Annual report / Board of Trustees and officers, Georgia School for the Deaf, 1921 January 1 - 1921 December 31

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Fift -Si~rth nnnal Report
Board ofTrustee and Officer Georgia School for the Deaf
Ca e Spring, Ga.
Extending from January Fir t, 1921, to December Thirt -Fir t, 1921.
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OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOL 1921

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

President WILLIAM J. GRIFFI

WILLIAM J. GRIFFIN WILLIAM BRADFORD W. F. CRUSSELLE TAMES W. TAyLOR PEYTO M. HAWES HE RY C. ARNALL R. E. DOUGLAS

Trustees _

ROME, GA. ATLANTA, GA. ATLANTA, GA. LUTHERSVILLE, GA. ELBERTO T, GA..
NEWNAN, GA. __ .. MACO GA.

Secretary and Treasurer D. W. SIMMO S

Principal J A lES CaFFEE HARRIS

Assistant Principal MISS NETTIE MeDAl IEL

Teachers

MISS SUSA H. NORRIS MISS CLARA M. R SSELL

MRS. H. C. STEVENS

1RS. CaRl E S THERLDl

MISS ALMIRA HAMMO D MISS VERNE SMITH

nss MI IE SMITH

MISS HATTIE HARRELL

:\USS STELLA RUPLEY

MISS LUCILE DIMO

MISS A ITA WELLS

MRS. RUTH FORBES

MRS. NELL GIBBO S

nss ELIZABETH SEWELL

nss LILLIAN MILLER

MISS LEOLA A. ;UATTHEWS

MISS JESSIE STEVENS

Handicraft and Physical Training MISS A. MAY CLARK

Clerk to the Principal MISS IDA HOLDER

Matrons

:.'\l1SS GERTRUDE BEt\'SO.

MISS JESSIE POWER

OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOL 1921
Assistant Matron
MISS MARGARET VAN PELT
Assistant in Home Economics
MISS RUTH KIMSEY
Nurse (Retired)
MISS ROBENA SUMMERS
Expert Carpenter
J. H. METCALF
Expert Shoe-Repairer
J. B. ALDRIDGE
Expert Dairyman
OTTO CUZZORT

Nurse
MRS. A IE REY OLDS

Physician
DR. W. T. McKI EY

Eye, Ear and Throat Specialist
DR. ROSS P. COX

Dentist
W. T. EDWARDS

Supervisor of Large Boys
TROY ALVERSO T

Supervisor of Small Boys
MRS. IDA LOVELACE

Supervisor of Large Girls
MISS MABEL PERKINS

Supervisor of Small Girls
MISS BER ICE BRAY

Home Economics Department
MRS. W. A. BLAIR MISS A IE McDA IEL, Assistant
nss VERA KIMSEY, Assistant

Industrial Department .

R. PARRIS H. S. MURPHy A. CARPE TER EDWI GRIMES DOLPH McCULLOUGH lJ. H. HOWELL

EXPERT METALWORKER EXPERT PRI TER EXPERT FARMER
ASSISTANT FARMER EXPERT LAU DRYMA T
NIGHT WATCHMA

NEGRO DEPARTMENT

Instructors

1". M. GORDO i\IRS. CARRIE PULLEN

MRS. ROSA THOMPSO MISS BERTHA BROWN

Matron
MRS. M. L. GORDON

Supervisor
CLAUDE BEATTIE

Sewing Department
MISS MARY THOMAS

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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Hon. T. W. Hardwick, Governor of Georgia.

Dear Sir: I have the honor and duty under the law to make to you the annual report of the progress of the Georgia School for the Deaf. As I am transmitting to you the reports of our Principal which cover in detail the affairs of the School I beg your attention to them.
Our School for the Deaf is in excellent condition and we believe that it is improving in efficiency. Certainly the attendance has increased and the work in all departments is under specialists of long training and successful achievement.
You will find from our report that we have taught during the year 1921 275 deaf children which is an increase of 17 more than entered school in 1920. You will find also that our expenditures were within the limits of our appropriation for maintenance.
There are about 150 deaf children in Georgia who are not attending our schools. The names and addresses of these children are in the office of our principal. I am sure that you must share our desire to have every deaf child in Georgia attend these schools, for only at the schools for the deaf can a deaf child learn the English language, and those adult deaf in our state who have not attended our school are in a condition pathetic beyond description. Without words they are pitifully dependent and helpless and hopeless. With the training offered here by our state they become happy and independent citizens.
We suffer from the need of more dormitory room both in white and colored schools. Every bed is now taken and it has been necessary to deny admission to a few. We therefore beg your assistnce in procuring an appropriation to get a primary building for our white school and a boys' dormitory for our colored school. We also sorely need a hospital at our white school.
Very respectfully,

W. J. Griffin, President of the Board,

J. W. Taylor,

H. C. Arnall,

P. M. Hawes,

W. F. Crusselle,

Wm. Bradford,

R. E. Douglas

Cave Spring, Ga., December 31, 1921.

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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL.
To The Board of Trustees of The Georgia School for the Deaf.
Gentlemen:- The law requires that I make to you an annual report of the work being done by our school for our deaf children. This, the report for the year 1921, is the fifty-sixth report of your principals. The school, however, was founded seventy-five years ago, in 1846. We have on file in this office every report so far submitted by your principals, and from these we can get at any time all the essential facts bearingon the history of the education of the deaf in our state. This is the sixth, annual report made by your present principal.
Our records show that we have taught during the past year 275 pupils, 145 girls and 130 boys. 212 were white and 63 were colored. As our records show the names of 258 pupils as the total taught by us during 1920 it will be seen that our attendance during 1921 Wtls increased by 17 pupils over that of 1920. 32 new pupils, 20 boys and 12 girls entered in September. Thus again I have the pleasure to say that the attendance of the past year was the largest in the history of the school. The names of our pupils and the residence of their parents are appended to this report and will be in our permanent records.
It is with a feeling of delight, almost of triumph, that I can say to you that the following statements are within the limits of the truth: (a) We have an increased number of pupils in school. (b) each department of the school is now under the supervision of a specially trained and well qualified officer and each one of these officers is a person of unquestioned moral character. The assistant principal in the school rooms, the !p.atrons, the foremen in the various shops and the dairy and the farm and the garden are each and all highly skilled in their specialties and really admirable in their personalities. Each one of these officials is deeply interested in her or his work and I believe that each one is increasing the efficiency of her or his department year by year. (c) Perfect harmony prevails not only as between the heads of the departments and their subordinates but between each department and every other with which it has points of contact. There are no personal conflicts or jealous rancorings existing in the school at present. (d) There is not an official in the school with whom I am not on most friendly and cordial relation. I have reason to feel more grateful to each one of them for the service rendered

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the school under my administeration than they have for my appointment of them to their positions. (e) Our expenditures for the past year have been well within the limits of our appropriation for maintenance and we have on hand a small amount which we are applying for needed equipment.
I trust, Gentlemen, that you will pardon the pride which I feel as I make these statements of attainments in the management of the institution committed by you to my care nearly six years ago. I am happy to believe that each one of you has given me full-hearted support during every day of these six years and that today you stand perfectly united in your readiness to help me make a success of the school. I question whether in the history of any school there was ever a board of trustees more truly and for so long a time supportive of their executive officer than you have been of me. I would be less than a man if I were not deeply grateful to you.
The following is a statement of our expenditures for the year 1921:

STATEMENT OF DISBURSEME TS

~alaries (Teachers) Salaries and Wages (Officers and Servants) Extra Help

$20,180 75 19,078 65 182 06

Cured Meats Butcher's Meats

1,302 06 1,417 66

Flour

1,302 21

Meal Lard and Cottolene Butter Sugar

205 63 590 1fi 650 33 664 40

Coffee Sundry Table Expenses House Furnishings

130 40 9,258 59 2,108 84

Drugs and Supplies for Doctor's Office

212 50

Fuel, Coal (freight on coal and drayage) . . . . . . . Lights Laundry

6,216 67 347 19 606 30

Stationery and Postage

312 14

School (Supplies, Books, etc.)................

488 69

Livery and Travel (For Pupils, Board, etc.) . . . . . Freight and Express Building Material and Repairs................ Barn (Feed only)

1,686 47 505 81
1,115 59 255 52

Farm, Garden and Stock....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

383 33

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Tools and Implements

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Sewing Room (State Pupils' Clothes, Materials).

Printing Office (Supplies)

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Shoe Shop (Material and Shoes)

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Woodworking Dept. (Material and Oil)

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154 84 1 075 85
459 54 1,134 93
445 86 1,783 61
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$74,426 54
It will interest you to know that we have in our coal yard about 400 tons of coal for which we have paid $2200.00, that we have in our store-room sugar, flour, meat, and other foodstuffs which we have just inventoried and which cost us $1400.00, that we have in our barn about 400 bales of hay worth 700.00, and 425 bushels of corn worth $300.00. Total fuel and food now on hand is worth $4,600.00.
We have nine milch cows in our herd which are giving us an average daily of more than three gallons of weighed milk, and we have in our lot forty-three hogs, 14 porkers, 6 hrood sows, 1 boar, and 22 prospective porkers for next winter. We have three mules.
The health of our pupils during the year has been excellent. Nothing should concern us more than the health of our deaf children, for on this depends their development into strong and useful men and women; and all things which promote health-the food, the clothing- the care of the teeth, the ventilation and cleanliness of the dormitories, the comfort durin~ hours of sleep, the alternation of play and work, the normal increase in weight and height- all these things do receive our interested attention. On the first of each month each pupil is weighed and those who do not prove to be gaining in weight are assigned to a special table where they are given special attention. All pupils ar~ given milk and vegetables every day. You will find in detail in the report of our physicians and dentist the work done by them during the year.
The supervision of the work of the teachers has been don"" by the assistant principal, Miss Nettie McDaniel. I cannot speak too highly of Miss McDaniel's devotion to her work and of her ability as manager of the department of instruction entrusted to her. I am confident that our pupils are being taught by the most approved methods and that a test of the progress of our pupils would show that it is unsurpassed by any school having similar conditions. I am confident, too, that Miss McDaniel is thoroughly interested in the success of our institution.

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Georgia is fortunate in having her services for her deaf child reno
Th following teachers are now in the service of our school: Miss Susan H orris, Miss Minnie E Smith, Mrs. H. C. Stevens, Mrs. Nellie Gibbons, Miss Jessie Stevens, Miss Lucile Dimon, Miss Leola Matthews, Mrs. Ruth Forbes, Miss Stella Rupley, Miss Almira Hammond, Miss Anita Wells, Miss Clara Russell, Miss Verne Smith, Miss Lillian Miller, Miss Hattie Harrell, Miss Elizabeth Sewell, Mrs. L. Sutherlin, Miss May Clark.
These teachen have been faithfully at work day by day throughout the year, and it is to them that the progress of our deaf cbilch'en in school is due. The school arts of language, spoken and written, and arithmetic and geography, which give the children the keys of knowledge, and which open the mind of the child to the world in which they live, are taught by the teachers, and if our pupils are making progress it is mainly because our teachers are doing their work faithfully and efficiently. I cannot without distinction praise anyone of these teachers, but I wish to commend them all to you and to express my grateful appreciation of what they are doing for the children in our keeping. I do not believe tbat there is a scbool in any State whose teachers are more devoted to tbeir duties than are those of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
The department of arts and handicrafts under Miss May Clark continues at its long time high efficiency. No school for the deaf visited by me in this section has a department of art and handicrafts which includes drawing and wood carving and weaving and making useful things of wood for the home. Miss Clark also does the training of all our girls in gymnastics and a selected few in basket-ball. Our girls' basket-ball team plays successfully with the high school teams of nearby towns. Miss Clark's work for our pupils is very valuable to them.
The Georgia School for the Deaf has done not a little "auricular" teaching and "aural" training and now has its classes subjected to daily drill in rhythm work in a room set apart for the purpose and equipped with drum and piano. In all the classes the building up of the speech and voice is aided through the utilization of whatever residual hearing our deaf children have. It is perhaps true that the Georgia School has done more along this line than the average school for the deaf, an~ we wou~d be doing far more but for the dearth of trained teachers.
There should be in the daily work in the schoolrooms a far larger use of the hearing of that class of our children who

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ran hear clearly the words of the teacher when the mouth is placed within two or three inches of the pupil's ear and the words uttered loudly. These children are merely hard of hearing and their voices can be trained to have the same quality, intensity and pitch in conversation and' in song as those children who have normal hearing. They can advance in their text-books as rapidly as children in public schools, for though these children cannot hear the ordinary conversational voice or the voice of a teacher standing at a distance in front of her class, they could hear perfectly the teacher 'whose lips are two or three inches away from his ear. A sound three inches from the ear is a hundred and forty-four times as loud as the same sound three feet from the ear.
It is the opinion of the wTiter that at least one-tenth of the children in all schools for the deaf are merely hard of hearing. These should be taught entirely by the teacher's voice and in addition to their text-book work conversations should be carried on with these pupils several hours ~ach day. He hns no doubt whatever that such children can make as rapid progress as the public school children, and he deplores greatly that they are retarded to the pace proper for the deaf children whose vocabulary has to be built up by methods suited to their limitations.
As these hard of hearing children are fo~nd in all sta~es of arlvancement they cannot be placed in grades or classes of eight or ten puils. As a matter of act only two 01' three can be found of advancement so nearly the same that they can be taught together as a class. It therefore results that if in a chool for the deaf of two hundred pupils there be twenty hard of hearing pupils to be taught solely through their hearing, it would require ten extra teachers for their service. It is also true that it is impossible for a teacher who has ten really deaf children to be taught voice and' speech and reading, writing, and arithmetic to instruct the one merely hard of hearing pupil in her class by methods adapted to him. A few minutes a day is all that can be found, but it requires a few hours a day to get results.
Another serious difficulty in providing teaching adapted to t he hard of hearing is that the teacher's throat soon breaks down under the unnatural strain to which it is subjected while yelling into the pupil's ear. This can be in part obviated if each pupil has an acoustikon, but even with the acoustikon class instruction is well nigh impossible. The writer has

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not seen any instrument that efficiently carries the teacher's voice to the whole class in a way that instruction can be carried on.
Thus we have with us in the merely hard of hearing a considerable number of our pupils who are being retarded by our methods. We confess ourselves helpless before the problem until there is a larger supply of teachers and a larger appropriation with which to pay salaries. We look forward however to the fine day when the merely hard of hearing child in the schools for the deaf will make as rapid progress as children do in the ordinary public schools.
There is yet another group of our deaf children that should be taken away from the usual classes-those who have acquired ~ good vocabulary before being deafened by accident or disease. There are stone deaf pupils in our schools, those made deaf by meningitis and scarlet fever being often in this group, who know many thousand words, that are in classes which are devoting most of each day to getting only a few words and that after the most arduous effort on their part as well as on the teacher's part. The effects of life every day with such a class on a pupil that can already talk well is dulling, and on some natures it is stupefying. These pupils each should have an expert teacher of lip-reading who is at the same time an expert teacher of the school arts and of t!le text-books. The number of these pupils deafened after they have a large vocabulary is not as great as the number of the hard of hearing who can hear clearly the human voice spoken very near their ears; but there are always a number of them in every school for the deaf. They are the ones, however, who suffer the most from retal"dation due to methods unfitted to their condition.
Miss Gertrude Benson was matron throughout the year and gave devoted attention to every detail that affected the health and happiness of our children during the hours when they were not in school. She was highly qualified for this important position and gave herself whole-heartedly to her duties. It is with great regret that I inform you that Miss Benson has resigned from her position as matron, which she had held for nearly four years. Miss Jessie Powers was assistant matron whose special work was the direction of the preparation and serving of the food. She is making a satisfactory officer. Mrs. W. A. Blair was in charge of the sewing room and the teaching of home economics and she too has made a good record during the year. Her assistants are Misses Annie McDaniel and Vera Kimsey. The supervisors of the pupils are Miss Mabel

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Perkins, Miss Bernice Bray, Mr. Troy Alverson and Mrs. Ida Lovelace, all faithful to their work.
Of the twenty-four hours in each day, our pupils spend a part in the schoolroom under the care of teachers .and a part in the dormitories and shops under care of other officers.
. Of the 148 hours in each week the pupils are actually in the schoolrooms in the hands of the teachers 25 hours and actually in the dormitories ~md shops in the hands of the officers 123 hours. Of the total number of hours in each week the pupils are in the hands of t.he teachers less than one-fifth, in the hands of the officers more than four-fifths of the time. Of the total number of hours in each week when the children are awake, 92 hours, the pupils are in the hands of the teachers about one-fourth, of the officers about three-fourths of their time when awake. From this statement of facts it is clear that the officers in charge of dormitories and shops are actually caring for our pupils more than three-fourths of their time. From this it is manifest how great a part of the burden falls upon the home and shops of our school in the care and training of our deaf children.
I wish here to call your attention to the efficienct service of our stenographer and clerk, Miss Ida Holder. Her efficiency in keeping our books and vouchers is proved by the fact that the State auditors who made during the year a report covering the six years of my incumbency, found our books in perfect balance and a voucher filed for every entry.
In our department of the trades and industries, Mr. R. C. F'arris, who has been with the school five years is in charge of our engines, steam heating plant, lighting plant, plumbing, all metal work, and the moving picture equipment. He takes most excellent care of all these and he has won the highest regard of all connected with the school by his steady industry, well balanced judgment, and sterling worth.
Mr. Parris is assisted by Mr. Adolph McCullough who has for years been at the head of the laundry, a very important part of the home side of our school. Mr. McCullough's unfailing industry and kindness have endeared him to us all.
TIle printshop i. now so well equipped with linotype and presses and the other things which belong to the modern printer's work that almost all forms of printing may be done by us and our apprentice printers, of which there are now three who are well advanced and who are being surely trained to independence and usefulness. Our foreman in the print-shop has been with the school for ten years. He is ir. H. S. Murphy,

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an expert printer and a man of the best moral'character. The wood-shop is also well equipped and five of our boys
are now being trained for the carpenters trade. There are few things to be desired to make our wood-shop the equal of any in the country. Mr. J. H. Metcalf has been ~onnected with the school for many years. He too is an expert workman and a man of the best moral habits.
The shoe repairing shop has modern equipment and serves its purpose nicely as an adjunct of our school, repairing the shoes for our colony of three hundred people and training several of our deaf boys to a trade that yields to an expert more than usual money rewards. Mr. J. B. Aldridge is our foreman of the shoe-shop. He has been with us only a short while, but he has made a favorable impression.
The farm, garden and stock have made an unusually good record for the year, as reports from them will disclose to you. Our garden for this year has attracted not a little attention. This department is under the care of Mr. A. Carpenter, who is full of energy and enthusiasm and a man of excellent moral <.haracter. He is assisted by Messrs. Otto Cuzzort and Edw rd Grimes, two worthy young men.
Mention should be made of our faithful nightwatchman. :Mr. D. H. Howell, who has for years held this position. He has proved himself entirely trustworthy.
Our school for colored children is under the supervision of F. M. Gordon and his excellent wife as matron who have been there for forty years. I commend unreservedly the work being done by these officers. They are both thoroughly devoted to the interest of our pupils. They are assisted by three teachers,Carrie Pullin, Bertha Brown, Rose Thompson and one supervisor, Claud Beattie.
I recommend the building of a boys' dormitory -at the colored school. Already we have more pupils in attendance there than can be provided for comfortably in the present buildings.
I am transmitting to you the reports of the assistant principal, the head!! of all the departments of arts, trades, and industries, and beg your attention to them.
Thus I have laid before you a brief survey of what our school has done during 1921; and I trust that you feel that you can approve it as approaching the measure of our separate duties; but I cannot close without again calling your attention to the crying need of a hospital and of a building for our primary children. The only hope of obtainillg these buildings is through the efforts of this board and its executive before the legislature of Georgia, and I beg that we summon every ounce

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0-: our strength for the struggle to get the appropriation. The
reasons for the erection of these buildings appear in previous reports and it is therefore unnecessary to state them here. Until we can segregate our sick in a hospital apart from our dormitories we are likely to lose the lives of precious children by an epidemic of scarlet fever or some other dreaded contagious diseas'e. Until we can segregate our primary children we can not hope to have efficient instruction of our pupils by most modern methods and we cannot hope to protect our youngest children from the impositions and immoralities of our oldest. We must not rest until our school has a hospital and a primary building.
Again thanking you for your unfailing support, I am,
Respectfully yours,
J. C. HARRIS.

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REPORT OF ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.
Dear Sir: It is a pleasure to relate that the terms of 192021 have brought to the school the largest atttendance on record-21 more than last year. Each year for the past several years the attendance has been larger than the previous one. The parents were prompt in sending their children, there being 185 present the opening days of school in September. This proves greater interest in the education of the deaf children.
There are enrolled 211 pupils-98 boys and 113 girls-32 of these are new pupils. 27 of those on last year's list did not return, 4 of those have moved out of the state.
Several pupils who have been out of school five years and more have returned expecting to enter their former class, but finding that, though almost grown men and women, they belong in classes of much younger children. In one class of new pupils we have one girl 14 and another 17 entering school for the first time. We are compelled, by our crowded conditions and shortage of teachers, to teach these pupils along with children rang;ng in age from 8 to 12.
There were more pupils in school than we could accomodate in the dormitories and in the school-rooms. Several beginners were returned home for eye treatment and other beginI'ers who gave least promise of doing the year's work, were sent home also. Applicants were denied admission. This fact is deplorable, but until the legislature provides money with \\lhich to build dormitories, we shall have to continue to deny admission to some deaf .children.
A number of pupils in the highest class, composed of Thelma Swain, Adelene Powell, Helen Mendelson, Grace Henderson, Gwen Robinson, John Parker find Eddie Morgan, should be able to go to Gallaudet College after their course is completed and their college preparatory work is done, if they will reo main in school until this can be accomplished. The deaf pupils usually drop out of school to work on the farm or get jobs before they complete their 12 year course, so do not get the preparatory work for college.
Gallaudet College is not free from expense to the parents; consequently not many of our pupils can take advantage of a course there. Transportation, the life in Washington, D. C., dress and other things are items to be met and these do not

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seem small when we co lsiJer ho'V little parents of our pupils have to spend on each child in the family.
Annie Gorry, a former }lUI il but later a graduate of the Fulton County High Schoc.l, is J:ow a studel:t at Gallaudet College.
For the past few years our classes have been somewhat irregularly graded on account of the epidemics prevalent all over the country. There have been fewer absentees this year; so we may expect better grading.
All grades ::bove the second C receive instruction in Primary Handicraft and all of the girls belong to physical trainin~ classes under the direction of "Iiss May Clark.
Basket-ball teams play match gan e5 with other school teams. The boys have basketball teams 1 0, un .1 er the directicn of ~Ir. Robert Bankston and Mr. Troy Alverson.
The boys in the four most advanced classes belong to the "Pressi~g Club" rnd leave school for ~n hour each week to clean and press dresses a d suits under the direction of the teachers of sewing. The girls of the class s btve a sewing lesson at that time.
In January the school suffered a less in the death of Miss Emma Roberts, a teacher of many years of experience. She was a cultured woman of superior education, a true Christian ~evoted to her work. She had spent her life in service to IlUrna ity for her church and st~te. The vacancy caused by her death was filled by Miss Leola Matthews who had taught in the Flcrida School.
In June, riss Lilr~m liller. of the Virg;i ia S('I oc 1. an 1 Miss F attie Harrell, of the Florida School, were added to the corps of teachers. We are glad to wel"ome the'11 t'l ('u" ('; .n]/>.
In the Spl;nl!. l'v iss Taylor asked for leave of absense for a ye:'r. We expect her to return in September 1922.
Mi~s Grace Kinsley resigned during the summer to accept a position near her home town. Miss Kinsley had been with us for so long that we felt she belonged to us, so her leaving \vas a great surprise as well as a g-reat loss. Her work was thoroug-h and her interest keen. She was in charge of the Tone and Rhythm WC'l'k after taking- a ('('ur~1> u,-,rle r fj<-" nattie Thomason. We hope some day for Miss Kinsley's return.
ot being able to engage a trained teacher, Miss Elizabeth ewell was rrevailed upon to enter the work. She expects to go to Clarke School for training ne.t year.
Miss l\1arie Sewell after observing, substituting and teaching special pupils daily last year, was ggiven leave of absence

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to be trained at Clarke School. She will return to us in September. Mrs. Ruth Forbes, a former teacher who had resigned, consented to substitute during the fall term. Mrs. L. Sutherlin was engaged as regular teacher.
Tone and Rhythm work is continued and auricular work is stressed in the primary grades for its value to voice development as well as for word and language acquisition througn hearing.
Chapel service is conducted each Sunday following the Sunday school hour by the teachers of the four advanced classes. Hymns, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Psalms, the Commandments and Bible verses are said in concert. The teachers follow with a talk from a given text.
Every third Sunday of the month Mr. S. M. Freeman, Evangelist to the deaf of Georgia, holds a morning and an afternoon service. Mr. Freeman was for thirty years a teacher at this school. The deaf of Georgia are most fortunate in having him as their teacher and leader.
The school continues to improve under your administration, and each year of your term in office brings the school up to a higher plane.
The talks you h~.ve given the pupils in the older classes on 'The Heavens" and the "Rocks," "Indians" and in "Physics" have been interesting and instructive and are appreciated alike by teachers and pupils.
I wish to express my gratitude to you for your support in all matters concerning the welfare of the school.
I feel indebted to the teachers for their good services and hearty cooperation. We are to be congratulated on having uch a good faculty.
Respectfully yours,
NETTIE McDA IEL,
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Report of Arts and Crafts, Primary Shop and Gymnasium

To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.

Dear Sir: During the year instruction ,has been given in

drawing, painting, basket-ball, sloyd work and weaving to

fourteen classes twice each week. The large boys have me-

chanical drawing and make plans for chairs, tables, and book

racks. Eight boys are instructed one hour each afternoon in primary
wood work. These are all young boys, beginning the use of the

simple carpenter tools. They are taught hand carving also, and decorate many articles this way.

We had orders for a number of woven cane seats for dress-

ing tables. Most of this was done out of school hours, the boys earning money for themselves. During the summer bird

homes, bread boards and baskets were sold for us in gift shops in Atlanta, Baltimore and West Harwich, Mass.

Every girl in school has work in the gymnasium two or three

times each week. We have Swedish and setting up exercises nd dancing, basketbalJ, volJeybalJ and many other games

are enjoyed. We often have match basket-ball games with out of town teams, and last year made a visit to Talladega playing Alabama School for the Deaf and won the game. We

are anticipating ,vith much pleasure a return game here.

Following is a statement from Arts and -Crafts and Primary shop for the year 1920-21.

Deliverd to school and dormitory:

Rugs Doll Furniture

$5.00 1.50

Rugs, tables, chairs, on hand Sales for year

6.50 . 25.00 . 110.62

$142.12 Respectfully,
A. MAY CLARK.

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REPORT OF LEATHERWORKING DEPARTMENT

Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.

Dear Sir: You will note that the repqrt of the Leatherworking Department for the year 1921 shows a loss of $350.11. This is due to the fact that at least four months out of the year the foreman was employed in other departments of the school work, and that all shoes for State pupils and all rer.airiJ~; of shoes done in Rome was charged against this department and for which no credit is shown.. If these items were properly credited the Leatherworking Department would show a considerable profit.
Three boys have been under instruction in this department during the year, all of whom are making satisfactory progress and are learning to operate the Landis stitcher and finisher.
Owing to the fact that no records were kept in the Shoe Shop for the past two or three years, this report is incomplete, but books are now on hand for the keeping of complete records of the operation of the Department for the ensuing year.

Credit

Material on Hand Dec. 31, 1921. By Cash from Sales, Paid to Treasurer

. $134.25 . 765.57

Debit

To Material on Hand Jan. 1, 1921. . . . . .. $115.00

To Material Bought During Year

, .1134.93

$899.82

$1249.93 1249.93
Loss by Shoe Shop..... .. .. .. .. . . .... ... $350.11 Respectfully submitted, J. B. ALDRIDGE, Expert Shoemaker.

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REPORT OF HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.

Dear Sir; There has been no change in th'e plan of work in

,

the Home Economics Department with the exception of the

addition of one advanced class in cutting and fitting which

meets twice a month for one hour lesson in the morning.

The Primary classes have two sewing lessons a week, the

small intermediates have four sewing lessons a week, the large

intermediates four sewing lessons each week and one cooking

lesson every two week:;;. The large girls have four sewing les-

sons and one cooking lesson each week.

There are two sets of boys taken from the Oral and Manual

departments that belong to the Pressing Club. These twelve boys clean and press all the pupil's woolen clothes, each set

of boys working for one hour on two mornings a week. On account of the unusually large number of destitute
children this year the sewing classes are very busy. The clothes

of these pupils, whose parents are too poor to buy them, have to be made and kept in order by the sewing classes. This work, with making all bed and table linen,' curtains, etc., used throughout the whole institution, besides keeping these linen

tlnd all pupil's clothes in good condition, keeps all hands at

w~.

.

I wish to express my appreciation of Miss Annie McDaniel

and the two Misses Kimsey for their faithfulness and loyal

support of my work in this Depart!TIent, and our sincere re-

gret of the loss of our co-worker Miss Gertrude Benson.

Very sincerely

MRS. MARGARET H. BLAIR.

GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

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REPORT OF PRIN'i'I G DEPARTME T

To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.

Dear Sir: The report of the Printing Department for the

year 1921 shows a balance in its favor 6 $678.65. This sum

is only approximately correct, as the record of work done in

this Department for the School and Principal's office was not

kept during the first eight months of the year and this item

is estimated. It is my opinion that proper records would have

shown a much larger balance in favor of this Department.

Four deaf boys and one deafened soldier are in training in

the printer's art at this time, and all are making excellent

progress and are qualified to do the same amount and quality

of work that could be expected of hearing boys with the same

amount of instruction; in fact I would not hesitate to enter

them in contest with any apprentices of the same period of

training in the State of Georgia.

During the year a quantity of new job type and other

material has been added to the equipment, and .our shop now

l'anks with any in the smallllr citie~ of. the State in the quality

of its equipment,

The amount of money turned in to your office from sales of

printing amounts to $327.76 for the year, of which "11 l'

$243.47, or approll:imately 65 per cent, was received in the

last four months. It is my belief that the Department can be

made self-sustaining through sales of printing, and every effort

to this end will be made during the coming year, as this feature

of our work not only means a source of considerable revenue,

but gives our apprentices the benefit of a much larger range

of work than the school's printing alone could do,

Attached hereto you will find a summarized statement of

the year s activities.

CREDIT

By Paper and Material on Hand Dec. 31, 1921 ..... $290.05

By Work done for School during year (estimated) .. 800.00

By Cash from Sales, Paid to Treasurer

. 327.76

DEEIT

$141 T b

To Paper and Material on Hand, Jan. 1, 1921 $290.00

To Paper and Material Bought during year. 449.16 739.1 'j

Balance in favor Ptg. Department

$678.65

Very truly

H. S. l\IURPHY

Expert Printer.

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REPORT OF FARM, GARDEN AND STOCK

To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal:

I respectfully submit the following report of the Farm, Garden and stock for the year ending December 31, 1921.

The decrease in the prices of farm, garden and dairy prod-

ucts will lower the net returns for these departments to som

extent but we have tried to keep the cost of operation as low

as possible and I believe we have succeeded as the following

report will show.

Pork, 4,217 lbs. @ .15 % c. lb. .

. $632 57

Beef, 472 lbs. @ 11 %c. lb

. 54 27

Corn, 36,504 lbs. @ 50c. bu

. 253 50

Hay, 40,670 lbs. @ $20.00 ton

. 406 70

Silage, 54,000 lbs. @ $8.00 ton

. 216 00

Sweet Potatoes, 6,690 Ibs. @ 75c. bu

. 84 37

Peaches, 59 % bu. @ $1.00 bu

. 59 50

Toll from miII, 4,580 lbs. corn, @ 50c. bu Stable Manu~e, 86 load~ @ $1.50 load

. 31 50 . 129 00

Milk, 39,776 Ibs. [4,972 gal.] @ 50c. gal.

. 24 6 00

Milk, 19,888 Ibs. [2,486 gal.] @ 35c. gal.

. 870 10

Tomatoes, 130 bu. @ $1.00 bu

. 103 00

Beets, 21 ~ bu. @ $1.00 bu. .

. 21 75

Beans, snap, 70% bu. @ $1.00 bu

. 70 50

Cabbage, 955 lbs. @40c. lb. .

. 38 20

Carrotts, 54 gal. @ 20c. gal.

. 10 0

Cushaws, 291 lbs. @ 03c. lb

. 11 73

Egg Plant, 338 lbs. @ 06c lb

. 20 2

Mustard, 56 bu. @ $1.00 bu. .

. 56 00

Green Onions, 534 doz. @ 15c. doz

.

1 10

Okra, 45 gal. @ 20c. gal.

.

9 00

Lettuce, 774 heads, @ .05c. hd

. 38 70

Onions, Dry, 24 bu. @ $2.00 bu

. 48 00

Turnip Greens, 77 bu. @ $1.00 bu. .

. 77 00

Rape, 12 bu. @ $1.00 bu

. 12 00

Spinach, 26 % bu. @ $1.00 bu. .

. 26 50

Radish, 44 doz. @ 10c. doz

.

4 40

Sweet Corn, 83 doz. @ 20c. doz. .

. 16 0

Irish Potatoes, 2,135 lbs. @ .03c. lb

. 64 05

Salsify, 22 gal. @ 20c. gal. .

.

4 40

Squash, 63 doz. @ 25c. doz. .

. 15 30

Kale, 17% bu. @ $1.00 bu

. 17 50

Rutabega, 4 bu. @ $1.00 bu

.

4 00

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Cash to Principal Sale Hogs, Hides and sacks
Drayage Coal 815 tons @ 50c.

60 6 407 50

Wages Feed Bought Seed, Extra help Material, etc. .

TOTAL $6,496 60 . 2,360 00 . 255 52 . . 383 33

$2,998 85

$2,99

$3,497 7fl We have on hand December 31, 1921 the following stock, feeds etc. Milk cows 11; Heifers 8; Steers 2; Bull 1; Sows 6; Boar 1; Pigs 22; Fat Hogs 14; Mules 3; Feed, Corn (about) 425 bu. Hay (about) 400 bales; Mixed feeds 16 sacks.
Respectfully submitted,
A. CARPE TER,
Farmer.

REPORT OF WOOD WORKING DEPARTMENT

JANUARY 1 1921 TO DEC. 31 1921

CREDIT

By Material on Hand Dec. 31, 1921

. $ 506.47

By Work Done for School during year Estimated .. 900.00

By Cash from Sales Paid to, Principal

. 190.64

DEBT To Material on Hand Jan. 1, 1921 To Supplies Bought During Year

$1597.11
. $500.00 . 107.33 607.33

Balance in favor of wood shop

$989.78

Respectfully submitted,

J. H. METCALF,

Wood Worker.

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PHYSICIAN'S REPORT
To Mr. J. C. Harris, Principal.
Dear Sir: Our health record for 1921 is. conspicuously remarkable for its very small number of cases of illness during the year.
Of the thirteen consecutive years that I have had the honor of serving your institution as physician, no other year compares with it in health.
Our sanitary and hygienic surroundings and conditions are most excellent.
The housekeeping in every department has at all times been found faultlessly clean, the beds are especially well kept &nd comfortable.
Wood-shops, dairy, campus and adjoining surroundings are anitary and attractively kept, indicating in glowing terms efficiency and cooperation in every department.
Our sickness has consisted of eighteen cases of cbickenfOX, eleven cases of scabies, fourteen cases Follicular Tonsilitis, two cases Inflammatory Rheumatism, five cases of Chronic Malaria, five cases of Hookworm treated, four cases of Diphtheria and one of Goitre. Administered fourteen anesthetics for tonsil operations and cared for patients after tonsilectomies together with the usual number of smaller ailments that were insignificant and of little sequence.
I wish to acknowledge with gratitude the efficient care of two of our patients in imperative need of surgical attention by the Memorial Rooms of the Wesleyan Memorial Hospital. This room is endowed and set apart for the deaf people of Georgia by Miss Ella Dozier.
Also the State Board of Health for Laboratory diagnosis in n ore than two hundred cultures examined for us during the year. Also for consultation of Dr. Haygood in a thNatened outbreak of Diphtheria in the early fall.
Also Dr. Bowdoin for seventy-six Wasserman examinations. And also yourself and all other officials and employees of the Georgia School for the Deaf for the hearty cooper~tion and efficient help and encouragment that I have had at all times.
Most respectfully
W. T. l\fcKI NEY
Physician.

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REPORT OF PHYSICIAN IN DISEASES dF THE EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT

'fo J. C. Harris, Principal. . During 1921, visits to the School were made on the follow-
ing twelve days: January 7, January 28, February 18, March II, April 22, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, October 21, ovember 4, December l.
In addition to this, ten pupils were treated at various times at my office in Rome, either for refraction of the eyes or for acute conditions of the eye, ear, nose or throat.
At the opening of the School every pupil was examined to exclude contagious diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Two Jupils believed to have trachoma were removed from school.
Thirty-three pupils received the regular entrance examin-
ation of eyes, ears, noses and throats for record. Fourteen }Jupils had their tonsils and adenoids removed. Thirteen pupils
were refracted under Cycloplegic and two were refracted without Cycloplegic. For fourteen of these, glasses were reccommended, and in almost every instance, procured. One pupil was successfully treated for a bad puncture of the eye-ball.
A rock was removed from the external ear of one child. Impacted wax was removed from the ears of eight pupils. The ear drum of one pupil was lanced for acute mid-ear inflamation. Special examinations and treatments of acute and chronic conditions were made in numerOU8 instances. Hookworm infection was found in four and thread-worm in One of the nineteen white pupils examined. The same examination was given the colored pupils but, as usual, no infection was found.
ROSS P. CCOX

REPORT OF DENTAL SURGEON

Dear Mr. Harris; The following is a report of the Dental Work

done for the pupils of the School for the Deaf for 1921:

Amalgam Fillings

264

Cement Fillings

87

Porcelain Fillings

III

Gold Inlays

4

Gold Crowns

2

Extractions

47

Sets of Teeth Cleaned

126

Orthodontia Cases

1

Teeth Treated

5

Very Respectfully

W. T. EDWARDS

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REPORT OF THE TREASURER

To the Honorable Board of Trustees of the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Gentlemen: As Treasurer, I give below the amounts received and paid out by me from January 1st., 1921 to December 31st., 1921.
SUPPORT FUND

DEBITS

To Balance

. $1,278.97

To amount to correct an error in account of Sewing

Department in transferring amount on hand 1915

to 1916. See account on ledger page 87

.

163.06

Mar. 5. To Part of Appropriation

. $7,150 97

Apr. 1. To Part of Appropriation

,. 7,250 50

May 1. To Part of Appropriation

. 7,136 31

May 21. To Part of Appropriation .,

, 6,244 54

Jul. 1. To Part of Appropriation

, , .. 6,441 59

Jul. 1. To Part of Appropriation

. 4,450 71

Aug. 31. To Part of Appropriation .,

, . 1,907 81

Sep. 24. To Part of Appropriation

. 3,960 59

Nov. 3. To Part of Appropriation

. 6.192 55

Dec. 2. To Part of Appropriation ,

. 10,435 52

Dec. 16. To Part of Appropriation

. 7,400 00

Dec. 31. To Amount transferred. from

Leather Department Dec. 31. To Amount transferred from

. 704 04

Printing Department

,

Dec, 31. To Amount transferred from

. 346 85

Wood Working Department .. , .... 197 69

Dec. 31. To Amount transferred from

Metal Department

Dec. 31. To Amount transferred from

Sewing Department

"

Dec. 31. To Amount transferred from

1922

Other Sources

,

Jan. 2 . To Balance of Appropriation 1921

. 118 00
. 116 70
. 1,093 47 1,547 60

By Vouchers

'

By Amount on hand

74,136 87 60

74,137 47 $74,137 47

FIFTYSIXTH ANNUAL REPORT

LEATHER WORKING DEPARTMENT

1921

DEBITS

Feb. 21 Sales for January

. $19 95

Mar. 18. Sales for February

. 132 30

Apr. 8. Sales for March

. 000 00

May 6. Sales for April

. 160 35

Jun. 27. Sales for May

. 129 02

July 9. Sales for June

. 25 55

Aug. 17. Sales for July

. 19 65

Sep. 28. Sales for August .................... 21 50

Oct. 21. Sales for September

. 34 90

ov. 15. Sales for October .................... 46 95

Dec. 9. Sales for Novembe r

. 67 40

Dec. 31. Sales for December

. 46 47

$704 04 By amount transferred to Support Fund ..... $704 04
I'

PRINTING DEPARTMENT

1921

DEBITS

Feb. 21. Sales for January Mar. 18. Sales for February Apr. 8. Sales for March
May 6. Sales for April Jun. 27. Sales for May Jul. 9. Sales for June Aug. 17. Sales for Jul y Sep. 28. Sales for August Oct. 21. Sales for September Nov. 15. Sales for October Dec. 9. Sales for November Dec. 31. Sales for December

. 22 35 . 11 75 . 21 30 . 714 . 19 09 . 21 43 . 2 00 . 000 00 . 27 40 . 47 85 . 78 87 . 87 67

$346 85 By amount transferred to' Support Fund .... $346 85

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WOOD WORKING DEPARTMENT

1921

DEBITS

Feb. 21. Sales for January

Mar. 18. Sales for February

.'

Apr. 8. Sales for March

May 6. Sales for April

Jun. 27.. Sales for May

July 9. Sales for June

Aug. 17. Sales for JuIv

Sep. 28. Sales for August

Oct. 21. Sales .for September

Nov. 15. Sales for October

Dec. 9. Sa~es for November

Dec. 31. Sales for December

. $8 73 . 14 55 . . 3 80 . 16 42 . '7 15
. 22 65 . 1 28 . 21 25 . 11 05 . 35 70 . 40 61 . 14 50

$197 69 By amount transferred to Support Fund .... $197 69

1921

METAL WORKING DEPARTMENT DEBITS

Feb. 21. Mar. 18. Apr. 8. May 6. Jun. 27. July 9. Aug. 17. Sep. 28. Oct. 21. Nov. 15. Dec. 9. Dec. 31.

Sales for January Sales for February Sales for March Sales for April Sales for May Sales for June Sales for July Sales for August Sales for September Sales for October Sales for November Sales for December

. $1 60
. o 00
. lOR 00 . 00 00 . 00 -00
. 00 ou
. 7 20
. 1 20
. 00 00 . 00 00 . 00 00
. 00 00

$11800 By amount transferred to Support Fund .... $118 00

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1921

SEWING DEPARTMENT DEBITS

Feb. 21.Sales for January Mar. 18. Sales for February Apr. 8. Sales for March May 6. Sales for April Jun. 27. Sales for May July 9. Sales for June Aug. 17. Sales for July Sep. 28. Sales for August Oct. 21. Sales for September Nov. 15. Sales for October Dec. 9. Sales for ovember Dec. 31. Sales for December

. $16 55

. 9 25

. 2 30

. 12 70

. 53 65

.

50

. 00 00

. 00 00

. 8 85

. 4 50

. 8 49

. 00 00

By amount transferred to Support Fund . . .. 116 79 116 7'J

1921
Feb. 21. Mar. 18. Apr. 8. May 6. Jun. 27. July 9. Aug. 17. Sep. 28. Oct. 21. .l ov. 15. Dec. 9. Dec. 31.

OTHER SOURCES

DEBITS

Sales for January

Sales for February

Sales for March

Sales for April

Sales for May

Sales for June

:

Sales for July

Sales for August

Sales for September

Sales for October

Sales for November

Sales for December

$109 41 22 23 35 63 39 99
203 74 83 79
168 25 27 70 37 50 13 45
228 02 103 76

$1,093 47 By amount transferred to Support Fund .. $1,093 47

1918

SHOE MACHINERY & PRINTING

Sept. 20th. The Appropriation By Vouchers

$1,000 00 $1,000 00

Respectfully submitted,

D. W. SI11MO S, Treasurer.

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GENERAL INFORMATION
The Georgia School for the Deaf is at Cave Spring, where it was located by the passage of an act approved, Dec. 16th, 1847. From appropriations made by the legislature from time to time since that date the State of Georgia has purchased nearly one hundred acres of land on which are the various dormitories, shops, school buildings, power-house, reservoirs and other buildings needed for the management of a school adequate for the instruction of the deaf children. The property has a valuation of nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
All persons of the state who are between seven and twentyfive years of age and who are mentally and physically in a condition to receive instruction profitably, and who are so deaf that they cannot be taught in the common schools, are entitled to all the benefits of the Georgia School for the Deaf for such a length of time not to exceed twelve years as the Board of Trustees may see proper to grant. In case the parent is: unable to furnish clothing and railroad fare the Board of Trustees are authorized to furnish these on certificate signed by the ordinary of the county in which the parent resides.
The Georgia School for the Deaf is strictly an educational institution and excludes all applicants who are not able to make progress under methods adapted to those whose minds and bodies are normal except as to deafness. Those children who may be classed as feeble-minded or criminal are not accepted. It provides for normal deaf children all that is needed for their development into adults that are useful and happy citizens. It provides a home life that has abundance of food which is well cooked and well selected, of rooms whi,ch are well lighteJ and comfortably heated and nicely cleaned, and of beds which are properly kept. It provides Matrons and Supervisors and others who care for the child's welfare when out of the school room and who give the child every comfort and ministration which a well ordered home furnishes. It provides schoolrooms which are presided over by teachers who are trained in modern methods and who are whole-heartedly devoted to the children entrusted to them. It provides shops in which both girls and boys are trained in certain industries day by day until they become so skilled that they can on graduation be sure to earn a living wage.
The methods used both in the school rooms and the shops are such as will enable the deaf children of Georgia to under-

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stand and serve and enjoy society, made up as it is of speaking and hearing people. The deaf al'e trained to speak anrl to read the lips in most cases. Unless there are defects other than deafness every child is given training in speech utterance and lip reading. A faithful teacher ttained by modern methods can give a child the use of his vocal organs and the use of the English sentence. She can also train her pupils to l'ead the lips of others. The vocal organs of the deaf are usually perfectly normal and the movements of the lips and the tongue and throat as they make each of the forty-two sounds in our language are sufficiently visible to be understood as words by the deaf. This highest achievement of the teacher's art whereby the dumb are made to speak and the deaf are made to understand the lips of a speaker is now found in a majority of the school rooms in the Geor~ia School for the Deaf. Only about one-fifth of the pupils are taught by manual methods. The course of study is carefully graded and extends to preparation for Gallaudet Colle!!:e in Washington City, which is the only college for the deaf in the world. It is provided by the nited States Government for the deaf of our country.
For two and a half hours every day all pupils above the primary grades are required to work, the girls in sewing and cookery that fit them for efficiency in the homes, the boys in one of several trades that enable them to become self supporting and self respecting citizens. Competent instructors in sewing and cutting and fitting garments and in selecting and preparing foods are provided for the girls and competent artizans in wood and metal, plaster, and agriculture and printing and shoe repairing are provided for the boys,
CLOTHINC
Pupils must bring with them and keep on hand, the number of articles of each kind prescribed in a list, which will be sent upon application, and a list of the articles sent with the pupil, upon entering school at the be~ining of each term, should ~l\Vays be placed in the trunk, so that the Matron can check them up and enter them in a book kept for the purpose.
LETTERS TO PARENTS
Parents al'e hereby notified that for pupils who come to chool for the first time teachers will write to parents onc~ every week the first month. After the first montll a letter

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will be written by the teacher once each month. This letter will tell of the health and progress of the pupils and the parents may rely on its candor. Every effort will be made to make this letter truthful.
If the parents wish to hear from their children oftener than once a month, the teacher will be glad to write letters if the parents will furnish stamps.
All pupils in school who are able to write will write letters home once every month. These letters will contain information as to pupil's health and progress. If parents wish their children to write to them oftener than once a month and will send stamps for this purpose, teachers will be glad to see that the letters are written.
Of one thing parents may be absolutely sure, that in event the child becomes sick they wm be notified at once and be informed from day to day until the child recovers.
BUSINESS LETTERS AND PACKAGES.
All business letters, or letters of inquiry, and all notices or directions in regard to pupils, must be addressed to the Principal, and not to subordinates, (officers or employes) otherwise no attention will be paid to them.
All moneys intended for the children had best be sent direct to the Principal, and he will be responsible for it, otherwise not.
All letters, and packages, either by mail, freight or express, should contain the name of the pupil plainly written, and the words, Georgia School for the Deaf, as part of their address, otherwise they may not be delivered, for neither the postmaster nor railroad agent are supposed to know the names of the pupils.
WHO ARE ENTITLED TO ADMISSION
All persons in the state between the ages of seven and twenty-five years, who are too deaf to be educated ~n the common schools, and who are otherwise in a condition mentally and physically to receive instruction profitably, and free from any immoral conduct or contagious disease, shall be entitled to admission as pupils to all the privileges of the respective departments of the Georgia School for the Deaf, free of cost, to remain such a number of school terms or portions thereof as the Board of Trustees, upon reccomenda-

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43

tion by the Principal, shall see proper to grant; provided, no pupil shall be allowed to remain more than twelve terms.
In case parents or guardians are unable to furnish the pupil with such clothing as may be prescribed by the Board of Trustees, such clothing may be supplied by the authorities of the School free of cost, upon certificate of the Ordinary of the county from which the pupil comes, with his official seal attached, that said parent or guardian is not in a pecuniary condition to furnish said clothing.
In cases of great destitution, which fact may be made to appear by certificate of the Ordinary of the county, under seal, from which the pupil comes, the railroad fare of such pupil, coming to and going from school, may be paid from the support fund of the school.
In cases where pupils have no homes to which they can be sent for the vacation, the Board of Commisioners of the county from which they come, or other proper authority, shall make the necessary provision for their care during vacation.
HOW TO OBTAIN ADMISSION.
It is necessary that application for the admission of pupils be made in form, and any person who desires to enter a child as a pupil, will be furnished the necessary blanks for this purpose, together With all necessary information, when the Principal is asked to do so.
All communications should be answered by return mail, or as promptly as circumstances will admit.
GENERAL INFORMATION
School opens usually about the middle of September and closes about the first of the following June, and it is very important that pupils should enter promptly at the opening and remtain to the close of the term. No new pupil will be admitted a month after school opens unless he has been in school elsewhere.
Except in cases of serious sickness or death in the immediate family it must be distinctly understood that the pupils will not be allowed to visit their homes during the session.
VISITING OF PARENTS OR GARDIANS.
It is earnestly urged upon parents to come with their children upon their first admission, so that they may see for them-

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selves just what will be their surroundings, and for this purpose they will be entertained at the Institution for one day without cost. After the first time, however, if they choose to visit their children, which they have the privilege of doing, and which the authorities of the School are glad to have them do at any time, they will be expected to find accomodation outside the Institution, as they cannot be entertained in it, and they will save themselves mortification, and others the unpleasant duty of refusing, by not asking it. All the rooms in the dormitories are usually filled to their utmost capacity with pupils and officers.
Any further information concerning the School will be furnished upon application to the Principal.
Address,
J. C. HARRIS,
Georgia School for the Deaf,
Cave Spring, Ga.

INDUSTRIAL BUILDING

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CATALOG OF PUPILS (1918-1921)

Name of Pupil
Abrams, J. C Arnold, Carrie B
Alford, John Adams, Maggie Aldridge. Johnathan Ashworth, Kate
Anderson, umas Akridge, May
Barnett, Mary Brown, Fred Bartlett, Frank Brown, Ollie Bottoms, Reuben Bertoni, Joseph Bowen, Ruth Burrell, Euzella Brock, Ruby Bond, Elizabeth Brannen, Ruth Bankston, Robert Barrow, Eunice Rustin, Lucile Darrett, Norman .arrO'l. , Alma Bearden. Everett Burch, Elmer
urry, Alex Culpepper, Annie Crumbley, Lucile
apps, Rachel onnor, Frances Cothran, Virgil
owart, Melvin owart, Hiram Cochran, Worth Conkle, Birdie roker, Axie Cooper, Rubert r'1Sey, Claud Chappelear, Neelie Cottier, George Campbell, Era rawford, Edna Crawford, Perline ail. John Childs, Myrtice ham bel's, Clara

Addre5ll of Parent

Lindale, Ga. Rt. 1 .

Lake Park, Ga

.

Woodbury, Ga

.

Cordele, Ga. .

.

Cave Spring, Ga

.

LaFayette, Ga. . .

Lyons, Ga. .

.

Sale City, Ga. .

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Crumps Park, Ga. . .

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Elderendo, Ga. . .

Williamson, Ga. . .

Elberton, Ga. .

.

Reidsville, Ga. . .

Young Harris, Ga .

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Dewey Rose, Ga. . .

Jesup, Ga

.

Jackson, Ga. .

.

Waco, Ga

.

Eatonton, Ga. .

.

Hull, Ga. Rt. 1

.

Cave Spring, Ga

.

Epworth, Ga

.

Harlem, Ga. .

.

Willacoochee, Ga. . .

Cussetta, Ga. .

.

Locust Gr0ve, Ga

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Monroe, Ga

.

Cave Spring, Ga. . .

Cartersville, Ga. . .

Cartersville, Ga. . .

Tyrone, Ga. .

.

Experiment. Ga. . .

Whigham, Ga. .

.

Athens, Ga. .

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alhoun, Ga. .

.

Dearing, Ga. .

.

Savannah, Ga. .

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

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Tallapoosa, Ga. .

.

Tallapoosa, Ga. .

.

Rock Ford. Ga

.

Bradley, Ga. .

.

Ball Ground, Ga

.

BOYS' BASKET-BALL TEAM

GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

47

Calho~m, Walter

Arlington, Ga.

CumbIe, J. D. .

Climax, Ga. .

.

Crook, Annie

Loco, Ga. .

.

Cooper, Estelle

Colbert, Ga. .

.

Dillard, William

Chatsworth, Ga. . .

Delk, Cliff0t:d

Fitzgerald, Ga. .

.

Dunn, Maudle

Ringgold, Ga. .

.

Dean, Walter

Fitzgerald, Ga. .

.

Dance, George

Eatonton, Ga. .

.

Dial, Reunell

Oxford, Ga. .

.

Dent, Russell

Fitzgerald, Ga. .

.

Dubberly, Hugh

Glennville, Ga. . .

Dupree, Sam

Macon, Ga. .

.

Eason, ellie................ . . . .. ewnan, Ga. .

.

Ellis, Thomas

Ochlochnee, Ga. . .

Enfinger, Willie M. .

Donalsonville, Ga. . .

Elrod, Hubert

Thomasville, Ga. . .

1!,thridge, Frank

Groveland, Ga. .

.

Freeman, Clyde

Nicholson, Ga. .

.

Freeman, Blakely

Berner, Ga. .

.

Franklin, Eufaula

Clarksville, Ga. .

.

Fortson, Ruth

Washington, Ga

.

Florence, Sam

Lincolnton, Ga. .

.

Freeman, Cicero

Rockmart, Ga. . .

Fields, Fetner

Macon, Ga. .

.

Folds, Leila

Ambrose, Ga. .

.

Forsyth, Roy

McDonough, Ga.

Fuqua, Irene

Taylorsville, Ga. . .

Fuqua, Cora Lee

Taylorsville, Ga. . .

Garmon, Dewey

Duluth, Ga. .

.

Garmon, Mary L.

orcross, Ga. .

.

Garmon, Zella

orcross, Ga. .

.

Garner, Edna May

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Gorrly, Bernerd

:Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Goolsby, Floy

Colquitt, Ga. .

.

Gartman, Wylie

Columbus, Ga. .

.

Gibby, Roy

Cave Spring, Ga. . .

Giles, Harvey

Vanoy, Ga. .

.

Giles, Bernice

Vanoy, Ga. .

.

Graham, Arthur

Broxton, Ga. .

.

Hammock, Nello

. Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Hitchcock, Chester

Draketown, Ga. .

.

Holstin, Edwin

Americus, Ga. .

.

.Haynes, Inez

Roopville, Ga. .

.

Higgenbothem, Minnie

Crawford, Ga. .

.

Hardin, Peter

Columbus, Ga. . .

Holliday, Josephine

Lumpkin, Ga. .

.

Holt, Alice

Ocilla, Ga. .

.

Holbrook, Charles

Cummings, Ga.

Horton, Monta

Armuchee, Ga. . .

Hunt, Eliza

Fayettville, Ga. . .

Hood, Elsie

Alpharetta, Ga. . .

Howell, Venice

Cave Spring, Ga.

Hill, Emma

Frolona, Ga. .

.

Herrington, Myrtle

GraJ:1am, Ga. .

.

Herrington, Beckie

Graham, Ga. .

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Herrington, Agnes ................ Graham, Ga'. .

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Huff, Paul

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Hargett, Wylma

Columbus, Ga. .

.

Harrison, Normal

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Hitchcock, Douglas

Devereux, Ga. .

.

Hitchcock, Louise

Devereux, Ga. . .. ~ .

Harrell, Ida Lee

Lizella, Ga. .

.

Henderson, Grace

Pelham, Ga. .

.

Hutchenson, Clarence

Rockmart, Ga. .

.

Hendricks, Louise

Waverly Hall, Ga

.

Ivester, Susie

Marietta, Ga. .

.

Jordan, Robert

Arlington, Ga. .

.

Johnson, Golden

Kingston, Ga. Rt. 2 .

Johnson, Paul Angus

Cass Station, Ga. . .

Jackson, Ada

Loganville, Ga. . .

J ones, Fred

Collins, Ga. .

.

Jones, Darrell

Spring Place, Ga

.

J ones, Georgia

Spring Place, Ga. . .

Johnson Roy

Middleton, Ga. . .

Jordan, Jennie

Arlington, Ga. .

.

Kilgore, Dovie

Kingston, Ga. .

.

Kilgore, Georgia

Kingston, Ga. .

.

Kilgore, Henry

Kingston, Ga. .

.

Kelly Patrick

Vienna, Ga. .

.

Kelly, Sallie

McIntyre, Ga. .

.

Kidd Hoke

Comer, Ga. .

.

Kidd, Mattie

Comer, Ga. .

.

Knight, Bill

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Kelly, Nera

Viem'la, Ga

.

Kendrick, John

Gainesville, Ga. .

.

Lawson, E. V

Avalon, Ga

.

Lawson, Clara

. , Avalon, Ga. .

.

Lackey, Lillie

Conyers, Ga. .

.

Lane. Walter

Griffin, Ga. .

.

Lovelace, Kate

Rome, Ga. .

.

Lee, John

Metter, Ga. .

.

Lisenby, Betsey

Ocilla, Ga. .

.

Lowe, Clifford

Augusta, Ga. .

.

Lovvorn, Virgie

Carrollton. Ga. .

.

Lodge, Preston

Pelham, Ga.

.

Lowe, Reynold

Brooklet, Ga. .

.

,,,,is. Lollie

Hawkinsville, Ga. . .

Lanier, Zannie Mae

Moultrie, Ga. .

.

Martin, Willie

.

Toomsboro, Ga. . .

Maddox, Hanson

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

McNair, Estelle

Wrens, Ga. .

.

Morgan, Alice

Naylor, Ga. .

.

Margan, Elbert

Naylor, Ga. .

.

!>{cElroy, Hiram

Good Hope, Ga

.

McCanless, William

Canton. GR

.

McGlamory, Thomas

Colquitt, Ga. .

.

McClure, Earl

Copper Hill, Tenn. . ..

Moore, Lee

Gore, Ga. .

.

Moore, Annie L. .

Gore, Ga. .

.

Morris,' Maxine

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Mobley, Cpllen

Whigham, Ga. .

.

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FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT

,VIorrison, Lucile .,Iendelson, Helen Morgan, Eddie Morgan, Woodrow Moreland, Ivey . 1cLendon, Emmett
lcKenzie, J. .
McGoirk, Josephine Moessner, Carl Moore, Ruby .. : Mercer, Perry 1illsap, Susie
oles, Carl ix, Millard Nessmith, Lucile Norris, Lucile Nichols, Sophia May leal. Otti'l Joseph Neese, Helen ; ,unus, vlyoe Owens, Ruby
Ponder, James Parker, John Parker, Alice Parker, Nellie n"rker, Charles Phillips, Erne!rt; Pool, Randolph
Petway, Emma eacnck, Quinten
Powell, Adelene ('hardson, Paul
Roberts, Dan Robinson, Gwendolyn Rice, Alma Roberts, Wilson Ryle, Everett Reese, Sallie Robertson, Robert G Rodgers, William Rhinehardt, Davis
Rentz, Warren Reese, Elwood Reeder, William Ryle, Lilla Belle ,.,mith, Floyd Sharpton, Lillie M. Sikes, Minnie Lee
Stephens, Morris Sperrin, Tyre Spivey, Louise Smith, Bridges Silvey, Willie ,
Sweat, Collis Smith, Winfred Spurlin, May

.....

Macon, Ga. .

.

Rome, Ga

.

Austell, Ga. .

.

. Austell, Ga

.

Albany, Ga. .

.

Dallas, Ga. .

.

Swainsboro, Ga

.

Douglasville, Ga

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Stockton, Ga. .

.

Rockmart, Ga

.

Columbus, Ga. . .

Frolona, Ga. .

.

Lumber City, Ga. . .

Cave Spring, Ga

.

Waycross, Ga

.

Cave Spring, Ga

.

Augusta, Ga

.

Alpharetta, Ga

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Fairmount, Ga.

.

Grantsville, Ga

.

Ambrose, Ga

.

Ambrose, Ga

.

Ambrose, Ga

.

Ambrose, Ga. .

.

Manchester, Ga. . .

Millen, Ga. .

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Sylvester, Ga. .

.

Dillard, Ga. .

.

. Surrency, Ga. .

.

Dawson, Ga. .

.

Norcross, Ga

.

LaFayette, Ga. . .

Ocilla, Ga. .

.

Gordon, Ga. .

.

Trenton, Ga. .

.

Wellston, Ga

.

Cooledge, Ga. .

.

.. Stilesboro, Ga. .

.

Hahira, Ga

.

Macon, Ga. .

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

, .. Savannah, Ga. .

.

.Jefferson, Ga. .

.

" Daeula, Ga. .

.

. Claxton, Ga. .

.

' . . Ad~irsville, Ga. .

.

. Ball Ground, Ga. . .

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Sharpsburg, Ga. . .

Washington, Ga. . .

Hapeville, Ga. .

.

Glennville, Ga. .

.

Arnoldsv.ille, Ga. . .

GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

51

Sanders, Horace

Atlanta, 'Ga. .

.

Strickland, Jincy

Waycross, Ga

.

Strickland, Annie B

Waycross, Ga. .

.

Sewell, Martha

Tifton, Ga. .

.

Stephenson, Hollis

Rock Springs, Ga. . .

Smith, Brook

Mette!', Ga. .

.

Sutt6n, Jesse

Macon, Ga.

.

Strickland, Lottie

Funston, Ga. .

.

Slater, Farris

Cobbtown, Ga. . .

Swain, Thelma

Adairsville, Ga. .

.

Stewart, Grady

Axson, Ga. .

.

Smith, Mary Agnes

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Sikes, Bernice

Dacula, Ga. .

.

Sexton, Lucy

Adairsville, Ga. . .

Scott, Earl

Lake Park, Ga. . .

Spence, Willie May

Pelham, Ga. .

.

Soles, Rachel

Ambrose, Ga. .

.

Seymore, Lloyd

Elberton, Ga. .

.

Simpson, Ellie

Gainesville, Ga

.

Standrid~e, Minnis

Copper Hill, Tenn. . ..

Tucker, Riley

Moultrie, Ga. .

.

Taylor, Joeeph

.

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Talbert, Vio1e;;

. Augusta, Ga. .

.

Thurston, Myrllle

Jackson, Ga. .

.

Tucker, Jennie Belle

,. Barnett, Ga. .

.

Tucker, William R. .

Moultrie, Ga. .

.

Todd, Joseph

llaralson, Ga. .

.

Thomas, Adelaide

Atlanta, Ga. .

.

Veal, Edward

Oconee, Ga. .

.

Woodall, Myrtle

Trion, Ga ,

.

Ward, Bessie

Hawkinsville, Ga

.

Williams, Leary P

Pearson, Ga. .

.

Willingham, Connor

Statham, Ga. .

.

Wilson, Bertha

Savannah, Ga. . .

Watson, Lester

Griffin, Ga. .

.

Weathers, Shade

Augusta, Ga. .

.

Whartenby, Rahn

Columbus, Ga. .

.

Ward, Esteben

Cordele, Ga. .

.

Wood, Lonnie

Girard, Ga. .

.

Wood, Romney

'" Girard, Ga

.

Wood, Irene

Girard, Ga. .

.

Word, Mary

Buchanan, Ga

.

Webb, Alvin

Orange, Ga

.

Wehrcamp, Angeline

Macon, Ga. .

.

Wilder, Mildred

Pelham, Ga. .

.

Whipple, Lucian

Uvalda, Ga. .

.

West. Jannette

Fairburn, Ga.

Wright, Claire

Lincolnton, Ga. . .

Webb, John

Clem, Ga. .

.

Yates, Jewel

Atlanta, Ga. .

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