to Fines Creek from the grade ' comprise the fall sports and basket school in Buncombe county, where jDa11 18 the main winter sport. AH he was superintendent. During Mr. students have an opportunity to get Safford's first year as principal of , purposeiui physical exercise. tne scnooi two new rooms were added to the high school building. George A. Brown again served as chairman of the committee. The same committee members served with the exception of R. W. Teague, whose place was filled by Dee Clark, . Ten students were gradu ated twice. as many as were grad uated the previous year. The next year, 1930, the need of more equipment was felt and a piano, a stage curtain, and $350 dollars worth of library books were purchased. Besides this new equipment, the boiler room was made more convenient by concret ing the floor and walls. The same committee served that year, and fourteen students made up the graduating class. By 1931 the library of the high school contained 411 volumes. The enrollment of the high school de partment had increased to sixty. That year, a wire fence with locust posts sawed on Raymond McCrack en's mill, was built around the school grounds. Mr. Farady Greene replaced George A. Brown as chairman of the school commit tee, and ten seniors were graduat ed. - - . The need for expansion, evidence- ed for a few years, was realized in 1934 when the new rock build ing now occupied by the high school was constructed. The high school moved into this building thus the high school and elemen tary school two separate units. The same committee served and there were seven students in the graduation class. The first broadening of the cur riculum of the school took place in 1935 when W. L. Fitzgerald taught vocational agriculture, di viding his time between Fines Creek high school and Clyde high school. Twenty students were grad uated that year. Carl Greene was chairman of the committee, and M. M. Kirkpatrick and Robert Ar rington with him. In 1936, there were ninety stu- Ssome games with other school add interest to the program. Mrs. Kathryn Kirkpatrick is coach of the girls' basketball team, and Mr. red L. Safford is boys' coach, The library of the school now contains a total of 760 volumes, 284 of which are fiction. The books are marked by the Dewey decimal system and the card loan system is used. Mrs. Effie G. Francis, sec ond grade teacher, is librarian, and has regular periods during which she is in the library. The school lunch room serves hot meals to students and teacher at the cost of five cents a meal. Miss Maggie James is supervisor of the lunch room. Students may bring any kind of food from the farm and exchange it for meal tickets. The present enrollment of the school is 495, of these 114 are high school students, and 381 elementary school students. There are nine teen rooms for classroom work, including the library. The value of the school plant, including the two buildings, and all equipment, is $614298.16. . The present faculty is composed of fifteen teachers, ten of which finished high school at Fines Creek during the last ten years, finished college, and came back to Fines Creek to teach. All these teachers have A certificates, with the excep tion of one. The present faculty members are: Elementary, Bonnie Duckett, Hilda Fisher, Effie Greene Francis, Lucile Walker James Stamey, Frank Kirkpatrick, Jarvis Teague, Edna McCracken Ensley, Marguerite Clark, and Pearl James; high school, Edna James, home economics and science, John Nesbitt, agriculture; Kathryn Greene Kirkpatrick, English and mathematic; Dorothy Gahagan, commerce and English; and Fred L. Safford, principal and social science. Mr. Carl Greene is chair man of the school committee at this time, and T. W. Rogers, Mark Ferguson, Robert Arrington, and Jim McElroy serve as members. HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED . . regularly. If you have your clothes cleaned regular ly you get rid of all the dirt and grime which makes them look dingy and cuts the fabric. Send yours to us now and increase the pleas ure of wearing and the life of your garment. t Central ers Mala Street Phone 113 The Crabtree-Iron Duff high school building which was erected and established in 1937 serves the following communities: Crabtree, Iron Duff, Rock Spring, Rush Fork, Riverside, Hyder Mountain, and Big Branch. The value of the property when last appraised was $34,792.10. There arei seventeen teachers and four hundred and sixty-five students m the school; one hundred and twenty-eight being high school students and three hundred and thirty-seven are elementary stu dents. There are fifteen class rooms in addition to a library, work shop, a cafeteria, a first aid room, an office, four rest rooms, a large auditorium and gymnasium with a seating capacity of seven hundred and fifty, and two large dressing room with showers. The school makes it possible for all boys and girls to engage in some kind of sports. The students are given an hour three days week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to play. The sports that are practiced most often are softball, socer, touch football, outdoor and indoor basketball, and horse shoe. Plans are being made to fix a tennis court soon so as to broaden the activities. Basketball is one of the major sports; softball is second. In the fall both boys and girls are divided into teams, with captains for each team and the teams play one an other. Then the first and second teams are chosen which compete with other schools of the county. Basketball season opens in No vember and many of the boys and girls go out for that sport. The girls practice at activity period and the boys practice before and after school. The boys that do not par ticipate in -basketball practice some exercises, play softball and horse shoe; the boys play touch football, socer, outdoor basketball. The basketball teams compete with all other schools of the county and with some of the schools in nearby counties during the season. They also enter the Gold Medal Tourna ments.'.:,., The school has a large library which consists of the following sets of encyclopedias: fifteen volumes of the New Com p tons Pictured En cyclopedia, eighteen volumes of The World Book Encyclopedia, twelve volumes of Richard's Ency clopedia, nine volumes of Ridpath's World History, and a new large standard dictionary. , For circu lation there are four hundred and fifty books, consisting of history. science, poetry and fiction. There is also a collection of magazines such as: State Life. McCalls, Home and Garden. Read ers Digest, Newsweek, Times, Pop ular Mechanics. The Waynesville Mountaineer and the Asheville Cit izen are the only newspapers sub scribed for. The daily circulation is around twenty-five books. whereas it could easily be seventy-1 nve or one hundred if there were more books. The library needs at least two hundred more fiction books, including some for the Bethel School Is Outstanding In Athletic Records The program of athletics in the Bethel high school was organized some twelve years ago. It has aided in developing good sports manship, better citizenship, physi cal and mental alertness and school spirit. Since the organization, Bethel athletes have given a good account of themselves in their outstand ing records. Basketball is the chief sport, but football, softball, volleyball, horse shoe pitching and other games are played. Both boys and girls of the ele mentary and high school grades take an active part " in the ath letic program, and the school has won out not only in county-wide events, but also received state rec ognition. - They have won out in more tournaments than any other school in Western North Carolina. They have Won many trophies for their excellent sportsmanship. For Duration Mrs. Georgette Huberman and hei on, Jean Pierre, arrive at Ne York aboard the Serpa Pinla. VVifV f a French lawyer, she will remaiiv in the United States for the dura tion of the war., County Athletic Group Plays Part In School Life smaller grade children and students of the seventh and eighth grades. The library is also equipped with six targe tames and good chairs. mi , i ine mncn room is ciassinea as a W. P. A. lunch room. A wide vari ety of meals are served. The num ber of paid lunches are less than the free one, but with the help of children bringing food from home, balanced meals are served. The government provides enough food to pay for the free lunches. There is a daily average of two hundred and thirty-seven meals served. Seventy-four are free: the rest are exchange lunches for food brought from home and paid lunch The service used is cafeteria style. There is no choice of food other than a well balanced plate. The menus are planned by W. P. A. supervisor and the home econom-l tcAvnci . obaiiBircs snow . im provement in grades and attend ance since the W. P. A. lunch room has been started. The school lunch room is ope rated by four W. P. A. women with the help of a county supervisor and the home economics teacher. The work in the summer to make a garden to supplement the food used in the lunch room. They can the surplus food from the gar den in the summer and fall. A training period Is held once a month for the purpose of learning how to prepare new dishes. Five or six N. Y. A. girls at the school help with the preparation of the lunches. The lunch room needs some equipment, but plans are being made' to obtain this equipment. new electric stove, dishes, sil ver and cooking utensils are being purchased. Every student is proud of the lunch room and feels that he could not do without it. Clyde Has Long Been A Community Interested In Better Education Accurate records dealing with the early history of the Clyde pub lic school are not available. We do know, however, that a free school supplemented by . private subscriptions, was maintained in the town of Clyde many years. The Haywood Institute in many respects was the outgrowth of this subscription school. It happen ed this way. In 1893 a group of men composed of H. P. Havnes. J. L. Morgan, B. B. Jones. J. A. Collins, T. F. Osborne, J. Wiley I Shook, and B. F. Hill organized a school and built a nice building across the street from the present site of the Clyde Baptist church. The purpose of this school was to secure more advanced educational advantages for the young people of the community. The teachers employed for .this school were high ly trained and thus were able to teach the students the more ad vanced parts of the different subjects. A few years later the trustees of this school donated this property t- the Haywood County Baptist Association, which enlarged the school and operated it under the name of Haywood Institute for a period of twenty-five years. A great many of the older generation in the Clyde - community received their high school education in the Haywood Institute. The work of the institute was abandoned in 1926. The purpose of the Haywood Institute was to fill a gap in the educational system of the com munity by furnishing high school training. ' -.The elementary school training was taken care of, after a fashion, in the free schools. In 1908; a public high school was erected on the hill near the present residence of Hugh Haynes. but it was a high school only In name, for the first real graduation of this school was not held until 1915. J. L. Reynolds was the first prin cipal of the school, followed by Grover Davis and Z. V. Moss. In 1916 land was purchased and a new brick building was erect ed, on the present site, with the support of the late D. M. Cagie, then a member of the county board of education. It was a two-story brick building, containing twelve classrooms and an auditorium. The high school department has been on the accredited list for sev eral years, in 1928, the elemen tary department was added to the list of standard elementary schools in North Carolina. In 1929, on account of increased patronage, the auditorium was cut up into classrooms. In 1931, a twelve thousand dollar auditorium-gymnasium combination was erected on the same lot. Pupils from Crab tree and Iron-Duff townships were hauled in by bus to the high school until 1937. In 1939, the brick building was condemned, and a new building was recommended for Clyde. In March 1, 1940, a new reinforced con crete building was started on the present site, and was ready for occupancy in September, 1941. It has eighteen class rooms, a high school and elementary library, a science laboratory, an agriculture work shop, a modern home eco nomics department, a modern cafe teria, and an auditorium, which will seat approximately 900 per sons. Principals of the school since 1908 are as follows: J. L. Reynolds, Grover Davis, Z. V. Moss, Thomas Bramlett, R. A. Sentelle, C. B. Hawkins, Charles Owen, R. C, Cannon, 8. E, Connatser, and C C. Hanson, who is principal at the present time, The Haywood County Athletic Association was organized five years ago. The association is com posed of all high school groups ' in Haywood county units and Can i ton. Each school has one vote in deciding issues that govern the I association. The purpose of the association is to give harmony in good sports manship, physical development, mental alertness, and good citizen ship in athletics as well as a bet ter understanding between the schools. The association stresses good sportsmanship and makes all the rules and regulations as to eli gibility of all players, deciding where and when annual county tournaments are to be held. The group also decides the price of ad mission and how the tournament will be conducted, as to officials and how the proceeds from the county are to be allocated. They have charge of the awarding of the trophies and other honors. W. P. Whitesides of the Bethel school, is president of the group, and Carl Ratcliff of the Waynes ville high school, is secretary and treasurer. I Brief History Of The Schools Of Bethel Community The first public school building In the Bethel section of the county was erected on the present site of the school property about 1868 and served the community until 1886 when the Bethel Academy was built on the hill on the opposite side of the road. The academy was burned a lew years after it was built but was immediately rebuilt, serving the community until 1924, when a new briek building was constructed. To day this building serves as . the quarters for the elementary grades, elementary library and lunch room.- In the lunch room there are from 450 to 500 children enjoying hot lunches served by the school under the supervision of the WPA lunch room workers. . This building was used until 1934 when a high school and gym nasium were erected. This ar rangement served the community until the concrete building was finished in 1941. Consolidation of schools started buses transporting from i 1.10U children daily. The school is headed un . mutii.bCT;iui;ii, Willi a lacul oi men ami women Those comDrisir in 1926 and today there are eight school students, man, r. usuce, Walter tU j. n. mway isecretan ) anj Pless. ... " " The faculty members are-' Whitesides, principal, Mrg' s Mae Cathey, Mrs. J. T rk.. J. T. Chappell, Mrs. Mar,! Soesbee, Miss Margaret RJ inn, auiu i ucs.er, Mrs J vr T A W-T Agnes Reeves, Mrs. Euperie FrJ via. Mrs. Christine Harrell, J Moore, Mrs. Gussie Palmer I'll . w m . - - v tinannon, mrs. itum Noland. V! J. B. Allen, Mrs. Pauline GoJj Miss Loretta Bass, Miss Am Boone, Miss Mary Rubv n.J and Mrs. S. E. Connatser." 1 The present school prooertv J sists of three buildings and i total enrollment is 753, with el grades, seven elementary andli high school grades. 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