The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 02, 1935, Image 9
VOLUME XXXV
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935
NUMKER 18
SCHOOL RANKS WITH HOME AND
CHURCH IN TRAINING CHILDREN
Special Edition of The Chronicle Calls Attention To Part It PlaysJ
In Development of Youth. Varied Activities of Hijfh School'
Students Give Them Training In Many Phases of Life. Work
of All Departments Is Reviewed By School Waiters.
Hy KatherirM* Graham
1 encourajres an appreciation of jfood
The purpose of this issue of The
Clinton Chronicle is to call your at-
-tentiow -to- one of
literature. Social club, and especially j
debating ancTspeaking, teach ease and
grace. The athletic and junior-senior
nquets'giveh each year are antici
flsset.s — pur |)ahlic schools. Thetpated >fc’Tth the gi-eatest pleasure. They
schools do their work quietly withoutjare prepared ami presided, over by
advertising their worth and we take | upper-clas.smen. This teaches poise
them as a matter of course. Few peo-Und s<*If-i>os.session in public. Through
pie know what’great educational ad-1 dramatics the pupil learn self-expres-
vantages the children of Hhis townjsion and self-confidence. In the gram-
enjoy. The importance of the school’mar school pl^iys are given in chapel
can scarcely fee over-emphasized. It!from the first grade. While in high
ranks along with the home and the school students present pla^ al inter
church as one of the three great in-' vals throughout the year. Ho,wever,
fluences in the lives of the young peo-jthe pravailing .sentiment of the .school
pie. The children are in school from [is schola.stic and cultural. The Beta
8:30 In the morning until 2:15 o’clockjcl\ib recognizes high scholnatic stand-;
r^ii
in the afternoon five days a week.|ing and encourages leader.snip.
Their working hours are largely spent} But most important of ?ill is the fact
in thei
not at home, riot at church, but in thef that the children are surrounded by
schools, therefore the. schools have a good influences from the time they
enter .school. .They are taught by effi
cient Christian teachera who instill
noble uleals. The Bible is studie<l from
the first grade until graduation.
The school emphasizes thorough-
great opiK)rtunity for influencing and
molding their lives. In a large meas
ure the school is supplanting the
home. For many children the public
school i« the only refining and ennob
ling inf^ence iij their lives. jness in every department. We ai-e
,The average person does not real-1 justly proud^of the high standing
ize the variwl activities, in addition!which the graduates of Clinton High
to the cuniculum, in which the chil-School take when they enter college,
dren engage at .school. Here they are*Judge our school by its pnxhict. IxK)k
d€velope<l physically, mentally and at our successful alumni Iwth in col-
morally. There is a well-rounded sys
tem, of athletics in which fairness and
i5port8manship as well as victory are
emphasized. The glee club inspires a
love of music arid the school library,
with a supervised system of reading.
lege and in life
We hope, therefore, that ypu will
read this is.sue of The Chronicle
thoughtfully and acquaint youj-self
with the work of our school through
those articles written by the students.
CLINTON SCHOOL SYSTQII HAS
. EXPERIENCED STEADY GROWTH
\
State and County Asaiated Individual Pupila In Paying Tuition In
Early Daya, When Private Schoola Were-Fumiahing Inatruetion*
Wholly Tax^Supported Syatem Later Developed. Ne^ Building
Added Aa Enrollment Grew and Funds Permitted.
By Sant Anderson
In September, 1891, Presbyterian
CoMege of South Cartdina, as it was
then called, ^s running an eight-
grade preparatory department. Tui
tion for students in this department
was paid, partly, by the rtate or coun
ty, which gave enough to run the
school free for etudenU from this
school district for probaUy three
months. For the balance of the nine
months school year the student had
to pay his own tuition.
ihere was at this time s private
8eho(d in Clinton, run by Mrs. Humph
ries, where the same eitnation pre
vailed, vis., state or county paid for
ttaee montte tiition for stode^ from
tUe school diatrict, and the individual
was oUiged to pay his own tuition for
the rest of the sdiool year.
In the fell of 1895, a private school
was begun in the old building which
, was then on the site of tbs present
Academy Street scliod building. This
WM run by two ladies, Mrs. Mary'
lisle Sims and Miss Annie C. Spencer.
The c<rflete at about tbie time cut off
all except about two preparatory
grades. The ladies rsceir^ state or
county aid for theHr pupils from this
distriet, .but iwt enough to pay for
more ^n thr^ or four months.
About 1897 or 1898, Kenneth Mc-
a graduate of Presbyterian
eoUege, was added to the~iehool fac
ulty; and^aleo ateut this timer-the
profMrintkm fw school aid wu increas
ed until gradoilly the stgta'or county
furnished enouri^ money te pay tuition
for each etndent for a foil term of
nine moaths.
Lntor improvemerns were made on
the buikHngs when Ihe board of trus
tees, indudiitg Dr. J. J. Boot^, J. P.
Robineon and R. Z. Wright'sponsored
a 85,000 bond imue. Later, when Mr.
Wri^ resigned, B. L. King was se
lected to take his place. This money
Sms used to build the brick building,
leflaciiv ^ wooden buildiBg, which
is now Academy Street school. This
was a four-room buHding. Later a
81500 bond issue was voted by the
.people which enabled the trustees to
ent high school with the land now
used as a playground, and the enlarge
ment of the Academy Street building.
The school system expanded rapidly
about this time. /
The National Honorary Beta club
wa.s organizcil in 1921) In’can.-^e it wa.s
believed that the ideals of schola.stic
excellence and character development
should be enepnraged in high school
.students and the <iualities of loyalty,
courage, leadership, honesty arid in~^
.tegrity pn()mote<l.
The colors of the club arc black gtid
gold.
The emblfm is a .shield with the
American eagle with outspread wings
at the Imse, and a star over the head
of the eagle; over this'is a bar, with
llie letters “B. K.” It is u.sed on all
charters, certificute.s, document.s and
stationery of the club with a knight’s
hen<l abo^e and “Loyalty, ('ourage,
la'adership,’’ circling un<h'rneath.
All high schools accr<*dil(‘d by the
State Hoard of lulucation are eligible
, for a chapter of the club. The niem-
Associale jj. from the junior and
fse'nior classes of the high schools To
— — — 'become and remain a pK^mber, a cer-^
SENIOR CLASS REACHES END OF JOURNEY BEGUN
ELEVEN YEARS AGO; 41 COMPOSE MEMBERSHIP £
CLUB PROMOTES
DEVELOPMENT
OF HIGH PUPILS
National Honorary ^Beta Group
Orf^anlzed In 1929 To Foster
Scholastic Excellence and De-^
“ velopment of Character.
Left to right: Marion Chaocy, Hetty Spratt, Katharine Graham, hklitor-in-Chief, Margaret
IKditor, Tench Owens.
lIugbeN,
J I low the standard, so a sjyecified time
First Gritde Entered In 11121. Several Different Grammar Schools Started. Them On Their L\)urse. ira^rndxr
Teachers Throughout the Years Recalled As History Is Reviewed. is still unre^leenusl,. he/is dropped
By Elizabeth Dobbina and Modene
Finney
Eleven years ago tne present senior
cIms of Clinton High school entered
joyfully, perhMpe-fenrfolly, and won-
deringly, fifxt grade of the four
different sehoeds which contributed to
our prisent senior cleas. At the Acad
emy Street school. Miss Myra Lea-
man, now Mrs. L M. Smith, initiated
the group into school life. Another
group began its* school career at Lydia
vrith Iflra Owens as teadrir. A third
section met at Goldville to begin study
with Miss Essie Bell Hunter. Wads
worth, the fourth school, wae the first
ford, Harold DeYoung, Marvin De
Young, Irby Ferguson, William Glenn,
Billy Hart, Vernon Hill, William Hor
ton, L. T. Lawson, Jack McNeace,
Clark Meadows, John Nabore, Clar
ence Neal, Thec^re Painter, Carlisle
Rumph, Ced) Rumph, Robert Spencer,
William Terry, Theodore Todd, Thom
as Willard, Jodie Chandler, David
Dixon, Lykee Henderson, Louis Mur
phy, Dorothy Adair, Faye “Anderson,
Sara Frances Baldwin, ^mnee*- Bar-
hdl, Trerie^Bartori, Louise Chambers,
Bhrline Copeland, dive DeYoung,
Lila Mae Awards, Elizabeth Dob
bins, Emily Ferguson, Modeene Fin-
from membership unless the Superin-
exploreii the dark ages and learned to'tendenf and a majp/ity vote of the
appreciate the eviLs of the industrial
revolution. From our ranks we select
ed Sara Frances Baldwin, John W.
Finney, and Mary Stone to direct bur
course
members recommend otherwise.
In November, 1934, our local chap
ter was organized under the direction
of Mr. Grebne with our club sponsor
Miss Lily Mae Werts, of the Clinton
Now in our senior year we have lost High/SOhool faculty. A certificate fee
The superintendents of the schwltf jg26, adding a fifth school to the ones
to date are: E. R. Ayewk, now hvwig second grade work to our
w • 1 present eleventh grade. This year the
F»ll.. A. C. DMiel. of Iritio, and J. H. Miw
Wrth«ra»oon. the prewnt aupenntend- Acadomy Stmt, Miaa frib-
ent
(The writer appreciatea tha infor-.
mxtion gi'ven by Dr. A. E. Spencer
and B. L. King).
Excdlent Record
For FootibaU Team
McQueen and Henerey Put-Out
SuecetMful Squad. Season Rec<
ord la Six Wins, Two Defeats.
add xix class roosns and an auditorium
By* Marion Chancy
Under the expert leadarriup of
Coaches McQuean and Henarey, the
white and crimson- rode jto sneoeas in
a finni score of six victories end two
defeats. The' district^^ampionship,
never before bestowed up<m a plhiton
^igh team, was attuned by the Red
'Devils of *84. The team, eompos4^ of
twenty-Hve boys, was truly a Moper-
ative body. As om the members
worked toward the goal which they
finally adbieyed'. __
~A sturdy Imm and a shifty backfirid
led ^ team to vietory over Winns-
boro. Woodruff. Neiri>erry, Duncan,
Laurens and Thornwell, bowing only
to Rock Hill and Abbeville. The boys
fdayed hard in every game.
Members of the team were Captain
Henderson, J. W. Finney, Henry Fin
ney, Lawson, Dflly King, Archie Adair,
Brown, Freeman, Forrest Adair, Ow
ens, HaH King, Tranunril, Clyde
Smith, Burnett, Norris, Bishop, Roy
Smith, Snellgrove, Dixon, Jacobs,
Furr, and Manager Chaney. ^»
Letters’ were awarded to J,, W.' Fia-
ney, Henry Finney, Brown,^ Forrest
Adair. Owens, Freeman, Clyde Smith,
alma mater of another group, andi^^Y* Nora Fyller, Mary Ix>u Girk,
Mrs. J. .B. Hart Uught it. Katherine Graham, Fxlna Hamm, Aga-
Plorida Street school was built ini^ba Jones, Laetitia Jones, Elizabeth
Nicholson, Vecnie Mae Painter, ('hris-
tina Sowers, Willie Mae Sta'rnes, Mar
garet Sullivan, Avis Turner, Lucile
Wilson, Mildred Young, Hattie Boyd,
Mattie AndeYhon, Eiiubeth Bagwell,
to the school. While this improvement
was being made, for a part of two ses-
sioBS, a hall was rented for some of
the high school classes.
The <^ruste^ during this time were:
B. L. King. H. L Horton and Lee
Fitts—later Morgan Todd. B. L.'King
and Lee Pitts. The neat baard was
Gaoige A. CofMlaiid. B. L. King Md
Laa Pitta. Follswiag them am B. H.
~ ‘ Dr.;T. L. W. BaB^ and C. M.
Iqat ho^ BpsgpoKsd ^ bttikl>
floritt aCrMt achtol, the
Roy Smith, Dohnan, Trammell.
-Stars were fwj^ed to^ Henderson,
Todd, Stone, Lawson
We, the students of Clinton High
ble at Lydia, Miss Beat Boekhart at
Gddvile, Mrs. J .B. Hart at Wads
worth, and Miss MeSwsin at Florida
Street.
During our third-year the same
acho(rfs offered us as teachers: Miss
Bethea (Academy Street). Miss Nan
Co|>elan^ (Lydia). Miw Louiec Davis
(GMdviHe) and Miaa Bridges (Wads
worth).
* Miss Margaret Blakely taught the
fourth grade group at Lydia. Mrs.
Hugh Workman at Academy Street.
Mrs. Rhett Sloan at Goldville, Mrs,.
San Davis at Wadsworth, and Miss
Benita Booser at Florida ^reet.
In the liftih year, the number of
contributory schoole dropped to three,
as Academy Street school <^ffeTcd only
four grades at the tim. Our teachers
were: W, A. Hart' at Goldville, Miss
Irene Workman at Florida Street, and
Miss BalentiM at Wadew<Mth.
“ Fn the siim ^ grade, the Goldville'
pupils were delighted with a new
school buMding. in Fhi<^ Miss-Rosa
Dreher was teacher. A new principal.
G. N. Foy, also came to Goldville. Dur
ing the sixth grade the teachers at
the other schools a^ere Miss Irens
Workman at Florids Street, and Miss
Balentine at Wadsworth.
Crowning our grammar scIkm^ ca
reer. we received certificates of grade,
uation at the oomi^etion of county ex
aminations during the spring of our
seventh year in school. Wadsworth
and Lydia held separate comnnence-
jments, while Goldville joined Florida
Street in graduation exercises. Nannie
Sue Adair, then a senior in CKnton
High, welcomed the seven^ grade stu
dents of Florida Street and Goldville
to Clinton High school, wlule Eliza
beth Dobbins, a seventh grade pupil
from Goldville, replied. Mr. Brooks,
then county superintendent of educa
tion, presented our certificates to us.
some of our flight and sometimes an
noying ways. Under the leadership of
our officers, Walter Xodd, W.C. Bald
win ithF' Liniiw Chambers, we have
tried to prepare ourselves to take our
places in this great business world of
ours. Some have put forth more ef
fort than others and consequently the
results have been and will be greater.
Louise Chambers, our valedictorian,
has won first place in both the D. A.
K. examination/on the Revolutionary
war, and the U. D. C. examination on
the Civil vfSrv" Ma<leline Cassanova
won second, and Katherine Graham
third place in both qf the.se examina-
sohool, are exceedingly prouid of the
Red Devile of *84. Dqr sincere hope ir Cn September 3, 1931, we made the
that the outstoading ability, courage, great jump from grammar ecbool to
and loyalty will ramain wHh the mem
ber* trf the team who graduate thi*
year.
Hie team wiU loat seven men this
year thfrough fia4Wtloa: Dixon, Todd.
Porryet AdMr. AxHiia Adair, J. W.
PMHMiy* -Lfkee Hendwxen and Joa
This was one of the happiest days of
our life.
high school. The following fftart^ the
long journey through ClintoS. Hi8h
aehool together: John W. Finney, WU-
liam Jacobs, Walter Todd, Arcliie S.
Adair, W. &. Baldwin. (Triton Ben-
JmIb. Harold BUbop, Leon BoKck.
PraiMt ftx>va. WUUam Byard; WUliam
Castor, Botevd Cranford, Maj^ Craw-
Pearl Bagwell, Irene Bufgm, Wilma
Buigess, (Gertrude Cannon, Madeline
Cassanova, Fay Cauley, Ghrietina
Crapps, Eloise Crowe, Beverley Davia^
Florence Davis, Elise Dickey. Aly*
Roce Gaines, Earline Helms, ^ynelle
Kanning, Ruth Kinf,'Luvima Nabors,
Elisabeth Price,. Margaret Sample,
Rutb ^ith, Snelgrove,. Lois
Stone, Mary Stone.
'Thie number, 87, seems rather large
as compared with the graduating class
which numbers 41: ^[ohn Barnes, John
(k>bb, Joe Donnan, John W- Finney,
Faye Anderson, Mary Anderson, Sara
Anderson, Sara F. Baldwin, Madeline
Casaanova, Louise Chambers, Ehrltne
Copeland, Ellizabeth Dobbins, Emily
Ferguson, KaiDterine Grah^, Booker
Henderson, La^itia Jones, Elizal^h
Nicholson, MartKa.Ramage, Christina
Sowers,, Margaret Sullivan, Archie
Adair, Forrest Adair, 'W. C. Baldwin,
William Boyd, , Roy J&urgess, Lykes
Henderson, Louis Murphy, Walter
Todd, Mary Brock, MiMred Brown,
Faye Cauley, Clive JDeYoung, Modeene
Finney, Margaret Hughes, Gayneile
Kanning, Ruth Smith, Mary Stone.
Hazel ^rickland, Mildred Young,
Mattte Anderson, and Davj<I Dixon.
OUr leaders from this grwp^ were:
Kathtrine Graham, president; Lykes
Henderson, vice-president, and Archie
Adair, secretary-treasurer. During
this first year we ewountered many
obstacles, such as book reports, liter
ary societies, and mbnthly tests. Quite
a few gave up the race before the
year was but. In her first year Louise
Ohambers distinguished lierself by
tying for first place in the spelling
contest for the echoed.
Whet^e gathered together the sec
tions. Ix>ui8e also won first place in
the di^rict - spelling contest. Sara
Frances Baldwin is representing our
sc)k>o1 in the state French contest.
The graduating class has contributed
muoh to athletics aa well aa scholas
tic work. Dn the grkKnon we boast
such men as Lykes Henderson, For
rest, Adair, John W. Finney, Walter
Todd, and Joe Donnan. Cn the gym
floor, Christina Sowers, Hazel Strick
land and Mary Anderson have fought
to bring victory to Clinton High.
On the whole, we feel that our class
has not been a failure. It is our ardent
Hope that our class, the class of '36,
will always reflect sri'eat honor upon
our dear adma mater. The four years
we have kpent in Clinton High school
Kkve been e.njoyable ones and days
which will not be quickly forgotten.
of e1ghty-/ive cents" was paid by each
member. The pledge was repeated by
all, the oertificaiM distributed and
the Clinton chapter of the National
Honorary club was thus organized
with the following as charter mem
bers: Sara Anderson, Sara Frances
Baldwin, Frances Bouknight, Made
line Cassanova, Ix>uise Chambers,
Marion Chaney, Dorothy Clark, Mary
Crawford, Helen Davis, Katharine
Graham, I^Swrence Hall, I.aetitia
Jones, Adelaide Roberts, Christina
.Sowers, Peggy Sprunt and Jane .Stur:?
geon.
At the first meeting of the club
Graders
Mias Josic Pressley Directs New
Group In Study pf Various
Branches of Science.
By Margaret Brice
Organized less than a month ago,
the eighth grade Science Club, spon
sored by Miss Josie Pressley, is the
newest of opr High school organiza
tion*. "" ' -
Meetings are held once a week, at
which programs planned by a com
mittee composed of Betty Spratt, Mar
garet BriM, and Archie Dixon are
presented by various metn^rs of the
V
Katharine Graham was -elected- Presi
dent, Peggy Sprimt, Vice-president,
and Marion Chaney, Secretary-Treas
urer. The Executive, Program, and
Entertainment committees were also
appointed foi* the year. Our meet
ings are held once a month during
school hoprs at a different period eadh
month. —-
Under the excellent guidance. of
Laetitia Jones, Chairman of the Pro
gram Committee, the club has enjoyed
many instructive programs. We un
dertook as our principal study,-South
^rolina. For the different meetings,
certain members are assigned portions
of the subject to be discussed and a
wonderful spirit of cooperation has
been shown by the inspiring reports
that have been rendered at th| various
meetings. We also had.the pleasure
of having Dr. F. Dudley Jones give up
a talk on “Famous South Carolin
ians,” and Mrs. J: A. Bailey honored
urwt one of our meetings by a discus
sion of “Old Churches of South Cfro- ,
lina.” ^ The Indians of South Carolina
were not forgotten and none of our
meetings were more entertaining than
the one~given to the discussion of
this subject. .^After our study of South
Carolina, we made a pilgrimage ^west
ward by reports on the Grand Canyon,
the National Parks, the Geysers, and
other places of interest. Because we
have so recently had the*pleasure of
seeing Robert Browning and Eliza
beth Barrett in “The Barretts of Wim-
pole Street,” it seems fitting to de
vote our meeting in May to the study
of this beloved author and his works.
* The activities of our Beta club are
not confined to merely intellectual
matters as it is considered ef^ntialt-
class. In the past programs were in- . ^ ^ .
_ - .eluded discussions of aviation, rep-*-'^ intervals, social
ond time we found that several of our Liles, rare plants, electricity, and mag-icultirate the
^mer cla.sa-mates had fallen by the^netism. Every member of the clubi’*'?',**'^fellowship. At our fi^t so
wayside. These have been replaced by shewn an eagerness for the day of
some of our pre.sent class-mates. ThisLjjg^jrjjj^ arrive, and has-willingly
sesaion Miss Werts led us deeper iotO|^|^]^en part in the activities of the or^
Lakin, and Mi«s Livingston taught us gi^^^^xtion '
In commaiHi w«-e Lou- firtt pro*r«n, which » . typi-
iM Cliambers, president; Sara Fran
ce* Baldwin, vice-presid^, and Ar-
^e Adair, secretary-tr^urer. Sara
Fmitoes broiight honor to the school
by wimiinf first place in the state
bMofy contest.
We raced through our third year,
truly bearinf cut the name. *^Jolly
OUf-'Jxaion.* With Mr. •Duckett we
cal one, consisted of talk*.on:
1. The Myth “Daedalus and Icarus.”
2. The first Balloon and basket. .
3. The first Airplane.
4. The first parachute.
5. Three seetioiM of the book “We**,
aa autobiociraiihy by Colond Oharles
Augustus Un^rgh.
cial there was a form of invitation,.-,
for each member, various games were
enjoyed and a variety of refre.shment.s
served. ,Our second social was like
wise very enjoyable, held at the home
of Jane Sturgeon. ,v
Beta CHub members, besides the en
joyment they get from the meetings
and socials and knowing they can con
tinue as members even after gradua-
tioQ, baee something dse to sriiich
they can look forward. Every year
thcra is offered a prize of a one-year *
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