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Volume LI
MORGANTON, N. C., NOVEMBER, 1945
Number 2
Home-coming at N.G.S.D.
Was Huge Success
( Morganton News-Herald, October JO)
Climaxed by a hotly contested football game
between teams of the North Carolina School
for the Deaf and the Tennessee School for the
Deaf, with the latter as victor, Homecoming
Day at the NCSD Saturday was an overwhelm¬
ing success.
Former students of the NCSD who attended
the gathering numbered 325, Dr.
С.
E. Rankin
superintendent, said, and pointed out that some
came from as far as Washington, D. C., and
Akron, Ohio. The first class opened at the
school 51 years ago and seven students of this
class attended the program here Saturday.
W. S. McCord, of Concord, editor of the
Tri-State News, and president of the state
association, presided at the meetings in the
school auditorium. One of the features of the
afternoon session was a tribute paid to John
C. Miller, veteran teacher who was on the first
teaching staff, Oct. 4, 1894. Several of his first
pupils were present to greet him.
A fitting memorial service was conducted
in the auditorium in honor of the late 0. A.
Betts, of Goldsboro, former teacher and vice-
president of the school board. Mr. James For¬
tune, pastor of the Durham Episcopal church,
and new member of the school board, was pres¬
ented to the group.
Following the indoor sessions the large crowd
moved out into the grove surounding the school
and were served a picnic dinner of barbecue with
all the trimmings.
The climaxing football game, witnessed by
several hundred spectators, was played on the
Morganton high school field, The visiting Tenn¬
essee team practically kept the upper hand
throughout the game which ended with a score
of 20-6, in their favor. This was the sixth game
played this season by the N. C. S. D. team and
athletic director Raymond Butler says the N. C.
S. D. team will begin digging for a victory
in the next engagement.
Several injuries in the N. C. S. D. lineup had
a very serious effect on the performance of the
host team, three of the men probably being out
of play for the remainder of the season.
American Instructors To Meet in 1947
After much thoughtful consideration, the
executive committee of the Convention of Amer¬
ican Instructors of the Deaf feels a convention
should be held as soon as pssible. As a result
of a thorough investigation into the probable
housing and transportation problem during the
summer of 1946, it is found not to be expedient
to hold a convention at this time. It is, however,
felt that in 1947, which would be the regular
year for the convention, the situation will have
improved to the point that all necessary accom¬
modations will be available. It is, therefore, the
decision of the execetive committee that the next
Convention of the American Instructors of the
Deaf will be held in St. Augustine, Florida
during the summer of 1947. The Conferences
of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf
will meet at the same time.
Trman L. Ingle, Chairman
Executive Comittee
C. J. Settles, President
Students Enjoy Hallowe’en Eve
By Virginia Whitesides
Our annual Halowe'en party, which was given
on Wednesday, October 3 1 , was a great success.
There was the usual costume parade and contest.
The prizes were given for the best Hallowe’en
costumes. The first prize for girls was awarded
to Charlotte Summerlin who was a frog. The
first prize for the boys went to John Hines who
represented a cannibal. Bessie Womarik and
Collen McKinney were awarded the second
prize. They were dressed and acted like a Negro
mother and her daughter. Richard Jones, as a
dancing girl won the second prize for the boys.
The third prize for the girls was given to Doris
Leonard who was dressed and acted like an old
mountain woman. The third prize for the boys
was awarded to a group of boys who gave a
short play, the Battle of Iwo Jima. All the prizes
were boxes of candy. The three prettiest cost¬
umes were a Breeze worn by E. Crater, an Oriole
by Shirley Edwards and Ollie Calhoun as Spring.
After the prizes were awarded, the pupils were
divided into three groups, the small children
had their party in the gym, the intermediate in
the assembly hall, and the advanced in the
auditorium. A program of games had been ar¬
ranged for each group, and everybody had a
good time.
An Oriole _ _ _ _ Shirley Edwards
The Grass . . Ina Pendergraph
A Breeze . . . . Earleen Crater
Spring _ Ollie Calhoun
France _ Pattie Kerley
A Ghost Kathleen Banks
A Rose _ Virginia Whiteside
Hallowe’en Girl _ Frances Withrow
Negro Mother _ Bessie Womack
Negro Daughter _ Colleen McKinney
Jack-o-Lantern _ Doris Campbell
Indian Squaw Elma Gray Simmons
Fashionable Lady _ Mabel Banks
Mountain Woman _ . _ Doris Leonard
Janitress . . Geraldine McLain
Dutch Girl _ Betty Turner
[Charlie Holbrook
Negroes in a Jeep _ MElwood Binkley
[Malcolm Eakers
Bicycle Rider _ _ _ Alfred Sasser
A Shoe-Shine Boy _ Rudolph Winstead
A Soldier _ Donald Hall
Ghost in a Box . Gray Finch
Japanese Soldier _ Alfred Lambert
A Soldier _ Alvin Crawford
Skeleton _ _ _ _ Kermit Capes
U. S. Soldier _ Jessup Joseph
Japanese Soldier _ Henry Dorsey
Beautiful Girl _ _ _ _ Charles McKenzie
A Ghost _ Dan Miller
Dancing Girl _ Richard Jones
A Cannibal _ John Hines
A Frog _ Charlotte Summerlin
Old Negro Man . . . John Presnell
Negro Boy _ _ Ivey Jordan
Negro Boxer .... Lindergh Chavis
Negro Referee . Broughton Harris
Soldier .. . John Edward Coley
A Girl _ Lowell Riddle
A Japanese Soldier . . Bobby Holbrook
A Chinese Girl _ Carnegie Horton
A Poor Boy _ Oliver Clark
A Boxer John Braswell
Home-coming Day Brings $900 to Credit
of Alumni Athletic Fund
Charles Stainback, treasurer of the home-com¬
ing day drive, reports a total of $893.90 collected
and turned over to the Alumni Athletic Equip¬
ment Fund. Adding this amount to the $361.75
raised last year the Alumni and friends have
contributed $1,255.65 since the fund drive start¬
ed in the fall of 1944. An itemized report will
be given in the next issue of The Tri-State News,
sponsor of the drive.
Dr. Tippett Gives Course In
Improved Reading at School
Dr. James S. Tippett of the University of
North Carolina, Specialist in the Improvement
of Reading, and author of some eighteen or
more children's books, returned to the School
on Monday, November 12 and spent five days
visiting our classrooms, and conducting classes
for teachers in the Improvement of Reading.
Dr. Tippett’s work with us had two outcomes
that are in every way worthwhile. He stimulated
us, particularly from the standpoint of a man
who had worked with hearing children all of his
life, to re-think the problem of reading among
deaf children, and in addition to that accomplish¬
ment, started a number of us working on inter¬
esting and worthwhile reading projects.
Dr. Tippett’s genial and delightful personality
created for us an atmosphere where everybody
was eager to enter into the work. We shall long
remember him, and some of the things he ac¬
complished will remain with us.
Alumni Start O. A. Betts Memorial Fund
At a called meeting of the alumni and visitors
on the Home-coming day it was voted to have
a framed portrait of the late O. A. Betts, hung
in the Central Hall of the Main Building. Mr.
Betts was one of the pioneer teachers of the
N. C. School, and at time of his death on Sept.
1 7 a member of the Board of Directors. It was
most fitting that the alumni appointed one of
his former pupils, Walter J. McCormick, of New
Bern, treasurer of the Memorial Fund. A total
of $19.00 has been raised to date. The cost of
the framed portrait will be about $50.00. All
interested alumni and friends are requested to
mail contributions to Walter J. McCormick,
821 Broad Street, New Bern, N. C.
Faye Mulholland Is Wed to Jackson Holt
In a five o’clock ceremony, on the afternoon
of June 16th, Miss Elizabeth Faye Mulholland,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
С.
C. Mulholland of
Durham, became the bride of Calvin Jackson
Holt of Morganton and Asheville. The double
ring ceremony of the Congregational Christian
Church was performed by Dr. S. C. Harrell, ,
Mrs. Robert S. Smith was matron of honor
for her sister. Judge Hubert E. Olive of Lexing¬
ton, uncle of the groom, attended him as best
man. Mr.
С.
C. Mulholand, Jr., and Mr. V. M.
Mulholland, the bride's brothers, served as ushers
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
She wore a floor-length dress of Duchess net with
a ruffled-edged oval yoke and a high neckline.
Her fingertip veil of matching net was attached
to a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried an
oval arm bonquet of beautiful white flowers
tied with white net.
Mrs. Holt received her education in the Dur¬
ham City Schools and at Duke University. After
returning to Durham from Asheville, where she
worked with the U. S. Forest Service, Mrs. Holt
was employed as a secretary at Duke Hospital.
Mr. Holt received his education at the Uni¬
versity of New Mexico. He is now connected
with the North Carolina School teaching staff.
Mr. and Mrs. Holt spent the summer in Bre¬
vard. In September they located permanently
in Morganton, Mrs. Holt accepting a position as
as secretary in the Business Office of the North
Carolina School for the Deaf.
