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Sixty-Sixth Annual Repoh of
The Georgia Sch091 for the Deaf
At Cave Spring, Georgia
For the Year Ending December 31, 1932-
GENERAL L18RARY
OCT 6 1939 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGI
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Printing Department Georgia School for the Deaf

BOARD OF CONTROL

AI.THUR L 'AS. Chairman

,TAMES L. GILLIS

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~1. H. ALLE

J. A. MANDEVILLE

DR. H. W . SHAW.,

J. E. D. SHIPP

A. C. WHEElJEoR

MRS. :\1. E. JUDD

E. T. ~101 TOSH

W. B. 'GIBBS

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overnor EUGE ''IT: TA-LMA'DGE, Ex-officio

~IRS. BOYCE FICKLEN, JR., Secretary

Atlanta Soperton l\IiIledgeville Carrollton Augusta Americus Gainesville
Dalton Albany Jessup
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VISITING COMMITTEE MRiS. M. E. JUDD, Chairman
J. A. JM. EA. NSDHEUVPPILLE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

J. C. HARRI!S, Superintendent

LDA

HOLDER,

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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT

STAJHL BUTLER, Principal

~IARIE KE. 'NARD, Supervisor of Primary Classes

PAULINE SCHMIDT, Assistant Principal

E~IILY ASBURY

JULIET McDERMOTT

JUA ITA BARKER

~'II NIE O. ~lOiULI 0 T

LUELLA BROWi

PAUlJNE NICHOLSON

DOROTHY COOK

L CILE PEARSON

JANE !DOROTHY DAlLEY

HRJlSTOPHER G. SMITrH

V,TRGINIA DAVENPORT

MIL'DRED S~lITH

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JEf'IE CONNOR STEVENS

MARIAN HARNED

HARlRIiET CONNOiR STEVENS

JESSIE FORIBES JOi ES

DOROTHY WRJ!(.mT

A. ~IAY LARK, Arts and Crafts, ,Physical Training

SARAH Fl CHEiR, Assistant

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT

G. W. WILLIA~10N

Engineer and Laundryman

CHRISTOPHER G. SMITH

Instructor in Carpentry

W. C. MULLE !NIX

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Shoe Repairer

BARTON CLARK



Printer

LEILA BARNETT

ooking and Sewing

A ' IE L. 1cDANJEL

Assistant in Sewing

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DEPARTMENT
Large Boys' Supervisor and Coach !Large Girls' Supervisor Small Girls' Supervisor Small Girls' Supervisor Small Boys' Supervisor Small Boys' Supervisor Dining Room Matron ight Watchman Laundry

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

DR. W. T. McKINNEY

Physician

ELLA WYATT

Nurse

DR. W. S. WATSON

Dentist

DR. ROSS P. COX .. Specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose,

and throat

COLORED SCHOOLS

J. D. RICE, Principal

BER1'HA BROWN

Teacher B. J. LATIMORE .. Supervisor

CARRIE OOLLINS

Teacher MARY THOMAS .. Seamstress

LOUZEANA JACKSO .Teacher IARIAH GORDON .. Matron

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De,cember 31, 1932.

Hon. ARTHUR LUGAS, President of Board of Control, Atlanta, Ga.

DEAR SIR:-
I have the duty and the hono~ to report to you the activities and expenditures of the Georgia School for the Deaf for the year just closing. This is the seventeenth year of my administration of the schools, which were established in 1846, by Act of the Legislature. They have been in continuous session since, except for four years during the civil war.
During the year, 1932 there were enrolled 309 pupils. Of these 251 were white 117 boys, 134 girls. 58 were negroes, 24 boys and 34 girls. These have filled our dormitories somewhat beyond their capacities for comfortable living, but we have not refused admittance to any deaf child who was otherwise normal in mind 'and body.
The health of our pupils has been excellent throughout the year. The completion of our hospital for the white schools, in the beginning of 1932 has given us adequate provision for the care of our sick. Indeed it has been everything that we can desire for our white children and we are delighted to believe that during the year 1933 we can with the unpaid part of the discount from W. ~ A. Rentals allptted to the building of our hospitay, erect a very needed addition to our building occupied' by our negro pupils.

Our expenditures for the year 1932 have been:-

Personal Service

$;4 68 4 6.29

Travel expense_______________________________________________ 748.13

Supplies 'and Materials

18258.80

Telephone, Telegraph and Postage__________________ 273.00

Heat. Light ~ Power Purchased

Repairs

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~ 1084.74 474.89

Insurance and Bonding

'_____________ 189.79

Equipment Purchases

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608.10

Miscellaneous Payments..

1675.00

Total

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$70161.00

As we have from 86 per cent of our appropriation,

77400 for 193 we have $7,239 above our expenditures. Thus we have so managed as to have a surplus.
As compared with 1931 we managed to reduce expenditures enormously, from about $90,000 to about $70,000. We achieved this by reducing all salaries and wages, reducing the number of employees and increasing the work exacted of the students. We made the following changes in order to make economies:-
1. The session of the school was reduced from the usual nine months to eight months.
2. Abolished the use of three teachers, reducing the number from 27 to 24.
3. Abolish the office of house matron, distributing the work done by her to the supervisor of large girls and to the foreman of the Sewing Department.
4. Merge the work of the Foreman of the Print-shop with that of the supervisor of large boys, saving salary accordingl y.
5. Merge the work of Foreman of the Wood-shop with that of a man teacher, saving salary accordingly.
6. Abolish the use of two maids servantsand of the laundry wom'an of the Superintendent.
7. Abolish the use of all hired women in the laundry save one.
8. Diminish the wages formerly paid to the chief engineer.
9. Abolish assistant to rngineer.
Some of these drastic changes lessened the efficiency of the work done for our pupils, especially the loss of three teachers. We have to restore these next year, but by making all these economies in 1932 we were enabled to live within the 86 per cent of our 'appropri",tion and yet provide a surplus of 7239.00, most of which is needed to pay unpaid salaries and wages for work actually done in December, 1931. Not one of us in the service of the schools during that month has received a penny of pay. With this paid our schools' will be free of all debts, except the claim for pay for time when teachers and officers were deprived of the opportunity to work for the usual nine months, 1930-1931 in which the schools were in session only seven months. The contracts made, however, clearly provided that only in the event the legislature made special appropriation for the unpaid appropriation of thse years would the Board be obligated to pay for the time not actually put in as service. The legislature provided for payment of part of this time for 1930 by

discounting W. \'1 A. Rentals, but has made no provision

for unpaid appropriations of 1931. Until it does so we

are not obligated to p"ay for this lost tim during which

no work was done.

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The past year has been of much a~itation on the part of those who desire to secure a change In our basic methods of instructing the deaf in Georgia. For a quarter of a century we have taught all -pupils to utter speech and interpret the lips of oth~rs as they speak. Despite rumors to the contrary we are continuing our methods. We respectfully ask the BO'ard to uphold our hands as we seek to follow the practices of those institutions in America
and in Europe which seem to us to be in the forefront of progress.

There is only about one deaf person in every two thousand of our population. Hence in educating our deaf children we use methods that will enable them to communicate with he'aring people. Contrary to what is
actually supposed to be the case almost all our deaf children have hearing parents. At the white Georgia School of the 250 children in attendance, there are only three children whose parents are deaf. This will be found the usual condition all over the United States, that only about two deaf children in each hundred are children of deaf parents. Hence it is that the parents of deaf children. almost all of them being hearing people, knowing nothing about the use of hand ~igns for ideas always wish their children taught only by speech 'and writing. Some deaf parents express this same desire. For instance, in the
Nebraska schools the five children of deaf parents are all in the purely oral classes. The aeaf children, except in very rare cases have heaJ:ing parents, and so will usually live in homes where they will find only hearing people.

Our own school gives every pupil training in uttering
speech, but in four of our school rooms the teacher is permitted to use the alphabet made with the fingers in cases where it seems needed to make the pupil progress. The hand signs for ideas invented by L' Eppee are not permitted in the class rooms. Twenty of our classes use purely oral methods. All of our teachers encourage their pupils to speak and to read the lips of others.

Our schools having the care of the pupils twenty-four hours a day provide not cnly class rooms for their literary instruction but homes in which there are matrons and supervisors able to act in place of parents. loving the children and socializing them, and we have shops in which all the older pupils are given training in vocation. Our object is to have every graduate of our schools capable

of earning wages and of being in every way a happy and

useful citizen.

We diligently care for the moral and religious training

of our pupils. especially trying to develop habits of truth-

fulness. honesty. industry and kindness. We have schools

each Sunday morning in which the religious training is

emphasized.

To provide a good home and skilful teaching in letters

and in tr'ades for the three hundred deaf children in atten-

dance here requires a large number of teachers and officers

devoted to their services. I wish here to express my

heartfelt appreciation for the hearty cooperation of all

those that are now myco-workers at this institution. I

am happy to state that now perfect harmony prevails at

our institution.

J. C. HARRIS, Superintendent.

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